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[DickyD]

Can someone tell me the width of the deck overall where the steps are in the hull of the Maggie M. please ?

[DickyD]

Surely someone has built this and can give me the dimension.

[AlanP]

Just glued my cross beams in this afternoon, so I have been out and measured it for you  217mm across where the steps are, that was bending the steel rule over the curve.  

Alan

[DickyD]

Thanks Alan, I was wondering as it says I will have to trim a little off the beams as they will be too long. I thought 20mm too long was excessive.

[AlanP]

I made up my beams about two weeks before christmas exactly to the hull, and as you say quite a bit to cut off, came to fit them today and found that the hull had got wider by about 3mm while it has been stood in the workshop.

Alan

[DickyD]

They reckon you should only make and fix one at a time, maybe this is to stop the hull growing.

[AlanP]

I did make them one at a time, held them in with masking tape, then this afternoon I glued them in one at a time with plastic cement, the bits around the hull are glued in now and tomorrow after they have set I will turn the hull on it's sides and reinforce the cross beams from inside.    or am I going about this wrong

[DickyD]

Looks all right to me Alan

[funtimefrankie]

I'd consider doubling up the strips round the sides to give a bit more meat for the deck to bond to.

[AlanP]

Yep, thats a good idea    There were two strips  around the hull of the Gaemsey.

Alan

[funtimefrankie]

I've used plastuct tubing for the mast and dericks, mostly so I could run wires down the the mast for lights, but they also provide a better finish, than wood, (in my case!)

[AlanP]

Hi FTF, I had already decided on that, keeps the wires out of site and tidy      Did you by any chance have a working radar on the Maggie M, if so I would be interested in how you did it

Alan

[AlanP]

Site = sight 

[funtimefrankie]

I like to get the radar rotating, thought about a thin stiff wire going up through the wheelhouse.
not done it, but not glued the radar on yet, just in case

Any one got any ideas

I've drilled out all the deck lights to take LEDs, used 5mm X 3mm oblong ones, with hindsight, 3mm round would have been better

[DickyD]

Anyone tell me where they put their battery etc.

Large hull, not a lot of access

[AlanP]

I have positioned a 12v 7Ah just in front of the motor.  I taped the deck to the hull and could just manage to remove it, the battery that is. I am hoping that I will not have to remove it too often which is why I have put charging sockets in the boat.

Hope this helps

[FullLeatherJacket]

Any one got any ideas

We sell these by the bucket-full at shows for just this job (but we also do mail-order!):
http://www.action-electronics.co.uk/pdfs/M7G.pdf
Suit yourself.

FLJ

[AlanP]

Fear not Dave, as everything else in the boat is Action so I will be buying one of your little motors out of the bucket 

What I was looking for was a means of getting the drive up the mast and out on the arm without it being seen, rather than stuck up through the bridge roof.

Alan

[DickyD]

Thanks Alan, I am trying to figure out if I can put another larger hatch in in front of the wheel house to give better access.

[funtimefrankie]

Another way with the radar might be to update the masts as per this picture

http://www.trawlerpictures.net/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=13568

My battery is going in front of the motor, It's a 12v - 7amp and can be manouvered through the wheelhouse hole without too much trouble.
I think I'll put the radio etc under the stern hatch.

You'll need a fair bit of lead in there as well.

[AlanP]

You had me a bit worried there Richard, so just to make sure I taped the decks in place and was able to remove the board with the magic stuff on, the battery and even the speaker, and replace them   
When I feel brave the decks are going to be glued in place   

FTF that boat certainly has a lot of things sticking up from it, the radars are even further away  don't think I will go down that road, good pic though 
 

[funtimefrankie]

Any one with a completed Maggie? Have you fixed the wheel house at all or is it Ok with gravity, when sailing?

Mines getting near its maiden voyage ( when the pond thaws) and I don't want to loose the wheel house, if it's choppy.

[DickyD]

Lost the superstructure off my PT boat which wasn't fixed and my wife had the superstructure knocked of her tug when a fast electric hit it.

Now all my superstructures are held on by magnetic catches and tied to the hull with a length of cord.

[Number 6]

I've lost a structure before, learned the hard way. Now I use a length of cord just in case they come adrift, long enough to lift off and set it along side or a short length with a necklace type clasp so it can be easily released. Better to be safe than it ending up at the bottom of the lake! Dave