Boat Plans Building | Nacra 20 Mast Repaired

Boat Plans Building

Been working on all kinds of projects lately but most recently finished up the repair of a Nacra 20 carbon stick that broke albeit pretty cleanly and needed a little "reunion".

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Boat Plans Bruce Roberts | External GoPro Battery

Boat Plans Bruce Roberts

I recently got a GoPro Hero 3 camera which is very cool but the battery life sucks. So for this years Everglades Challenge I wanted to have some extra battery power for the little camera so that we can turn it on for a couple of hours at a time or take a picture whenever we want without having to take a bunch of spare batteries with us. I looked around online for others who have done this and didnt find much other than some who are powering the camera externally while also pulling video off of it as a feed for use in RC airplane applications but I couldnt find anything that maintained the weather proofness of the camera.

For our application we arent too concerned about the camera being wireless and if we did want to mount it out of reach and wireless we can just use the stock battery. So here is what I came up with. I bought the parts from www.batteryspace.com including a 10.4 Ah 3.7v Li-ion pack. The hardest part was the battery facsimile which is made of a small block of wood, some magnet wire, superglue, paper, black sharpie, needle-nose pliers, tweezers, calipers and Lots of cursing.

The resulting setup should give us about 10 times the normal run time of the stock GoPro battery (a mere 1050mah). The tradeoff of course is the umbilical cord.  This setup also seems ideal for long time lapse applications.



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Boat Plans Bolger | Southbound completes the NCC 2012

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My Girlfriend and I just completed the NCC 2012 in our recently restored Core Sound 17. This year provided some very light wind and all sailing boats were forced to practice their rowing or paddling technique whether they trained or not. We finished in 2nd in Class 4 with a time of 28 hours. A CLC rowing/sailing dory who had the advantage in rowing by far got in before us by about an hour. We had a blast despite the rowing. Here are a few pictures of the boat being refinished. Some pics and video from the race to come. Sorry Ken, its not yellow anymore :)

Core Sound 17 Southbound deck sanded and cockpit sealed and primed

Deck primed and cockpit painted 

Hull fairing bye bye yellow

Ready for a couple sealer coats of epoxy and primer

New Oars of marine ply and 2x4 spruce

New bottom ready to race. Devoe 2 pary poly tinted for grey bottom

Finished oars needing varnish. 9 6" and 4lbs each and nice balance

The "new" Southbound sitting pretty and ready for her race debut 

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