Great build!
You have one beautiful Yacht there!
Thanks for taking the time to document it.
When is she heading down the river to J&J?
Has any pipe been welded yet?
Jeff did my tower on my 46 Egg in 91 or 92, can't remember exactly, and did an incredible job. The shop he has now is first class and the Fabrication work is top tier!
Would love to catch a glimpse of her as I frequent the area.
nabeelah, we're in one of these phases where an update wouldn't be worth it. Not that nothing has been getting done, it's just that there is a hell of a lot poised to get done and until a few minor things are wrapped up there isn't much to document. Although the steering system is looking good.
Mike Q,
Jeff said he's built the buggy portion and he received the metal for the tower. He said he's getting on with building the back legs.
Jeff is at the boat this morning taking dimensions for the light locations under the hard top. The boat will be at his shop soon but the exact date is still not cast in stone. Keep following the thread and you'll know when she's at J&J.
Once it's there nobody but workers will be allowed on it because it's still under the builders risk policy as the sea trials and commissioning complete.
I'll take official possession at Jeff's and when that day comes if you're around the area, I'd be happy to let you look around.
No doubt in my mind about the work of J&J Fabricators. Jeff runs a first class facility. If Billy Joel thinks highly enough of the J&J Crew to fly them to Florida to work on his boat, well that speaks volumes for the work they do.
I’ve looked at a lot of towers over the years and the innovation and quality of J&J’s work is second to none.
If they weren’t then I wouldn’t be putting their product on the boat.
By the way, keep your eyes out for the May edition of Power and Motoryacht Magazine.
The building of a "Stradivarius" is going to be featured
I had a couple of pictures e-mailed over to me late yesterday. I figured I'd share.
We're still a few days off from showing some real progress but things are still progressing.
The template for the name was applied to the transom.
I like it. Although the ghost "S" behind the name will be made slightly smaller. The design is being tweaked and I may have a few musical notes painted above the exhaust tubes just for fun. Probably some bass notes. Because I'm sure will those "V8's" produce a sweet low rumble.
Bob is getting the wires ready to attach to the electrical panels. His handy work will be just as nice as Jim has been doing on the larger cable work.
All wires will be clearly labeled
The companionway "glove box" has been finished off and it's ready for the glass doors. The concealed door to the right with the painters tape hinge will house the stereo.
The day bunk varnish has all the coats it's going to get until we get the boat out of the dusty shed. As a matter of fact most of the varnish work is going to be placed on hold until we're at J&J getting the tower installed.
Well I had some time on my hands today so I went to the shed with the expectation of really not seeing a heck of a lot. And that's what I found.
But Dave was there working and Carlos was working in the cabin with brush in hand getting another coat on the cabin floors.
At least Dave and I got caught up on the plan for the coming week.
The steering system geometry had been laid out for a while and it's all been installed. The ram, rudder arms and connecting bar have been removed from the shelf as the tiller arms and connecting bar have been sent back to H&H for the final machine work.
Mike the systems guy wanted to take out some of the play in the system. So the heim joints originally installed into the connecting bar will not be fit with non-movable fittings and the tiller arms will have a bushing pressed into them as well as have larger keys made for them.
Mike and Dave weren't too happy with the fit of the keys.
The intent is to eliminate all play and make the system less prone to being sloppy. Well those guys are the experts so this gets left up to them.
But having experience with steering systems on stock cars that were campaigned by my father I understand where they were going with this.
And in theory is seems like they are building a bulletproof system. It seems a bit overkill but what isn't on this boat.
So one step forward, the parts are at H&H getting the final tweak and Dave is busy today spraying the aluminum reinforcing and mounting plates with zinc chromate and eventually finish paint.
So as we wait for the parts to come back the area will get detailed. In the mean time, the area is in disarray.
That's the steering ram sitting on the rubber mat. No worry about that "Don't Step" sticker because that ram has been placed in a location where it could never be stepped on. And that holds true for the rudder arms. Which allows us to utilize the two areas below the lazeret hatches for storage.
There hasn't been any other boat built of this size that has the storage capacity that this boat has.
The custom made bow chocks have been installed as well as the bowsprit anchor roller.
I love the look of these custom made chocks. They can handle 2 one inch lines in case I need to double up the lines. And they fit in with the heavy duty look of all other deck hardware. Carlos will apply a final coat of varnish once we're out of the shed and at the yard.
All of the plumbing has been completed. Including the shower fixtures which I have pictures of but just can't find them at the moment.
Changed out the smaller charger for a larger charger that will also handle the house battery bank.
That hole to the left of the battery charger is where the engine room blower output is located.
When needed the air will be brought in from the cockpit.
That system is controlled from a switch at the helm. So when this girl is coming in from a hard day of tournament fishing well pump cool air into her belly and get the heat out.
If we're out there and the seas are overwhelming our shark gill intakes then we will kick on the blowers and put the engine room into a positive pressure situation.
I believe the only thing remaining to be painted on the boat is the area behind the cabin stairs where the electrical panel is installed. But the lift up hatch has been painted and ready to get installed when the time comes.
The helm deck table has been made and it just needs a coat or two of paint.
We're down to the point where the locker doors, cabin hatch, cabin stairs, cabin bulkhead doors and everything down to seat cushions are ready to be installed.
The fighting chair has been sent to Diversified for the final application of clear coat and since they were spraying that Dave sent the helm pod too.
Dave said even with the protection that's been put down on the deck it received some minor scratches as a result of dust from cutting the last of the electrical sockets was getting under the protection. So they thought that one more coat of varnish would be in order.
The nice thing is all of the switches and sockets have been cut into the cabin bulkheads.
Once she's out, and on the hard Carlos will apply one more coat of satin varnish.
Here's Carlos's handy work.
Last edited by Fortunate One; 03-28-2010 at 07:14 PM.
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