Boat Build Q&A - Building A 50ft Sailboat From Scratch - Ep. 359 RAN Sailing
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
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It's time for a Boat Build Q&A! We answer some of the questions we've gotten lately from you guys.
We are a Swedish family who have sailed the world since 2016 while sharing the adventures here on RUclips. While we are still sailing, our main focus now a days is building RAN III, a 50 ft sailboat that we are building from scratch. We post a new episode every Friday so make sure to subscribe and hit the bell to be the first to know when there is a new episode!
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Malin, Johan & Vera
I sense sometimes you are worried about ‘boring’ your viewers with planking and or the speed of construction but i know i speak for the most part of your followers when i say dont worry .. we are far too hooked on you guys and your project to get bored .. just do what you have to do and we will be there enjoying our 20 minutes of interesting, sensible, fun and down to earth Ran every Saturday morning .. in fact i’ve been following you for so long i couldn’t imagine a Saturday morning without you !!!!
It is fascinating to watch the construction of your new boat, and the lines look very fair, indeed. I am writing from on board my 52’ sailboat that I built virtually the same way - Red Cedar strip-planked to Douglas Fir cheeks on DF plywood bulkheads. Construction took five years, from 1972 to 1977. I wish you all the Best for a successful completion and launching. Ancient Mariner
The fact that you're building the boat and not just another youtuber that's buying a new one is so much more authentic.
@@jaysummers9396I am sorry you have had such a hard life which has resulted in your bitter and twisted view of the world.
Anyone??
@@jeffpargetter9038 yes, anyone, Elon Musk has zero qualifications in rocket science or space technology, yet his MONEY sends satellites to space, so yes, anyone with money 💰 😉
@jaysummers9396 stop trolling. Everyone knows having money doesn't mean you have the skill or patience to build a boat by hand. And youre only reinforcing my original statement that with money they could have gone and bought a brand new boat like other youtubers but instead are building one by hand. Go troll somewhere else.
@@jaysummers9396I have me this family and you are way off buddy. Two of the most authentic people I have ever met. Lovely couple.
That glass/cedar/glass construction will provide a very strong and well insulated hull. That boat will last a very long time. Keep up the excellent work!
The hull wil need extra insulation because the epoxy glue between the cedar strips act as cold bridges and fungus will show up everywhere. I build a 40 foot myself 20 years ago and still sailing her
@larstheu it's a wide spread idea that a woodcore boat is very well insulated but it's really not. It's not as bad as a steel boat or a gpr one but it definitely needs extra insulation if you want to sail higher latitudes
She’s coming along nicely, what on Earth are you apologising for?
It seems that some people are fully invested in instant gratification, with little or no experience of the application that it takes to carry on day after day to bring a large project to completion.
You’re both undertaking a huge build while giving your beautiful daughter the time to spend the most important formative years of her life in company with other children and with her extended family.
I have nothing but admiration and respect for the choices and the progress that you’ve made to date.
Cheers, Rob.
😎👍🍻
You say the planking has took a long time, personally I think you have made fantastic progress, and the hull looks marvellous. 👍
I love that you've found Swedish Western Cedar. 🌲 The cedar was just meant to be on Ran III. Thanks for sharing.
You are an amazing family., extremely capable a very much admired. I'm a disabled elder and ex-sailor who has watched you a long time. Highest Blessings
I to am an amputee. Had some big dreams for a Cutter rigged 1968 Hughes that I purchased several years ago. Now that I am out of the hospital and learning to function with the substantial weight loss I am still trying, just have to make a lot of changes in order to be able to continue.
Ran, I am a huge fan of classic boats and especially wooden boats. My only question is why no skeg ??
Great build by a great craftsman that does not have to back up to take his paycheck! I am a retired mechanical trades craftsman of 50 (+) years and enjoy seeing young people make the commitment to this kind of dream. Watching you build this boat I visualize me building it along with you. I am super proud of the quality of craftsmanship you demonstrate throughout. I wish I lived nearby you, I would love to be your apprentice. Keep up the good work and enjoy working on your dream to sail your family away to paradise!
👍🏼 my Motorsailer was 1" Strip planked and epoxied using 16-oz rovenwoven glass inside and out with very little full width (2) bulkheads. Being built in 1966, and still going ! ⬅️ NO CRACKS, AND STRAIGHT TOO❗️❤
BTW, your sailboat WILL BE very strong, lightweight and watertight. Cold-molded boats have an excellent strength-to-weight ratio. 🎉 KEEP GOING❗️👍🏼
I think the bow looks awesome
I thought I would get bored by a whole summer of planking but the videos have been really great. The progress is so exciting
In this episode we are able to see such great shots of the hull and it is truly a "work of art"!! Her lines are beautiful!
That is a large boat! Y'all are making some great progress.
It is incidentally good to see that the farmer has managed to harvest his wheat crop around your homestead - we are having a rough harvest time here in the UK with very changeable wet weather and not enough sunshine!
I've watched the entire build to this point in 3 days.
A couple of SV build series that I’m watching will or have launched. Looking for another build series, I landed on your channel a month ago, and decided quickly the Ran III project will fill my next SV build viewing space.
Thank you for the QA episode. It was a great way to introduce the new cedar option that may resolve the shortage.
From a new member of the audience, located in Alberta Canada, I wish you many blessings and good tidings.
Excellent video, your expertise and knowledge is fantastic. Have been watching from the start and have always enjoyed your videos 👍👍
I thought that I might not enjoy the Q and A, but I must say with the two of you sitting on top of the hull is probably on of the most relaxed episodes to date. Thank you.
Amazing craftsmanship and brilliant footage and editing capturing the boat build.
That was very informative. The hull is looking very good. Nice lines. Interesting, the farmer is already harvesting the wheat.
Keep up the great work.
Nice job explaining why. It may be nice to have to the designer explain some of his design decisions in a video.
What a fantastic job you guys do what an amazing feeling when the boat is finished
I can't think of anything that beats the feeling of comfort you going to have standing on this hand built boat of this size when it is in the water👏💪🇸🇪
I'm 3/4 Swedish, 1/4 Irish & 100% American lol living in Florida. I am so amazed and impressed with the knowledge of boat building you both have. I know you have tons of sailing experience around the world. It's my dream someday to sail the world as well, but till then I will sail my couch through your adventures. Thanks so much for sharing with us!! Aloha and may you continue on your adventures with fair winds & calm seas.
Häftigt med svenskt cederträ. Man lär sig nått nytt varje dag
What a beautiful looking hull - your excellent craftsmanship and extreme attention to detail has paid off handsomely! Making anything well takes time and commitment, as this project proves.
Based on having followed your videos for years now, I have no doubts about your carefully considering what to do during this boat build and doing a great job.
Good episode! You answered questions I hadn't even considered.
Keep them coming and don't worry about a perceived lack of progress. The Q&A's are great. Thanks again.
Good idea for the Q&A episode to break things up a bit. It also made me think of something that is quite popular here in the states and that's a bloopers episode where whatever show it is will do an episode with clips of funny mistakes and mishaps that have happened during the season. Great episode, good luck finding the rest of the cedar!!!
Let Vera choose the hull colour when the time comes - would probably be a change from the usual boat colours!
We really appreciate all the effort you put in the making for the decor of this Q and A :)
..... I guess it will have changed (even more) the next time there will be another Q and A!
I like the idea of a recessed keel plate on solid fibreglass. Lots of surface area to spread the load. Excellent work.
Looks and sounds good to me. Glad your sticking to a single type of wood for the hull.
Cheerz!!!!
Love what you are doing ... every millimetre of it. Here for the long haul.
Your bow looks beautiful. The bluntness of the bow is fine. It's not even close to the flat bow on the Delos Amel, and I think we can agree the Amel knows what they're doing.
I really like your approach to using cutting edge technology. Duplex stainless steels are not utilized enough! We know how to bend it, how to weld it and how to couple with fibreglass composites. I have a couple of suggestions to connect the keel module to the hull structure. I have been contemplating this process on boats with more or less flat bottoms and complex bilge curves like Harris’s Ollie. It looks like your boat configuration! Spencer
I'm glad you addressed oxygen deprivation as a factor in stainless steel corrosion. What about using carbon fiber in the layup around the keel and rudder post? I don't know anything about using composites like that. It's a good idea to do Q & A or go the beach when the construction gets repetitive. Cheers!
Thank you RAN for 359...
Some of us have been following you for a few years, feel like family or at least friends. Each episode needs at least a short cameo of Vera. Miss not seeing her smiling face every week. As I said, we feel like family, and She's an integral part of your adventures!
The update on the next batch of cedar (from the century-old "younger" trees) was very interesting. So was the info about the keel. Thanks for this episode, both of you, but I think Vera could have easily handled it by herself.
The exterior siding of my home is serrated cedar shake shingles. Every 8 to 10 years I stain the shingles with six gallons of Cape Cod Gray stain using a three inch brush.The serrated surface provides a great texture, especially when the sun shines on the shingles forming extensive shadowing. These cedar shingles are fifty-eight (58) years old, and they feel to the touch as if they were cut yesterday. They are not soft. The thickness dimension varies, perhaps 1/2" to 3/4" at the top and about 1/4" at the bottom. The gutters, window and door trim, and below the eave overhang are painted black. Great contrast, I've loved it since we bought the house in 1982 (built in 1965). So when you chose cedar for your planking, I thought it was a very good choice. I don't comment often here, but I've followed you since you were cruising the West Coast of North America. Great craftsmanship. :¬) Webhead USA
Wood is an extraordinary resource. It is so versatile.
Amazing progress and a real story behind the wood. Looking forward to seeing and hearing the story behind the new wood. It adds so much to your boat.
A big compliment for your sailing yacht building project.
Please make 1 hour or more videos , it’s very fascinating to see someone making his dream come true . I want to make boat also so it will be helpful for us if you make long videos . Thanks .
What I personally love the most is the Kutter Look of the deckhouse.
Another great episode. I am never bored with anything you tell us. Great craftsmanship is always interesting.
Brought up building wood boats with my grandfather who learned from his grandfather - my family has been building boats in Ipswitch, Massachusetts and then in Bar Harbor, Maine since 1651. They built everything from whaling ships to racing boats for Alden & Herreshoff. yachts still winning races today. I’m so happy to see you following in that tradition which is even older in Sweden. Heartwarming!!!
Thanks for taking time out to do a Q&A. Nice that you have sourced some more cedar to finish closing up the hull. The shape of the hull is just beautiful. You should have got your patrons to sign the hull so they could be part of RAN III forever😊. Greg 🇬🇧
That was interesting and informative.
I enjoy all your episodes, never have found them anything but amazing. Thanks for sharing :)
Friday yeah new video, always super intresting and fun to follow you guys 🙂
Sounds like to me that you folks have things well in hand, I built a red cedar strip boat once,, although much smaller the last plank was the hardest.. on to hours of sanding then fiberglass cloth with epoxy and 4 top coats of marine spar varnish,, Thank you for all your videos as I look forward to see your progress... 👍⛵👍
What a fantastic shot of the two of you standing int he middle of the hull. It really gives a sense of the size of the boat. I really enjoyed this video, it answered questions I didn't know I had until I heard them! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this episode. Interesting to see the plans ahead, like one would do from time to time when it's his own project. Loved to see that the hull can withstand both of you, even incomplete - I was a bit weary. Clever filming of the reverse bow! And I love your nature shots.
Thanks vor the Q&A. It’s always good to explains some of the thought. I think I was one of the guys asking the question about the keel so thanks for answering. Beeing fully aware and also not expecting it that an individual answer of all questions is nit possible. You have a boat to build and equally important a daughter to raise.
Captain, you're an amazing man. You explain an extraordinary difficult situation in simple terms that everyone can comprehend... without making an individual feel insecure or embarrassed. Your capability is seen, heard and much appreciated. I think it's going to verrrry exciting when making decisions regarding the interior design. I'm sure you will have many questions.
Very exciting to have red cedar grown in Sweden!
This weekend we visited the Vasa in Stockholm. I do hope you can enjoy your boat and it will not limited to one trip ….
Thanks for the additional info !
Great channel
Bored watching planking?! From someone who couldn't get enough of Mads sanding that's never going to happen!! Thank-you for the great videos and best wishes from a wet and windy UK.
Thank you for the Q and A episode. Some was a nice recap of your project. For me, though, it raised additional questions. Malin said that after you turn the hull, you would selectively remove temporary forms to install permanent bulkheads. I assumed you would glass the outside before rolling it. But that requires removing the screws, which means the temporary frames won’t be holding anything. So, what is the order of construction. Will you roll it twice or glass the outside while upright, after the roll and glassing inside? I am also intrigued with how you will spread the attachment load of your apparently fairly rigid keel plate to the sandwich of the hull? I assume the plate will be much more rigid than the hull, in general. Thanks for the great videos! Never tired of seeing your craftsmanship and attention to detail.
You are a lovely couple building your dream boat and we wish you all the best.
A rounded stem also also much more resistant to light contact with pontoons etc. than having a sharp cutwater all the way up
You two or should I say you three are doing an amazing job.
You mentioned that you may decide on a daytank. I can recommend you to make a fuelsystem with a daytank. It is one of the changes which I made to my own boat about 12 years ago since I had problems with dirty diesel. And since then, after also cleaning the tanks and start using biocides, I never had any problems with my engine due to dirt in the diesel anymore. I made the system fully automatic, so if you are interested I can help you.
Wishing you lots of success with this very interesting project.
You're doing a fantastic job and don't ever let anyone tell you anything different. I so look forward to the steady progress of your build. One thing though, what does your "Inspector" think about your project?😊 Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪.
You guys are amazing, the workmanship is something else,.
I'm not a boat builder, and in fact live in the middle of the US. Only been on the water in a sailing boat once in the San Francisco Bay. The question I have is are you going to insulate the walls. If so, wouldn't it work to cut back the temporary forms to maybe six inches from the hull to leave room for insulation, wiring conduit, etc. Then you could attach your interior walls or bulkheads to them. I realize it would make glassing the inside harder, but at least they are already in place and hull conforming
Thank you have a fantastic week and stay warm
Red Cedar is found all the way south to Oregon in the US. For the most part the old growth red cedar has been harvested but fair amount second growth cedar is found on coast lands.
You both did a fantastic presentation in this episode. Happy to learn you located more cedar. Its looking great.
Good Q and A time. It would be nice to think you could source some of the cedar locally so you can say 'she has some home grown wood in her' . Keep up the good work and say Hi to Vera from New Zealand. Cheers Ian
Thanks for this great video. The value of education was inmense.
I have 7 full-grown western red ceders in my yard in battleground, Washington state. They definitely grow here.
Great video!
I personally love the different colourations of the wood planking 👍🏻
Hello guys, super interesting video today! We have also built our very own keel for our sailboat about a year ago. This has been a great experience, we loved such a piece of work. Can't wait to watch you doing it as well! Thank you for sharing your steps through building your new boat from scratch. Take care, Stéphanie and Valéry
I look forward every week to see the progress you are making on the boat. I hope you consider an electric motor final drive with a variable pitch propeller that can generate electricity while you are under sail to charge the batteries. I believe a company called "Ocean Volt" has such a system. Of course you would want a diesel backup generator to re-charge batteries and supply power to the motors when batteries are low and or when there is little wind. What will the final permanent bulkheads be made of?
Thank you for taking time out to do this FAQ session and as usual it was professional and done with style.😀👍⛵️
Beautiful work!! Such a delight to watch your progress. Loved the Q&A session!!
Thanks guys!
Very informative, Thx!
I would comment on color if you will permit? I hope its alright ? Grey from a safety stand point for cruisers is not advisable. Grey is what the military uses because on the water you disappear. In distress conditions where visibility is key for search and rescue you are limiting your chances.
Great progress Johan and Marlin. Glad you are going with Red Cedar for the remainder, good call. You mention that you will do solid glass epoxy in the way of the keel. Presume you will vacuum bag this? Best wishes to you all. Malcolm
Following you from NewZealand,love your country,and the boat build,a true craftsman.
glad you have been able to source some more cedar close by,
Great video. I’m really enjoying your build.
I enjoy boat builds!! I,ve been watching SV Lynks in addition to your epic build. They are covering the bottom with basalt cloth!! Maybe you should look into covering the bottom with that. This is,nt boring it,s really interesting. I,ve been watching life on the hulls ,every episode, for five years now!!
Thank you for sharing your build with us.
Thank you for the concise but detailed answers, very informative
The gray color beneteau came out with recently is beautiful.. in my opinion.. otherwise I always love the look of the classic blue sailboats with either a gold or silver cover stripe..
Thankyou for sharing your life with us
I love waking up for RAN build ,saturday morn in Australia,as a wood epoxy boat builder and do this all week i can relate to all you have going on,i just love this and gets me exited to get back to work monday.😂
We thought a natural cedar hull coated with epoxy would look beautiful? Great question and answer episode, great to hear you have found enough Western Red Cedar in Sweden and so cool the logger contacted you as well. Thanks!
Great video, but I might be the only one but I like the video’s of the cutting, planning, screwing gluing. It’s cathartic to watch it inch higher. (Or lower as it may be)
It will be a beautiful boat. Send you love from the Netherlands
All I can say is WOW I am addicted to watching your channel - I've been you since Ran 1 Outstanding!!!!
now that you are standing inside the hual you can see the real size of your boat, it is huge, very big differance than if youre looking from the outside only, now we get a better perspective of the actual size. awesome guys , love it