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- Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:36 pm
- Forum: Accomodation
- Topic: Water Tank
- Replies: 9
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Re: Water Tank
If you wish to build in a forepeak tank, you will face a number of challenges. Free surface effect, potential for osmotic blistering, isolating your water from the very nasty factory resin, etc. Also, the anchor locker sorta drains beneath the existing tank, so you'd need to provide some alternate p...
- Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:22 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: cooling box isolation?
- Replies: 1
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Re: cooling box isolation?
Our Ballad's ice box was quite large -- over 2cuft (57 liters) -- but had almost no insulation (2mm Ensolite foam on outside) and a drain in the bottom, letting the cold escape. That is fine for a daysail, or maybe overnight in a cold climate. I rebuilt it using a combination of polystyrene foam boa...
- Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:35 pm
- Forum: Hull and Deck
- Topic: Hatch cover fix or replacement
- Replies: 10
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Re: Hatch cover fix or replacement
Peter: our main bulkhead had the early square-cut jog in the port panel, plus the straight header. It was hard squeezing past the port settee, avoiding the jog, stepping over the threshold, and ducking all at the same time -- even without the mast in place! So I sprang some arches in the header, tab...
- Sat Aug 19, 2017 3:12 am
- Forum: Hull and Deck
- Topic: Hatch cover fix or replacement
- Replies: 10
- Views: 63742
Re: Hatch cover fix or replacement
Peter: Thanks. Even with a medium smoked acrylic, it makes a tremendous difference in the V-berth's livability: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4344/36522119061_97e44cedf2_c.jpg bright by Robert Mcgovern , on Flickr Still waiting for its final interior paint, which is why it remains translucent aroun...
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:28 pm
- Forum: Hull and Deck
- Topic: Cabin Windows
- Replies: 3
- Views: 29777
Re: Cabin Windows
Hard to find that gasket material, tho I believe the company that made the aluminum frames is still in business. They may have some? I'd just use fat butyl tape in its place. Two things we noticed messing with our fixed ports: -- The inner and outer trim rings are connected via stainless screws tapp...
- Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:11 pm
- Forum: Hull and Deck
- Topic: Hatch cover fix or replacement
- Replies: 10
- Views: 63742
Re: Hatch cover fix or replacement
So progress has been made on the foredeck hatch. There is still some hardware to attach & final cleanup & paint, but in case anyone is contemplating this job, here is what I did with our hatch. I started by laying up some reinforcement on the back: two layers of butted 1708 biaxial tape (wit...
- Sun Jul 02, 2017 2:22 am
- Forum: Accomodation
- Topic: dangerous materials
- Replies: 2
- Views: 23771
Re: dangerous materials
Any residual chemicals from the urethane foam core (possibly isocyanates?) or tthe plywood (small traces of formaldehyde) should have outgassed years ago. Our engine compartment was lined with fiberglass rather than asbestos. I'd say the biggest environmental danger on the Ballad is the same as any ...
- Wed Jun 21, 2017 4:02 pm
- Forum: Accomodation
- Topic: An (almost) double berth in the saloon.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 27943
Re: An (almost) double berth in the saloon.
Mark and Nicholas: Both really nice designs & executions! Many ways to approach the double berth question; we're presently scheming to use the two brass table leg sockets in the bilge to hold up a central 'spine' board, then 3/8" semi-rigid panel material inside the main cushions themselves...
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:25 pm
- Forum: Rig and Sails
- Topic: Adding a stack pack / eliminating the roller furling boom
- Replies: 1
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Re: Adding a stack pack / eliminating the roller furling boom
Hi Gabriel. Roller furling booms have gone out of fashion as better Jiffy Reefing options came into use. Slides are easy to put on a sail (either at home or by a sail shop) and should probably space about 27" apart on the Ballad. Our mast has a very large flare in the mast slot just above the b...
- Sat May 13, 2017 11:08 pm
- Forum: Hull and Deck
- Topic: Concerns about the Ballad
- Replies: 5
- Views: 31840
Re: Concerns about the Ballad
All boats (even new ones) have design & construction issues, and all 40-year-old boats have age and wear issues. The Ballad's are mostly few and known. The mast truss affects some Ballads, but not all. It is not dangerous unless the truss fails, and that can be prevented; a bad truss may be a de...