Carretel do Leme

I finally produced the drawing for the drum, which receives the steering cables. Everything becomes easyer once you have a drawing. Quite obvious. But not quite evident when you are building a boat without detailed plans. So, it is tempting, sometimes, just to "save time", to actually skip the drawing part, and try to assemble things by just doing. And this approach is sometimes quite successful.

But for more complex parts, specially when involving work by third party, then it is difficult. Producing the drawing becomes necessary. And that, of course, is not just a question of paper and pen, it is a matter to fully understand how something should be assembled and engineered. This is the hard part. In the case of this drum, it was a challenge. The mechanism looks simple enough to think, why was it so difficult? But one still needs to get there somehow. Since I lack an education as an engineer, there was lots of learning involved. Mr. Palma, and the guys in the club helped me by talking through it, many times.