This is my favorite show on RUclips or television. Why is it so compelling watching people build something? I can't weld, I get sea sick on ocean boats, yet I am captivated by this project. Thank you!
Happy is good. :) Building a boat when you don't really know what you are doing gives us lots of practice at getting back to Happy have "Oh Shit" moments.
I think I keep watching these videos just to feel humbled and inadequate. What you guys are doing impress the hell out of me. Backyard warriors to a whole new level!
You sure have come a long way from dragging around sheets of steel with a pickup truck Doug. When I first started watching this channel, you were still welding the hull sheets together. I was fascinated by the sheer scope and scale of the whole thing and thought you were a absolutely crazy trying to take it on yourself. Now I feel like I'm watching seasoned pros in a navy shipyard. I do miss seeing Aiden in your videos though. You two always reminded me of spending time with my own grandpa when I was a kid. Thanks so much for going to the trouble of posting these every week.
Your videos have captured my imagination. The good humour, bloopers, discoveries and the troubleshooting efforts make me smile, sometimes wryly. I look forward to the notification popping up advising of the new arrival.. Thanks so much for your collective efforts!
when you launch its going to be a mark in history, everyone who shows up should bring something like pot luck. and a couple bucks for your dream fund, I don't have anything to do with this other than rooting for you. but I have been watching pretty much from the beginning. Your group is inspiring to me. when a country is pulling themselves apart you are able to bring them this. and showing cooperation among dreamers. thanks. Mike
Hello Doug! Since rewatching all your posts from the beginning of the build (it was nice to see some projects I have forgotten about). In only one of all your postings here on RUclips we all got to hear about your history with boats and your skills sailing. This was every short clip in a background conversation between you and someone else with most of the main sound in the foreground was the all so ever familiar wroars of the "dualing grinders". Would be weary interesting if you could tell us more regarding this. Keep up the great work!
That would be a short video. I have very little experience with boating and less with sailing. That's what makes this such a wonderful adventure for me. :)
Really enjoy watching the progress and the whole project. Was watching the video last week about the engine room. You mentioned the access panels in the floor for service and repairs. You've probably already thought about this but I thought I'd mention it anyway. An I-beam mounted chain hoist above the engine in case you would need to do any kind of major repair to it. This way you could lift the engine clear of the floor to service or repair the crank.
Yeah. We have some I - Beam laying around and we might do something like that. I like the way it did it on WWII subs where the I-beam could be installed through the hatch ways when needed to load torpedoes. Might be a good way to get heavy gear from the shop in the engine room to the cargo hold. But there is a hatch above each and a deck crane too.
Words to live by... "Don't get hung up on the little stuff. If you do, you'll never get finished." Speaking from big project experience, 99% of them are forgotten and the 1% become future improvement projects. Voila! 99% efficiency gain! Keep up the good work!
I'll risk posting this before I finish the video. One way to help avoid tearout with the router is to clamp a small sacrificial block of wood to the side of the floor tile before putting it in the CNC. When it's cutting the wrong direction with regards to the endgrain, it will be a rougher cut, but the sacrificial piece should help avoid the bulk of the tear out.
An even simpler option would be to cut two corners, flip the tile over and then cut the other two corners. Then you're never cutting in the wrong direction. Thanks for making the videos, this is one of my favorite youtube channels!
i'm probably too late with my 2 cents of advise but I'll give it any way> Cutting those round corners, have you thought of a spiral straight bit? you can get them cutting upwards or down. Actually they make a slicing cut into the wood and therefore less chatter and tear out. Anyway, i'm real impressed with the progress on your ship. Starts to look awesome!
SV Seeker : I love your awesome project and wish to make it possible to visit your site one day! Thank you for sharing it with us! One thing I have to say, because I had injured me seriously with a table saw.... It is very dangerous, to use the parallel guide on a workpiece that is wider than it is long. There is a very high potential of a kickback by using it like that at T08:30. Greetings from Germany an thanks again!
To avoid the chipout you either need a backer or you need to climb cut and take off a small amount on the sides as well. (1/16". Typically when the cut is out of solid wood this is avoided. Also consider taking it in lighter passes, around 1/8" to 1/4" and it won't bog down the router and will leave a nicer finish. You can always go back with a full depth pass and remove a hair like machinists do.
was just about to say the same thing.... just do a shallow climb cut (just the depth of the top board) first on the problem corners then go back and cut them from the "correct" direction.
It took me a while but I'm caught up with the build, 180+ videos.. I have a few questions. 1. Do you remember/know what gave you the bug to do this? 2. What's your sailing background like? 3. With your neighborhood like it is, have you had any thefts? 4. Where are the secret smuggling compartments going to go? I'd have some, just for the cool factor alone. I'm very impressed with your build and the community you brought together. It also looks like building a boat is a good exercise/weight loss program. Keep up the good work. You might be seeing me someday to help out.
With the tile mounted in your routing system, cut only the two corners (opposite each other) where the bit is cutting "down-grain". If you then flip the tile over, you can then cut the other two corners "down-grain".
The thumbnail pic of the inside of the boat gives a Nostalgic type,WW2,N.I.N, cool factor about it. Would be really interesting to see some guys build a ship about that size and armor it out big time. Make a Juggernaut small war boat.
Doug, enjoy your videos very much, but we need to build your sea-going terminology regarding various parts of vessel nomenclature. The pointy end is the bow, no problems. The rear is the stern, okay there. What you walk on are decks, unless you are climbing, then it’s a ladder. Below decks or inside, and you look up; that is the overhead. When you look around, those are not walls, they are bulkheads. Keep up the good work Shipmate!!!
So I have been watching your vids for a while. I am quite impressed with what you and others that spend their time helping you accomplish. One quote that I haven't seen but is one that to me is one that you REALLY need is "Build it and they will come". Just saying.
Patreon and the like would not be a bad idea. If its 3 years from water, thats 36+ months worth of income & videos. Say $500/month, that gets you $18k. That'll fill up the tanks and buy some solar panels for the cabin roof.
I cannot fathom how people can give this a thumbs down. Every new video makes my day. I was happy for you that you sold out the tiles so fast, but disappointed for me.
On the router tear out. If you can find a way to clamp another board tight against the edge that tears out, it will probably cut it pretty clean with minimal tear out if any at all.
Scoring the wood on the tear-out side with a utility knife would stop that from happening. A bit of a pain, but worth it. That was one fat mouse! Probably half dog by now, having consumed all the doggie chow. Thanks for the update, just love watching the progress.
0:57 You have to add a piece of extra sacrificial wood to support the corner that you want to be a straight cut, or you can slowly lower the cutter down from the top right at the corner (only cutting vertically down!), hence creating a cut which isn't splintered. These are tricks from my many years in the Danish woodworking industry. Stay safe!
I love watching the progress of this boat! The ultimate home project. Have you estimated what the cruising and flank speed of the boat will be? Now that I see how much steel and structure is on this boat (+ full diesel, water tanks, crane & plumbing) I'm wondering if that old school bus diesel will have enough oommph for the long haul...?
ill be finishing up my schooling in the next couple years, i'd love the chance to volunteer and do research on this beautiful vessel of yours in the future.
id love to work in there, seems really nice place and all the diffrent jobs to do. Now that i moved to city i miss my countryside and all the work that was always needed to do there.
More genus @ 18:20 about relationships and marriage. Damn you really do know about everything! Also the comment " marriage is how long you can last but divorce lasts forever"! this channel just gets better all the time!
When you're talking about picking up water outside are you talking about some kind of grid cooler? I've been following your build for as long as I can remember but I don't remember you mentioning what kind of equipment you are planning on putting in, but perhaps it's a work in progress. Nice work as always!
you need a sacrificial piece of wood on the exit side of the board your routing. a majority of what causes (blow out) is the cuttings being pushed out of the back of the board
I have been watching all your video's and noticed your concern with the hull deformation. There is a process that is used in the ship yard. It evolves a water hose connected to a ring and a brazing torch. They would heat the hull plate in the center of the ring, then turn on the water. I hope this helps.
I get an early fill-in job as a production welder and making heavy duty pipe racks which warped I was told by the foreman " Heat it up with oxy acetylene and throw a fu@@ing bucket of cold water over it!". It worked !
Hi Doug, good to see your thanksgiving was good. Make sure you start planning some hydraulic hard lines under those panels. I know I've said I was going to send what I have hydraulic wise. But I got my other knee replaced, what a relief. I will send it to you for xmas. If you have anybody coming from WA state let me knw. Now that scrap steel is in the crapper we are stacking it up. We have so much steel that would work for you. Just let me know. Thanks
May I suggest pouring epoxy into all of the routered out areas on the decking, then sanding flush. If you don't fill them up with something now, they are going to fill up with grime all the time and be a total pain to clean! An epoxy will add a nice contrast too.
Triple redundancy, give me 3 ways to start that engine. I don't know if you can bump start a sail boat. Bathrooms are prime reading real estate. A wood burner would be interesting. I don't know if sharks like smoke.
A thought on those floor tiles is to make a jig that clamps over the corner and use a hole saw the nick off the corners. Just a six inch square block of plywood with 1x cleats screwed in relation to a sawn hole held in place with a clamp.
Yeah, I think we have a good deserving project too, but our needs are being met currently by my day job. There will come a day when we need help but I like the idea of being able to connect people closely to how there money is being used.
You could easily make a jig that would allow for adjustable backer boards at each of the corners that would also serve for clamping so that it's faster to do all 4 corners by just picking up the finished piece and replacing it with the next one. A simple piece of 3/4 plywood big enough to put some well placed t-nuts in at the sides of the corners and a few pieces of hard wood that have a rebate cut into them so that they can serve as both clamps and also provide a backing to keep the cutter from tearing out the wood as it exits the cut. The clamping pieces would either need a bigger hole or else a slotted hole than the clamping bolt so that the clamps can be moved out of the way and the next tile put into place. You could even have a few chunks that are either glued or screwed into place on the 3/4 plywood base so that it aligns the tile. That way you would only need to setup the jig on the machine and not have to worry about the steps of alignment for every single tile. (you know for those times when you have been working on tiles but now you have a small job that you really need to switch over to or else production everywhere else comes to a grinding halt...) Not certain if this makes sense or not but I have it designed in my head already! lol Feel free to message me and I'll be happy to send perhaps a sketchup file showing the general idea and then you would be able to tweek it to suit your needs if I'm not making sense.
By the way I love the build, you've had a few welds laid down on it by guys from my home town in Baker County Florida! In one of your more recent videos you showed one of them and his fireworks making machine!
Man I'm right down the road from you guys. I heard of your channel and tried finding it but forgot what it was called. I'm from north of Skiatook in Avant if you know where that is.
hey Doug and crew, if you were to clamp a piece of scrap timber to the edge of the timber grating that you are routering the radius too you wont get the end grain splitting out like you are cheers Andy s/v tri-n-escape south australia
Or when clamping the work piece down with those scrap lengths, make the scrap bit got to the end. That way when the bit starts leaving the work piece, it smoothly goes into the scrap piece instead of tearing the work along the grain. That was a lot harder to explain than to do.
Or I am curious if covering the likely corner in high quality blue tape along cut-line and then peeling after 'cutting' is done would work. I know it works perfectly to eliminate tearout in melamine for circular saw/ table saw cuts when you need flawless cuts--that router bit creates lots of torque and tearout though. I would guess taping, then really working that tape with your finger to ensure a good tape-bound, followed by a slower feed rate of workpiece into router bit would solve the problem.
when you lay out tool paths you should cut the corners first in the optimal direction, then cut the perimeter that way any tear out is shaved off by the router
What about the intercooler for the turbo ? An intercooler is just another name for a heat exchanger that is used to cool air that has been compressed by either a Super-Charger or a Turbocharger. The intercooler is placed somewhere in the path of air that flows from the turbo/supercharger to the motor. An intercooler is needed because of the physics of air described in the Ideal Gas Law, that is PV=nRT.
Just an idea on the remote start, depending how it works...ignore the fuel button. When you press start the alternator will generate a voltage to hold in the fuel relay to start the engine and when stopped the fuel relay would drop out. The start crank may have to be a little longer while fuel is priming...after all that I know nothing about diesels so could be a million miles of.. Anyway just keep these fantastic videos a coming...Oh and an early MERRY XMAS and have a great NEW YEAR.......
oh man, been a while since i have watched you guys. it feels like yesterday i was waiting for you to put out videos on building the keels. haha. you still letting your grandson work on the boat with you? haha teaching him the right way ha
If you want to avoid tear out on the corners you have two options either backup the edge with a sacrificial scrap or keep the cut going in the opposite direction of the motor rotation.
It's the time of the year for rodents to try subletting space in your home. I had a rat try taking up residence in my stove (after the cat brought it in). I knew I had to get it out before it soaked the insulation with urine. Tried cooking it out, no joy. Started to take the sides off and gave up because the fasteners were hidden. Put down glue traps and the darned thing jumped right onto one as I was pushing the stove back against the wall.
Hello from the uk!.....Have you tested the tanks for leeks yet?...i know from experience of working in a shipyard you'll have some and need to repair them! GReat work btw.
think you can turn the entry and exit around on two of the points of the tiles using the cad program so they cut the corners off in the direction of the grain when i was a grinder / prefabricator in my younger days i was offered an education to become a certified welder , didnt took then on because i'm 6.6 foot and i seen the welders working there that where only 5 foot tall twisting themselves intoo a pretzel all the time to get to where they needed to weld stuff (they made cat type harbour cranes) i allso notice that a lot of welders getting toxic smoke , UV light related illnesses (eyes and skin) and backproblems when they get older hey een nederlander , nice job luuk
You must clamp a sacrificial piece of wood on the egress edge of the router path to support the workpiece and avoid tearout like that. And add that wood piece to the stock model in the CAD.
Doug have you compiled a list of the quotes that have been etched into the floor tiles. Where might I find them? If not are you going to make a list? I still think you need my ode to the algae.....i double dog dare you to take my money.
i should do a vid to show you how my through holes are done,they are pipe welded to the hull that comes up to above the water line where the seacock is as a good safety measure
Hey Doug, I'm stuck at home for the foreseeable future, but I'd love to fly over in Summer if I can! In the meantime, if I can help with electronics (I'm an EE) or anything, give me a shout! I'm on the Facebook group:)
"I love being divorced. Every year has been better than the last. By the way, I'm not saying don't get married. If you meet somebody, fall in love and get married. Then get divorced. Because that's the best part. Divorce is forever! It really actually is. Marriage is for how long you can hack it. But divorce just gets stronger like a piece of oak. Nobody ever says 'oh, my divorce is falling apart, it's over, I can't take it.'" Louis CK
We just flat out live to long now. The new model should be: Have an adventure, fall in love, raise a kid or two, lovingly separate the material stuff, and have a BIG adventure.
I think the boat is taking on a really cool nautilus look with the inside ribs. Getting excited.... On the topic of patreon and money, Just like the people who are able to come there and put in their time to work on her, Others further away/less mobile would also like to put in their time, they just have to do it for the man and send you the fruits of their labour to buy materials, because it is all they can manage to contribute in their circumstance. As to any extra money, It would be really cool to set up a fund that can give research grants to projects that use the boat. Many worthwhile projects are desperately underfunded. The reach you have with youtube could make a huge dent in this. If a 3rd party candidate can get millions of dollars overnight to do a recount that is useless, Surely the SVSeeker patreon account and the enthusiastic, supportive viewership could buy some microscopes and scuba masks for some worthy scientists. May this project make the waves that change the world, It is endeavors just like this that do.
If there is any floor titles left for sale I would love to buy one and I have the quote to put on it my grandma paw wrote it " A man should not be judged for the mistakes he makes in life, but the devotion he puts forth to fix those mistakes
This project must be single handedly keeping the grinder and grinder disk market afloat.
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This is my favorite show on RUclips or television. Why is it so compelling watching people build something? I can't weld, I get sea sick on ocean boats, yet I am captivated by this project. Thank you!
Thank you. I'm not sure why folks like it either, but I think it's like a reality show without the bull shit and drama. :)
I think you nailed it...no bull shit or drama...real people, real passion. Reality is always more interesting than fiction.
All those positive quotes sure do make for a positive boat builder. All the episodes are happy but this one in particular is joyous.
Happy is good. :) Building a boat when you don't really know what you are doing gives us lots of practice at getting back to Happy have "Oh Shit" moments.
If you clamp a piece of scrap wood to the corners when you are rounding them off it will prevent the wood from blowing out like that. 01:00
Why not just flip the piece?
I think I keep watching these videos just to feel humbled and inadequate.
What you guys are doing impress the hell out of me.
Backyard warriors to a whole new level!
I like the way you let the little things go. My wife is always telling me "don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things.
dont pet the sweaty things. Why???? lol
You sure have come a long way from dragging around sheets of steel with a pickup truck Doug. When I first started watching this channel, you were still welding the hull sheets together. I was fascinated by the sheer scope and scale of the whole thing and thought you were a absolutely crazy trying to take it on yourself. Now I feel like I'm watching seasoned pros in a navy shipyard.
I do miss seeing Aiden in your videos though. You two always reminded me of spending time with my own grandpa when I was a kid.
Thanks so much for going to the trouble of posting these every week.
Thanks
Your videos have captured my imagination. The good humour, bloopers, discoveries and the troubleshooting efforts make me smile, sometimes wryly. I look forward to the notification popping up advising of the new arrival.. Thanks so much for your collective efforts!
Thanks
Looking good, folks. Keep working hard. It's fun to watch the tiles, and the rest of the flooring, come together.
when you launch its going to be a mark in history, everyone who shows up should bring something like pot luck. and a couple bucks for your dream fund, I don't have anything to do with this other than rooting for you. but I have been watching pretty much from the beginning. Your group is inspiring to me. when a country is pulling themselves apart you are able to bring them this. and showing cooperation among dreamers. thanks. Mike
Couldn't you have just let the poor mouse go peacefully, you must have scared the bejesus out of him.
i dont see what the difference is between a mouse and any other animal but if it was a rat then i would have trouble saying that
a zebra is not a pest.
a mouse is.
Sometimes we need a good scare just to make us appreciate life. LIVE! ...but Jezebel really appreciates a fresh crunchy mouse.
Hello Doug!
Since rewatching all your posts from the beginning of the build (it was nice to see some projects I have forgotten about). In only one of all your postings here on RUclips we all got to hear about your history with boats and your skills sailing. This was every short clip in a background conversation between you and someone else with most of the main sound in the foreground was the all so ever familiar wroars of the "dualing grinders".
Would be weary interesting if you could tell us more regarding this.
Keep up the great work!
That would be a short video. I have very little experience with boating and less with sailing. That's what makes this such a wonderful adventure for me. :)
Really enjoy watching the progress and the whole project. Was watching the video last week about the engine room. You mentioned the access panels in the floor for service and repairs. You've probably already thought about this but I thought I'd mention it anyway. An I-beam mounted chain hoist above the engine in case you would need to do any kind of major repair to it. This way you could lift the engine clear of the floor to service or repair the crank.
Yeah. We have some I - Beam laying around and we might do something like that. I like the way it did it on WWII subs where the I-beam could be installed through the hatch ways when needed to load torpedoes. Might be a good way to get heavy gear from the shop in the engine room to the cargo hold. But there is a hatch above each and a deck crane too.
Words to live by... "Don't get hung up on the little stuff. If you do, you'll never get finished." Speaking from big project experience, 99% of them are forgotten and the 1% become future improvement projects. Voila! 99% efficiency gain! Keep up the good work!
Spot on
SV Seeker is simple, i see a video, i press thumbs up.
Why is this such compelling video? I don't own a boat, I'm not a tradesman, but for some reason I can't turn away.
I'll risk posting this before I finish the video. One way to help avoid tearout with the router is to clamp a small sacrificial block of wood to the side of the floor tile before putting it in the CNC. When it's cutting the wrong direction with regards to the endgrain, it will be a rougher cut, but the sacrificial piece should help avoid the bulk of the tear out.
An even simpler option would be to cut two corners, flip the tile over and then cut the other two corners. Then you're never cutting in the wrong direction.
Thanks for making the videos, this is one of my favorite youtube channels!
Spot on. We like that one.
i'm probably too late with my 2 cents of advise but I'll give it any way> Cutting those round corners, have you thought of a spiral straight bit? you can get them cutting upwards or down. Actually they make a slicing cut into the wood and therefore less chatter and tear out. Anyway, i'm real impressed with the progress on your ship. Starts to look awesome!
SV Seeker : I love your awesome project and wish to make it possible to visit your site one day! Thank you for sharing it with us! One thing I have to say, because I had injured me seriously with a table saw.... It is very dangerous, to use the parallel guide on a workpiece that is wider than it is long. There is a very high potential of a kickback by using it like that at T08:30. Greetings from Germany an thanks again!
Total agreement, I cringed watching him cut that piece of plywood.
We'll be careful mom.
Good to know son....
To avoid the chipout you either need a backer or you need to climb cut and take off a small amount on the sides as well. (1/16". Typically when the cut is out of solid wood this is avoided. Also consider taking it in lighter passes, around 1/8" to 1/4" and it won't bog down the router and will leave a nicer finish. You can always go back with a full depth pass and remove a hair like machinists do.
was just about to say the same thing.... just do a shallow climb cut (just the depth of the top board) first on the problem corners then go back and cut them from the "correct" direction.
I posted in another comment that he could cut two of the corners with the grain, then flip the whole thing over to cut the other two corners.
I would use a sacrificial backer.
Yup That would work
It took me a while but I'm caught up with the build, 180+ videos.. I have a few questions.
1. Do you remember/know what gave you the bug to do this?
2. What's your sailing background like?
3. With your neighborhood like it is, have you had any thefts?
4. Where are the secret smuggling compartments going to go? I'd have some, just for the cool factor alone.
I'm very impressed with your build and the community you brought together. It also looks like building a boat is a good exercise/weight loss program. Keep up the good work. You might be seeing me someday to help out.
1. The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
2. Almost None
3. None. We have a great group of neighbors.
4. Can't tell you that.
Thank You
With the tile mounted in your routing system, cut only the two corners (opposite each other) where the bit is cutting "down-grain". If you then flip the tile over, you can then cut the other two corners "down-grain".
The thumbnail pic of the inside of the boat gives a Nostalgic type,WW2,N.I.N, cool factor about it. Would be really interesting to
see some guys build a ship about that size and armor it out big time. Make a Juggernaut small war boat.
I think I'm addicted to these videos.
You, me and 81,000 other people!
great video Doug cant wait for the next. Thanks
Doug, enjoy your videos very much, but we need to build your sea-going terminology regarding various parts of vessel nomenclature. The pointy end is the bow, no problems. The rear is the stern, okay there. What you walk on are decks, unless you are climbing, then it’s a ladder. Below decks or inside, and you look up; that is the overhead. When you look around, those are not walls, they are bulkheads. Keep up the good work Shipmate!!!
A bathroom sponsored tile would be read much more than the rest.
"May your life be like toilet paper, Long and useful" - Unknown
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I like it. :)
Nope. You'll have to be better. And the price is just $50. :)
at the end of the job dont forget the paperwork ;)
So I have been watching your vids for a while. I am quite impressed with what you and others that spend their time helping you accomplish.
One quote that I haven't seen but is one that to me is one that you REALLY need is "Build it and they will come".
Just saying.
Patreon and the like would not be a bad idea. If its 3 years from water, thats 36+ months worth of income & videos. Say $500/month, that gets you $18k. That'll fill up the tanks and buy some solar panels for the cabin roof.
Great progress folks. Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
just saw your channel on Winston's, can't wait to watch all of your videos they look right up my alley.
I cannot fathom how people can give this a thumbs down. Every new video makes my day. I was happy for you that you sold out the tiles so fast, but disappointed for me.
I think we have a contingency of Mouse Rights Activist. :) ...poor Jezebel is feeling really bad.
On the router tear out. If you can find a way to clamp another board tight against the edge that tears out, it will probably cut it pretty clean with minimal tear out if any at all.
Yup
Scoring the wood on the tear-out side with a utility knife would stop that from happening. A bit of a pain, but worth it. That was one fat mouse! Probably half dog by now, having consumed all the doggie chow. Thanks for the update, just love watching the progress.
...and lives to eat more. :)
Love the elf on the shelf! and the little dog sniffing it all out XD
0:57 You have to add a piece of extra sacrificial wood to support the corner that you want to be a straight cut, or you can slowly lower the cutter down from the top right at the corner (only cutting vertically down!), hence creating a cut which isn't splintered. These are tricks from my many years in the Danish woodworking industry. Stay safe!
This is one of my favorite series on RUclips. Thank you for all the videos.
Thank you Chris gassen from Germany for another beautiful thumbnail!
just saw you on the serpentza RUclips channel, so I'm here to check out your videos now...
Great vid Doug! @11:46 it was so funny watching the dog when you started that engine! :D
Clamp a backing piece on the board to prevent the router blowing out that cut. 3/4" tool might stop the chatter. The Ipe looks awesome...good work.
Yup. That will work.
I love watching the progress of this boat! The ultimate home project. Have you estimated what the cruising and flank speed of the boat will be? Now that I see how much steel and structure is on this boat (+ full diesel, water tanks, crane & plumbing) I'm wondering if that old school bus diesel will have enough oommph for the long haul...?
ill be finishing up my schooling in the next couple years, i'd love the chance to volunteer and do research on this beautiful vessel of yours in the future.
id love to work in there, seems really nice place and all the diffrent jobs to do. Now that i moved to city i miss my countryside and all the work that was always needed to do there.
More genus @ 18:20 about relationships and marriage.
Damn you really do know about everything!
Also the comment " marriage is how long you can last but divorce lasts forever"!
this channel just gets better all the time!
I really enjoy watching along. Best wishes and carry on!
it must come good now, when Dutch people are working on it! lol
Luuk is from nearby here!
Yeah, we're going to keep him.
dropped in from serpentza's channel ;)
How are you getting the motor inside the engine room?
That's a very good question, I had the same thought.
SGHD Rides they will have to hoist amd lower it in. Its easy if the engine is taken apart and rebuilt inside
When you're talking about picking up water outside are you talking about some kind of grid cooler? I've been following your build for as long as I can remember but I don't remember you mentioning what kind of equipment you are planning on putting in, but perhaps it's a work in progress. Nice work as always!
Everything is a work in progress.
you need a sacrificial piece of wood on the exit side of the board your routing. a majority of what causes (blow out) is the cuttings being pushed out of the back of the board
I have been watching all your video's and noticed your concern with the hull deformation. There is a process that is used in the ship yard. It evolves a water hose connected to a ring and a brazing torch. They would heat the hull plate in the center of the ring, then turn on the water. I hope this helps.
I get an early fill-in job as a production welder and making heavy duty pipe racks which warped I was told by the foreman " Heat it up with oxy acetylene and throw a fu@@ing bucket of cold water over it!". It worked !
Hi Doug, good to see your thanksgiving was good. Make sure you start planning some hydraulic hard lines under those panels. I know I've said I was going to send what I have hydraulic wise. But I got my other knee replaced, what a relief. I will send it to you for xmas. If you have anybody coming from WA state let me knw. Now that scrap steel is in the crapper we are stacking it up. We have so much steel that would work for you. Just let me know. Thanks
Congratulations on the knee. Hang onto the parts. We have plans to make plans soon and then it will be easier to know what we can actually use.
black epoxy in the engraving on the for tiles would look awesome, and make the letters last longer
May I suggest pouring epoxy into all of the routered out areas on the decking, then sanding flush. If you don't fill them up with something now, they are going to fill up with grime all the time and be a total pain to clean! An epoxy will add a nice contrast too.
Dirt, sand and mud will add a nice contrast and not remove the non-skid feature. :)
Triple redundancy, give me 3 ways to start that engine. I don't know if you can bump start a sail boat.
Bathrooms are prime reading real estate.
A wood burner would be interesting. I don't know if sharks like smoke.
When routing the corners of the tiles, on the corners that you are having the brake out on enter the cut from the opposite side and climb cut
A thought on those floor tiles is to make a jig that clamps over the corner and use a hole saw the nick off the corners. Just a six inch square block of plywood with 1x cleats screwed in relation to a sawn hole held in place with a clamp.
Might work.
Let us know when it's time to fill the tanks with diesel... we'll make it happen, don't you worry.
That's what I was thinking :) Send SV Seeker fuel gift cards.
If people want to give you money you rally should take it,you supply entertainment and interest to a lot of people,you deserve it.
Yeah, I think we have a good deserving project too, but our needs are being met currently by my day job. There will come a day when we need help but I like the idea of being able to connect people closely to how there money is being used.
lookin like a good work boat... how close are yall to launch? i want to get out there before then and possibly then to help out a bit.
You could easily make a jig that would allow for adjustable backer boards at each of the corners that would also serve for clamping so that it's faster to do all 4 corners by just picking up the finished piece and replacing it with the next one. A simple piece of 3/4 plywood big enough to put some well placed t-nuts in at the sides of the corners and a few pieces of hard wood that have a rebate cut into them so that they can serve as both clamps and also provide a backing to keep the cutter from tearing out the wood as it exits the cut. The clamping pieces would either need a bigger hole or else a slotted hole than the clamping bolt so that the clamps can be moved out of the way and the next tile put into place. You could even have a few chunks that are either glued or screwed into place on the 3/4 plywood base so that it aligns the tile. That way you would only need to setup the jig on the machine and not have to worry about the steps of alignment for every single tile. (you know for those times when you have been working on tiles but now you have a small job that you really need to switch over to or else production everywhere else comes to a grinding halt...) Not certain if this makes sense or not but I have it designed in my head already! lol Feel free to message me and I'll be happy to send perhaps a sketchup file showing the general idea and then you would be able to tweek it to suit your needs if I'm not making sense.
By the way I love the build, you've had a few welds laid down on it by guys from my home town in Baker County Florida! In one of your more recent videos you showed one of them and his fireworks making machine!
That's Arron. A bit OCD but all engineers are. We love him anyway.
I just watched this again. Way to sneak in the Elf on the Shelf there! haha
The videos never seem long enough...but damn you are getting close to painting.
Earl looks at the mouse and says "It's your catch you eat it"
Snobby cat. :)
Man I'm right down the road from you guys. I heard of your channel and tried finding it but forgot what it was called. I'm from north of Skiatook in Avant if you know where that is.
hey Doug and crew, if you were to clamp a piece of scrap timber to the edge of the timber grating that you are routering the radius too you wont get the end grain splitting out like you are cheers Andy s/v tri-n-escape south australia
Thanks
Turn the wood panels over to avoid chipout,
Wayne Goff Only need opposite corners.
Or when clamping the work piece down with those scrap lengths, make the scrap bit got to the end. That way when the bit starts leaving the work piece, it smoothly goes into the scrap piece instead of tearing the work along the grain. That was a lot harder to explain than to do.
Or I am curious if covering the likely corner in high quality blue tape along cut-line and then peeling after 'cutting' is done would work. I know it works perfectly to eliminate tearout in melamine for circular saw/ table saw cuts when you need flawless cuts--that router bit creates lots of torque and tearout though. I would guess taping, then really working that tape with your finger to ensure a good tape-bound, followed by a slower feed rate of workpiece into router bit would solve the problem.
when you lay out tool paths you should cut the corners first in the optimal direction, then cut the perimeter that way any tear out is shaved off by the router
What about the intercooler for the turbo ?
An intercooler is just another name for a heat exchanger that is used to cool air that has been compressed by either a Super-Charger or a Turbocharger. The intercooler is placed somewhere in the path of air that flows from the turbo/supercharger to the motor. An intercooler is needed because of the physics of air described in the Ideal Gas Law, that is PV=nRT.
That make a marine replacement for it that uses water instead of air. It should preform much better too.
Just an idea on the remote start, depending how it works...ignore the fuel button. When you press start the alternator will generate a voltage to hold in the fuel relay to start the engine and when stopped the fuel relay would drop out.
The start crank may have to be a little longer while fuel is priming...after all that I know nothing about diesels so could be a million miles of..
Anyway just keep these fantastic videos a coming...Oh and an early MERRY XMAS and have a great NEW YEAR.......
I did not mention, I meant rewire the Fuel relay for the above operation.....
...but it's killing the fuel relay that stops a diesel engine.
Looks like a data center floor. Nice idea!
Yeah, I wonder where I got that idea. : )
Looking great what a good bunch of people that help you keep the videos coming
Seeker Crew Rock!
oh man, been a while since i have watched you guys. it feels like yesterday i was waiting for you to put out videos on building the keels. haha. you still letting your grandson work on the boat with you? haha teaching him the right way ha
hey doug, do you need a marine 6 inch brass LP air gauge? i bought it from a antique store.
I don't think so, because I don't even know what that is.
I bet someone would happily donate to offer some subtle/clever potty-humor!
Any word on how those cordless DeWalts are holding up? Stellar video as always!
It's perfect for the quick job. But I prefer the 15 amp one for most work. If I was still a thief then it would be my top pick.
"Still a thief" haha. You're stealing my free time by producing interesting videos that I feel compelled to watch!
Use a sacrificial wood brace to stop the brake out of the wood
Yup
If you want to avoid tear out on the corners you have two options either backup the edge with a sacrificial scrap or keep the cut going in the opposite direction of the motor rotation.
Yup
It's the time of the year for rodents to try subletting space in your home.
I had a rat try taking up residence in my stove (after the cat brought it in).
I knew I had to get it out before it soaked the insulation with urine.
Tried cooking it out, no joy.
Started to take the sides off and gave up because the fasteners were hidden.
Put down glue traps and the darned thing jumped right onto one as I was pushing the stove back against the wall.
Fortunately Earl only brings them in without their heads. And Jezebel eats them whole when she catches them. :)
I wish with everything I have that I could make it out there to help with this project. Ive dreamed of building my own vessel since i was a child.
You can minimize tear out with some masking tape on the corners that have the bit turning across the grain.
with the router cutting if you scribe the wood with a sharp blade this will prevent the wood chipping or a wood scribe hope this was helpful.
Hello from the uk!.....Have you tested the tanks for leeks yet?...i know from experience of working in a shipyard you'll have some and need to repair them! GReat work btw.
think you can turn the entry and exit around on two of the points of the tiles using the cad program so they cut the corners off in the direction of the grain
when i was a grinder / prefabricator in my younger days i was offered an education to become a certified welder , didnt took then on because i'm 6.6 foot and i seen the welders working there that where only 5 foot tall twisting themselves intoo a pretzel all the time to get to where they needed to weld stuff (they made cat type harbour cranes)
i allso notice that a lot of welders getting toxic smoke , UV light related illnesses (eyes and skin) and backproblems when they get older
hey een nederlander , nice job luuk
I tried that today. It helped some, but just some. Turn out that a slow cut speed makes the most difference.
Can I sponsor a tile? "EVERY PIECE OF ASS YOU LOSE IS A PIECE YOU NEVER GAIN"
turn de wood plates upside down for the against the grain cuts in the corners!!!!!!! cut two, turn and cut the other two :)
Right on.
always enjoy the videos keep up the great work.
You must clamp a sacrificial piece of wood on the egress edge of the router path to support the workpiece and avoid tearout like that. And add that wood piece to the stock model in the CAD.
Gosh I wish I could get there.
Doug have you compiled a list of the quotes that have been etched into the floor tiles.
Where might I find them? If not are you going to make a list?
I still think you need my ode to the algae.....i double dog dare you to take my money.
Doug the toilet tile is the best one because that is the one everybody will read! haha
True
i should do a vid to show you how my through holes are done,they are pipe welded to the hull that comes up to above the water line where the seacock is as a good safety measure
glue a sacrificial strip then just trim it off...you can do that with planers, joiners and edgers etc...
thumbs up for the dutch guy, wish i could afford the trip just like him
We'll bring the boat to you someday.
SV Seeker well i hope so! maybe ill have enough money next year. time to save
Hey Doug, I'm stuck at home for the foreseeable future, but I'd love to fly over in Summer if I can! In the meantime, if I can help with electronics (I'm an EE) or anything, give me a shout! I'm on the Facebook group:)
"I love being divorced. Every year has been better than the last. By the way, I'm not saying don't get married. If you meet somebody, fall in love and get married. Then get divorced. Because that's the best part. Divorce is forever! It really actually is. Marriage is for how long you can hack it. But divorce just gets stronger like a piece of oak. Nobody ever says 'oh, my divorce is falling apart, it's over, I can't take it.'"
Louis CK
We just flat out live to long now. The new model should be: Have an adventure, fall in love, raise a kid or two, lovingly separate the material stuff, and have a BIG adventure.
The rewards to hard work, is hard work.
Priceless welder incident on the hobart.
I think the boat is taking on a really cool nautilus look with the inside ribs. Getting excited....
On the topic of patreon and money, Just like the people who are able to come there and put in their time to work on her, Others further away/less mobile would also like to put in their time, they just have to do it for the man and send you the fruits of their labour to buy materials, because it is all they can manage to contribute in their circumstance.
As to any extra money, It would be really cool to set up a fund that can give research grants to projects that use the boat. Many worthwhile projects are desperately underfunded. The reach you have with youtube could make a huge dent in this. If a 3rd party candidate can get millions of dollars overnight to do a recount that is useless, Surely the SVSeeker patreon account and the enthusiastic, supportive viewership could buy some microscopes and scuba masks for some worthy scientists.
May this project make the waves that change the world, It is endeavors just like this that do.
WOW !! The first time I have heard when the hull might touch water !
It's bull shit. I get asked that so much I have to say something. :)
If there is any floor titles left for sale I would love to buy one and I have the quote to put on it my grandma paw wrote it " A man should not be judged for the mistakes he makes in life, but the devotion he puts forth to fix those mistakes
You can get the CNC Router to cut the floor pieces without tear out if you flip the floor panels over for the "wrong" corners.
Thanks. That is the plan
22:47 Great advice there.