Building an Engine Room
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Day Tank, Fuel Lines, Filters, Engine, Sea Chest, Work Benches, Lighting, Breaker Panel, Cable Tray, it's a lot of things in motion at the same time but it's a perfect way to figure it all out. And in the center of all this is our Chief Engineer, Hollis. And amazing man fueled by a zeal for life and key lime pie.
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I hope I live long enough to see her float. I've been here since the beginning, but the light is growing dim. God bless you Doug, for your vision and inspiration. The world is a better place because of people like you. Never stop preaching your philosophy, whatever the outcome of Seeker. I wish SV Seeker glorious horizons achieved and for all the souls that believed and sweated, glorious horizons enjoyed. You are making history.
Kevin Parker
What a beautiful comment. I wholeheartedly support what you say. Well done Doug and thanks for sharing.
Colin Herbert
Update: Turned out to be not Pancreatic cancer, just a very painful stone blocking a duct. Looks like I may be around to see her launched. Thanks for your kind words.
@@kevinparker7953 are you still around, things are looking good !
It sure does change the atmosphere inside with the paint. Engine room is moving along in leaps and bounds.
I've got this picture in my head of a typical work day, moving along as usual, suddenly everyone realizes that there is no more to be done until it's moved to the water. Everyone sits during the last half of the day, scratching their heads and thinking "I didn't see that coming..." Of course we know that you will probably find things to do (beyond repair and maintenance) in there long past it's maiden voyage.
I really need to see this boat in person.
Love the way you edit your videos
Engine installation... That is a major milestone when building a boat. Especially a steel boat the size of Seeker. Congrats!
Man, you guys are making some progress. Hollis is a heck of a hand. Hate to see you crawling around cleaning inside the tanks. That's the sort of thing you need to put guys like me on, so we feel like we're contributing, but little risk we'll screw anything up. I was in Dallas last weekend, and wished I could have gotten up for a day, but just too much going on. One of these days though.
In my travels from middle Tennessee I stopped by to visit. What a great visit it was. Met Doug and saw the Seeker. Great experience.
Love it! Only 14 minutes of work and incredible progress. Fantastic to get people who do things like this for their day job to come help out. That fuel system looks awesome! Can't wait to see this boat in the water. Really nice to see a part of the ship nearing completion. Sweet! Keep it up guys...
So exciting to see the progress in the engine room. I think Hollis is going to be the honorary chief engineer for sure.
I love that a kid taught you all how to be a kid, keep on sliding down the ramp.
I have been aboard mamy vessels, mostly work boats that support the offshore oil&gas industry. I mist say your vessel is very unique. Hopefully one day I'll see it in person. One heck of an ambitious project, my hats off to you.....
Doug, You are a visionary. Keep up the good work and I wish you all the best.
Wow, stuff is shaping up quick. For overhead plugs in the wiring tray, you should check out Neutrik PowerCon True1 connectors. Twist lock with a latch good for 240V 20A, water resistant, and in the $8 price range for the cord mount variety. and very slim compared to NEMA twistlocks. I think the panelmount variety will fit in a 3/4" conduit knockout if you add the holes for the retaining screws.
Awesome progress, great to see
Almost there! Stop by see us at Navarre Florida! Smile!
Suggestion carry the new pulse welder onboard the SV Seeker when she sets sail and the air plasma cutting torch with you , having them handy just incase a quick fix is needed ! Don,t worry about that C02 , Argon gas works just as good on thick steel...
Excellent welds Doug !
Seeing the engine, fuel system and electrical system going in was awesome. It's a pretty huge milestone marking a stark transition from building the boat to fitting her out. Very exciting!
The engine is in and painting has begun...a milestone has been reached.
This has been one hell of a project...and I am proud to say I have seen it from the very start..
,I've been on a boat craze last few yrs ,you have inspired me,I've been watching all your videos, the last few days. Thats amazing how you have inspired so many people to help ,come together and accomplish something amazing. I'd love to help if i had a way ,i went to school 20 yrs ago,4 yrs of metal fabrication and agricultural mechanics, 2 years AUTOMOTIVE technology. best thing i ever did was learn how to weld, all I got at home is my old Lincoln cracker box, last place I was employed had a nice Miller MIG welder, i got use to ,no clean up, still like burning rods, while working in the automotive repair industry, being able to repair broken parts and fabing custom pieces ,sure comes in handy .LOVE what your doing and the DRAGONS are a really cool touch ..thank you
Wow guys... What a heap of stuff going on, busy busy... Welding and Grinding and Cutting and Sparks and Painting... And more welding... Way to go...!
That engine cleaned up really well.
Hats off to you sir. Your dream is looking amazing. Thank you for taking us on this journey with you.
Man you guys are kicking ass!!!
I usually get really bummed when Doug's videos end cause I want more, today I'm down right pissed! LOL WAY TOO SHORT! can we get the Out takes reel from this one please????
I like the 10-15 minute videos more, because the longer ones are not so easily justifiable for me, such a huge time investment, and I got too much to do already :)
(Even if they put out more videos I feel this way.)
Now that's what I am talking about!! A HEART installed in the SEEKER!!
Did a cummins swap in my truck learned that the fuel pumps from the parts house are junk the original from cummins has a check valve built in the replacement pumps just have a trash screen where that check should be.
Engine used to pop right of with not even a full turn now it's a long crank to start.
Be glad when my pump from cummins comes in.
Enjoy your posts always looking forward to the next one
Hi Doug ! Omg ! Things are really speeding Up ! You must be a very happy man right now, with All that progress that have been going on ! Paint, fuel lines, engine in.. woaw so cool to follow..
its aazing the difference a coat of paint on the inside does for the video quality and for making it feel a bit more finished.
More engine room and plumbing . Coming along good.
Fantastic progress. Thumbs up for Hollis. Thanks for the great video.
She's really coming along!
Wow so much going on and into Seeker it is good to see the water tight doors going into place i love the artistic flare on the locks and all the wiring starting to go in as well plus you get the motor out of your yard and in place all in all great work to every body involved all the best big pete from oz ..
Man do I like how that engine room is coming along! Also, great idea with the wiring and piping tray!
Its really coming along Doug.
Looking like a boat with the engine going in. We use those pad for years. They come in pads and rolls. They will soak the oil off he water good enough for the EPA.
Looking really good! Its really coming together now!
How exciting is this!!!! Holy shit! There’s an engine in Seeker!!!
The recommended shielding gas to use for short circuit stainless steel MIG welding is a tri-mix shielding gas, such as 90%He/7.5%Ar/2.5%CO2. The high thermal conductivity of helium helps provide a flatter weldbead and good fusion into the base plate. Also make sure your machine is wired for DCEP, or direct current electrode positive. Now go make some awesome stainless steel welds. :)
What a nice treat for my night.
re absorbents, You can make one for water in fuel with the material in a diaper , You can put it in a sock with room for it to expand 4 times.
Looks great Doug and everyone else!
super exciting to see that cummins go in there. you guys are at the fit out stage and that is amazing. congratulations!
I am sure you have considered this already, but I am curious about it:
What are you planning to do for emergency lighting, should you have a failure of both the main engine and the generator? I know that you were planning on doing some minor solar and have battery banks, but powering those florescent fixtures in that situation, let alone keeping some running lights on deck running so you can be seen, is going to eat battery power really quickly. An emergency system that runs on DC or low voltage AC (24V) using LEDs would be a good backup and could even run in flooded conditions wear as the AC 120v fixtures there would short out or use too much energy.
Yes, you should never have a double failure of power for an extended period of time, an old Marine that taught me radio and radar stated it best: always have a backup and failure will happen, so plan for it. You are not going to want to burn energy on lighting the engine room while you fix things, but you are going to need good lighting to fix things fast. Should the problem not be repairable for an extended period of time, you are going to want all power for radios, weather, and navigation so you can call for help if the weather gets nautical or maybe to run tools to restore electricity.
1kw of solar with 5kw of battery bank (4 golf cart sized cells will provide that at 24v, or 12v... recommend 24) is enough to keep 20 full size T5 florescent lit for ~8 hours at 80% for a poor quality inverter, ignoring any sunlight. Any more than that probably goes to personal lights, and reducing the amount of lights in use. The engine room could easily be lit with just 10 standard residential sized bulb (edison screw in) LEDs for a total of 50 watts on those same 4 batteries for 4 or 5 days. Add in just 1kW of solar and it will be 24x7.
The real concern is fuel pumps. They need a way to transfer to the day tank without power, and an emergency source of heat to get their bunker oil flowing (if they are using bunker oil instead of diesel.) I'd also be concerned for their use of a 5.9L out of the box. The marine engines have a few modifications, including downrating the power compared to the automotive uses, a smaller, water cooled turbocharger, a slightly different, governed injection pump (instead of one that acts like a car pedal, a marine one acts like a tractor You set RPMs, not the acceleration. Also, if they are sailing cooler waters, a way to heat the engine room wouldnt be the worst idea ever.
I'd also want dual engines, though i only saw one and they may have two. Even if it's a much smaller 'emergency plant' with a lower rating. Their sails are cool, but they wont let them manuever in an emergency, and are not quite large enough to provide main motive power.
First off, I was asking about emergency lighting, not how long the primary lighting would work. You ALWAYS have a backup when at sea and a backup for the backup for critical systems. LEDs, as you said, would be ideal for this application. For a working space, they are not ideal since they cast harsh shadows, which makes working on equipment more difficult, but they would be better than a headlamp and flashlights.
As you pointed out, you need power for fuel filtration and warming for cold starts. You also want to be able transmit with as much power as possible if you need to send out an SOS or notify to just other ships in the area that you are dead in the water/under sail so they don't plow into you. You have the right of way in those conditions.
More important than the fuel pumps, since this is a sailing vessel, would be power to move the rudder. You are going to need power to run that, although you could do manual steering with the right type of system. Needing less hands on the helm during an emergency is a good idea.
Another thing you always want running is navigation. Loran was easy to power since it was just a pair of receivers and direction finders. Nice and low power and can be used with charts. GPS takes calculations from a CPU to compute and has to amplify a signal from 3 or more satellites, so more power requirements.
As for the solar panels and battery system, you will only get the full power out of solar cell under ideal conditions for only a few hours a day. Plus, you need to subtract power consumption from your charging calculation. Then you get to the batteries. They loose power capacity over time. With them being used as a backup system most of the time, they should easily last a decade or more, but they will start to hold less power and at lower voltages over the years, so ideal calculations need to be derated for each of these systems. Writing about this, I just realized that they should consider a voltage regulator before the inverters so that they protect them and increase efficiency of the inverters.
Great video. I was beginning to think the cat was either oblivious to what was going on around it, or just completely fed up with it all, then, it woke up towards the end and had a look as if to say "are they still at it!
Doug,
Can't wait for launch day. Have you considered using a thrust bearing? It would also allow you to mount the engine on soft mount and cut way down on vibration noise.
You can TIG in that space, with a stubby torch!
So excited to see the engine room coming together!
Wow... you guys got SO much done!! Awesome!!
Tremendous progress!!! Cheers from New Mexico. Cant wait for the launch!!!
Not gonna lie, when I saw those beautiful watertight doors finally being hoisted over into the boat after all this time, I sorta got emotional. Kickass, though.
Amazing progress. Hell of a guy who's building your engine room.
Something special about installing the engine. It was a good day.
Anyone else think they were seeing double in some of those frames? 1:36, 9:19, 11:41 Hollis and Doug with safety glasses on - looked like twins!
I've been following you for a long time, and I've enjoyed your progress, but now i can't wait to see the next vid, !!!! Great job!
Man this is the most progress i've seen, that guy has the skills.
great episode. Making hay while the sun shines.
What a cool cat :D Those pads work amazing, we use them pretty much daily on the aircraft maintenance business...
wonder if you can just coat the fueltanks with some motoroil when youre done taking the rust off , it should dissolve once there filled with diesel
or where you planning on painting them ?
making the skis from a bumper was a nice idea , that engine looks nice , the whole engine room looks like a work of art btw
6:00 "Yeah, it was eight inches. I cut these seven and a half." "Perfect."
Some serious progress!
Well that was an action-packed episode! Tidy work, as ever.
the project has come a long way, and it seems like there is a glimpse of the finish line right there :)
Accommodation for a top-side oil change would make life easier. Hard line to the sump drain plug seems like the easiest option.
awesome progress AND awesome projects everyone :) Cheers from PEI Canada, Bryan
Hey Doug, For stainless steel welding it's best to use helium gas, and most important of all, reverse the polarity.
Seriously. You'll wish you could use stainless everywhere because it's just so neat and clean. The grinding gods are then worshipped as welding gods.
Gonna need new shirts!
Cut to shape, file to size, pound to fit.
Justa lika dowwnnn towwnnn.
Wow looking good doug
Great progress! Watching your ship come along lifts the spirits and makes me wanna do stuff! Thanks, Doug
I'm a Merchant Marine Engineer and I keep coming back to this channel to see the progress.
I'd love to see a video on all the special details like the mermaid gussets and hatch dogs that look like swords I think I spotted in this video.
Also, if I'm ever in your area would it be OK to stop by and volunteer to run a grinder/needle gun or paint brush for you for a day or two?
There are videos for all of that. Just dig back though his channel to find them.
EDIT: Here you go.
ruclips.net/video/WGtiUIqJBUU/видео.html
It's so much better looking with paint , love it!
Love the project and not only look forward to updates but to see it on the water. Just one question, has anyone done the math on the engine, prop and final boat weight. Seems very underpowered.
Those inverters and panel on the bulkhead 😍👌
The progress is just --furious.👍
Diesel reacts with copper and the sludge it makes is very hard on the engine. Also avoid attaching copper to a dissimilar metal, it causes electrolysis and corodes the copper. A dielectric union needs to be in between.
Brian Kappel I think that is a myth I've seen too much copper on boats.
Doug, would you consider doing a 2-5 minute walk through? For those of us who don't know the project intimately, we only know it from disjointed clips here and there. A quick walk through without cuts would help me understand the layout much better.
You may be assuming that we know more about what goes where than we do.
I liked the moment you climbed off the tank and opened that calendar :-)
Engine looks like a 12 valve cummins if it is make sure you make a tab that covers the killer dowel pin.killer dowel pin is behine the front timing case and If it falls out if will destroy the timing case and or all the gears inside.lots of info on the net and youtube
Did you think about getting a 2004.5-2007 5.9L? They are super quiet, and full Cummins awesome.
Nice looking boat, and with all that hard work, you deserve it. But - can that breaker panel be approved in an engine room? Here in our part of the world, no. The breaker panel here shall have instruments for reading volt, amp hertz and kw. In add it shall have overloadprotection for the generator(s).
Closer & Closer it's gets to the water
Well done!
Hollis Fitch, wasn't that a characters name in the movie Heavy Metal?
SV Seeker: So... after watching every one of your videos I have discovered something that dissapoints me about them all.... when they end!. Keep up the grey work guys.
SV Seeker DOUG JACKSON, don't forget to use the joke: go to the engine room and get me the KEYS TO THE SEA CHEST!!! Hahahha so many people (newbies) fall for that one! Old One Legged Joseph T
C'mon guys lets get him over the 100K mark 🙌⛵️⛵️⛵️🙌
Great video.. reminds me of the start when they were long vids. Great editing.
Wow, allot of progress in this video.
Finally the engine in.. Woohoo Awesome stuff
pulse welding.....at least the argon dealer is gonna love ya
that is some Captain Nemo looking stuff right there!
I'd love to have a pipe organ.
Wow, engine in. Congratulations to all.
I woulda bought a army deuce n a half. And used it's engine, it's a burn anything and go, original multifuel, we've even used old cooking oil in a pinch. They usually sell for 2 grand, and you can reuse the metal.
I have been looking forward to this video
14:08 Oil absorbent pads: AKA Pig Mats.
Great Video
Love your videos can you make one for the ture of the engine room wen finished
What are you going to use the cummins and the road trans for ? You need to marinise the engine with a cooled exhaust and either keel cooling or a better water pump for salt water cooling . The road trans is totally wrong for a boat ,It will cook down there without air moving over it . they are also unsuitable for constant running as in a boat A marine gearbox with reverse with a SAE bellhousing to bolt it to the cummins is a better idea . :-)
No, I don't think so.
Go with 2" sides on the utility tray.
you will likely need a bow thruster for a boat that size -when you get wind sideways at you the ship will need one to keep maneuverable
Love this
I love this video it's so exciting great editing shows so much detail
You must have a wonderful camera