Hey, where are you located? I just bought a Wharram on the East coast of Oz that needs tonnes of work to bing back to life. You're videos are going to be super helpful in my journey .. so thank you ahead of time 🙌
My advice to get more people following you is, start weekly videos (1 or 2) and show the whole process of the refit. This channel has a lot of potential go on
Thinking about the rot you guys show here, do you think this could have been prevented with proper yearly maintenance? Or was this one not sufficiently expoxied. I am jus curious
I'd have scarfed a piece in to at least Twice the thickness , due to the forces acting on it that caused it to split in the first place .7.04 If not then pin it with a large dowel top and bottom so that there is some length of wood grain going fore and aft
making good progress! interesting to see the different approaches I would have just filled those bolt holes with thickened epoxy. A larger hole for a through hull I'd fix like that, but your boat, your call there!
Thank you again. I have always wondered what it will be like having to step down the mast to go out the Erie canal. Even planning on building nooks for mast to sit on. Plus at home boat needs to be pulled out and will be in freezing temps under 6 feet of snow winters. And survive me wanting to sail it way too hard. Would like to be able to add some Lee boards to my beams hopefully. Hear a big Wharram can do over 20 knots that's like Chicago to Mackinaw in 15 hours if on good winds.
Thank you again. Gonna mortise and tenon my cleats and blocks in from the get. Your beam blocks the grain goes the wrong way. I love what your doing better than it was. I am building a hobbie cat dinghy pontoon first same shape as the Wharram I will build. Cut the basswood aka Larch, Tamarack already and drying now for dinghy. Not wasting good beautiful white cedar on a dinghy.
Thank you. I plan on building a Wharram after I finish cottage build. Off grid so gonna mimic the boats d.c. solar system in cottage. Then can sell town house and build a boat at the cottage and go sailing. Too many people sell everything to go sailing and left with nothing to come back too. Plus I have a forest to cut and dry wood I need.
Idea for hull life and longevity. Before fiberglassing and epoxy use Sho Sugi ban wood preserving technique, used by the Japanese to stop wood rot, repel wood borrowing critters etc, new product on the market as well that could replace fiberglass, which is basalt
Mate that must of been heart breaking ! What did you make the replacements from ? Onto our next beam now and a bit more rot on this one, unfortunately I was told that our beams were Oregon when I brought the boat… I have now discovered that there just pine glue lam …. A lot of working going into sealing them now
@Sail Malolo I went an unconventional route and used "Glulam" beams off the shelf. They were taller so wouldn't fit under the deck covers of the Mk4. It then did 8 Atlantic crossings without issue (maybe more now with new owner)
What thickening compound did you use when you glued in the blocks? That flat white colour to me looks like it's microspheres, which is for faring not gluing, microfibers looks a bit more translucent. But there are other glue thickening additives too, not sure how they look mixed?
interesting that the beam is so narrow compared to the trough. I guess that was to make room for the bolt/rubber of the original design? I guess that lip is to allow a plywood cover?
Yeah they were very large troughs on the Narai to make room for the original brackets, makes the beam look small but it’s definately not ! And yeah the lip is for the deck Thanks for watching along
Looks like an interesting solution. It may be an idea to feed the rope through the eye bolts from alternating sides each time to eliminate the turning effect that large loading would have on the bolt with the current set up. I imagine you plan to frap on both sides of that beam. Please keep posting on your progress, so cool to see more Wharram stuff on the net.
This lashing was just for demonstration until we get the new rope. We have made a wooden leverage tool that we will use when we get the new rope the same as they used on Katipo for there voyages around Polynesia, we based our setup off his after conversing about it for quite a while and will use the same method as they did to tention 👍
@@sailmalolo the tension does not come from the lashing itself but from building many layers of frapping. That squeezes the lashings ever tighter and tighter.
