Boat Tour: Junk-Rigged Colvin Gazelle "Tla Hla"
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Today, our good friends Meredith and Conrad show us the inside and outside of their junk-rigged aluminum schooner. Conrad is a blacksmith and a welder. From carved wooden blocks to a homemade anchor and a DIY watermaker, Tla Hla is full of innovative solutions for living aboard aboard-some old-fashioned, and some very new.
IN THIS VIDEO:
About Colvin Gazelles [00:22]
Sailing it [01:10]
Why Live Aboard? [02:03]
Exterior Tour: [03:04]
Interior Tour: [15:20]
The weirdest (and cheapest?) DIY watermaker: [21:49]
Lithium system [24:52]
Our favorite part of the boat [27:00]
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People who are into junk rigs are always, always really interesting people. Thanks for the video.
Tom Colvin was a kind and generous person who helped me rig my boat.
Thank you , all , for this Education Video , in a Smiling Way 😊🤗
Be Happy , enjoy , Blessings
I'm a new subscriber. I hope to follow your channel. I really enjoyed your boat tour and all the teckie creations. The below deck area was very organized and comfy looking, which I can't even look towards as a single guy living aboard for 30 years now. Maybe things will improve some as I progress on my conversion from a glass open boat to junk rig including wooden house and deck structure.
I have always loved the lines of the Gazelle. I have a friend here who lives on a wooden one that he built 40 years ago.
.You were talking about good stress. You may be onto something cause I recently saw online that preliminary studies, surprisingly, show that stress appears to prevent alsheimers. 🤞
Now they are my kind of people. No box for them! OH, BTW, for your US trip in a truck camper. I did the US on a motorcycle at 21 (1981). Left NY and went west on 2 wheels, came home in VW Bus with a cat and a girl, of course, a year later. Did it again in a van a couple of times. The van is a great way to go!! SO much less complicated then RVs and other monstrosities.
Hit all the National Parks!!! Badlands, Yellowstone, Yosemite. You will love any national park. Funny thing, I use AAA Tour Books for a guide. If any place had a diamond (or maybe it is a gem) you want to go there. If you dont want to get a membership, I can send you the books. Parks have the cheapest camping. Also in a van you can park anywhere to sleep. It will change your perspective. People are the same everywhere in the country.-- now that I am old I have a hardsided "pop up". It has ac, microwave! You may have that in the truck camper. Go have fun, make videos!!! Take me with you!
Junk-rigged Colvin Gazelle is my dream boat.
Thank You all for appreciating our quirky, joy filled home and Conrad’s beautiful brain! I know I do! 💖
A huge thank You to Emily and Clark for your kinship, great conversations, laughter, inspiration and this wonderful video! We will miss you! Until next time! 😘🤗😘🤗
- Mere, Captain C, and Chi Chi 😽
Thanks for sharing your vessel with us! I was hoping you or Emily/Clark would be able to talk about what water maker you actually got? I was looking around and it seems like the Kayden survivor is what the military uses. Been looking for a low cost way to make a water maker and your idea is pretty great, but the survivor 35 only produces 1gallon per hour according to specs though?
I hope they comment on this. I'll let them answer.
@@jordandegeus5791, yes that is the model we use. It does 1-1.5 gallons/hour. We use our excess solar during the day for a few hours. Depending on where you are and your power set up, you could go longer if you need more. Conrad said, “or you could run two” 😉! Heeheehee! He did hook up a 12v computer fan to help keep it cooler and recently wrapped the motor in copper tube to warm the intake and make the process more efficient.
@@MeredithElaineStringer this is perfect and exactly what I was looking for :) Ill have to keep watching and waiting for a deal to pop up and start playing with one!
Thanks so much for sharing. The custom handiwork is fantastic. So many solutions to challenges that one wouldn't even imagine unless you had lived it - and with a focus on what you can repair or recreate with the skills you have. Thanks again.
What a lovely couple, and what a great tinkerer. This was awesome.
Beautiful boat needs some work but they always do. Nice BBQ lots of friendly people
Well I saw a better view of Nico boat. I wanted to see that in person but too busy. Great job of putting together. Coral is an escape artist already while you were folding those big sails. Just got better. Can't wait until next week video good job guys 😘⛵️🌽😋😍❤️
really unique boat...thanks for the tour!!
An awful lot of ingenuity and joy in this boat...😎⛵
Thanks for appreciating these things!
-Meredith
This boat is a work of art
Cool interview with cool people! Lots of good ideas! Thank you!
Take good care!
Thanks so very much to the crew of Tla Hla for sharing your hand built boat with us.
Sure thing! 😉 Glad you enjoyed it.
-Meredith
Cool boat, lots of great ideas. That water maker idea was inspired! I think I'll do something like that. Great episode and they seem like amazing people
Thanks and they are. Going to miss them, they sail for New England on Monday. We should catch up with each other in Panama next winter.
Almost bought a steel hulled Gazelle a few years back..sadly she was more of a project than I had the budget for at the time. Always loved Colvin designs and ANYTHING with a junk rig.
Love it !! Most everything on Conrad's boat is of Conrad's design and fabrication. As an engineer, I fully appreciate his skill.🙂🙂
Awesome boat tour & simple systems for enjoyment & sailing, thank you all
🙏🏽
-Meredith
This gentleman is a cut above.
I LOVED this video!
Nice boat, nice tour. These folks, and this boat, seem like kindred spirits. You both seem so engaged with your boats and you lifestyle. Most people can plug away, but you both seem fully invested in what’s going on with life, and with your boats.
Thanks for the tour! I remember seeing them in Luperon and thinking “what an interesting boat!.”
Great post my friends. I appreciate this window into another shade of the lifestyle. I love it. I have my eyes on the prize of my own adventures ✨️ stay strong, free, happy and healthy. 🌞🌴⛵
Really like Conrad's emphasis on maintainability and machines he can build himself.
Would love to see a demonstration of sailing the junk rig, tacking, jibing, reefing, etc. I think people might be shocked at how much simpler it is to operate than the far more common (at least in the Western world) Bermudan rig.
BTW, cambered junk rigs can perform better upwind than flat junk rigs.
I really enjoyed this video, very interesting. Nice people.
Thanks. And yes they are.
Awesome people with a supercool boat!!
Wonderful Video.. a lot of innovation. Subscribed.
Thank You
What a cool couple and boat. You really do meet the best people in the boating community.
Sea ho!
By all vast oceans, finally I’m in boat shopping mode. Time is not enough to enjoy all your episodes at the moment. We’ll catch up later. Fair winds m8s!
Had been wondering where you were. You usually comment in the first day.
What is your top contender just now? Anything interesting you?
I remember my shopping for Temptress. It was 5 months of most every spare hour I had either researching or traveling to check out boats. Learned so much then.
@@Clarks-Adventure I'll PM you 😉
Nice video. I have the greatest admiration of you all.
Wow, amazing boat and people!!
That's a really interesting boat. Very cool.
Love the Junk rig just a very cool looking boat. I believe you had Conrad in video or two before. Isn't he from Vermont? Like you Clark a very creative think outside the box kind of guy. I learn things from your channel that I'm not likely to find anywhere else. Thank you for all you do.
Thanks, yes they are from Vermont
@@Clarks-Adventure I'm in Vermont too.
I hope we cross paths sailing someday.
@Sailing Samantas, hope to cross paths with you sometime on land or sea! 😉
-Meredith from S/V Tla Hla
Very interesting!
So much innovation. What a wonderful boat! Great ideas and execution. I am so glad Someone shared this with me!
Yo,Thank you,professional content~godobye!!fellow-✋
I'm so glad you guys did this video. I was so interested in his boat and thoughts. I can see that you are great friends. Great minds.
Crewed on one when it visited Guam. I'm negotiating for one of my own. A fa tastic boat
Loved it. Thanks for sharing
Your welcome.
Absolutely brilliant smashing to watch very clever ideas,you should write a book of your ideas get a small royalty ever time someone uses an idea sure you will come up with an idea for getting paid,think there’s a little bit a work coming up for my catamaran.
Inspiration! Thank you!
Conrad, do you need an apprentice? I'm on a similar track, would love to work as an intern for a week? The craftsmanship and attention to detail is amazing. Really impressive. William (excellent upload btw, you got my like and a sub)
Never get sick of this video. Funny I was the last comment. And here I am again.
So Cool
I noticed the plants they're growing on their boat. Are there restrictions on sailing to various countries with vegetation on board?
Most countries don't care. Just the US and Canada really.
@@Clarks-Adventure Cool, thanks!
Australia would also be an issue if you had plants onboard so far as the possibility of bringing soils, seeds and flowers into the country when you got off. If they weren't flowering and were well kept they most likely wouldnt be an issue but I'd show them to the customs anyway.
So far, we have only planted if we will be somewhere for awhile. Then we gift them to someone else before we leave. 😉
👍!!!awesome!
Thanks, loved seeing more. Just wondering what his onboard welding setup was?
It's an alternator made for welding. Three phase out to a welding controller or charge controller.
Also, it runs off the main boat engine. 👍🏽
-Meredith from S/V Tla Hla
Curiously, are you aware of how the gaff rig performs as compared to a more conventional 'fore & aft' rig . . . i.e. - pointing ability & speed? I'm assuming that there are some benefits for choosing this type of rig and I'd imagine that rapid 'furling' would be one. ?? They come across as very nice and clever people who've found a perfect match in this boat.
Our Chinese Lug Rig is quite easy to reef, lower, and adjust with the lazy jacks. Also, a jibe is much less of a jolt with the support of all the batons and flat sail.
-Meredith from Tla Hla
Okay I've got to ask. How well does the black locust hold up to marine applications? I know it last well here in VT. Do you think it could be a suitable replacement for teak?
Conrad doesn't have an internet connection just now. They are sailing off tomorrow.
Hopefully he will read this in the future.
@@Clarks-Adventure I'm looking forward to meeting you and Emily as well. I love the creativity, the way you build things rather than the easy just go out an buy it approach. This kind of ingenuity is lost among the younger folks. And it's sad.
I can't wait to finish my refitting project and join you guys. Shooting for 2023 to get her splashed.
Thanks.
By the way just talked to Conrad. Black Locust is very rot resistant. Turns out about the only company making clasic wooden blocks anymore will make from anything but routinely works in ash or as a high end product black locust .
What was the name of the military surplus water maker?
PUR 35
I have been looking at a gazelle in the area. I love the look but it is (was, the price is going down) way too much. The one I was looking at is not as nice either in or out. I notice neither the engine room or rear cabin got much attention but that is ok. I don't think there is a lot that can be done to change that area though look at Gaia for some change there and there is another I have seen where they raised the roof on the aft cabin to make a pilot house (they are set up for cold climate use). In the end, we are not live aboard nor looking to do long distance cruising (unless things change), a trip around Vancouver Island is the longest thing I can envision right now. So a less expensive, not so much in purchase price but less expensive to moor and easier to learn on, shorter craft is probably in our future (5 to 10 ft less LOA without the bowsprit which telescopes back). Thanks again.
I want to see you two get to 100K subs!
You and us both
It’s not called a gaff, at the top of the sail. It’s a yard.
Emily and Clark, the cat is out of the sail bag. Congratulations are in order! I thought I had seen something several episodes ago know that I've seen the sequence at 10:11 I am certain. Again, Congratulations to a heck of a sailing couple. sdh T.A. '67
What are you talking about? The new camera?
@@Clarks-Adventure Well, now you are going to tell me its not possible, but, to my eye, Emily looks six weeks pregnant.
Well this is awkward...that's actually a combo of wearing a loose-fitting dress in the heat + arching my back to stabilize the camera + the wind + the fisheye lens on the 360 stick camera. On second glance I can see the illusion. Good to know we're keeping things interesting. 😆 -E
Steve, Lol, Emily being behind the camera does not make a conspiracy.
There is a old sailors saying.. To assume makes an “ass out of u and me”, or something like that. :)
@@Clarks-Adventure Em, that's a hell of an explanation so I'm buying it. Thanks, sdh, T.A.'67
I am still trying to get used to Clark without the facial hair. I'm not sure I like the idea of a metal boat. You have many more concerns about oxidation. I was watching Adventures of an Old Sea Dog, who has a 30-somthing foot metal boat that he sailed from England (now in NZ), and he had to have a small patch welded on. I suppose it's better if you are already a welder, so you can do your own repairs. I like the "can do" attitude of these guys, though.
I agree. I like to not need the diligence metal requires. But Conrad does it all right.
The key is keeping different metals isolated from each other as much as possible. Conrad is quite diligent with this, and so far it’s working very well! 👍🏽
~Meredith 🌺
Oxidization of an Aluminum boat is your friend and what makes it possible to last basically forever, if you also take care of galvanic corrosion due to any dissimilar metals.
Aluminum oxide is the same result as anodizing and is the same passivation mechanism that prevents stainless steel from corroding.
In other words, when the surface of Aluminum oxidizes, the resulting Aluminum Oxide stops any corrosion. It's literally chemically like stone.
Yes sapphire is Aluminum Oxide.
@@Clarks-Adventure Corundum too, so most of our sanding with sandpaper is done using Aluminum Oxide.
Why to choose complicated ways..as easy ways? 🤔🙄👋😀⛵️🇨🇭
You just don't get Conrad
He's a lucky guy to have such a wife!