Launching The Homemade Catamaran (And Early SeaTrials..)
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- So this is the launch - and I wish I could say it was perfect first time, but it wasn’t. The problems were easily fixed, though, and the next couple of trips out have been brilliant. We were lucky with the weather, too.
It is impossible to get over how wonderful and exciting and satisfying it is to sail on the sea in a small boat - and nicer again when we built it ourselves. Definitely, one for the list of rewarding projects we’ve done. The strongest wind we’ve had since it was finished was a Force 3 - hardly enough for a real trial. But, yes, it does sail. Seriously, not bad at all!
Whiddy Island is a bit more than a mile from the mainland at this point - it took us about 15 minutes to get home..
Again, thanks to all those who helped with the build (which was nearly accomplished in one day!) but also those who turned out for the launch to cheer me on and help rescue me. Including Ron, Anthony, Christine, Jaap and Mike - if any of you ever build a boat I’ll definitely do the same for you…
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You can't buy a boat like this...containing challenge, friendship, adventure, fun and stories! Priceless, I'd say : ) (not to mention all the treasures you'll be able to afford to purchase with your savings!
I knew it would sail. I wasn't at all surprised when you said you had never sailed a Catamaran before because that is just so YOU. No matter what it is, when you decide to have a go, it's all over, done and dusted. Your mind loves these challenges and you throw yourself into them and never fail to impress. Using Sandra as a two stroke was genius! Isn't she just the best, ever?!?!! I think you both are so incredibly amazing!
you guys are absolutely genuine people.........
with all the spirit of creativity , and the circle of friends around, you guys are simply amazing and very well blessed.
What a great lady, willing and able.
old video, but you got a thumbs up for being happy for your wifes company and ballast
Oh Mr Sailor Man, this is life... we can grow up but can't stop to play.
Take pride my friend. You have a nice community of friends.
+John Bronson Yes, we are very lucky indeed
my friend your videos are genius
You and your life is exactly why Ireland is my dream nation, oh, what a beautiful place, and a beautiful job you've done on the cat too!
Cheers Simon!
hello from across the great salt pond,im paul from the great state of Arkansas,im a land locked sailer .loved your video ,what a awesome little boat ,looks like she sailed well once the kinks were worked out,cheero ,paul
Tim what a fantastic couple of vids. Thank you for inspiring me to see what I too can come up with in design. Your obvious delight in life and story telling humour had me laughing til I cried and joyously retelling my wife of your exploits. Wishing you, family and friends Bon Voyage in everything.
Thanks, Warren : - )
Good luck with your designs too!
Sandra is quite the woman!
+ThatSuzanne Schmid Yes she is!
What joyful lives you live! Thank you for sharing bits with us all. (Beth)
Looks like all your efforts paid off in priceless fun on the sea
Heroic efforts all round. Really impressive design and build, so simple but so functional! A joy to watch, as usual.
+TheodorEriksson Cheers Theodor!
Loved it!!! Sandra is so sweet!!! Bravo!! Hope you have lovely trips with your boat!
+Patrícia Balthazar Neves Thanks Patricia!
So very very very cool :) Great job folks.
This video proves the point that " Behind every great man there is a great woman!" While I must congratulate the men for building the catamaran, I feel that it is of a higher priority to congratulate and admire that wonderful lady who is such good company and such elegant support person and a useful humane buttress for the morale of man and his catamaran. At 4:11 with her wonderful smile, in volunteering to save the ship with her novel propulsion system, she is the hero of the day. Such a great couple, there is hope for mankind where in this video we see a man and a woman joining and supporting and need each other for " human stability" as the pontoons in a catamaran.......... !!!!" where one hull on its own will fail. Congratulation to both of you. Well done. I enjoyed this video and being an old boat builder, I appreciate that there are more ways than the manners I build my wooden traditional boats.
Congrats! That's a lovely little craft. The two-stroke comment made me chuckle.
+Raymond Scott Cheers, Raymond!
Very impressive! And even though it was not me who did the work, still, this was quite satisfying and rewarding to watch :-) Thank you again for a wonderful video.
+Dire Dare Thank you, it was a pleasure!
I think you need to christen this fine craft "Ole Grandad" He would have been quite proud
Glad you posted the launch and sea trials so soon, I was a bit worried you'd had a setback, but couldn't imagine what could happen that you couldn't figure out! Wonderful little story, I'll be sharing all week...Thanks! Well done, The Team!
+Pat Gentry Thanks Pat!
Fantastic.... Well done you two ,,,,AND the rest of the posse !!!
+sheller94 thank you - yep, it was a great little project
So inspiring! Great video and awesome build.
Like the horse!
Man that boat is perfect.
Good craic. Now on you go, conquer other lands.
Oh wow! Good job Captain and double rations of grog (or tea) for the crew.
+Steve Potgieter Aye Aye!
@3:37 "I AM IN FULL CONTROL NOW..."
I think that everytime I shake hands with the devil and roar through the gates of hell! Love that - and this project.
Nice, now it's time to put some Ice Skates on it, for the colder weather,, When the lake freezes.
Alright !!! Well done folks, well done indeed.
+bluemtnsman Thank you!
Such a glorious and inspiring project.
+Fistwagon Thank you - yes it was kind of glorious to be out there. And if it inspires too, well that's even better. Life's short.
another great job. beautiful.
Wow! You finally did it and now a marvelous new Toy . Sandra is a great swimmer and so fit too. Will 29220 have a name?
Well done
+Patrick Meehan Thanks Patrick. I'm thinking it should be called 'Meitheal One'. What do you think?
Meitheal is the name and has a good real meaning too. I wonder if there is a name for Meitheal in German?
Brilliant! You did it! Well!!!
Wonderful !
A near replica of how the Irish were first to discover the Indies...
Yes, daggerboards are quite important in any shallow draft vessel under sail.
The rudders should also extend further towards Davy Jones locker to get a good bite.
Oars and fresh water always important. Tackle would be good for controlling the rudder, then it could be tied off to a cleat or bollard. Lights... Wise to have emergency lighting, a horn, flares, and a cell phone. The wind can easily take you much further than you ever imagined. Against your will ! ...and I do enjoy your videos... rc
+Rusty Case Lots of catamarans don't have daggerboards, though. They rely on the hulls acting as keels and it seems to work for them.
These rudders worked surprisingly well, Rusty. Honestly. And no bits of string needed.
You're right about the other things though! Thanks!
I've never been much of a seafarin man, such as Barrrid, Bran, Duin and Brendan, but we tried our hand at kayaks with sail, then cats.
Most skitter across the water sideways if they don't simply tip over in a stiff breeze. Perhaps the group could find a copy of 'Sailing Alone Around the World' by Joshua Slocum. Not as colorful as Brendan's tale, yet I enjoyed it very much. Exercise caution when leaving port! rc
+Rusty Case That book's on my Christmas list..!
Well done!
Wishing you many more happy and safe sailing days ahead.
(Build yourself a wee box on the bow to stash some spares/tools and maybe a telescopic paddle).
+Steven Elias-MacFarlane Thank you Steven - still waiting for it to get a bit warmer before we go back out again..
WayOutWest Blowinblog
ANOTHER fair weather sailor?!
Ach ye big girlie..
😰😄
love your imagination! Glad i found your channel -- lovely!
Bravo! I sure do miss my sailboat...
I love this. Well done!
Fantástic !!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!
What a fun video!! I love it!!
Nice video Tim Sandra, great job I am sure you will both have many fun trips planed for the future. well done.
+John Traynor Cheers John. Did you see the latest sailing video? (Faster and wetter!)
Well Done You! Now I want to build a boat out of stuff.
Best Wishes, Brendan.
+baconsoda Thanks, Brendan. Maybe everyone should : - )
You Guys are Awesome
I wish you very well, my dear strangers. You are good people.
+Felix Tröger Aw, thanks, Felix!
3rd time lucky!
Excellent!
I love your videos. And if I may suggest maybe you should think of a way like making and putting a small motor on your catamaran or something that you could use just in case when you ran out of wind. I'm looking forward for another wonderful videos from you. Thank you for sharing it to the rest of the world. I hope someday I could build my own catamaran too.
I love your videos, I've seen them like a thousand times each! Greetings from Costa Rica
+Francisco Rodriguez Thanks Francisco! Greetings from Ireland!
Seems to be a lot of fun! :-)
Loved it.. is it a 2 stroke or 2 feet propulsion system?.... haha...
Amazing!
well done! well done!
Wonderfull!!! Congratulations
That actually works so well, fair play to you!
I wonder what its like compared to a proper one? I mean it looks great to me and you seemed to like it (but you have said you're not a sailor). I wonder though if someone who's hobby it is were to try sailing this one how they would rate it, you know?
Such an accessible little design; it would really make you think about making one.
+zero_sum Well I have sailed a bit - I'm just not a catamaran sailor. (Or maybe I am now!) Good question, though. And to be honest I don't know how good it is. It will certainly sail into the wind, it's stable and the rudders are easy to use - all good points. But it's kind of heavy too and it could be smoother, so I don't know what to say. I will try to get a real sailor out on it one day and report back..
You did it! Yay!
+Marnie Parney I know! And it worked! (in the end..)
Hurray! It work!!!
+Elyse Joseph Yay!!
I cant stop laughing. she let you go out that first time yourself. lol that's love for you.
got it working good job!
+MsTokies I know! I couldn't believe she's abandon me on the shore. Still, she more than made up for it by jumping in when we needed her
WayOutWest Blowinblog she prolly should have smarten up and maybe waited until the third trip to go lol
What a wonderful woman and a sense of humour too. "better wear your wellys Tim" or something
like the two stroke ;-)
have you thought about a centre mounted pedallo affair for when the wind drops? you wouldnt have to get wet and you could have a four stroke!
+the green man The wind blows nearly all the time here - if we fitted one of those we might never use it. (Perhaps that's why we should!)
the brendan voyage well done, what about making a teardrop micro caravan, nxt project
+CORRIGEEN71 Don't tempt me - too many unfinished projects as it is!
nice work
Now you're sailing! I wonder, have you had to reinforce the cut and shaped ends of the aluminum covered foam (celotex)? as when I cut and fitted it in-between our rafters, I noticed it delaminated from the foam if it had any pressure on the foil.
+Rabidavid Not so far. My original plan was to use inner-tube rubber stretched over the bow end to protect it and keep it together, but so far I haven't needed it.
Sehr sympathisches Video :-)
Came across this in my research to build a cat for my grandchildren which would be quite indestructible based on a mast and boom I acquired with a sailing dingy, and would you know it if it was not a mast and boom for a mirror dingy.
I will pinch your design but modify it slightly to have 12mm ply in the center of the hulls and bolt two decking boards on the outside of the hulls to hold the insulation in place. I will bolt two center boards to the inside aspect of the hulls and use some lead ballast on them to give them negative buoyancy.
Was it just trial and error on where to place the mast and seating for the boat?
Really good fun :)
Be careful how much weight you add, Andy. The mast position was a guess, as you say, but it seemed about right. Best of luck!
Building to catamaran fair play to you
+Michael O Callaghan Cheers Michael
awesome.
fun for free! (almost) wonderful project, thank you for sharing, ps, did she jump in voluntarily? haha
+Mcleod Duncan
Sandra never does anything she doesn't want to do!
Those wayoutwest boats look good how much do the cost . Do they come in blue ?
+mikecat23 Sure, why not!
@4:21 - I might have just woken my wife up laughing.
coool
Brasil
You are a lucky sailor, how many wives would smilingly act as a propeller ?
+Robin Ergis Sandra's unique and, yes, I am very lucky!
+Robin Ergis Sandra's unique and, yes, I am very lucky!
Еще такой вопрос, вы используете фанеру, а как известно фанера разбухает и отслаивается от воды, вы чем то пропитываете фанеру? Возможно вы объясняете в этом видео, но я не владею английским языком. Я тоже собираюсь использовать в некоторых узлах своего швертбота фанеру, и опасаюсь, сомневаюсь.
он запечатывается смолой
You obviously dont have much experience sailling because any good saillor knows that you can sail in no wind, i have done it many times, either rock the boat side to side or skull, which is basically moving the rudders side to side as fast as u can. These can both move a sailboat in no wind
Well that's hardly sailing, though, is it?!
like your hobbies. How do you call people like you? In Russia, we are called "Nedoyakhatery," or "homemakers". I want to share my videos on my channel.
Thanks
better off converting the boat an adding outriggers
Good. Job..I love your relation ship with your wife. Well done guys.
Thanks Tommaso : - )
@WayOutWestx2 >>> Great video...👍
Excellent!