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Fowling along sweet working good...

The stuffing box story reminds me of the guy who went through a bag of carrots when he knocked off a sea-cock while offshore.

You don’t need to put it in gear, you can certainly run it in neutral to flush it out. You probably do more damage by putting a load on a cold engine than flushing it in idle. Just my opinion!

Try a defrost cycle

be careful lol

I love the classic design of the Formosas. If you ever want to sell your boat ... In about 3 years I'm looking for a boat of this size for my retirement. 😁 Greetings from Germany

I doubt it is a transformer, sounds like a couple of capacitors that dried out !

I have a 4-108. The oil pump is on a hose that I can pull out into the cabin while pumping into a container. Also find yourself a silicone container used in cooking to place under the oil filter to catch the oil that escapes when removing the filter. It’s recommended to pre fill the filter before placing it on the bracket, but it’s not really necessary. When you start the engine after the change, advance the throttle about half way. Start the engine and it only takes the a second or two for the oil pressure gauge to respond. Also you should put a quart of Lucas oil in with every change. According to the manual the engine takes 4.7 quarts after an oil change, so adding 4 quarts of oil and a quart of Lucas oil fills it slightly more. But doesn’t hurt the engine.

Great story and advice ~ thanks for sharing !

You could try the drip design and have a line up top go down into it. Google "High Output Waste Oil Burner DIY".

Have you researched waste oil drip stoves? I use one in my pigpen and it runs for 8 hours on 4-5 gallons. Something that small could run for quite a while on a gallon. Most liquid fuels should work

Maybe a 4 or 5 inch Silicone cake pan would work better. They are pliable, so can be folded to fit in the port hole, and can tolerate high temperatures. Checked on line: "Silicone 5 Inch Cake Pan Round, Set of 4" for $12. "Silicone 4 Inch Cake Pan Round, Set of 4" for $10.

Fire insurance coverage has left the building (boat).lol

Curious if you'd tried burning coal with the wood?

What about the 6 hour alcohol cans? Denatured alcohol. Just need some ventilation.

Foils gonna burn.lol

high temp JP Weld

Great information. Please redo the video. Please edit out 3/4 of the run time. Add lighting, please. Please don't block our view with your hands. This would be a perfect 4 or 5-minute video. Thank you.

Very cool !

Boat anchor

A lot of good information thank you.

Good prepper item, Crisco.

My belt loops would get caught all the time. I ended up turning the latch 90 degrees, pointing down.

great battery bank, looks like a data centre hahahaha

thanks for your video, great info

Hey Thomas! Good episode, chimney maintenance is often overlooked but very important. I spent 42 winters in New Hampshire and I learned a bit. Excessive soot build up in the chimney is usually the result of unburnt fuel. Fuel to oxygen ratio is a good start , increase the air flow or decrease the rate of fuel feed should show a better burn rate. A damper plate before the exhaust exits the side of the stove might be in order. Try for good air flow with minimum fuel feed, see how that works. Good luck my friend.

You might trimming your wick back to 1/4 to 1/2” above the can top to avoid vaporizing the fuel fast than you can add air.

It would be a lot easier if you melt the Crisco in a large glass measuring cup in the microwave, then pour it into the can and let it solidify. That's what I do when I'm making candles. It's very easy that way and you don't get empty spaces in it the way you do when you're spooning it into the can.

Have you tried burning coal or can you burn coal?

"I got ways of doing things myself" you aint kidding

you can use just used cooking oil filtered of course drill hole aroumd the inside can so the carbon can absorb the oil only problem should be getting it to ignite and you could use rubbing alcohol in a dropper and drip it on the carbon fiber to start it but used veg oil burns hotenjoyed the video and hello from Tennessee

Cool idea. This could've been a 2 minute video

I really like your content. I am concerned about your magnets. They stop working when they get hot. The inside of a stove is not good place for them. They will fail to work for you when you need them most.

Great idea👍When drilling stainless steel try irrigating the point where the bit touches the metal with water. Use a spray pump bottle to keep the metal cool, drill bit sharp and you can drill at higher speeds.

Maybe get the cans with no seem on the bottom , they only have the seem on the top with the pull tab too open , the seemed bottomed tins should only be heated up in a sauce pan with water around the tin to stop it heating up too much you can get some fare sized tins made that way now I'm thinking . Cheers for the videos.

look up prospector stoves, we use them in remote mining exploration to heat tents. Basically its a flaming garbage can that has a slow diesel drip from a Toby carburettor. All you would need is a carb on the side of the stove, and a copper pipe feeding into the stove body and a diesel tank with a gravity feed. we've run these stoves for weeks on end with almost no maintenance, and one job where I was in the arctic we ran them non-stop for 5 weeks and went through only 2 45 G drums of diesel.

Would methylated spirits be a safer fuel ? Easier to put out if spilt when burning ? From my experience kero isn't safe enough , harder to put out when split ? Metho burns its self out a lot of the time with out damaging to much ?

7 months later.......... I bet you hate it? *Alameda*

Any leaks on that teak deck?

Our boat was built in the Ta Shing Yard and we have the same latches minus the key holes and I too have fell victom to the belt loop...more than once ;) Luckily I have been able to get off. I feel you!

Hey TP. Just curious but, was there a man named Glenn (my Dad) across the alley from your Mom's house in Mo-town?

Great job Thomas!

Do you recommend not mixing sand? I think I want to sprinkle on fresh gelcoat, brush off after dry and apply a final coat of gelcoat. Did you use course? I think I want fine. Thanks for the info.

_Disc harrow_ is the name of the implement. Great unique functional work of art!

I own Formosa 41ft here in Costa Rica, been doing restoration for a couple years now. Anyone interested?

Hello. I am your neighbor on the Hunter 46 one finger over. I can relate to these videos. Good luck on your engine going forward.

Cool stove! You did a nice job on that and a great repurpose of materials! I plan on putting mine in that same spot. Do you run into issues with the main sheet getting tangled up on the stove pipe? Soot on the mainsail? I was going to angle my stovepipe over to the port side a little more, but still within the angle of the the boom crutch support post, to keep it out of the way of the main sheet. It's hard to visualize without all that hardware on the boat yet, but I would like to figure out where I'm going to put the chimney so I can incorporate it into the deck design before I fiberglass everything. I'll probably need to get my stove soon to do that... I'm going to use the Dickinson Lofoten diesel stove. That way I'll have heat AND an alternate cooktop if needed. I did make a quick update/proof of life video finally. I'll get some better ones up eventually

That is very cool. Post a vid with the lights when you get around to it :)

Nice job! Not much else you can do to stop the leaks without major teak deck work.

I didn't give up on mine if you were talking about me!😂 I did give up on making videos though. With limited time and energy, filming was taking too much of my build time. I'm still not done, but I'm getting there. I have kicked into high gear this year and have made some serious progress. I keep meaning to do an update video... Good to see you out there using your boat!