SV Ulladh (ul-la): July 2020

Thursday, July 2, 2020

July 2020

2020-7-28 80 F (27 C) at 7:00 AM, going to high 90's F (high 30's C) 82% RH and afternoon thunderstorms no work today.

2020-7-27 encased lead shot in epoxy, low 80's F (high 20's C) at 7:00 AM to high 90's F (high 30's C) by noon.

2020-7-21 no work this week, 80 F (27 C) at 7:00 AM. Checked battery, fluid level OK.

2020-7-17 mast balance OK. Mid to high 90's F (mid 30's C) with afternoon thunderstorms next 5 days

2020-7-16 lead shot ballast installed in epoxy, high 70's F low 20's C) before 9:00 AM going to mid 80's F (low 30's C) by noon. No camera today. I will check mast balance tomorrow; sufficient ballast or add more?

2020-7-15 mast ballast form box. 85 deg F (30 deg C) at 9:00 AM. Too hot to install lead ballast and epoxy ballast.

2020-7-15 Ballast form work box

2020-7-15 Ballast form wraped

2020-7-14

Steel primed with rust primer

2020-7-14 Lead shot ballast arrived by USPS priority mail this afternoon. It may meet the postal service regulations but this is a lot for a mail carrier, they are without a doubt underpaid.

2020-7-3

Angle Grinder cut off about 5 pound (2.25 kg) section of old mast ballast, add approx 10 kg lead shot ballast to be set in epoxy, ground and fitted for total weight of ballast approx 35 pounds (16 kg)

Temperatures in high 90's F (mid 30's C).

Lead shot ballast from https://www.rotometals.com/reclaimed-lead-shot-1-bag-25-pounds

Mast is 4x4x16 cedar approx 20 kg. discounting for lever arm, blocks, wet sheets and shrouds the force required to raise the mast applied at 7 ft from fulcrum should be in the range of 5 to 10 kg. Lever fulcrum is aprrox 2ft at ballast end and 14 ft from top. As mast goes up the point were force is applied will eventually be 3 ft from fulcrum (my shoulder height). The intent is to be able to do this single handed on an unstable platform in the water with sail, boom and yard on the deck.

Photographs to follow. Raising the mast in the dutch tabernacle should be a gentle lift.

2020-7-1

Removed Alado furler and commenced preparing mast for recoating and working on mast ballast. Temperatures in high 80's F to low 90's F (mid 20's C to low 30's C) thunder storms and humidity.

Ulladh

Ulladh pronounced "ul-la" (null lad).

Uladh the gaelic spelling for the territory of the U-Nail chieftains in the ancient Irish province of Ulster (English/Norse), originally the counties of Down and Antrim, but now including Derry, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, also referred to as Ulidia (Greek/Roman),.

Uladh was the home of a pre-celtic, cruithne (crew-en-ya) pictish tribe, who may have been descendants of prehistoric tribes indigenous to the British Isles since the retreat of the last ice age.

Evidence from cut marks on deer bones from more than 30,000 years ago found in the karst formations of the Burren probably from hunters suggest a homonid precence. Archeological finds date first inhabitants (DNA evidence suggests dark or black skin and blue eyes) to about 6,000 BC and trade goods from Rathlin Island, County Antrim off the northeast coast of Ireland made from porcellanite stone appearing in Egypt and Crete by 2,500 BC.

The early tribes of Ireland where displaced by later waves of migrants from mainland Europe; about 1700 BC by bronze age tribes, celtic tribes about 500 BC, and in the past two millenia; Roman trading posts, Viking settlements, English plantations... and in the 21st century a welcome increasing diversity from the European Union and the world.

SV Ulladh (for vhf clarity I use "sailing vessel ul-la") is named for the territory of the first peoples to settle in Ireland after the retreat of the last ice age.

Fisksatra

Since 1949 Fisksatra Varv in the coastal town of Fisksatra Sweden, built fiberglass boats from dinghies to a 300 ton minesweeper for the Swedish Navy.

The Havsfidra 20's were built between 1968 and the late 1970's to Swedish Navy and Lloyd's certification standards.

The Havsfidra 20 and a larger version the Storfidra 26 where sold in the United States by Continental Yachts and Trawler Agency of Atlantic City NJ.

Havsfidra; sea-feather?
(fidra; to touch or tickle with a feather -Icelandic-English Dictionary, Clarendon Press 1874)