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Building of the Tiki 46 n°2 "PHA#"
Since a few months I spent almost all my time 7 days on 7 to build our Tiki46 (we want to name now PHA#) until the 9-9-2009 when I broken my left arm in descending too quickly a ladder.
During this last month I stay completely disconnected from the building, using my time to read and to learn more about the Linux system on my laptop and net-book which is a marvelous alternative system to Windows based on the sharing and cooperation instead competition and domination.
Now I can reuse slightly my arm, I wish to share a digest of my building experiences here.
In 1971 with my brother we rebuilt a 8m old gaff sail boat "Equinoxe" :
In 1974-1975 just after to get married we built (too) quickly in plywood a 9.7m mono hull sail boat "Piniouf" :
In the begining of the nineties I rigged my self in old gaff ketch an old classic wood work boat of 15m. It was a very hard work and from this experience I decide to have a boat free junk rigged with no shrouds :
After all these experiments we wanted a big cat for our big family and during the Summer 1998 we visited the Wharrams and bought the Tiki46 plan n°2, after we visited Anne & Nev who have built the bottom hulls of their Tiki46 n°1. After we drove to the Skye island to the PCA Wharram meeting and on the return we visited Robin Blain of Sunbird Marine to decide which junk rig we'll put on our Tiki46. When returning at home, we continue the building of the
workshop :
During the Winter and Spring I finished the workshop and began to cut the bottom bulkheads and keel parts. In August 1999 we went to the PCA Wharram meeting near Plymouth with our Hitia14 and a model of our Tiki46 and after our return athome we began the building :
Puting epox on bottom bulkheads
Keel building
How to fix the tube for the propeller shaft
The propeller shaft tube is glued in the keel
April 2000 adjusting the stringer notches
May 2000 stringers ready
May 2000 children sanding the hull before the first hull ply
June 2000 preparing the first layer
June 2000 children putting off the staples
July 2000 visit of James and Hanneke when the second layer is glued
August 2000 third ply done and beginning of the last layer
September 2000 Bertrand and Marie-Helene when glassing the keel
September 2000 after to have put several glass layers around the keel preparing the complete hull glassing
September 2000 glueing an extra timber over the keel, after a stainless strip will be screwed
October 2000 turning the bottom hulls
December 2000 beginning of the upper hulls
During the winter I prepared the stringers with scarfs in glueing them in our living room.
In April 2001,I began to work in Martinique (West Indies) and so the Tiki46 building stopped until my next holidays in Brittany from mid July to mid August.
July 2001 fixing the upper bulkheads
July 2001 glassing the keel fillets in the hull bottom
July 2001 adjusting the bottom stringer with the upper stringer with a curved guide fixed on the planner
August 2001 epoxying the hull side panels. End of 2001 work.
July 2002 glueing the upper hull panels. This until the end of my holidays mid August.
July 2003 cut of the bottom hull side panels with a guide
July 2003 detail of the guide to cut the bottom hull sides
July 2003 how are putting the buoyancy foam panels
July 2003 all the inside lashing reinforcements are extended until the chine stringer
August 2003 building of the beam troughs. End of 2003 work.
In 2004 I got extra holidays July + August, so the work progress has been good.
July 2004 doubling the upper stringers
July 2004 t is possible to put out all the buoyancy foam panels from the hull
August 2004 the stringers on the upper outside side cabin panels are glued inside the cabin instead outside as on the plans
August 2004 glueing outside hull cabin panels
August 2004 glueing the back side stringers
August 2004 stern buoyancy area
August 2004 front buoyancy ready to be closed
August 2004 glueing the first layer of the front deck
August 2004 the stern is closed
August 2004 inside the starboard hull before to fly back in Martinique
I used all my 2005 holidays to sail back from Martinique to Morgat in Brittany in 29 days during June 2005. So no progress this year. I began my new job in Brittany in October 2005 and due to a lot of different little works to do with the house, cars, garden etc. the building of our Tiki46 restarted only in Spring 2006.
Year after year the help of our children go down as they have to live there own path and Marie-Helene who broke her foot was not really helpful before a long time.
To keep a good training level, each year we participated with our Tiki30 PHA to junk rig rallies in UK. The building of PHA in Martinique has been a good experience and her sailing tests help us very much to improve her big sister PHA#.
August 2006 reinforcing the junction with the cabin sides and upper hull sides with fillet + glass
August 2006 making the center part of the beams
August 2006 preparing the beam timbers
August 2006 glueing the triangular stringers on the beam frame
September 2006 beams ready to be glassed
October 2006 glassing the beams
March 2007 making the scarfs on the rudders
April 2007 making holes in the same time in the bulkheads and beams
April 2007 positioning the template to cut an elongated hole in the bulkhead instead in the beams
April 2007 the grinder is following the template to cut the elongated hole in the bulkhead
April 2007 preparing the glueing of reinforcement stainless plates on the slot sides
May 2007 elongated bulkheads holes with fillets in the corners and glass on the front
May 2007 a stainless tube is glued in the beams holes to avoid the pin damages the beams
May 2007 the pine crossing the bulkheads and beam
May 2007 handling the beams
August 2007 reinforcing the bulkhead where will be implanted the free masts
August 2007 reinforcing the bulkhead where will be implanted the free masts
August 2007 entrance of each hull with toilet and shower room
September 2007 the first roof stern cabin layer is ready to be glued
Retired in December 2007, I have now more time to work. The main limitation is the temperature to use epoxy (minimum 15°C for my epoxy), so I can work at full time from May to September.
During the winter I spent a lot of time to study and improve the efficiency of the advanced junk rig of PHA and to build new wishbones.
The main job in 2008 has been to finish all the sandwich decks (foam + 2 layers of biax 600g/m²).
May 2008 glueing foam panels on the front port cabin deck
May 2008 glassing the front hull cabin
May 2008 center hull cabin roof ready to receive the foam between the wood reinforcements
June 2008 center hull cabin roof finished
June 2008 different phases to get full glassed lashing rails
June 2008 how to oblige the glass to stay against the piece during the epoxy cure
June 2008 making holes to receive bolts and screws
June 2008 ready to hold lashing ropes
August 2008 glueing a half rounded stringer at the stern end in order to get a constant thickness from bottom to top
August 2008 adding epoxy and after glass to get a smooth surface at the stern edge
August 2008 making a large fillet under the chine stringer
August 2008 to get a good alignment of the beam support pads a lot of glue has been put before to apply the beam on the pad.
August 2008 result after to have put off the excess of glue and made fillets
August 2008 glueing several heavy glass layers under the skeg bottom to reinforce it
October 2008 glueing reinforcement wood on the main cabin pod sides in my live room
October 2008 glueing foam on the main cabin pod sides
During this winter I study again how to improve our Tiki30 "PHA" Swing wing rig and I made new wishbones. All this R&D work will be apply for our Tiki46.
February 2009 making the main bulkhead of the cabin pod
April 2009 front face of the cabin pod
April 2009 sides of the cabin pod
May 2009 assembling the cabin pod
May 2009 glueing the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 first part of the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 cabin pod bottom ready to receive the foam
May 2009 foam glued on the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 preparing the first glass layer on the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 Second glass layer on the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 glassing the second layer of the cabin pod bottom
June 2009 making a hole in the bottom to be able to stand up in front of the kitchen
June 2009 all the cabin pod bottom is glassed
June 2009 Glueing a streaming shape foam in front of the hole
June 2009 the foam is shaped in front of the bottom hole
July 2009 visit of Susi and Tom owners of the Tangarora AORAI rigged with a junk rig on each hull en route from Berlin to Quebec we met in Alderney when sailing back from the Junk rig meeting near Southampton at the end of June.
July 2009 glueing rubber pads on the beam bottom
July 2009 rubber paddle glued
July 2009 first step to make a lashing stop on the beam top
July 2009 fillets and glass to avoid all possibilities of moving the rubber pads
August 2009 painting the beams
August 2009 the pod and 3 back beams are painted
August 2009 beam in its beam trough
August 2009 one another possibility to hold the beams
August 2009 ready to turn over the pod
August 2009 the pod has now to be climbed on the2 central beams
August 2009 the pod is ok on the beams (after a little incident)
August 2009 now we have to glue the top pod parts
August 2009 at first making the top of the anchor lockers with adding plastic tubes around the openings
August 2009 the plastic tube is glueing
August 2009 openings on the hull sides have been made with a template and a grinder
August 2009 positioning the pod front face
August 2009 positioning the upper sides of the pod
August 2009 glueing the upper pod side
August 2009 the upper pod sides are glued
August 2009 adding fillets and glass to reinforce the joinings
August 2009 first step to adjust the variable top sides angle
August 2009 second step to adjust exactly the variable angle with a grinder
August 2009 detail of how is transformed the grinder
August 2009 how is adjust the top of the front side
August 2009 fixing temporary supports to build the pod roof
August 2009 glueing the first layer of the pod roof
August 2009 roof viewed from the handling cockpit
August 2009 inside the cabin pod during the building of its roof
August 2009 Marie-Helene looking at the job to do
August 2009 reinforcing the pod roof
August 2009 glueing the foam panels on the roof
August 2009 first glass layer on the pod roof
August 2009 second glass layer on the pod roof
During this last month I stay completely disconnected from the building, using my time to read and to learn more about the Linux system on my laptop and net-book which is a marvelous alternative system to Windows based on the sharing and cooperation instead competition and domination.
Now I can reuse slightly my arm, I wish to share a digest of my building experiences here.
In 1971 with my brother we rebuilt a 8m old gaff sail boat "Equinoxe" :
In 1974-1975 just after to get married we built (too) quickly in plywood a 9.7m mono hull sail boat "Piniouf" :
In the begining of the nineties I rigged my self in old gaff ketch an old classic wood work boat of 15m. It was a very hard work and from this experience I decide to have a boat free junk rigged with no shrouds :
After all these experiments we wanted a big cat for our big family and during the Summer 1998 we visited the Wharrams and bought the Tiki46 plan n°2, after we visited Anne & Nev who have built the bottom hulls of their Tiki46 n°1. After we drove to the Skye island to the PCA Wharram meeting and on the return we visited Robin Blain of Sunbird Marine to decide which junk rig we'll put on our Tiki46. When returning at home, we continue the building of the
workshop :
During the Winter and Spring I finished the workshop and began to cut the bottom bulkheads and keel parts. In August 1999 we went to the PCA Wharram meeting near Plymouth with our Hitia14 and a model of our Tiki46 and after our return athome we began the building :
Puting epox on bottom bulkheads
Keel building
How to fix the tube for the propeller shaft
The propeller shaft tube is glued in the keel
April 2000 adjusting the stringer notches
May 2000 stringers ready
May 2000 children sanding the hull before the first hull ply
June 2000 preparing the first layer
June 2000 children putting off the staples
July 2000 visit of James and Hanneke when the second layer is glued
August 2000 third ply done and beginning of the last layer
September 2000 Bertrand and Marie-Helene when glassing the keel
September 2000 after to have put several glass layers around the keel preparing the complete hull glassing
September 2000 glueing an extra timber over the keel, after a stainless strip will be screwed
October 2000 turning the bottom hulls
December 2000 beginning of the upper hulls
During the winter I prepared the stringers with scarfs in glueing them in our living room.
In April 2001,I began to work in Martinique (West Indies) and so the Tiki46 building stopped until my next holidays in Brittany from mid July to mid August.
July 2001 fixing the upper bulkheads
July 2001 glassing the keel fillets in the hull bottom
July 2001 adjusting the bottom stringer with the upper stringer with a curved guide fixed on the planner
August 2001 epoxying the hull side panels. End of 2001 work.
July 2002 glueing the upper hull panels. This until the end of my holidays mid August.
July 2003 cut of the bottom hull side panels with a guide
July 2003 detail of the guide to cut the bottom hull sides
July 2003 how are putting the buoyancy foam panels
July 2003 all the inside lashing reinforcements are extended until the chine stringer
August 2003 building of the beam troughs. End of 2003 work.
In 2004 I got extra holidays July + August, so the work progress has been good.
July 2004 doubling the upper stringers
July 2004 t is possible to put out all the buoyancy foam panels from the hull
August 2004 the stringers on the upper outside side cabin panels are glued inside the cabin instead outside as on the plans
August 2004 glueing outside hull cabin panels
August 2004 glueing the back side stringers
August 2004 stern buoyancy area
August 2004 front buoyancy ready to be closed
August 2004 glueing the first layer of the front deck
August 2004 the stern is closed
August 2004 inside the starboard hull before to fly back in Martinique
I used all my 2005 holidays to sail back from Martinique to Morgat in Brittany in 29 days during June 2005. So no progress this year. I began my new job in Brittany in October 2005 and due to a lot of different little works to do with the house, cars, garden etc. the building of our Tiki46 restarted only in Spring 2006.
Year after year the help of our children go down as they have to live there own path and Marie-Helene who broke her foot was not really helpful before a long time.
To keep a good training level, each year we participated with our Tiki30 PHA to junk rig rallies in UK. The building of PHA in Martinique has been a good experience and her sailing tests help us very much to improve her big sister PHA#.
August 2006 reinforcing the junction with the cabin sides and upper hull sides with fillet + glass
August 2006 making the center part of the beams
August 2006 preparing the beam timbers
August 2006 glueing the triangular stringers on the beam frame
September 2006 beams ready to be glassed
October 2006 glassing the beams
March 2007 making the scarfs on the rudders
April 2007 making holes in the same time in the bulkheads and beams
April 2007 positioning the template to cut an elongated hole in the bulkhead instead in the beams
April 2007 the grinder is following the template to cut the elongated hole in the bulkhead
April 2007 preparing the glueing of reinforcement stainless plates on the slot sides
May 2007 elongated bulkheads holes with fillets in the corners and glass on the front
May 2007 a stainless tube is glued in the beams holes to avoid the pin damages the beams
May 2007 the pine crossing the bulkheads and beam
May 2007 handling the beams
August 2007 reinforcing the bulkhead where will be implanted the free masts
August 2007 reinforcing the bulkhead where will be implanted the free masts
August 2007 entrance of each hull with toilet and shower room
September 2007 the first roof stern cabin layer is ready to be glued
Retired in December 2007, I have now more time to work. The main limitation is the temperature to use epoxy (minimum 15°C for my epoxy), so I can work at full time from May to September.
During the winter I spent a lot of time to study and improve the efficiency of the advanced junk rig of PHA and to build new wishbones.
The main job in 2008 has been to finish all the sandwich decks (foam + 2 layers of biax 600g/m²).
May 2008 glueing foam panels on the front port cabin deck
May 2008 glassing the front hull cabin
May 2008 center hull cabin roof ready to receive the foam between the wood reinforcements
June 2008 center hull cabin roof finished
June 2008 different phases to get full glassed lashing rails
June 2008 how to oblige the glass to stay against the piece during the epoxy cure
June 2008 making holes to receive bolts and screws
June 2008 ready to hold lashing ropes
August 2008 glueing a half rounded stringer at the stern end in order to get a constant thickness from bottom to top
August 2008 adding epoxy and after glass to get a smooth surface at the stern edge
August 2008 making a large fillet under the chine stringer
August 2008 to get a good alignment of the beam support pads a lot of glue has been put before to apply the beam on the pad.
August 2008 result after to have put off the excess of glue and made fillets
August 2008 glueing several heavy glass layers under the skeg bottom to reinforce it
October 2008 glueing reinforcement wood on the main cabin pod sides in my live room
October 2008 glueing foam on the main cabin pod sides
During this winter I study again how to improve our Tiki30 "PHA" Swing wing rig and I made new wishbones. All this R&D work will be apply for our Tiki46.
February 2009 making the main bulkhead of the cabin pod
April 2009 front face of the cabin pod
April 2009 sides of the cabin pod
May 2009 assembling the cabin pod
May 2009 glueing the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 first part of the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 cabin pod bottom ready to receive the foam
May 2009 foam glued on the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 preparing the first glass layer on the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 Second glass layer on the cabin pod bottom
May 2009 glassing the second layer of the cabin pod bottom
June 2009 making a hole in the bottom to be able to stand up in front of the kitchen
June 2009 all the cabin pod bottom is glassed
June 2009 Glueing a streaming shape foam in front of the hole
June 2009 the foam is shaped in front of the bottom hole
July 2009 visit of Susi and Tom owners of the Tangarora AORAI rigged with a junk rig on each hull en route from Berlin to Quebec we met in Alderney when sailing back from the Junk rig meeting near Southampton at the end of June.
July 2009 glueing rubber pads on the beam bottom
July 2009 rubber paddle glued
July 2009 first step to make a lashing stop on the beam top
July 2009 fillets and glass to avoid all possibilities of moving the rubber pads
August 2009 painting the beams
August 2009 the pod and 3 back beams are painted
August 2009 beam in its beam trough
August 2009 one another possibility to hold the beams
August 2009 ready to turn over the pod
August 2009 the pod has now to be climbed on the2 central beams
August 2009 the pod is ok on the beams (after a little incident)
August 2009 now we have to glue the top pod parts
August 2009 at first making the top of the anchor lockers with adding plastic tubes around the openings
August 2009 the plastic tube is glueing
August 2009 openings on the hull sides have been made with a template and a grinder
August 2009 positioning the pod front face
August 2009 positioning the upper sides of the pod
August 2009 glueing the upper pod side
August 2009 the upper pod sides are glued
August 2009 adding fillets and glass to reinforce the joinings
August 2009 first step to adjust the variable top sides angle
August 2009 second step to adjust exactly the variable angle with a grinder
August 2009 detail of how is transformed the grinder
August 2009 how is adjust the top of the front side
August 2009 fixing temporary supports to build the pod roof
August 2009 glueing the first layer of the pod roof
August 2009 roof viewed from the handling cockpit
August 2009 inside the cabin pod during the building of its roof
August 2009 Marie-Helene looking at the job to do
August 2009 reinforcing the pod roof
August 2009 glueing the foam panels on the roof
August 2009 first glass layer on the pod roof
August 2009 second glass layer on the pod roof
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Comment by Bertrand FERCOT on October 10, 2009 at 4:21am - Thank you for your kind compliments. As I have to wait 8 days more before to begin the reeducation of my arm, I'm preparing the PHA's story blog : building and sailing and later I'll refresh this PHA# building blog, regularly time to time, according the building progresses until her launching. So it will be not necessary I break one another bone to take the time to share more informations.
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Comment by George Ray on October 9, 2009 at 9:28am - Thanks for sharing! Wonderful and inspiring and educational. Very close to launching and sailing photos. !!
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Comment by luis on October 9, 2009 at 8:23am -
bertrand., despite I wish for you endless years of good health.... it seems nice if you from time to time breake a bone so we all (the rest of the members of this group) have benefit from you sharing so extraordinary and marvelous consolidated material regarding the building of the T46 and the process of your boatbuilding along the years! :-)
thank you so much for your time and effort in this.
all the best.
luis
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Comment by mike haromy on October 8, 2009 at 8:44am - superb and inspirational!
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Comment by Ann and Neville Clement on October 7, 2009 at 2:22pm - Amazing and beautiful photographs. Congratulations on your fantastic work and innovation. Ann and Nev
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