This is one of the best boat renewal sites where Stewart is a great recycler and dumpster divers ,one of the best in the business. Perseverance is your watchword. Well done ..!
It must be nice to see your work nearing completion and accomplished to your high standards. I wish you joy in all your voyages. That you find what you seek.
Friday evening web sailing 😄seabird smiles... the work is going forward, the floor done... almost 😉 👍for sure you will build something nice to rise the engine thanks for the video this week, ☃🔥🌨 keep yourself warm, 💪work hard & enjoy you're weekend 🤳
I think you should start every show with hello mama just like you did . Like Carol Burnett used to do in her show for her kids . Great job on seabird and I'm still subscribed and I'm not going anywhere ! stay chill!
Great to see Marina fit and well again. The engine bearers will be pretty strong enough, I'm sure. You two are intelligent enough to know what you are doing. Keep up the fab work!
I’m totally impressed with your efforts and enthusiasm and let’s face everyone has an opinion but you’re actually getting the job done and the results are great. I don’t know about you but we have a great holiday coming this week it involves the consuming of large portions of turkeys and hams and veggies and desserts it’s our Thanksgiving holiday I wish we could share it with you guys I hope you both have a wonderful rest of the week.
I have been following all your adventures from the very beginning. I look forward to the next episode every Friday. I am also renovating my yacht and I know that it is a challenge for the persistent. Fingers crossed. greetings from Poland. Ahoy :)
I truly love the up dates and can not wait to see you both on the water. Plenty of people will tell you what you’re doing wrong they can start a channel and show people how to do it right keep up the amazing work
Thank you. We are just trying our best to do a good job. A job we are proud of. It will only be us dealing with it when the chickens come home to roost. Cheers for watching 🙂
Another great episode!!! Thank you!!! I was wondering, well thinking, if the old engine mount is basically hollow, could you cut a top square off of it to insert a piece of wood down into it vertically and epoxy it in at 4 different separate locations maybe where the engine mounts are or close by, and then finish filling the cavities with your foam. I was just thinking that this might give you even more durability lower towards the bilge. Then you could run long Lag Screws straight down into the new wood verticals. At least on the first Horizonal Riser. Anyway, I love watching your rebuild and hope you two have a wonderful week!
I can’t imagine a better stronger way to secure the engine bay! Carry on! This is getting exciting! No need to respond to this …..can’t wait for more progress!
Saludos Señora María Jesús!! Tiene usted una hija con una determinación indoblegable, muy inteligente y sumamente carismática. Ella nos ha cautivado con su narrativa desde los inicios de su canal en RUclips y todos le deseamos que logre tener una vida llena de sueños realizados. Saludos desde América del Norte! - Ricardo ⭐️⭐️🙏🏻⭐️⭐️
More great progress guys👌 Build the engine bed the way your going, teak and glass spot on, I’ve seen lots of engine beds and this is the cleaner way to go and the mounts bolted down with coach screws, it’s all down to lining up the shaft then taking your time, getting it sweet⛵️❤️ Keep doing the way your going
The heart and love you both are putting into your boat is amazing and it,s shocking a lot of lazy people who would never take on a challenge like you have and are winning the hearts and minds of thousands of people go team go your doing great and wish you all the very best
That's so kind. It's amazing that you think that. We are just a couple who want to build a floating home and see the world. Very heartwarming. Cheers for watching 😊
Still subscribed. With 60% of the people watching being subscribed you both having a high percentage subscribers. Like to see you progressing. If you ever need help, I am a 12 hour drive away. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a boatbuilder but I am fairly handy with tools and engineering. Cheers.
Great work on the bulkheads. The foam really doesn’t make any difference when you fiberglass in a bulkhead. You are in effect producing hard spots with the reinforcement anyway.. I think the installation of the engine beds needs a little more thought. Firstly you have made sure the sterntube is well bonded… Which is good as it needs to be solid. However your P bracket was just bolted up to the hull. You really should have checked the alignment to the stern tube by making a disk to fit inside the sterntube inside the boat. Another to fit outside the boat, and one for the front of the P bracket and one for the back with small holes in the middle of each. Put a lamp in the engine room and if you can see the light looking through the rear hole on the P bracket.. It’s all in line. You can then stretch a wire through all the holes that will be your shaft line to well in front of you engine beds, You will the have the reference you need to install the beds to give you a good chance of having less vibration, costs to replace cutlass bearings and stern seals. Using the shaft pushed in is not very accurate. irokp is not the best of wood to glass over. Engine beds made of wood are best done in softwood with 1/2 steel on top just glassed over. They are lighter , glass holds to them, and they are cheap. If you want to come up 5 inches Once you have checked the Shaftline. Remembering to allow for engine feet adjustment.. Coachscrew on a 2 inch thick packer on top the existing bed followed by another coach screwed to that. 1/2 of steel.. Glassover the lot.. There’s your 5 inches and you can tap the feet into the steel. You will need to support the higher beds but you can do that with ply perhaps incorporated into the floor of the corridor and storage to port. You don’t need much in between and it gives good access to the sump of the engine and bilge pump arrangement. Great work so far though.
Very detailed and sound advice. Exactly the kind of response you have been hoping for. The suggested metal (in our case aluminium) epoxied to timber and together protected by glass is the way it is recommended our catamaran sail tracks be installed. The track bolts then screw into the aluminium.
Great progress again. Too many armchair boat builders on YT. Wood & fibre glass will do the job fine. The wooden engine bearers (no fibre glass) on my boat had been in for 80 years and were still good when I sold her. Its your boat, your money, your channel you do what you want and sod all the neysayers. ATB regards from the UK
Stu and other Brits are not the only ones who wear shorts in winter LOL I grew up in the interior of South Africa where winter temps are usually around freezing, and I was 15 before I wore my first pair of long pants/trousers to school. As long as one's torso and head are covered and warm(ish) it's all bearable.
Brilliant, well done both. Are you raising centre of gravity by a detrimental amount? even though the new engine has less mass. Best & see you next week.
Love to see all of your progress, please ask the person that 3d printed that part for you to share the file,in the future perhaps you could purchase a 3d printer of your own and make parts anywhere in the world your adventures take you.
That’s a fine strategy to raise the engine bed. Maybe use a couple of lag bolts to secure the wood risers to the existing bed before glassing them over. Will you use lag bolts to secure the engine mounts to the raised bed?
I would at least leg bolt those layers of Errico hardwood into the engine bearers for a start that's for sure before you epoxy them together. cheers. btw you two are doing a great job! nice progress!
Hello, You're making more progress. Keep up the good work. Also when are you going to get some heat on the boat? You both look like you're cold. Ciao. geo
Just bang plenty of screws in and lap the joints. The white paint finish will make it all perfect, as we all know, in the same way that stripes make cars go faster!
Hey guys for your benefit whatever that needs to be done in the engine room, mounts filler etc.do it now or before you put the engine in because pulling the engine is hard thing to do
I love what you guys are doing and I am really loving your work and look forward to tuning into you two every week so I really don’t want to be a downer but I have to be be honest (and I’ve actually said it before though I guess you may not have noticed it) I really do not like the foam beneath your floors and bulkheads and I can’t understand the logic of whoever suggested it to you. It defies every boat building practice since wooden and fibreglass boats started being built and everything that I’ve ever learned about boat building and repairs. The floors and bulkheads very much should be integral to the hull as they provide the dimensional support to the hull and structure and provide the stiffness that you need when forces are acting all around the hull through the mast, chainplates, keel and so on. The foam that you’ve added creates a weak spot rather than preventing any so called “hard spots”, there really should be good firm joins -“hard spots” - around the floors and bulkheads and boat yards often look for them to position their slings when they pull the boat out of the water. In a normal build the hull would still flex slightly, but overall rather than in localised areas where you don’t want it to flex as seems too be the intent with the foam...(??) Given that you’ve tabbed the floors and bulkheads down with fibreglass and epoxy, you now have an issue where when the hull does flex overall the connection to the floors and bulkheads is weaker because of the foam instead of a well glued join so they will eventually crack all the fibreglass tabbing along where the hull has flexed. The fibreglass tabbing negates any cushioning/local flexing that the foam seems intended to provide anyway so all you really have achieved is to weaken the floor to hull joins. Also the floors spread the weight of the keel around the hull where they extend outward from the keel so if the floors aren’t well secured throughout, the hull will flex and pull away from the floors under the weight of the keel and again crack the tabs under the weight of the keel as the boat flexes more than it otherwise should in a seaway. I understand that re-doing the floors would be a huge and soul destroying job at this stage in the game so perhaps take some time to beef the tabbing along the floors up throughout??? And just keep a close eye on them in future ...... BUT: On a more positive side, your engine bearer mod’ plans look fine - as long as you wet our your timbers before joining them and everything is well glassed in it should be solid. Hardwood and fibreglass on a fibreglass boat is a tried and true and well accepted solution. If I was to suggest anything to ease your concerns because of the height of the beds, perhaps a couple of triangular hardwood struts down to the hull outboard of each longitudinal frame to stabilise them against any lateral force from engine torque and maybe a couple of lengths of threaded rod epoxied down into the original beds either side to add strength to cope with thrust forces from the prop’.
This is one of the best boat renewal sites where Stewart is a great recycler and dumpster divers ,one of the best in the business. Perseverance is your watchword. Well done ..!
Sailing Seabird has become one of my favorite RUclips channels and I enjoy watching each episode. Thank you for the content.
I'm glad Marina is doing better and thank you for taking us along.
Loved your hello to your mum, she must be very proud of you!
Having the ability to print the parts you need astounds me. (It’s just so cool…so very, very cool!) 😎🥰🤗❤️😎🥰🤗❤️
Great opening sequence.... lovely mix of music, images, and narrative
It must be nice to see your work nearing completion and accomplished to your high standards. I wish you joy in all your voyages. That you find what you seek.
Hola Mama de Marina! Disfrute del episodio!
I’ve been subscribed for a long time. I watch the videos every Friday. I can’t wait to see it continue to progress
Love the Energy you two have now that progress is really showing
Friday evening web sailing
😄seabird smiles...
the work is going forward, the floor done... almost 😉
👍for sure you will build something nice to rise the engine
thanks for the video this week, ☃🔥🌨 keep yourself warm,
💪work hard & enjoy you're weekend 🤳
Another busy week and progress continues. Well done Team Seabird ❤❤❤
@SailingSeabird :
SALUDOS mamá de Marina!!
👋🏻😊
(desde América del Norte).
0:47 : from one of the worst looking boats in the yard to one of the best looking.
I think you should start every show with hello mama just like you did . Like Carol Burnett used to do in her show for her kids . Great job on seabird and I'm still subscribed and I'm not going anywhere ! stay chill!
I hope Santa is good to you two. We're all really hopeful☺
U2 - New Years Day :p
I have literally NEVER been unsubscribed to a channel automatically :p
Stay positive and keep going 🎉🎉🎉
Great to see Marina fit and well again. The engine bearers will be pretty strong enough, I'm sure. You two are intelligent enough to know what you are doing. Keep up the fab work!
I’m totally impressed with your efforts and enthusiasm and let’s face everyone has an opinion but you’re actually getting the job done and the results are great.
I don’t know about you but we have a great holiday coming this week it involves the consuming of large portions of turkeys and hams and veggies and desserts it’s our Thanksgiving holiday I wish we could share it with you guys I hope you both have a wonderful rest of the week.
Not untill Christmas 🎄
I have been following all your adventures from the very beginning. I look forward to the next episode every Friday. I am also renovating my yacht and I know that it is a challenge for the persistent. Fingers crossed. greetings from Poland. Ahoy :)
Everything is looking marvelous! 🤗💖⛵🐕
Yay good to see you both back on form... One for the algorithm. 🧙🏼♂️🌍🇬🇧
I truly love the up dates and can not wait to see you both on the water. Plenty of people will tell you what you’re doing wrong they can start a channel and show people how to do it right keep up the amazing work
You are both quietly very good at what you are doing I’m impressed.
Thank you.
We are just trying our best to do a good job.
A job we are proud of.
It will only be us dealing with it when the chickens come home to roost.
Cheers for watching 🙂
Great that you are fit again Marina!!
The engine bed is going to be plenty strong,especially with some white paint on it.😂😂
All the best aus always!!
Another great episode!!! Thank you!!! I was wondering, well thinking, if the old engine mount is basically hollow, could you cut a top square off of it to insert a piece of wood down into it vertically and epoxy it in at 4 different separate locations maybe where the engine mounts are or close by, and then finish filling the cavities with your foam. I was just thinking that this might give you even more durability lower towards the bilge. Then you could run long Lag Screws straight down into the new wood verticals. At least on the first Horizonal Riser. Anyway, I love watching your rebuild and hope you two have a wonderful week!
Hi Guys, we are definitely Subscribed .We would be so upset if we missed an episode..Our fondest to you both xxx
I can’t imagine a better stronger way to secure the engine bay! Carry on! This is getting exciting! No need to respond to this …..can’t wait for more progress!
I watch each of your videos. Great work. I have heaps of work to do on our boat, but work is getting in the way. Most of it is cosmetic.
It's coming along. Keep up the great work. Take care and have a fantastic weekend
Another great video guys 👏
Total glow-up :)
See you in Oz sometime.
Keep up the great work.
Lovely couple
Marina and Stuart, i am realy impressed of you two what you can do. its look very nice. well done.
Siempre disfruto de vuestros vídeos y hoy me emocioné con tu saludo😊 el barco va a toda máquina, gracias por tu guiño. Te quiero❤
Saludos Señora María Jesús!!
Tiene usted una hija con una determinación indoblegable, muy inteligente y sumamente carismática. Ella nos ha cautivado con su narrativa desde los inicios de su canal en RUclips y todos le deseamos que logre tener una vida llena de sueños realizados.
Saludos desde América del Norte!
- Ricardo
⭐️⭐️🙏🏻⭐️⭐️
Good work
More great progress guys👌 Build the engine bed the way your going, teak and glass spot on, I’ve seen lots of engine beds and this is the cleaner way to go and the mounts bolted down with coach screws, it’s all down to lining up the shaft then taking your time, getting it sweet⛵️❤️ Keep doing the way your going
Q guay escucharte hablar en castellano!! Comento para q el algoritmo os ayude👍
Good job I can see you have many good ideas !
The heart and love you both are putting into your boat is amazing and it,s shocking a lot of lazy people who would never take on a challenge like you have and are winning the hearts and minds of thousands of people go team go your doing great and wish you all the very best
That's so kind.
It's amazing that you think that.
We are just a couple who want to build a floating home and see the world.
Very heartwarming.
Cheers for watching 😊
Thanks both, great video :)
Still subscribed. With 60% of the people watching being subscribed you both having a high percentage subscribers. Like to see you progressing. If you ever need help, I am a 12 hour drive away. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a boatbuilder but I am fairly handy with tools and engineering. Cheers.
Give that man a Bells.
Give that woman a pink Champhane.
Well done you 2.
Cant wait for the day that Seabird get into the water.
⛵ Seabird ⛵
Steward 🦾🦿🧰 🏆🥇
Marina 🧤🦾🌹
🏆🥇
⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓
Doing a great job 👍
Keep up the great work!
Look forward to your content. Have you ever thought, of an unedited video. In the middle of the week ?
You guys are doing well with problem solving. It might not be perfect, at least it works. "Where there is a will, there is always a way."
Great! 😊
Great work on the bulkheads. The foam really doesn’t make any difference when you fiberglass in a bulkhead. You are in effect producing hard spots with the reinforcement anyway.. I think the installation of the engine beds needs a little more thought. Firstly you have made sure the sterntube is well bonded… Which is good as it needs to be solid. However your P bracket was just bolted up to the hull. You really should have checked the alignment to the stern tube by making a disk to fit inside the sterntube inside the boat. Another to fit outside the boat, and one for the front of the P bracket and one for the back with small holes in the middle of each. Put a lamp in the engine room and if you can see the light looking through the rear hole on the P bracket.. It’s all in line. You can then stretch a wire through all the holes that will be your shaft line to well in front of you engine beds, You will the have the reference you need to install the beds to give you a good chance of having less vibration, costs to replace cutlass bearings and stern seals. Using the shaft pushed in is not very accurate. irokp is not the best of wood to glass over. Engine beds made of wood are best done in softwood with 1/2 steel on top just glassed over. They are lighter , glass holds to them, and they are cheap. If you want to come up 5 inches Once you have checked the Shaftline. Remembering to allow for engine feet adjustment.. Coachscrew on a 2 inch thick packer on top the existing bed followed by another coach screwed to that. 1/2 of steel.. Glassover the lot.. There’s your 5 inches and you can tap the feet into the steel. You will need to support the higher beds but you can do that with ply perhaps incorporated into the floor of the corridor and storage to port. You don’t need much in between and it gives good access to the sump of the engine and bilge pump arrangement. Great work so far though.
Very detailed and sound advice. Exactly the kind of response you have been hoping for.
The suggested metal (in our case aluminium) epoxied to timber and together protected by glass is the way it is recommended our catamaran sail tracks be installed. The track bolts then screw into the aluminium.
Great progress again. Too many armchair boat builders on YT. Wood & fibre glass will do the job fine. The wooden engine bearers (no fibre glass) on my boat had been in for 80 years and were still good when I sold her. Its your boat, your money, your channel you do what you want and sod all the neysayers. ATB regards from the UK
Hey hey hey here we goooooo
Great job guys! Every effort moves forward! Steward, you share habits with my son: 5 C and you’re wearing shorts! 😊
Glad to see you’re back and well again. Stu, get something on your legs or were you a postman in a past life?
We all noted Strew is wearing a short despite the cold temperatures, surely a British guy 🤭🤭🤭🤭
Stu and other Brits are not the only ones who wear shorts in winter LOL I grew up in the interior of South Africa where winter temps are usually around freezing, and I was 15 before I wore my first pair of long pants/trousers to school. As long as one's torso and head are covered and warm(ish) it's all bearable.
Been there in cold weather Reno Nevada 1979 through 1986 snow in winter 100 plus summer!
Auguri e buon lavoro, vi seguo sempre. Ciao from Dolomiti ITALY 👍👍👍
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will you do a test fit of the engine before glassing in the beds 🤔
Love the videos from you guys
hi both, well done, best wishes from germany
Well done nice progress 😊😊
Fiberglass Boats is a great book for Learning to build a plastic boat!
Brilliant, well done both. Are you raising centre of gravity by a detrimental amount? even though the new engine has less mass. Best & see you next week.
Love to see all of your progress, please ask the person that 3d printed that part for you to share the file,in the future perhaps you could purchase a 3d printer of your own and make parts anywhere in the world your adventures take you.
Fiberglass Boats Hugo du Plessis!
Check the angle of the prop shaft meeting the gearbox will still work after raising the engine that much.
Hi from French Polynesia.
That engine bed is going to be way strong.
Hi, as I know engine shaft to be 12 degrees. do you consider that when you rising the engine bad?
Carol Burnett, the actress/comedian, use to tug on her earlobe as a "Hello" to her Mom.
That’s a fine strategy to raise the engine bed. Maybe use a couple of lag bolts to secure the wood risers to the existing bed before glassing them over. Will you use lag bolts to secure the engine mounts to the raised bed?
That's it our exact plan.
What could go wrong 🤔 🤣
We'll add side supports, too.
Cheers for watching 🙂
Party!
I would at least leg bolt those layers of Errico hardwood into the engine bearers for a start that's for sure before you epoxy them together. cheers. btw you two are doing a great job! nice progress!
Hello, You're making more progress. Keep up the good work. Also when are you going to get some heat on the boat? You both look like you're cold. Ciao. geo
You are correct to seek advice on raising the engine. I am not an engineer, but I do tend to overbuild the crap out of things.
Un saludo para la mama de Marina!
Okay you did it. Now we need some video of Marina's mom. Can't bring up mom and leave us hanging....
⛵️ ⛵️ ⛵️ Phil...
What will you do to the top of the floor joists. Fiber glass or just epoxy
Definitely have to get the angle right or getting ya shaft in can be a pain in the ass
Just bang plenty of screws in and lap the joints. The white paint finish will make it all perfect, as we all know, in the same way that stripes make cars go faster!
Moving along, get that engine in and lined up.
Hey guys for your benefit whatever that needs to be done in the engine room, mounts filler etc.do it now or before you put the engine in because pulling the engine is hard thing to do
Still subscribed, still loving it. Say hi to your mum for me
I love what you guys are doing and I am really loving your work and look forward to tuning into you two every week so I really don’t want to be a downer but I have to be be honest (and I’ve actually said it before though I guess you may not have noticed it) I really do not like the foam beneath your floors and bulkheads and I can’t understand the logic of whoever suggested it to you. It defies every boat building practice since wooden and fibreglass boats started being built and everything that I’ve ever learned about boat building and repairs. The floors and bulkheads very much should be integral to the hull as they provide the dimensional support to the hull and structure and provide the stiffness that you need when forces are acting all around the hull through the mast, chainplates, keel and so on. The foam that you’ve added creates a weak spot rather than preventing any so called “hard spots”, there really should be good firm joins -“hard spots” - around the floors and bulkheads and boat yards often look for them to position their slings when they pull the boat out of the water. In a normal build the hull would still flex slightly, but overall rather than in localised areas where you don’t want it to flex as seems too be the intent with the foam...(??) Given that you’ve tabbed the floors and bulkheads down with fibreglass and epoxy, you now have an issue where when the hull does flex overall the connection to the floors and bulkheads is weaker because of the foam instead of a well glued join so they will eventually crack all the fibreglass tabbing along where the hull has flexed. The fibreglass tabbing negates any cushioning/local flexing that the foam seems intended to provide anyway so all you really have achieved is to weaken the floor to hull joins. Also the floors spread the weight of the keel around the hull where they extend outward from the keel so if the floors aren’t well secured throughout, the hull will flex and pull away from the floors under the weight of the keel and again crack the tabs under the weight of the keel as the boat flexes more than it otherwise should in a seaway. I understand that re-doing the floors would be a huge and soul destroying job at this stage in the game so perhaps take some time to beef the tabbing along the floors up throughout??? And just keep a close eye on them in future ...... BUT: On a more positive side, your engine bearer mod’ plans look fine - as long as you wet our your timbers before joining them and everything is well glassed in it should be solid. Hardwood and fibreglass on a fibreglass boat is a tried and true and well accepted solution. If I was to suggest anything to ease your concerns because of the height of the beds, perhaps a couple of triangular hardwood struts down to the hull outboard of each longitudinal frame to stabilise them against any lateral force from engine torque and maybe a couple of lengths of threaded rod epoxied down into the original beds either side to add strength to cope with thrust forces from the prop’.
I'm not an expert either, but I understand materials. I think your foam strips make sense and your engine bed will be fine.
Take 3 layer of fiberglass on a piece of cardboard wet them out on top of each other transfer to the bulkhead and mold in place
that foam was a mistake, you'll find out later on .
You are a beautiful and handsome couple. May the good Lord be always with you.
Still subscribed.
You are going to use adjustable motor mounts, right?
Engine bed will be fine, just put that cross brase in. Already subbed have a nice week.
O I forgot Hi Mom!
I was sohoping Stu would find 2 jet skis in the bin and decide to have a water jet powered sail boat.
:-) nice work
Can I call down for a weekend just to pull peal ply? 😂
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