Farrier F25C trimaran makeover week 1
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2023
- This week we dive in to new composite attachment tubes to hold the trampoline nets on the outer hulls. This eliminates many pounds of stainless steel and aluminum hardware, along with about 100 holes in the boat. We also remove the old stainless steel forestay chainplate during a major cleanup of the foredeck area. Trying to do everything possible to make this a fully modernized F-boat, but with her original 90's vibe.
Wow, thank you for taking the time to document your process and then editing to provide us with this meat-filled video. I was fascinated, and agree that your calmness in your race against time is admirable! Interesting how vacuum bagging has become second nature for most of your applications.
Thanks Joe. Yes I’m pretty committed to ‘bagging’ wherever high strength and a great bond is required. There are also plenty of jobs where I’m fine to skip it ;). A huge consideration is the fairly awful consumed waste in the process - so much plastic that has no future use. You make these nice parts but also a pile of garbage. I do play with fire perhaps too much, preferring the Fast epoxy hardener. Even the Svendsens guys chuckled at me last week because I finally bought a can of Slow, given our 90+ heat this month.
Excellent video and narration of the why and how of your restomod. Looking good. Your dogs are lucky that you allot time to them. Always anxiety when resin is threatening to go off, but your calmness is impressive. Thanks for the update.
Yeah, I’m a jerk for using fast hardener in the summer. But it’s certainly time-efficient;). Your comments make the video editing all worth it. Thank you very much.
Nice work Greg, I though at first you would bond a 1/4 dia composite rod on top of the foam to hook the net to.
For slots like those rain grooved I’ve used waxed dowels to push down the fibers and simplify the bag.
Cheers Warren
Ugh, the dowel is brilliant! I forgot all my old tricks on that one and now have some sanding to do in there. Should have called WarpDrive in advance on that one ;). The tubes will be open on one end, to receive a thin piece of old stainless rigging. Lacing to the net bolt rope will wrap around the loose SS. Once the net is tight, the SS will be held captive.
Thanks for the video. Nice to see how you execute projects. How were the nets originally mounted to the amas?
2” wide Aluminum rails with an integrated slot-track that the net slid into, like how they attach awnings to the roller mandrill. The rails had about 100 little bolts - a lot of places to leak and/or cause balsa rot. I’m eliminating thru-bolts everywhere I can.
*promo sm* 😏