CATAMARAN BUILD - We Enclose Our Hand Built Water Tanks! - (MJ Sailing - Ep 232)

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Spring is definitely in full swing here in Maryland, which means we are having a lot more beautiful days to knock projects out.

One item we’ve been working at on and off for the past two months, is our water tanks. A few episodes ago you’ll have seen that Matt began to fair them out with an epoxy based primer, but what’s next?

The steps seem simple, but boy have there been a lot of them. After the fairing was a coat of primer – but we couldn’t complete all of the tank? Why? We’ve decided to enlarge them! So after the next step of bonding on more foam, we cut the lids and prepare them for our very cool Vetus inspection ports.

Then, it’s adding our 90 degree flanges (pretty sure I say it right this time) onto the edges of our tank, and once that’s done, we can bond on the lid. And there we have the water tanks for our boat! Lighter than plastic, and because they’re bonded in, they now become structural too.

Plus, one of our real time updates to our Patrons from back on March 10th.

We hope you enjoy!

Much love from Annapolis!
Jessica, Matt & Georgie

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Videos made by Jessica, featuring Matt and Georgie.

00:00 – Sneak Peak
00:23 – Intro
00:53 – How the fairing of our tanks turned out (02/02)
02:38 – We’re adding 20 gallons to each side
04:29 – Adding an epoxy primer
05:47 – Progress Update on interior (03/10)
08:27 – Finishing the edges for the inspection ports (03/29)
13:10 – Epoxy coating the water tanks (04/12)
16:00 – Bonding 90 degree flanges to sides of tanks (04/14)
17:39 – Our Super Cool Vetus Inspection Ports
21:43 – Enclosing the tanks
22:32 – Closing

Music:
Ambient Uplifiting – Storyblocks
Five Below – Torii Wolf
Pandemonium (Tribute Version) – The Mondays

Camera equipment used:
– Panasonic Lumix GH5
– Shure VP83F shotgun microphone – https://amzn.to/2rsIHLL
– GoPro Hero8

Previous Boats: 1983 Trisalu 37 – custom aluminum, built in Quebec (Elements of Life) Where we’ve been: 2.5 year refit in Indiantown,
Florida; Abacos, Bahamas; St. Barth’s; St. Maarten; Antigua; Saba; Azores; Ireland; Scotland; Norway; England 1989
Sabre 34 Targa (Serendipity)
Where We Sailed Her: U.S. – Bahamas – Jamaica – Cuba – Cayman Islands – Honduras – Guatemala – Belize – Mexico – Bermuda – Azores – Madeira – Canary Islands – Sint Maarten – BVI’s – USVI’s

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