20+ Footer - Building in Hawaii

[Jim Donovan]

Sorry WCB - those messages don't make it through my spam filters.

The 20 is on the worklist finally to be completed and sailing this spring - only been 11 or so years . . . I'll start posting build photos as progress resumes.

"Practicing" pouring a bulb for a 34 footer next week; If all goes well, the 20 footers bulb will be next. 

For now, I've got a snow plow to install on my truck - snow's on the way!

In Vermont, Jim

 

[PeterRoss]

Sorry WCB - those messages don't make it through my spam filters.

The 20 is on the worklist finally to be completed and sailing this spring - only been 11 or so years . . . I'll start posting build photos as progress resumes.

"Practicing" pouring a bulb for a 34 footer next week; If all goes well, the 20 footers bulb will be next. 

For now, I've got a snow plow to install on my truck - snow's on the way!

In Vermont, Jim

Snow plowing in Flip Flops?

 

[Jim Donovan]

Merry Christmas Peter. 

Wore out my last pair of slippers and now wearing more appropriate Vermont style boots and plaid. 

 

[The Q]

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[SEC16518]

Merry Christmas Peter. 

Wore out my last pair of slippers and now wearing more appropriate Vermont style boots and plaid. 

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What hull is that in the background?

 

[Sail4beer]

I wonder if it’s the boat that started the thread?! ^_^

 

[WCB]

Merry Christmas Peter. 

Wore out my last pair of slippers and now wearing more appropriate Vermont style boots and plaid. 

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Jim, what took you to Vermont?  Lots of changes...Hawaii to the Northwest, now to Vermont.  I moved from Vermont out to Park City, Utah fourteen years ago. Love that state. 

 

[ExOmo]

Yikes...Jim charge that battery...last time I saw you was over at OceanAero(?) here on the West Coast building the bigger version....maybe Vermont is more similar to Minden than Hawaii...

 

[PeterRoss]

Merry Christmas Jim

Nice plow.

 

[Jim Donovan]

Vermont is one of the safest places to be during the COVID; seemed like a good plan back in March, and has worked out perfectly.

Yep that's the 20 footer out in the cold. Although X-mas morning started out at 64 degrees and it poured rain all day; there is ZERO snow on the ground.

20 should be back in the shed next week; got the rudder and keel on the agenda beginning of the the new year.

 

[PeterRoss]

Snowshoes to Mucks

 The (RI) Ski area across the road still has snow. 

 

[Jim Donovan]

Snowed the other day . . . trailer tongue weight is only about 20 lbs, so the snow load caused this.

Beauty of it (that's not so obvious in the photo) is the hull is still 6" clear of the ground - trailer bottomed out first.

I'd like to say I planned it that way . . . 

 

[Varan]

Snowed the other day . . . trailer tongue weight is only about 20 lbs, so the snow load caused this.

Beauty of it (that's not so obvious in the photo) is the hull is still 6" clear of the ground - trailer bottomed out first.

I'd like to say I planned it that way . . . 

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Gives new meaning to a self draining cockpit.

Even with her nose up in the air, she still looks damn fine. Prettiest 20 footer out there in my opinion. 

Glad it was tied down securely. Bet there is now a block under the back of the trailer.

 

[Jim Donovan]

When I first arrived in Vermont, I had only the aft straps on.

The boat is empty and tried to launch off the trailer one windy afternoon; it's like living in a wind tunnel here.

Fws straps went back on after that.

 

[Jim Donovan]

Have had a couple days above freezing this month, and took advantage of a sunny 38 degree Friday to cast the bulb for the 34 footer. 6" of snow that night. Didn't realize how effective a boat building tool a snow plow can be pushing 1000 lbs of mold and lead around. Pour came out "okay", and learned a ton about mold prep, pour speed, venting, lead shaping, etc.

Yesterday we had an unexpected thaw and swept the snow and chipped the ice off the 20, then pushed it back in the shed. Now she's sitting in the nice and "warm" 40 degree shed next to the 34 bulb that's getting a bit of power/hand planning to clean up the casting. 

This weekend has highs in the teens, lows in the single digits, Next week has highs in the mid 20s; "normal" Vermont. 

20 ftr bulb is next on the agenda; plug first and then mold. Planned it so I can reuse the mold flask and sand from  the 34 bulb.

Not sure when, if ever, it'll warm enough again to pour. 

 

[Varan]

^ thanks for the update.

 

[Sail4beer]

This is a great project. I’m sorry I couldn’t buy it last year, wound up in a divorce instead...

Impressed that you wore the respirator mask as well. There was a lead bulb pour in Cruising anarchy last year and 4 guys and no masks

 

[Steam Flyer]

This is a great project. I’m sorry I couldn’t buy it last year, wound up in a divorce instead...

Impressed that you wore the respirator mask as well. There was a lead bulb pour in Cruising anarchy last year and 4 guys and no masks

Lead is not good for you.

Great looking bulb, why no beavertail?

FB- Doug

 

[Jim Donovan]

Lead is not good for you.

Great looking bulb, why no beavertail?

FB- Doug

There's a really small tail on the bulb; hard to see.

Here's what the 20 footer's bulb looks like

 

[Varan]

Oh baby, oh yes, YES ...