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Great to see you back on the boat. I love your channel. I have one recommendation. Now that you have some experience, find a boat instructor that will practice more docking and anchoring with you. You can find good instructors almost anywhere and it will change your boat experience and it will make the trip more enjoyable and less stressful.
Thanks Ofer! We have some family friends helping but we are slowly getting back into the swing of things. A lot of the anxiety comes with knowing Pivot is our home, so any little small thing gets magnified. We just upgraded our anchoring set up (you’ll see in a few videos) and since then it has been fantastic - we can actually back down on our anchor, which hardly ever worked on our CQR. Docking has been going well too! Thanks so much for watching!
Flipping around RUclips, saw your video here. 36TB of storage! 😮 Wow. I love the freezer in the boat. Makes so much sense. We continue to do projects, too slowly, for a 2024 loop run. We had an MT-36 Sundeck with an American Diesel Lehman a few years ago. We have Perkins engines now, but the Lehman motor is a tank, as you obviously know. We miss ours, but wanted a little more space. Cheers! Ben
Thanks so much Juanita! It’s been such a scramble this past week (today included) but we will be back to a normal schedule going forward. We appreciate you sticking around!
Lmfao! at the 3:30 mark in the video, I KNOW 100% this sold you on the boat my man! I’ve been a victim of that same selling point! Haha, thanks for that laugh 😂
Thanks for the tour,, you got your work cut out for you always good to have a plan. We are in deep boat withdrawal with ours stuck in the back of a marina barn with no chance of parole till mid May. Keep the videos coming.
Thanks James! Definitely a ton of work but it'll make Pivot a lot more enjoyable to live on. Hopefully all goes well with getting your boat back in the water!
Ayyyyy that Kampot Rum!! We're coming for you 😉 Absolutely love that you keep Elliot in the hole, boat life is looking more and more promising for Nate and I 😂
I Think Pivot is about the best size boat to sail the Great Loop. Perfect size for a couple. I think you have just about everything for living abroad Pivot. Enjoyed the tour of Pivot.
FUTURE PROJECT - Gut and pimp out that aft cabin!! It'll be the least bouncy area to sleep. Also, a great investment may be a SailRite sewing machine to make all your own stuff. They have "how to" tutorials on their RUclips channel for making cushions, mattresses, canvas peices, etc. Holla when you get back to the St Johns.
We dream about re-doing the aft cabin but not sure exactly what we want to do yet... we cross between a large bed, office type set up, or leaving it along and just staying in the V-Berth 😁 A sailrite would be killer, we may go that route in the future! We will be crossing the St. Johns in a couple days actually! Going to be heading from Jax to St. Augustine for the holidays.
Truer words have never been spoken... I've actually seen our same boat with the forward head converted to galley storage but we aren't going to do anything that drastic 😁
@@SchoandJo you can always do those plastic tubs stack them in a shower you don’t use but that’s a pain to find what you need when you want it! My luck is no matter what I do it will always be in the very bottom 😂🤣
Are you going to re-varnish all the teak work on the outside of Pivot? We are currently doing that on both the inside and outside of our future Greatloop boat. We are using the epoxy resin method, which includes 2 coats of epoxy and 3 coats of varnish. If you are interested you can see it explained on RUclips channel Boat Works Today. It's a whole lot of work but looks great and hopefully will last longer than varnish only. We look forward to watching your restoration.
We haven’t decided yet! Right now we are stripping the destroyed varnish (slowly as we have time)… how has it been going with your varnish? It definitely seems like a very long lasting solution!
HI there, loved the tour! don't discount the paper charts, they are among the most noble things we have done with trees and will be a delight to your grandchildren :)
Discovered your channel recently. Have binge watched all of your videos. I would recommended the channel "Sail Life' for his episodes where he replaced his decks on his boat. Good luck with that project, a lot of work.
Thanks Buck! We can do the work here just need to be cognizant of other liveaboards so basically little to none nights and weekends! After we finish we are heading south for warmth before we head back up 😁
Great video. I am a computer guy myself I would love to here a video talking more about your communication/internet plan for the great loop. My wife an I are thinking about giving it a shot in the future. I work for MSP so in need to have good reliable internet in order to be able to remote into client environments while I am out and about. I have some ideas about what I might want to do. I'm just not sure about what is available right now as far as options go.
Sweet, we'll have to make a video about that! We are thinking of doing a smaller series detailing some of our systems this winter when we won't be cruising as much. In non-remote places our tethering did the job very well, probably enough to remote into clients, but most of my software work was offline so it was ideal. For important meetings, I'd just head to land and go to a coffee shop. Depending on your time frame, Starlink will (probably) change the game as far as internet goes. We will share more information soon, good luck Andrew!
Nice video tour. Interior wood work can definitely tell its a Taiwan trawler much like our Island Gypsy "Despacio". With your draft you are about as Loop perfect as you can be. With antenna's down do you know what your air draft is? Will play in route planning. Be safe, and good luck on your projects.
Yep, we are about 18ft roughly right now. If we were still on the loop, we'd have to take down our panels and biminy for the Western part of the Eerie Canal - that would take our height to roughly 12ft ( I think). That's cool about the similarities across the different Taiwanese trawlers!
with your dc to dc charger from your motor alt. can you run your solar at the same time your motor is running? Thank You for all your videos . I really enjoy them!
If it's not too personal to ask, how much did the boat cost? How much do you budget for fuel for the entire trip? Do you have fire suppression in the engine compartment and at the generator? I am terrified of fire on a boat. How much are fees for marinas?
Hey Will - we haven't shared what we purchased the boat for, but we do share our expenses each month including boat projects, fuel, etc! It's all here: schoandjo.com/great-loop-expenses/ I think we budgeted 11.5k for fuel for the year. We have fire suppression in the engine compartment but since we're a diesel its less likely to have a fire there. We have tons of fire extinguishers all around though 😁
When you guys looked at the boat, I saw you did the survey. Did someone check the Diesel engine and how many hours did it have on it? Just curious how you tested that to ensure it was sound for the long trip. As we look for ours that is of course a top priority. Thanks !!
We didn’t do that much analysis on the engine since the PO used to be the goto mechanic on a family’s sailboat and used to run a marina. He ran us through the entire system before we purchased and she ran great on the sea trial. Basically the engine was one part of Pivot we were least concerned about! Plus reading about the Lehmans - they are pretty reliable if you keep them in shape! Any luck with your search?
There probably wasn’t anything major wrong with your old small boat engine small motors need maintenance just like big ones, your carburetor was probably completely clogged full of junk because of old fuel (over 3 months)or bad fuel or just hadn’t been cleaned in a long time before going out and buying a new motor next time just give it a tuneup and clean the carburetor and other parts filters so on
Unfortunately we did a ton of work to get the engine working over a couple months but it started falling apart beyond repair. It was a propane engine and the manufacturer went out of business…
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Great to see you back on the boat. I love your channel. I have one recommendation. Now that you have some experience, find a boat instructor that will practice more docking and anchoring with you. You can find good instructors almost anywhere and it will change your boat experience and it will make the trip more enjoyable and less stressful.
Thanks Ofer! We have some family friends helping but we are slowly getting back into the swing of things. A lot of the anxiety comes with knowing Pivot is our home, so any little small thing gets magnified. We just upgraded our anchoring set up (you’ll see in a few videos) and since then it has been fantastic - we can actually back down on our anchor, which hardly ever worked on our CQR. Docking has been going well too! Thanks so much for watching!
Thanks for the great boat tour!
We would like more boat maintenance videos would be awesome 💯😎
Roger that!
You guys have given us some good idea's for our 38 MT DC. we have some of the same gear = )
Nice, good luck!
Thanks for an interesting tour.
Thanks for watching Rob!
You have bananas on your boat!!!
I can't go without them! Seriously addicted (Elliot here.) 😁
Beautiful classic boat! Mike from Missouri
Slick camera work moving from the engine room to the outside! Tricky tricky! We thought Ollie took over filming!
Haha if only! We keep trying to find ways for her to earn her keep as a deck swab... all she does is sleep!
@@SchoandJo lucky girl!
@@SchoandJo You've recorded her being the forward lookout several times. She earns her keep. And is a good companion.
Wow this is such a cool boat!!! We've never wanted to live on a boat before but that's all changed after seeing Pivot 😍
Flipping around RUclips, saw your video here. 36TB of storage! 😮 Wow. I love the freezer in the boat. Makes so much sense. We continue to do projects, too slowly, for a 2024 loop run. We had an MT-36 Sundeck with an American Diesel Lehman a few years ago. We have Perkins engines now, but the Lehman motor is a tank, as you obviously know. We miss ours, but wanted a little more space. Cheers! Ben
Thanks for posting. Obviously I’m addicted because I really missed your posts last week. Glad to see Fred the dinghy has new power.
Thanks so much Juanita! It’s been such a scramble this past week (today included) but we will be back to a normal schedule going forward. We appreciate you sticking around!
7:59 8:04 awesome 💯
Lmfao! at the 3:30 mark in the video, I KNOW 100% this sold you on the boat my man! I’ve been a victim of that same selling point! Haha, thanks for that laugh 😂
Haha absolutely 😂
My "sold point" for my boat was the ice maker. In reality, I was already sold.
Wow. There’s more room on there one than meets the eye. Hope all is well where ever you are. Great vids as always. Thanks. D.
Thanks David! Sometimes we feel like Pivot is a little too big for us, normally we think it when we are docking or getting it in slip 😁
@@SchoandJo
That will come in time (from someone that doesn’t have a boat).
I love boat tours - thanks 😀and boat projects...never ending projects on my boat
Thanks for stopping by Lori! "Boats" and "projects" - name a better duo...
Your Boat seems like a Great choice for the Loop ... Very Comfortable. Glad to see your on the mend ... Stay Safe ‼️
Thanks! It has been a great first boat for us - cheers!
@@SchoandJo, i'm about a year away from my 1st boat, and hope to do the loop someday before i'm too old.
Thanks for the tour,, you got your work cut out for you always good to have a plan. We are in deep boat withdrawal with ours stuck in the back of a marina barn with no chance of parole till mid May. Keep the videos coming.
Thanks James! Definitely a ton of work but it'll make Pivot a lot more enjoyable to live on. Hopefully all goes well with getting your boat back in the water!
Can’t wait to see the new dinghy engine as the old one self destructed in previous videos.
It’s gonna be great!
Ayyyyy that Kampot Rum!! We're coming for you 😉 Absolutely love that you keep Elliot in the hole, boat life is looking more and more promising for Nate and I 😂
Can't wait for y'all to visit! That rum is going to be FANTASTIC! Also we skipped the Andre Champagne Cellar but it is full 😁
@@SchoandJo We can't wait either 😀If you run out of Andre before we get there, we can pick up a vineyard on the way 😂🥂
WOW 😊
We ❤️ Pivot! Great tour of your home!
Shabby Chic and light on the Chic 😁
Well filmed and organized
Thank you!
I'm in Paducah, Ky. On the Ohio River. We have a nice transient dock.
We visited Paducah! We will post it when we are posting our mid-west sections!
You two are too cute... Pivot looks good!!
Aww thanks Neil!
I Think Pivot is about the best size boat to sail the Great Loop. Perfect size for a couple. I think you have just about everything for living abroad Pivot. Enjoyed the tour of Pivot.
Thanks so much T Mac - we are definitely growing to really enjoy living on this boat!
Great tour
Thanks Harold 👍
Great video, guys! One thing I've wondered - where do you get your internet? Is it coming from nearby cellular towers?
At this point, yes we used cell service. Later on we got Starlink and we never looked back!
FUTURE PROJECT - Gut and pimp out that aft cabin!! It'll be the least bouncy area to sleep. Also, a great investment may be a SailRite sewing machine to make all your own stuff. They have "how to" tutorials on their RUclips channel for making cushions, mattresses, canvas peices, etc. Holla when you get back to the St Johns.
We dream about re-doing the aft cabin but not sure exactly what we want to do yet... we cross between a large bed, office type set up, or leaving it along and just staying in the V-Berth 😁 A sailrite would be killer, we may go that route in the future! We will be crossing the St. Johns in a couple days actually! Going to be heading from Jax to St. Augustine for the holidays.
Idc how big a boat is it never seems to have enough storage in the galley. Great tour can’t wait to see once some new projects are complete
Truer words have never been spoken... I've actually seen our same boat with the forward head converted to galley storage but we aren't going to do anything that drastic 😁
@@SchoandJo you can always do those plastic tubs stack them in a shower you don’t use but that’s a pain to find what you need when you want it! My luck is no matter what I do it will always be in the very bottom 😂🤣
@@Godofthemoon1 haha!
Very nice boat. 👍. Best regards from Germany Bavaria. Trawler refit Swetlana.
Thank you so much!
Are you going to re-varnish all the teak work on the outside of Pivot? We are currently doing that on both the inside and outside of our future Greatloop boat. We are using the epoxy resin method, which includes 2 coats of epoxy and 3 coats of varnish. If you are interested you can see it explained on RUclips channel Boat Works Today. It's a whole lot of work but looks great and hopefully will last longer than varnish only.
We look forward to watching your restoration.
We haven’t decided yet! Right now we are stripping the destroyed varnish (slowly as we have time)… how has it been going with your varnish? It definitely seems like a very long lasting solution!
HI there, loved the tour! don't discount the paper charts, they are among the most noble things we have done with trees and will be a delight to your grandchildren :)
Thanks!
Shawn Rhymes here. A freezer is a very important thing to have on a boat, especially for the 🍨🍦🍨. As a computer programmer do you use hexadecimal?
Ice cream is perfect for those warm boating days! Some times hexadecimals do come up in my programming 😁
Discovered your channel recently. Have binge watched all of your videos. I would recommended the channel "Sail Life' for his episodes where he replaced his decks on his boat. Good luck with that project, a lot of work.
Awesome, will check him out - thanks Russ!
Are you staying there for the winter? Also will the boat have to be moved to the hard for some of the work? Great watching, hang in there and enjoy.
Thanks Buck! We can do the work here just need to be cognizant of other liveaboards so basically little to none nights and weekends! After we finish we are heading south for warmth before we head back up 😁
Whoever invented the instant pot should get a Nobel prize.
+ 100 on this!
Split pea soup in a half hour instead of half a day. Bonus!
Great video. I am a computer guy myself I would love to here a video talking more about your communication/internet plan for the great loop. My wife an I are thinking about giving it a shot in the future. I work for MSP so in need to have good reliable internet in order to be able to remote into client environments while I am out and about. I have some ideas about what I might want to do. I'm just not sure about what is available right now as far as options go.
Sweet, we'll have to make a video about that! We are thinking of doing a smaller series detailing some of our systems this winter when we won't be cruising as much. In non-remote places our tethering did the job very well, probably enough to remote into clients, but most of my software work was offline so it was ideal. For important meetings, I'd just head to land and go to a coffee shop. Depending on your time frame, Starlink will (probably) change the game as far as internet goes. We will share more information soon, good luck Andrew!
How deep in the water does Pivot sit? Essentially how much water depth do you need to avoid running aground?
We draw 3.5 ft, very nice for the ICW so far!
If you want more specs we have it here too! schoandjo.com/boat-tour-of-our-34-marine-trader-double-cabin/
Nice video tour. Interior wood work can definitely tell its a Taiwan trawler much like our Island Gypsy "Despacio". With your draft you are about as Loop perfect as you can be. With antenna's down do you know what your air draft is? Will play in route planning.
Be safe, and good luck on your projects.
Yep, we are about 18ft roughly right now. If we were still on the loop, we'd have to take down our panels and biminy for the Western part of the Eerie Canal - that would take our height to roughly 12ft ( I think). That's cool about the similarities across the different Taiwanese trawlers!
with your dc to dc charger from your motor alt. can you run your solar at the same time your motor is running? Thank You for all your videos . I really enjoy them!
Yes! Solar runs all the time for us 😁
If you want to make purchases from west marine they will match amazon pricing so long as its shipped and sold by Amazon.
Nice, good to know! Thanks Bill!
We will do a video of our 78 34DC and post it soon. Our layout is quite a bit different.
Sweet, looking forward to checking it out!
If it's not too personal to ask, how much did the boat cost? How much do you budget for fuel for the entire trip? Do you have fire suppression in the engine compartment and at the generator? I am terrified of fire on a boat. How much are fees for marinas?
Hey Will - we haven't shared what we purchased the boat for, but we do share our expenses each month including boat projects, fuel, etc! It's all here: schoandjo.com/great-loop-expenses/ I think we budgeted 11.5k for fuel for the year. We have fire suppression in the engine compartment but since we're a diesel its less likely to have a fire there. We have tons of fire extinguishers all around though 😁
When you guys looked at the boat, I saw you did the survey. Did someone check the Diesel engine and how many hours did it have on it? Just curious how you tested that to ensure it was sound for the long trip. As we look for ours that is of course a top priority. Thanks !!
We didn’t do that much analysis on the engine since the PO used to be the goto mechanic on a family’s sailboat and used to run a marina. He ran us through the entire system before we purchased and she ran great on the sea trial. Basically the engine was one part of Pivot we were least concerned about! Plus reading about the Lehmans - they are pretty reliable if you keep them in shape! Any luck with your search?
What do you use for wifi?
We use a WeBoost + our T-Mobile Unlimited plan tethered to a Tp-Link router! Can't say its flawless but does the job
There probably wasn’t anything major wrong with your old small boat engine small motors need maintenance just like big ones, your carburetor was probably completely clogged full of junk because of old fuel (over 3 months)or bad fuel or just hadn’t been cleaned in a long time before going out and buying a new motor next time just give it a tuneup and clean the carburetor and other parts filters so on
Unfortunately we did a ton of work to get the engine working over a couple months but it started falling apart beyond repair. It was a propane engine and the manufacturer went out of business…
You guys need to move out to move in
Haha right!