The winter time found me huddled in the small shop most evenings, after my son fell asleep, puttering on small components of our vessel. A 24 gallon diesel tank was built from steel with a tall narrow design to fit in a box keel. It has a sloping bottom, sump with clean out, a deep fill, and will supply a 12 gallon day tank, which in turn gravity feeds the Volvo MD-2
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- Plate arrives in trailer
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- 4:1 block and tackle, a c clamp and a 2×4 sled
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- ready to cut
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- plasma cutting tank and hatch plates
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- tank layout, ground white
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- underside of fill tube
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- Without final side plate
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- cutting supply tube
Lazarette and cockpit locker hatches have been fabricated from steel as well, TIG welded 1/8 plate with flat bar enforcing the convex curvature of the hatch tops. The main forward cabin hatch was fabricated with 5052 Aluminum, TIG welded on outside seems.. which oddly i don’t have a photo of.
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- Hatch Hinges and rigging points
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- Hatches, main tank, and mainsheet horse-posts
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- more than 70 eye’s and attachments have been fabricated of 304 ss
Sailing Vessel Eleanor Tarr 