Doing all the fun projects ive wanted to do but dont have the boat for it. I thought about doing a soft pad eye chainplate on my last boat as it was a ketch with corroded chainplates. 11 ss chainplates are quite expensive and this is just cool.
Excellent video! But I wanted to see more of the other sailing adventures. Hopefully more to come on those? I also thought it odd that you didn't raise the boat a little higher to make access to the CB slot easier. It looked REALLY tight under there!
Jack stands already maxed out, Mike! If i use these ones again I’ll need to first build little wood towers under them :(. As to other sailing I refrain from being a video pest on other peoples boats. Which is hard for me! 😂
Not 100% sure on the question, but here goes: the plate is a pre-made carbon/foam/carbon sandwich. So the inside edge of the new slot is just a crosscut of the composite board. Exposed raw foam for epoxy with some cabosil. Once tacky it got epoxy & West404 fibers. I don’t want glass in there in case of needed adjustments. And sure enough, I made it too tight somewhere - the board is sticking half way down. Now I have to crane it up, a bit, swing back from trailer, drop the board, find pinch point. Board back up and hopefully I can fix with small dremel bits opening the slot just a bit. And somehow do this while on the launching crane with no one looking. Typical Cartersboat shenanigans. Not as cool tho as shoving a paddle in the rudder cassette to regain steering. That’s still my favorite Fboat underway problem solve.
@@Ravenswingsailing You cut the template really close to the board dimension so I was wondering if it might bind had you glassed around the edge, or how you were going to adjust the gap - makes sense now! I have a variant of this problem on my boat, with the slot being fortunately daggerboard-shaped at least, but the gap is still bigger than I’d like, so I’m planning out how to close it. Thankfully we haven’t needed the canoe paddle as a rudder since!
So awesome. What is the red epoxy that you are using? Is there a particular reason to choose one brand or another? I have only ever used the West stuff and am still getting to grips with all the different filler choices. And on exotherms... while building a stich-and-ply kayak 20 years ago, the epoxy kicked in the plastic cup. I was quite surprised at both the steam and the way it all landed in a gooey mess on the floor!
That’s the standard west 105 resin, but with some red microballoons mixed in after the first cloth wet-out. I thickened the epoxy between the hull and the new glass to help finish minor gap filling. I sometimes get greedy and use Fast hardener in the summer. Ok if you immediately spread it out, but I’ve had my share of burning cups ;)
Wondering where all you placed your soft pad eyes? I also have a 25c that has many soft spots on deck from the balsa getting wet and am slowly working on repairing them all and modernizing the rigging layout
@@kylevanderspek3142 cool, which boat is yours? Mine is #15. This started with removing jib car tracks. Placed one set of eyes for primary jib and second set for heavy weather jib. Added four more for crane-lift eyes. Two on aft floats for spinnaker blocks. Two in forward floats for barberhauling and docking. Four little ones for hull-to-floats diagonal under-net lines. I think these are all shown within the past four or five videos. But let me know if you’re looking for more specifics. It’s important to integrate backing plates too in this job. Bond them on to form a proper system.
@@Ravenswingsailing I have 4, it’s spend it’s life in so cal and will continue to be down here, we brought it up for ditch run last year though and had a blast. Yeah the original (?) jib tracks are still there and the aluminum backing plates on there and everywhere else are totally wasted and have led to deck compressing up and down depending on the location of the loading, same with the main halyard clutch. Transitioning to g10 backers with each part as it’s pulled and the deck/core repaired. Is your “heavy weather” jib the like 110 that’s in the original sail plan? If so where’s your larger jib sheet to/how big is it?
Is yours the boat owned for a long time by one couple, and went thru a series of listings for sale in recent years? With a repaint in that process somewhere as I recall. If so, that’s the one that got me all 25C fired up about 20 yrs ago at Summer Splash. Those folks just walked away from our F27, and we were trying hard;) No, my tiny jib is one we had from the F27 but never used. It’s so high-clew that it needs to be sheeted back by the clutches, almost to the winches. I’ve used it once on a 25kt SF day and it was great. With your compression on deck, I think you should be adding thin plates on the outside also. An engineer showed me why as we prepped an older Transpac boat last year. I added them throughout my 25 refit. Those are bonded down too. Basically I feel I’ve taken the balsa core out of the equation anywhere near the loaded fasteners.
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Thanks for another great movie i look forward to them ,its interesting to see how others do things
Your definitely a master at this stuff. I'm sure a better contoured slot makes boat more quiet and faster. I love your videos.
I feel the love :) that's motivating to keep filming! Not a master, just willing to wing it.
Doing all the fun projects ive wanted to do but dont have the boat for it. I thought about doing a soft pad eye chainplate on my last boat as it was a ketch with corroded chainplates. 11 ss chainplates are quite expensive and this is just cool.
Looking awesome! Might see you in the Bahamas this coming season if you end up there with Sackville..
Might be 2026, kinda depends on Ravenswing’s 2025 schedule. Good problems ;)
Excellent video! But I wanted to see more of the other sailing adventures. Hopefully more to come on those? I also thought it odd that you didn't raise the boat a little higher to make access to the CB slot easier. It looked REALLY tight under there!
Jack stands already maxed out, Mike! If i use these ones again I’ll need to first build little wood towers under them :(. As to other sailing I refrain from being a video pest on other peoples boats. Which is hard for me! 😂
Cool video! How did you finish the inside of the daggerboard exit slot? Did you also glass around the edge or just use fairing compound?
Not 100% sure on the question, but here goes: the plate is a pre-made carbon/foam/carbon sandwich. So the inside edge of the new slot is just a crosscut of the composite board. Exposed raw foam for epoxy with some cabosil. Once tacky it got epoxy & West404 fibers. I don’t want glass in there in case of needed adjustments. And sure enough, I made it too tight somewhere - the board is sticking half way down. Now I have to crane it up, a bit, swing back from trailer, drop the board, find pinch point. Board back up and hopefully I can fix with small dremel bits opening the slot just a bit. And somehow do this while on the launching crane with no one looking. Typical Cartersboat shenanigans. Not as cool tho as shoving a paddle in the rudder cassette to regain steering. That’s still my favorite Fboat underway problem solve.
@@Ravenswingsailing You cut the template really close to the board dimension so I was wondering if it might bind had you glassed around the edge, or how you were going to adjust the gap - makes sense now! I have a variant of this problem on my boat, with the slot being fortunately daggerboard-shaped at least, but the gap is still bigger than I’d like, so I’m planning out how to close it. Thankfully we haven’t needed the canoe paddle as a rudder since!
So awesome. What is the red epoxy that you are using? Is there a particular reason to choose one brand or another? I have only ever used the West stuff and am still getting to grips with all the different filler choices.
And on exotherms... while building a stich-and-ply kayak 20 years ago, the epoxy kicked in the plastic cup. I was quite surprised at both the steam and the way it all landed in a gooey mess on the floor!
That’s the standard west 105 resin, but with some red microballoons mixed in after the first cloth wet-out. I thickened the epoxy between the hull and the new glass to help finish minor gap filling. I sometimes get greedy and use Fast hardener in the summer. Ok if you immediately spread it out, but I’ve had my share of burning cups ;)
Wondering where all you placed your soft pad eyes? I also have a 25c that has many soft spots on deck from the balsa getting wet and am slowly working on repairing them all and modernizing the rigging layout
@@kylevanderspek3142 cool, which boat is yours? Mine is #15.
This started with removing jib car tracks. Placed one set of eyes for primary jib and second set for heavy weather jib. Added four more for crane-lift eyes. Two on aft floats for spinnaker blocks. Two in forward floats for barberhauling and docking. Four little ones for hull-to-floats diagonal under-net lines. I think these are all shown within the past four or five videos. But let me know if you’re looking for more specifics. It’s important to integrate backing plates too in this job. Bond them on to form a proper system.
@@Ravenswingsailing I have 4, it’s spend it’s life in so cal and will continue to be down here, we brought it up for ditch run last year though and had a blast. Yeah the original (?) jib tracks are still there and the aluminum backing plates on there and everywhere else are totally wasted and have led to deck compressing up and down depending on the location of the loading, same with the main halyard clutch. Transitioning to g10 backers with each part as it’s pulled and the deck/core repaired. Is your “heavy weather” jib the like 110 that’s in the original sail plan? If so where’s your larger jib sheet to/how big is it?
Is yours the boat owned for a long time by one couple, and went thru a series of listings for sale in recent years? With a repaint in that process somewhere as I recall. If so, that’s the one that got me all 25C fired up about 20 yrs ago at Summer Splash. Those folks just walked away from our F27, and we were trying hard;)
No, my tiny jib is one we had from the F27 but never used. It’s so high-clew that it needs to be sheeted back by the clutches, almost to the winches. I’ve used it once on a 25kt SF day and it was great.
With your compression on deck, I think you should be adding thin plates on the outside also. An engineer showed me why as we prepped an older Transpac boat last year. I added them throughout my 25 refit. Those are bonded down too. Basically I feel I’ve taken the balsa core out of the equation anywhere near the loaded fasteners.