Big wooden boat project [Splashed Sept 2017]

[NicoPags]

Beautiful

 

[kcassells]

Thanks for the trivia Ned, Great as usual.

 

[laurentide]

Cool info about the ship to shore AM radio. Before my time but I'll be sure to ask my father about it. Thanks Ned, these posts are excellent boat building reading.

 

[Ned L]

I'm glad there is interest in the bits of trivia I have tossed in.

The engine is about ready to put back together (waiting for the head gasket to arrive). I put a second coat of paint on the head and manifold last night, also cleaned up the starter and generator (yep, .... not alternator) and gave them a coat of black Rustoleum.

Looks a bit better.

 

[Ned L]

The head gasket arrived and the starboard engine is going back together. It should be up & running again this weekend.

Looking a bit better, valve lash adjusted (intakes were fine, exhausts were a bit tight), the valve covers back on, and the fuel pump & generator back on.

And the head gasket.

21 nuts and a torque wrench

And its looking a bit better.

 

[kcassells]

Very nice!

 

[Tundrahog]

I am amazed at the amount of work you have done and have been enamored with the lessons I have been learning from you project. I should have know the answer to the HF groundplane. I have worked on Navy Ships HF for a while should have gotten it.

 

[Ned L]

Thanks guys. Glad to hear there is interest in this, and in the trivia. Everyone have a happy 4th!

 

[Grandad]

Enjoying your rebuild thread very much Ned. I'd love to have tackled something like that myself, so I'm living vicariously through your reports. We're having a happy July 1 cuz around here, it's Canada Day. Going to see fireworks tonight. - Grandad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Day

 

[Ned L]

There were all the 'accessories' that needed going over and cleaning up as well. Here is the oil cooler "before", complete with a few stubborn rusty bolts. Took the whole thing apart, cleaned it inside and out.

and here it is looking a bit better

A quick clear coat to stay looking like this for a while, then bolt it back on.

And here is the cleaned up engine. Looks a bit better than it did two weeks ago.

It seems to run as nicely as it looks too.

 

[Ned L]

Hmmmm, ..... yo ever have those moments where you find yourself saying, "OK, where did I put that 9/16" box end wrench???" lol

 

[Ned L]

Sometimes even little things become involved. ............ So yesterday I thought I'd finally bolt the "bit" back on the foredeck. Because of the crown in he foredeck, the flat bottomed bit wouldn't lay flat across the crown. OK, so I figure I's make a think spacer block to go under the bit. Well, logic is that the radius at the aft side of the block is different than on the forward side of the block. A bit of work on a piece of scrap teak and I have a nice fitting spacer block (running the block sideways across the table saw to 'back out' the bottom of the block in a progressively changing radius made quick work of that). The bit also has a hole in the side which allows it to also be used as a hawse hole for the anchor rode (I'm not using that though). Thinking that with this hole, if water gets inside it will not be able to drain out, so I cut a small drain notch in each side.

Here is the forward side

and the aft side, with a slightly different redius

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and a couple of drain notches

And the end result.

Just need to clean up a bit of extra "TDS" caulking there.


Another example of how a simple "just drill four holes and bolt it in place" end up being a bit more complicated.

 

[mickyryan]

hahaha its always just a few minute job then hours later with a missing 9/16ths socket from every 8 doller quickie tool kit you bought over last ten years and the hunt is on

 

[Mikeopsycho]

Looking good Ned. How does that shiny new looking oil cooler work? Is it a heat exchanger set-up with a raw water jacket? Just curious.

 

[Ned L]

Looking good Ned. How does that shiny new looking oil cooler work? Is it a heat exchanger set-up with a raw water jacket? Just curious.

Yes, you got it. Basically a 'heat exchanger', the engine lube oil passes through a S.S. insert on the inside of the bronze housing, and the cooling water (raw water for the past 58 yrs) passes around the outside of the S.S. insert to cool the oil.

The two smaller copper tubes carry the lube oil, the two bigger brass pipes carry the cooling water.

 

[Ned L]

This past weekend let me put some more things back together,... The sink and S.S. Countertop are back in the galley, the overhead is back in the cabin, and there are once again working 12V lights in the cabin(!) ... Probably the first time they've been on in 16 years.
Also got the battery box back in the engine room and the wiring straightened out.
Today was a change of gears. I moved back to the bottom and got the starboard side almost all stripped and sanded. As much as I like all aspects of this rebuild I'll have to admit that scraping almost 45 years of old bottom paint off of 33 ft of lapstrake bottom is a pretty miserable job. Lol

 

[Patfromny]

Now that job sounds like a more accurate use of the term "Gunk Holing". Lol, sorry, had to be said.

 

[Ned L]

Lol. .... " gunk holing" would be better,.. No matter how you use the term.

Think of stripping the side of a clapboard house, that is horizontal and 2 1/2 ft above the dirt. The true definition of fun!

 

[Patfromny]

Being a painter I can absolutely imagine what you are saying. Add to that the care needed in between boards while scraping I would imagine. Houses don't have to be water tight after scraping. Prepping a house is one of my least favorite things about my profession. The EPA has made it even less fun with their recent lead laws.ugh.

 

[Patfromny]

Be happy the hull isn't made of cedar shakes. That would be no fun at all lol