Well, I had to call it that, didn't I?

The mast is rounded and tapered and generally looking pretty splendid. Time to build another one!

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Tony

Transcript

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[Music]
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hi i'm tony and this is the story of the
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build of this 31 foot 8 inch j benford
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designed cruising sailboat
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from the lofting of the lines to are
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emerging from the boat sheds to receiver
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keel masts and all the other
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paraphernalia that make up a cruising
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vessel
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join us on this adventure as we
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build topacha and hopefully set off to
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test her out as a liveaboard cruising
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vessel
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[Music]
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well
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it's been another busy week in the boat
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shed and i'm going to start this week by
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um showing you where we're going to
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finish actually i'm going to grab the
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camera pan over this mast and show you
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where we are
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let's do it
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here we are we've got the
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the mast foot squared up to the right
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dimensions
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reverse taper coming up to the partners
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area
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a little flat section here that's going
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to be the place where the
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wind is going to mount
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and then we're round and tapering
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all the way
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to the top
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and basically speaking the shaping up is
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finished
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i have ordered a piece of piping for the
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masthead fitting and um i should just
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wait until that arrives should be here
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any day
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just to make sure the top of the mast is
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the right diameter
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but other than that it's ready for
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glassing and i'm very very pleased
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come out well
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for my first ever
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homemade
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mast
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well that's not true first ever big
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homemade must
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please do that
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and as you probably remember last week
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um i started to uh make it octagonal i
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glued up the four pieces into a square
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i'd cut the taper on that and i'd
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started to to cut that into an octagonal
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shape
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and that was largely done with with some
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tools i showed you the three meter long
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straight edge level last time
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which i used to make sure it was running
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nice and true straight along its length
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little sliding bevel set at 45 degrees
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to check
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because octagon octagon corners are 45
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degrees check you've got the corners at
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the right angle
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obviously
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and a pair of calipers and anywhere
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along its length
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obviously all
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six sides all three
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um
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all three distances across the flats
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have to be have to be the same obviously
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and if you know
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you're running true on the straight edge
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you've got your 45 degrees you've got
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the distances right
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and um
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now and again use the tape measure just
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to measure the width of the flats which
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should also be all be the same
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basically keep that within a reasonable
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tolerance and and you've got a true
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octagon
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and that's what happened
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so i ended up with this tapered octagon
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the double taper of course tapering down
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to the mast foot up to the head
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huh and from there on it was a case of
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of rounding off and that really was
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remarkably easy did it by eye
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it feels pretty good it was pretty good
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you can feel
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how true your round is
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pretty well
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um did it by eye with a planer and then
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belt sander and and the orbital sander
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to finish it off and say
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it's coming out really well i'm pleased
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[Music]
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so
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so
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it's good
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huh
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[Music]
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there aren't they
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mars too big what's there
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[Music]
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that's good
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that's very good
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that really isn't looking bad at all
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zeroes
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there we are it's now a true
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octagon for its whole length
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it's time to start making it round how
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exciting
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so
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so
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well i'm very pleased with that just got
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the bottom to round up and shape
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and the top section
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is done really in terms of shaping's
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done
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marvelous
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okay
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uh
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look at that
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all right
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so
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so
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um
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oh beautiful
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beautiful
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is the leftover part of the partner's
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tube
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positioned at the partner's position
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and here is my round mast all the way
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along
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the sanding planing work finished
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i am very very pleased with that
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very place we've got this flat section
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here
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that the windlass
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will mount to
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everything else rounded off
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i say time for a sand up i think i'm
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gonna have a cup of tea first
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so
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big i think
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that one
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so
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up to there
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this one
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so
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foreign
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and there we have it that's it for this
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week
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last one mast
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nearly done
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get some glass on that this week i hope
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um a bit low on epoxy but uh
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should be getting to some glass and most
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certainly first piece of stainless steel
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just arrived
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and that's the piece that will be for
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the mounting of the windlass making a
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bracket up to mount that windlass on
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the top mast head fitting piece on its
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way apparently
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so some fabrication to be done there
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that would be exciting looking forward
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to that
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and clearly got a second master start
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gluing up and
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cutting some length scarfing some links
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up on there
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so plenty to do as ever
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a massive thank you to you as usual for
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keep this thing running on the
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occasional bit of kit
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it's bit hard on cameras this game
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that's for sure i've killed a few
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cameras and epoxified
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they don't like it you know anyhow
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that's it for now have a good see you
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next time bye
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