#Chainplates
The Bee Movie script was returned, new chains for the chainplates on the airship (girthy) and an upgrade for the powerplant.
January 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Chainplates done. Cabinets back in.
Fiberglass dust gone. ✨🛠️⛵
The inside of my Island Packet sailboat
is finally cleaned up and back together.

#Chainplates #IslandPacket #BoatRefit
#Sailing #SaltyAbandon
August 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
4/4 🛠️ In Port status: Guy deBoer awaits a mandatory survey on his hull and chainplates before getting cleared. In Cádiz, Selim Yalçın is still 3-4 days from departure. The Atlantic chessboard is wide open! #GGR2026 #OceanRacing #Sailing #CapeVerde

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September 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM
⛵ The old chainplates are out — and this is what the boat looks like afterward. The original 1998 chainplates on my Island Packet 320 have been ground out of the fiberglass, This is the messy part of a major chainplate replacement.

#SaltyAbandon #IslandPacket #Chainplates #SailboatRefit #Sailing
August 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The loop that I incorporated into the shroud chainplates receive the jaws of each spinnaker pole respectively. They are joined at the apex using a hefty shackle. — Çarmık ayaklarına eklediğim halkaya balon gönderini takıyorum. Yukarıda ise irice bir mapa kilidi bunları birleştiriyor.
February 28, 2026 at 4:57 PM
The standing rigging needs looking at and the chainplates need pulling for inspection and resealed where they enter the deck. Below the water, there are some bronze (Blakes) sea cocks that need unseizing but the boat is dry.
May 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
AAn $8,000 Island Packet 27… then came the refit.
💥⛵💸

Chainplates, rigging, engine, bulkheads,
termites and more.

How does an $8K boat turn into a $47K refit? 😳

Salty Podcast #102 🎧⛵
https://youtu.be/aWLv8PNWP1c?si=eB5NCdUdZ8Bp13vG
August 22, 2026 at 1:57 PM
We pulled the mast yesterday for a full inspection. The loose rivets on the boom will be replaced. We will make new chainplates secured by four bolts. — Dün direği söktük. Bumbada laçka olan perçinler yenilenecek. Çarmıh ayakları da dört somunla tespit edilecek şekilde yeniden tasarlanacak.
April 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
THIS is how the cake gets baked. 👀🎂⛵️ I’ve never seen anything like this.. 🛠️💪 👀

Chainplates on an Island Packet have a shelf life. These should last the rest of MY shelf life. 😂⚓️
August 22, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Still need to replace the chainplates. After that, the Caribbean is possible. Also thinking about one lap of the North Atlantic. Else...??? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🙂 Who knows.
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Right now, Chesapeake Bay.
We've had her for 2 years. Doing a massive electronics upgrade right now. Expect to replace chainplates, and probably standing rigging too. 44 number 19, 1993.

Where do you sail?
April 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Feed: "Hundred Rabbits"
By: Rek Bell on Saturday, January 31, 2026
Summary of changes for January 2026
Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Uxn, we released a new SDL2 emulator called uxn2 to replace the ol' uxnemu! Wiki, updated moisture prevention underliner, chainplates(with new photos and measurements), and sewing. Punk Rabbits, Completed the series(103 rabbits)! Hakum, released a new comic page for Sabotage Study. This is likely very obvious to most people, but recently it dawned on us that clothes are, in a certain way, open-source. We can go to a thrift store, buy a shirt, rip out the seams, study it, lay all of the pieces down over new fabric, trace the patterns, cut them out, and sew it all back together to produce a copy of that same shirt. We've been wanting to learn how to make our own clothes but didn't know where to begin, until this month. Our first project was to reproduce our hats, after the store we bought them at stopped stocking them. We bought black cotton canvas at a local fabric store, took our old hats apart and re-built them(See Rek's hat, and Dev's hat). Later, Devine did the same for our old messenger backpack. Goblin Week, an event in which people draw goblins for 7 days, occurs on the last full week of January. Devine's entries were inspired by a passage in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, and Rek drew some spunky cartoony goblins. Inspired by Prahou's Subversive.pics, we put together image feeds for our personal websites. Devine's feed (RSS) Rek's feed (RSS) We are making progress on the Playdate version of Donsol, and the polished manuscript for the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. We do not yet know when either will be finished so let us end this updated with one last small thing: a video by VacuumBeef of Snake Game in Orca. Book Club: This month we have reached book 8 of Middlemarch by George Eliot, the very last one. We are also reading Mémoires d'Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar, and Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Mounting the chainplates. Once mounted, I can pursue my 5-hour jury rig requirement. — Çarmık ayaklarını yerlerine takıyorum. Tamamlanınca 5 saatlik direksiz acil durum seyir şartını yerine getireceğim.
February 23, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Progress on the chainplates and mounting brackets. Hopefully all dimensions were accurate. Next we install.
—
Çarmıh ayakları ve kabin içinde bunların tespiti için gereken aksamlar hazır. Eğer ölçüleri doğru aldıysam sorunsuz yerlerine takarız.
February 19, 2026 at 8:29 PM
The chainplates are finally completed. On the left is the one for the diagonals, in the middle is the one for the shrouds with a loop to receive the spinnaker pole for a jury rig in case of dismasting. The rightmost one will be the bracket below deck to receive the thrubolts.
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I removed all six chainplates and sealed the holes for now. — Çarmıh ayaklarının altısını da söktüm, delikleri şimdilik macunla kapadım.
April 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
3/5 Facing a 5.5-knot ebb current, the Raz acts as a structural fatigue machine. In a short steep chop, rig loads spike by 30%, with shock loading hitting 150% on the chainplates during each tack. Forcing through means risking structural failure or a grounding approach.
June 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Summary of changes for January 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. * **Uxn** , we released a new SDL2 emulator called uxn2 to replace the ol' _uxnemu_! * **Wiki** , updated moisture prevention underliner, chainplates(with new photos and measurements), and sewing. * **Punk Rabbits** , Completed the series(103 rabbits)! * **Hakum** , released a new comic page for Sabotage Study. This is likely very obvious to most people, but recently it dawned on us that clothes are, in a certain way, open-source. We can go to a thrift store, buy a shirt, rip out the seams, study it, lay all of the pieces down over new fabric, trace the patterns, cut them out, and sew it all back together to produce a copy of that same shirt. We've been wanting to learn how to make our own clothes but didn't know where to begin, until this month. Our first project was to reproduce our hats, after the store we bought them at stopped stocking them. We bought black cotton canvas at a local fabric store, took our old hats apart and re-built them(See Rek's hat, and Dev's hat). Later, Devine did the same for our old messenger backpack. Goblin Week, an event in which people draw goblins for 7 days, occurs on the last full week of January. Devine's entries were inspired by a passage in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, and Rek drew some spunky cartoony goblins. Inspired by Prahou's Subversive.pics, we put together image feeds for our personal websites. * Devine's feed (RSS) * Rek's feed (RSS) Note that we are still uploading photos to Days, our studio's image feed. We are making progress on the Playdate version of Donsol, and the polished manuscript for the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. We do not yet know when either will be finished so let us end this updated with one last small thing: a video by VacuumBeef of Snake Game in Orca. **Book Club:** This month we have reached book 8 of _Middlemarch_ by George Eliot, the very last one. We are also reading _Mémoires d'Hadrien_ by Marguerite Yourcenar, and _Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business_ by Neil Postman.
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February 11, 2026 at 8:34 AM
It's more yard work than parts, apart from some questionable seacocks, a leaking stern gland, chainplates and wondow frames to be re-bedded...we need to haul out, we need to be in a yard for a few weeks.
November 29, 2024 at 9:43 PM
April 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM