Gosh, Glen, you really had an excellent on-screen demeanor and natural presentation skill. I think you are easily the best "explainer of things" on youtube. Even a second or third viewing holds up just perfect.
Glenn I have really missed your educational videos on maintenance for boats. You are one of the channels I watch and by far the best for explanation and know how. Cheers from Australia.
Cool. My daughter was on the Gold coast till last year, but now moved over to Perth to be near my other daughter. Plus I used to work in Queensland many moons ago - but not the part often frequented - Quilpie and Roma! Maybe catch up with you one day when we finally get across the Pacific.
@@SailCloudyBay What a small world we live in. My cousin had a sheep station west of Quilpie - called Gammon Downs (It was neighbors with Ray Station. I spent some time there during my holiday in the last year of high school. Learnt so much from my cousin. Tough life on the land out there. Would love to catch up when you cross the Pacific.
We have a piece of aluminium in a tool drawer and I even asked the previous owner what it was for and he didn't know. For the balls in the main track car+self tacker I fancy! I would have held them in with a smear of silicone grease - possibly - what a nightmare. For the rest of us it's nice to see you're human Glen! Brilliant work... and god like patience!
Bob, You know what .... I also have pieces of track in my boat when I bought it. Kept them for a few years. Then one day I had a clear out and thought ... why would I ever need those, and threw them out. Hmmm now I know what they were for!
Allways fun watching you work. Having done many of these projects myself on our Tayana 52 i can appreciate your frustration with the traveler and many other projects. Really a joy to see someone maintaining their boat to the level you do. So many of the channels here do little maintenance or do it the wrong way. You obviously understand how serious it can get offshore with no help available. Pays to do things right and before they break. Great job.
Thanks Greg, yes its a worry enough with just the 2 of us on the Oceans (well, me sailing CB alone frankly) without any unexpected surprises. WHat amazes me is that people tend to forget everything in on a boat has a useful life. And when the sell-by dates have long passed and they just cross fingers, its no wonder so many have non-stop and serious dramas when cruising. I like to sleep well at night!
Thanks Roger. Been thinking how we can enhance the Benny Hill scenes even more. Asked Oana, but she refuses to strut around half naked in the back ground.
OMG the balls on the track - I am smiling and enjoying that scene more than any other sailing scene in MONTHS!!! God I love your videos and explanation and trails and tribulations
If only I could have taken the track off easily. Much better to have slide the track into the up-turned traveller. Next time I plan to capsize the boat to do it!
Thanks .... I appreciate your positive comment. More to come. We're quite interested to see the response to the next few videos, because they are a slightly different style. Much more detail, but with the potential to be boring to some audiences .... lets see.
welcome back, this is why sailors swear, just replaced my main traveller and had to cut and drill both end caps off because of corrosion back on with tefgel, heading to Bermuda in a few weeks
Welcome back Glen, you lunatic perfectionist! I love the details of your videos and the perfection of your DIY jobs. Your HR 54 is better than new! We hope to see you and the Admiral back on Cloudy very soon.
Thanks for the compliment Antonio. Thats a new one! And interesting because that is exactly what Oana calls me when I'm in my "maintenance zone" .... lunatic that is, not perfectionist. Next to Oana, I'm far from a perfectionist. She firmly trumps me there. And talking of the senior officer, she will be back on the boat with me when we travel back to USA this week. So there is a chance she will appear on cinima screens near you in the not to distant future. :)
Daniel .... that made me laugh. I usually manage to cut our my frustrations, but thought I'd show my true colours this time (as in colourful language!).
Lovely to have you back getting stuck into lots of scary systems on the boats. I like the warts and all editing as nothing seems to go easy on the boat and the guys at my local ACE Hardware laugh at how many times I go back and forward and how I try to convert what I'm looking for form English into American. I have seen a bit of car track on a boat before and now know what it's for. Still don't know what watch that is Greg, thought it might be a Sunnto.
...... you sure have the capability of making it look like your are puttering along getting things struck off the todo list while having fun along the way, well maybe not so much dealing with the ball bearings on the traveler repair, but maybe so, figuring out the solution with which you mastered the challenge .... liked your time-lapse music, excellent, Benny Hill sure was a character ..... would imagine Bucharest is a beautiful place in winter not withstanding the temperature .... bet you are glad to be back in warmer climes for a bit, imagine you are back in Bucharest till this chaos .... thx for sharing .... as always .. never stop dreaming, just dream bigger .. have fun be safe, save our oceans ......
@@SailCloudyBay .... my pleasure Glen .. lucky you back back sailing right quick like ..... Thx for the reply .... have yourselves an exceptional week ....
Must say am thoroughly enjoying it cuz you make it entertaining with your patience and comical wit. I would like to know how you are so knowledgeable about your boat? Very impressive. The insurmountable knowledge to maintain a boat scares me out of my wit. I rather be wealthy and pay for it and I guess thats why I don’t have one other than the fact I live 500 miles from an ocean of course. Also the Benny Hill theme is a nice touch I love it …. grew up watching it and its my ring tone on my cell phone cheers to you Glenn and greetings to Oana.
Thanks Jake. Well, I guess I got to know the boat by just delving in and fixing stuff. That said, it is quite a complicated machine. Still learning even after 5 years.
Good to see ya. Woo you got some work to do.. and I cry all the time. The tayana guy from Annapolis. I sanded the boat down to the fairing it needed blasted. Now I see why you had it blasted. It took a month at four hour’s a day to do it. You should chase ray around while playing the Benny hill bit
That was so funny with the ball bearings. Exactly what would have happened to me! I'm glad you share all, warts and all, because most of us are just normal humans and sh1t happens everytime we touch something. Thanks for the videos!
Your suggestions are fine Richard. No offense taken what so ever. We can all learn from each other. I actually get a huge amount of good hints and tips from comments people make. Keep it up!
Hi Glen, Im sure nobody you can hire would work on your boat and systems with the love, detail, cleanness and passion you do. Great job on wrapping those pieces! ..so, no "wrapping' music for you? lol ..Im with you there. I was imagining somebody anchoring close to you at night somewhere with loud "wrapping music" lol. Great and entertaining video! :)
wow what a fantastic awesome channel I have come across!! I am not a sailor, would certainly love too, my first sail was on a Hallberg-Rassey. Beautiful strong boats. But everything you do you explain it to make it idiot proof. Absolutely amazing!! You must of been an engineer without a tv! You have a beautiful home. Thank you
Really enjoy watching some one that knows what there doing and has the patients to see it done correctly. Just one thing however, the type key that drives your prop as shown is commonly referred to as a box or square key, the slot milled into the shaft for the box key is called a "key seat", (that is closed at each end). If the key slot is open at one or both ends of the shaft it is called a "keyway". A woodruff key is half round on the bottom, that is driven into a matched round milled key seat in the shaft. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Glen enjoy your videos very much, however just a comment, on industrial mechanical pump seals(PSS) we maintenance trades were always instructed by the manufacturers not to touch the carbon stator sealing surface to prevent premature failure due to contamination with the oils in the skin.
Sorry, I laughed my ass of with ball bearings, it fun when it happens to someone else. Great video, really enjoyed it, and honestly you make it look easy!
@@SailCloudyBay we just found your channel so I don’t know the answer, but my wife thinks that you are an engineer, she sees similarities between you and me.
@@SailCloudyBay We have a beneteau 51.1. We bought her brand new last year. This is our first yacht and we have NO experience in sailing before we bought her. We are inspired by your videos and hope one day to sail around the world. Not sure we will ever have the skills or the confidence, may just have to follow your excellent videos instead lol. 😀
You're back. Excellent!! I hope you and Oana made it through the pandemic (so far!) in good health and that you're both looking forward to more sailing adventures to come!!
Thanks Mike, yes we are both back to the boat next week. first time for Oana is 15 months. Mast up and sailing again. So far so good with Covid ... fingers crossed.
Even though I've read the blogs & knew what was to come, it's lovely to see another video! Once again, sorry for all the headaches you had to deal with especially that traveler & ball bearings! Looking forward to the next one.
Welcome back Captain Glenn. Especially like these maintenance and refit videos. Whereas many owners contract out this work, you are very diligent, detailed and informative. Thanks. __/))
Amazing video Glen, too much hard work as usual. Reading about it in the blog is one thing, but watching you suffer against those balls was heart-breaking. Thanks for sharing this!!!!
Thanks Jorge, Yeah these damn balls were a bit frustrating but as usual good lessons learned. And it made us giggle when we editied it. Shaving foam next time. Blogs restarting next week :)
With my boat on the hard I walk past my Gori prop and she cries out for cleaning & greasing. Inspired by your detailed video I dismounted it and brought it home for a good overhaul (only 3 seasons). I had to dig into the archives to find it but this video is helpful and gives me the courage to do the job myself. What brand of waterproof grease do you like to use? How did you clean the prop (I soaked in dilute white vinegar). Did you use a chemical cleaner or polisher? What kind of polishing pads? Am I dotty or was there another Gori overhaul video?
Painting tip -- I remember in college summers, we would paint and to preserve a sharp edge, you can use Vasoline to stop paint bleed from getting onto your teak or wood surface. It worked remarkably well.
Invest in an impact *wrench with far more torque than a driver. On that subject, I did not hear mention of "torque settings" during your work on the shafts. You struggled with access and had other difficulties, surely HR has technical support for assistance? An excellent video reflecting your impeccable maintenance commitment and work ethic. Would you buy a used sailboat from this man? - most definitely.
Thanks for the tip on impact wrench. As others have mentioned (other comments on this video) I will now buy one. For torque settings, these are shown on the next video when I rebuild the Aquadrive. No, in general HR doesn't really offer to tech support for maintenance. But the guys who work in HR-Parts are very helpful in providing drawings and documentation.
Glen - vildt imponerende arbejde - :-) og hvilken tålmodighed. Du bør lave instruktionvideoer som kan søges på RUclips. Du har så meget gylden information som andre ville kunne bruge - mikset med rigtig god humor. mvh Kenn
Hej Kenn, vi prøver at sætte så mange nøgleord i titlen, beskrivelsen og tagsne, i håb om at vedligeholdelsestyperne kan søges på You Tube. Men søgealgoritmerne er lidt Voodoo! Hvem ved, hvordan de rent faktisk fungerer, det er jeg ikke engang sikker på, at Google gør! Godt du nød at se disse vedligeholdelsesvideoer.
@@SailCloudyBay Hej Glen, tænkte nok du kunne skrive dansk med den humør :-) - håber I snart kommer på vandet og kan nyde alt jeres arbejde. God vind Kenn
So nice to see another Cloudy video. I'm curious why the track was the wrong size, which item was the wrong size and why ?? As always stay safe and keep having 'fun'...
Hi Peter, it was the small piece of track that I was using inside the traveller (to hold balls in place before I turned it over and slid it onto the main track) was the wrong size. Hence the balls popped out once I turned it over. We did have a giggle editing that bit!
Melody: Raindrops.. Bearing are Balls dropping on the ground... Or in the hand... You are one of the most meticulous shipowners i have followed at RUclips, and I simply love your clips, both the more boat maintenance and the sailing parts( the family loves the sailing parts but no the maintenance, I don´t understand why) - If you varied the music when droning a bit, I would not object.
Thanks for the great comment Olov. Much appreciated. I'm guessing you mean the melody from that brilliant film: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" ... and the song "rain drops keep falling on my head ....." Hmmm thats going to be in my head for a while now! Love that song.
I felt your pain trying to put the 52 ball bearings in place and then attempting to invert the assembly and slide it onto the track. It looked super frustrating. I can't imagine it was installed that way to begin with. Would the track not detach from the deck? If you were able to detach the track from the deck you could have turned the entire affair upside down and slid the sled into place allowing gravity to keep the balls in place, then invert and simply reattach the track to the deck.
Great to see you back Glen. Boy when you do a job you go the extra mile, this boat is always kept in immaculate condition. I got a F/B friends request from you a while back and wasn`t sure if i was being hacked so didn't accept, please will you confirm ! cheers
Glen, Great series of videos. Love the detail of the maintenance focused. The many years of experience is great. The Hallberg Rassy seems like a magnificent boat. Does it come with extensive engineering diagrams and documentation or is it a bit of a mystery to discover what is going on under the teak!! Keep ‘em coming.
Thanks for the comment. All HRs come with excellent documentation’s, schematics and layouts. Nothing is left out and behind the teak everything is labeled.
I forgot to add to my previous post “Everyone who thinks they want to purchase a sailboat should be required to watch one of your Maintenance Videos so they can understand the technical knowledge, patience and skills needed to own and maintain a boat like a Hallberg-Rassy”.
@@SailCloudyBay they are, but worth every penny. In my experience I've not found anything it won't budge, even things so heavily corroded you'd swear they're never parting and you've got to drill or cut the parts.
OK ... think you guys have sold me .... clearly this is a man's impact wrench. I'll give the one I have to Oana, she can use it for mixing cakes or something :)
@@SailCloudyBay And, I am hooked on your channel. Considering my retirement exploits, I was a boyhood sailor, then again in my 20's, but no sailing for 40 years. I love to see the reality of boat ownership represented.
Total running costs - all in (minus food) is about 8-10% of value of boat per year (US$50k) but that includes refits, new sails, insurance etc. maintenance would be about 5%
@@SailCloudyBay Thank you so much, and I imagine, that is with you doing a lot of the details that you filmed, so I will have to choose wisely. Not many of your boat for sale, I have looked! I have mostly sought Hylas, Island packet etc. The HR boats are simply amazing!!! May be out of my price range, time will tell! Many thanks.
Glen thank you for an excellent video. Super job on the R&M challenges. Great to see how you manage and solve the problems that arise, love the ingenuity and skills you show and also how you keep so cool considering the frustrations!! What’s the travel plan going forward?
Yes, that could have been done. But getting that mainsheet track off is a huge job, not to mention getting it back on again and all sealed correctly. Probably just as easy to turn the boat upside-down! That said several people have made a very useful suggestion here: to use shaving foam to stick the balls in place to help reinstalation. Good too, because (unlike using grease) its easy to wash out afterwards once the traveller is back on.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. You know its interesting, so many people have asked me that question, yet the watch is just a cheap one from Decathlon! Its a Geonaute brand, code 1632525. sadly they dont seems to make this style any more. I destroy so many watches that its just not worth me having anything fancy .... I'll leave fancy watches leave that to the city-slickers!
grease is a bit of a no-no becasue these balls are designed to operate without grease. Plus, when the grease comes out, later, it will go all over the deck. Someone else suggested using thick shaving foam, which is a great idea becasue it can be washed out later.
@@SailCloudyBay Thanks. I've been looking at boats and have been leaning back towards teak decks recently after an aversion because rationally they're grippy, and emotionally (and that's what's important) they're sexy. But I'm starting to lean away again. They really are a PITA aren't they.
@@scottysscandinavia5793 Yes, sexy but troublesome. I would replace mine with synthetic teak look-a-like that I dont have to worry about it wearing away.
I am missing your videos! You are a fantastic mechanic and sailor. I know owning a 58 Tayana. You are an inspiration to all of us.
Gosh, Glen, you really had an excellent on-screen demeanor and natural presentation skill. I think you are easily the best "explainer of things" on youtube. Even a second or third viewing holds up just perfect.
Thanks. That’s nice to hear 😄
Ahhh, the pure joy of watching a true engineer going about his craft.
Welcome back Glen, great to see you doing what you do best once more.
Thanks Nic ... never really thought of myself as an engineer - so I certainly take that as a big compliment :)
So happy to see you back Glenn yes dick said it’s pure joy to see a fellow engineer at work
@@SailCloudyBay you are welcome mate
I'm glad someone said "Boating is FUN!"... 🤔 do they own a boat???
Wait! Boating is fun, sometimes 🥴
@@stevenr8606 'Someone else's boat'ing is fun, maybe?
You know we were all rooting for you with those traveler balls! Even saw that one try to roll off by itself at 44:20 :)
Cloudy's back! Yay!
Owo ... you were quick off the mark? You been waiting for us on UT since May? :)
@@SailCloudyBay virtual camping :D welcome back!
I'm getting over pneumonia and really enjoying watching all your videos thanks for entertaining me Glenn
Wishing you get well soon Gareth.
This series of 6 is the benchmark. Learned so much from your videos. Sadly there are no more. All the best
Ian
Glenn I have really missed your educational videos on maintenance for boats. You are one of the channels I watch and by far the best for explanation and know how. Cheers from Australia.
Wow, thanks Cameron. Where abouts are you in Australia?
@@SailCloudyBay Hi Glenn I'm in Brisbane - Queensland.
Cool. My daughter was on the Gold coast till last year, but now moved over to Perth to be near my other daughter. Plus I used to work in Queensland many moons ago - but not the part often frequented - Quilpie and Roma! Maybe catch up with you one day when we finally get across the Pacific.
@@SailCloudyBay What a small world we live in. My cousin had a sheep station west of Quilpie - called Gammon Downs (It was neighbors with Ray Station. I spent some time there during my holiday in the last year of high school. Learnt so much from my cousin. Tough life on the land out there. Would love to catch up when you cross the Pacific.
We have a piece of aluminium in a tool drawer and I even asked the previous owner what it was for and he didn't know. For the balls in the main track car+self tacker I fancy! I would have held them in with a smear of silicone grease - possibly - what a nightmare. For the rest of us it's nice to see you're human Glen! Brilliant work... and god like patience!
Bob, You know what .... I also have pieces of track in my boat when I bought it. Kept them for a few years. Then one day I had a clear out and thought ... why would I ever need those, and threw them out. Hmmm now I know what they were for!
@@SailCloudyBay Classic, that's why we're born hoarders! Now where did I put it?
Welcome back. You have been missed.
Thanks Larry. Kind of you to say so
Nice to watch a pro. Glenn. I enjoy your posts as well as your sailing videos.
Thanks Art. I appreciate the comment.
Great Video! It’s fun to watch someone else do the work!
Thanks Beth! :)
Yay!Glens back!Finally some real matainance videos from a pro!The Benny Hill chase music was a golden touch to this video!Well done!
Glad the Benny Hill went down well .... but you might get sick of it by the end of the next 6 videos where I have alot of sped up shots!
I could not get sick of that music!was a great choice
Allways fun watching you work. Having done many of these projects myself on our Tayana 52 i can appreciate your frustration with the traveler and many other projects. Really a joy to see someone maintaining their boat to the level you do. So many of the channels here do little maintenance or do it the wrong way. You obviously understand how serious it can get offshore with no help available. Pays to do things right and before they break. Great job.
Thanks Greg, yes its a worry enough with just the 2 of us on the Oceans (well, me sailing CB alone frankly) without any unexpected surprises. WHat amazes me is that people tend to forget everything in on a boat has a useful life. And when the sell-by dates have long passed and they just cross fingers, its no wonder so many have non-stop and serious dramas when cruising.
I like to sleep well at night!
The unvarnished truth of sailboat ownership. Thx Glen
Yes, boats are a bit like relationsships. What you get out relates directly to the effort and attention you put in!
Glad to see you back on RUclips! I miss your videos.
More to come Dick. We are back to the boat tomorrow after a loooong break.
TRY NUMBER 3 WAS THE BENNY HILL MOMENT. HAHA Glen good to see you hard at work!! Cheers mate
Yeah Andy, I needed my humour about me that day!
Miss the vids Glenn and the Benny Hill track brought back great memories. Love the British humor.
Thanks Roger. Been thinking how we can enhance the Benny Hill scenes even more. Asked Oana, but she refuses to strut around half naked in the back ground.
Good to see you back!
Good to be putting videos up again .... sorry it took so long.
Well done skipper. Welcome back.
Thanks .... good to be back to editing. Takes a while to get back into it, but once I get momentum nothing can stop me!
OMG the balls on the track - I am smiling and enjoying that scene more than any other sailing scene in MONTHS!!! God I love your videos and explanation and trails and tribulations
Yep, the balls-up scene was funny when we edited it. Not so funny at the time .... I was tearing my hair out!
Bentornati. Vedrò i vostri video con piacere.
Mr. Glen, il mondo del lavoro con il suo pensionamento ha perso un grande Tecnico. :-)
È nostro piacere che tu li guardi :-)
Good to see you back
Thanks Steve. Should be pretty continuous from now on. We are back at the boat next week.
As fun as it was to watch, I hope to never have to mess with a traveller like that. Good to see you back at it.
If only I could have taken the track off easily. Much better to have slide the track into the up-turned traveller. Next time I plan to capsize the boat to do it!
Good show. Really enjoy your attention to detail on projects. One of the best channels for such things. Cheers from Pennsylvania.
Thanks .... I appreciate your positive comment. More to come. We're quite interested to see the response to the next few videos, because they are a slightly different style. Much more detail, but with the potential to be boring to some audiences .... lets see.
welcome back, this is why sailors swear, just replaced my main traveller and had to cut and drill both end caps off because of corrosion back on with tefgel, heading to Bermuda in a few weeks
Nice graphics and explanations 👍👍
Thank you 🙂
Welcome back Glen, you lunatic perfectionist! I love the details of your videos and the perfection of your DIY jobs. Your HR 54 is better than new!
We hope to see you and the Admiral back on Cloudy very soon.
Thanks for the compliment Antonio. Thats a new one! And interesting because that is exactly what Oana calls me when I'm in my "maintenance zone" .... lunatic that is, not perfectionist. Next to Oana, I'm far from a perfectionist. She firmly trumps me there. And talking of the senior officer, she will be back on the boat with me when we travel back to USA this week. So there is a chance she will appear on cinima screens near you in the not to distant future. :)
Victory over the mainsheet traveler was satisfying! Mine is missing a ball.
Hooray! The best sailing channel is back! Great to see you back, Glenn.
Thanks Carter. Few more of these to come before we launch.
Super to see you and Cloudy back 👍🏻
More to come!
Damn, it is fun watching someone else swear while doing a boat project. Well done. Perseverance and humor. Thanks!
Daniel .... that made me laugh. I usually manage to cut our my frustrations, but thought I'd show my true colours this time (as in colourful language!).
Lovely to have you back getting stuck into lots of scary systems on the boats. I like the warts and all editing as nothing seems to go easy on the boat and the guys at my local ACE Hardware laugh at how many times I go back and forward and how I try to convert what I'm looking for form English into American. I have seen a bit of car track on a boat before and now know what it's for. Still don't know what watch that is Greg, thought it might be a Sunnto.
Glad you enjoyed it Ivan. My watch is just a cheap one from Decathlon. The brand is Geonaute
Ohhhh I feel your pain with the traveller, I have the same job lined up, good to see how you fixed the track.
May I suggest you read the comments .... some interesting ones there that suggest using shaving foam to put a traveler back on a track.
@@SailCloudyBay Thanks, will do, shaving foam....hmmm that will be interesting
Great video like your work on the boat.
Thanks Bernardo. Glad you enjoyed it.
...... you sure have the capability of making it look like your are puttering along getting things struck off the todo list while having fun along the way, well maybe not so much dealing with the ball bearings on the traveler repair, but maybe so, figuring out the solution with which you mastered the challenge .... liked your time-lapse music, excellent, Benny Hill sure was a character ..... would imagine Bucharest is a beautiful place in winter not withstanding the temperature .... bet you are glad to be back in warmer climes for a bit, imagine you are back in Bucharest till this chaos .... thx for sharing .... as always .. never stop dreaming, just dream bigger .. have fun be safe, save our oceans ......
Thanks for the great comment Peter. Much appreciated. We are back to the boat in 2 days. Mast up and off we go!
@@SailCloudyBay .... my pleasure Glen .. lucky you back back sailing right quick like ..... Thx for the reply .... have yourselves an exceptional week ....
I love Cloudy Bay but not as much as you do! I need a nap after watching all your detailed work.😁
No time for Napping Allan! more videos next week!
Must say am thoroughly enjoying it cuz you make it entertaining with your patience and comical wit. I would like to know how you are so knowledgeable about your boat? Very impressive.
The insurmountable knowledge to maintain a boat scares me out of my wit.
I rather be wealthy and pay for it and I guess thats why I don’t have one other than the fact I live 500 miles from an ocean of course.
Also the Benny Hill theme is a nice touch
I love it …. grew up watching it and its my ring tone on my cell phone
cheers to you Glenn and greetings to
Oana.
Thanks Jake. Well, I guess I got to know the boat by just delving in and fixing stuff. That said, it is quite a complicated machine. Still learning even after 5 years.
Great to see you back again Glen !
Thanks Louis .... these vids are a bit over due, but we have too much of a good time over the summer rather than editing!
Finally !!! 46 minutes of real pleasure. Always very accurate many compliments to Glenn for the precise work and all the information.
Grazie!
Glad you saw it through to the end Daniele. Thanks for the compliments
Good to see ya. Woo you got some work to do.. and I cry all the time. The tayana guy from Annapolis. I sanded the boat down to the fairing it needed blasted. Now I see why you had it blasted. It took a month at four hour’s a day to do it. You should chase ray around while playing the Benny hill bit
I dont think Ray and I in bikini's would be nice viewing!! or maybe it would go viral, who knows!
That was so funny with the ball bearings. Exactly what would have happened to me! I'm glad you share all, warts and all, because most of us are just normal humans and sh1t happens everytime we touch something. Thanks for the videos!
You are sooo right, John. S/Hs alot on boats it seems!
Ohhh,i loved the part with the rolling bear balls......
Guido, yes, that was entertaining!
Welcome back Cloudy Bay...Cheers
Thank you kindly Andre
Your patience is just amazing!
Thank you! 😊
Great to see you back and well.
Hey, thanks!
Very Good, Well done...
Thanks and welcome
Glad to see you back! I wish I had half your skill. I learn a lot from watching your videos.
Glad to hear that!
I'm always amazed at how well you maintain your boat.
Thanks Chris .... taking this "Covid time off" to get everything totally ship shape before we head to to remoter parts of the world.
Glad to see you are back! Looking forward to more...
More to come!
Really glad you are back Glen! Good luck on your maintanance on beautiful Cloudy Bay!
Thank you kindly, Rob.
Nice to have you back Glen, and I knew it wouldn’t beat you. 😂😂 looking forward to part 2.
Thanks Richard ... yep, several more episodes on this maintenance session still to come. Every Friday. Enjoy.
I meant no disrespect with my suggestions. I do enjoy your channel and content.
Your suggestions are fine Richard. No offense taken what so ever. We can all learn from each other. I actually get a huge amount of good hints and tips from comments people make. Keep it up!
We hope to see you pack on the blue sometime very soon!!
We are flying back to the boat tomorrow David.
Even better after watching it a third time. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours Glen and Oana!
Spectacular demonstration of boat maintenance. Happy to see that you are well and still going strong!
Yes, thank you Diane. All good with us. Looking forward to getting back to the boat next week, launching and sailing off again.
Hi Glen, Im sure nobody you can hire would work on your boat and systems with the love, detail, cleanness and passion you do. Great job on wrapping those pieces! ..so, no "wrapping' music for you? lol ..Im with you there. I was imagining somebody anchoring close to you at night somewhere with loud "wrapping music" lol. Great and entertaining video! :)
Thanks Mach ..... correct neighbours with wrap music will get wrapped!
Great too see you back at it !! Hope to see Cloudy back in her element ⛵️soon
Tom, thanks. Back to the boat next week, mast up, launch and .... go sail again
Fabulous maintenance video. So fun to watch this. Great job!
Glad you enjoyed it, Todd.
Welcome back!
wow what a fantastic awesome channel I have come across!! I am not a sailor, would certainly love too, my first sail was on a Hallberg-Rassey. Beautiful strong boats. But everything you do you explain it to make it idiot proof. Absolutely amazing!! You must of been an engineer without a tv!
You have a beautiful home. Thank you
Thanks for the wonderful comment Scott. I tend to learn by doing -- so its nice to be able to pass some of it on.
Really enjoy watching some one that knows what there doing and has the patients to see it done correctly. Just one thing however, the type key that drives your prop as shown is commonly referred to as a box or square key, the slot milled into the shaft for the box key is called a "key seat", (that is closed at each end). If the key slot is open at one or both ends of the shaft it is called a "keyway". A woodruff key is half round on the bottom, that is driven into a matched round milled key seat in the shaft. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Larry, always wanted to know the difference. You sparked my interest and I went looked on the web at all the different type.
So excited to see you back at it. Hooray . Let’s do some sailing
Should be sailing again bu late October. Back to boat next week, mast up and off!
Hi Glen enjoy your videos very much, however just a comment, on industrial mechanical pump seals(PSS) we maintenance trades were always instructed by the manufacturers not to touch the carbon stator sealing surface to prevent premature failure due to contamination with the oils in the skin.
Can't tell you how great it was to see you pop up again! All the best :)
Thanks! You too!
Sorry, I laughed my ass of with ball bearings, it fun when it happens to someone else. Great video, really enjoyed it, and honestly you make it look easy!
Joseph, Trust me … dropping those balls time and time again WAS easy 🤣
@@SailCloudyBay 😂
@@SailCloudyBay we just found your channel so I don’t know the answer, but my wife thinks that you are an engineer, she sees similarities between you and me.
You had me in stitches with the ball bearings scene. Many thanks you made my day :)
.... at the time it was REALLY frustrating! But we did have a giggle when we edited the video!
Another great video. Please come to Southampton and service my boat! Epic attention to detail and perseverance 😀
Maybe one day! What boat do you have Darren?
@@SailCloudyBay We have a beneteau 51.1. We bought her brand new last year. This is our first yacht and we have NO experience in sailing before we bought her. We are inspired by your videos and hope one day to sail around the world. Not sure we will ever have the skills or the confidence, may just have to follow your excellent videos instead lol. 😀
Hooray! Must been a short cruising seasons
Not sure what you mean by the short cruising seasons. We are back to the boat next week to launch and sail again.
@@SailCloudyBay i was under the impression that you issue your video after you finish sailing.
You're back. Excellent!! I hope you and Oana made it through the pandemic (so far!) in good health and that you're both looking forward to more sailing adventures to come!!
Thanks Mike, yes we are both back to the boat next week. first time for Oana is 15 months. Mast up and sailing again. So far so good with Covid ... fingers crossed.
Great to see you back I would like to have served an apprenticeship under you I would have learned quite a lot to say the least great video
Thanks Brad. Its not too late!
Even though I've read the blogs & knew what was to come, it's lovely to see another video! Once again, sorry for all the headaches you had to deal with especially that traveler & ball bearings! Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks for another nice comment. No problem on the balls .... all in a days work on the boat!
Welcome back Captain Glenn. Especially like these maintenance and refit videos. Whereas many owners contract out this work, you are very diligent, detailed and informative. Thanks. __/))
Thanks for the welcome back. Glad you like these video - pass on the word!
Amazing video Glen, too much hard work as usual. Reading about it in the blog is one thing, but watching you suffer against those balls was heart-breaking. Thanks for sharing this!!!!
Thanks Jorge,
Yeah these damn balls were a bit frustrating but as usual good lessons learned. And it made us giggle when we editied it. Shaving foam next time.
Blogs restarting next week :)
Just love it!
Glad you enjoyed it Jerry. Thanks for the comment
Only the perfect is acceptable!!! Great!!!!
Only the best for the good ship Cloudy Bay :)
Welcome back
thanks Ben
New sub! Cheers from Florida!
Welcome Richard. Enjoy the viewing
Yes!……. LET’S GO SAILING!
Yes .... almost there. Mast up and off in the next couple of weeks
With my boat on the hard I walk past my Gori prop and she cries out for cleaning & greasing. Inspired by your detailed video I dismounted it and brought it home for a good overhaul (only 3 seasons). I had to dig into the archives to find it but this video is helpful and gives me the courage to do the job myself. What brand of waterproof grease do you like to use? How did you clean the prop (I soaked in dilute white vinegar). Did you use a chemical cleaner or polisher? What kind of polishing pads? Am I dotty or was there another Gori overhaul video?
welcome back...
Thanks Miguel. Should be one video a week for the next few weeks ....
Painting tip -- I remember in college summers, we would paint and to preserve a sharp edge, you can use Vasoline to stop paint bleed from getting onto your teak or wood surface. It worked remarkably well.
Invest in an impact *wrench with far more torque than a driver. On that subject, I did not hear mention of "torque settings" during your work on the shafts. You struggled with access and had other difficulties, surely HR has technical support for assistance? An excellent video reflecting your impeccable maintenance commitment and work ethic.
Would you buy a used sailboat from this man? - most definitely.
Thanks for the tip on impact wrench. As others have mentioned (other comments on this video) I will now buy one. For torque settings, these are shown on the next video when I rebuild the Aquadrive.
No, in general HR doesn't really offer to tech support for maintenance. But the guys who work in HR-Parts are very helpful in providing drawings and documentation.
Glen - vildt imponerende arbejde - :-) og hvilken tålmodighed. Du bør lave instruktionvideoer som kan søges på RUclips. Du har så meget gylden information som andre ville kunne bruge - mikset med rigtig god humor. mvh Kenn
Hej Kenn, vi prøver at sætte så mange nøgleord i titlen, beskrivelsen og tagsne, i håb om at vedligeholdelsestyperne kan søges på You Tube. Men søgealgoritmerne er lidt Voodoo! Hvem ved, hvordan de rent faktisk fungerer, det er jeg ikke engang sikker på, at Google gør!
Godt du nød at se disse vedligeholdelsesvideoer.
@@SailCloudyBay Hej Glen, tænkte nok du kunne skrive dansk med den humør :-) - håber I snart kommer på vandet og kan nyde alt jeres arbejde. God vind Kenn
I have watched these maintenance videos several times. Glen you are the best... so enjoyable ... But where are you both...hope ur well anyway.
So nice to see another Cloudy video. I'm curious why the track was the wrong size, which item was the wrong size and why ??
As always stay safe and keep having 'fun'...
Hi Peter, it was the small piece of track that I was using inside the traveller (to hold balls in place before I turned it over and slid it onto the main track) was the wrong size. Hence the balls popped out once I turned it over. We did have a giggle editing that bit!
Melody: Raindrops.. Bearing are Balls dropping on the ground... Or in the hand... You are one of the most meticulous shipowners i have followed at RUclips, and I simply love your clips, both the more boat maintenance and the sailing parts( the family loves the sailing parts but no the maintenance, I don´t understand why) - If you varied the music when droning a bit, I would not object.
Thanks for the great comment Olov. Much appreciated. I'm guessing you mean the melody from that brilliant film: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" ... and the song "rain drops keep falling on my head ....."
Hmmm thats going to be in my head for a while now! Love that song.
I felt your pain trying to put the 52 ball bearings in place and then attempting to invert the assembly and slide it onto the track. It looked super frustrating. I can't imagine it was installed that way to begin with. Would the track not detach from the deck? If you were able to detach the track from the deck you could have turned the entire affair upside down and slid the sled into place allowing gravity to keep the balls in place, then invert and simply reattach the track to the deck.
that track is not easy to remove, Richard. It would be easier to turn the boat upside down!
@@SailCloudyBay understood. LOL
Great to see you back Glen. Boy when you do a job you go the extra mile, this boat is always kept in immaculate condition. I got a F/B friends request from you a while back and wasn`t sure if i was being hacked so didn't accept, please will you confirm ! cheers
Thanks Richard. I don think I sent a FB request - nothing personal, I just generally don't unless close friends and family.
@@SailCloudyBay Thats fine Glen me too, may have been a hacker then !
Glen, Great series of videos. Love the detail of the maintenance focused. The many years of experience is great. The Hallberg Rassy seems like a magnificent boat. Does it come with extensive engineering diagrams and documentation or is it a bit of a mystery to discover what is going on under the teak!! Keep ‘em coming.
Thanks for the comment. All HRs come with excellent documentation’s, schematics and layouts. Nothing is left out and behind the teak everything is labeled.
I forgot to add to my previous post “Everyone who thinks they want to purchase a sailboat should be required to watch one of your Maintenance Videos so they can understand the technical knowledge, patience and skills needed to own and maintain a boat like a Hallberg-Rassy”.
Very true Allan .... or, have enough money to hire the best maintenance guys , who frankly are few and far between in my experience.
You'd really benefit from a 1/2 or 3/4 inch Makita impact wrench. The impact drivers just don't have the torque.
Yes, you are spot on there. Next purchase I think. Soon I'll sink the boat with the weight of tools!
Ouch ! ... those impact wrenches are expensive
@@SailCloudyBay they are, but worth every penny. In my experience I've not found anything it won't budge, even things so heavily corroded you'd swear they're never parting and you've got to drill or cut the parts.
DTW1002Z expensive, but so worth it...
OK ... think you guys have sold me .... clearly this is a man's impact wrench. I'll give the one I have to Oana, she can use it for mixing cakes or something :)
green on the port, red on the starboard?
Sorry Ron, but the prize for spotting that mistake was taken by Don already! You need to be quicker next time :)
@@SailCloudyBay Obsessed with minutia I am, quick I am not :)
Awesome..
Thanks 🤗
What would you project as your annual maintenance cost(s). What would the costs be as a % of the boast cats? 3-5%. Thank you GREAT work by you.
Boast cats?
@@SailCloudyBay Sloppy typing!! Meant to say % of the boats cost , so what are the annual costs as a % of the original boats cost? THANK YOU!
@@SailCloudyBay And, I am hooked on your channel. Considering my retirement exploits, I was a boyhood sailor, then again in my 20's, but no sailing for 40 years. I love to see the reality of boat ownership represented.
Total running costs - all in (minus food) is about 8-10% of value of boat per year (US$50k) but that includes refits, new sails, insurance etc. maintenance would be about 5%
@@SailCloudyBay Thank you so much, and I imagine, that is with you doing a lot of the details that you filmed, so I will have to choose wisely. Not many of your boat for sale, I have looked! I have mostly sought Hylas, Island packet etc. The HR boats are simply amazing!!! May be out of my price range, time will tell! Many thanks.
Glen thank you for an excellent video. Super job on the R&M challenges. Great to see how you manage and solve the problems that arise, love the ingenuity and skills you show and also how you keep so cool considering the frustrations!! What’s the travel plan going forward?
Thanks Simon, glad you enjoyed it. We are heading back to the boat next week, rigging on, mast up and off we sail, again.
@@SailCloudyBay routing decided??
dud you finally come back~!
Should be sailing again bu late October. Back to boat next week, mast up and off!
Couldn't you first remove the track and install the slider upside down? Just an idea for thought.
Yes, that could have been done. But getting that mainsheet track off is a huge job, not to mention getting it back on again and all sealed correctly. Probably just as easy to turn the boat upside-down! That said several people have made a very useful suggestion here: to use shaving foam to stick the balls in place to help reinstalation. Good too, because (unlike using grease) its easy to wash out afterwards once the traveller is back on.
@@SailCloudyBay Shaving cream, that's an ingenious solution. How about dry lube after installation.
Good vid Glen, glad you're back, what brand of watch are you wearing?
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. You know its interesting, so many people have asked me that question, yet the watch is just a cheap one from Decathlon! Its a Geonaute brand, code 1632525. sadly they dont seems to make this style any more.
I destroy so many watches that its just not worth me having anything fancy .... I'll leave fancy watches leave that to the city-slickers!
Can't you put a little dab of grease on each of the ball bearings to stick them in place while fitting? Or is grease a no no on a traveller?
grease is a bit of a no-no becasue these balls are designed to operate without grease. Plus, when the grease comes out, later, it will go all over the deck. Someone else suggested using thick shaving foam, which is a great idea becasue it can be washed out later.
@@SailCloudyBay Thanks. I've been looking at boats and have been leaning back towards teak decks recently after an aversion because rationally they're grippy, and emotionally (and that's what's important) they're sexy. But I'm starting to lean away again. They really are a PITA aren't they.
@@scottysscandinavia5793 Yes, sexy but troublesome. I would replace mine with synthetic teak look-a-like that I dont have to worry about it wearing away.
@@SailCloudyBay "sexy but troublesome" The story of my life :-) Have a great day (hard not to on an HR54)