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Originally Posted by JPA Cate
Excellent! Real progress.
Ann
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Thank you!
Exciting times. Try not to get too excited, but it’s really getting interesting now.
We put the front crossbeam in place today. It’s just hanging there. We still need to bolt it in with
backing plates and all of that. But, within a couple days that should be in place and done also.
Then it’s down to finishing that
steering system which is frankly kind of frightening. I have never put one in before. There are hydraulic lines everywhere when you have a ram in each
hull, a hydraulic
pump for the auto pilot, and a hydraulic
helm pump to steer manually. Oh yeah. Plus a liquid tie bar.
It’s COMPLICATED
plumbing and no one source says how to do all of that. I had to cobble together several different layouts from different
manuals. Hoping that goes well. Ha ha.