96. This Sailboat Was STRUCK BY LIGHTNING...TWICE [Full Tour] Learning the Lines
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- The Ericson 38-200 offers a lot of nice comfortable features in a racer-cruiser built in the 80's. We're familiar with this particular boat because it's currently owned and being sold by our friends Drew and Avery.
This boat was struck by lightning twice, the electronics were replaced along with a list of upgrades. She was sailed down to Marathon, FL and now is for sale as her owners want to go back to a powerboat.
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WOW Very nice. Your friend took good care of his boat. Excellent candidate for full electric conversion. Just not to crazy about the wheel being so far aft. The woodwork nicely compliments the layout. Looks like all the space was used wisely. Hit by lighting twice. He should play the lottery. A friend of mine bought a car and hit deer twice each year over a three year period. He sold the car and it never hit a deer again.
Now, this is interesting, I looked at an Ericson 38-200 just like this down here in Kema, Texas on the South East side of Houston last week. I'm shopping around myself, but for a fixer-upper. If it were just me, my disabled daughter, and recent wife, this would be the perfect boat, but I need more room. I've always liked the Ericson boats and have sailed the 38 years back belonging to a friend who lives on his boat while managing the marina where he keeps his boat. What a job, but I guess someone has to do it. I'm fixing to be 66, retired, and that would be my dream situation. Anyone have a marina needing managing on a pretty part of the Gulf of Mexico? LoL, I'm serious folks, anyhow Jordan, keep these video's coming, keep your eyes out for a sweet fixer-upper, cheap, Sloop or Cutter, prefer cutter, but would consider a sweet ketch. Something in the 50 to 60 ft ranges because I have two big sons to work a lot of sail, a couple of daughters, and grandkids who need to learn to sail. I won't mind a drive to Flordia if it's an interesting boat as I have a stepdaughter in Pensacola I would love to see. Y'alls videos are unique in that you do show older fixer-uppers, but you pick the most interesting and unique, keep at it, you've started something because I'd much rather see something with potential I might be able to afford than a newer fancy one listed with a broker carrying a hefty price padded by commission.
Very efficient presentation,
down to brass tacks,
And mast facts.
Fast tacking,
no luft fluff,
Pro stuff.
Billy goat gruff,
minus her highness
cream puff chuff. Thank you Jordan.
96 videos in 10 days, guys I’ve caught up with your last two years. Loved watching, and I really look forward to future videos. I recently bought a 15’ speedboat as a restore project, but I’m already looking to the future, and possible a Lagoon cat.
Your commentating is first rate. Your wife is lovely but no need to apologize for us just getting you. Another very good video. Thanks.
What, no Randi? Then might as well forget it....
This is a very boat. If I was a buyer I’d jump on this.
I have that same model, except my engine is under the stairs. It's an '89. Love it.
I really enjoy your videos. The various content, and how you present are very interesting and help you stand out from other 'travelogue' channels. Thanks for the latest episode!
Thanks so much for the kind words Brad. We try to be different!
I am absolutely in love with this boat.
Me and my two dogs could be comfortable with it!
Wow dream boat everything I would ever want .
Don’t know if you guys know but after a boat has been hit by lightning twice you can no longer insure it and it carries on the rest of the boats life if it’s sold over and over if it has been claimed on insurance. Most marinas won’t let you in if you don’t have insurance.
Wow! Great like-new cruiser! Love the room below!
Ericson makes a pretty nice boat. Good for a couple sailing.
Hi guys as you seem to be reviewing quite a few yachts and obviously looking at others I would like to chuck in a little extra information about yachts like the Ericson 38. The Ericson 38 is an IOR one tonner (or was originally designed as one). IOR was a handicap system used in the 70s/80’s under which yachts were measured and obtained a rating and had a MASSIVE influence on yacht design. IOR yachts of the Ericson 38 era typically had a small mainsail big genoa(foresail) rig. They had beamy hulls (diamond shaped when looked at from above) with narrow and somewhat distorted sterns (for rating reasons). Along with one tonners there were quarter, half, 3/4 and 2 tonners plus AC (Admirals Cup) yachts. It was a fascinating era of yachting and I suggest you google IOR, One ton Yachts (the history of the One ton cup is fascinating) and Admirals Cup.
Now to completely confuse you Ericson 38’s along with other One tonners and IOR yachts were FAST for their rating but SLOW for their size. Feel free to contact me if you further explanation of what is a fascinating subject.
Hello my friend, Please be very careful when using that term "complete rewiring." I am an ABYC certified marine electrician in Port Charlotte. Florida. For boats, this is the lightning capital of America. I have been at this for 37 years and have never found a boat that was "completely rewired" after a lightning strike. That means replacement of every switch, fixture, fastener, piece of wire, etc. All of it. It is a good idea, but you may have a tough time getting the insurance company to go along with it. A special caution, I have encountered boats where the owner pocketed the insurance check, cleaned the boat up a bit and then flipped it. Happens all the time in Florida. I could write a book on hidden horrors in sailboats that have been hit by lightning. Often, you can find damage years later in places you would never suspect.
Maybe you should actually write a book or start a blog or something, because there are always super interesting stories in niche work fields like that
So much space to be gained on this boat with installation of a sail drive electric motor. There is still room for more solar panels.
A beautiful sailing boat just like in my dreams, I hope I will.
My favorite review yet, ericksons are tough boats and really well built.. bulkhead/deck are bonded properly and will last more than a crossing or 20.
Great video and a nice boat!
lovely boat
Nice boat, try slowing down while showing the cockpit and navigation stations. By the way I am talking to Rory about the 65' steel cutter.
Awesome!
Very clean
I would love to have that boat.
Sucks being disabled on a fixed income.
I watched the video of them sailing on a several day passage and the young lady didn’t seem to enjoy not being able to outrun the squalls.
I would not mind the squalls as long as I was able to get away from sitting at home.
What's your disability? I know a man in Galveston, a disabled vet to be exact; he has no legs and lives on his 35-foot sailboat all by himself. He finagled a home loan from the bank to boot, to finance the rebuild/refit. It's all pushbutton, electric, and hydraulic. He has an interesting custom wheelchair trolly system he designed for getting around the boat both on deck and below, clever; it attaches to him and doubles as a life vest too. No way to describe it, I'll try to get pictures, but he's working on a commercial model and might not want me to. He has a remote-controlled stiff-leg hoist to get himself on and off of the boat. Anyhow, I'm 66 come this December, have COPD, a 16-year-old daughter, brain-damaged at birth from Listeria Menengitas and is Autistic too. Her mother suffers from severe bipolar disorder, and we're going to live on our sailboat and sail where we want to until the end of my days just as soon as I find the right fixer-upper. I'm lucky here because I can fix, repair, build, and jury rig anything if pressed. If you put your mind to it, set a goal, you can do it; you've just got to try, and keep on trying. Persistence is the key to success!
I am on a walker full time.
I was in a wheelchair for several years but now I have learned to walk and push through the pain. I still have times I have to use the chair if I have an appointment that I need to be at on my bad days.
I would learn to get around on a boat but I paid off my house just after I was hurt so I was fortunate but I don’t have a way to make money to purchase the boat.
If I did have a boat I am sure it would do me a lot of good both physically and mentally.
Thanks for your story of people who are living their dream even when disabled.
I could sell my house but I need a backup for the future.
My life is good under the circumstances.
I just dream of one more adventure and sailing at the very least the east coast and part of the Caribbean world fulfill it.
@@ddriskill1 Damn dude, I feel your pain. I have a suggestion, though. Pack a backpack with lunch, snacks, and something to drink and go hang out at the marinas; I do that a lot. Talk to folks, and someone will take you sailing regularly. I'm known around all of the local marinas in this area, well, and my daughter and I get invited sailing all the time. I fix things for folks because I like fixing things, I can make a diesel engine talk, and I give sailing tips and tricks to newbies. You have to put yourself in the right place to be there at the right time, get it? I see beautiful boats for sale all the time, none so far that I could afford, some are too small, and a few need too much work, but someday the right one will come along at the right price. Look at what happened to Randi and Jordan. They were at the right place at the right time with the right person and ended up with a sweet little free boat. One never knows. Keep the faith brother!
Is the mast properly grounded?
Sweet, Thanks. If I only I were still able.Beautiful boat reasonable price.
That is why you do your "boat bonding wire" properly (and properly = wire all stanchions too). New electronics without proper bonding (or any bonding) is worthless because that boat is still a lightning rod...
Great boat. Think they'd take a slightly used grandchild that got in trouble while I was watching in trade?? I'm kidding before anyone is offended.... Another fine boat video!
Thanks for the tour. How's Marathon looking these days? I need to get back down there. Thanks.
Tell us about the wiring on that boat! Does it have a bonding wire?? grounding?
Might be worth a rigging inspection. After a strike, the electricity going through the rigging can accelerate the degradation of the stainless. Two strikes .... out!
Good call!
I'm question the lightning strikes. No damage except the electronics are fried - but no other evidence of lightning. This happened twice? Could it instead be that something is wired wrong? Nice looking boat though, thanks for sharing.
Isn’t that natural gas a lot harder to find a place to refill your tanks ?
Thanks for another great vid bud. I would be definitely interested, however the engine location and lack of a full aft cabin would be the stop for me.
Rob Kennedy The engine location keeps the weight centered and dampens the hobbyhorse effect.
Rob the closer tbe engine to the centre of the boat the better , it makes a very noticeable difference . I for one would appreciate a lower freeboard and less open space on a passage. Not as comfortable in a calm anchorage as a large aft cabin. But add some swell and a bit of a blow that same space is hard and painful place to move around.
What's a lazy jack ?
Rig not effected by the two strikes ?
70k is not bad for the state of the boat.
I like this boat space utilisation interior . What about your sailing
Two Afloat Sailing sold their boat Naomi due to Ryan's deteriorating ability to handle her with his MS health issues and now sail a catamaran called Kiapa Nui
What is a C&G boat?
I bought a Hunter 15 to learn to sail. Any suggestions?
CNG is compressed natural gas instead of the propane system.
Yeah, I had to look that up too. Couldn't tell if he was saying C&G or CNG. Finally figured it out.
To those who have this system, is it much harder to find places to fill up? I've never heard of CNG refilling stations.
Best way to learn to sail is , get your boat wet frequently. I watch a lot of UA-cam and get ideas to try, like balancing the boat, heaving to, MOB techniques, and different anchoring configurations. Having someone that has some experience would be nice but in the middle of northern Nevada they are as easy to find as honest politicians.
Dang I only Watch to See Randy, Lol
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How much for this boat
No hull damage from the strike. Where did the lightning energy exit?
Boats are grounded, mast to keel.
Although i have heard of sailboats getting struck and the strike dissapatted threw the hull with thousands of tiny holes.
Yes true boats should be grounded but who ever checks this, my newport 41 used flat thin plates of copper to ground the bronze thru hulls , corrosion on these plates would have rendered tbem useless currently replacing... lightning is unpredictable, a strike on a boat in a mooring field an destroy random electronics on nearby boats . I guess the damage is like getting stuck in the first place unpredictable and random ..
@@michaelbrownlee9497 usually through the thru hulls , the keel is usually covered in a protective paint or glassed in and wouldnt be an effective grounding point
@@mitchpender8113 its the mast
(highest point) that is grounded (earth). You make a good point about the composition of the paint.
Nice boat, expensive upkeep but if you can afford it all the power to you....and your thru hulls.
@@michaelbrownlee9497 thanks , ground starts at mast . The idea is to have the least resistance possible mast top to water , with the crew inside, in the foetal position crying during a lightning storm. Electrical eng here , we always see ground as were the energy disipates ie 4 dirt/water .
In an earlier boat tour video someone said that a boat hit by lightening could have micro pores (holes?) in the fiberglass. I have no idea about these things but I found this web page about a lightning struck sailboat - < forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?/topic/133329-buying-a-boat-that-was-struck-my-lightning/ > Seems like boats being hit by lightning can be lots of trouble - even if the damage has been "fixed". But they can also be good deals - if damage was minimal. Since this boat was hit twice, . . . I'm not sure I would want to buy it.
It also depends if the boat was grounded properly. This boat has a keel stepped mast and a solid lead keel. The path of least resistance is down the mast and out the keel. There's no fiberglass in the way to be damaged. That's not the case with a lot of deck stepped boats (like that Catalina) or boats with encapsulated keels. Those types of boats need extra grounding to ensure there is a path for the lightning to take away from the glass.
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You have a boat. Why are you not sailing?
Nice boat for the price.
How hot does it get in the salon when motoring?
It's not that bad but it does warm up a little. It's good in colder weather obviously but opening the ports while motoring in warm weather helps a lot.
I have a newport 41, same engine pos cant say it gets hot , ususally when the diesel is running you are moving and have hatches cracked so airflow is present, now noise tho... just like most sailboats under power , noise is more of a problem than heat
That is not an aft cabin. That is a torpedo birth.
That would be "berth" , and to be honest its a larger "berth" than it looks.. yachts from the 60s, 70, 80s dont have the same beam or carry it aft like more modern yachts , but arguably sail to wind better , and an erickson doesnt have the high freeboard either that many modern yachts feature, high freeboard acts as a sail in heavy conditions, so its a trade off, comfort and space , or better Bluewater behaviour and a slightly reduced living space , horses for courses ..
Very nice. What happened to lightning never strikes twice in the same spot?😂🤣😆 Not a very lucky boat.
Well, you see this doesn't count because boats are constantly moving! Always in different spots :)
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What is c and g?
Compressed Natural Gas CNG.
CNG, why? Where can that be bought? Does the heavy high pressure cylinder have to be removed to fill it. Seems like a stupid idea, I have never heard of any other boat using it. What other hair brain ideas are in the boat.
are boat tours going to be your 'thing' now ( I guess at the end you say there is more varied things coming )
Seems like this 'boat tour' be a side project, not the main thing. There is other channels that have done this, but honestly they aren't very good (coughsailingdoodlescough)
what is 'c&g'
something and gas??
Boat tours have been doing really well for us so it might become our "thing" if people keeping watching them as much as they do. We will still always sail, do DIY and do our own thing, but we need to make the content that the most people watch as well. It's just that simple, really. We'll be back to working on the boat more and making DIY vids this fall/winter and probably still doing boat tours as well. Hoping to get Freebie done so we can cruise a little bit too.
Oh, and it's Compressed Natural Gas, as opposed to Propane which is normal for most boats.
@@LearningtheLines Thanks... after I posted that, I thought 'compressed gas' but that didn't make sense because I couldn't figure out where the 'and' fit in
@@LearningtheLines I always think diy is nice.. if there is a foreseeable future... It's kind of why I back away from Sail Life from time to time, he provides good content, but goes from diy, to build a new boat ha
Again your boat tours are good, I think one of the things that stands out is they don't sound like you are selling a boat or trying to make a friend happy about their boat, it is almost like: what you would like or not if you were going to buy the boat yourself... which is probably why it works well. If you said: "I like this...because" some might agree, so might not, but everyone knows that that exists on that model boat
Third time's the charm
Nice review, ericsons are tough boats.... if you can make money doing video ads for brokers or individuals that's great... for those that want to complain.... 😭 boo hoo
Yes, you can, my wife's friend does it for real estate brokers with a drone. Jordan, you need a drone... tell Brandi I said it was okay, then duck.
Struck twice by lightning hell I'm staying away from that one Tesla!!!
Probably sound stupid but what's CNG
Compressed Natural Gas
@@LearningtheLines All I see thank you guys I've learned so much and have been here from beginning..
I really don't like these types of boat for anything other than coastal cruising and coastal racing, not a blue water boat IMO, I'm very sceptical of spade rudders and bolt on keels. No rudder or prop protection
CNG not for me. Never heard of one benefit of it over LPG.
It's cleaner and lighter so if you have a leak it doesn't fall down into low spaces. That, and one can get more use from a cylinder of CNG than a bottle of LPG. It's a cleaner, cheaper, and safer gas overall. I've used it for years and even have a pickup truck on a deer lease that runs on CNG.
Did you take my razor? I look like cat vomit.
"The boat is a C&G boat NOT a Propane boat". What the hell does that mean? Come on we are all not maritime skippers some us are as smooth as a fresh jar of Skippy but want to learn. Frustrating review style to assume.
CNG stands for compressed natural gas. Natural Gas actually Rises it is safer than propane. Propane tends to settle downward. The problem is nobody sells it anymore.
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Too expensive