To solve your jib block to winch problem, what you're looking for is a cheek block. It's a static set of two pulleys that sit perpendicular to the jib car, and parallel to the winch plane. They're bolted to the deck, so it's permanent, and no springs to wobble about and bang into the deck. Most cheek blocks have two pulleys which allow you to rig both the jib and any future spinnakers (or staysail) at the same time. This is the setup we have on our J/105
With all of the polished stainless on Athena you and Ava are going to need some very polarized sunglasses Mads. The shower is going to be the place to be when the water is very cold even if you are not showering as it will be the ultimate foot warmer. Thank you for sharing Mads and my best to Ava.
Mads rebuilds a boat into a beautiful craft made of doohickeys and doodads. You are doing a good job of controlling the building stress of a deadline. The polar bears are safe. See Yoooooo next week.
I want to say I have watched all of your videos from the start, I love them, you are a true inspiration to attaining your dreams, I am a machinist and welder for my first degree, tip when welding make little circles when you see the puddle, my mentor taught me this and my welds always looked beautiful, I cannot wait til your next episode. Thank you for your inspiration and everything you have taught me.
it is the "high class" of DIY, which becomes a professional site ...! magnificent achievements, this completely refurbished sailboat will be superpe ... thousand Bravos !!
I know your short on time, however you may consider welding the stanchions to the bases to prevent pesky rust stains down the road. Over a period time, hopefully very long, the water sitting between the stainless parts will corrode. Thanks for the great content and even better attitude. You’ve help me get past more then one boat surprise with your optimism.
Mads !!! I am a detail-aholic, but you have exceeded my wildest compulsive detail orientation by 152.374 nautical miles. I'm guessing it's a Danish thing. Your level of perfection is on a level like my late Danish-American Dad's was. I think you now own the only $1.5 million dollar Warrior 38 on Planet Earth, if you include your manhours. I hope that price will include the 52 volume service manuals that the next owner will need for all the systems and upgrades you have installed. You are a hopeless DIY fanatic. Just crazy and not for "keep it simple stupid" folks like me. Heated shower pan? Did the Vikings have those? You are one DIY basket case. Just kidding. Ava is in for a very pampered future. I've enjoyed your videos for years and hope all your works and plans provide a very happy and comfortable cruising life for you and Ava. I hope we cross paths in the future. The first round of brew is on me.
He blows my mind with his unending work ethic, positive spirit and attention to detail. Ava has definitely chosen a good egg for herself. "Season 3: Mads and Ava actually go sailing", will be a fun watch.
Yes just think of not wearing out shoes, no huffing and puffing, no buying useless crap because it will not fit on a boat, not going to the shops every couple of days because there are none out there. Actually there are a couple but not many. A true minimal living takes over your existence.
The troll that posted that probably has a bigger carbon footprint than most. Kind of like Al Gore...massive footprint, but that's OK...do as he says, not as he does.
“Kill all the polar bears” 🤣🤣🤣..when they finished posting that, I picture them jumping in their SUV to go 2 blocks to the convince store.... You are doing a great job - keep it up!
After the easing of lockdown i was at Ahmeds Curry and Guiness all you can eat and drink for a tenner promo night in Troon . I had to throw one overboard this afternoon and if that baby makes it to the artic forget the bears were all for it!!!!:):):):)X
I do I live in a motel one rm one window.. so yes I do always... Otherwise the walls grow mold been here a year an half due to fire an the RONA... But all will be good soon!! ✌🏻💗☺️❣️
Me too, but in the winter months, that stunt becomes unbearable... So, to compensate, I set my oven to "self-clean" and open it all the way. Then I go to my living room and put on NatGeo. I just love that channel. 🤦
I would love to see you have some porthole backing plates laser cut out of aluminum so I don't keep noticing the open gaps where the old bulkheads were. Seriously though, it's amazing how much you accomplish each season, keep up the great work.
Kindest man I know. Killer of anything is not in Mads way of life... well... maybe unwanted bugs but that's their fault LOL! Cheers buddy! You're doing a great job and you will have time to spare when the little lady shows up (and those extra hands on your wish list lol)
Judging from the fittings I saw on your dinghy arch, you're using stainless steel pipe, which generally comes with a dull finish (it's been pickled & passivated at the factory). Stainless steel tubing in the smaller diameters, conversely, is usually manufactured with a "bright annealed" finish, which means you would have an easier time polishing it. The downside of using tubing, however, is finding fittings to meet your needs would be difficult. Bright annealing is done during the heat treating process using a controlled atmosphere. Here in the states bright annealed tubing became popular in the early 80s with the panel fabricators building electrical and air actuated control boxes for offshore drilling rigs. One tubing manufacture developed the bright annealing furnace process and cornered the market on the tubing because it looked nice. Distributors quickly purchased bright annealed tubing inventory to compete with one another. How do I know this? Because I was a young stainless steel tubing salesman selling tubing to rig builders in Louisiana and Texas at that time.
It amazes me people don’t stop to think just how much thought you’ve given to every inch of Athena’s refit. I don’t see any dead polar bears because of it. Looking forward to Ava’s arrival and Athena’s splash!
I just love your channel, I so enjoy my weekly fix of boat projects. I guess now you will have to get a selfi with a Polar bear on your travels..... Keep up the great channel and work.
There is no more capable, thoughtful or detailed craftsman on the whole World Wide Web. Mad's cheerful optimism and his superlative design and craftsmanship are the benchmark for how to upgrade a sailing vessel. God Speed in your upcoming sailing adventures sir. And thanks for sharing this "renovation and upgrade" adventure.
You could run the itty bitty Perkins Genny every day for 6 hours for an entire year and still not burn as many liters of Dinosaur Squeezings that a large road transportation truck burns in a single day. Also, just to ruffle a few feathers, just one full tankage of fuel from the Guided Missile Destroyers I used to sail in the Navy is more Dinosaur Squeezings than any single person would consume in an entire lifetime no matter what they drive (and a DDG can burn through an entire tankage load of diesel in 14 to 45 days depending on how fast we are going and how many main engines or generator turbines we have online while steaming = THIRSTY). So folks, just understand I am as environmentally conscious as most sailors tend to be, I am NOT here to troll anyone. I am all for max solar/wind plus battery power as possible, & minimize Genny usage... BUT, all I am pointing out is that perspective and scale are important when we look at environmental impact.
Problematic global warming alarm due to CO2 is a fraud. CO2 could be quadrupled and only cause minor warming. Don't worry about a small use of oil. We do need to conserve oil for future generations to use for plastics and other industrial materials, but a conversion to renewables needs to be completed in a century or two not a few years. The main problem with more CO2 is that it causes increased food supply and without starvation to keep population down, the earth will become overcrowded and ugly - though that is mostly an esthetic problem of preferring farms, open spaces and suburbs to cities. That may be the reason why the elites have CO2 hysteria.
While that commenter and their comment was uneducated and ridiculous, you can't simply say "this will never burn as much fuel as X, so it's fine." And while I'm sure your truck fuel usage numbers were made up to make a point, they are a bit off (the generator would need to use around .05 of a gallon / .18 liter per hour to roughly match average semi truck fuel usage for a day), and while that *may* be the case (I don't know how much hp the perkins makes, but .05 gallons is only worth around 2.7hp hours which means roughly 2 kw) But aside from that unnecessary pedantry, you can't simply compare total fuel usage for two unrelated engines. You have to account for the work being done. So you would have to say "how much power could we generate by burning 1000 tons of fuel in this destroyer?", then normalize it to something like "kw/liter" and then compare the two. Alternatively you could say "how much war could we do with this perkins diesel?"... lol, that's a silly analogy, but hey. A better would be a cargo ship, which average more than double the fuel consumption of a destroyer. But once you factor in the work being done, cargo ships are actually incredibly fuel efficient, coming in around 100 times more fuel efficient than transporting cargo via plane. On the other hand, itty bitty perkins may generate 2 kwh of electricity on a scant .05 of a gallon, but 2kwh of electricity couldn't move a ton of cargo very far at all. And of course, this is all ignoring that electricity generation is inherently less efficient than simply using the same engine to move a ship, since everything after the engine has its own inefficiencies. The engine is 45% efficient (I think this is about average for diesel engines) at extracting energy from dino squeezings, then the generator/alternator that it's driving loses a percentage or two. After that you may lose some power to heating up the wiring. Your charge controller will lose a couple percent, and your batteries will lose between 10 and 20% (or even worse with lead acid). So that 2 kw that the engine generates goes into the generator, coming out as 1.98 kw, then a bit more loss along the wiring and charge controller, and by the time the battery gets anything, we're down to say, 1.95kw. The battery converts another 10% into heat, bringing us down to around 1.76 kw. Depending on how you use that power, you have basically converted .05 gallons of dino squeezings into dinner on your electric hob. The destroyer I will definitely concede, being that what they spend their energy usage on cannot be easily reduced to a metric such as "gallons per mile per ton" or "kwh", and it could be quite easy to surmise that they essentially waste a lot of fuel simply "running around doing nothing", though I have no experience or reference so cannot say one way or the other. Note that while I am a STRONG advocate for electrifying yachting, I do understand that we're not quite at a place where it's "for everyone", and definitely agree that that guy was being an uneducated ass. I ALSO don't have any problem with Mads using the generator. I just wanted to point out that you cannot simply make the argument that "...a large road transportation truck [uses more fuel in a day than this generator will all year]", as the comparison is a bit of a false equivalence, ignoring major factors of how the fuel is being consumed. The simple truth is that anything at a massive scale such as a cargo vessel is going to be inherently more efficient than the same type of system used at the personal scale, and while itty bitty perkins will certainly never impact the planet as much as a cargo ship, it does have an impact that is larger for the work being done, plus there are far more "itty bitty perkins" out there doing work for individuals that collectively add up to a fairly massive impact, and one that is significantly easier for an individual to "do something about" than the cargo ship that's crossing the atlantic whether I buy this widget or not. This is why reducing your own personal impact is important, because even though your own personal impact is tiny, after you multiply it a few billion times, it becomes a pretty major thing.
@@FlesHBoX your comment is incomplete but I know what you are getting at and you are wrong. I can tell you how much average fuel burn these types of engines consume and it takes only a little simple math to compare average annual consumption. Do you know how many liters per hour are burned by that tiny 2 cylinder Perkins vs a 700Hp Road Diesel vs an LM2500 turbine? I do, and I've been doing the math on the job for years but I don't do it for free, so I'll let you look up the numbers and do the math for yourself.
I promise to never go on a cruise ship. Which for no good reason burns 1,377 US gallons an hour of the most polluting fuel that can get into a combustion engine. My yacht with solar and wind power has burned 5 litres of diesel in 12 months. We have spent around 8 weeks on it. Our Perkins is not itty bitty.
In-floor heating in the shower pan is a level of comfort I have never heard about. Never thought anyone would care about this. You are making Athena as close to a boat this type/size will get to a luxury yacht. Good luck!
@@jslewis145 That is exactly my thought. I never heard of in shower floor heating. Not even is luxurious homes. Hey, we can always learn something but I can't see the need and use of such comfort feature.
Mads I wouldn't worry too much about the negative comment about the Generator! Unless the person in question wants to pay for and build your boat then he or she has no say so! Your sharing how you are DIYing "your boat" if someone is building their own boat and doesn't like the way your doing it then they can do it differently! Personally I find your reasons for the choices for power management to be quite reasonable!
Excellent one Mads. I am so pleased that you decided to go ahead with the under floor heated shower pan. Owners of £2M Sunseekers will be looking at Athena with complete envy - and cold feet. Cheers, Paul.
Maybe I'm dense or something but what's the scenario in which you're in the shower with hot water but have cold feet? Isn't that the only place where you don't need a heated floor? If you run the water a couple of seconds before going in won't the floor already be warm? Like I said though, maybe I'm just being dumb and missing something.
@@Sleeponout It's a very good question. Firstly, I've never been on a boat with a heated shower floor. But I have experienced it in both marinas and houses. It does feel nice under the feet, but probably more importantly, everything dries out much quicker once you finish the shower. But even more importantly...once you've thought of an idea like that, it's hard to resist doing it. Unfortunately, I don't even have a shower on my boat - let alone a heated one ;)
With regard to your polishing woes and that belt thingy I have a suggestion. This idea is not mine I hasten to add but is a technique seen on a YT channel from Allen Millyard. He is a wizard of a mechanical engineer who uses a simple hacksaw to cut up and remake motorcycle engines. (2400cc Kawasaki V12 anyone...?) His technique is to use Arbanet cloth cut into strips and joined at the ends with Q-bond which is a superglue. Once joined he then fits a cylindrical wire brush into the end of a drill and uses that to drive the belt. He used this method to polish exhaust silencers so had access to the end of the pipe but you might be able to adapt the method to help keep your costs down. It has the advantage of being very quick too. Incidentally you should know that polar bear numbers are currently at a very close to all-time high. They are also incredibly good swimmers since they have hollow fur where each strand is a little tube. This gives great insulation but also great buoyancy. A male bear was discovered in the Arctic ocean happily swimming along about 100 miles from the nearest place of safety either land or ice...!
Now that shower pan heater is Boss! What a cool piece & your feet will love you after being wet & cold from the outside elements. A note on the davit threaded rod ends, there are specs that need to be adhered to for the number of threads showing as too many compromises strength significantly. You may of just threaded them in temporarily so if that's the case, ignore my comment.
You are my favorite youtuber.. You can tackle practically any kind of project and if you can't you know somebody that can teach you. You da Man, Mads!!!!
At first I was thinking that the heated shower pan was a huge waste of time because running the shower for a few seconds to get the water to temp is enough to get the floor nice and warm, but after realizing that this would also keep the entire head warm without needing a register and fans... I think it’s a fantastic idea! As always amazing work Mads.
The boomer commenter sounded more like a troll than any kind of knowledgeable person. I really enjoy your videos even though I have no interest in boats. It seem to be all about your hard work and ingenuity. Thanks for posting these!
The build quality of the shower floor heater.... It will be salvaged 10,000 years from now to heat the shower floor on a space ship. Pretty dang spiffy!
She is becoming a super spiffy yacht Mads and please just ignore the rabid enviro trolls. None of them could have achieved what you have done with Athena AND they have no idea what it’s like for 2 people to live aboard in such small confines OR to go to sea. You rock Mads. Cheers. __/))
No polar bears have been harmed or will be harmed by the making of this video and or any contraptions bullet or will be bullet. Thank you for you concern.
The dinghy arch pivot arrangement looks good for tension but not compression etc. Could the arch do with corner braces. It would also be stronger when rescuing polar bears.
You’ll egg out the pivot point from wear, before the welds on those eyelet break. Especially if you saving polar bears from drowning (a lot of trashing about)
I think its plenty beefy. Mads you may want to machine a bushing on the connection of the davits to the arch like delrin or uhmwpe or something. This would be a wearable part butbyouncould make plenty spares. Otherwise it seems that will rattle and drive you crazy. I had too much play between my rudder's pintles and gudgeons and it made the most annoying noise at night at anchor.
@@seccat Using NAS (aircraft spec bolts) which are a high spec, close tolerance bolt pretty much eliminates egging out the holes. The other preventer is using a doubling plate over the holes then using a reamer to fit the holes, NOT a drill bit. Between those two, it solves the issue on high stress joints. Learned this from working on high power race car suspensions.
Between you and Paul, I get my fair share of boat project videos. You two show what I could do allot better on my boat LOL! I really enjoy your videos! Best of luck with finishing the important stuff before Ava arrives
Don't be alarmed about polar bears, according to the government of Canada, the population of bears have increased since last decade. No thanks for solar or wind free energy but thanks to hunters who traded their guns for cameras! BTW, amazingly beautiful work where "good enough" is my "best I can do" Cheers from Canada
Mads. You need a proper flat turning block with strong backing plates for the Genoa sheet lead.. It will need to take the high loads and snatch loads. That fitting will rip out of your deck or break. Might be an idea to focus on the deck layout and fittings.
With regards to the angle of the rope to your winch. Check if you can reverse the turning on your winch by changing the internal ratchets. I did this on mine so the starboard and port sheets lead the same. Ie anti clockwise on port side and clockwise on starboard. Hope that makes sense!
I like how you having basic things we have in our homes is the equivalent of millionares living opulent lives to this person, can't wait for the helicopter landing pad vid, mads.
The only thing that's a bit concerning regarding the in pan heating is that if you have any amount of flex, in time, the copper will crack. This is 100% guaranteed in the configuration you have now. A few years back we experimented with building an open jacuzzi that had embedded copper lines in the body. Figure that the small amount of flex that comes from someone stepping unto the bottom from outside was enough to work harden and crack a line. Hopefully the foam will provide enough support.
Mads, the only couple of things that would be worrying me are. You have a lot of work left, not to say it's not possible but you are going to be very very busy! Don't forget you have to get the boat finished plus get it ready to cruise! The other is getting rid of a lot of stuff. Car, a bunch of tools.... you are leaps ahead of many people that go cruising but just getting ready to leave the dock for a month or two does involve quite a bit. I would say 95% of the people watching have never cruised it's great for you to be showing them it's not a go on a whim thing.
You could get aluminium track ends by Pfeiffer instead of the plastic ones. (Those will get britle from uv.) They are not expensive and a lot nicer. They fit standard 25, 32 or 40 mm T-tracks. (e.g. 7406001 for the 32) Instead of the aditional block for the genoa sheets there are small stainless strips to avoid chafing. (e.g. marinetech 84404250)
Always nice to watch your inspiring vids. As for the negative comments, just file them in the round Bin! cheers Ps: time is getting short before the boss shows up😉
I can't believe this channel doesn't have a million subscribers
To solve your jib block to winch problem, what you're looking for is a cheek block. It's a static set of two pulleys that sit perpendicular to the jib car, and parallel to the winch plane. They're bolted to the deck, so it's permanent, and no springs to wobble about and bang into the deck. Most cheek blocks have two pulleys which allow you to rig both the jib and any future spinnakers (or staysail) at the same time. This is the setup we have on our J/105
The size of the circulating pump does not have enough flow to throw a jet of water from one boat to another.
lol the tree huggers are coming after you!!!
I recommend a sail to the arctic, where you can see all the polar bears you didn't kill and truly appreciate the heated shower floor.
With all of the polished stainless on Athena you and Ava are going to need some very polarized sunglasses Mads. The shower is going to be the place to be when the water is very cold even if you are not showering as it will be the ultimate foot warmer. Thank you for sharing Mads and my best to Ava.
You won't kill all the polar bears. Your videos are great. Thank you!!
Mads rebuilds a boat into a beautiful craft made of doohickeys and doodads. You are doing a good job of controlling the building stress of a deadline. The polar bears are safe. See Yoooooo next week.
"The flux capacitor" 😂 👍
To go with the flux gate compass of course.
Hope Eva gonna be back in time
Don't forget the heated towel rack! 😁👍🤪
I want to say I have watched all of your videos from the start, I love them, you are a true inspiration to attaining your dreams, I am a machinist and welder for my first degree, tip when welding make little circles when you see the puddle, my mentor taught me this and my welds always looked beautiful, I cannot wait til your next episode. Thank you for your inspiration and everything you have taught me.
I've been watching your channel from the VERY beginning...love seeing this boat come together.
Putting a lot of faith in your project management skills for this sprint to the finish, but as a fellow IT guy I’m rooting for you. Go for it Mads!
it is the "high class" of DIY, which becomes a professional site ...! magnificent achievements, this completely refurbished sailboat will be superpe ... thousand Bravos !!
I know your short on time, however you may consider welding the stanchions to the bases to prevent pesky rust stains down the road. Over a period time, hopefully very long, the water sitting between the stainless parts will corrode. Thanks for the great content and even better attitude. You’ve help me get past more then one boat surprise with your optimism.
Don't fret. F all haters. You are better than all the haters
My favorite Viking!
Mads !!! I am a detail-aholic, but you have exceeded my wildest compulsive detail orientation by 152.374 nautical miles. I'm guessing it's a Danish thing. Your level of perfection is on a level like my late Danish-American Dad's was. I think you now own the only $1.5 million dollar Warrior 38 on Planet Earth, if you include your manhours. I hope that price will include the 52 volume service manuals that the next owner will need for all the systems and upgrades you have installed. You are a hopeless DIY fanatic. Just crazy and not for "keep it simple stupid" folks like me. Heated shower pan? Did the Vikings have those? You are one DIY basket case. Just kidding. Ava is in for a very pampered future. I've enjoyed your videos for years and hope all your works and plans provide a very happy and comfortable cruising life for you and Ava. I hope we cross paths in the future. The first round of brew is on me.
He blows my mind with his unending work ethic, positive spirit and attention to detail. Ava has definitely chosen a good egg for herself. "Season 3: Mads and Ava actually go sailing", will be a fun watch.
I can’t wait to see the generator fire up!!
I imagine your carbon footprint as a live aboard will be minuscule compared to that of even the greenest of land dwellers. Great video as always!
Yes just think of not wearing out shoes, no huffing and puffing, no buying useless crap because it will not fit on a boat, not going to the shops every couple of days because there are none out there. Actually there are a couple but not many. A true minimal living takes over your existence.
The troll that posted that probably has a bigger carbon footprint than most. Kind of like Al Gore...massive footprint, but that's OK...do as he says, not as he does.
Cheers for every time «thickened epoxy» is mentioned!
My wife gets home in a month, and I also have a million things to do. Just after I watch this new Sail life video. Lol
You need a stuffed polar bear on the front of the boat! Keep it up!!!! Ya got more energy than I do
Quote, "I'm not going for perfection..." HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA sooooo funny!! U krak me up. U say funny stuff.
Matts you ARE NOT a Polar Bear killer!
Nor Matts.
The IddyBiddy Perkins gets my vote👍👍👍👍
Spiffy spiffy Sunday
“Kill all the polar bears” 🤣🤣🤣..when they finished posting that, I picture them jumping in their SUV to go 2 blocks to the convince store....
You are doing a great job - keep it up!
What has a polar bear ever done for us beside eat baby seals?
@@mr.e7022 killing whales should be done before killing the polar bears, you get more blubber for oil per kill. I’m game 🙏
Oh glorious scratches. I just did the same thing with bronze port lights inside a boat cabin. Ug!
Save me one of those bear 🐻 skins. I could use a new coat.... JK🤣 Neat ideal on the shower floor. Athena is really starting to come together. Love it.
Glad to see things coming together ever so slightly. Job well done thus far!
Oh😅 Now I have to go back and find that comment in last week's video 😆
Fair winds,,,, /),,,, ❤️
very nice night tonight 25 celsius
After the easing of lockdown i was at Ahmeds Curry and Guiness all you can eat and drink for a tenner promo night in Troon . I had to throw one overboard this afternoon and if that baby makes it to the artic forget the bears were all for it!!!!:):):):)X
Holy Cow! The Boss arrives in one month and the boat is an awful mess!
To save the polar bears I occasionally run my air conditioning with the windows open.
I do the same when I drive my car.
Well, we should invest in deploying more polar bear researchers to the arctic, so the polar bears stay well fed.
@@tduenchan Greta?
I do I live in a motel one rm one window.. so yes I do always... Otherwise the walls grow mold been here a year an half due to fire an the RONA... But all will be good soon!! ✌🏻💗☺️❣️
Me too, but in the winter months, that stunt becomes unbearable... So, to compensate, I set my oven to "self-clean" and open it all the way. Then I go to my living room and put on NatGeo. I just love that channel. 🤦
I would love to see you have some porthole backing plates laser cut out of aluminum so I don't keep noticing the open gaps where the old bulkheads were. Seriously though, it's amazing how much you accomplish each season, keep up the great work.
Its going to be interesting to see you transition from master boat builder to salty sailor 🤙
Your work ethic is impossibly high
Kindest man I know. Killer of anything is not in Mads way of life... well... maybe unwanted bugs but that's their fault LOL! Cheers buddy! You're doing a great job and you will have time to spare when the little lady shows up (and those extra hands on your wish list lol)
looking dang spiffy Mads!
Judging from the fittings I saw on your dinghy arch, you're using stainless steel pipe, which generally comes with a dull finish (it's been pickled & passivated at the factory). Stainless steel tubing in the smaller diameters, conversely, is usually manufactured with a "bright annealed" finish, which means you would have an easier time polishing it. The downside of using tubing, however, is finding fittings to meet your needs would be difficult. Bright annealing is done during the heat treating process using a controlled atmosphere. Here in the states bright annealed tubing became popular in the early 80s with the panel fabricators building electrical and air actuated control boxes for offshore drilling rigs. One tubing manufacture developed the bright annealing furnace process and cornered the market on the tubing because it looked nice. Distributors quickly purchased bright annealed tubing inventory to compete with one another. How do I know this? Because I was a young stainless steel tubing salesman selling tubing to rig builders in Louisiana and Texas at that time.
Your deadline is fast approaching and your still keeping easy going personality!! Super awesome!!
Just wait till Ava arrives ...
I am anxious to see how that in floor heating winds up working, bet it will be nice!
It amazes me people don’t stop to think just how much thought you’ve given to every inch of Athena’s refit. I don’t see any dead polar bears because of it. Looking forward to Ava’s arrival and Athena’s splash!
I just love your channel, I so enjoy my weekly fix of boat projects. I guess now you will have to get a selfi with a Polar bear on your travels..... Keep up the great channel and work.
Martin is a welding legend
How much do you wish he had a YT channel? I'm picturing Quint from Jaws but really handy.
There is no more capable, thoughtful or detailed craftsman on the whole World Wide Web. Mad's cheerful optimism and his superlative design and craftsmanship are the benchmark for how to upgrade a sailing vessel. God Speed in your upcoming sailing adventures sir. And thanks for sharing this "renovation and upgrade" adventure.
You could run the itty bitty Perkins Genny every day for 6 hours for an entire year and still not burn as many liters of Dinosaur Squeezings that a large road transportation truck burns in a single day. Also, just to ruffle a few feathers, just one full tankage of fuel from the Guided Missile Destroyers I used to sail in the Navy is more Dinosaur Squeezings than any single person would consume in an entire lifetime no matter what they drive (and a DDG can burn through an entire tankage load of diesel in 14 to 45 days depending on how fast we are going and how many main engines or generator turbines we have online while steaming = THIRSTY). So folks, just understand I am as environmentally conscious as most sailors tend to be, I am NOT here to troll anyone. I am all for max solar/wind plus battery power as possible, & minimize Genny usage... BUT, all I am pointing out is that perspective and scale are important when we look at environmental impact.
Problematic global warming alarm due to CO2 is a fraud. CO2 could be quadrupled and only cause minor warming. Don't worry about a small use of oil. We do need to conserve oil for future generations to use for plastics and other industrial materials, but a conversion to renewables needs to be completed in a century or two not a few years. The main problem with more CO2 is that it causes increased food supply and without starvation to keep population down, the earth will become overcrowded and ugly - though that is mostly an esthetic problem of preferring farms, open spaces and suburbs to cities. That may be the reason why the elites have CO2 hysteria.
just say what I say ( damned Polar Bears were already dead when I got here!)
While that commenter and their comment was uneducated and ridiculous, you can't simply say "this will never burn as much fuel as X, so it's fine." And while I'm sure your truck fuel usage numbers were made up to make a point, they are a bit off (the generator would need to use around .05 of a gallon / .18 liter per hour to roughly match average semi truck fuel usage for a day), and while that *may* be the case (I don't know how much hp the perkins makes, but .05 gallons is only worth around 2.7hp hours which means roughly 2 kw)
But aside from that unnecessary pedantry, you can't simply compare total fuel usage for two unrelated engines. You have to account for the work being done. So you would have to say "how much power could we generate by burning 1000 tons of fuel in this destroyer?", then normalize it to something like "kw/liter" and then compare the two. Alternatively you could say "how much war could we do with this perkins diesel?"... lol, that's a silly analogy, but hey. A better would be a cargo ship, which average more than double the fuel consumption of a destroyer. But once you factor in the work being done, cargo ships are actually incredibly fuel efficient, coming in around 100 times more fuel efficient than transporting cargo via plane. On the other hand, itty bitty perkins may generate 2 kwh of electricity on a scant .05 of a gallon, but 2kwh of electricity couldn't move a ton of cargo very far at all. And of course, this is all ignoring that electricity generation is inherently less efficient than simply using the same engine to move a ship, since everything after the engine has its own inefficiencies. The engine is 45% efficient (I think this is about average for diesel engines) at extracting energy from dino squeezings, then the generator/alternator that it's driving loses a percentage or two. After that you may lose some power to heating up the wiring. Your charge controller will lose a couple percent, and your batteries will lose between 10 and 20% (or even worse with lead acid). So that 2 kw that the engine generates goes into the generator, coming out as 1.98 kw, then a bit more loss along the wiring and charge controller, and by the time the battery gets anything, we're down to say, 1.95kw. The battery converts another 10% into heat, bringing us down to around 1.76 kw. Depending on how you use that power, you have basically converted .05 gallons of dino squeezings into dinner on your electric hob.
The destroyer I will definitely concede, being that what they spend their energy usage on cannot be easily reduced to a metric such as "gallons per mile per ton" or "kwh", and it could be quite easy to surmise that they essentially waste a lot of fuel simply "running around doing nothing", though I have no experience or reference so cannot say one way or the other.
Note that while I am a STRONG advocate for electrifying yachting, I do understand that we're not quite at a place where it's "for everyone", and definitely agree that that guy was being an uneducated ass. I ALSO don't have any problem with Mads using the generator. I just wanted to point out that you cannot simply make the argument that "...a large road transportation truck [uses more fuel in a day than this generator will all year]", as the comparison is a bit of a false equivalence, ignoring major factors of how the fuel is being consumed. The simple truth is that anything at a massive scale such as a cargo vessel is going to be inherently more efficient than the same type of system used at the personal scale, and while itty bitty perkins will certainly never impact the planet as much as a cargo ship, it does have an impact that is larger for the work being done, plus there are far more "itty bitty perkins" out there doing work for individuals that collectively add up to a fairly massive impact, and one that is significantly easier for an individual to "do something about" than the cargo ship that's crossing the atlantic whether I buy this widget or not. This is why reducing your own personal impact is important, because even though your own personal impact is tiny, after you multiply it a few billion times, it becomes a pretty major thing.
@@FlesHBoX your comment is incomplete but I know what you are getting at and you are wrong. I can tell you how much average fuel burn these types of engines consume and it takes only a little simple math to compare average annual consumption. Do you know how many liters per hour are burned by that tiny 2 cylinder Perkins vs a 700Hp Road Diesel vs an LM2500 turbine? I do, and I've been doing the math on the job for years but I don't do it for free, so I'll let you look up the numbers and do the math for yourself.
I promise to never go on a cruise ship. Which for no good reason burns 1,377 US gallons an hour of the most polluting fuel that can get into a combustion engine. My yacht with solar and wind power has burned 5 litres of diesel in 12 months. We have spent around 8 weeks on it. Our Perkins is not itty bitty.
In-floor heating in the shower pan is a level of comfort I have never heard about. Never thought anyone would care about this. You are making Athena as close to a boat this type/size will get to a luxury yacht. Good luck!
Far be it for me to ever question any of Mad's improvements, but I really don't get this one?? Why not just turn the hot water on for a few seconds?
@@jslewis145 That is exactly my thought. I never heard of in shower floor heating. Not even is luxurious homes. Hey, we can always learn something but I can't see the need and use of such comfort feature.
Great plans for the final stretch. It is going to all come together.
Good stuff!!! Also watching Just About Sailing vids From here on southern Vancouver Island CHEERS
Mads I wouldn't worry too much about the negative comment about the Generator! Unless the person in question wants to pay for and build your boat then he or she has no say so! Your sharing how you are DIYing "your boat" if someone is building their own boat and doesn't like the way your doing it then they can do it differently! Personally I find your reasons for the choices for power management to be quite reasonable!
Paul from just about sailing is really getting loads of shout outs on other channels recently
Excellent one Mads. I am so pleased that you decided to go ahead with the under floor heated shower pan. Owners of £2M Sunseekers will be looking at Athena with complete envy - and cold feet.
Cheers, Paul.
i LOVE YOUR CHANEL TOO PAUL !!
Maybe I'm dense or something but what's the scenario in which you're in the shower with hot water but have cold feet?
Isn't that the only place where you don't need a heated floor? If you run the water a couple of seconds before going in won't the floor already be warm?
Like I said though, maybe I'm just being dumb and missing something.
@@Sleeponout It's a very good question. Firstly, I've never been on a boat with a heated shower floor. But I have experienced it in both marinas and houses. It does feel nice under the feet, but probably more importantly, everything dries out much quicker once you finish the shower.
But even more importantly...once you've thought of an idea like that, it's hard to resist doing it. Unfortunately, I don't even have a shower on my boat - let alone a heated one ;)
@@aadghim Thanks :)
@@verynearlyaboutsailing8114 Those sound like pretty good reasons.
With regard to your polishing woes and that belt thingy I have a suggestion. This idea is not mine I hasten to add but is a technique seen on a YT channel from Allen Millyard. He is a wizard of a mechanical engineer who uses a simple hacksaw to cut up and remake motorcycle engines. (2400cc Kawasaki V12 anyone...?) His technique is to use Arbanet cloth cut into strips and joined at the ends with Q-bond which is a superglue. Once joined he then fits a cylindrical wire brush into the end of a drill and uses that to drive the belt. He used this method to polish exhaust silencers so had access to the end of the pipe but you might be able to adapt the method to help keep your costs down. It has the advantage of being very quick too.
Incidentally you should know that polar bear numbers are currently at a very close to all-time high. They are also incredibly good swimmers since they have hollow fur where each strand is a little tube. This gives great insulation but also great buoyancy. A male bear was discovered in the Arctic ocean happily swimming along about 100 miles from the nearest place of safety either land or ice...!
Now that shower pan heater is Boss! What a cool piece & your feet will love you after being wet & cold from the outside elements. A note on the davit threaded rod ends, there are specs that need to be adhered to for the number of threads showing as too many compromises strength significantly. You may of just threaded them in temporarily so if that's the case, ignore my comment.
Making progress.
Oh Glorious Stir Sticks!!
PBK Mads (polar bear killer) lol. Just try not to take out the penguins also.... Haha
You are my favorite youtuber.. You can tackle practically any kind of project and if you can't you know somebody that can teach you. You da Man, Mads!!!!
Just imagine if Martin (cement boat guy) had a channel!
Amazing work sir. I am jealous of Athena.
interesting to see how many tools Mads will bring along.
Wow.. a fellow polar bear killer... welcome to the club bud..
I'm concerned about the skeleton in the workshop. They're going to catch up with you eventually Mads.
Stay healthy and we'll see you next week.
At first I was thinking that the heated shower pan was a huge waste of time because running the shower for a few seconds to get the water to temp is enough to get the floor nice and warm, but after realizing that this would also keep the entire head warm without needing a register and fans... I think it’s a fantastic idea! As always amazing work Mads.
not me doing it, but if I was, yup it's a waste of time and another think that can break.
The boomer commenter sounded more like a troll than any kind of knowledgeable person. I really enjoy your videos even though I have no interest in boats. It seem to be all about your hard work and ingenuity. Thanks for posting these!
Amazing work! Thanks for the instruction!
The build quality of the shower floor heater.... It will be salvaged 10,000 years from now to heat the shower floor on a space ship. Pretty dang spiffy!
Great video, as always. I'm learning a lot from you, what to do,and what not to do on our refit. Keep the videos coming!
Great video, Mads, you are my current favorite host in boat and general construction video genres.
Spiffy should be the name of the boat!
hi the boat is looking very good
We find on our boat that solae panels are enough if you space your use of energy users.
She is becoming a super spiffy yacht Mads and please just ignore the rabid enviro trolls. None of them could have achieved what you have done with Athena AND they have no idea what it’s like for 2 people to live aboard in such small confines OR to go to sea. You rock Mads. Cheers. __/))
No polar bears have been harmed or will be harmed by the making of this video and or any contraptions bullet or will be bullet. Thank you for you concern.
The dinghy arch pivot arrangement looks good for tension but not compression etc. Could the arch do with corner braces. It would also be stronger when rescuing polar bears.
I agree. He needs a much beefier connection.
You’ll egg out the pivot point from wear, before the welds on those eyelet break. Especially if you saving polar bears from drowning (a lot of trashing about)
I think its plenty beefy. Mads you may want to machine a bushing on the connection of the davits to the arch like delrin or uhmwpe or something. This would be a wearable part butbyouncould make plenty spares. Otherwise it seems that will rattle and drive you crazy. I had too much play between my rudder's pintles and gudgeons and it made the most annoying noise at night at anchor.
@@seccat Using NAS (aircraft spec bolts) which are a high spec, close tolerance bolt pretty much eliminates egging out the holes. The other preventer is using a doubling plate over the holes then using a reamer to fit the holes, NOT a drill bit. Between those two, it solves the issue on high stress joints. Learned this from working on high power race car suspensions.
Yep, adult male polar bear up to 700kg
Don't worry about all the polar bears,,,,, just be you and enjoy your comforts........lol..
Looking forward to the new chapter of your life. It will be cool to see you and Ava working on the boat.
You're a genius 🤷♂️... Nothing to add...
See you next week 🙏
Sailing Mad Mads, the polar bear slayer !! 😆
Between you and Paul, I get my fair share of boat project videos. You two show what I could do allot better on my boat LOL! I really enjoy your videos! Best of luck with finishing the important stuff before Ava arrives
Looking good!
Polar Bear killer!!!!
Don't be alarmed about polar bears, according to the government of Canada, the population of bears have increased since last decade. No thanks for solar or wind free energy but thanks to hunters who traded their guns for cameras!
BTW, amazingly beautiful work where "good enough" is my "best I can do"
Cheers from Canada
Mads, your level of "good enough", borderlines my level of "spectacular"...
🤙🏽🤙🏽👏👏
As usual, great video. I really enjoy watching the progress and the attention to detail.
Mads. You need a proper flat turning block with strong backing plates for the Genoa sheet lead..
It will need to take the high loads and snatch loads. That fitting will rip out of your deck or break.
Might be an idea to focus on the deck layout and fittings.
With regards to the angle of the rope to your winch. Check if you can reverse the turning on your winch by changing the internal ratchets. I did this on mine so the starboard and port sheets lead the same. Ie anti clockwise on port side and clockwise on starboard. Hope that makes sense!
Is anyone else hearing the "Countdown" music every episode now :D
I like how you having basic things we have in our homes is the equivalent of millionares living opulent lives to this person, can't wait for the helicopter landing pad vid, mads.
Love your work, we also use a dinghy lifting frame similar to what to what you are using it works great
The only thing that's a bit concerning regarding the in pan heating is that if you have any amount of flex, in time, the copper will crack. This is 100% guaranteed in the configuration you have now. A few years back we experimented with building an open jacuzzi that had embedded copper lines in the body. Figure that the small amount of flex that comes from someone stepping unto the bottom from outside was enough to work harden and crack a line. Hopefully the foam will provide enough support.
Mads, the only couple of things that would be worrying me are. You have a lot of work left, not to say it's not possible but you are going to be very very busy! Don't forget you have to get the boat finished plus get it ready to cruise! The other is getting rid of a lot of stuff. Car, a bunch of tools.... you are leaps ahead of many people that go cruising but just getting ready to leave the dock for a month or two does involve quite a bit. I would say 95% of the people watching have never cruised it's great for you to be showing them it's not a go on a whim thing.
My wife arrives home in about two hours and we are planning to take a cruise in our worn out nasty Renault. Or as we call it. The polar bear killer
You could get aluminium track ends by Pfeiffer instead of the plastic ones. (Those will get britle from uv.) They are not expensive and a lot nicer. They fit standard 25, 32 or 40 mm T-tracks. (e.g. 7406001 for the 32)
Instead of the aditional block for the genoa sheets there are small stainless strips to avoid chafing. (e.g. marinetech 84404250)
It must be comforting for future you to know there’s always a flux capacitor available in the shower now 👍🏻😉
Sail/work on! The polar bears will be fine.
Great work as always😃. I am inspired by your work. Super excited for shake down
Always nice to watch your inspiring vids. As for the negative comments, just file them in the round Bin! cheers Ps: time is getting short before the boss shows up😉