Sea Minor, a John Welsford Navigator.

This blog is about Sea Minor. I'm not sure about the name but that is what she was been called by the man who built her and changing a boat's name is a tricky business because you have to avoid upsetting Poseidon the god of the sea.

Sea Minor is a Navigator, a boat designed by John Welsford. Her vital statistics are: overall length 4.5m (14ft 9in), beam 1.8m (5ft 10in) and design weight is 140kg (309lbs). You can read more about this design at http://www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz/plans/navigator/index.htm.

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Thursday, 5 January 2012

Centrecase Fitted and Glued

Yesterday I fibreglassed the inside of the centrecase and today glued and screwed it in place. I will miss the hole in the bottom of the boat, it was handy to sweep shavings and sawdust through!


Next jobs are to put in the spine panel between the seat and the centrecase and replace some of the original seating around the centrecase.


The photo below shows a piece of scrap 75 mm diameter aluminium tube fitted in where I think it should be. The panels in the shed wall are vertical, the boat's waterline is level, what angle should the yawl rig mast slope back? It's tricky to measure the angle but I think it is about 2.5 degrees in the photo.

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