Building a hard dodger for a sailboat | Final episode
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The last episode of the hard dodger build, Finally mounted on the boat.
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This is the most beautiful designed hard dodger build I have seen on UA-cam. By my opinion it is in a class of its own. Very, very well done! And thank you for sharing!
Thanks Vegard for your kind words, it warms.😃
Beautiful !!! I had a canvas shop for 34 years. Amazing job. As a sailor I would like to give one piece of advice. Handles, Handles, Handles. You will never be sorry, even if they don't "look" good. Again true craftsmanship.
Thanks James. We discuss what kind of handle we wantfor and it probably be an custom made one that follows the line of the dodger. Thanks for the good advice.👍😁
This is the only UA-cam video that really spent time on the design process, and the revisions to make it "perfect". It looks amazing finished - Well done
Thanks Peter.
Great videos! I used to own a boat building company here in Canada, and you did everything right....I am rebuilding an older 37 foot boat at the moment and will be building my own hard dodger using very similar techniques. I use MDF for the mold as it gives a smooth finish and releases well.I think I will build male plug out of plywood and then cover it with mdf so that I have a female mold to do the layup on. Also, as quick tip for other builders, you can use childrens modelling clay in the corners of female molds to round them out and it does an excellent job. Great work!
Thanks for your advice, the childrens clay was a good idea can be useful for other projects.
MDF board 👍👍.
Thanks for watching and good luck with your project.
Excellent job!!!! Looks like it was originally built when the boat was built.👍✌️
Thanks for your nice comment!
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Attention to Detail! Wow! Well done! Thanks for sharing your process...
Glad you like it. Thanks for watching! 😊
You guys did an amazing job without fancy tools. Bravo
Thanks, 👍😁
Wonderful dodger. Thank you for sharing. Very inspirational!
Thanks for watching, so glad we can inspire.
Been considering a hard dodger build for years but I've seen so many horrible, ugly DIYs. Yours is beautiful! By far the nicest I've seen. Truly a compliment to your boat. Congratulations, I hope you enjoy it for many, many years.
Thanks that was nice words from you! We hope it will be there for the boat lifetime. Cheers 😀
Impressive job, and a beautiful hard dodger! Thank you for sharing your experience.
Thanks and thanks for watching!😃
Thanks for sharing your project. Make it beautiful or don’t make it. You did both.
Thanks, 👍
This fall I will be building a hard dodger for our Catalina 310. I enjoyed your discussion of your thought process in the design. I have learned much.
I also want a clear windshield ("windscreen" for those speaking British English) with no supports breaking my view - much like an automobile.
Looking forward to your next videos.
Thanks John,fun that you like what we have done. Hope you will enjoy the building process as much we did. Good luck with your hard dodger.
That was a great project. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching.😀
Great Job, nice looking!
Tanks,😃
❤❤❤ Well done! 👍
Thanks we are glad you enjoyed our work.🙂
Great job, it looks great and you were right to change it until you got it right. Andy UK
Thanks Andy! Yes sometimes it's worth all work until you are satisfied 🙂.
Good job, i use to have a lot to talk but mainly, you guys are a good inspiration!!!! Thank you!!!!
Thanks , 👍👍
Verry nicely done,
I loved it to see you making changes so it would be perfect for you
Thanks.
Great job, well done, 👍👍
Thanks Barry,😀
It will pay for itself many times over , Nice job.
Great job!
Thanks,👍
Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks! 👍
Beautiful job I'm inspired to start my own
Fun to hear that you get inspired.
Hope you will be satisfied with yours like we are whit ours.
Good luck.👍😁
Bravo, well-done. What a team. The windows will leak but you will find a solution. Great Job!!!
Thanks, nice that you liked the videos👍. When it starts to leak we sort it out.😁👍
Very nice hard dodger you gave me alot to think about I want to do this on my boat. Good luck
Hi Frank, so fun to inspire you to a dodger build. Good luck with the following thinking and building.
Cheers
Great work and good video details.
Only thing I misses is the list of materials u used in the build.
🎉🎉🎉
Thanks, nice you like our video and for your comments.
Sorry we don't have any material list. But we will think about that when we do the next work with the boat.
Thank you so much I am just about to start this same project , I cannot wait
Hi, sounds great to have inspired you to this kind of project.
Good luck from Sweden.
Cheers,😁
Job well done..
I enjoyed your video..
Thanks Michael.
Happy that you enjoyed the video and work.
Cheers 😊
good work but personally i would make sure every aspect of it is sanded to perfection on a nice yacht like yours
Thanks, 👍 😀
Nice job !
Thanks 😀!
Really nice job and a lot and lot of work.. I have a 34 Catalina that I want to do this too down the road.
Thanks, yes it's true a lot of work but we don't regret our choice to build it.
Good luck with yours when it's time.🙂
Nice boat
Great job! We are considering to do one on our classic Ingrid 38, thanks for showing the process, we will keep some of your lessons mind when we do ours. Thank you for taking the time to show us!
Thanks!
Which you good luck with your plans!
Cheers!☺️
Great project! Thank you for the ideas. I plan to do similar very soon and you've given me a nice foundation on where to start. :-)
Thanks, nice that you like ours. Good luck with your project. 😀👍
Thank you for sharing your process. I am still planning our dodger and appreciate that you documented the process.
Your welcome, hope you got inspired.😀
We are in the early planning stages of building a hard dodger, and found your beautifully built dodger on UA-cam. I certainly will adopt some of the tips and techniques that you talked about. We live in Tasmania, that’s the most southern state of Australia, where it gets cold during winter so if you want to use the boat it must be warm and secure. Great work guys.
Thanks Garry, nice to hear that you like our work and got some tips and inspiration. Good luck with your hard dodger plans.
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Beautifully done!
Thanks!😀👍
Wonderful workmanship! You will enjoy it on those cool spring and fall sailing days
Thanks, Yes it will be really good in our climate.
You have done a great job. Hope you can now go cruising and get the benefit of all your work. Cheers, Rob (from Tasmania)
Thanks Robert. Take a look at next episode and you can see that we can take it slow aswell.
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Fantastic job, I feel like many new production yacht designers will have to think hard to compete with this aesthetic. The design of these is so important, many ugly examples out there. I also like your video, the pace the music, your piece to cameras were great. Are all Swedes as chilled as you guys.
Thanks for all kind words!! We agree about your thoughts of the yacht designers.
Ha ha I think people in Sweden are different like all over the world.
Cheers from Sweden!!😊😊
CONGRATULATIONS for this Amazon job. I am know work on my hard dodge, and you guys give To me a lot inspiration. Thanks
Please keep post. 😁
Hi Nedi!
Thanks! So nice to hear that we can give some inspiration to you.
Wish you good luck with your work! 😁😁
Outstanding build, thank you for sharing. It was great fun to share in your design deliberations. My partner and I watched the first two episodes and both loved the uninterrupted windshield but thought, “what about ventilation in hot climates? This may be fine for Sweden but what about the tropics?” Please share your solution for that when you decide to modify your design - which you will 😉.
Thanks to both of you!
Yes we are thinking of the ventilation, it's in the design thought and grows. When it happen we share it!
Thanks for watching and shared your thoughts.👍😀
Solar panel should be behind on the iron...some shadow on solar panel are bad
Hi Eric,we have solar panels on the arch and on the dodger.
The problem with a boat you want to have as much solar panels as possible but not so it looks ugly.
Thanks for your thoughts and tips.
Best regards from Sweden 😁👍
Wow you have done such an amazing job.
It looks great 👍
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Hi Tommy,
Thanks, nice that you like our project. 😃
And thanks for sub.
Cheers 👍
Riktigt snyggt jobb. ❤️
very well done, thank you for sharing your process, I am about to start my hard dodger and would love to learn more from you. Which plastic did you use for the main front panel? would you incorporate bigger solar panels next time? I have a ketch so I need to accomodate the mizzen.
Hi, sorry for late answer.
Fun that you like our build, the front and side
panel is polycarbonate.
The solar panels is ok size for us 350w on the dodger.
Hope you will bee satisficed whit your dodger, we are happy whit our.
Good luck.
This was an incredible job, and the result was beautiful! Looks like it was done by professionals!
A couple of questions, if you don't mind - how many days (overall - I assume it was many weeks all together) did it take you? And what was the approximate cost of the materials (apart from solar panels)?
Thank you so much!
It was a lot of work but unfortunately we don't count time and money so our answer is not exact.
Time around a month and around 2500 dollar
It was one of the hardest things we have done with the boat but we love our dodger.
Cheers!
xNice video! We just finished building our dodger for our boat. We would love to hear your thoughts!
Good work, you won't regret it. Nice to have a welder friend when you need it😁.
Cheers from Sweden.
@@uventure.lifestyle true that!
Congratulations with new hard dodger,it looks very good but what I wonder about, does it give any better shelter than the spray hood? are you planning to sail in rough areas where hard dodger is only alternative?
Hi! Yes we feel that it protects us better. The fabric one is always good when it's new, after a couple of years it start to leak and the windows feels a little foggy.
Our was like that. (13 year old)
This is our feelings and thoughts about it.
We think you can sail with an fabric spray hood in all conditions.
Sail on.👍😁😀
Den blev rigtig flot 👍 godt arbejdede😊 hva skal i have for og lave en til min båd 🤣🤣
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Hello guys.
Thanks for sharing this amazing video. Give me a lot of ideas about how to build a dodger for my small sailboat. I hope you can share more videos. take care guys and if you one day planning to come in Mallorca, please let me know. :-)
Thanks CAS DIVER, fun that you got inspired.
Good luck with your plans.👍😀
There will be more videos.
Thanks for the invite.😃
Interesting isn't it that yacht designers never consider what a helmsperson has to go through being out in all weathers, all temperatures and as a result few design yachts with a hard dodger.
Your hard work paid off, this turned out beautiful. I will be making a hard bimini and dodger for my Easterly 38. Because I am in the south of the USA, I will be making the front of the dodger as a soft canvas piece that can easily be opened or removed. Did you install lights under the roof? I figured this might be a good idea.
Hi, It sounds like a good idea with a soft cloth. It is always a good idea to think about how you want it to work, we discussed many different designs and models before deciding how to get the best out of it for us. We will install lights in both white and red under the roof.
Great job with the English speaking !
Thanks!
Glad to hear .😊
Regards from Sweden.
Your dodger design is great, it looks great. I would like to see how you like it when sailing. One note, you need to work on your communication skills. They are very distracting.
Hi web, thanks for the comments of our dodger.We like the dodger when we sail and have nothing to complain about so far.
It turned out fantatic! I am planing on making a hard dodger next spring and was wondering where did you get the frames around the windows? Are they made of aluminum? I live in Sweden so would be great to know where you bought the material.
Thanks for the videos! Best regards from a new subscriber 😊
Hi Christian, the frames are made of G10 4mm epoxy plate.
I bought it on eBay.
I think aluminum or stainless will be fine too.
Good luck with your dodger!
Thanks for watching!
@@uventure.lifestyle thank you 😊
How did you get the gentle curve in the roof? Was that just the pressure from your straps in the gluing phase?
Hi, we made it the same way we did with the dodger.
Build a mold for it, and then fiberglass.
Cheers!
Bra jobbat, snygg design!
Men ni får öva på engelskan🤪👏
Nydelig 🙂
Tack,😃
Jätte fin.. passar er båt väl.
Hej Red Sailor,Tack så mycket.😁
Well done. Would you please comment on the metal frames around the large windows? Did you fabricate them? Aluminum or some other material?
Hi, I made the frames of 4 mm epoxy plate, easy to cut and drill. Painted after test mount.
Thanks for watching.
Snygt
Tack,😁
... I really like your "Hard Dodger" ... it has curves to it, everywhere ... a boat w/ no curves just is not correct ... May I ask, why did you not make the dodger long enough to have (6) solar panels on it ??? ( you can never have enough electric power these days ...) ... it would also protect the companion-way and front end of the cockpit ie: gives the crew somewhere to hide, duck under in bad weather ... the helm, well it's tough to be the helmsman ... HaHa
hi Harry! We thought about many different solutions,and the longer dodger as well.
The reason it dont work for uss is we want access the deck with out struggle. And also the design of it, the dodger looked really long.
Yes electric power is really nice too have!
we have the bimini-top to fold out over the cockpit and we are for the moment upgradeing it to be able to connect to the dodger.
Great job!
Thanks 👍