Sail Life - Finished nav station (almost) and a bunch of cool products - DIY sailboat refit
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- I'm back after a fun week in the US! The DIY sailboat refit aboard Athena continues. In this video, I show you all the cool products I picked up in the US and complete (almost) the locker above the chart table.
** Products mentioned in this video **
USA:
Tea Tree Power: amzn.to/2oDka6l (lower price at Defender)
Ancor Round Triplex Cable: amzn.to/2oDiZEk
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: amzn.to/2oDxOGF
Ancor Nylon Cable Clamps: amzn.to/2oMOn3x
Maretron DST110 (Depth/Speed/Temp): amzn.to/2ppJGuj
Shurflo Aqua king (Water Pump): amzn.to/2oDiSsc
Electrical…
Fuse Block: amzn.to/2pFyqcD
Terminal Block: amzn.to/2oMO7BF
Bus Bar: amzn.to/2oDvi39
Terminal Block Jumpers: amzn.to/2oMLksf
15 Amp Circuit Breaker: amzn.to/2oDjtdB
ATC Fuses: amzn.to/2ppRIU5
Ring Terminals: goo.gl/15xNf6
UK:
NB! A lot of this stuff is way too expensive on this side of the pond!!!
Tea Tree Power: Do you know where to buy this in the UK? If so please leave a comment down below :)
Ancor Round Triplex Cable: Try www.rjsmarine.....
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: amzn.to/2ppWroN
Ancor Nylon Cable Clamps: amzn.to/2ofVPkE
Maretron DST110 (Depth/Speed/Temp): amzn.to/2ojGcI4
Shurflo Aqua king (Water Pump): amzn.to/2ogmvBA
Electrical…
Fuse Block: amzn.to/2nRkPCy
Terminal Block: amzn.to/2p7NaVk
Bus Bar: amzn.to/2p7x4v4
Terminal Block Jumpers: amzn.to/2ogafkH
15 Amp Circuit Breaker: amzn.to/2ppSujZ
ATC Fuses: www.svb24.com/...
Ring Terminals: Do you know where to buy these in the UK? If so please leave a comment down below :)
LED light strip:
I got it from a Danish webs hope (www.matronics.dk/) but I'm sure the exact same thing is available in the rest of the world.
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Well I absolutely love your engineering skills and your perfectionism, don't forget the commonsense rule of boats. The more systems and gadgets there are, the more potential for breakdowns and failures. That might be the KISS rule too: love your videos!
I would love to have seen the faces of the inspectors of your lost bag - "What the heck is this guy transporting?". I'm shocked you didn't get hit with a import fee. As far as the chart table - "PRETTY DANG SPIFFY", but that is what I've come to expect from you and your incredibly high standards of work! Keep it up Mads!
Hello Mads. I really hope you turned off your notifications for liked videos, as I just went through all uploaded ones and gave them a like (if not, I apologize for about 216 rings). I went through all of them and I enjoyed them all. I keep diary about my sailing adventures since I started and you earned some honourable mentions as the one who opened the 2017 season a bit earlier for me. Your way to present yourself, Jökull, Obelix and now Athena through youtube is one of the pleasant experiences. No swearing (at least in English), so show off, always smiling and super friendly. I am not surprised that you are so popular. Just wanted to say thanks for all your efforts. You will be always welcome in Vienna. As you prefer to address people by their real name, here is mine: Tim
(Off topic) Mads, in a video from Scotland, you filmed Athena from above in a harbour. I just watched it once again and instantly thought: Please, leave her teak deck, or do what you can to keep it! Better an old, weak teak deck than none! Keep on DIYing, I adore your channel. Uwe
The subtle Delta Jab was epic!
I think you should call your boat Wilma so the girls will be jealous when they see her sailing ! thmubs up Mads !! very cool work and equipment !
That nav station is starting to look spot on!
Great video and attention to detail.
Nav station looks better than new. Great job.
Back to the Future, I thought I would leap forward 2 years just to say Hi Mads, I’m half way through your videos, in the year 2015 at the moment, trying hard to catch up, I’m absolutely loving each and every episode. Thank you very much for the enjoyment. I can’t stay long in this time zone I have got to time travel back to 2015.
I think its safe to say Athena's chart table is looking "pretty dang spiffy"!! Thanks for a great video. Its the highlight of my week following your project. It is fantastic that you have maintained the original format for your videos throughout the channel's history. I love the DIY projects and the relaxed and simple format of the videos. No fancy effects or time wasters and thankfully a short intro. Keep up the excellent work and outstanding content! Its high quality and highly informative. Its nice to see a fellow boat owner doing every day boat related tasks such as DC & AC wiring and painting/ varnishing while taking such pride in his work. Its been a pleasure to watch your videos right the start back in August 2013! Your a true Inspiration Mads, Thank You. Morgan, Australia
sweet job on lights at the nav station. Wilma will love it.
Chart table area looks fantastic. You are a true craftsman!
You really have a way with your wood, the varnish looks so nice with the lights on! Pretty dang spiffy!
The NAV station is gorgeous.
Best part of the surflow pumps is the pumping diaphragms are easy to change and at least here in the US easy to get. Nav station looks great.
We missed you Mads, I was standing on the street corner offering money to anyone with a Mads Athena update! you had me worried when you posted on Facebook that the airline lost your bag. I was really afraid that someone had made off with your stuff. Glad you got it back.Sure wish I could have made it up to New York for the meet and greet but just couldn't get there. I saw a quick video that Empty Nest sailing posted of the meet and greet but the video was dark and you couldn't tell who was there or what was going on. The Nav Station looks fantastic! Keep it up.
Nav station looks great...one step closer to cruising!!! Favorable winds!
I love that you always address the internet haters early on, taking any wind out of their sails. Keep up the great work!!! Looking good.
looks killer man. I wouldn't trust the piano hinge alone myself but to each his own.
Hey Mads, the viewer who mentioned the hinge not being "strong enough" may have been referring to the fasteners? So it's like this Mads: we cannot insert a threaded fastener parallel to the laminate; meaning the plywood. You are using a 4 ply or 12mm so when you insert the screw "even if pilot is drilled" you force the plies to separate, causing the fasteners to loose grip! You are likely using a #5 or 6 x 5/8" which is correctly scheduled but not for use in ply- unless they are used @ 90* to the ply surface (the face or back)!
If you experience cupping or bowing of the same materials or panels in a month or two, then that would likely be caused by the finish being thicker on one surface (exposed or panel face) this is also common. You will likely notice that the bow of these panels will seem to run with the surface grain.
Patch
The navigation station looks great, you are doing quality work, and using the best, Blue Sea! I want to do exactly what your doing ( well maybe more wood and less white, but that's just preference) Keep it up, you are a RUclips treasure, and very inspiring!
Your videos are the best boat DIY on youtube, great job!!
It would be great if you had cameras up top connected as a video feed to the screen at the chart table. A mast camera, a stern facing camera as well as hull lights and an underwater camera. I see quite a number of shots from these positions made with a Go-Pro on a pole or similar so it might be better if you designed it in from the start. As a further bonus it would be handy to check the horizon from the chart table for example while on watch so you could eat below or make a hot drink if needed.
Bernie
The lighting is awesome and the nav table is coming together nicely. I have to say though, after several years of sailing my boat, the nav table is now in the landfill. I never used it for anything other than storage and it was taking up valuable space and interfering with access to the fuel tank. I'm happier without it...but your situation may be very different than mine. Keep up the good work and look fwd to seeing Athena progress.
Actually "pretty dang spiffy" is an understatement. We all knew you could do fine woodwork ever since catching a glimpse of the beautiful wooden kayak you built way back when.....plus the awesome surround for the Refleks stove on Obelix. But then again you Danes have a history of fine woodworking. Thanks for another great video. Ken in Orlando
The nav station looks fabulous
If the rest of your boat comes up looking as good as what the nav station does then you will have one Spiffy looking cruiser. Great work you must have an enormous amount of pride knowing you will have achieved all this yourself.
Athena is looking great Madds , brilliant
The nav-station is looking good, I would suggest some tabbing to the hull and deck as the sea show's no mercy for equipment not fastened properly. Perhaps some beeswax on the door edge of the dc panel. Ancor, blue seas are good product choices. Note here that I have used SurFlo pressure pumps for over 30yrs--in my present boat I have one but will be replacing it with a new SurFlo! On your cable prchase for the AC system, you might try using 3M colored electrical tapes at each end of your circuits to designate the Euro color coding. ATC fuses are a good choice, used on the last boat and I will be upgrading to them on this boat. My lady really liked your Mood lighting effect on the nav-station--I must now add this to my boat. Good day and think some about visiting Seattle------Mikey
Heat shrink over the terminal crimps in the European color scheme, perhaps.
Chart table looks great, quite jealous really.
Once again your attention to detail is fantastic! I love the way it looks and can wait to see the nav station once you get the walls finished. New boats would be lucky to have such quality work! Welcome home!
Thank you so much, Tony :) I'm itching to finish the aft cabin, but I also want AC+DC and a deck that doesn't leak :P Choices ...choices ;) It's amazing you're still watching my videos! Thank you for staying tuned :)
Great to see you back. If you ever need any more tea tree stuff let me know. I'm in Australia. Cheers
Glad you're considering coming to Canada some day! The North Channel of Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron is stunning and has some of the world's best anchorages. If you need a Great Lakes pilot someday, let me know.
The nav. station is looking great, you do really good work.
thanks for the update, Mads, glad all is well!
Welcome back, Mads! My Sundays aren't compete without your videos. Everything is looking so good!
The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
:-)
That all came together really well. Nice work.
If you don't already know, the new ABYC (American Boat and Yacht Council} color code for dc negative is yellow. It has supplanted the age old black due to the potential confusion with ac hot. As long as you're going to use American color coding for your ac, you might want to consider staying up to date with yellow and red for dc negative and positive when it comes to the 12 volt rewire.
Excellent Vid again Mads. I like the idea of the Nav Station have controllable/mood lighting. Having a red hue is very good at night time to protect your night vision if you need to go below to look at something at the Nav Station. Thumbs Up from me.
Knockout job. Any engineer would love what you've done!
Great to have you back. Nav station looks awesome :-)
NAV station looks great, nice job.
So there's no confusion later, the insulation color is VERY IMPORTANT. If you don't use the correct color it will confuse the electrons in the wire and they will inevitably wind up traveling to the wrong location.
Confused electrons are very bad and will misbehave which, I'm sure you know, can be catastrophic on a sailing vessel
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Hi , we are a bit behind but we love your project and we are defenately converts to your channel. The new nav station looks fab. Best wishes from Ireland . Geir and Iwona
Very. Dang. Spiffy Mads. Nice work as always.
Beautiful work, Mads.
Wow what a difference - great work as usual
I like the nav station! Well done!
looking forward to your finished aft cabin, think when it's done many modern boats can hide behind yours!
Glad you had such a nice trip to the US Mads, and I love the way your NAV station is shaping up. The LED lighting is such a nice touch.
Thank you so much :)
Your nav station looks great, job well done, congratulations
Hello, like everytime, very cool video ! You can use a raspberry pi, a bunch of cheap components and lirc to record and play any infrared signal. I used this setup to close automatically our velux at work every night so that rain isn't a problem even if someone forgot to close the window. You could use the same to attach more physical buttons to turn on white and red light at desired brightness. Just record your remote signals, then replay them with a program you can write.
Nav station looks great.
Your navigation station looks awesome!
Chart table looks great!
When I saw the thumbnail of the video I thought it was an old style 1960's Star Trek crew workstation because it was tinted a bit red. It is awesome!!! Good work!!
Well. I honestly don't think anything could be better right now :)
Nav station is looking great!
Nav station looks very cool!
I'm glade to see you back with your boat!
Good luck with all the fun projects. :D
Great job. Glad you had a good and successful trip.
That is a really well done nav desk. Nice work. No doubt at all you can pull this off.
In regards to the red light at the nav station. Give green a try. Preserves the night vision equally well and everything is a lot more visible. My 2c.
Man ! You sure know how to make videos interesting. I can't take my eyes off them when they're playing. Amazing ! Thank you so much ! I can see clearly how much fore thought goes into your productions ! They blow away the competition bar none ! Great work Amigo.
I built a 36' sailboat with a skeg hung rudder. I had the choice to fill the void with foam or polyester resin and chopped glass. I went with resin and chopped glass. Never had a problem in all the years I owned the boat. If you use polyester resin (cheaper than epoxy) be careful with how much catalyst you use. To much catalyst will cause the resin to heat up to much and may cause damage .
High quality build as usual mads, hope you had a good holiday in the USA.
It looks awesome Mads. Thanks again for sharing. Maybe some teak trimming around the Nav station? Or a couple of disco balls...
As usual......good stuff and well put together.
It is starting!
Your doing a great job Mads ! Can't wait to see it when it all comes together.
Glad you had a safe trip over here to the US. Maybe when you sail over here to the gulf in your restored Athena you could stop by here in Gulf Shores and Mobile area.
Cheers, Eric
Welcome back, Thanks for reviewing your new found goodies. Love your redesigned nav station. It has a certain clean, modern danish design aesthetic- go figure!
Might I suggest a water filter. The one I put in uses charcoal filters about 5" in height and eliminates all odors and funky taste from my tank water. Change the filter every spring. BTW, I have the same Shurflo pump. Excellent pump
Madds
I thought Wilma seemed happy to have you back. I was a little surprised at your comment about needing some counseling. I guess there are things going on "behind the scenes" that are not readily apparent to your viewers. I'm happy to hear you are planning to take Athena to the US. Let me be the first to extend a formal invitation to my home and favorite cruising grounds - the Chesapeake Bay. I sail in the Baltimore, Annapolis area. I'll look forward to rafting up.
Ron
Cable - a better boat warming present than that owl you saw at the boat show... :P
Nav station look AMAZING. You did a great job
Nav station looks great, you put a lot more effort into making it look great than I ever wood. And it shows!
Thanks for sharing!
for outing , and predrilling hinges I strongly recommend WIX bit
That nav station "looks pretty dang spiffy" to quote a reliable source. ;-)
Nav Station is looking mighty fine! Excellent Work!
Hi Madds, I'm thinking of using White and Red lights just like in a war ship. You know ? Like when you flip one or two switches and the bus that powers all the white lights, turn off, and all the red ones, turn on. Just incase you have to walk through the boat to near the anchor locker at night and you need to keep your night vision .Now that would be pretty Dang Spiffy !
Looking good Mads...err... I mean pretty dang spiffy!
Great stuff. It is really looking good. Here is an idea. What about installing some LED's in such a way where they provide lighting for the breaker panels. I think it would be cool to be able to see the each breaker with out having to use a flash light. It would be awesome if the panel had each breaker description lit up......then you could see at a glance what each breaker is. LOL might be a little to much.
Nice job on the Nav station
great attention to detail ,looks fantastic
Mads - pretty dang SPIFFY! Fair winds my friend! Doug on WS42 Harmony
Looking good Mads!
S/V Pretty Dang Spiffy
also, nav station looks awesome! really admire your work mate :)
Your comment about United cracked me up!
Love the lights in the navigation station!
Hey Mads! I missed you last weekend, and I'm really glad to see you back on Athena. I use a lot of tea tree oil in my business as a barber, it's really good stuff. It's a natural antimicrobial and has such a pleasant fresh smell.
great lighting will be great when done
hello from New York , U.S.A. ! as a new subscriber, and life-long sailer, i think you are doing a great job at the restoration. can't wait to see the final results! the l.e.d. lighting is always a nice touch, and since they last indefinitely, using them throughout the boat is highly recommended!
Looks good. My concern would be the screws pulling out of the plywood. Gluing a strip of wood to the edge of the ply would solve the problem.
great shopping spree
Nav station looks great Mads.
I really like the downlighting! Not only lighting for the nav station but also night lights for the cabin, all in one easy to use package :) I am not sure you need to do anything to the station to make it look better, once the cabin sides are finished I think the clean and uncluttered look will be just fine as it is (with the extra gadgets added of course)
you might want to add a support leg to your DC panel door that will help hold it up when the door is open. The piano hinge can twist if weight is appi O I'd at an angle, the leg would also help keep the door open while at sea if access is needed.
new Nav station looks real spiffy! great job Mad!