New on this picture are the furling rollers, one on the deckhouse for the foresail, one on the windward side of the foredeck for the genoa. They are self made by our boatbuilder and mechanic Him. They are heavy and strong and cheap compared to the ones to buy at the chandlery.
Also new is the cover of the rudderbox (dark wood) with the short tiller in stainless and the tiller extension in aluminium. The pipe is just laying there to show how it works. The two lines from the rudder stock back are the downhaul and the uphaul for the rudder.
The line from the leeward side of the deck across is the foresail sheet of the foresail of the other bow.
All lines are not the real ones, they are only for showing and arranging the blocks and fairleads.

Here you see the same bow from the cockpit. The first two rollers from left are for the foresail and the genoa. The mainsailsheet will come directly from the deckhouse. The fairlead and the single roller are down- and uphaul for the rudder. The two other fairleads are for the roller furlings. They go to two cleats farther to the right side.
The net is not finished, it will be fixed with the small rings at the rubbing strake.

Everything looks really good Alexander!  It must make you feel great to see it coming together after all of your work.

(Just one other thing: please check the orientation of the rope clutches in your last picture… I think they might be mounted backwards!)

Hi MTP
Thank you for your comments. It is nice to get positive feedbacks once in a while, because there are doupts and moments without energy in every boatbuilding.
It is funny. After I told one of the workers how he had to screw the rope clutches on, he said, maybe they would be the wrong way. So I took the paper from the producer coming with the clutches showing a sketch how to mount them. They are right like this.

Cheers
Alexander

On the mast support over the entrance are two double rope clutches and two small winches. I hope I can get the halyard tight enough so the stay will get slightly slack. I don’t have a profile in the luff of the foresails so I can roll them in to change sails and can lower them to stow.
On the beam is the same arrangement of fittings as on the other beam exept there is the top of the water inlet.

The bimini has arrived today. The yellow colour gives something happy and friendly to the boat.

The position and anchor light at the top of the mast is made of two three coloured and one white small light. I mounted them one on top of the other, the two position lights 180 ° turned inside a plastic box. The bulbs I changed to LED bulbs. In the cockpit I have a switch to change them when I shift to the other bow. This is probably not after european or us regulations, but in southeast Asia nobody cares, as long as there is a light (some fishing boats have flashing red, blue or green lights, sometimes alternating in all colours, what can give you a kind of christmas feeling).

The mastfoot has a hinge so I can lower it over the side hull if I need. The mast is about 60 kg, with block and tackle I should be able to lower and raise it.

What is missing still to launch her is a lowering arm for the outboard under the cockpit, the pole from 7m high of the mast to the side hull and the steering system must be finished. Mid of next week is launching.

Cheers
Alexander

Nixe is looking better and better!  I can’t wait to see the rig up, but not as much as you, I’m sure!

Quick question—what holds the mast up if you are caught aback?  From here, it looks like all of your staying is fore/aft and to windward.

Keep the pics coming!

Best,
Chris

Hi Chris

The mast is standing some 40cm to windward off the centerline of the mainhull. Nixe has two stays to the leeside about one meter from the bows, so they have an angle on the deck plan of about 9 degrees to the centerline. Then there is a aluminium pipe from the side hull to 7m high of the mast. Gaia’s Dream also has a support of that kind. That will take the pull of the foresail and the main. If she capsizes, the two stays and the pipe will hold the mast. To take the power from the genoa there is also a stay from the mast top to the side hull.

Cheers
Alexander

Hello everybody

Nixe is floating on her waterline since today 19.00 Thai time. Unfortunately it was too dark to take pictures, but I will do that tomorrow morning at the next high tide. We had planned to get a crane tomorrow, but in the afternoon when I was away to buy something I got a call, the crane is already there. So all went then in a hurry and from 17.00 on we had a bottle of beer and waited for high tide. It is wonderful to see her moving slightly in the water held by two anchors and to lines to trees. There was then not enough time to finish the painting job where we had glued the beams in today, but the painters agreed to come tomorrow to finish. So on monday we will leave for a first sail.

The pictures are from two days ago, when we moved her to the beach.

Cheers
Alexander

Congratulations Alex! Nixe looks beautiful on the beach, waiting to spread her wings.

Nixe looks gorgeous!

I hope its “tomorrow” soon. I want to see her float and sail.

Cheers
Johannes

Congratulations!

Congratulations, indeed, Alexander. Nixe looks fabulous. Thank you for keeping us informed during the build with all the regular updates and pictures. Happy sailing 😊

Good job! Congratulations! Nixe looks great.
Looking forward to pictures of her floating and sailing.
Good winds.
Cheers!
Peter

Love the Cap Cod Catboat bow, sweet sheer line, well everything actually. Have had a look back through all your posts about Nixe,what a great project, congratulations

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