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Build of ECO62 (houseboat) starts

 

Hello Bernd, hello All,

my build is mostly in hibernation. Anyway I hope to do some back-work around building shop and building tent and maybe little parts of the boat over winter time.

I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year!

Gruss, ³Ò¨¹²Ô³Ù±ð°ù
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Hello ³Ò¨¹²Ô³Ù±ð°ù

Time for a break and time for the family.

I wish you to and all the others a happy new year
 

Thanks ³Ò¨¹²Ô³Ù±ð°ù

same to you

Bernd
 

My slow build is going further also.

Just now I finished the planking of the second hull and started to trim the seams.

I'm looking forward mounting the hulls to the bridge deck, may be in a month.
 

The weather plays in Germany always also a big role (also for the moral!). In any case have you made good good progress. And the quailty of the work looks perfect.

Cheers

Bernd
 

Hello Heimfried

Have you heard from the other thwo ECO 62 houseboat builder? Are the also in the German forum? One of the was very far. Not so important, but would be interesting

Viele Gr¨¹?e

Bernd
 

Yes, Bernd,
we are in continous excange of news about our buildings in the German forum and it is very helpful to know the other guys. Each of us has an own building thread over there ¨C two of them with more than 1000 posts each.?

Gru?, ³Ò¨¹²Ô³Ù±ð°ù
 

Nice blogs with lots of humor !?

Cheers, Hans
 

To ease the handling of the hull, while dryfitting and glueing it to the bridge deck (I think this will afford several times of placing it and lifting again) I drilled 4 blind holes (25 mm diameter, 13 mm deep) through the side planks into the superstructure of the bulkheads. Then I glued in stainless steel drive-in nuts with a washer at the face. I have now 4 fixed-ponts (8 mm thread) for handling or fixing the hull.

The outer force/load has to be tight at the surface to prevent a considerable lever. Otherwise the fixed-points could or would break out.

 

Hello Heimfried

Clever idea, thanks for the explanation and pictures. Very practical and can be adapted to many boats under construction.

Cheers

Bernd
 

In the last two month I was building two gantry cranes that would allow me to handle my hulls and the bridge deck easily. The practical test is passed now. To join the hulls to the bridge deck I have to do a couple of dry fits, reworking some details in between to make it fit very well. As a hull weights 85 kg moving it, turning it, placing it exactly needs (technical) assistance.

 

For lifting the hulls with the cranes I use the special nuts I embedded last year in the hulls as access points (4 per hull). I prepared 6 mm plywood strips fitting in 2 washers each (2 * 2 mm thick) and glueing a little wood strip to attach a loop of 8 mm cord. The holes for the cord are inclined a bit for to align the cord tight to the hull surface. The point is to avoid a lever when the cord is under tesion, otherwise the nuts would break out.Also the ply stripes are only constructed to take tensions in their own plane otherwise they would break.

This way I used them really often to lift the hulls upright and bottom up.

 

For to turn the hulls from upright to bottom up position I place lifting slings transversal under the keel (green in the pic) and fix one side with clamps at the sheer. The other sides are hinged in the crane hooks. Then I lift the hooks slowly and the hull will slowly perform a rolling move. To prevent a hard bounce in the end phase I put cushions at the landing line and controll the move with the lifting strings.


 

With my two last posts I uploaded 10 Pics, which I can't see now on this site. The yahoo email telling me about the posts did contain the pics, so they must have been arrived. The texts alone are not very helpful.

Some members of this group experienced missing pics if I recall right.

 

Hello

Interesting to turn a hull alone. There where a lot of thoughts going in. But the result looks fine.
First thinking and then doing a very good example and thanks for the pictures


Cheers

Bernd
 

My slow build moves on very slow. The (demi) hulls are glued to the bridge deck and the fillets (radius = 100 mm) are done and glassed. To form the ends of the fillets smoothly I needed to take the bridge deckup a few inches alternating forward and aft. I used my self made gentry crane and a beam.
 

The build is perhaps slow, but it looks very good. You are a perfectionist?
So to see you are as far to turn the boat?
Keep up the good works
Cheers

Bernd
 

Once again the pics I sent with my post are not visible at this group in spite they are part of the yahoo system email, which is pointing at this post.

These problems are lasting longer than one year. If there is really a technical issue, the new yahoo owners are not at all interested in fixing it - despite telling otherwise.

The pics:

Cheers
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Hello everyone. Congratulations on the building. I saw a? green catamaran on the topic album, but I can find the message that talks about it. What boat is that? Please.


On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 5:58 AM ikarus342000@... [k-designs] <[email protected]> wrote:
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The build is perhaps slow, but it looks very good. You are a perfectionist?

So to see you are as far to turn the boat?
Keep up the good works
Cheers

Bernd
 

Ich habe ja bereits in der Gruppe geantwortet. Das sieht ja perfekt
aus. Eigentlich so weit um das Boot zu drehen, oder? Ja leider geht es
nicht immer so wie man will.
Die Halle ist doch auch neu?
Nach einem Unfall mit meinem Auto, Polizei stellte fest, dass es nicht
meine Schuld war. Der Verursacher ist durchgefahren, sch?n was. Ich
habe jetzt eine alte Karre ohne Trailerhaken. Montage und so
weiterkostet mehr wie das Ding Wert ist. Deshalb bin ich auch nicht
zum segeln gekommen. Computer hatte nach 10 Jahren den Geist
aufgegeben. Also einen neuen gekauft, mit Windows 10. Meine Boots und
anderen Programme laufen aber auf Windows 7. Habe einen anderen in
England gekauft und warte seit einer Woche auf die Lieferung. Seit 3
Tagen bekomme ich Emails dass geliefert wird. Nix bis jetzt. So bei
mir geht auch alles langsam.
Gut, frohes Schaffen und viele Gruesse

Bernd


On 9/10/19, info@... [k-designs] <k-designs@...> wrote:
My slow build moves on very slow. The (demi) hulls are glued to the bridge
deck and the fillets (radius = 100 mm) are done and glassed. To form the
ends of the fillets smoothly I needed to take the bridge deckup a few inches
alternating forward and aft. I used my self made gentry crane and a beam.



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Bernd Kohler
K-designs
France/The Netherlands

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