Those old boats.. There's a guy here locally who has made them into land based tiny houses, rents them out for the weekend. They have permanent plumbing and electrical, wrap around wood decks, and they are all placed among beautiful shade trees. It's a great second life for those old leaky boats with crap engines.
@@sumatoborukiSaru Assuming a 2021 suburban and a 2005 excursion, the conversion factor is 0.77. So 15 suburbans is approximately 11.5 excursions. (Edit: I messed up my math, haha.)
It is interesting that this fella’s personality is the opposite of Scotty Kilmer. I like both of their videos. That’s the cool thing about UA-cam, there is something out there for everyone! 🙂
The Cassiopeia is a good name of choice The constellation is most notable because of its W shape, which is said to represent the Queen sitting on her throne. She was placed in the stars as a punishment for believing that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the sea nymphs. Some of Cassiopeia's stars vary their brightness.
It is difficult to like somebody else's yacht video. David the car wizard is 1 exception. Served his country, worked hard, took a risk as a small business owner and now is enjoying a handsome reward for his efforts. Deserving of their success. Congrats.
Talking about abandoned boats: In our neighbour town there is a yacht that just floats in the harbour, without engines. The owner is desperate to keep up appearances and pretends he still is well off, but his business is actually struggling. It is all show and tell, but nothing is real anymore. Expensive vacation with maxed out credit cards and little to eat the next month is the story there.
@@gingerman5123 I’ve seen many interiors that have been shown by her holding the camera but not so much of her as the person in front of the camera. Mrs Wizard is definitely on her A game and an asset to the shop. My wife wants nothing to do with my business (other than the spoils,😉) which is now 45 years old and she’s been around it for 32 of those years.
@@jwenting $1500 for paint??? Hell no. The cost was almost all labor, probably a power-wash and soda blasting, replacing/repairing thru-hulls, fees for "environmental impact", etc. Bottom paint, even top of the line paint, is probably more like $500 for that boat.
I work in the Boat Industry, for the Lift, Hard stand, products and labour its actually quite reasonable. Take into account that ANYTHING that begins with the words Marine and Boat the costs are amplified by at least 4.
I used to clean boat bottoms and paint them when I was a kid. Boats in salt water that weren’t regularly maintained were a fun fest of sea grass and barnacles. I can tell you it’s hard work scraping by hand, especially wooden boats you do t want to damage the hull and your searching for rot. Yours has been in the water for a long time I’ll bet there is some growth on the bottom, and I’ll bet the paint isn’t economical as it used to be either.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Uhhhh have you not watched their vids, they've done a shit ton of work themselves, hell in this video mrs wizard described building those storage seats in their garage. WTF are you talking about.
I love it that your and Mrs Wizards hard work results in the well deserved fun of owning and enjoying your own yacht and Ferrari car! I also love that you share these fabulous experiences here on your YT channel! Thank you both very much. :-)
My family has a '46 foot flybridge, before that I grew up on various boats, but never realized just how crazy the whole process of maintenance was until I started working at the local marina. We use the same type of travel lift and it's a hell of a machine. He definitely wasn't lying about the smell! All the vegetation smells from the minute the boat is hauled out.
I worked at this marina about 11 years ago. Definitely don’t miss power washing the nasty algae off and grinding/filling blisters all day in the hot summers. The new travel lift is a work of art compared to Ol’ Blue that used to be there.
On my travels for work I sometimes do deliveries to one of our customers who does all this sort of thing, although the boats are slightly bigger. They have a 600 tonne sling lift which sees regular use. A lot of trawlers, tugs, and large yachts.
My partner has been watching The Car Wizard over my shoulder for a little while now, occasionally hearing Mrs Car Wizard in the background. Today Mrs Car Wizard appeared and he said, 'WOW! She's beautiful!' Just thought I'd let you know. Keep up the great work.
I've done a bottom job on a twin 32 cruiser Trojan. When I was in my 20s. First time and Last time I would do it. Not a job for me.26 years later I'm working on tractors and trailers. I love your boat. You guys deserve it. Relax
Your yacht videos are very interesting. I guess lots of people buy a boat and don't realize how much they cost to maintain. Lucky you and Mrs Wizard can do most repairs yourself. The yacht is looking great.
Only because I am into boats and yachts and worked on super yachts, I sometimes laugh at David explaining things on the boat. Coming from the world of Benetti, Azimut, Bering, AvA, Alia, Feretti, Feadship, Baglietto, Ocean Alexander, Cheoy Lee, Monte Carlo and many more, it's refreshing to see someone not so immersed in yachting discover things for the first time and explain it all. You may not have bow thrusters, but you can have Volvo Penta IPS drives and with that you get a joystick that can function without using the thrusters. They also have yachts with a sky anchor system that will keep you in place while away from the helm. And the new Absolute yachts and some others have a dockwise feature that works just like the autopark features in a car.
Oh god please dont ever buy a volvo penta product. Mercruiser Only, i tell my customers this all the time. I refuse to work on those products and send them to the shade tree volvo penta guy on our canal, Because i told you so. Fin Tacs and bow thruster systems get really expensive and take a long time to retrofit. On top of that the bills get away from you fast if your not expecting a large bill. If you own a boat always expect a large bill. Bottom paint here in the atlantic is a every year thing
@@andrewg2322 Hard to get Mercruisers on 37+ meter suoeryachts. Most yachts I have been on use MAN, MTU, John Deere, or Caterpillar engines. The smaller chase boats, the fishing boats or the pocket yachts are usually all Volvo Penta and we generally never had many issues with them. I've heard the stories though. Most of the yachts do the Med in summer, come back in the fall, come out for maintenance including repaint, soft goods repair and replace, respool the generators if needed, watermaker servicing, stove deep cleaning, engine service, tender maintenance then back in the water, hire a bunch of dockwalkers to clean the engine room, lazzarette, provision and teak work then back out into the Carribean for winter or stay in dry dock all winter and come out in spring and transition the Canal and go to Alaska in Nordhavn and Fleming heaven and stay there until summer then California and if the ship has range, Hawaii, Japan and Australia and pull out in Australia/New Zealand for repaint there. Some boats go over the polar circle and cut across back to the Atlantic.
Lol, I live in Avila Beach, California. The harbor has a boat hauler just like that one you mentioned. Only its salt water. The barnacles can get up to a foot thick on some boats. So when one of my friends calls and says " I'm hauling her out for bottom service this weekend come help." We all head to the harbor with pressure washers. Once that bottom is washed and scraped, sanded primered and painted.( which takes five people at least ten hours ) the marine coat goes on and back in the water she goes. Unless we're servicing the tanks or plumbing.
Dear Boat Wizardress, I would recommend of handing those storage box interns with somethign that will prevent mold growth. On moist conditions, it tends to find it's way to such not-so-well ventilated boxes.
Stayed at a RV park in New Jersey right off the Hudson bay, there were boats stored there, I actually caught one of these boat lifts in action driving around the RV park with a boat in hand. Was actually a really cool sight.
Great point about abandoned, unused boats. People need to work out the anticipated number of hours/days they realistically expect to use the boat for in a year, before they buy it. Divide the cost of the boat + maintenance by that number of hours and you can get a frighteningly big cost/hour. So... glad you use it and love it so much.
Wizard CaseiPeica looks great with the Improvements and the Fresh bottom paint i’ve owned 17or 18 boats over the years and one of the things that Hatteras and Trojan Boats have always maintained is keeping their Hulls is keeping what i call Traditional or Classic Motor Yacht lines i found the Carpe story very entertaining as the majority of my Boating has been Salt Water mainly Florida and the Carribean then in the Chesapeake Bay which is really Brackish
I had a beautiful Chris Craft commander cabin cruiser I restored and refinished its beautiful teak wood hull but ended completely losing interest in it in 10 years I owned it it never saw water ended up selling it for a loss , glad the new owner finished her and its now being used every weekend! cheers from Lake Powell . .
In my youth, I did bottom paint jobs on boats back in the late 90s. At that time there already were strict EPA and OSHA requirements for managing the debris from blasting or sanding off boat bottom paint in a marina, adjacent to the water. Special ($$$) blasting and sanding equipment was required to do the job. I can imagine the regs. for this work got even more strict in the last 20 years. The new paint, usually Interlux brand, was very expensive as well.
That looks like a 30-40 ton travel lift. We have a similar 30 ton unit at our marina. The C-shaped frame means it's designed to haul sailboats and power boats with tall structures like flybridge Bimini tops and tuna towers. There are also enormous 150 ton units used for superyachts.
Good eye on the shape of the lift. The marina used to have a 49 slip sailboat dock. The lift is a 2012 50 ton that was custom ordered at the Miami boat show with a boom crane.
The as yet un-painted Carver didn't look bad at all compared to a single season for saltwater boats. A barnacle covered bottom will cut the top speed, and thus fuel efficiency, as much as forty per cent. The Wizard is making some helpful points in this video, especially to those considering a larger boat.
Thanks Wizard family for taking us on your boating adventure! Are the abandoned boats ever put on a online market, or do marinas just let them set and deteriorate? I always see boats in bad shape but never know if they are owned still or abandoned.
The marinas can take possession of abandoned boats. If you see something you think you want to rescue, talk to the marina, they’d be glad to make a deal.
We stay on our boat on grand lake every weekend. The carp life is real 🤣🤣 really hit home. Hope to see you guys out on the water. Cheers love your videos
I remember back in the 80s spending nights on my dad's boat and all the noise the carp would make. He never maintained the boat properly so it all makes sense now after watching this.
@@misterm5325 you know my first two old boats I figured that was the case but the boat I have now gets washed every season and has a current bottom job and they still slap it. I think it just happens. Definitely worse in a dirty old unkept boat though. That’s for sure
People don’t understand how much it costs and the work that goes into boat ownership, especially big boats. Its all fun and games in the summer but come winter and majority of the people that came and enjoyed your boat in the summer go MIA when the fun stops and work begins to put it to bed for the winter. Things like travel lift or crane fee, winter storage/dockage winterization of the engines and water systems, shrink wrapping/covering, etc. most of those items are paid for individually by the foot. So many people say the two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy and the day you sell it but I don’t agree. In my opinion the memories you gain are priceless. Point to all this is if your friend has a boat and you enjoy going on it help chip in a little. In the summers offer up some gas money, bring some snacks and refreshment with you, don’t bring anyone with out asking first, and take your damn shoes off before you get in. In the winter volunteer to help with winterization process and checking on it over the winter it goes a long way.
I am a professional boat builder and yacht specialist, I can roll bottom paint and change the zinks even the cutlass bearing for way less money and within a day. Instead of wet sanding, there are other options get a 5 gal pail, buy arm & hammer super washing soda, DRY TSP trisodium phosphate power, and simple green and a green 3M pad or 800 to 1200 grit wet sandpaper, mix proper amounts as required per gallon of water, then wash and scrub your gel coat down, this combination will even remove jet fuel and years of sun damage, rinse thoroughly, wipe down with acetone, then buy Penetrol® Oil-Based Paint Additive by Flood, it restores the polyester Gelcoat to a shine, it will haze up buff it out, then compound the boat with 3M™ Marine Compound and Finishing Material removes scratches, oxidation, stains, swirl marks and other blemishes that are robbing your boat of its beauty. this will restore the Gelcoat like new.
Friend of mine who owned a similar boat likened the experience to constantly standing under a shower tearing up £50 (or $50 in your case) notes 😂 - great fun but bottomless money pits, there is always something to fix and it all costs money
My great Grandfather was from the Duchy of Bohemia in Czechia. Carp is the traditional Christmas dinner there. My grandparents usually had a living carp in the bathtub in the days before, the clean water made it even more tasty 😃
Saw some nice action at the harbor this saturday when one of the older wooden boats were about to dock after a trip out. Probably a semi large two cylinder diesel or potentially hot bulb engine. Not noisy at all but a nice funky low rev growel on it.
@@petesmitt this wasnt a screamin jimmy.. you could count the beats on idle… som of the old wooden boats in the harbor here is pre ww2, which makes it less likely to be a DD and more likely a locally produced engine.
I just realised that is is a good 4hour travel from Omega Auto to the Lake where Cassiopeia is located. Beiing so busy at your shop i wish that you and your lovely wife find enpugh time slots to enjoy the life on the water . Best wishes from Germany and please take care and stay healthy (i don mean that pandemic ,i am talking about health in generall) Robert
Mike Rowe did an episode of Dirty Jobs where they replaced the sacrificial anodes inside the lock doors in a lock in the Great Lakes. Oh....it was in the dead of winter too. That lift is definitely beefy and girthy. Great job Mrs Wizard.
We could have done with a whole video on the Boat Lift. We used to have a similar lift at work for containers. I guess it is hydraulic motors on the wheels.
A 220 grit sanding block and a gallon of Totally Awesome Cleaner (available at most dollar stores) will do wonders in restoring the gloss of the old gelcoat. I do that once a year on my 50 year old fiberglass sailboat hull.
I loved these boat videos! Such a cool vessel, sadly, my budget doesn’t allow for this, but I live vicariously through the wizard and his family! Great stuff!
We normally have the full monty strip and repaint every few years but in between we just add a fresh coat of antifouling paint. My boat is on saltwater though.
I have a small boat in a Marina. Not been able to get to it since covid and there was a few years when our kid was born we didnt use it. We'd never give it up because you'd lose your slot in the marina.
I like those old Trojans flush decks 44 footers . With teak decks ,they have those mahogany’s doors that fold and separates the deck from the helm . I have a tayana 55 sailboat . It took me a month to sand it down to the fairing, then six coats of west systems then one coat of black hard paint then 2 coats of ablative. If you want to see the finest example of a Trojan I’ve ever seen. Go to a video called biggest boat graveyard in the Chesapeake. On a channel called Sv bohemian
Marine paint is hugely expensive, as is aviation paint. They have to withstand a while lot more than automotive paint does. I remember when we got new paint for my buddy's flat bottom fishing boat, it was $175/gallon. Salt water paint is way more.
You think thats a big travellift you should see the ones we had in the Navy. Ours could lift a 24' x 90' 70 ton causeway section, basically a very large pontoon platform. It is impressive to see these lifts move big things however they are extremely slow. We had an accident where a sailor lost a leg below the knee because he was walking ahead of a tire as a safety person, tripped and fell and tire runs over his leg. They don't stop on a dime as you can imagine. Well your boat looks nice, thanks for the update.
I’ve had a few. If you are able to do most repairs on your own they aren’t that bad. It’s people who can’t even change their own oil that complains about the cost of ownership.
Congratulations, you are the 47,368th commenter to make the Bust Out Another Thousand joke. You win a lifetime supply of supposedly-amusing aphorisms, starting with "A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into".
I sand off the old paint residue with a hepa vac attached. It’s brutal. Takes almost two days. Then I apply boat bottom anti fouling paint that costs $300 a gallon, weighs about fifty pounds, and barely lasts three years. Salt water use. Barnacles. Slime. Mussels.
Really nice vinyl work on the name! Pretty cool that you were able to order the letters, I figured you had to use a vinyl cutter and stuff. Really like the benches too, almost like a fainting couch style, and the bolt-on cupholder is great.
@@austinstuart6987 lol, yeah, I'm just used to seeing the ones on sailing channels. The ones that can haul out a 9+ meter beam boat. This one actually looks like it's juuuust big enough for the boats they have.
Those old boats.. There's a guy here locally who has made them into land based tiny houses, rents them out for the weekend. They have permanent plumbing and electrical, wrap around wood decks, and they are all placed among beautiful shade trees. It's a great second life for those old leaky boats with crap engines.
Your audio is spectacular, and you are both natural great speakers. You are easy and fun to listen to. Thank you.
Thanks for teaching us non-boaters all the stuff we never knew about lifts, algae and carp. The new seating up on the bridge is a great addition!
A clean bottom is always important.
Love a Nice Bottom...
Tops must always keep their bottom clean and happy
Don't forget the pipes
Thank you for giving the lifting weight of the travel hoist in the most American unit possible- Chevy Suburbans.
By what factor would you have to divide that number if you used Ford Excursions as the unit of measurement? 🤔
@@sumatoborukiSaru Assuming a 2021 suburban and a 2005 excursion, the conversion factor is 0.77. So 15 suburbans is approximately 11.5 excursions. (Edit: I messed up my math, haha.)
The metric equivalent is Honda Civics, where 10 Suburbans equals 22 Civics.
If that lift were to drop the suburban, it would the accelerate at a rate of 0.52 corollas/sec^2
Or one Rosie O'Donnell.
It is interesting that this fella’s personality is the opposite of Scotty Kilmer. I like both of their videos. That’s the cool thing about UA-cam, there is something out there for everyone! 🙂
I second that!!
Yes indeed
I watch both too. I'd love to see Scotty visit Omega in a colab. It'll never happen though!
The Cassiopeia is a good name of choice The constellation is most notable because of its W shape, which is said to represent the Queen sitting on her throne. She was placed in the stars as a punishment for believing that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the sea nymphs. Some of Cassiopeia's stars vary their brightness.
She was also that pornstar looking pretty little grazy girl from battlestar galactica.
Harp guitar
It is difficult to like somebody else's yacht video. David the car wizard is 1 exception. Served his country, worked hard, took a risk as a small business owner and now is enjoying a handsome reward for his efforts. Deserving of their success. Congrats.
We want more Mrs Wizard! She helps get the ladies interested in car/yacht videos. Plus she's really creative!
Talking about abandoned boats: In our neighbour town there is a yacht that just floats in the harbour, without engines. The owner is desperate to keep up appearances and pretends he still is well off, but his business is actually struggling. It is all show and tell, but nothing is real anymore. Expensive vacation with maxed out credit cards and little to eat the next month is the story there.
EXCELLENT work Mrs Wizard!
Nice to see you get some camera time too. This is a great channel.
She's in most of the videos. I really enjoy the channel too. Wizard has come a long way!
@@gingerman5123 I’ve seen many interiors that have been shown by her holding the camera but not so much of her as the person in front of the camera. Mrs Wizard is definitely on her A game and an asset to the shop.
My wife wants nothing to do with my business (other than the spoils,😉) which is now 45 years old and she’s been around it for 32 of those years.
Boats, especially Yachts are expensive!
Your guy's yacht is looking beautiful!
That was a ton of hard work to make it so nice.
Well done!
Mrs. Wizard is fantastic..!... She is definitely giving the yaht a woman's touch... She'll make it really special..
$4k sounds like at lot of money until you take into account the expert work and materials in the project. The Wizard recognizes fellow pros' work!
yup. That boat lift isn't the only expensive thing that needs to be paid for. The paint alone for his boat probably came to $1500 or more of that $4k.
@@jwenting $1500 for paint??? Hell no. The cost was almost all labor, probably a power-wash and soda blasting, replacing/repairing thru-hulls, fees for "environmental impact", etc. Bottom paint, even top of the line paint, is probably more like $500 for that boat.
That’s four boat bucks.
I work in the Boat Industry, for the Lift, Hard stand, products and labour its actually quite reasonable.
Take into account that ANYTHING that begins with the words Marine and Boat the costs are amplified by at least 4.
You wouldn't want to go to all that trouble then use sub-standard paint.
I love how proud and happy Misses Wizard looks when showing her work. Pretty good job👏👏
Wizard is a lucky man. I think he realizes that.
I used to clean boat bottoms and paint them when I was a kid. Boats in salt water that weren’t regularly maintained were a fun fest of sea grass and barnacles. I can tell you it’s hard work scraping by hand, especially wooden boats you do t want to damage the hull and your searching for rot. Yours has been in the water for a long time I’ll bet there is some growth on the bottom, and I’ll bet the paint isn’t economical as it used to be either.
The Cassiopeia font has a “Bewitched” vibe!
It was also the name of an English book we learned from in fourth or fifth grade.
Boat means Bust Out Another Thousand 😂😂😂
Yes, very 60's-looking.
I was about to say the same thing
How’s Captain Haddock?
Your yacht has made such an amazing transformation. All your hard work has produced a great looking cruiser.
Hoovie, the Wizard needs another hooptie to get his yacht wet sanded and polished!
No think hoovie end up with that big boat wizard showed us , that's been out of t h e water for few yrs
It's crazy how much you've transformed this yacht, you guys both did a great job!
All you have to do is throw gobs of disposable income at it, and voilà - transformation.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Uhhhh have you not watched their vids, they've done a shit ton of work themselves, hell in this video mrs wizard described building those storage seats in their garage. WTF are you talking about.
I love it that your and Mrs Wizards hard work results in the well deserved fun of owning and enjoying your own yacht and Ferrari car!
I also love that you share these fabulous experiences here on your YT channel!
Thank you both very much. :-)
I want more Yacht Content - was missing it badly the last few weeks! Great, thanks a lot!
My family has a '46 foot flybridge, before that I grew up on various boats, but never realized just how crazy the whole process of maintenance was until I started working at the local marina. We use the same type of travel lift and it's a hell of a machine. He definitely wasn't lying about the smell! All the vegetation smells from the minute the boat is hauled out.
I worked at this marina about 11 years ago. Definitely don’t miss power washing the nasty algae off and grinding/filling blisters all day in the hot summers. The new travel lift is a work of art compared to Ol’ Blue that used to be there.
On my travels for work I sometimes do deliveries to one of our customers who does all this sort of thing, although the boats are slightly bigger. They have a 600 tonne sling lift which sees regular use. A lot of trawlers, tugs, and large yachts.
My partner has been watching The Car Wizard over my shoulder for a little while now, occasionally hearing Mrs Car Wizard in the background. Today Mrs Car Wizard appeared and he said, 'WOW! She's beautiful!' Just thought I'd let you know. Keep up the great work.
I've done a bottom job on a twin 32 cruiser Trojan. When I was in my 20s. First time and Last time I would do it. Not a job for me.26 years later I'm working on tractors and trailers. I love your boat. You guys deserve it. Relax
Man, I don't know why, but I love cutlass bearings. Possibly due to my love for 442s. Thank you for teaching. Great video!
My friend doesn't know what a cutlass bearing is, can you help him out by telling me and ill tell him?
Your yacht videos are very interesting. I guess lots of people buy a boat and don't realize how much they cost to maintain. Lucky you and Mrs Wizard can do most repairs yourself. The yacht is looking great.
Wizard, you have a beautiful boat! Always a pleasure. Mrs wizard is very good at her presentation!!
I’m a diesel mechanic at a a boat yard in MD and I get off work and see this going wow for the fist time I know something before the wizard did
Even better, Mrs Wizard will enjoy driving HER 308 and Mr Wizard to the lake next summer!
Only because I am into boats and yachts and worked on super yachts, I sometimes laugh at David explaining things on the boat. Coming from the world of Benetti, Azimut, Bering, AvA, Alia, Feretti, Feadship, Baglietto, Ocean Alexander, Cheoy Lee, Monte Carlo and many more, it's refreshing to see someone not so immersed in yachting discover things for the first time and explain it all. You may not have bow thrusters, but you can have Volvo Penta IPS drives and with that you get a joystick that can function without using the thrusters. They also have yachts with a sky anchor system that will keep you in place while away from the helm. And the new Absolute yachts and some others have a dockwise feature that works just like the autopark features in a car.
Cliff Bradley
@@johnb4183 Sort of..
Oh god please dont ever buy a volvo penta product. Mercruiser Only, i tell my customers this all the time. I refuse to work on those products and send them to the shade tree volvo penta guy on our canal, Because i told you so. Fin Tacs and bow thruster systems get really expensive and take a long time to retrofit. On top of that the bills get away from you fast if your not expecting a large bill. If you own a boat always expect a large bill. Bottom paint here in the atlantic is a every year thing
@@andrewg2322 Hard to get Mercruisers on 37+ meter suoeryachts. Most yachts I have been on use MAN, MTU, John Deere, or Caterpillar engines. The smaller chase boats, the fishing boats or the pocket yachts are usually all Volvo Penta and we generally never had many issues with them. I've heard the stories though. Most of the yachts do the Med in summer, come back in the fall, come out for maintenance including repaint, soft goods repair and replace, respool the generators if needed, watermaker servicing, stove deep cleaning, engine service, tender maintenance then back in the water, hire a bunch of dockwalkers to clean the engine room, lazzarette, provision and teak work then back out into the Carribean for winter or stay in dry dock all winter and come out in spring and transition the Canal and go to Alaska in Nordhavn and Fleming heaven and stay there until summer then California and if the ship has range, Hawaii, Japan and Australia and pull out in Australia/New Zealand for repaint there. Some boats go over the polar circle and cut across back to the Atlantic.
Lol, I live in Avila Beach, California. The harbor has a boat hauler just like that one you mentioned. Only its salt water. The barnacles can get up to a foot thick on some boats. So when one of my friends calls and says " I'm hauling her out for bottom service this weekend come help." We all head to the harbor with pressure washers. Once that bottom is washed and scraped, sanded primered and painted.( which takes five people at least ten hours ) the marine coat goes on and back in the water she goes. Unless we're servicing the tanks or plumbing.
Love seeing and hearing about the yacht. It's awesome you guys have and are enjoying that, really brought it back life beautifully. Rock on
I still love the 70’s interior so much
Said no one.
Dear Boat Wizardress, I would recommend of handing those storage box interns with somethign that will prevent mold growth. On moist conditions, it tends to find it's way to such not-so-well ventilated boxes.
I grew up right down the road from the Elkton Trojan plant. F26 always been my favorite
Mrs wizard is looking good! Boating is obviously a very good influence. The wizard is also a
handsome yacht captain.
That boat on the hard you are inspecting is a boat absolutely worth restoring! The enclosed flybridge means navigating in all weather conditions.
Stayed at a RV park in New Jersey right off the Hudson bay, there were boats stored there, I actually caught one of these boat lifts in action driving around the RV park with a boat in hand. Was actually a really cool sight.
Great point about abandoned, unused boats. People need to work out the anticipated number of hours/days they realistically expect to use the boat for in a year, before they buy it. Divide the cost of the boat + maintenance by that number of hours and you can get a frighteningly big cost/hour. So... glad you use it and love it so much.
Great to see the Wizard in the field, excellent and informative video.
Wizard CaseiPeica looks great with the Improvements and the Fresh bottom paint i’ve owned 17or 18 boats over the years and one of the things that Hatteras and Trojan Boats have always maintained is keeping their Hulls is keeping what i call Traditional or Classic Motor Yacht lines i found the Carpe story very entertaining as the majority of my Boating has been Salt Water mainly Florida and the Carribean then in the Chesapeake Bay which is really Brackish
I had a beautiful Chris Craft commander cabin cruiser I restored and refinished its beautiful teak wood hull but ended completely losing interest in it in 10 years I owned it it never saw water ended up selling it for a loss , glad the new owner finished her and its now being used every weekend! cheers from Lake Powell . .
I love how the Cassiopeia font reminds me of the font from the Television Show "Bewitched"!
In my youth, I did bottom paint jobs on boats back in the late 90s. At that time there already were strict EPA and OSHA requirements for managing the debris from blasting or sanding off boat bottom paint in a marina, adjacent to the water. Special ($$$) blasting and sanding equipment was required to do the job. I can imagine the regs. for this work got even more strict in the last 20 years. The new paint, usually Interlux brand, was very expensive as well.
Awesome video Mrs. Wizard! I’m a Florida native but sold my boat before moving here to Germany. Meep them coming. Oh, you too Wizard. 😆
Glad the Wizard is spending so much money on yachts and cars it means he will keep making videos to pay for it all. Enjoying this channel immensely!
That looks like a 30-40 ton travel lift. We have a similar 30 ton unit at our marina. The C-shaped frame means it's designed to haul sailboats and power boats with tall structures like flybridge Bimini tops and tuna towers. There are also enormous 150 ton units used for superyachts.
Good eye on the shape of the lift. The marina used to have a 49 slip sailboat dock. The lift is a 2012 50 ton that was custom ordered at the Miami boat show with a boom crane.
I so enjoy these boat videos I hope you keep them coming.
The as yet un-painted Carver didn't look bad at all compared to a single season for saltwater boats. A barnacle covered bottom will cut the top speed, and thus fuel efficiency, as much as forty per cent. The Wizard is making some helpful points in this video, especially to those considering a larger boat.
Glad you are pleased with it great job from Cornwall England 🏴👍😀💯
Thanks Wizard family for taking us on your boating adventure! Are the abandoned boats ever put on a online market, or do marinas just let them set and deteriorate? I always see boats in bad shape but never know if they are owned still or abandoned.
The marinas can take possession of abandoned boats. If you see something you think you want to rescue, talk to the marina, they’d be glad to make a deal.
It is a good thing Hoovie isn't into buying Hopptie Yachts. By the time he got to ten he would be bankrupt :-)
Great update thanks Mr & Mrs Wizard 🧙🏼♀️ 🧙🏼♂️🛥
That abandoned boat looks like a Chris Craft Roamer either steel or aluminum hull. Should be your next boat.
1968 41’ aluminum
I always dream of having a boat like this and camp out in a nice cove for the weekend
You don't need a big yacht. The smaller the boat -- the greater the fun! Truly.
Renting them is always the way to go, trust me, been in the Boat Industry for nearly 2 decades
We stay on our boat on grand lake every weekend. The carp life is real 🤣🤣 really hit home. Hope to see you guys out on the water. Cheers love your videos
I remember back in the 80s spending nights on my dad's boat and all the noise the carp would make. He never maintained the boat properly so it all makes sense now after watching this.
@@misterm5325 you know my first two old boats I figured that was the case but the boat I have now gets washed every season and has a current bottom job and they still slap it. I think it just happens. Definitely worse in a dirty old unkept boat though. That’s for sure
Yes, they get the water skier out before they get the boat out. Some dealerships don’t do that. Incredible.
Love seeing the wizard living that good life!
People don’t understand how much it costs and the work that goes into boat ownership, especially big boats. Its all fun and games in the summer but come winter and majority of the people that came and enjoyed your boat in the summer go MIA when the fun stops and work begins to put it to bed for the winter. Things like travel lift or crane fee, winter storage/dockage winterization of the engines and water systems, shrink wrapping/covering, etc. most of those items are paid for individually by the foot. So many people say the two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy and the day you sell it but I don’t agree. In my opinion the memories you gain are priceless. Point to all this is if your friend has a boat and you enjoy going on it help chip in a little. In the summers offer up some gas money, bring some snacks and refreshment with you, don’t bring anyone with out asking first, and take your damn shoes off before you get in. In the winter volunteer to help with winterization process and checking on it over the winter it goes a long way.
I am a professional boat builder and yacht specialist, I can roll bottom paint and change the zinks even the cutlass bearing for way less money and within a day. Instead of wet sanding, there are other options get a 5 gal pail, buy arm & hammer super washing soda, DRY TSP trisodium phosphate power, and simple green and a green 3M pad or 800 to 1200 grit wet sandpaper, mix proper amounts as required per gallon of water, then wash and scrub your gel coat down, this combination will even remove jet fuel and years of sun damage, rinse thoroughly, wipe down with acetone, then buy Penetrol® Oil-Based Paint Additive by Flood, it restores the polyester Gelcoat to a shine, it will haze up buff it out, then compound the boat with 3M™ Marine Compound and Finishing Material removes scratches, oxidation, stains, swirl marks and other blemishes that are robbing your boat of its beauty. this will restore the Gelcoat like new.
Friend of mine who owned a similar boat likened the experience to constantly standing under a shower tearing up £50 (or $50 in your case) notes 😂 - great fun but bottomless money pits, there is always something to fix and it all costs money
My great Grandfather was from the Duchy of Bohemia in Czechia. Carp is the traditional Christmas dinner there.
My grandparents usually had a living carp in the bathtub in the days before, the clean water made it even more tasty 😃
Always interesting to learn about different types of vehicles/machines. Boats are no different.
Saw some nice action at the harbor this saturday when one of the older wooden boats were about to dock after a trip out. Probably a semi large two cylinder diesel or potentially hot bulb engine. Not noisy at all but a nice funky low rev growel on it.
Detroit two-stroke diesel..
@@petesmitt this wasnt a screamin jimmy.. you could count the beats on idle… som of the old wooden boats in the harbor here is pre ww2, which makes it less likely to be a DD and more likely a locally produced engine.
I just realised that is is a good 4hour travel from Omega Auto to the Lake where Cassiopeia is located.
Beiing so busy at your shop i wish that you and your lovely wife find enpugh time slots to enjoy the life on the water .
Best wishes from Germany and please take care and stay healthy (i don mean that pandemic ,i am talking about health in generall)
Robert
Nice job Mrs W, extra storage is always a bonus
Love the cup holders. You need a beer bottle opener screwed to the timber next to it.
I am betting that you guys will enjoy the boat all winter even if you don't go out as much. The lake is very nice and peaceful in the winter.
Mike Rowe did an episode of Dirty Jobs where they replaced the sacrificial anodes inside the lock doors in a lock in the Great Lakes. Oh....it was in the dead of winter too. That lift is definitely beefy and girthy. Great job Mrs Wizard.
Both Wizards are excellent teachers!
We could have done with a whole video on the Boat Lift. We used to have a similar lift at work for containers. I guess it is hydraulic motors on the wheels.
Nice to see it all come together.
A 220 grit sanding block and a gallon of Totally Awesome Cleaner (available at most dollar stores) will do wonders in restoring the gloss of the old gelcoat. I do that once a year on my 50 year old fiberglass sailboat hull.
I'm glad you have those Crocs things in sport mode.
I work around the ports in Australia 🇦🇺, that boat lifter is called a straddle or (rtg) rubber tyred gantry in the container industry✌️
I am glad Dave like a clean bottom and not a crusty bottom
Please keep bringing us content, your a very insightful person
I loved these boat videos! Such a cool vessel, sadly, my budget doesn’t allow for this, but I live vicariously through the wizard and his family! Great stuff!
We normally have the full monty strip and repaint every few years but in between we just add a fresh coat of antifouling paint. My boat is on saltwater though.
I’ve applied that copper paint before and it was all I could taste for 2 days
Same here
I have a small boat in a Marina. Not been able to get to it since covid and there was a few years when our kid was born we didnt use it. We'd never give it up because you'd lose your slot in the marina.
I like those old Trojans flush decks 44 footers . With teak decks ,they have those mahogany’s doors that fold and separates the deck from the helm . I have a tayana 55 sailboat . It took me a month to sand it down to the fairing, then six coats of west systems then one coat of black hard paint then 2 coats of ablative. If you want to see the finest example of a Trojan I’ve ever seen. Go to a video called biggest boat graveyard in the Chesapeake. On a channel called Sv bohemian
Marine paint is hugely expensive, as is aviation paint. They have to withstand a while lot more than automotive paint does. I remember when we got new paint for my buddy's flat bottom fishing boat, it was $175/gallon. Salt water paint is way more.
Congratulations Wizard. It looks fabulous.
Wizzard that is not a boat its a ship and your ship is looking amazing. Grew up around ship yards great tour.
He should of showed the Meridian 580 Pilothouse behind the camera.
It's always good to have a clean bottom.
Brilliant job with the boat the name is stunning great videos love them happy new year to you and your family love watching the videos from a uk fan
I love the new name. I love to watch boat related videos.
You think thats a big travellift you should see the ones we had in the Navy. Ours could lift a 24' x 90' 70 ton causeway section, basically a very large pontoon platform. It is impressive to see these lifts move big things however they are extremely slow. We had an accident where a sailor lost a leg below the knee because he was walking ahead of a tire as a safety person, tripped and fell and tire runs over his leg. They don't stop on a dime as you can imagine. Well your boat looks nice, thanks for the update.
Boat: Bust Out Another Thousand. I won't own a boat but I'll buy cars like hoovie.
I’ve had a few. If you are able to do most repairs on your own they aren’t that bad. It’s people who can’t even change their own oil that complains about the cost of ownership.
Congratulations, you are the 47,368th commenter to make the Bust Out Another Thousand joke. You win a lifetime supply of supposedly-amusing aphorisms, starting with "A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into".
I think Hoovie has boats as well lol
@@HankScorpio64 Best day in your life is buying a boat.. next best day is selling it.
@@dunebasher1971 here's an aphorism for thou; you must be fun at parties..
B.O.A.T. Bust Out Another Thousand!!! Love the name and font choice!
BOAT = Break out another thousand
You guys have done a great job on Cassiopeia, she's looking great.
This is turning out awesome! You should start a new channel called Boat Wizard too.
I sand off the old paint residue with a hepa vac attached. It’s brutal. Takes almost two days. Then I apply boat bottom anti fouling paint that costs $300 a gallon, weighs about fifty pounds, and barely lasts three years. Salt water use. Barnacles. Slime. Mussels.
The Diablo Music at the end did it for me. Thanks :)
Really nice vinyl work on the name! Pretty cool that you were able to order the letters, I figured you had to use a vinyl cutter and stuff. Really like the benches too, almost like a fainting couch style, and the bolt-on cupholder is great.
Wow I did not know about the copper infused paint to keep algae growth away that's neat!
I love your car videos …. But I absolutely can’t wait to see your yacht videos !!
awwww, what a cute little travel lift! It's sooooo teensy and adorable!
50 Ton. The largest one on Grand Lake, Oklahoma
@@austinstuart6987 lol, yeah, I'm just used to seeing the ones on sailing channels. The ones that can haul out a 9+ meter beam boat. This one actually looks like it's juuuust big enough for the boats they have.
@carwizard, I dig the Bewitched font for Cassiopeia