Posted on by Yrvind

DEADLOCK

“There’s a Hole in My Bucket” is a children’s song, based on a dialogue between two characters, called Henry and Liza, about a leaky bucket. The song describes a deadlock situation: Henry has a leaky bucket, and Liza tells him to repair it. To fix the leaky bucket, he needs straw. To cut the straw, he needs an axe. To sharpen the axe, he needs to wet the sharpening stone. To wet the stone, he needs water. But to fetch water, he needs the bucket, which has a hole in it. Harry Belafonte made a famous record of it in 1960 well worth listening to.

After finishing the hull and I started to make the lunch boxes, but before installing them I had to do the ventilation system so I started in my bedroom with the stovage, but before finishing that I had to do the ventilation system but before doing that I had to do the deck, but before doing the deck I had to do the mastholder.

I have also started on the coamings for the two hatches.

Now the mastholder is done ready to be installed, the deck is laminated on the inside ready to be put on, in other words the deadlock is broken. Soon there will be some progress.

Below some pictures.

Marstöm Composite have kindly let me using prepreg carbon fiber and acces to their autoclave to do the mastholder. Here the product in a vacuum bag ready for the high temperature and big pressure. The pressure is outside the vacuum bag.
Me next to the mastholder it has a 60 mm inner diameter.
Here are the molds for the deck abouve my bedroom
The Divinycell on the molds. The reason for the big curvature of the deck is to get a shallow draft boat selfrightning without a big deep ballasted keel. To bend the 3 cm Divinycell 2 cm cuts vere made lenghtwise in the Divinycell. The Divinycell is then loaded with lead at the molds, between it is laminated with NM-epoxy.
When the NM-epoxy had cured I could remove most of the lead and put some at the ends. A deck with this much curvature is not to difficult to walk on besides I use my bedroom as a tunnel between the aft hatch and the forward hatch pretty much eliminating the need to go on deck.

To be continued…

Regards Yrvind.