tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-360976132024-03-12T17:05:20.200-07:00Tahiti KetchGaffjawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00814080648642757691noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36097613.post-34984264344315053292014-11-17T03:54:00.000-08:002014-12-13T21:57:45.304-08:00Lister SW2M twin marine dieselI have commenced to restore Calypso's Lister SW2M twin Diesel engine.<br />
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I removed the cast iron exhaust manifold and found a crack in the flange which I had welded as I was unable to source a new exhaust manifold as now obsolete.<br />
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I removed the water jacket doors and water manifold and found the inlet out outlet tubes to the exhaust manifold and elbow to be solid with crud which I removed.<br />
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I also found the thermostat to be clogged with crud and frozen solid. I was able to source a Lister thermostat opening at 60 degrees C from Rocklea Deisel in Brisbane. I have arranged for replacement water cooling and exhaust gaskets to be made by Gasket Solutions from North Brisbane.<br />
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I have restored the Lister brass engine plate and have painted the crank handle in Mid Brunswick Green and varnished the wooden handle.<br />
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My progress so far is set out in the attached photos.<br />
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Hanna – Tahiti Ketch<br /><br />Builder: Ron Mitchell<br /><br /><br />Keel laid: 1947<br /><br />Date of launch: 1953<br /><br />Style: Gaff Ketch<br /><br />Location: Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia<br /><br />Registration: Australian Registration 317639<br /><br />Queensland Registration OR660Q<br /><br />LOA: 34’<br /><br />LOD: 30’<br /><br />LWL: 27’<br /><br />Beam: 10’<br /><br />Draft: 4’<br /><br />Construction Material: Carvel planked in spotted gum to waterline<br />and Queensland Cedar above waterline.<br /><br />Oregon bowsprit<br /><br />Hardwood stringers.<br /><br />Spotted Gum steam bent frames.<br /><br />Cabin Queensland Maple<br /><br />Interior Queensland Cedar.<br /><br />Deck plywwod, white beech laid deck with<br />plywood and dynel over. All fastenings copper nails and roves,<br />bronze bolts and screws<br /><br />Keel and ballast: Full length keel with hollow heel, 1.5 ton cast lead shoe<br />secured with bronze keel bolts, internal ballast of 1.5 ton lead<br />ingots in bilge.<br /><br />Skin fittings: Bronze with bronze gratings.<br /><br />Sounders: External transducer on starboard side<br /><br />Log: Propellor type on starboard side<br /><br />Anodes: Two aft in vicinity of propellor<br /><br />Propellor: Fixed 3 blade with castellated nut and split<br />pin Shaft 7/8” stainless steel, free turning through<br />bronze bearing<br /><br />Rudder: Wood aft skeg hung in four bronze gudgeons, rudder copper<br />sheathed below waterline.<br /><br />Tiller: Honduras mahogany, spare emergency tiller<br /><br />Deck: Full length bulwarks, deck beams 75 x 50mm<br />@ 330mm centres, non skid deck paint, forhead<br />access hatch, rear engine room access hatch, lazarette.<br /><br />Anchoring: 180’ 3/8” galvanised chain, Simpson Lawrence two speed<br />manual and electric anchor winch with chain gypsy, fibreglass<br />lined chain locker drains to dedicated copper tank in fo’csle<br />with bronze drain tap. 35lb plough, 60lb fisherman.<br /><br />Cleats and fairleads: Large timber Sampson post, timber horn cleats forward and<br />bronze horn cleats aft.<br /><br />Stemhead: Round Oregon 4’ bowsprit with stainless steel cranze iron<br />supported by stainless steel whisker stays and stainless steel<br />rod bobstay. Two rubber anchor rollers in stainless steel<br />fitting at stemhead.<br /><br />Pulpit and Pushpit: Stainless steel forward and aft fixed to capping rail.<br /><br />Coach House: Constructed in Queensland Maple covered in canvas. Full<br />length timber grab rails, four bronze port lights each side<br />with opening bronze port lights forward and aft. Stainless<br />steel rain shades. Stainless and bronze rotating vent. Dodger.<br /><br />Cockpit: Varnished cockpit coamings. Lazarette. Instrument housing<br />including tachometer, water temperature, oil pressure,<br />engine warning light. Forward and reverse gear control and<br />throttle control. Brass binnacle and Saura steering compass.<br />Storm boards teak on 170mm high deck mounted sill. Laid<br />planked hatch cover to cabin. Two cockpit drains<br />to lower topsides and two deck drains.<br /><br />Winches: Two Barlow 16 chromed bronze on deck and two on main<br />mast.<br /><br />Auxillary Steering: Spare tiller and optional traditional wheel steering.<br /><br /><br />Staunchions: Single untapered stainless steel bolted to deck and innals.<br /><br />Lifelines: Two run of light guage stainless steel wire.<br /><br />Interior: Traditional fitout in Queensland Cedar. Double berth<br />forward. Galley forward to port. Enclosed head forward to<br />starboard. Hanging locker. Gimballed table in saloon. Two<br />threequarter berths in saloon. Four lockers. Chart table. Two<br />metho burners and grill. Stainless steelbenchtops.Crockery<br />lockers. Food lockers. Hand water pump fresh and sea water.<br />Separate enclosed engine room with work station.<br /><br />Bulkheads: Three timber bulkheads part sized.<br /><br />Frames and Ribs; 45 x 30mm ribs at 250mm centres<br /><br />Stringers: 115 x 35mm sheer clamp, deck beams half checked into top<br />of clamp, 2 x 150mm stringers nailed and roved.<br /><br />Chain plates: stainless steel external bolted through topsides.<br />Keel Bolts: Bronze 16 and 25mm.<br /><br />Marine Toilet: New manual Jabsco. Plastic abd bronze seacocks. Vented and<br />looped.<br /><br />Seacocks: New bronze x 5. New piping and double clips.<br /><br />Refrigeration: Large icebox with eutectic system engine driven<br /><br />Engine: Lister twin diesel SWM2 15HP Serial No 155W2Z20 Age approx 1970.<br />Electric and hand start . In excellent condition, regularly<br />serviced. New water hoses. Jabsco water pump and separate<br />electric emergency pump.<br />Solid mounting on timber beds.<br /><br />Gearbox: Generic 2:1<br /><br />Sternbox: Bronze stuffing box with remote greaser line.<br /><br />Fuel: Deisel 27 gallon GRP vented tank under saloon berth with 6<br />gallon header tank in engine room. Manual fuel pump for<br />header tank..<br /><br />Electrics: New tinned copper wiring. New switchboard.<br />Lights and switches to all areas. Traditional light boxes for<br />navigation and bronze stern light.<br />Alternator charging, one main battery with isolation switch.<br /><br />Water: One 27 gallon water tank under port berth in saloon and 60<br />gallon GRP tank under cockpit.<br /><br />Masts: Gaff ketch, varnished in Werdol with white tops.<br />Main 6” diameter, mizzen 4.5” diameter<br />All spars in Douglas Fir. Mast Hoops. Mizzen with bronze sail<br />track. Copper sleeve on mast for gaff jaws. Spinnaker pole.<br /><br />Standing rigging: Stainless steel with mixture of roll swages, poured bronze<br />sockets and Norseman style ends. Heavy duty stainless<br />turnbuckles and pins.<br /><br />Running rigging: New white 12mm double braided.<br /><br />Sheeting: New white 12mm double braided, headsail.<br />Sails: New Egyptian cream. Main, Mizzen, Genoa x 2,<br />Headsail x 3, staysail (storm).<br /><br />Bilge pumps: Manual x 2. Electric x 1.<br /><br /><br />Radio: VHF, aerial on mizzen masthead.<br />AM/FM/CD, AC/DC. TV<br /><br />Additional equipment: Digital Sounder, Furuno Paper Sounder,<br />EPIRB, Hand held compass. Clinker 8’ traditional pram<br />dinghy, Flares, V Sheet, Radar Reflector.<br />Engine spares, tools, vice.<br /><br />Remarks:<br /><br />Calypso III is a traditional Tahiti Ketch, well built with proven sea going ability, having<br />sailed to Alaska (Sitka) from Australia (being the first Australian Yacht to sail to Alaska)<br />in the late 60’s. She sailed through the Pacific to, New Zealand, Tahiti, Alaska, Canada,<br />San Francisco, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Florida, Bermuda, Virginia, England,<br />Portugal, Galapagos Islands returning across the Pacific to Fiji and Australia. She has<br />since cruised extensively on the East Coast of Australia and continues to cruise.<br /><br />Calypso is a true Tahiti Ketch having been built meticulously to the original plans of<br />John Hanna.<br /><br />Calypso has been slipped and antifouled annually and meticulously maintained. Masts<br />have been regularly varnished with twelve coats of Werdol varnish and maintained<br />regularly. The hull was completely sanded to bare timber in 1998, recaulked and<br />numerous silicon bronze screws replaced where necessary. The top sides have been<br />regularly repainted and maintained in International Paints.<br /><br />All electrical wiring was renewed in tinned copper in 2000, interior repainted and<br />varnished in 2004, new toilet installed in 2004 and all hosing replaced in 2004.<br /><br />Presently replacing all sail covers, dodger and covers.<br /><br />The quality of construction of Calypso is superior and is a credit to her builder the late<br />Ron Mitchell of Woombye Queensland who sailed her on her world cruise. He was a<br />pineapple farmer and radio technician and he and his wife made the lengthy cruise with<br />members of their family, being the first Australian yacht to sail to Alaska receiving a<br />letter of congratulations from the then Governor of Alaska, Walter Hickel Jnr.<br /><br />The vessel also visited the east coast of USA at the time of Gretel’s entry in theAmerica’s<br />Cup. Calypso was attacked off the coast of Mexico by pirates and also endured a cyclone<br />off Fiji. Calypso has been mentioned in Hal Roth’s cruising books after the cruising<br />author met the Mitchell’s in Alaska and Tahiti. Ron Mitchell’s philosophy was adopted<br />from the writings of Henry Thoreau and displayed on a plaque in Calypso’s hatchway:<br /><br />““…If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music<br />which he hears…..”Gaffjawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00814080648642757691noreply@blogger.com0