What a fantastic break from fairing. I love the Pacific North West and you did it well Beautiful country. Thank you for taking us along. Looked like the perfect group to do it with!
You do a fantastic job at sharing the construction process. USC 26006 icing may come in handy for those nits/pinholes. Check your epoxy primer for polyester compatibility. 410 Microlight is handy too. It’s kind of expensive, so I add it to glass bubbles. When final fairing I like lighter weight products so the most recent coats sand easier than previous coats. At least 80-90% of a quality finish is prep. Keep at it, don’t hate it, fix it. 😊
It sure is a ton of hard work to do all the sanding. Interesting to see how the details are done. The Canada trip looks great, lovely to hang out with a group of friends.
Hey, Look guys. Your video's are incredible. Excellent editing. So informative. Excellent filming. I do this stuff and I have a nephew in Florida who does this stuff. I am learning from watching these videos. The best. Just the tinfoil paint tray ~ maybe I've seen it before but I think such a brilliant idea. Also mixing and waiting. ~ The technical details. Gold to me. So I would say don't have second thoughts about your work or videos. You are the expert. I am in awe every time I see what you guys are doing. All good. ✨🌸✨
Good to see you enjoying a break from the build. You drove right past our place at the head of Nitinat Lake when you took the detour along the logging road. I hope Tofino lived up to your expectations. The whole of Vancouver Island has so much to offer visitors. I really enjoy watching your channel, great tenacity demonstrated in every episode.
Everything you do is fun to follow! It's your project that we get to share, but deciding on the content means you have to do other things than what you need to do! Go ahead with your schedule, we're with you and thank you for making it possible!
Roll a piece of sandpaper around a medium drill bit, stick some masking tape around the base. Insert in a drill. You can now sand those coves quicker. Remember to keep moving the drill. Good luck 🤞.
Please don't be disappointed with yourself.... we are all enjoy watching! Half the fun for me is watching you learn, that's where I started!! Brings back memories (sometimes bad memories) 😀
Anytime we had long projects in the shop when it was hot. We would work 9 at night till 7 a.m. big difference. And we got more done. Your boat build looks amazing keep up the good work.
We had thought of doing that as well, but we use a lot of power tools, and we sit within a residential neighborhood. Plus the humidity usually skyrockets to 90%. 🥵
Yep I forgot about your neighborhood we were in an industrial zone so it didn't matter. Really enjoying your boat build. Keep up the amazing work looking forward to each new video thank you.
The Wikininnish lnn was the last place we stayed with our friend before she lost her battle to brain cancer. We had to drive there from Alberta as she was not allowed to fly. The lnn had a chocolate platter served on a piece of slate. All chocolate made in-house. The bowl that held the dipping chocolate was edible too. Great memories of that place, we had a lot of fun.
Hey Jessica. Working mostly on cars a few years back, I found wrapping a sheet of sand paper around a paint roller for sanding concave surfaces was the best thing. better than off the shelf sanders that were available. maybe a narrower tube would be necessary depending on radius of your fillets.
This viewer loves the boat work and how you guys show how difficult it can be. You are in a marathon that is going to have a huge payback. People doing it themselves on big projects and going for the highest quality beats the pants off some rich dude just pulling out the checkbook. Props to you both. And you must have some kind of cool blue filter on some of the Vancouver shots that really brought out the color in an interesting way. Thanks!
Thank you so much! We're really glad to hear you're enjoying all the boat building videos. 😍. Yes, for the Vancouver part of the video I was using a specific filter (Kodak something) that enhanced deep rich tones.
Some people can be abrasive, On the surface it's your project so that's fair.. this is prime stuff, so you can paint it any way you like... and I will continue to watch.
Jessica I like the way your tongue sticks out of your mouth when you pronounce certain words. Everybody's different and that's one of the most wonderful things on planet Earth!
Have you heard the story about Jessica's sandpaper? It's rough and a bit bumpy, filled with holes. Smooth day's ahead Jessica. Keep on smiling, it's all worth it.
For sanding coves, I’ve had pretty good luck using a variable speed Dremel with the flex shaft attachment and flap wheels. Use it by orienting the drum parallel to the cove. Try to create the coves with a radius that’s a little smaller than the flap wheels, to start. For the corners, they can be roughed out by carefully using a Kutzall sphere rotary burr in a drill. Good luck. There are 1/2” (and other sizes) sanding balls out there, but the one I tried didn’t hold up. As hikers say, “embrace the suck”. Sorry, just noticed similar comment already posted about the Dremel. Another one I can second, is the mini belt sander. If the cove is just right, it can make short work of the rough sanding.
And that is why I never make promises, so I can’t break them! Don’t worry as a long time viewer it is understandable. The Vancouver trip looks fantastic. I love the Pacific Northwest, all the large mature trees and the forests. Vancouver is a great town and the residents are so friendly. Enjoy!
Be it internal or external sanding and fairing or antifouling one of the great pleasures of doing a cat is when you finish one hull there is another one next door 😅 so speaks the owner of a one off 43 footer that was repainted every 3rd year . Enjoy .
As for the coves, do one corner at a time and let it dry. Well, you can do several as long as they don't intersect. Once the non-intersecting corners are dry do the intersecting corners. It's basically how people that do drywall handle inside corners that intersect. Yes, it takes longer but it's less time sanding and filling again. Also, if you need to remove a bunch of material quickly get a set of rasp files. They have flat and rounded sets that include several dimensions.
I'm not really sure the origins of 'Icing' someone, but basically you hide a bottle of Smirnoff Ice in a place where you know someone will come across it, and when they do they have to get down on one knee and chug it. I had it happen to me at our golf outing with the BRNKL team, so after that I wanted to make sure I got someone too. Usually it ended up being Sean. Poor guy, lol.
Fairing and priming may be repetitive but helps me to understand the amount of work is involved, and the attention to detail required to produce a magnificent boat that we will enjoy someone soon. Fantastic.
for internal radius sanding, you can wrap sandpaper around a thick dowel or a piece of broom handle, lay against the edge and slide back and forth. You can also get 'dome-headed' sanding tools for the internal corners, although I'd recommend doing it manually as you could quickly dig them out if you use a drill.
Use the widest knife you can for the area, throw away the yellow plastic one it’s to flexible it creates dips and waves. Your compound mix it up until it’s creamy but not to much and get air bubbles. I have done work like this my whole life I would have hired a professional to put up the first coat knowing he would have done it 5 times better and 5 times faster saving me a incredible amount of time money and aggravation
This has been a real eye opener. I've built a small WEST Systems boat but your build is orders of magnitude more involved. The attention to detail will yield obvious benefits.
I use a Dremel with a flexible extention and a flapper wheel for sanding my fillets (coves). Still likely we’d some hand sanding to finish but helps save your fingers a bit!
I think you guys should save all your old, used up sand paper, and when the boat is done, have a celebratory bon fire. I'm going to have one, and I'm just watching! Ed C
Just get on with the sanding, coving and primer. Its boat work that everyone would have to do if they were as adventures and determined as you two. The different shot-angles time-lapse etc were ok for me. 2x👍
To make those corners come out looking half way decent (@ 1:33) I suggest you do one edge first and wait till it sets up. Once that sets up dry to the touch you can finish the other two edges. Otherwise you might be working on all edges at the same time and it will most likely not come out as you envisioned.
Your channel right now is focused on building this boat...doing the work...yourselves. The truth is there is a metric ton of sanding in this process, and when you get that done, there will be more sanding...it just is what it is. I think your viewers and supporters get it, and we can get enough of the phony reality media elsewhere in the world. You are doing fine as far as I am concerned. This is real. I think most of us like it that way.
concerning forming coves quickly and cleanly.. one of the sailing channels had a cove tool, a metal ball the size of a large marble on a stick. it worked really well but I don't know the official name of that tool or who was using it.. I think it was Mads of Sail Life but not sure about that. Also, Andy from Boatworks Today knows everything and may have an idea
Plunge ball bit or cove box bit. A jig could be setup for a consistent angle and distance from the wall. Overfill and carve out. It will still take some polishing after but at least provide a consistent curve on all joints.
The coving tool you describe is used for applying wax beads to a mold. While it can work with certain products, for us it seems to pull the material out as you pass over. Everything we tried was just too sticky
Glad to see the air conditioning is working well this summer season! Your yacht is coming along. DO NOT GET HEAT EXHAUSTION! Two cups of water per hour. The filter mask looks to be an uncomfortable necessity. Vancouver is so nice!
With 295 episodes and 174,000 subs and goodness only knows how many views, I think you're doing an OK job at sanding and fairing and any suggestions I make would only be a distraction! Your trip looked amazing but your boat is going to be even more amazing ... Stay Safe & Fair Winds!!
I've tried those before, but they disintegrate on me quite quickly. There is a small nap roller that I used for the larger cabinets (fwd berth), but we didn't have any on hand. 😥
Regarding ideas to simplify fairing and sanding coves: Try adding the coving first, before doing any flat work faring. I think there are two benefits this way. 1) you should be reducing the number of times you have to wait for epoxy curing. That is, you would be fairing the flatwork and the cove at the same time. 2) there is ultimately less area to work. Before, I've seen you sand and fair under the area that you will cove in the future. Might as well just fair and sand only the cove in the first place. I've noticed that this fairing work is very similar to sheet rock taping. Sheet rock tapers start with the inside corners (what you're calling coving), and then work their way-out into the flat areas. They do the same with outside corners. They establish the corned, make sure its plumb and straight and then fair it in with the rest of the flatwork. I've studied concrete plaster walls and ornamental concrete work and they do it exactly the same way. They establish the corners and then blend it into the flat work. However of course, there is no sanding and they usually do all the work at one time. Professional sheet rock tapers usually complete their work in two passes, that is two times: apply the taping compound, dry it overnight, and then sand. When you get really good at fairing, what will the minimum number of passes you can do it in? Your boat project is great, never miss a show! 🙂
i liked it. the music, the commentary, the change to high speed video then back for some thoughts and commentary. idk how you make the coves but they looked very good to me. that is a tough inside corner to make look good. i wonder if you guys could adapt to a life in spain kind of thing where you siesta for four hours mid day during the heat then work late when it is cool, dinner at 10 pm sort of thing can the tent be vented at the top and a couple doors left open to create a chimeny effect? thank you for the nice video
Couple of tips, you can use a small ball or a handle with a ball end to the same radius your doing to get in the corners and outwards, second matt could use a bore sight Lazer for guns for the prop tubes?. Hope any of this helps..... maybe helpful tips used wins a hat lol. Love seeing progress Keep up the great werks
Your intro reminded me of the process of making a software distribution, i.e. Fix bugs, build software, make a distribution, download and install it, test it, find bugs and repeat. It takes a lot of iterations and usually in the end there a few things that don't get fixed. It can be wearing, so I know the feeling. Once done though, there is a joy that lasts forever. Oh, b.t.w. the boat bounces up and down with waves so the prop angle is never perfect, and you can load/balance the boat as a way to adjust it as well. Someone should invent an auto adjusting prop to keep best efficiency. Perhaps M&J Engineering?
Wow, I love that lavender farm and camping area! That looks like a little slice of heaven to me. Ummm, for the uninitiated, "a ball game" = baseball? Constructive criticism of the fairing part of the video? That's hard to do. We get to see your attention to detail (a failing of mine), the (for me) drudgery of the job, your amazing stamina to keep on going, and the sweat you put in to the job! OK, there we are similar. If you are honest and don't cut out the dreary jobs, how can anyone complain? You are very impressive. Plus the very red mark at the bridge of your nose from goggles or mask, and the little white streak across the tip of it are both really quite cute!
I would have LOVED to stay in one of those tents at the lavender farm! To be there when the sky goes pink and all the lights turn on. Any yes, ball game = baseball. 🙂 Lots of attention to detail on this boat, and the big thing that keeps us going is knowing how much we'll enjoy each and every space when it's done! 😃
Once you two are all done and the boat is slashed and sailing, I’d love to know the amount of money you saved and your per hour earnings based on that for both of you. I can’t even imagine taking on a project so large!
@@MJSailing You are respected for your commitment to do the work. 2 years from now you'll be looking at a bulkhead or wall knowing it's lookin good because of you. :¬) Webhead USA
so much hard work i still think using rollers just give you too much texture to have the sand back and it goes on thin foam brush less texture and thicker but im sure your getting better advice than on here
We went to Vancouver to meet with the team from Xantrex, since they're one of our new sponsors. Duca and Roberta also had plans to meet them, and since our friends from BRNKL live in Victoria, we all decided to head over there for a visit, since they kept talking it up in Annapolis last fall.
The mind-game trick to get through mundane _seemingly_ endless tasks is to remind yourself regularly that it is not your job! You won't be getting up six months from now to go to the factory for a day of sanding for minimum wage with no prospect of promotion. Once those areas are ticked off the list you could choose to never sand another surface again, EVER!
You're exactly right!! I just keep reminding myself that soon this part will be behind me, and we'll be adding the beautiful wood trim, and installing electronics and appliances. 😍
I do not like to inform you your dual cartridge masks are most likely doing very little to protect you from chemical inhalation. Hopefully they are dual rated for the dust and particulate exposures. These charcoal cartridges are good for usually chemical ppm protection and become saturated so need to be changed frequently. Do not know the range that is in your confined boat when working but fairly sure it would be in the thousands and the cartridges will usually only protect for less than 100 ppm. So for example if the atmosphere is say 1000 ppm of styrene in air and your cartridges are brand new and you have been trained and properly fitted for the mask you are using you will be breathing 900 ppm. Better than no protection but not much . The only real protection for you two would be supplied air which is a pain in the ass but I am sure you value your health more than this beautiful boat you are building. Been out of the lab and industrial hygiene monitoring for over 20 years but worked at chemical plants my whole life. I previously did styrene and vinyl chloride monitoring but cannot remember the Tlvs and numbers associated with them but I am positive you are being over exposed . Then there also is a whole other side with skin absorption . Please beware as you cannot buy your good health back !
Cushions are one project I will be sourcing out, haha. They took way too much time on the last boat, and it is one of those things that needs to be perfect, or it can break the look of an otherwise great boat.
Oh, how I yearn for past episodes of brilliant story-telling of sailing to amazing destinations less favoured by other You Tube channels. Your YT analytics will tell you if your current strategy of episode quantity vs content quality is paying off for you. However, I will be disabling notifications and watching less until you move in a more interesting and varied phase of the build.
Hi Jessica, congratulations for the beautiful project you are developing, i can see your passion for the sea and freedom, is evident. However, my heart saddens when I see that you are getting very dirty and that you will breathe in the styrene of polyester resin which is carcinogenic. There are many solutions for not sanding, I will make soon a smaller cat 7,5 mt with many nice options and I will do it without sanding and no stamp. If you give me the opportunity to insert some frames of your videos on my video, I will then send you the link of my video and I will explain to you how to create perfect, smooth, glossy surfaces that do not release styrene in the year. The technique I use is very simple and cheap. On my video i will speak fine about you and Mattan. and of yours beautiful proget Sorry for my English. Let me know 👍
You should change your channel name to "Alcoholics pretending to build a catamaran on UA-cam in order use the money raised to travel the world and fund our drinking problem instead".
The beer came from Tucker, he's the one that keeps this boat builder liquored up. But if you'd like to donate to him, I can give you his PayPal account. 😉👍🍻
And you should change your pseudonym to “i-have-no-idea-what-I’m-talking-about-but-i’ll-give-you-my-uninformed-opinion-anyways-cause-that’s-all-I-have-to-do-today”. Yeah! That suits you well 😘
Love these boat building videos. Have literally watched and liked all of you guys cat build series. But maybe you should be filming with your husband working. Not you drinking with the shirtless yard boy again..lol woman are so thirsty nowdays
Hahaha, sorry you didn't catch Tucker and I doing our normal girl stuff of face masks and mani-pedi's, but I had 20 minutes to kill and I figured having a beer with my friend was a good way to spend it. 😉
What a fantastic break from fairing. I love the Pacific North West and you did it well Beautiful country. Thank you for taking us along. Looked like the perfect group to do it with!
Lol. It's your boat. Get it right and don't worry about what we think . You are getting it there.
You do a fantastic job at sharing the construction process. USC 26006 icing may come in handy for those nits/pinholes. Check your epoxy primer for polyester compatibility. 410 Microlight is handy too. It’s kind of expensive, so I add it to glass bubbles. When final fairing I like lighter weight products so the most recent coats sand easier than previous coats. At least 80-90% of a quality finish is prep. Keep at it, don’t hate it, fix it. 😊
It sure is a ton of hard work to do all the sanding. Interesting to see how the details are done. The Canada trip looks great, lovely to hang out with a group of friends.
Hey, Look guys. Your video's are incredible. Excellent editing. So informative. Excellent filming. I do this stuff and I have a nephew in Florida who does this stuff. I am learning from watching these videos. The best. Just the tinfoil paint tray ~ maybe I've seen it before but I think such a brilliant idea. Also mixing and waiting. ~ The technical details. Gold to me. So I would say don't have second thoughts about your work or videos. You are the expert. I am in awe every time I see what you guys are doing. All good. ✨🌸✨
Good to see you enjoying a break from the build. You drove right past our place at the head of Nitinat Lake when you took the detour along the logging road. I hope Tofino lived up to your expectations. The whole of Vancouver Island has so much to offer visitors. I really enjoy watching your channel, great tenacity demonstrated in every episode.
That's a beautiful backyard you have! It didn't take us much time to wish we were on that coast with our boat cruising and exploring.
Everything you do is fun to follow! It's your project that we get to share, but deciding on the content means you have to do other things than what you need to do!
Go ahead with your schedule, we're with you and thank you for making it possible!
The only addition that I would suggest, is a floor/deck plan showing exactly where you are both working!
That's a great idea!!
Awesome eps! Good to see the odds having fun seeing the beautiful west coast of Canada 🇨🇦
We always have such a good time with them!
Roll a piece of sandpaper around a medium drill bit, stick some masking tape around the base. Insert in a drill. You can now sand those coves quicker. Remember to keep moving the drill. Good luck 🤞.
Please don't be disappointed with yourself.... we are all enjoy watching!
Half the fun for me is watching you learn, that's where I started!! Brings back memories (sometimes bad memories) 😀
Cheers from Solomons Island md
Loving re-living this visit!!
Another sight of of Elements. This time ashore in Cherbourg, France and now called "Lieberkunst". She still looks ok
Anytime we had long projects in the shop when it was hot.
We would work 9 at night till 7 a.m. big difference. And we got more done.
Your boat build looks amazing keep up the good work.
We had thought of doing that as well, but we use a lot of power tools, and we sit within a residential neighborhood. Plus the humidity usually skyrockets to 90%. 🥵
Yep I forgot about your neighborhood we were in an industrial zone so it didn't matter. Really enjoying your boat build. Keep up the amazing work looking forward to each new video thank you.
The Wikininnish lnn was the last place we stayed with our friend before she lost her battle to brain cancer. We had to drive there from Alberta as she was not allowed to fly. The lnn had a chocolate platter served on a piece of slate. All chocolate made in-house. The bowl that held the dipping chocolate was edible too. Great memories of that place, we had a lot of fun.
Hey Jessica. Working mostly on cars a few years back, I found wrapping a sheet of sand paper around a paint roller for sanding concave surfaces was the best thing. better than off the shelf sanders that were available. maybe a narrower tube would be necessary depending on radius of your fillets.
I use dowels for smaller details, and you can round the end for the junction spots.
Its amazing what a little primer will make
Completely changes the look of things! 😍
Hay! Sanding is what it takes to, Build a boat! Your showing real life, keep up the videos. Thanks
Thank you so much! We're getting there!
This viewer loves the boat work and how you guys show how difficult it can be. You are in a marathon that is going to have a huge payback. People doing it themselves on big projects and going for the highest quality beats the pants off some rich dude just pulling out the checkbook. Props to you both. And you must have some kind of cool blue filter on some of the Vancouver shots that really brought out the color in an interesting way. Thanks!
Thank you so much! We're really glad to hear you're enjoying all the boat building videos. 😍. Yes, for the Vancouver part of the video I was using a specific filter (Kodak something) that enhanced deep rich tones.
To quote a famous YT'r, OH glorious sanding!
It just keeps coming and coming...
Came here to say this
Some people can be abrasive, On the surface it's your project so that's fair.. this is prime stuff, so you can paint it any way you like... and I will continue to watch.
Jessica I like the way your tongue sticks out of your mouth when you pronounce certain words. Everybody's different and that's one of the most wonderful things on planet Earth!
I guess I do have a different pattern of speech than most, lol.
Congratulations to you Jessica ýoure enjoying a product of Jamaica RED STRIPE BEER❤❤
One of my favorites!! 😍. (Tastes extra good when you're in Jamaica drinking one, lol)
@@MJSailing i will send you some fresh ones
I haven't seen what you have been up to. Holy Shizu rebuilding the entire boat !!!!
Have you heard the story about Jessica's sandpaper?
It's rough and a bit bumpy, filled with holes. Smooth day's ahead Jessica. Keep on smiling, it's all worth it.
🤣👍
Getting finer as we move forward! 😜
Love the progress! If the video shows Matt or you doing stuff, I'll watch. The only thing I won't watch is the compound drying without either of you.
For sanding coves, I’ve had pretty good luck using a variable speed Dremel with the flex shaft attachment and flap wheels. Use it by orienting the drum parallel to the cove. Try to create the coves with a radius that’s a little smaller than the flap wheels, to start. For the corners, they can be roughed out by carefully using a Kutzall sphere rotary burr in a drill. Good luck. There are 1/2” (and other sizes) sanding balls out there, but the one I tried didn’t hold up. As hikers say, “embrace the suck”. Sorry, just noticed similar comment already posted about the Dremel. Another one I can second, is the mini belt sander. If the cove is just right, it can make short work of the rough sanding.
You both are so knowledgeable and dedicated. Your Community knows how many sacrifices you have made on this project. Best wishes.
And that is why I never make promises, so I can’t break them! Don’t worry as a long time viewer it is understandable. The Vancouver trip looks fantastic. I love the Pacific Northwest, all the large mature trees and the forests. Vancouver is a great town and the residents are so friendly. Enjoy!
I love all your boat videos, i didn't see you sanding...:)
Be it internal or external sanding and fairing or antifouling one of the great pleasures of doing a cat is when you finish one hull there is another one next door 😅 so speaks the owner of a one off 43 footer that was repainted every 3rd year . Enjoy .
Yup! There's always one side to 'practice' on, and another side to 'perfect', lol.
As for the coves, do one corner at a time and let it dry. Well, you can do several as long as they don't intersect.
Once the non-intersecting corners are dry do the intersecting corners.
It's basically how people that do drywall handle inside corners that intersect.
Yes, it takes longer but it's less time sanding and filling again.
Also, if you need to remove a bunch of material quickly get a set of rasp files. They have flat and rounded sets that include several dimensions.
Watching you guys travel is more fun than sanding and fairing. Both sections were fun to see. Mind telling the story behind chugging the drink?
I'm not really sure the origins of 'Icing' someone, but basically you hide a bottle of Smirnoff Ice in a place where you know someone will come across it, and when they do they have to get down on one knee and chug it.
I had it happen to me at our golf outing with the BRNKL team, so after that I wanted to make sure I got someone too.
Usually it ended up being Sean. Poor guy, lol.
Fairing and priming may be repetitive but helps me to understand the amount of work is involved, and the attention to detail required to produce a magnificent boat that we will enjoy someone soon. Fantastic.
for internal radius sanding, you can wrap sandpaper around a thick dowel or a piece of broom handle, lay against the edge and slide back and forth. You can also get 'dome-headed' sanding tools for the internal corners, although I'd recommend doing it manually as you could quickly dig them out if you use a drill.
Yeah, I am a little gun shy about easily digging in too far. So I have been doing the hand sanding, but didn't know if there was a simpler way.
Use the widest knife you can for the area, throw away the yellow plastic one it’s to flexible it creates dips and waves. Your compound mix it up until it’s creamy but not to much and get air bubbles. I have done work like this my whole life I would have hired a professional to put up the first coat knowing he would have done it 5 times better and 5 times faster saving me a incredible amount of time money and aggravation
Has there ever been a time you wish you had just bought a new boat.thanks for sharing.
Never, haha. Not only would it not be perfectly laid out how we want, but we wouldn't have the satisfaction of putting the work in.
This has been a real eye opener. I've built a small WEST Systems boat but your build is orders of magnitude more involved. The attention to detail will yield obvious benefits.
Great video
I use a Dremel with a flexible extention and a flapper wheel for sanding my fillets (coves). Still likely we’d some hand sanding to finish but helps save your fingers a bit!
I am glad to know that most people say they do a bit of hand sanding in there too, so I'm not completely off base at the moment. 😃
Was this episode before or after Duca and Roberta hit the St Martin Bridge!....as Duca would say "its all gooood!"
Hahahaha, this happened after their bridge incident.
I gotta say, that wavy look of your hair is TOTALLY you Jessica!! Super hot!! Not hot as when you're working in the cabin of the boat....
I think you guys should save all your old, used up sand paper, and when the boat is done, have a celebratory bon fire. I'm going to have one, and I'm just watching! Ed C
Just get on with the sanding, coving and primer. Its boat work that everyone would have to do if they were as adventures and determined as you two. The different shot-angles time-lapse etc were ok for me. 2x👍
To make those corners come out looking half way decent (@ 1:33) I suggest you do one edge first and wait till it sets up. Once that sets up dry to the touch you can finish the other two edges. Otherwise you might be working on all edges at the same time and it will most likely not come out as you envisioned.
Your channel right now is focused on building this boat...doing the work...yourselves. The truth is there is a metric ton of sanding in this process, and when you get that done, there will be more sanding...it just is what it is. I think your viewers and supporters get it, and we can get enough of the phony reality media elsewhere in the world.
You are doing fine as far as I am concerned. This is real.
I think most of us like it that way.
concerning forming coves quickly and cleanly.. one of the sailing channels had a cove tool, a metal ball the size of a large marble on a stick. it worked really well but I don't know the official name of that tool or who was using it.. I think it was Mads of Sail Life but not sure about that. Also, Andy from Boatworks Today knows everything and may have an idea
Plunge ball bit or cove box bit. A jig could be setup for a consistent angle and distance from the wall. Overfill and carve out. It will still take some polishing after but at least provide a consistent curve on all joints.
The coving tool you describe is used for applying wax beads to a mold. While it can work with certain products, for us it seems to pull the material out as you pass over. Everything we tried was just too sticky
I can't wait for shark's with frickin' laser beams to get the angles absolutely perfect.
We are after things that no other boat has. 😉
Glad to see the air conditioning is working well this summer season! Your yacht is coming along. DO NOT GET HEAT EXHAUSTION! Two cups of water per hour. The filter mask looks to be an uncomfortable necessity.
Vancouver is so nice!
Sweet coves with the primer on.
It's a big aspect of building a boat. I did a ton of sanding, priming and painting in my last job so no big deal.
13°C I'd be rugged up like Duca that's too cold even for winter🤣
Harbor freight has sanding/buffing ball thingies. I have not tried them yet but they look like they might work in those transition areas.
Thanks for the tip! I'll make sure to check it out.
With 295 episodes and 174,000 subs and goodness only knows how many views, I think you're doing an OK job at sanding and fairing and any suggestions I make would only be a distraction! Your trip looked amazing but your boat is going to be even more amazing ... Stay Safe & Fair Winds!!
Hopefully we're getting to the point soon where the countdown to launch will be in months, and not 'a year and....'.😉
Try foam rollers, less orange peel, saves time, may take more coats but leaves a smoother surface
I've tried those before, but they disintegrate on me quite quickly. There is a small nap roller that I used for the larger cabinets (fwd berth), but we didn't have any on hand. 😥
@MJSailing amazon has boxes of 20 or so and I use them with interprotect 2000e and they don't disintegrate that fast, it takes a long time
Regarding ideas to simplify fairing and sanding coves: Try adding the coving first, before doing any flat work faring. I think there are two benefits this way. 1) you should be reducing the number of times you have to wait for epoxy curing. That is, you would be fairing the flatwork and the cove at the same time. 2) there is ultimately less area to work. Before, I've seen you sand and fair under the area that you will cove in the future. Might as well just fair and sand only the cove in the first place.
I've noticed that this fairing work is very similar to sheet rock taping. Sheet rock tapers start with the inside corners (what you're calling coving), and then work their way-out into the flat areas. They do the same with outside corners. They establish the corned, make sure its plumb and straight and then fair it in with the rest of the flatwork.
I've studied concrete plaster walls and ornamental concrete work and they do it exactly the same way. They establish the corners and then blend it into the flat work. However of course, there is no sanding and they usually do all the work at one time.
Professional sheet rock tapers usually complete their work in two passes, that is two times: apply the taping compound, dry it overnight, and then sand. When you get really good at fairing, what will the minimum number of passes you can do it in?
Your boat project is great, never miss a show! 🙂
Looks like a Morgan auto rallye @ 11:09.
I thought the same
i liked it. the music, the commentary, the change to high speed video then back for some thoughts and commentary. idk how you make the coves but they looked very good to me. that is a tough inside corner to make look good. i wonder if you guys could adapt to a life in spain kind of thing where you siesta for four hours mid day during the heat then work late when it is cool, dinner at 10 pm sort of thing can the tent be vented at the top and a couple doors left open to create a chimeny effect?
thank you for the nice video
Couple of tips, you can use a small ball or a handle with a ball end to the same radius your doing to get in the corners and outwards, second matt could use a bore sight Lazer for guns for the prop tubes?.
Hope any of this helps..... maybe helpful tips used wins a hat lol.
Love seeing progress
Keep up the great werks
Use a spatula for corner coves. Runa be down with a piping bag and come back with a single pass, ideally, with your spatula.
use a pingpong ball or glass marble to cove in the corners
Your intro reminded me of the process of making a software distribution, i.e. Fix bugs, build software, make a distribution, download and install it, test it, find bugs and repeat. It takes a lot of iterations and usually in the end there a few things that don't get fixed. It can be wearing, so I know the feeling. Once done though, there is a joy that lasts forever. Oh, b.t.w. the boat bounces up and down with waves so the prop angle is never perfect, and you can load/balance the boat as a way to adjust it as well. Someone should invent an auto adjusting prop to keep best efficiency. Perhaps M&J Engineering?
The best suggestion I can give for the coves is to use Awlfair and NOT Totalfair!
Awlfair is much easier to work with
A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do! 🤷🏻♀️
And this girl has gotta fair, fair, fair
Wow, I love that lavender farm and camping area! That looks like a little slice of heaven to me. Ummm, for the uninitiated, "a ball game" = baseball?
Constructive criticism of the fairing part of the video? That's hard to do. We get to see your attention to detail (a failing of mine), the (for me) drudgery of the job, your amazing stamina to keep on going, and the sweat you put in to the job! OK, there we are similar. If you are honest and don't cut out the dreary jobs, how can anyone complain? You are very impressive. Plus the very red mark at the bridge of your nose from goggles or mask, and the little white streak across the tip of it are both really quite cute!
I would have LOVED to stay in one of those tents at the lavender farm! To be there when the sky goes pink and all the lights turn on.
Any yes, ball game = baseball. 🙂
Lots of attention to detail on this boat, and the big thing that keeps us going is knowing how much we'll enjoy each and every space when it's done! 😃
Once you two are all done and the boat is slashed and sailing, I’d love to know the amount of money you saved and your per hour earnings based on that for both of you.
I can’t even imagine taking on a project so large!
One question is how often do you clean your wedding ring? Had to be different. Just a off the wall question. Keep up the great work 👍🏽
Всегда лайк за риск здоровью.
The white board at 1:00 = "Sat Jul 17". What? Is this secret code talk for "Help Me ...Too Much Fairing"? :¬) Webhead USA
I got the dates wrong when I first walked in, lol. But after checking the weather I realized my mistake. (And yes, there is ALWAYS too much fairing).
@@MJSailing You are respected for your commitment to do the work. 2 years from now you'll be looking at a bulkhead or wall knowing it's lookin good because of you. :¬) Webhead USA
Metal detektor can find gold 😊 baza.
We want MORE sanding, coving, especially FAIRING.. LOL.(in slow motion preferably).
I'll switch the camera over from time lapse to slow-motion, lol.
so much hard work i still think using rollers just give you too much texture to have the sand back and it goes on thin foam brush less texture and thicker but im sure your getting better advice than on here
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what are you doing up here in Canada on Vancouver Island with Roberta and Duca from Odd Life Crafting?
We went to Vancouver to meet with the team from Xantrex, since they're one of our new sponsors. Duca and Roberta also had plans to meet them, and since our friends from BRNKL live in Victoria, we all decided to head over there for a visit, since they kept talking it up in Annapolis last fall.
@@MJSailing I missed the end of last weeks video, for some reason so it was a shock to see you in BC....thanks for responding so quickly ,,, cheers
The mind-game trick to get through mundane _seemingly_ endless tasks is to remind yourself regularly that it is not your job! You won't be getting up six months from now to go to the factory for a day of sanding for minimum wage with no prospect of promotion. Once those areas are ticked off the list you could choose to never sand another surface again, EVER!
You're exactly right!! I just keep reminding myself that soon this part will be behind me, and we'll be adding the beautiful wood trim, and installing electronics and appliances. 😍
Is the sanding CHARLIE WORK.?
YES!!! YES IT IS!!! 😍
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You guys should do the prep and HIRE someone to come and spray the boat in 1 day and get it done.......
I do not like to inform you your dual cartridge masks are most likely doing very little to protect you from chemical inhalation. Hopefully they are dual rated for the dust and particulate exposures. These charcoal cartridges are good for usually chemical ppm protection and become saturated so need to be changed frequently. Do not know the range that is in your confined boat when working but fairly sure it would be in the thousands and the cartridges will usually only protect for less than 100 ppm. So for example if the atmosphere is say 1000 ppm of styrene in air and your cartridges are brand new and you have been trained and properly fitted for the mask you are using you will be breathing 900 ppm. Better than no protection but not much . The only real protection for you two would be supplied air which is a pain in the ass but I am sure you value your health more than this beautiful boat you are building. Been out of the lab and industrial hygiene monitoring for over 20 years but worked at chemical plants my whole life. I previously did styrene and vinyl chloride monitoring but cannot remember the Tlvs and numbers associated with them but I am positive you are being over exposed . Then there also is a whole other side with skin absorption . Please beware as you cannot buy your good health back !
July 17 saturday on your board was 2021. Are you guys current or was this filmed a while back or was that date a typo?
No, I thought it was the 17th...but after checking the weather forecast I saw it was only the 15th, lol.
@MJSailing I knew it! I thought I was in the twilight zone for a sec. Can't wait to see the finished product!
paint that primer Oh Yeah !! Burger Time
Burger and a margarita seltzer! 😋. How every Saturday night should be ended, haha.
Matt’s was so camara-shy. …all good?
He just wasn't working on much, haha.
Vulpelo.
Jessica: We're still waiting for a laser.
Shark: Don't rush me, these things are fun.
Laser? what's wrong with a string line, we used them for years because we didn't have Lasers.
i know how boring sanding can bee , Have you started on your cushions ?
Cushions are one project I will be sourcing out, haha. They took way too much time on the last boat, and it is one of those things that needs to be perfect, or it can break the look of an otherwise great boat.
Oh, how I yearn for past episodes of brilliant story-telling of sailing to amazing destinations less favoured by other You Tube channels. Your YT analytics will tell you if your current strategy of episode quantity vs content quality is paying off for you. However, I will be disabling notifications and watching less until you move in a more interesting and varied phase of the build.
Hi Jessica, congratulations for the beautiful project you are developing, i can see your passion for the sea and freedom, is evident. However, my heart saddens when I see that you are getting very dirty and that you will breathe in the styrene of polyester resin which is carcinogenic. There are many solutions for not sanding, I will make soon a smaller cat 7,5 mt with many nice options and I will do it without sanding and no stamp. If you give me the opportunity to insert some frames of your videos on my video, I will then send you the link of my video and I will explain to you how to create perfect, smooth, glossy surfaces that do not release styrene in the year. The technique I use is very simple and cheap. On my video i will speak fine about you and Mattan. and of yours beautiful proget Sorry for my English. Let me know 👍
This is it I Cant do it anymore. Bye
Stop filing and sanding, throw some paint on and go sailing
Dizzying to watch a roller go back and forth from a camera one foot away and moving along with the roller!🤢🤮
I'll try not to do any more hand held time lapses in the future, lol.
@@MJSailing Thanks. That was tough.
You should change your channel name to "Alcoholics pretending to build a catamaran on UA-cam in order use the money raised to travel the world and fund our drinking problem instead".
The beer came from Tucker, he's the one that keeps this boat builder liquored up. But if you'd like to donate to him, I can give you his PayPal account. 😉👍🍻
And you should change your pseudonym to “i-have-no-idea-what-I’m-talking-about-but-i’ll-give-you-my-uninformed-opinion-anyways-cause-that’s-all-I-have-to-do-today”.
Yeah! That suits you well 😘
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Are you seriously sanding/painting with the ring and watch on? Do yourself a favor, remove them and put on some gloves to save your jewelry and hands.
Love these boat building videos. Have literally watched and liked all of you guys cat build series. But maybe you should be filming with your husband working. Not you drinking with the shirtless yard boy again..lol woman are so thirsty nowdays
Hahaha, sorry you didn't catch Tucker and I doing our normal girl stuff of face masks and mani-pedi's, but I had 20 minutes to kill and I figured having a beer with my friend was a good way to spend it. 😉
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