Bridge Deck - Cockpit- Companionway - Cabin Ladder 2019-2020
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| 2019-6-16 bridge deck template, to be cut from salvaged teak plywood. |
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| 2019-6-17 bridge deck cut |
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| 2019-6-17 bridge deck dry fit |
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2019-6-17 bridge deck edge blocking. Cedar from former battens glue and screw.
Screws to be removed after glue fully sets then edges eased. |
2019-6-18 bridge deck edge eased to follow cockpit wall slope
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| 2019-6-19 bridge deck dry fit with additional edge easing and companionway door lower infill panel. |
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| 2019-6-20 bridge deck coated with penetrating epoxy from Progressive Epoxy and secured in place with epoxy fiber reinforced filler. |
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| 2019-6-21 companionway door and frame removed, hardware removed, sanded, repaired and cleaned. One coat penetrating epoxy. |
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| 2019-6-21 companionway door penetrating epoxy sealed, hardware re-installed. |
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| 2019-6-23 companionway door 45 deg cut, lower section permanently fixed at bridge deck, upper section with swing door removable. |
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2019-6-24 Companionway door/bridge deck
The top edge of the bridge deck does not look level, I checked and checked, it is correct, however the cockpit benches are not. I installed the bridge deck in line with the forward edge of both benches.
This explains why the port cockpit bench pools rainwater but the starboard bench drains dry.
50 years ago something slipped in the mold. |
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2019-6-24 Companionway door
Air temperature high in low 90's F (low 30's C) for at least the next two weeks, epoxy sets too fast at temperatures higher than mid 80's F (mid 20's C). So no epoxy work for at least the next two weeks. |
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| 2019-6-29 Template and new cover from salvaged teak plywood for former engine access hatch (the board with circular access hatch under new bridge deck) |
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| 2019-6-29 former engine access hatch cover cut and ready for dry fit. The former hatch has been leaking for years. |
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| 2019-7-3 companionway ladder cut from salvaged section of hickory ladder |
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| 2019-7-3 companionway ladder with penetrating epoxy |
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| 2019-7-5 companion way ladder dry fit, pardon the mess I just removed the previous step box and countertop. |
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2019-7-6 dry fit spacer board to move ladder 1 1/2 inch forward.
The board is cut from an old growth hemlock floor joist from about the 1920's and saturated in penetrating epoxy |
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| 2019-7-9 companionway ladder secured in place. |
2019-7-10 Air temperature in low 90's F (low 30's C) for next 5 days so no fiberglass work. Work on the former inboard engine cockpit access hatch will wait.
New electric panel, battery box, and under cockpit storage will be next (the messy area behind the companionway ladder). The motor mount bracket will be reused to support a new battery platform
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2019-7-25 former engine access hatch cover removed and replace. Set in chopped fiberglass epoxy.
Low 80's F (mid 20's C) before noon then mid 80's F (high 20's C) in the afternoon. |
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2019-8-25 companion way ladder 6" cedar treads
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2020-8-22 recommenced work on the bridge deck and cockpit, repaired various holes and gaps, another sanding, some fairing then more sanding, penetrating epoxy and paint. Low 80's F (mid 20's C) and no rain. Low 90's F (low 30's C) next few days with thunder storms.
2020-09-19 Cockpit painted, mid 60'sF (18 C) blue skies.
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2020-09-20 cockpit painted
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Ulladh
Ulladh pronounced "ul-la" (n
ull 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)
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