OCSS-054 Port Side Install - Mini-Cruiser Sailboat Build
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THE BOAT: Scow Bow Mini-Cruiser. 14’ long (4.25M,) with a 6’ beam (1.8M,) and a draft of 2’6” (0.77M.) She features twin keels and a Ljungström rig. Every design decision is made to keep her simple, strong, and watertight.
In this episode I make reinforced holes in-between frame C6 and the transom for tiedowns in the aft cargo hold. These holes will support a web of ropes that keep a bunch of empty plastic bottles in place. The collection of plastic bottles creates a buoyancy compartment so that even if the boat is flooded, the trapped air keeps the boat afloat until emergency repairs can be made and the water pumped out. There will be at least 6 such buoyancy compartments throughout the boat.
I then install the port side panel with thickened epoxy, trim the edge of the chine panel, round the chine smooth, and fiberglass the side on to the bow, C1, C2, and the Transom. Lastly I fiberglass the side panel to the chine panel on the outboard side with 10oz cloth 20cm (8”) wide.
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Coming along nicely there Sir!
Thank goodness for your professional peel-ply puller! Keep up the great work Perry. Dave from Canada.
Loolks good.
Also very big boat but do not worry she get smaller in the water but not on the inside
Can’t wait to see this boat on water.
Ps. Excellent work , especially from peel-ply removal specialist. 😁
There is inflatable fenders and beach rollers that are not so heavy and still strong the may fill out the space better
Excellent progress, Perry! Won't be long before you splash. Good to see that cute little "crumb pirate" chipping in, hard at work. I Like to see kids get involved with such projects - makes for great memories in the years ahead. 👍👍👍
Hah, funny, her older brother nicknamed her "Little Crumb" when she was a baby. It's funny to think that these kids will have lasting memories of their dad busy in the garage building the boat.
You will never regret including them in your activities. I started my daughter kayaking just after she turned three years old. Her first trip was sitting in the back of my newly built cedar strip kayak. We floated from Table Rock Dam in Branson Mo down stream just before the hwy 65 bridge. My wife's dad had a house just upstream from the bridge on the lake. She is 25yrs old and married now but we still get together and go kayaking. My son is 22 and we go every chance we get.
As a fellow boat builder/maker/modifier, I must admit to having Divinycel envy when I see that stack of yours along the wall. :)
Keep up the good work, she is looking great!
Thanks! Yes it was a big expense, but I bought it all at the very start so you take the hit early and then the pain is over 😅.
What a fantastic episode. Been looking forward to this for a while now. :)
The peal ply expert is wonderful!!!
The buoyancy compartment idea is great, but I do have a comment or two based on experience. Plastic bottles, even when empty, will rub against each other due to the natural motion of the vessel, eventually some of the bottles will have holes in them, thus reducing the amount of buoyancy available. On a voyage from San Diego to the Galapagos Island, sometime in the fall of 1979, on a very large motor yacht, we experienced the failure of a great number of full soft drink bottles, sitting in proper secured storage, simply from the motion of the vessel.
Thanks, I'll have to inspect them occasionally, which will be pretty easy to do since access will be easy. I think b/c these will be empty and packed in tight, they shouldn't move much at all.
@@ocean_capable_small_sailboat yes because they have no mass, they shouldnt rub hard against each other, we had 2litre coke bottles in the ends of our wharram cat as flotation
Thanks for the video. Very interesting. Tell me, isn't the closed foam (insulation) of the cabin collapsing now? Good luck))
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Judging the displacement of the boat based on experience, your waterline position should be near the grid on the bottom of the boat. If these grids are filled with polyurethane foam and sealed again with fiberglass epoxy, they should theoretically become an unsinkable boat. . Please refer to EMBARCACIONES youtuber's design
Great job, its really coming together and very inspiring too
Man, this thing is coming together and it is so cool to see it happening. Thank you so much for sharing in the adventure. Jan.
May I recommend you reconsider using plastic bottles in favour of either closed cell foam, or cheap foam coated with silicone? You lose such a lot of volume with the shape of bottles. Thanks for sharing.
Hello, excuse my absolute ignorance about the technique. That peel that you remove is reusable or discarded?. Thank you and excellent work!
Amazing!
Greetings from Brazil
Super video and super progress, what a wonderful inspiration for the many dreamers like myself watching your dream ship developing in front of our eyes! Keep up the great work. SkipRay, Kerry, Ireland.
Thanks! I'm having fun watching my own dream become reality.
Looking good Captain. Have a great week ahead.
Been following your project from the get go probably first post you made. Congrats on your progress, it's a lot of work. I remember one sailing channel said he had promised his wife he would never build a sailboat. They were both avid sailors and had obviously talked about all things boats a lot because that is what bought them together. It's quite a task to actually build a boat but if you are young and like building things, and like the idea of being a boat builder as a profession perfect place to start is a project just like yours. And I like the concept of the small skow bough built to self right itself. You picked a great project and well made to date. Great to see what is emerging.
Thanks for following for so long. It is more work than I imagined. I would say it will be the last boat I ever build, but you never know. After some years you forget the tiresome parts and you start dreaming of a new project.
@@ocean_capable_small_sailboat I think you are right about those. Always anything long term is much more work than imagined or ever could. The typical sum used it mutliply everything by a factor of 5; which seems excessive but is used as safety factor and the idea is to push the envelope and see is you can get it done in less. Like 5 times the budget, so get that figure and see how much less you can do it for. Or 5 times the time figure it out and see if you can get it done in less time. 5 times multiple is a way to use the law of everages and get used to those unforseen things that pop up. It's a Murphy's law thing and how to calculate for that especially with long term projects. All the best with the project.
I am really enjoying these videos. I watched the overhead fiberglass boat works today video after binge watching from about episode 20 of your videos.
I am slowly getting better with fiberglass, a few projects down. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into making these videos 🤙. How does your wife feel about your sailing plans? I am assuming she won’t be joining you on your passages?
🤙. She has no interest in going to sea (seasickness), but she supports my dream. I'm very lucky with her.
@@ocean_capable_small_sailboat I am glad you lucked out. My wife isn’t on board with my dream to build or rebuild a sailboat.
Well done looks amazing
It just occurred to me that you ought to have done an April 1st special about how you're going to fit out the passenger berth.
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It's looking Great 👍
I had a neighbor who spent 9 months building a 3' tall block wall about 75' long along the front of his yard. He worked on it sometimes three blocks a day. He never hurried or fretted about his progress. Once it was done, it was done. He was so happy once he finished. You will be too!
Yes I will! Little by little I'll get there.
Love the "soft tech" install!
the boat is starting to take shape. thanks
Spiderweb bungee cargo system for your buoyancy compartments!
Yes exactly 👍
Question: why empty bottles in buoyancy compartments vs spray in foam? My concern would be that the bottles wouldn’t offer as much buoyancy and nothing would keep them together if there were a hull breach?
I like the bottles because they have more buoyancy than foam, they are easy to remove to inspect/clean/repair the space, and they are free. The hull would have to have a very large hole for the bottles to escape, but one can put them in a net bag if really worried about that.
First time checking out your project, I'm a huge fan of the scow bow, ever consider a junk rig . Just subbed
Thanks for subscribing. I like the junk rig. I wanted to try out the Ljungstrom rig with this one though, seems very simple and cool.
Maybe I missed it, but did you glass the inside of the panels at the joints to bulkheads to get continuity.
Yes that's the subject of the video after this one "OCSS-055 Attaching the Side to Frames"
Cool !
Wouldn’t be better to use closed cell expandable foam ?
I like the bottles better because you can easily remove them to clean and inspect the space at any time. Plus the space will be lighter than expanding foam. Just my preference.
Be sure to fasten those empty bottles somehow because otherwise they will make a lot of noise.
They'll be stuffed in there with a web of rope or bungees on the exposed sides, I don't think they'll be able to move.
Nice work as usual. The boat is taking form now. Awaiting next video.
Recommend you print some labels for your ship information and drop one in each bottle. In the event of a catastrophe the bottles could be used to identify your ship.
Clever thought, though a bit sobering! Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
@@ocean_capable_small_sailboat Hope for the best…
Good stuff, cap'n! Starting to look real boaty :)
Very interesting project. What's the budget for this build?
Thanks. I'm tracking costs and trying to keep them low, but I don't think I could have guessed with any accuracy what the budget would be. I'm sure I would have greatly underestimated.
@@ocean_capable_small_sailboat That's how it always goes 😂Looking forward to see it finished. Good luck!
I tried empty fizzy drinks bottles. Not good, for some reason they half collapse.
Best to cut up styrofoam into cubes big enough to fit in,m small enough to fill the shapes
If they're closed they should be fine. After all, they ship around the world without breaking when they're full of soda!
They don’t break, the gas leaches out through the plastic…don’t ask me why.
Nice work, it's really coming together. Can't wait to see it in the water
Thanks Anthony, me too!
Can any plywood design be done with this pvc foam or do you need to adapt the plywood designs to foam?
Just my unprofessional opinion, but I think you can make any plywood design out of foam sandwich construction.
@@ocean_capable_small_sailboat I find that surprising cause I can’t find many examples. Something like a Bolger elegant punt, that weighed half of what it normally would, would be incredible! I’m going to show my wife these videos. I burned a bunch of them down lastnight. Very cool project.
@@ArtworkAnon Thanks. I think the reason you don't see it as much is just because the foam is more expensive. But I think it's worth it.
Hi, watching from St Paul, MN and really enjoying the build. I thought I would pass along a tip that I learned from Louis Sauzedde's channel, Tips from a Shipwright. He suggested trimming off all but about one inch of bristles on those cheap chip brushes when applying epoxy. I tried it and find that the brush is easier to work with and traps less epoxy in the bristles.
Thanks I may try it.
The boat is starting looking a bit like a giant Crocs shoe due to the scow bow ! which is great as nobody expected the hull to look like a Stiletto 😇 Boatworks today is a very relevant source of information when it comes to laying glass, applying gelcoat and sometimes ...clear snow !!!
Yes she is looking very Croc or clog-like lately.
Curious about the lack of limber holes in your grid. Is this by design?
I'm sure the idea is to build a watertight cabin, so they'd be pointless.
Looking good!
Where can we get the plans
Duck works website.
"empty plastic bottles" - I've heard the traditional choice is table tennis balls 😂
You loose a lot of boyancy volyme with spherical shapes