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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- We're working really hard now on both boats to get Steel Melody ready to sell and Ocean Melody ready for us to head off sailing in April.
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Dear Melissa, Andy, Oliver and captain Jack,
Melody is now progressing really well for the big splash. Slowly she becomes a real steel sailing ship and will be a pleasure to travel on the world’s oceans. As soon as Melody will be sold you can concentrate yourself on Ocean Melody. This ship will be epic when she will be finished and will finally bring the Bennington-Turner family the opportunity to sail around the world. Willeke and I hope your family are doing all fine and we look forward to your next vlog plus we send you love from the Netherlands
It is coming along ! Nice jazz music in the background too. Best wishes on all your projects
Guess you are a bit stressed out,take a deep breath calm down don't rush. You are getting there time by time. Family is the most inportent thing.😊
Hi Andy, Jotun87 contains isocyanates, so definitely to be used with great care in confined spaces.You mentioned the use of an air fed mask as being one option for controlling the risk. Alternatively for such a small element of work, you could just introduce some mechanical ventilation. In the case of the chain locker - a 3” inline bilge blower type fan ducted out through a porthole would give you a sufficient air change rate to make the task much safer.
Lovely to see the paint go on, you can see it’s going to look great pretty soon - share your frustrations with the weather, but hopefully you guys will soon be in warmer climes without getting pounded by Atlantic westerlies.💨💨💨
A paint brush mounted on a length of timber at an angle to get into all areas would definitely have been the way to go.
Good to point out the HUGE danger of painting in enclosed spaces. Probably better to find a more suitable coating ie 'solvent free' I can't really remember product names now, but we used to use such paints on weld repairs where coating damage had occurred on larger vessels. Again I enjoyed the show
Wow , a lot have been done again on steel melody ! she will be soon ready to splash , well done Andy and the helpers crew, friendly greetings, Brian
Hahaha yes indeed
Talking of battery drills Andy, you probably know, but if you tighten up the chuck nice and tight, the back it off until you hear a click, it locks the chuck 😊
Constantly impressed with the tremendous amount of work you are doing on these two yachts. I will now go take nap.
Great to see you working on Steel Melody !! Hope you can get the Old Boat Tip Top Shape for the New Owners !!! God Bless & Be Safe !! Don’t forget to time lapse so we can see all of your Hard Work !! 👍👍🙏🙏🇺🇸🪖 Old Veteran Disabled 😃😃
More terrific work Andy and friends. Steel Melody is coming together very nicely with your usual thorough work. Keep well and safe. James.
Glad you realised what was happening in the chain locker. Imagine the PEE that would have been extracted if some of your Paramedic mates had come out to you.
Will you be taking us all for a ride on Steel Melody when you have her all Ship Shape and Bristol fashion?
With Jonathan and Andy's help you really accomplished an amazing amount of necessary work. The anchor locker came out superb along with the toe rail area, she's looking like a splash is in order. Have you found a buyer for Steel Melody, she'd be a seaworthy craft for youth training, possibly you could donate her to the Royal Yacht Club!
Great progress. Love the new paint, it makes SM look so much better.
I think so too!
Great work chaps. She is looking good.
Nice one Andy. Jonathan get some pants that fit as you are working on a boat not plumbing. LOL.
Yes you were breaking the safety rules by not wearing harnesses. And the painting up in the forward chain locker. I'm not going to say much about it as 99.9% of us males would have done the same. Like I said before it is nice you've got some great mates to help you out. "ANDY"! stay safe as I don't know what I'd do if I had no Sailing Melody to watch. lol catch you next video
So you probably know that when you tighten anything in the chuck, you then wind it back as if to loosen). It makes one click. That is the chuck locked so it won't loosen on the bit if you reverse.
Looking good hope she splashes soon
So, now that the episode is done, how many of the tasks intended from the mobile lost did you manage to complete??? 😊
Thanks Jonathan and Andrew. Cameo from Jack, Melissa, Ollie?. The fresh paint sure brightens up the foward deck areas. Some fume buzz working in a confined space. When you know, you know. Good luck with the swing keel.
Andy, besides the dangerous fumes bit, you've done what we must all be guilty of at one time or another. Gone and painted the easy bits first, then realised that's the part that should have been done last. Painting ourselves into the actual, not proverbial corner. These are lessons on life!
Great progress hope your on schedule, looking forward to seeing some fully completed jobs on ocean melody especially jacks cabin and bathroom 😊
Good job boys, love seeing you back on steel melody.
Great job Andy and the boys, what a difference this boat is now compared to when you bought it , someone is going to be over the moon with this boat
It will be a beautifil boat
Hi are you going to attach a safty fence of some kind, perhaps half way up your cable fence, just in case young Oliver runs off as he gets older??
Oh yes absolutely
We will have netting all around the entire stantion posts and life lines for the safety of all on board
Plus Ollie will be very closely monitored and always accompanied on deck and appropriate use of life jackets, buoyancy aids and harness and teather when under way etc
Keep yourself healthy. You can"t do things in a hurty:)
I remember decades ago when I was in the merch. We were painting the lazarette which was a confined space aft. We had to paint for 5min then up for air. H&S back then was non existence. All I can remember of the paint, it was grey, very strong fumes and when you drop bits of the paint from the brush into water. It would start wriggling.
Your boats coming along great 👍👍
There's more rain coming. I have just watched the latest Met office long range forecast.
Keeping the key on the grinder is pretty risky
I hope you sell steel melody soon it's making you tired you mistakes then shame that nobody's prepared to buy as is the amount of work you have done is marvellous but you could be spending that on ocean melody 😊😊
We’ve not advertised her anywhere though yet so I’ll hopefully get her advertised next week
Thanks guys! 😊
Nylon is hydrophilic. I never had a steel boat, but I wonder if this is a suitable idea.
I knew that nylon fabric is hydrophilic, but had assumed that moulded, or solid nylon is hydrophobic. On reading your comment I looked it up, and you are correct. Nylon washers will absorb water giving them poor dimensional stability. Logically, that would also apparently make them unsuitable for use in wet areas as an electrolysis/corrosion barrier.
Steel boats just look like an endless rust battle from everything I see. Not for me, will stick with my plastic boat
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A few pros: Cheaper to build, superior strength, superior abrasion resistance, relatively easy to repair, longer life span then any other type of boat.
They do need more maintenance and are heavier, but have a lot going for them.
Progress, Andy! Nice job! 😎❤️❤️❤️🥰
Good job well done, Andy, as usually!!! Waiting for your ocean trip!
Best regards from Russia!!!
What a horrid job-that chain locker is a real mental uggg. How you can even see to grind. Keeping up with the grind literally until these bits get ticked off and soon she will be someone’s baby!!!! I’d love to buy her. She is a sweet little rig. Strong and steady as she goes!!!!
Steel melody is starting to come alive again well done be careful next time painting see you next time 😊😊
It's good that that phone list is decreasing. With a little help from your friends, with a little help from your...
HELLO OLIVER !!!
Nice job Andy, thanks Andrew and Jonathon. Good work on Steel Melody. Looking forward to catching up on the next ones. Thanks m8s, stay vertical Eh!
As a good will jester to the people who have given there time working on your boat, would it see fit fit to share some of the money with them after the sale ?
Thanks
Nice to see the progress. Looks like you are almost there. Enjoying the benson-esq guitar 🙂
****VETERAN SCOTS GUARDS**WELL DONE ✔ CAPTAIN YOU ARE A GRAFTER..SUCH AMAZING WORK YOU HAVE ALL ACHIEVED ..*********************
Hello Andy from the West Coast of Ireland. Long time no see bro. That Paint is deadly stuff. Be Careful 😮🖐🙏🙏🇨🇮
Someone is going to get a fantastic boat. Steel Melody’s looking great. Nothing is half-baked. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention beautiful job with 2 inch brushes!❤
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Forgive the presumption but I'm wondering - out of both concern and curiosity - if you're doing detailed "what-if" planning before leaving on your extended travels. As a former sailor myself (Ericson 27 many decades ago), I have some slight experience of failing to do that kind of planning, although thankfully there were no serious consequences. But if I were to own another boat (which is out of the question at my age), I'd have a specific plan for how to handle, under various conditions, sinking, demasting, loss of all power, inoperative rudder, life-threatening illness, etc. (although with your EMT experience, you undoubtedly will have the last covered). Your family's safety and well-being are often in my thoughts and prayers as the time of your embarkation approaches, which I imagine is true for virtually all your other friends and supporters. Via con Dios.
We are both very risk averse and like all sailors we have MOB plans etc and as a responsible husband and father I routinely run through what I would do in the “worst case scenario” and have many ideas for what to do in as many scenarios as my vivid and paranoid imagination can conceive. We’ve both done a fair amount of RYA training which focuses on a lot of such issues but cruising being a step beyond coastal sailing I have given a fair amount of thought to planning for situations that could arise. I will be preparing protocols, procedures and emergency drills to do with the family and any crew we have on board but ultimately it’s impossible to prepare in advance for every possible bad thing that might happen so you prepare for what you can and hope you can think fast enough for the situations you can’t imagine or plan for.
Steering
We have two seperate rudders, the main rudder and rhe hydrovane.
We have an emergency tiller for the main rudder in case rhe wheel has a problem.
We have a seperate tiller for the hydrovane in case we lose the main rudder completely.
Propulsion.
I will be building a bathing platform with a heavy duty bracket to take our large 4 stroke outboard to manoeuvre the boat if the main engine dies. Sadly the person who was helping with our stainless work used our stainless tube on another job and has not replaced it so my plans for that will have to wait until he either replaced the stainless he “used” or I can afford to buy more.
Floatation : we keep bungs of the correct sizes with each through hull :
We have doubled up on our bilge pumps.
We also have a large manual bilge pump:
We also have an emergency Hugh flow flood pump which can run from a generator.
Rig.
We carry a seperate back stay and enough fittings to replace any part of the standing rigging.
We carry secondary rope for every part of the running rigging.
We carry a HUGE box of chandlery, sheaves and other parts.
I carry a huge amount of tools and spares and can repair almost anything which breaks.
We have an 8 man life raft,
AND a walker bay 10 sailing dinghy.
AND a 3.1m sailing inflatable rib
AND a 10hp outboard
AND a 5hp outboard
I could go on and on but I guarantee even with all that we will encounter the unexpected
It's a relief to hear that you will be very well prepared. Thanks for explaining - it puts my mind at ease. Of course, I should have assumed as much, but I've been watching RUclips videos of sailing-couples who experienced catastrophic situations far from land and any immediate help.
@@kharakim yes it’s a worry for sure. All we can do is our best and I’m sure I will fail and not think of something but I will be giving redundancy, contingency and backup plans a great deal of though. We appreciate how much people care about us
Not a Swing Keel, is a Keel with a Chenterboard.
No. You’re wrong. A centre boa d is flat, has no hydrodynamic profile and no ballast. Our swinging keel, which we have AS WELL as our long keel, is a symmetrical foil profile and has a tonne of ballast in it. It is a keel not a centre board
@@SailingMelody sorry disagree. A swing Keel can move from center to left or right. No matter you Keel is a long Keel. Is still a Center board keel.
@@dieterscholz4257 regardless it’s a pointless case of semantics. You knew what I mean. I knew what I mean. Everybody understands what I mean. I don’t understand what you wish to achieve by arguing about it, or even commenting on it.
is that an old boat you bought to do up? or your boat that needs doing up????
Watch the intro. It explains exactly that
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Hi Andy,what's happening with Nigel and Bleeding Rust?
Not heard from Nigel for ages since I picked up the tube bender from him.
Cheers Andy,he's not put anything on his RUclips channel for quite a while either.Keep up the good work,can't wait to see you and your family finally set sail.👍😊
this too shall pass.
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You should no better in a confine your mates will go mad paramedic
What a fuckin _ball_ arse ache of a job cleaning that chain locker out must've been 😖😖😖
Love watching the work being done ,but Andy if you shutup you would achieve mire.
49 hours work so far this week.
12 minutes of speaking to camera.
0.04% of my working time is spent speaking to camera.
Am I not achieving enough to keep you happy?