Month: March 2016

Installed new ladder brackets. The original ones we installed last year required bolts to be used to secure the ladder. It took too long to get the ladder in place and the risk of dropping a bolt into the water was high. So I designed a new system with a “keyhole slot” to make it much faster.

Original design

New keyhole design

Shoulder bolts on the ladder for use with the keyhole design brackets

We also installed the gimbal I designed for use with the “vintage” Punker Marine alcohol stove I bought on ebay.

Punker Marine Stove

GimbalDesign

I also climbed the mast to remove old cables and drop a new “fish line” in preparation for installing new cables. I updated the “climbing board” with a new cam cleat and it worked perfectly.

We removed the winter tarp and frame. Reinstalled the lifelines and climbed the mast. It was the first time I had been to the top of the mast. I saw a device on YouTube (https://youtu.be/ycQm_ApCrUI) that looks like it would make climbing the mast a fairly easy process. I fabricated one from parts in my junk pile, but unfortunately the cam cleat I used did not work properly and I was not able to use it when climbing the mast.