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Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.53 Installing some lining panels!
Per usual boatwork - things pop up and require MORE WORK than anticipated, Ha! BUT, I do get to install some main lining panels,... I do some coving to protect some welds below the waterline and I did get to take a nice short break to go bird watching wit...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.52 More lining battens and some,..
"More battens required" Ha! I needed quite a few more mostly very different battens for the V berth lining, some to fit to the steel frames, others to fit to some hull cleats and some others to be fitted to the lining themselves which will then be used to ...
Building my steel sailing yacht Tech.talk #7 Evolution table saw-UNPAID review
UNPAID review - In this Tech.talk I am doing a brief review of my Evolution table saw that I have been using for ~1 year now and I am very happy with it. There were many reasons why, but the work stopped,... However, the work has re-started, thankfully, a...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.51 Making the V berth lining panels,..
In this episode I get all of the V berth lining panels made up, not without a lot of fiddly back and forth fitting to get them right, also the cabin-sole and get them all sanded and epoxy painted! Yes! There were many reasons why, but the work stopped,......
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.50 First of the cabin-sole & FIFTY Episodes!
EPISODE FIFTY, that's 50 EPISODES people! WOOHOO! The good work progress continues,.. with getting some very nice Rosewood laminate strips cut, dressed and edge planed to be used for the cabin-sole; I get the V berth cabin-sole support frame installed; pla...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.49 A Few things going on,..
I address a few things in this episode such as welding up the drainage holes in the keel; paint touching up some small, early corrosion spots; make up the cabin sole supports for the V berth and start the marine ply lining in the V berth. There were many...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.48 Hull battens completed (pt.2) & THANKS to Ship Engineer!
In this episode I explain being contacted by a Ship structural Engineer for a mistake I made : l and how to fix it and I tackle the twists and turns of getting the hull battens completed,... There were many reasons why, but the work stopped,... However,...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.47 Fitting hull battens (pt.1) & little jobs
In this episode I explain how along the way with the building process I have been accruing a list of little jobs and felt that it was time to start to address these. Also I start fitting the hull battens, which is for me another significant milestone becau...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.46 Running electrical wiring!
I am learning and starting to get on top of the electrical installation and situation, thanks goodness! I do get the main wiring cable run along Mistress' starboard side and it was SO MUCH EASIER having put in place the electrical conduit! There were man...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.45 Chat part 2, making batton’s, ball valves & electric cable,..
The beginning of this video is a part 2 of the chat about what is happening next. Then I make up some batton's from the lovely N.G. Rosewood which will be used to fix the plywood lining, cabinets and who knows what else ahead. Fit more of the through hull ...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.44 The next phase,…
This video is basically a sit down and chat about now that all of the main bulkheads are in I can launch in to the next phase, which is now open to many, many things that need to happen and can now start happening to get Mistress' area's fitted out,.... AL...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.43 ALL Main bulkheads IN! (pt.2)
YES! I finish getting ALL of the Main bulkheads installed! It is a GREAT thing and free's me up for the next stages,......!!!!! There were many reasons why, but the work stopped,... However, the work has re-started, thankfully, and I am on an exciting jou...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.42 Bringing them in FOR GOOD!
Well,.... YES, I am bringing these Main bulkheads BACK IN to Mistress,............. BUT FOR GOOD! I also go through what I did to laminate join the galley-saloon top scalloped section and glue fit the mitred joint for the small head's piece bulkhead! Ther...
Building my steel sailing yacht Ep.41 Pulling them all out & epoxy coating,..
It was a slow and lengthy process removing all of the Main bulkheads to epoxy coat them all and made tricky with the cold weather snap that we had here over a few weeks time,... but it has been really great to get all of this done and behind me! Yaoow! Th...