Status Check - 20 Oct 2002, Take note Pythagoras

[Ed Harrow]

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Hope the triangulation is adequate for the rest of you as well.

Norm, where I work full penetration is the only accepted weld... Tho the welding will be done by Mike "The Hook" Clooney, who ain't no slouch.

If all goes according to plan, the welding will be done this Saturday. If things, yuck, yuck, continue to plan, I will have a load of cribbing the following weekend.

Looks like "moving day" will be the weekend of 9 November.

As to socks - wasn't that a cat?

[Wayne Jeffers]

Ahhhh, the long-overdue return of photo status checks for Phoenix! Glad to see it! :cool:

The steel in the photo looks stout enough to hold several keels. Does this mean you finally got the last of the bolts removed/loosened? smile.gif

Finbar looks tired. He's usually standing at attention. You must have been working him extra hard, eh? ;)

Wayne

[rodcross]

Adaquate triangulation? Somebody spare me. That's enough to support 4 times the weight. But, then again, 10 to 1 is a better ratio...better double upon those side pieces.

Having fun!... It looks like overkill, but I probably would have done the same thing.

Rod

[Concordia..41]

Welcome back Finbar – you too Ed, it looks good.

Dave

[ 10-21-2002, 08:53 PM: Message edited by: Concordia..41 ]

[Bruce Taylor]

Glad to see there's some new status to be checked.

Who's at the other end of that chain? And is it strong enough to hold him?

[ 10-20-2002, 10:37 PM: Message edited by: Bruce Taylor ]

[nedL]

AH, all is right with the world again. The status checks are back! :D Looks like great work Ed (did someone say overkill ? ;) )

[Ed Harrow]

You think Finbar looks tired? You ought to see the rest of this sorry lot. None of us have been feeling great, and Z the Foster Monster is starting to cut teeth...

I'm hoping this contraption qualifies as very under engineered and vastly over-built.

[Gary Bergman]

C.G. seem s to be a bit tight, narrow at the base of your stanchions. Bolt or tack a few short pieces for a wider footprint. Just a thought..... Gary

[Alan D. Hyde]

Great to see your status check again, Ed!

Congratulations.

I'm hoping to turn the corner with my project this winter, and here's hoping that can happen with Phoenix too.

Alan

[brian.cunningham]

WOW! :eek:

So what the plan?

Keel in place and jack the boat?

[Ed Harrow]

Gary, it is a bit narrow, and I know I pushed the envelope a bit there, but I'm dealt a smallish space (for which I've already been zapped, LOL). Depending upon it's temp resting place we'll add something to one or both sides.

Brian, the ballast is iron - yes the plan is to lift the entire boat, then to drop the ballast down.

Along these lines, I'm thinking that, once things are set, putting a bit of tension in the chains holding the stands together would be a good idea. Comments?

[Gary Bergman]

I just don't wanna hear about how it fell over on you. I have enough broken junk for both of us. Gary

[Concordia..41]

"The Pythagoras' Theorem then claims that the sum of (areas of) the two small squares equals (the area of) the large one."

Geeze - it's usually Jack's posts that send me off to the research corner...

And the research even led me to a smidgen of a nautical note:

"In 525 BC Cambyses II, the king of Persia, invaded Egypt. Polycrates abandoned his alliance with Egypt and sent 40 ships to join the Persian fleet against the Egyptians. After Cambyses had won the Battle of Pelusium in the Nile Delta and had captured Heliopolis and Memphis, Egyptian resistance collapsed. Pythagoras was taken prisoner and taken to Babylon. Iamblichus writes that Pythagoras was transported by the followers of Cambyses as a prisoner of war. Whilst he was there he gladly associated with the Magoi ... and was instructed in their sacred rites and learnt about a very mystical worship of the gods. He also reached the acme of perfection in arithmetic and music and the other mathematical sciences taught by the Babylonians... "

Now how 'bout them ancient apples ;)

- M