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Oct. 7, 2015 - Clif High
11:16
OotP2

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So what we've got behind me here is the Proa sitting out in front of the boat shed.
Yesterday Cale and I got the um uh new beams bolted into place and we also bolted on the AMA, which is the outrigger, and then we put in what's known as our utility tube, and it's the uh in lieu of a deck, it's a piece of aluminum structure that I had created that's going to support our crane, which in turn supports our sail.
It's also going to support the uh rudders that we were just looking at, and it's gonna support the uh engine and a lot of the other um uh aspects of the uh function of the pro-up, all on one big tube, plus the tube provides a level of rigidity uh that we can use for our uh dynamic rigging and stuff.
So we'll go in through our little gate here and go look at that.
Racey used to there, sweetie.
Anyway, so here we are with the the proa, and as you can see, uh we've got the carbon fiber crane leaning on the uh pod, and this is uh gonna be our boom, so or our yard, actually.
It's gonna be what's used to haul the sail up.
So at some point that's going to be attached to this rail, which is in the roties at the moment, and that rail is gonna end up on that uh bow.
It'll come out this way.
That crane will be lifted way up, and this will be way up, of course.
And so our sail will be right here, and that'll be the size of the yard.
So it's 30 feet, and we have a boom that's also 30 feet.
Uh big ass crab claw.
And so that'll all be lifted way up in the air, and all this math worked out so that you can get up here and the sail can go back and forth and not walk into anything.
It's the anti-walk factor that we're engineering at the moment.
So we'll go around here to our working area part of the boat.
And as you can see, there's our aluminum uh utility tube.
Now it's in the process of being finished out.
Um it's an interesting construct.
It's uh 6061 um uh aircraft aluminum, very very, very dense stuff.
You can do anything you want with it, you've got to be careful of heat, uh good welding job here, but you can't bend it.
Uh once you bend it, it it loses its um uh certain aspects of its strength, and it's no good for our purposes.
So what basically what we're doing is we're putting on um some rollers up here, once this thing is all stable and stuff, uh putting some rollers up here and uh bolting our uh stainless steel rod to those, and that's what's gonna lower the uh rudders down into place.
Uh so um it's actually upside down at the moment.
Anyway, and then the the beams here hold up the AMA or connect the AMA because everything will be floating, and um uh the crane, which is this carbon fiber rod, will actually be sitting in the middle of our aluminum tube and sticking way up there, hauling up everything this direction.
And then I can run the rigging, we can start doing our uh rope work here, put in the electrics, and then uh get us certified for uh that we float.
We're not an instant danger to ourselves or anybody else, little do they know, and uh get out into the water.
Our beams are really solid, they weigh virtually nothing, they're mainly foam and very very very thin plywood.
This is our carbon fiber mast.
We've got our crane, we've got the plastic on it at the moment, just because we're gonna be doing some rough handling.
There's Kale's boat there, uh Tiki 23 actually.
It's an expedition style Tiki 21.
So it's a tiki 21 that's been uh slightly increased by volume uh and is able to go on uh long hauls up the coast, that kind of thing.
Very splashy boat though, very very wet.
I'm getting old and I don't want to be wet, so our our nice little pot will keep us dry.
This is the level of the the beams here, so you can see where our our basically our deck line Comes relative to the the door, it's just a little bit below this, and we'll be uh standing here, it'll be netting over us.
Uh, we'll have the rudders hanging down uh from the ends of the pipe.
Uh there'll be some cabling that makes all that work, more cabling to make the mat the crane go back and forth and lift up the booms and such, uh, some netting, uh, electric motor, uh big electric battery that's really not all that large, just high high power.
And uh that'll be about it.
A lot of safety gear, and we're set.
We've got the sail sewn up and inside.
Uh we're watertight, uh, been out in the rain repeatedly, so there's no problem here.
Got our netting ready to go uh for the trampoline.
This will be the size of the deck, uh, which ultimately had intended uh to have a awning thing for camping on.
So if you want to take it out in inclement weather and sit yet have plenty of room, you know, you'd have this uh 10 by 20 plus foot uh deck area.
So getting very close.
Uh the AMA is uh nicely situated and it's done.
As with any of these, we've had some issues on uh alignments and holes and so on, um, considering that it was all designed many years ago, and uh have had some necessary changes in terms of where the uh door is relatively uh relative to the pod and so on, because we originally decided to have it in the more towards one bow, um, but for a number of reasons didn't.
Uh but because of small changes, we've had to uh incrementally make changes as we've gone along.
Now we have to engineer something for a launch to hold up this part of the the boat so we don't put too much strain on it, and uh other than that, most of our major work is done.
Uh most of it's constructed.
The uh stuff left has been uh designed.
We know exactly what we're doing, we just have to get around to doing it in terms of the support for the crane and how it's gonna attach, and then the other cabling and so on.
Uh the tubing provides us with a real good point of rigidity should we have to go to cables to keep everything tensioned well, and uh now we can start in on some of our innovations.
So basically, even though we've I've had to invent a lot of stuff just to get us to this point, uh the point of getting to this was to be able to come on in and start doing uh some of the newer stuff, some of the really cool stuff that we've got uh designed that we want to put on in.
Uh I've been thinking about doing uh some curved foils so that we can get up in hydroplane that's further down the road.
We'll have a bruise foil right where I'm at here anyway, just to provide uh downward thrust so I don't have to carry much in the way of ballast, and I can just use this for dry gear and dry storage.
Uh it's actually quite voluminous.
We get a um fair amount of uh storage out of the AMA, it'll hold 2,000 pounds uh total displacement to with an inch of the hull.
I don't know if we're gonna get much in the way of light here to see, but uh it's got uh got some storage capacity, uh kind of thing, certainly for all of our cameras and our video gear, and uh other goods that we've got going here.
So uh anyway, uh that's where we're at right at the moment with this.
I'm gonna have to get uh moving here.
I've got uh kale showing up, and we're doing the rest of the uh crane fix today, so we can take some measurements and get it all skookem.
We have to build a couple of little tiny pieces for the beams to support the whole thing and keep it from shifting.
And uh boy, it's starting to look like a boat, however, weird it is.
And we're gonna go um uh finish the foils out or the foil sleeves for our rudders, and that's about it on this.
Now, uh one last thing on the um uh the silver stuff.
This just a quick update.
Uh yes, the data does have uh joy as our operating uh emotive force here for the month of October.
Actually, end up well into November for silver.
It looks as though it won't necessarily be straight up, but it's gonna be uh continuous grind up in terms of prices.
Uh that's that's the way that it's coming across in the data at the moment.
Uh we seem to have some realistic support for that happening in uh our uh what we laughingly call the markets and our real world.
And so I think that uh we may end up with a decent month and we may meet that emotive criteria on it.
There's more about that in our next uh Ulta report, which I'm hoping to get out by the 9th or the 10th.
A lot of stuff, so we're we're going through it, and I've got to be very careful because I'm tuning the lexicon, and it's easy to make mistakes when you do that because everything is sort of in terms of code is open and uh uh running in a not quite bolted down fashion.
So in any event, the uh the joy component of silver is um uh our dominating rising primary supporting aspect uh at both bespoke as joy and as the emotive sum for joy.
So uh looks to be pretty good, and uh we'll see how good the forecast is.
Uh should run until the third week of November before there's too much in the way of a hiccup.
I don't know what's gonna happen then, but it looks as though uh big ish events are gonna start popping near the end of November and into the first part of December.
Uh, we'll get some more uh details in the data and get it out in the next few reports here, I'm sure.
Anyway, that's it for this.
Uh, I'm gonna smush a couple of these little tiny guys together, these little um GoPro things, and uh we'll call it a outside the boat shed look at what the hell is going on.
Uh we actually had our heater break, so we're doing a lot of the work outside anyway.
And speaking of heaters, that's our heater up there.
Even though we're technically in global warming at the moment, we're spending a lot of time in getting uh heat issues resolved because of the forecasts of the data and everything I've got that supports it.
Uh we're going into an ice age, and uh we'll start feeling it uh uh fairly seriously fairly soon.
Early 2016, I think.
Thanks, guys.
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