Ya just gota love the beauty of pouring molten metal into a mold and watching something form that will last for thousands of years.  It just never grows old. And we got lots of great assistance from Bart, Richard, Chris, Betsy, Paul, Tom, and Drew Smith who drove over his thermocoupler and even those tourist; Thomas, Jason and Ed that dropped … Read More

We started off our Saturday 10 am Live Feed with some casting and we got 5 pours done today. Betsy shot a second casting of a bow roller later in the day that is posted on the FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/ohmymy40/videos/10211406922024711/ Thanks to Richard Day, Chris Browning, Paul Hatch, Bart Robinson, and Drew Smith for helping out with the castings today.

          With Sean White’s help we are ready to do some casting this weekend as the weather allows.  Scott Rokeby fixed us up with an awesome gyro stabilized camera, and we cut the last of the fuel tank gaskets. We have very much enjoyed your project photos!  And I am all out so send more.  Attach … Read More

We learned while cutting the panels for the Mizzen sail; the really small one, that measuring and cutting the each panel correctly is very important and it takes a long time.  We already have the shapes for each panel in CAD so wouldn’t it be dandy to cut them on the CNC Table.  They are actually too big to cut … Read More

          The ships blacksmith Sean White is back with to show his paper working skills.  And we answer that persistent question about getting a US Coast Guard Certification.  And show some of the casting patterns we are working on. Metasequoia: http://www.metaseq.net/en/ PepaKura: http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/

Almost done with the davits, getting along cutting patterns for casting our bow rollers. Making plans for adding a 3D printer to our Tormach CNC mill, and still thinking about where to put wheels under the boat. Many thanks to Herb for his help!        

Join us for Betsy’s coffee cake and meet Herb who is launching a fascinating career in gymnastics for paraplegics. And we are looking for tool for our CNC Mill. R8 spindle, hold down, vice and cutting tool donations are welcomed.

We managed to work around the weather that Jim Hensel brought with him from Portland Oregon and got a bunch of work done. The davit pipes are bent, the bow roller plate is cut, the Tormach PCNC 770 has a stand and enclosure, and we have wheels for the boat courtesy of Seven D Trailers, as well as a ships … Read More