Select to expand quoteDunedinite said..
Saw one for sale here in Langkawi yesterday.
6,000 Ringet. So a bit over $2,000 Aus.
I got mine during a Honda special. Had a $300 cash back off $2k
6000 Ringgit is not exactly cheap, especially in duty free Langkawi. Make sure you drop into the Royal Langkawi Yacht club ........ 5 Ringgit for a tall glass of cold Tiger can't be all bad and good food too.
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Stage 1 of the new cockpit floor, raised 6mm so it falls towards the drain, 19m marine ply with 600g double bias epoxied on top.
Raising that 6mm is an excellent idea Andy, no more wet socks!
Select to expand quotecaptainyanti said..
i have filled my sink with empty stubbies today
Ive added a couple in my fridge for tomorrow so there you my friend have run out ha ha and will have to set sail back to get some more unless you run into Brizzy Dave he is always fulled loaded 
i haven't run out yet hg, just been through a huge week, from romance to no romance, police called, wtf, id love to have a beer with brizzy. i was born in brisbane long ago
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i haven't run out yet hg, just been through a huge week, from romance to no romance, police called, wtf, id love to have a beer with brizzy. i was born in brisbane long ago
Remember one door shuts and another opens 
Oh forgot I did take this photo the other niight to see how the gages light up at night
yes hg20, another door opens but i can still hear the last door slamming shut. but i am free. free to go sailing, there are
are 5 yachts leaving the ivory tweed heads on the 1st of may, i really do not have to return back here. the beginning of the end, the doors aka 70s
Yes Yanti...hearing you...the sound of that door banging closed does ring in your ears a long time
Had a couple of soft drinks out of the fridge while fitting my Acrylic hatch and hatch cover The old piece of timber is damaged from past years Ill find a new piece and replace it in the coming months,
Select to expand quoteLooseChange said..Dunedinite said..
Saw one for sale here in Langkawi yesterday.
6,000 Ringet. So a bit over $2,000 Aus.
I got mine during a Honda special. Had a $300 cash back off $2k
6000 Ringgit is not exactly cheap, especially in duty free Langkawi. Make sure you drop into the Royal Langkawi Yacht club ........ 5 Ringgit for a tall glass of cold Tiger can't be all bad and good food too.
I agree Loosechange. Not cheap at all.
Just thought I would let him know the current price on the shelf here....
That was the ticket price.. I'm sure it could be haggled down.
Couple of bars here in Telega are doing two glasses for the price of one during happy hour. Same same price!!
Or you buy a can of Carlsberg from the shop for 2RM (about $0.70c). Laughing
The Gecko Mini Mart in Pantai Chenang has 500ml cans of 12% German beer for RM1.90, if 12% is a bit much they have 8% for the same price, really helps you get to sleep in the heat.
In Telaga there was a really good Russian eatery.
Well I have reached a major milestone today with the successful installation of 56 cm of new sail track [my design] on the mast.
This will allow me to put in a reef correctly.
We actually went sailing today on the mooring when we had the mainsail up!
My sail maker will now fix the boom bag and make a new bag for the inflatable dinghy which I have decided to carry
roped to the starboard rail just forward of the mast.
Tomorrow night or Sunday I will spend the night on board to sort out the wiring to the mast head lights. They work, just not with the right switches!
I will also be having a final sort out, during that time onboard, to remove the last of the unnecessary gear.
The horizontal wind vane I'm building is now at the painting stage with only one support bracket to be fitted to Seaka
and a small weld when I do the final assembly. Its looking really good.
On the 23rd I go up on the Laurieton slip for 3 days for anti-foul [4 coats this time] and a polish. Then I'm ready to go around!
Sailing date is still around the middle of March.
Select to expand quotenswsailor said..
Well I have reached a major milestone today with the successful installation of 56 cm of new sail track [my design] on the mast.
This will allow me to put in a reef correctly.
We actually went sailing today on the mooring when we had the mainsail up!
My sail maker will now fix the boom bag and make a new bag for the inflatable dinghy which I have decided to carry
roped to the starboard rail just forward of the mast.
Tomorrow night or Sunday I will spend the night on board to sort out the wiring to the mast head lights. They work, just not with the right switches!
I will also be having a final sort out, during that time onboard, to remove the last of the unnecessary gear.
The horizontal wind vane I'm building is now at the painting stage with only one support bracket to be fitted to Seaka
and a small weld when I do the final assembly. Its looking really good.
On the 23rd I go up on the Laurieton slip for 3 days for anti-foul [4 coats this time] and a polish. Then I'm ready to go around!
Sailing date is still around the middle of March.
Like to see a photo of your dingy slashed down if you have spare time NSW
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Like to see a photo of your dingy slashed down if you have spare time NSW
His dinghy slashed? You're a cruel bastard, HG.
NSW, weren't you going to do a thread on making the wind vane?
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HG02 said..
Like to see a photo of your dingy slashed down if you have spare time NSW
His dinghy slashed? You're a cruel bastard, HG.
NSW, weren't you going to do a thread on making the wind vane?
ooppps
Well if he doesn't finish of that thread I just might slash his dingy 
NSW sailor can you make sure you put a link up so we can keep an eye on your progress when you set sail please
and a couple of photos also would be nice
I read you all,
Just trying to get it to a stage where you can see how it works and a parts list plus cost.
Plenty of photos!
Lets just say about the end of next week I will post the full story up to sea trials.
Don't worry HG)@ I will be posting [I have put up the above] on this site, sailblogs and Tophatyachts.
www.sailblogs.com/member/seaka and www.tophatyachts.com and 52.65.175.107/where-is/currently-cruising/
I will be posting photos on the sailblogs site and a small selection on this and the Top Hat site.
I'll indicate when extras are on the sailblogs site.
No photos yet of the dinghy but will take one when I get the new bag.
Yesterday
I wired in the oil pessure gage and volt meter I have over 3 bar at idle (engine slightly cold) which I am happy with I ran lots of Tycab twin core on the starboard side for all my lighting and entertainment set up speakers yet to do with 3 mm Tycab double insulated ( an over kill but I don't want to have to redo it before I drop dead )which I used for all my LED lighting.
I also made a ply under bench top for my fridges one yet to be purchased . photo below is my tempo mountings
I have put this up if any one need it below
I then started fitting my throttle/gear shift to where I wanted it away from the cockpit locker forward from the original placement and ahd to relocate my cables
to suit had it all pretty much done then disaster struck the throttle cable came off the engine end and as I moved the throttle handel forward it went to far so I now have to disassemble and hopefully repair it. I hate forwards backwards land
It reminds me of a time when I was building a small PC and dropped the CPU onto the pins on the mother board I have it on my bed room in a draw so when I open it it reminds me of that stuff up
Ill seal it with some Cabots Floor clear as I'm out of resin at the moment I think it should be OK. The fridges will rest on all four corners and then I have to make a bench top that the lids hinge off and make the lids and bench top flush with each other . Really looking forward to this part . Oh well its learning curve.
I redcued the widths of the shutters I bought off ebay Ill use a couple of them for a saloon door at the forward cabin others Ill frame and add several panels so it can be part of the fridge cabinet in front of the fridge boxes. Ill use the off cuts as there straight as a die and very strong Ive stood in the middle of one 1.4 length and it didn't break or flex much
This is a piece off the shutters I wonder what wood it actually is it light seem impervious to water damage as there been on the side of a house for many many years . After cutting it its has a slight pink color its to light a weight to be a hard wood . When I compare it to other teak I have here it maybe but not sure.
Some I have has been cut a certain way and this seems to match up to th above . Ill use it any way
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Could it be qld maple
Hard to know as I'm not a real wood person its a possibility . Most Ive seen are cedar but these arent they were sold to me as Teak shutters but who knows
Ive not had much to do with QLD maple and not sure what shutter timbers were available years ago other than cedar
same piece of timber just the other side . When I compared it to the acrylic hatch cover handle yesterday on one side the grain look the same but after oiling the hatch cover timbe and a little of the shutters the shutters looked a little bland compared to the hatch
I don't have a photo of it oiled unfortunately
This is my stainless I picked up have to frame it for the stove area
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Hard to know as I'm not a real wood person its a possibility . Most Ive seen are cedar but these arent they were sold to me as Teak shutters but who knows
Ive not had much to do with QLD maple and not sure what shutter timbers were available years ago other than cedar
same piece of timber just the other side . When I compared it to the acrylic hatch cover handle yesterday on one side the grain look the same but after oiling the hatch cover timber and a little of the shutters the shutters looked a little bland compared to the hatch
It's not Teak R2D2, more likely it's Meranti which also goes under a variety of other names depending where you are eg. Lauan or Philippine mahogany plus other names overseas. The tree is native to SE Asia and is very commonly imported into Australia for exactly the kind of thing that you have there.
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It looks like silky oak to me.
I rubbed some teak oil on a small part it didn't come up real well Cisco I thing I will have to put some stain on shutters.
Id like to match them up to the louvered doors I've just completed
No way is it Silky Oak, have a look at what Silky Oak looks like ....
www.google.com.au/search?q=silky+oak+timber&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=H1TXVMLlAYvs8AX_84D4CA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1920&bih=984
C3PO, is the timber you are using porous with large open grain and pores? Teak is very tight grained and also quite boring to look at, Silky Oak while it is not a true oak has the same rays visible that true oaks exhibit, neither of those timbers would usually be used for such a utilitarian piece such as louvre doors.
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No way is it Silky Oak, have a look at what Silky Oak looks like ....
www.google.com.au/search?q=silky+oak+timber&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=H1TXVMLlAYvs8AX_84D4CA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1920&bih=984
C3PO, is the timber you are using porous with large open grain and pores? Teak is very tight grained and also quite boring to look at, Silky Oak while it is not a true oak has the same rays visible that true oaks exhibit, neither of those timbers would usually be used for such a utilitarian piece such as louvre doors.
its tight grained Loose Change
The lower piece in the photo is teak the top is the shutter timber
When I tried to rub teak oil into to it it seemed a little impervious to the oil . It would not soak in
Very hard to identify a piece of wood when you don't have it in your hand to feel and smell, looking at the top piece, it now doesn't look like Meranti. The picture at the top of this page the two doors now look like Kalantas, but as you say it is tight grained it isn't Kalantas either .......... Buggered if I know, call it what you like, It won't make any difference to the bit wood.
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Very hard to identify a piece of wood when you don't have it in your hand to feel and smell, looking at the top piece, it now doesn't look like Meranti. The picture at the top of this page the two doors now look like Kalantas, but as you say it is tight grained it isn't Kalantas either .......... Buggered if I know, call it what you like, It won't make any difference to the bit wood.
A Kitchen/ Cabinet maker used to call some wood South African" beeper wood" so that's what it is from now on So add that to your brain archive Loose change
I some how feel its the way the timbers been cut off the tree . Ill give a piece a good sand tomorrow wash it with some timber wash and let it dry and then oil it again
