I think it’s terrific that Matt & Jessica are willing to dedicate several years of their lives to learning high-level skills that will benefit them for all of the many more years that they will live on the water. It’s been traditional for hundreds (thousands) of years for people to build their own homes, and Matt & Jessica are doing exactly that. I don’t think any of us need to be handwringing on their behalf, moaning that life is short and they are missing sailing opportunities because they are building. If they are fortunate to live to 90+ years each, 3 years of their lives spent building a permanent home is a short blip on the radar screen. Thanks so much for sharing this amazing journey with all of us, MJSailing--we truly appreciate it. ❤
Ryan & Sophia are good folks to know and have around. I've watched them for a couple of years now. So together, you have two brainiack guys and two beautiful women. Holy cow, that boat is looking huge..
Nice that you got a little help on the boat and taught her new skills. Building a boat, like anything, takes a certain number of hours. Dozens, hundreds, or thousands. One person working a few thousand hours takes years, two people will cut the time by half, three people, etc. It's all about how long you plan to build instead of sail. Too often a builder thinks that if the designer estimates the project will take 10,000 hours to complete that they will be able to do it in less. Then they overestimate how many hours they will be able to spend actually working on the project. Then when they see how long they have been working on it and now realize how much more needs to be done and finally they understand they are looking at years of work still to go. I've built a few boats by myself and when I was young it was worth it, now that I am looking at 70 I miss those lost sailing years that I spent building my "ideal" cruising boat. But what I considered "ideal" always changed. Fast very light multihull, small monohull, heavy displacement monohull, large but light multihull, medium monohull.... Each boat was excellent at some things and not so good at others. Now I realize the boat wasn't the important part of cruising, it was being out there, not building the ideal boat. As long as the boat is strong and seaworthy any boat is wonderful. I hope you can get a lot of help and not spend too many years building. Time is all we have really, spend it wisely.
It's great that you had Sophie come help as she and Ryan are looking for a new cruising boat. They may want to consider the Max Cruise as their blue water platform - at some point in the future, anyway. They've been looking at a lot of monohulls and many of them will suit them well, but you just can't beat the comfort and performance of a cat. It would be possible to build the cat in a location where labor costs are far lower than the US and perhaps Ryan could run the crew and Sophie can feed them (and film too) but the project timeline would be vastly shorter. At this point, everyone is well aware of all the time and hard work required to complete this project, but the results will be well worth the effort. A lifetime of great sailing adventures!
Just a thought. Consider hiring Sheetrock finishers to apply your gelcoat. Your focus would be the initial taping and joint preparations and prep. Then, when these folks come you can stay on gelcoat mixing. They will come and do all your vertical joints, next day your horizontal joints. You then touch up between trips and they will come back for “ heavy coat and overall coverage. You then sand again and their final work will be skim coat. They will take approx a day per trip. They can do a 3-4000 sqft home in a week. Your boat though smaller is far more detailed. It will take about the same amount of time.
Good Video. As a youngster I did quite a lot of Fiberglassing and I can tell everybody, even as someone with fiberglass experience, it's still a lot of hard work to see a project through from start to finish. The advantage factories have is usually you get to do just a few jobs on each project, so you tend to get really good at them jobs. That makes it easier. The downside to that being you dont get to FINISH the project. Hat off to you guys for taking on such a big challenge, basically by yourselves. Also hats off to your friends who come and help not always knowing that they are getting themselves into. 😃
Of all the live a boards in the community world wide I think Sophie is loveable crazy. And I was not surprised. Can't wait to see you all back on the water.
Thanks for the fun day at the boat guys!!! I had a blast learning some new skills and a whole new level of appreciation for the undertaking! You guys are doing awesome! :D
Tucker is "God Man" cool, way to go dude, keepin em on build, nice! Good effort from Sophie, Jess and Matt are tough to keep up with, nothing quite as good as a beer at the end of a long hard day!
I think this is the first time I EVER heard a solar company come right up front and say they've got full bypass diodes, rather than just one per string or panel. Kudos!
I am still impressed that you guys even took on this project but every week more is accomplished temporary help might not work just don't give up from when you started so much has already been done the finish line is getting closer.
That was a fun change of pace. Sophie is a good sport. A word of caution, respirators should seal to the skin, not a hood. Put on the respirator and then seal the hood around it.
Well yea! Heck yea. Not taking too long. Just sort of "less." I get "overwhelmed." I could never "hold" this project. Nope. No idea. More people sanding. Sanding sanding sanding. Good luck. Thanks for this.
Sophie mentioned finding it difficult to trust someone to help. There are just a few cruisers that could be trusted to help build your boat. They would be Colin, Mads, Teal, Johan, Garrett, Billy, and Dan. There may be more, but I've found these seven to have excellent skill sets and to be obsessed with doing it right the first time. Parlay Revival, Sail Life, Onboard Lifestyle, Ran Sailing, Salt & Tar, Tulsa Endless Summer, and Uma - respectively. Yeah. show them the plans, the materials, the tools, and watch them build. And there are more trustworthy cruisers when you start installing your systems.
Really come on there millions of skilled trade people around the world that can do better and faster than any of the people you mentioned. Her first time applying resin... lol there's a winner
@@Mechone11 I did not know there are millions of cruisers who have built from scratch their own boats like Johan and Garrett, or made extensive and major modifications and/or repairs to his boats like Colin, Mads, Teal, Billy, and Dan (maybe Kika should be included here). Further, I did not know that millions of other cruisers have met or know of Jessica & Matt, and would likely lend a free hand if in the neighborhood. And Jessica & Matt would lend a hand if in the neighborhood to those cruisers that I have named. I apologize - I did not know there are millions of cruisers who can be trusted by Jessica & Matt to help build their boat like Sophie suited up and went at it. Sophie is such a nice person, except when she handed out a piece of candy to Matt at the September Annapolis boat show (Duca had the same reaction as Matt - and it wasn't't nice).Wow, can you advise Jessica and Matt who these millions are so that Jessica and Matt can get skilled help for free? Thanks for your time. ps: I wish I could help them, but I am thousands of miles away, and although I am 76, I think I could perform a construction task after being shown how to do so as long as I did not have to use my left arm, and did not have to get into spaces in spite of my artificial hip.
Maybe using standard pallets on the floor to lift you up so not to reach as much when working over head. I was doing battery work with 50kg batteries to 2.5 m hight and had pellets stacked so always working in correct height was a life safer.
A minor note. When you try bringing someone onboard, ease them into it physically. It might seem easy to you now, but it is extremely physically challenging to tape and sand... especially overhead. :) I give Sofie credit for hanging on as long as she did doing that overhead taping. Nothing in life prepares you for that type of extended movement!
Cool Video Guys! Great including Sophie. I actually felt sorry for her. 😉Hope the boat show is awesome! Off topic question. If you know, how much are slip fees at your marina, per foot?
Is there any way to thin that fairing compound? The thicker it is, the harder you have to press the knife against the surface. The harder you press the knife, the more likely it is to bend into the areas you're trying to fill. Also, tangential lighting when you're looking for the low spots. Turn off all the lights but the one you're holding up against the surface. You'll see every defect.
I'm serious here kids...If you hired a few frogman drywallers, they'd be done with fairing that whole boat in a weekend or so... ...and it'd be.....SS...MM...OOOOOoootthhh!!!!!
i think i might work out of a wallboard mud pan rather than a flat plaster hawk. that 10-12 inch knife if kind of big 6 inch would be a little easier to wield
Is there a discussion worth having with your boat supplier to see if one of his crew could come over and help? Then you get someone who is building these boats and knows and has the skills needed. Maybe the trade-off could be more time in your content about the manufacturer and his boats plus an overseas worker getting experience in your country. It is just a huge job to do by yourselves, my hat is off to you big time.👍
It would be impossible for Vietnamese to get a visa to come here. Plus, the idea is to build the boat ourselves not have others do it while we watch. There would be no satisfaction in that.
@@MJSailing I was a deckhand on a fishing boat in North Queensland in the 70s and I remember a couple on a cat at the anchorage who had sailed all over the map in a cat they built from scratch. When I met them they had just finished another cat for a friend and were getting ready to start another for a couple that had seen their work. Although they loved sailing they also found they loved building just as much. My suggestion was to push the project along but yeah you don't look like a sit back and watch couple. So much satisfaction to do it yourselves.
Don't think Matt's trading partner's before the boat's done Jess, you're already fully trained on boat manufacturing ! Plus Sophie's got at least a few years training ahead of her... You've done 3 boats already ?... PS.. Shouldn't Sophie be training Matt to do your hair ?...
When you request help you need professional help to quickly get in front of the build otherwise your looking at a long road in front of you and burnout. Lets face it your learning on the job in an unfavorable environment for glassing and living comfortably.
Sophie is GREAT! I loved her swearing - very European, bless her. She's a great dancer, too, and portrays a sperm very well. I'm going to claim some minor influence - maybe - by saying I thought Matt looked like a sperm played by Woody Allen in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex the first time I saw you (initially just Matt) in those white protective suits... but I can't find the reference! Grrr. 2 yrs ago? Maybe it was on Instagram? Who knows, who cares, it doesn't matter.
You should have swapped Sophie in place of Jessica without saying a thing. It would be like the old Roseanne show where they traded out Becky for another girl who's only similarity was hair color, and then acted like nothing happened.
I think it’s terrific that Matt & Jessica are willing to dedicate several years of their lives to learning high-level skills that will benefit them for all of the many more years that they will live on the water. It’s been traditional for hundreds (thousands) of years for people to build their own homes, and Matt & Jessica are doing exactly that. I don’t think any of us need to be handwringing on their behalf, moaning that life is short and they are missing sailing opportunities because they are building. If they are fortunate to live to 90+ years each, 3 years of their lives spent building a permanent home is a short blip on the radar screen.
Thanks so much for sharing this amazing journey with all of us, MJSailing--we truly appreciate it. ❤
Ryan & Sophia are good folks to know and have around.
I've watched them for a couple of years now.
So together, you have two brainiack guys and two beautiful women.
Holy cow, that boat is looking huge..
Nice that you got a little help on the boat and taught her new skills.
Building a boat, like anything, takes a certain number of hours. Dozens, hundreds, or thousands. One person working a few thousand hours takes years, two people will cut the time by half, three people, etc. It's all about how long you plan to build instead of sail. Too often a builder thinks that if the designer estimates the project will take 10,000 hours to complete that they will be able to do it in less. Then they overestimate how many hours they will be able to spend actually working on the project. Then when they see how long they have been working on it and now realize how much more needs to be done and finally they understand they are looking at years of work still to go.
I've built a few boats by myself and when I was young it was worth it, now that I am looking at 70 I miss those lost sailing years that I spent building my "ideal" cruising boat. But what I considered "ideal" always changed. Fast very light multihull, small monohull, heavy displacement monohull, large but light multihull, medium monohull.... Each boat was excellent at some things and not so good at others.
Now I realize the boat wasn't the important part of cruising, it was being out there, not building the ideal boat. As long as the boat is strong and seaworthy any boat is wonderful. I hope you can get a lot of help and not spend too many years building. Time is all we have really, spend it wisely.
You and Sofie have great chemistry, this was an awesome collaboration!!!
It's great that you had Sophie come help as she and Ryan are looking for a new cruising boat. They may want to consider the Max Cruise as their blue water platform - at some point in the future, anyway. They've been looking at a lot of monohulls and many of them will suit them well, but you just can't beat the comfort and performance of a cat. It would be possible to build the cat in a location where labor costs are far lower than the US and perhaps Ryan could run the crew and Sophie can feed them (and film too) but the project timeline would be vastly shorter.
At this point, everyone is well aware of all the time and hard work required to complete this project, but the results will be well worth the effort. A lifetime of great sailing adventures!
Sophie for a day, and she brought pastries and beer. Fun day !!
We love Sofie! Really great to see her learning the trade.
Just a thought. Consider hiring Sheetrock finishers to apply your gelcoat. Your focus would be the initial taping and joint preparations and prep. Then, when these folks come you can stay on gelcoat mixing. They will come and do all your vertical joints, next day your horizontal joints. You then touch up between trips and they will come back for “ heavy coat and overall coverage. You then sand again and their final work will be skim coat. They will take approx a day per trip. They can do a 3-4000 sqft home in a week. Your boat though smaller is far more detailed. It will take about the same amount of time.
I had the same thoughts a few weeks ago. They won't do a perfect job, but can knock out the bulk of it and then go back and do the touch ups.
It was so good to see Sophie there with you, love to see inter-channel interplay.
Good Video. As a youngster I did quite a lot of Fiberglassing and I can tell everybody, even as someone with fiberglass experience, it's still a lot of hard work to see a project through from start to finish. The advantage factories have is usually you get to do just a few jobs on each project, so you tend to get really good at them jobs. That makes it easier. The downside to that being you dont get to FINISH the project. Hat off to you guys for taking on such a big challenge, basically by yourselves. Also hats off to your friends who come and help not always knowing that they are getting themselves into. 😃
good to see that you have a good helper now.
You're in good company with Ryan & Sophie, and together with you two, the resulting video would be great fun to watch! Stay Safe & Fair Winds!!
Of all the live a boards in the community world wide I think Sophie is loveable crazy. And I was not surprised. Can't wait to see you all back on the water.
Thanks for the fun day at the boat guys!!! I had a blast learning some new skills and a whole new level of appreciation for the undertaking! You guys are doing awesome! :D
So nice that Sofie came to help! Such a fun working episode!
Sophie can mix resin, clean, and bring stuff there is room for her in the right place to help big time
Tucker is "God Man" cool, way to go dude, keepin em on build, nice! Good effort from Sophie, Jess and Matt are tough to keep up with, nothing quite as good as a beer at the end of a long hard day!
I think this gives Sophie rights to be your first guest aboard after the launch. Maybe she'll invite Ryan if she can bring a +1. (G)
Tucker should be first, if he doesn’t become cabin boy.
I think this is the first time I EVER heard a solar company come right up front and say they've got full bypass diodes, rather than just one per string or panel. Kudos!
love the extra eye candy helping out! :P
wow! so great to see you toghether!
Coming over from the polar seal channel😊
I am still impressed that you guys even took on this project but every week more is accomplished temporary help might not work just don't give up from when you started so much has already been done the finish line is getting closer.
Nothing like having some support and it comes with moral support as well. Hopefully will give you the energy to punch the project home.
Great episode! It's clear how much hard work you two do in so many areas. Sophie validates that with her honest response at the end.
Very beautiful 👍👍
That was a fun change of pace. Sophie is a good sport.
A word of caution, respirators should seal to the skin, not a hood. Put on the respirator and then seal the hood around it.
Ear defenders too - KRAZY seeing the way they are misused by _EVERYONE_ in vid's.!
This video was entertaining and educational.
Great Video !
Well yea! Heck yea. Not taking too long. Just sort of "less." I get "overwhelmed." I could never "hold" this project. Nope. No idea. More people sanding. Sanding sanding sanding. Good luck. Thanks for this.
A little help is always good, but I thought you were getting someone with experience. Hope all goes well.
Sofie did good with the fairing for a first timer.
Sophie was amazing!! She's ready to unleash on the build!
Sophie mentioned finding it difficult to trust someone to help. There are just a few cruisers that could be trusted to help build your boat. They would be Colin, Mads, Teal, Johan, Garrett, Billy, and Dan. There may be more, but I've found these seven to have excellent skill sets and to be obsessed with doing it right the first time. Parlay Revival, Sail Life, Onboard Lifestyle, Ran Sailing, Salt & Tar, Tulsa Endless Summer, and Uma - respectively. Yeah. show them the plans, the materials, the tools, and watch them build. And there are more trustworthy cruisers when you start installing your systems.
Really a good comment and really good content
Really come on there millions of skilled trade people around the world that can do better and faster than any of the people you mentioned. Her first time applying resin... lol there's a winner
@@Mechone11 I did not know there are millions of cruisers who have built from scratch their own boats like Johan and Garrett, or made extensive and major modifications and/or repairs to his boats like Colin, Mads, Teal, Billy, and Dan (maybe Kika should be included here). Further, I did not know that millions of other cruisers have met or know of Jessica & Matt, and would likely lend a free hand if in the neighborhood. And Jessica & Matt would lend a hand if in the neighborhood to those cruisers that I have named. I apologize - I did not know there are millions of cruisers who can be trusted by Jessica & Matt to help build their boat like Sophie suited up and went at it. Sophie is such a nice person, except when she handed out a piece of candy to Matt at the September Annapolis boat show (Duca had the same reaction as Matt - and it wasn't't nice).Wow, can you advise Jessica and Matt who these millions are so that Jessica and Matt can get skilled help for free? Thanks for your time. ps: I wish I could help them, but I am thousands of miles away, and although I am 76, I think I could perform a construction task after being shown how to do so as long as I did not have to use my left arm, and did not have to get into spaces in spite of my artificial hip.
What Gladys said 😍
Love Sofie & Ryan :).
You done good Sophie. I would trust you to work on my boat refit project.
Nice job and performance 👍👍👍 Have a great day 😉 Greetings Adam 😎
Maybe using standard pallets on the floor to lift you up so not to reach as much when working over head. I was doing battery work with 50kg batteries to 2.5 m hight and had pellets stacked so always working in correct height was a life safer.
A minor note. When you try bringing someone onboard, ease them into it physically. It might seem easy to you now, but it is extremely physically challenging to tape and sand... especially overhead. :) I give Sofie credit for hanging on as long as she did doing that overhead taping. Nothing in life prepares you for that type of extended movement!
Yard Boy's tool stands ready to help.
Lol, the dancing on the solar panels needs some edm music to it.
Sophie's new nick name should be Wiggle's!
Hahaha, I love it!!
Way to go Sophie get stuck in.
This is gunna git messy... love it
Sofie is hilarious
Cool Video Guys! Great including Sophie. I actually felt sorry for her. 😉Hope the boat show is awesome!
Off topic question. If you know, how much are slip fees at your marina, per foot?
I think if you put all the work together for a week and got a crew for just that week it would be such a help for all the mondain stuff.
How do the nice headmasks be named! Could also be handy spraypainting!
The teletubbies are going to the sea.
Is there any way to thin that fairing compound? The thicker it is, the harder you have to press the knife against the surface. The harder you press the knife, the more likely it is to bend into the areas you're trying to fill. Also, tangential lighting when you're looking for the low spots. Turn off all the lights but the one you're holding up against the surface. You'll see every defect.
Great episode ! Three cheers for Sophie ! I wish I could volunteer this Summer but things in Montana are crazy. Thank you
There has got to be a faster method to get that fairing compound on. Unless 20-people have to go at it for a week and that's just what it takes?
I'm serious here kids...If you hired a few frogman drywallers, they'd be done with fairing that whole boat in a weekend or so...
...and it'd be.....SS...MM...OOOOOoootthhh!!!!!
i think i might work out of a wallboard mud pan rather than a flat plaster hawk. that 10-12 inch knife if kind of big 6 inch would be a little easier to wield
Unfortunately easy clean is the objective. Remember, it's only a few minutes work time before it goes hard, so being able to clean is very important
oh, thank you..i had no idea the cure time is so short. thank you. Nice episode!!
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Hire a drywall guy and he would knock that out in a day. An Auto body guy could also do a fast job.
Is there a discussion worth having with your boat supplier to see if one of his crew could come over and help? Then you get someone who is building these boats and knows and has the skills needed. Maybe the trade-off could be more time in your content about the manufacturer and his boats plus an overseas worker getting experience in your country. It is just a huge job to do by yourselves, my hat is off to you big time.👍
It would be impossible for Vietnamese to get a visa to come here. Plus, the idea is to build the boat ourselves not have others do it while we watch. There would be no satisfaction in that.
@@MJSailing I was a deckhand on a fishing boat in North Queensland in the 70s and I remember a couple on a cat at the anchorage who had sailed all over the map in a cat they built from scratch. When I met them they had just finished another cat for a friend and were getting ready to start another for a couple that had seen their work. Although they loved sailing they also found they loved building just as much.
My suggestion was to push the project along but yeah you don't look like a sit back and watch couple. So much satisfaction to do it yourselves.
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I don't think Sophie faired wrong, you teached it wrong. She did quite good. I think you do it a little awkward. That's why you have to sand a lot :)
You don't have enough compound on the trowel.
paint schools of squid on the bottom of the boat to attract mahi mahi
Has that Osmo(?) camera been more reliable than GoPro's for you? I keep hearing so many "the GoPro ate my video!" screams.
Don't think Matt's trading partner's before the boat's done Jess, you're already fully trained on boat manufacturing ! Plus Sophie's got at least a few years training ahead of her... You've done 3 boats already ?... PS.. Shouldn't Sophie be training Matt to do your hair ?...
Spaceballs! Oh s#!t, there goes the planet...
this is like owning and old house..but worse...and its the house that owns you.
The sanding and fairing will kill you , you need at least someone to cook for you.
..LOL!!!!!!
That sanding is such a miserable job.
One day we'll be done with it....
can i help you guys ???
CANOLI !!! DAMMIT didn't you ever watch The Godfather ..........
When you request help you need professional help to quickly get in front of the build otherwise your looking at a long road in front of you and burnout. Lets face it your learning on the job in an unfavorable environment for glassing and living comfortably.
Matt was definitely the thorn between two roses this episode😂😂
You need workers😢 not utubers
Get the car finishers or drywall people
Sophie is GREAT! I loved her swearing - very European, bless her. She's a great dancer, too, and portrays a sperm very well.
I'm going to claim some minor influence - maybe - by saying I thought Matt looked like a sperm played by Woody Allen in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex the first time I saw you (initially just Matt) in those white protective suits... but I can't find the reference! Grrr. 2 yrs ago? Maybe it was on Instagram? Who knows, who cares, it doesn't matter.
(((The Amazon link to the solar panels doesn't seem to work ... Maybe because I'm outside the US)))
It looks like sofia does her best work lying down
Painful to watch
You should have swapped Sophie in place of Jessica without saying a thing. It would be like the old Roseanne show where they traded out Becky for another girl who's only similarity was hair color, and then acted like nothing happened.
Did you really save money with a diy? Seems like there is a lot of opportunity cost to a diy.😊
you guys are so over worked it isn't funny.