Pathfinder progress report, end of week/month and practically the end of year 2.
Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well. It’s the end of a working week once again but it’s also the end of the month and I think honestly it’s probably the end of the project this year aside from some small workshop based jobs during the autumn.
I noticed this week that it’s a lot cooler and wetter now – much more typical of the UK at this time of year ; for me it’s made the last few jobs a lot slower as the glue takes a lot longer to set.
My main attention has been on the detail of the rig and in fact I finish this year on a bit of a surprise which I will go into in a lot more detail with a main blog post ; briefly put that the boat is much more likely to start off as a sloop and not the yawl that iv’e been working towards. I finished painting the mast, made and fitted the stand-off’s for the chainplates – as I write i’m waiting for those and fitting them will probably be the last construction job I do outside this year.
A lot of that is due to my tabernacle and mast position and partially that I really want the best sailing performance I can get. In practical terms what that means is that I finished and fitted the boomkin but at the end of this week I made some blanking plates for the mizzen thru-hole and boomkin hole and I also closed the back of the boat.
While I was sorting out plywood scraps I set to and made the aft mast support for transport and storage – that means everything to do with the boat is now under covers.
Right now i’m starting to clean out and sort out in the workshop while I work up my jobs list for the autumn when I hopefully finish my time in court…..as long as they don’t take into account my many ‘sins’ of construction I should be OK !
Best wishes Y-awl. (Not a Yawl, Y’all)
Dirty Wet Dog, the great adventure. 
I’ll be interested to hear the detail of your thoughts on a sloop rig. The tabernacle will definitely have some benefits. For me there are some many positive benefits for the gaff yawl rig that ‘Anemone’ has, that I couldn’t imagine sailing her without it. Congratulations on the build. She looks great. Have you checked forward visibility for the helmsman? Thierry added a foot plate either side of the coachhouse on Anemone to improve the helmsman’s view after his first sail. I find that the coach house limits how far forward you can sit, so in order to be balanced fore & aft when single handed I am up next to the bulkhead. Two up it can be easy to drag the transom, so moving your water tanks forward to compensate could be a benefit in that situation. I bet you’re itching to sail her. All the best. Gavin
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Hi Gavin, it needs a longer response really , I think that there’s one post about the rig already scheduled but when I get the chance I will send a PM or email, hope you are both well……Steve
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