#05 – TV Julius – Structural design meeting
TV series about building the sailboat and sailing across the Atlantic. V-BLOG #05: Steve Killing was kind enough to come to Klacko Spars and be our guest advisor for a few hours during The Structural Design Meeting. Attended by Peter Tietz from Voyager Windvanes, Stan Barclay from ThyssenKrupp Materials NA and John McComb – the coating specialist from Downing Products Ltd., representing Awlgrip.
Structural problems and possible solutions were addressed frankly and now the real challenge begins. Is it going to be enough to replace stainless steel nuts and bolts with aluminium rivets? Or is it The Team’s solution to rebuild Julius from scratch following the original lines and design?
Follow short video clips from filming “The Death & Life of Julius” – the 13 part documentary series about bringing one man’s dream ‘back to life’.
Over the next year and a half a group of friends, advisors and marine-shops will build a small sailboat for a 2008 sail across the Atlantic. The series will follow the building process from scratch, installing the hardware and the equipment, performing ‘non-compromise’ sea trials and ultimately sailing to Europe where the original boat builder left from over a half a century ago.
The series will be narrated by the godfather of world cruising, Jimmy Cornell.
Here you can follow the video-blog of the build.
More about the project on
http://www.highseas.tv/currentprojects/deathlifeofjulius.html
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