I watched Seeker built from some of the earliest episodes pulling the huge sheets of steel up to weld. He inspired me to dream bigger and do more. Been an amazing journey and I actually felt involved by supporting the project just by always watching and liking Seeker videos. Even now on the water Seeker continues to grow and get even better. Thanks for following his adventure and documenting it and Yeti for sponsoring this video.
@@billsargent3407when people put negative things about other people it's only to bring them lower than themselves so you're trying to make him lower than yourself with your comment put you on a pretty low level of species of human I'm truly glad I don't have to deal with malignant of your nature
@@thomasbecker9676you want me to read something written by naysayers like yourself that are too lazy to get out and do things on their own you don't have the stamina to build a stick bridge much less a boat until people like you and like that have to run other people down to build yourself up make sure you're pretty low person I'm just glad I don't have to deal with you on a daily basis cuz I hate malignant people like yourself
The Non-Launching Party was great! It has been a great ride and an inspiration. Get out in the shop and do something. I'm building a shop, stick by stick.
I've been watching your journey for a lot of years and cheering you on. To see it finally come to fruition is incredible!! I kinda hate to see the journey come to an end.... I really hope you continue to show us a new chapter in the saga of SVSeeker!!! You can bet I'll be watching.......
Dude, this gives me chills! I didn't watch Seeker from the beginning, but I've followed for a very long time. I forgot some of this, the 7 months on the Hard, wow, that was just so hard to watch when it was happening. Best wishes to Doug and the whole crew!
Great video. I was glad to have been able to visit Doug and Seeker when I was passing through Tulsa some years ago. Wish I could have played a part in building it.
Me too - been watching all this all these years, and still, totally enamored with Doug's amazing skills, perseverance and dedication. He is truly one of a kind. Many of us perhaps have lived vicariously thru all this but then we aren't a Doug! What a fella :)
One of the absolute best channels on UA-cam. I've been subscribed for years and years, and thoroughly enjoy the content. It's crazy that it's been three years since the insurance fiasco. Doug has come so far since then, and is currently on the East Coast of Florida conducting some upgrades to the boat. Wish him and the boat nothing but years of safety and adventure!
Incredible the number of naysayers at this juncture. This is certainly a feat for the common man, and those that chose to sacrifice to help Doug get it on the water. And the story continues as systems that weren’t meant for a boat are adapted and challenges overcome.
Tenacity and sticktoitiveness are great qualities, admirable virtues, but they don't erase things like boat stability and seaworthiness. Building a 74' luxury yacht in your front yard mostly by yourself is way beyond any one person, but taking the extra week or two at the start to come up with real a real statement of requirements, scantlings and stability curves is not. It wouldn't have required any equipment that he didn't have, and would have saved him time, labor, and money, it just would have taken a bit of humility, real humility. Seeker as she stands is not safe as compared to other recreational sailboats. And on the ocean the duty to render aid is not just a norm or a societal nicity, it's the law. Doug isn't just putting himself at unnecessary risk. And I'm not some nay sayer who thought seeker would go straight to the bottom on launch. I had put my prediction down in writing more than a year before she launched including performance numbers that turned out to be reasonably accurate too (her top speed looks about 1.2 knots lower than I had projected, which was already well below the potential of a hard chined steel boat this size). She has major stability issues and adding bulwarks with insufficient freeing ports and hatches that aren't water tight to that mix is a recipe for disaster.
He just got into the Gulf of Mexico this year,, is finalizing the drivetrain and systems to fully support research properly imo.. he's rebuilt the transfer case several times trying to achieve a robustness similar to marine focused equipment.. Naysayer,, shame on you.
I can’t believe the negativity in some comments . The point is he got out there and did it! And he is encouraging to anyone that does the same big or small projects. Are there other ways to achieve what he he’s trying to do ? For sure and he would agree, but this was his way and he is having so much fun doing it , don’t knock it until you try! Lovely tribute to Doug and the seekers! Cheers Warren
@@thomasbecker9676 have you watched his video? He built a huge boat from ground up , filled it with all sorts of equipment and is using it on the water right now! Do I agree with all his decision , no , but doesn’t make it wrong ! He cast his own propeller blades out of very hard material to cast ( im in that business) and they work ! That’s ridiculous! What have you done that makes what he did pail by comparison? I don’t see anything you posted? Cheers Warren
@@Cheers_Warren This is the usual sort of thing Doug would say. Legitimate criticism, concerns or advice from people who actually know boat design/building and sailing the oceans are dismissed with him pontificating about building a 74 foot boat in his front yard.
00:58 "the worst that can happen is - you can fail" There it is. End of story. More important than that - if you fail, accept it, take away something, anything, from that failure and move on. No fixing some mistakes. Like building a ship with no real plan.
Congratulations of capturing the essence of this project, the man and the ‘boat that the internet built’. I watched Doug from the beginning and it has been an amazing project throughout and could not have been completed without vision, determination, a fair bit of help and obstinacy. The marine environment is a very harsh environment and it will test man, materials, equipment and systems. By his own confession Doug had no relevant marine experience and it’s pretty safe to say he does challenge orthodoxy and ‘rules and regulations’. Any new vessel, especially a one of a kind ‘home built’ can be fully expected to have ‘teething issues’ and of course some of them could have been avoided by fitting certified marine equipment but of course at a much higher installation cost. I fully expect Doug will overcome the essential equipment issues and in the process develop a wee bit more humility and a new respect for the marine environment - but I will not be holding my breath on the latter.
You mention the Coast Guard, would that be the lot who have broken most of their icebreakers and can't agree on a design or a budget for any replacements? Maybe you had better take that over Doug, they need some leadership and you are now qualified, in all senses !!
A powerful video measuring up to the achievements of the Seeker. I have been waiting a long time for this to come out. Thanks for all the hard work producing this.
I miss Kay, I hope she is doing well. Its sad yet comical how Seeker was launched 2 years ago, and it cannot operate longer than a few days without breaking down and taking several months to fix.
For the price of the kitchen appliances alone you could buy a boat that is more capable and comfortable and take more people further and faster than Seeker has gone more safely and with less work. Doug spent 15 years and half a million dollars on seeker.
@@DuncanMargetts on the road, you are never alone. This boat is a new build and even professional build boats have time of trails let him figure it out he will get there one issue at the time. And you lighten up, cranky pants.
I've watched a few of his more recent videos, he seems to spend most of his time bodging his drive train back together after it's latest failure. His drive train is a cobbled together mess of parts, his wiring is terrifying, and the boat seems to just barely function at the best of times. Building Seeker was impressive, but things haven't gone well since he hit the water.
@@timreimer5451 See, it's easy to say something like this, but the fact is, people build working boats themselves quite frequently. And Doug doesn't listen to anyone, if he did, he wouldn't be on transfer case rebuild #6.
I can't believe I've been watching Doug for 11 freaking years ... Wow!
I can't remember exactly when I started watching, but I know its been years now and I have learned a lot from this series.
Man it was just a couple pieces of steel
How many more years do you think the "shakedown cruise" is going to last?😂
Incredible story Doug! It’s a pleasure to have met you the way we did!
I watched Seeker built from some of the earliest episodes pulling the huge sheets of steel up to weld. He inspired me to dream bigger and do more. Been an amazing journey and I actually felt involved by supporting the project just by always watching and liking Seeker videos. Even now on the water Seeker continues to grow and get even better. Thanks for following his adventure and documenting it and Yeti for sponsoring this video.
Getting even better? It can barely go any distance without something breaking.
Been watching since the start. Amazing man, and an amazing journey.
Love it when people actually follow their dreams.
Alright gents! Poo knives up for Dug!
🍴
OMG does not everyone's family have those?
Watching Doug make this dream work has been a great inspiration. "What have you built today?" 👍
I just came to say I miss the grandkids and Ms. Kay.
Comment section is lively!
That was sweet. Kay got smart and left that black hole of a human!
@@billsargent3407when people put negative things about other people it's only to bring them lower than themselves so you're trying to make him lower than yourself with your comment put you on a pretty low level of species of human I'm truly glad I don't have to deal with malignant of your nature
Oddly, I doubt very much if they miss Duug!
Awesome story. Very sad though that he lost his family over a boat. Hopefully they can reconcile
Something tells me that this was his way of dealing with losing his family.
@@TheNutzandBoltz pretty sure the family was part of the initial build, and left mid-build
@@TheNutzandBoltz The family got in the way, so he discarded them.
I had forgotten how long she sat at the port waiting on permission to launch. Wow! Thank you Yeti.
That's because he refused to get insurance.
@@thomasbecker9676 I don't think it was refusal so much as it was having the ability to afford it.
@@CerebralAilment He knew about it far in advance and ignored it. It's all well-documented. I suggest you go read the Sailing Anarchy discussion.
@@thomasbecker9676you want me to read something written by naysayers like yourself that are too lazy to get out and do things on their own you don't have the stamina to build a stick bridge much less a boat until people like you and like that have to run other people down to build yourself up make sure you're pretty low person I'm just glad I don't have to deal with you on a daily basis cuz I hate malignant people like yourself
@@thomasbecker9676 It's no coincidence that when you type "Sailing Anarchy" into Google, the first result is "Sailing Anarchy SV Seeker"...
This should be played at every high school graduation!
As a warning.
Great video, and an amazing journey watching Doug and the Seeker for many years.
The Non-Launching Party was great! It has been a great ride and an inspiration. Get out in the shop and do something. I'm building a shop, stick by stick.
I've been watching sense the beginning, greetings from Sweden
me too friend. I have enjoyed every episode I've seen. it's been a blast so far
I've been watching your journey for a lot of years and cheering you on.
To see it finally come to fruition is incredible!!
I kinda hate to see the journey come to an end....
I really hope you continue to show us a new chapter in the saga of SVSeeker!!!
You can bet I'll be watching.......
Doug is a true seeker.
I'm following Doug quite from the beginning - a verry inspirational journey. I LOVE Seeker! 🙂
Simply one of the best stories on UA-cam.
Man, I miss the videos with Aiden. It's one of the things that drew me to the project.
Awesome
It’s the American spirit. Inspiring all the way on it’s journey
Well done. I like the music a lot. 👍
Well done! Of the caliber, to the purpose and in the spirit of all S/V SEEKER productions.
Thank you.
Future Taco Stand!
What ever happened to the documentary?
They're waiting for the climatic ending.
I'm a huge fan, i wonder what his Tulsa neighbors do for entertainment nw that he is on the water.
@6:30 - Kay was an absolute angel.
What sort of person trades a boat for his family?
@@YoloSwagNinja Probably someone who was raised by WOMEN!
@@YoloSwagNinjawhat sort of family disowns a member for following their dreams?
@@richwaight it must sting seeing a comments section that Doug can’t control. How is he gonna block the trolls and haters? Hahah.
@@richwaight He put his young grandson in danger many, many times, and when his son asked him not to, Doug cut him off, happily. He's a monster.
Dude, this gives me chills! I didn't watch Seeker from the beginning, but I've followed for a very long time. I forgot some of this, the 7 months on the Hard, wow, that was just so hard to watch when it was happening. Best wishes to Doug and the whole crew!
Great video of Doug's dream. It was nice to see again some of the people that helped him and the Seeker get where they are today. Thanks.
Great video. I was glad to have been able to visit Doug and Seeker when I was passing through Tulsa some years ago. Wish I could have played a part in building it.
Hey, we are not done. : )
That is a very nice story that you put together for Doug and I watched all of the sv seeker videos. Very nicely done
Great video! Nice work everyone. 👍
Brilliant, and I've watched since episode 2.
The crab people have him now 🤷🦀
Fantastic! I've been following Doug for about the last 5 years. I got choked up watching the dream come true.
It's amazing how much research he's getting done in the lesser Antilles, isn't it?
@@thomasbecker9676 I thought it was off Guam....
@@billsargent3407 Maybe the coast of Midway?
Go Doug!
Great job on the video for a great project!
The dirty thumb 👍 or , The other hand.❤
The real Walt Grace.
Me too - been watching all this all these years, and still, totally enamored with Doug's amazing skills, perseverance and dedication. He is truly one of a kind. Many of us perhaps have lived vicariously thru all this but then we aren't a Doug! What a fella :)
Hell yes!!! Love seeker and what Doug is ever achieving!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Great video. Nice to see Seeker on the water. When I started watching years ago, I never thought it would get finished. Keep at it Doug!
This soundtrack is ridiculous
One of the greatest stories around.
Lol
Awesome demonstration on so very many positive level's. Ahoy there and fair thee well.
Or the Refund
Love it!
Best part about this videi, BETSY WARNER WASNT IN IT ONCE!
You missed her much to the benefit of your mental health.
7:59
@@mrbfox1775dang it!
😔🤢🤢🤢🤢@@mrbfox1775
boogie gets run offline by pug and turns into an internet troll. Wasn't in my bingo card.
SUPER COOL !!!!!
A+ for this video
Anyone know who this J.J. Cale cover is?
What am I doing with my life to reach my goals
I need a better life goal plan
Great video guys!
Outstanding. Biggest Congrats possible to Doug and the community of contributors.
Very cool
SV Rusty Junk will be in the ocean doing research before this guy.
One of the absolute best channels on UA-cam. I've been subscribed for years and years, and thoroughly enjoy the content. It's crazy that it's been three years since the insurance fiasco. Doug has come so far since then, and is currently on the East Coast of Florida conducting some upgrades to the boat. Wish him and the boat nothing but years of safety and adventure!
"before the boat"
Nemo ain't a fish he's a legend #grouper Mr grouper
I want to eat Nemo 🎉
Wonderful project, story and production. Thank you for all involved persons ❤
That was fantastic!! Really captured the essence of Seeker and the enigmatic Doug. The driving force behind it. Bravo!! 🙌 👏
“Enigmatic”. lol
Incredible the number of naysayers at this juncture. This is certainly a feat for the common man, and those that chose to sacrifice to help Doug get it on the water. And the story continues as systems that weren’t meant for a boat are adapted and challenges overcome.
Tenacity and sticktoitiveness are great qualities, admirable virtues, but they don't erase things like boat stability and seaworthiness. Building a 74' luxury yacht in your front yard mostly by yourself is way beyond any one person, but taking the extra week or two at the start to come up with real a real statement of requirements, scantlings and stability curves is not. It wouldn't have required any equipment that he didn't have, and would have saved him time, labor, and money, it just would have taken a bit of humility, real humility.
Seeker as she stands is not safe as compared to other recreational sailboats. And on the ocean the duty to render aid is not just a norm or a societal nicity, it's the law. Doug isn't just putting himself at unnecessary risk. And I'm not some nay sayer who thought seeker would go straight to the bottom on launch. I had put my prediction down in writing more than a year before she launched including performance numbers that turned out to be reasonably accurate too (her top speed looks about 1.2 knots lower than I had projected, which was already well below the potential of a hard chined steel boat this size). She has major stability issues and adding bulwarks with insufficient freeing ports and hatches that aren't water tight to that mix is a recipe for disaster.
@@opcn18 Dung will tell you elsewise
Cant believe its been 3 years already since he left the port.
oof
Cool video, enjoyed watching seeker be built and now following the journey.
It's has been adventure building this boat and what has done over time. Well done video. Thanks for sharing, and have a wonderful weekend
Thanks for taking us along on your journey, Doug. It is wonderful fun watching as your story unfolds.
Veum Lodge
I have followed from the start and that brought a tear to a stokers eye
Waiting for the research
Free research, off Guam!
He just got into the Gulf of Mexico this year,, is finalizing the drivetrain and systems to fully support research properly imo.. he's rebuilt the transfer case several times trying to achieve a robustness similar to marine focused equipment..
Naysayer,, shame on you.
It will happen as soon as the shakedown is done
@@kevinbowers3917 This year? He's been in the Gulf for two years buddy... Fall of 2022.
Not built as a speed boat.
Superb!
Great story hope yeti supported this with some cash
Great video and what a wonderful subject, building not just a boat but friendships and a whole community.
Very well filmed. I forgot just how long it took....
👏
Awesome video.
what did you F up today ?
😂the family
I can’t believe the negativity in some comments .
The point is he got out there and did it! And he is encouraging to anyone that does the same big or small projects.
Are there other ways to achieve what he he’s trying to do ? For sure and he would agree, but this was his way and he is having so much fun doing it , don’t knock it until you try!
Lovely tribute to Doug and the seekers!
Cheers Warren
Did what, exactly?
@@thomasbecker9676 have you watched his video? He built a huge boat from ground up , filled it with all sorts of equipment and is using it on the water right now!
Do I agree with all his decision , no , but doesn’t make it wrong !
He cast his own propeller blades out of very hard material to cast ( im in that business) and they work ! That’s ridiculous!
What have you done that makes what he did pail by comparison? I don’t see anything you posted?
Cheers Warren
@@Cheers_Warren This is the usual sort of thing Doug would say. Legitimate criticism, concerns or advice from people who actually know boat design/building and sailing the oceans are dismissed with him pontificating about building a 74 foot boat in his front yard.
@@seanfyodorovich5230
What are your "legitimate concerns"?
If this video was comfort food, man you would be comforted for a long long time, absolute gold.
00:58 "the worst that can happen is - you can fail"
There it is. End of story.
More important than that - if you fail, accept it, take away something, anything, from that failure and move on.
No fixing some mistakes. Like building a ship with no real plan.
Seeker has been nothing but a chain of failures, because Doug refuses to take advice from experienced individuals.
@@thomasbecker9676 And he belittles them
Wonder why his son is not part of that all.
His son has seen what Doug is like off camera.
BRAVO
Congratulations of capturing the essence of this project, the man and the ‘boat that the internet built’.
I watched Doug from the beginning and it has been an amazing project throughout and could not have been completed without vision, determination, a fair bit of help and obstinacy.
The marine environment is a very harsh environment and it will test man, materials, equipment and systems. By his own confession Doug had no relevant marine experience and it’s pretty safe to say he does challenge orthodoxy and ‘rules and regulations’. Any new vessel, especially a one of a kind ‘home built’ can be fully expected to have ‘teething issues’ and of course some of them could have been avoided by fitting certified marine equipment but of course at a much higher installation cost.
I fully expect Doug will overcome the essential equipment issues and in the process develop a wee bit more humility and a new respect for the marine environment - but I will not be holding my breath on the latter.
Tulsa's biggest grifter is now the ocean's problem...
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and anyone on the seeker will be lucky to live through it.
@@722racing3 - Why so negative?
Great Vid could of watched another 2 hours ofcontent
I love it when I see new videos drop!
You mention the Coast Guard, would that be the lot who have broken most of their icebreakers and can't agree on a design or a budget for any replacements?
Maybe you had better take that over Doug, they need some leadership and you are now qualified, in all senses !!
If you can dream it then apparently there is a way to make it come true. The Doug Dream it is this medical condition called
“What a long strange trip it's been.”
“The worst that can happen is that you fail.”
If you don’t know the value of that statement…
That's definitely not the worst that can happen 🤦
I’d say losing your family might be a bit worse
A powerful video measuring up to the achievements of the Seeker. I have been waiting a long time for this to come out. Thanks for all the hard work producing this.
I miss Kay, I hope she is doing well.
Its sad yet comical how Seeker was launched 2 years ago, and it cannot operate longer than a few days without breaking down and taking several months to fix.
For the price of the kitchen appliances alone you could buy a boat that is more capable and comfortable and take more people further and faster than Seeker has gone more safely and with less work. Doug spent 15 years and half a million dollars on seeker.
@@opcn18what have you done to bring joy to yourself and others? How many people have you inspired to follow their dreams to the end?
@@opcn18- So buying your dream is better than building your dream??
It's not about the destination. It's about the journey.
@@markjaycox7524 If you are going to break up your family and leave them feeling isolated and abused yes, absolutely yes.
@@opcn18 Its only his wife, son and grandson that he has isolated
The thing is a deathtrap... lets hope if the worst happens, its only Doug who suffers.
Every boat is a death trap. Still I went out sailing today, what did you do ?
@@jandoodle6769 Rebuilt the cooling system on my 40yo Landcruiser.
@@DuncanMargetts 🤣that’s a death trap too.
@@jandoodle6769 I travel alone and dont propose to carry researchers.
@@DuncanMargetts on the road, you are never alone. This boat is a new build and even professional build boats have time of trails let him figure it out he will get there one issue at the time. And you lighten up, cranky pants.
Moore Barbara Walker Sarah White Larry
Ah Doug, we have gotten older dude LOL Great to be alive ant-it. But 11 yrs geez man well done.
A Very Sweet Story ❤😎💯
I've watched a few of his more recent videos, he seems to spend most of his time bodging his drive train back together after it's latest failure. His drive train is a cobbled together mess of parts, his wiring is terrifying, and the boat seems to just barely function at the best of times. Building Seeker was impressive, but things haven't gone well since he hit the water.
Well please give Doug some insight and examples from your home built boat. I'm sure he will listen to you.
You'd really be surprised how many industries are held together with bodges and a cobbled mess of parts then.
@@timreimer5451 Doug had a pair of hydraulics engineers onboard helping him, and after they left, he insulted them and refused to take any advice.
@@timreimer5451 See, it's easy to say something like this, but the fact is, people build working boats themselves quite frequently. And Doug doesn't listen to anyone, if he did, he wouldn't be on transfer case rebuild #6.
@@timreimer5451 Doug most definitely will not listen to people who know...
Sliced onions and fine dust in the air ~ _It's been emotional!_
This guy turned into such a sociopath.. what a shame
YETI has been taken by the grifter just like all the people who send him money. What a joke. Makes YETI look like idiots.
You Doug trolls need to get off the internet. It’s sad to see you all so obsessed. Step outside. Take a breath. Look away, you’ll be fine :)
Well Yeti does sell ridiculously overpriced coolers to people with more money than brains.