The Dinghy's name is "Bud"

In an effort to build a bigger little boat we added head room in the main salon by dropping the cabin sole 3 inches.  A small microwave and 2 burner Wallas diesel fired cooktop replaced the Force 10 propane oven and stove opening up valuable real estate at the foot of the mast where the propane lockers used to live. The Technautics refrigeration system, specifically the compressor, is smaller and lighter than the Glacier Bay model formerly mounted in the lazerette. Moving the head off centerline and replacing the sampson posts with a deck mounted bronze equivalent opens up the forward cabin and sail and anchor lockers.  

Stowing a big dinghy on a small boat is a challenge.  Nestaway is an English company specializing in nesting prams and stem dinghys that respond very effectively to that challenge.  The one I bought is 9 foot long with a 4 ft 3 inch beam.  Nested the footprint is 5 x 4.25 feet.  "Bud" just arrived and she is a very cool big little dinghy.

Picture Time

Bowsprit goes from 5" x 5" square to 3 3/4" round.  The cranse iron end still has to be planed back 6 inches.

First coat bottom paint.

 Beta 24 hp

AC and DC panel

Adverc voltage regulator

 Port side under cockpit...water tank vent lines, bilge lines heading aft and pot water lines.

 Port side lockers above settee.

 Looking forward into head compartment.

 Electrical panels.

Head compartment then into sail locker and then into anchor locker.

 Echo water maker in head compartment

 Sail locker with water maker pre-filter bank.

Same as above.

Current Photos

Engine install almost done.

Raw water strainer, the thru hull has not been installed yet.  Racor fuel filter and remote oil filter.

There are 5 ea. 1.5 inch hoses on the port side of prop shaft, two are water tank fill lines that head forward under the engine. The other three are bilge discharge lines.  The manual whale gusher and the Rule 2000 submersible dive straight down to the bottom of bilge.  The big high water Rule 3700 discharge hose makes it way forward under the engine to the bilge area between the two water tanks.

The Vetus dual chamber wet muffler is well below the exhaust gooseneck under the shaft.  By design it splits into two pieces so you could actually get it out without pulling the shaft if you had to.

Engine battery will live in box below companionway ladder.

AC and DC panel, battery selector switches,  galvanic isolator indiator light panel, AC outlet, primary and secondary bilge pump switches and engine start panel.

Port quarter berth.

 Aft end of starboard pilot berth with Mastervolt 2000/100 inverter charger under.

Galley.

Air con vent over galley.  Three small drawers north of chart table.

Rose Photos

The re-designed, but not finished, anchor rollers are lighter (than the first design) but still attach to the gammoniron and stem of the boat not the bowsprit.

Twin 70 amp Nippon Denos alternators add  to the engine dimensions but still fit nicely.

The 750 watt Countour microwave just barely fit in the upper cabinet space. 

 Two mastervolt 115 amp hour 78 lb AGMs reside just to starboard of companion way.  The other pair lives under the quarter berth to port.  You can just see the mastervolt 2000/100 inverter charger under the foot of the starboard side pilot berth.

 Blues Seas Panel.

 Looking forward.

Galley port side mid-ship.

 Curtis wiring fresh water pump.

Chart table / Cool Blue reefer. (Copper sink goes the other side)

 Epoxy, Primer, two part polyurethane.

 Starboard stern.

 Allcraft water heater in lazerette on port side.

 Allcraft for now is not stocking their 5 gallon unit so went with 9 gallon....... got back some of the pot water capacity lost when I lowered the sole ( and reduced the height of both water tanks) to achieve 6' 3" headroom.

Shore power outlet on starboard housetop. 













I think I will leave teak bulwarks natural.

Footnotes.

Bud is an 8' Trinka dinghy that under my command will be rowed to and from Rose (Rose.......Bud, get it?), but under the command of my grandson, sailed on venturesome voyages. Rose will remain under construction through this spring and summer so Bud and Whisper will stand in as seamanship and sail trim teachers. I expect them both to be unforgiving taskmasters.

Only a scant few years after inheriting a huge family fortune a local reporter found young down and out Ritchie in a homeless shelter.
"What in the world did you spend all that money on"? he asked.
"I spent most of it on women and whiskey; the rest of it I just wasted".  Yuk.

I am only 3 for 14 on my month old  "to do list".   The Aerogel insulation material is in.  I will use the 5mm for the inside of the hull and layer the 10 mm to build the icebox lid. The galley sink has been exchanged for the proper size version and the two new water tanks are ready to install. I think the pace will quicken once Juan finds port and starboard symetry in the main cabin.

Neil Young is selling his boat.  Not rigged for single handing but looks like he has full standing headroom down below.

Flowering

A renaming ceremony should probably coincide with a christening but I'm going to jump the gun, and besides, I have to call her something other than "the boat" or "the vessel" while she is under construction.  And since she will be "Rose" when finished that shall be her name going forward.. 

So "Sea Star" she was, before Hurricane Ike stole her and "Rose" she is after I stole her back. "Rose" as in rose from the bottom, as in mother-in-law Rose Watson ( picked up a few credits there, but promptly spent them on a kitchen pass allowing me to attend the Maine boat show).  "Rose" as in granddaughter Chloe Rose and Rose as in "HMS Rose", a British Navy Cutter that harrassed a young American navy up and down the New England coast during the Revolutionary War and now rests on the bottom of the Savanah River.

More Recent Pics

Galley port icebox starboard

Since she is coming back gaff rigged there will not be a backstay but I am keeping the boomkin anyway.  I plan to install a Hydrovane wind vane on centerline inside at the apex of the boomkin and fill in the boomkin center area with teak grate work

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Hard to tell from photo but the port side of forward cabin will have a sink with the Climma air conditioner compressor underneath and the head will be next to it with cabinets overhead. 

Progess

Sucks, actually. I thought furniture would be finished by the end of this month. Looks like mid February now. Juan is great carpenter and fiber glass hand but I should stop telling everyone how good he is. The goal is to keep him on my boat not send him more work. I'll sing his praises after he finishes. Anyway, he only lacks main shelves in the forward cabin to have all the furniture structure roughed-in. Then I can power wash, detail clean and wipe dry the entire interior. Once that project is complete we will declare a two month moratorium on all below deck sanding so we can paint hull interior and inside of cabinetry. Then wiring and plumbing can start in earnest.

I hope I will be splashing the boat by September but I don't want to leave the shed early. I want to get as much done as possible before going in the water. Once in the water I will take her to Lakewood (floating docks!). I estimate another three months getting her dressed up for a christening party.

Progress Photos

Port Townsend delivered anchor rollers and lifeline stanchions.

 

Boat Move

Sea Star moved to her winter home in San Leon this week.  This location may look familiar to the Bruckdorfers.  I understand that they spent some serious time in this same shed building a Flicka.