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[PaulJ]

Just thought I would update you on what we are doing with Ronin.

As the water at Weirwood Reservoir is seriously low making sailing extremely hazardous the winter refit has started early, it was orginally planned for Christams holidays and New Year, the upside is that this will allows us to do some of the winter events such as the Grafham Grand Prix, Bloody Mary etc.  Anyone going to join us ?

So far, we have completed the following :-
1.  Stripped all the fittings off
2.  Removed all the progrip
3.  Sanded the foredeck and crew area.  Found out that non-slip paint is really hard to get off.  Took about 5 hours of orbital sanding to finally get it all off, still got to do the kick bars to do though
4.  Sanded and faired the outside of the hull.  Made up a 6mm and 4mm torture boards from ply about 600mm long with a handle each end.  Sand paper secured with removal carpet tape.  Worked really well
5.  Filled all the dents and hollows with epoxy and micro balloon filler
6.  Made a carbon cone for the inboard end of the pole to prevent damge to mast posts, see below

Still to do before she goes to Monkey Marine in Weymouth for a respray on the 20th November
1.  Sand down hull and deck filler
2.  Repair the two mast posts under the foredeck, where the pole has hit constantly hit them
3.  Repair the kick bars, I believe Pete Barton also had trouble with these
4.  Build a new raised and curved spinnaker chute mouth, this should help with kite drops
5.  Build new higher carbon jib cleat tower
6.  Put a carbon plate under the mast step as this is showing signs of very slight movement
7.  New hatch in forward tank accessible through spinnaker chute

So far we have filled a 1 litre ice cream tub with paint dust which is beginning to weigh quite a bit, I think this only accounts for 1/3 of the dust, the rest is all over the garage and now making its way into the house and outside !! Hopefully we have removed more paint than will be put back on

I'll post some pictures when I get her out of the garage in a couple of weeks before the respray

She is going to be sprayed with Awlgrip (colour to be decided soon), anyone have any experience of this.

Hopefully Ronin will look as good as new by Christmas when the water should be back to normal sailing levels

Cheers

Paul and Peter
Ronin - 2698

[Will_Lee]

Whoa! Busy!

Put up a picture!

[Born Slippy]

Adding the hoover fitting to the random really helps!

[graham_bridle]

Seriously busy boys ! I can see next years "best restoration" award being difficult to judge, Badgers looking nicely fitted out too ..

[PaulJ]

I don't think I can upload photos at the moment for some reason

Can anyone help

[phil_kirk]

Sounds like really good work towards improving the sailability and reliability of the boat.  Picture permissions come in after your have made 5 posts i think.  This was put in place to overcome spammers from uploading non boat related images.

[PaulJ]

Yes the aim is to make it much more sailable for Peter, he has really struggled at times to get the kite down.  I have never understood why when people build chutes in foredecks they aways make the aft port corner 90 degrees with a small radius, seen it alot in 14's as well.  Hopefully the mod will sort the problem out once and for all.

[Phil Alderson]

Yes the aim is to make it much more sailable for Peter, he has really struggled at times to get the kite down.  I have never understood why when people build chutes in foredecks they aways make the aft port corner 90 degrees with a small radius, seen it alot in 14's as well.  Hopefully the mod will sort the problem out once and for all.

This is something that I have also wondered, a large radius corner, and large radius port side to the chute make a bid difference.

[PaulJ]

All the sanding now complete on the outside of the hull.

Return to the decks tomorrow and start the new chute.

Going to use a kitchen bin as a former for the back end of the chute, seems to be the perfect diameter, then 15mm pipe insulation to form a rounded edge to the whole thing.

[PaulJ]

Photos of the outside of the hull, plus the 2 torture boards

[Hayley_Trim]

Going to use a kitchen bin as a former for the back end of the chute, seems to be the perfect diameter, then 15mm pipe insulation to form a rounded edge to the whole thing.

A beautiful cherubic solution. I like your style.

[Tom K]

Looking good!

Dangerous Beans is due for a lick of Awlgrip over the winter, I'm keen to hear how it goes.

[Stuberry]

What I've heard about awlgrip is that the paint forms a very hard outer shell, which makes it very tough. But if you do need to make a repair it's impossible to blend it in to make it invisible.

edit: a quick google of "awlgrip problems" comes up with some worry results: Link

[PaulJ]

Foredeck and deck fully sanded and faired now, nearly ready for the respray.  Kick bars and chute ground back ready for repairs and new bits

Not the best look to be seen by the neighbours late at night !!

[Tim Noyce]

That looks like a very thorough going over with the abrasive! Looking good.

Have you decided on a colour for the respray or is it going to be white again?

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