@@youngbarnacles I always do, I used to be some type of "professional" in the boatrepair bussines but I do not think I was anymore after watching you chanel, I was obviosly always an amateur.
🤣 we are all learning... and the thing we love about this industry is the advances in technology and the opportunity to apply this to our own cruising boat.
Hola amigos. I am constantly bumping my noggin on the door. Why not make the door ways taller? Seeing the holes in your bulkhead made me smile cause I’ve got the same ones in Swift. I have plans to fill them in too.
Ha! Yeah we've discussed making doorways bigger. Since these are for the engine room we've left them as is. We may change the doorways throughout the rest of the boat. We don't intent to put too many doors back in to Paikea as they are heavy. Just engine room and toilet doors. The rest will be dividers probably made of sailcloth
Nice to see I’m not the only one itching from all the fiberglass dust 😅. It’s been a one month slog of cutting out all the old wood and glass in my 2 lockers in front of my mast. Water had gotten under the wood and rotted a lot of it. I managed to get vinyl ester resin which is so much nicer to work with than polyester which even finds its way through latex gloves. I also choose flocoat instead of paint. Catana used a shitty grey paint that just peels everywhere it’s put after a few years. Happy to just have finished this so we can get back to cruising…
We feel your pain! What vintage Catana? The consolation is that it's worth restoring these old girls as they certainly don't make them like they used to 👍
@@youngbarnacles mine is a 2009 C47. Hull no 1 which is a vinylester boat with carbon crosses in the bulkhead fiberglass structures. I think on hull no 12 they went to full carbon/foam bulkheads etc, why they cheap’ed out on marine ply wood and paint in the front lockers I am yet to understand.
Our Richard Woods cat had a rope drum steering system. Ropes passed under the bridgedeck to the external tillers on aft decks. Very low tech but worked well. If it's just the helm pump leaking at the joint (O-ring hose fittings or flare?),
@evangatehouse5650 we could try that but we're rebuilding an old system we're not in love with 🤷🏻♀️ It's all going to depend on time and availability of parts. Personally I'm keen to get rid of the hydraulic oil component ...
yay welcome back have you given any thought to using outboards instead of diesel engines, I've seen some cats and 12m monos using them as main propulsion system aside from sails of course, would like to hear ead your opinion on it
We would not have outboards on Paikea. There are two main reasons for this. First outboards use petrol and not diesel. Petrol is more volatile than diesel so it is undesirable to carry around onboard the boat. Secondly, in emergency situations outboards are terrible in a sea state. Inboard engines tend to be better placed in order to deal with waves etc and stay in the water. However if you had a coastal boat then outboards would be a great option. There are massive advantages in being able to take them out and take to a mechanic if there is a problem. So we like the idea of outboards but retro fitting something to Paikea without it being a massive undertaking and solving the problems I've mentioned above aren't worth the exercise for us.
Outboards placed in wells would be the solution we would use if we were to go down the outboards on Paikea route. However there are lots of technical challenges with that. We built a fully solar electric boat this way and we still had cavitation issues around the outboard engines when they were in the water (not a lot but more than desirable). We also had issues with getting the hole plugs to work properly on the outboard leg when outboard went up and down. With the move towards diesel outboards this option is becoming a more viable option to consider.
“And this very precise dose of catalyst to ensure that this will go off just before I’m done” 😂😂 yup… I’ve been having pretty decent results diluting flowcoat with acetone to achieve a smoother finish with fewer brush strokes. Any thoughts on this? have always wondered if I’m compromising the curing process by doing that as I’m not equipped to test hardness of the cured product ? Also big fan of the doorframes, did you have access to a mould or make your own?
Don't dilute with acetone Tom!!! I learnt this the hard way. Yes you can away with it but it does affect the final product. The best practice is to use styrene monomer as a thinning agent. You don't need much as it is very effective. We made a mould for the door frames
@@youngbarnacles cheers I had a sneaking suspicion what I was doing wasn’t really kosher.. will try to see if I can source the styrene monomer locally.. incidentally the one you show in the video almost looks like it’s from WIND the composites supplier here? Great work on the doorframes they look awesome, what did you make the mould out of? Any clips of the process? Either way great to see that work on Paikea is back on track, seems like we are in fairly similar phases of the refits so will be interesting to see how you go about it :)
Glad you’re back, you were missed!
Thanks guys
Brilliant, as always. I can't wait to see the conversion of the steering. Getting feedback from the helm is important.
So important! And equally important we have a simple reliable system on board.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge buy this chanel, it is always a treat when you are on air! your knowledge are impressive!
Thanks. Glad you are enjoying the content
@@youngbarnacles I always do, I used to be some type of "professional" in the boatrepair bussines but I do not think I was anymore after watching you chanel, I was obviosly always an amateur.
🤣 we are all learning... and the thing we love about this industry is the advances in technology and the opportunity to apply this to our own cruising boat.
Great explanation on difference between flowcoat and gelcoat. I slowed it down to 50% and typed it into my "boat projects" note pad file thank you.
Fantastic 😊
Glade your are Backstreet...🎉
Cheers !
Hola amigos. I am constantly bumping my noggin on the door. Why not make the door ways taller? Seeing the holes in your bulkhead made me smile cause I’ve got the same ones in Swift. I have plans to fill them in too.
Ha! Yeah we've discussed making doorways bigger. Since these are for the engine room we've left them as is. We may change the doorways throughout the rest of the boat. We don't intent to put too many doors back in to Paikea as they are heavy. Just engine room and toilet doors. The rest will be dividers probably made of sailcloth
Heavy. Yes. We just remade our engine room doors too. Not carbon but epoxy. They are like super light now. 👌
Perfect! Nice work mate
Very informative, thank you. It's nice to see the boys enjoying the catamaran sailing.
They are loving it!
You must be stoked with Balthasar's performance in the middle sea race, looked like it got a bit willing out there at times. Cheers for the vid.
They did good huh? We have a few things to sort out on board then put them on a ship for Caribbean season.
Thanks for posting.
You're welcome
Nice to see you back!
Thanks!
Nice to see I’m not the only one itching from all the fiberglass dust 😅. It’s been a one month slog of cutting out all the old wood and glass in my 2 lockers in front of my mast. Water had gotten under the wood and rotted a lot of it. I managed to get vinyl ester resin which is so much nicer to work with than polyester which even finds its way through latex gloves. I also choose flocoat instead of paint. Catana used a shitty grey paint that just peels everywhere it’s put after a few years. Happy to just have finished this so we can get back to cruising…
We feel your pain! What vintage Catana? The consolation is that it's worth restoring these old girls as they certainly don't make them like they used to 👍
@@youngbarnacles mine is a 2009 C47. Hull no 1 which is a vinylester boat with carbon crosses in the bulkhead fiberglass structures. I think on hull no 12 they went to full carbon/foam bulkheads etc, why they cheap’ed out on marine ply wood and paint in the front lockers I am yet to understand.
😂 Like drawing blood from a stone! You're doing a good job...😊
🤣🤣 he gets so focussed on the job it's sometimes hard to get him to talk to a camera.
Another NASA level boat project !
Got a heap of carbon bits to glue on to the boat. Should be a rocket ship if we can get it all done 👍
Miss you guys. Love the DNAF1
❤️❤️
Thank you for your post.
Our Richard Woods cat had a rope drum steering system. Ropes passed under the bridgedeck to the external tillers on aft decks. Very low tech but worked well. If it's just the helm pump leaking at the joint (O-ring hose fittings or flare?),
O - ring mating surface issues here on Paikea.
And yes agree totally that the simplest solutions are often the best.
@@youngbarnacles Remove and try re-surfacing in a mill (assuming flat face type)?
@evangatehouse5650 we could try that but we're rebuilding an old system we're not in love with 🤷🏻♀️ It's all going to depend on time and availability of parts. Personally I'm keen to get rid of the hydraulic oil component ...
@@youngbarnacles Find a nice old Whitlock, replace the steel torque tubes with carbon versions?
Just a little extra to make sure it kicks off right before I finish!😅
😅😅 yup ... 🤪
yay welcome back
have you given any thought to using outboards instead of diesel engines, I've seen some cats and 12m monos using them as main propulsion system aside from sails of course, would like to hear
ead your opinion on it
We would not have outboards on Paikea. There are two main reasons for this. First outboards use petrol and not diesel. Petrol is more volatile than diesel so it is undesirable to carry around onboard the boat. Secondly, in emergency situations outboards are terrible in a sea state. Inboard engines tend to be better placed in order to deal with waves etc and stay in the water.
However if you had a coastal boat then outboards would be a great option. There are massive advantages in being able to take them out and take to a mechanic if there is a problem.
So we like the idea of outboards but retro fitting something to Paikea without it being a massive undertaking and solving the problems I've mentioned above aren't worth the exercise for us.
@@youngbarnacles yeah i see your pinky, about that wavy segment -i think you misunderstood me, i meant inboard outboard, basically installed in a well
Outboards placed in wells would be the solution we would use if we were to go down the outboards on Paikea route. However there are lots of technical challenges with that. We built a fully solar electric boat this way and we still had cavitation issues around the outboard engines when they were in the water (not a lot but more than desirable). We also had issues with getting the hole plugs to work properly on the outboard leg when outboard went up and down. With the move towards diesel outboards this option is becoming a more viable option to consider.
“And this very precise dose of catalyst to ensure that this will go off just before I’m done” 😂😂 yup…
I’ve been having pretty decent results diluting flowcoat with acetone to achieve a smoother finish with fewer brush strokes. Any thoughts on this? have always wondered if I’m compromising the curing process by doing that as I’m not equipped to test hardness of the cured product ? Also big fan of the doorframes, did you have access to a mould or make your own?
Don't dilute with acetone Tom!!! I learnt this the hard way. Yes you can away with it but it does affect the final product. The best practice is to use styrene monomer as a thinning agent. You don't need much as it is very effective.
We made a mould for the door frames
@@youngbarnacles cheers I had a sneaking suspicion what I was doing wasn’t really kosher.. will try to see if I can source the styrene monomer locally.. incidentally the one you show in the video almost looks like it’s from WIND the composites supplier here?
Great work on the doorframes they look awesome, what did you make the mould out of? Any clips of the process? Either way great to see that work on Paikea is back on track, seems like we are in fairly similar phases of the refits so will be interesting to see how you go about it :)
😁