6 months away from our SALVAGE SAILBOAT- WHAT has been done?!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Back into the groove and we're showing off what has and mostly hasn't been done while we've been away. We had quite a few jobs for contractors to do and its a let down going through the boat and finding things unfinished and needing work. But with every problem comes a solution and I know we're up to the task. Also we look into our future dinghy to understand if we want to go against the norm and buy a fiberglass dinghy.
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I can only Imagine the work in front of you...I wish you all the best!!
The babies are so cute. The boat needed a local project manager when you were gone. But no doubt you will move forward over the next few weeks. Best wishes.
Please don't give up.. I am so longing to see you all back on the water... sailing as a family.
Great to see y’all back, and getting things in place for returning tot he water 🙏
Adorable babies. You are so blessed. Enjoy every moment with them. You blink and they are in College....
I'm a twin myself and my mom used to say that the first two years were really tough, but then we had each other to play with, so we were never bored.
Your biggest issue I see is dust and mould. My advice is to remove all soft coverings from the cabin ceilings and walls, replace with new linnings that are washable. Long term exposure to dust from fibre glass and mould is a major health concern you absolutely should not discounted.
So good to see you back, with your new crew.
Judt a word of advice: Having worked in Malaysia for a number of years you are going to have to be on the guys all the time. Good contractors/craftsmen but you have to manage them
I love kids, just like your two cuties. I am really looking forward to watching them grow up!
Wonderful to see you back at the boat with the family, things will get moving now your there .
I am a 72 year old retired engineer, love your channel and the twins are going to be a big attraction for me very pleased your sharing family life with us!
New subscriber (and currently victim to a "somewhat" extensive refit on a Perry 47 ketch).....enjoy new parenthood, and welcome to the hardest and most rewarding 25 years of your lives! Hope to see you somewhere out there in the next few years.
And you mate! "Victim" sounds like the word we would use also haha
Good to see you back to boat, all 4 of you. Can sympathize with hassles of so much work not done... you guys have decent attitudes, n will be up n running soon, am sure of it. Mostly -- always good to hear some dink ideas other than now-standard inflatables of various types n costs. As per some of these comments, keep muttering to yrselves as you go ahead with solid glass for 500 bucks, yes. But traditional workboat glass is the heaviest way to go. To modernize the layup for lighter n stronger wluld be very expensive, n you shouldnt try to get the locals to learn new stuff on a dink for you, even if they might be willing. Have been at this a while, for work n play, n strongly advise you modify into two part nesting dink. All sorts of methods once you cut apart close to middle of length, n arrange some combination of bulkhead/seat to clamp/bolt/etc back together. You guys... good on ya, you go.
I've seen fiberglass and now recently an aluminum dingy and in the past , dingy's with small masts that could be sailed !
I’m not surprised you needed to be there to manage the project ,although I understand why you weren’t there
So glad to see the new babies glad all went well cant wait to see the journey much love from our family to yours
Glad to see,you are not so disappointed you are not going to give up. We had twins,It is lots of work. But double the rewards,get your rest when you can.
hey what a shame for 6 months. I hope you saw, that they painted the anode too. they will not work if they are painted ;-)
kid says i dont care about anything except what time is dinner
No way those guys can fix that bow pulpit 😂😂😂if that was the first try😮
A fibreglass dinghy tends to be heavy and high straight sides will make a dinghy more prone to heavy rolling. When I had my trimaran, I actually had two dinghies, a wooden one and an aluminium one. Both were impossibly heavy at the best of time, but because the tri had a full deck between the main hull and the amas, we had space to hoist both on board when sailing. But both rolled heavily in any swell and that led to us almost losing my youngest daughter, then just a few months old! We had just come back from a trip to Singapore and were moored offshore in Fanny Bay (Darwin). My wife managed to put the aluminium dinghy in the water (I had gone into town using the wooden dinghy), but It was rolling heavily in a strong offshore wind blowing straight out of the the Northern Territory's interior. She tried to get into it with the baby in a carry cot, lost her balance and the baby went overboard! My wife was an Olympic-quality swimmer and retrieved her fairly quickly, but it was a scary moment, obviously.
I envy you with this project. I sympathize regarding the location and all that heat. This may be the hardest thing you ever do but I truly believe it will also be one of your best memories one day. Can't wait for the next episode
So glad y’all are back. Been missing yall
Leaving contractors to self supervise and returning to find they havent done what you expected? What a massive surprise! 😂😅😭.
Work not done? No surprise unfortunately.
Boat life is not easy as you well know.
It will all come good eventually.
I had a fiberglass dingy that could be rowed, sailed and propelled with a small engine. It was far from perfect but could transport 6 adults, carried by 2, was basically unsinkable, but slow. It even had a translucent bottom. Perfect for bioluminescence. Sold it for a lot to someone who made an offer that could not be refused and bought a Carib with 4 stroke. It was fast, on the other attributes except for caring with no motor it failed miserably.
Hi guys, wow I’m outside the boats looking good. Bit of a shame you couldn’t afford to finish painting it but that’s okay but I must say those twins are so cute just love little babies they’re so innocent I like computers nothing bad has in the mind it’s only when we get involved. I have a two-year-old grandson and I just love spending time with him. We put crap in them anyway keep up the good work always enjoy the videos Cliff from Australia
CONGRATS, my gorgeous beautiful mermaid has two angels, you tremendous captain you. What are their names? The comeback on this boat is going to be hard, I couldn't understand why you sold the previous one that was 100 times better than this junk that Delos Bryan is abandoning. God bless you four, we'll have a blast looking this two grow up as sailors. OsoYolo, Antigua Guatemala.
Part of the attraction will be watching the little ones grow up. There is a good chance that they will swim before they can walk;
They will be competent watch keepers before they can drive and they will be fluent in English, Swedish and Australian.
Show us the smiles, the tantrums, the triumphs and everything in between.
I keep my fingers crossed, don't give up!
Congratulations
I would definitely fit the stability floats around that dingy like Marnus did on peanut
How are you running the aircon when not in the water?
Also don’t paint over the anodes on the rudder. Remove the anodes when painting
Good on you two
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Twins mine Bobby and David, as babies just hated each other never stopped. Lets hope you have better luck. Plus get back sailing it will help with stress not. HAHAHA. But there will be days everything comes together.
Cutest sailor babies ever!
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A bit of a shock but you’ll get over it reset and the boat will be perfect once you do.
I am building an aluminum dinghy with a 330hp supercharged rotax engine and pump. The weight of the engine is comparable to a 60-75 horsepower outboard. The fuel tank is integrated into the hull. With 330hp it will really fast
That sounds unreal! Please send photos
have him build a nesting dinghy...maybe cut it just on the forward side of the middle seat and make two matching "transoms "
Isabelle, are you speaking to the children in Swedish? My daughter is married to a Dane. He only speaks my grandchildren in Danish and my daughter only speaks in English. That way they are now totally bilingual and happy when in either country. Just a thought. Loving your return to Merewether. Happy cruising/sailing. Les and Anne on Glendyne (English narrowboat)
Hey Les and Anne. We’re already on to it! They will be bilingual in no time. Kieran will have to get his Swedish improved otherwise we’ll have a secret language haha
Hi both. That’s great. Luckily my daughter is very good with languages (speaks seven including English) so she knows what Soren is saying to the kids about her!! If Kieran doesn’t learn soon, you can have a great time giving him marks out of ten. The kids would love that, I’m sure.
Cheers Les and Anne
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having raised 3 myself i can safely say there is nothing more fulfilling and worthwhile than raising kids (will also put years on ya) 😂 onward! ✊🏻🏴
Well lucky you have wealthy parents allowing you to have 6 months away and paid workers doing the boat jobs. I expect you can stay in the apartment for a few more months. Can’t wait to see how this turns out.
Hi Murphy, we pay for everything ourselves. Our parents support our dream if form of emotional support and love. All the best to you, cheers for tuning in
I can imagine that trying to hire someone to do a job when you are not around to supervise/prod/etc... is not easy. Locals there probably don't have the same sense of urgency as you do to actually get the jobs done.
The experience of hiring contactors, if you pay by the hour they never get done and if it's a fixed price it gets done in no time with lots of errors...
I had a Zodiac inflatable, which I hated, the best thing I ever did was to buy a fiberglass dinghy which we had for many years.
Leave the babies on shore
More baby shots...YES YES,YES!!!!!!!
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When you step onto a rigid inflatable boat from the side, the inflatable side keeps it from rolling. A fiberglass boat will be dangerous to step into because it will roll, drastically and could capsize. With the little ones, you need to be sure footed when you step onto the dingy. I know it's probably a budget issue but a fiberglass boat is not a safe choice for a new family.
That depends on the design neither inflatables or GRP are particularly safe or robust and can be damn heavy.
The answer is to build a stable hull more like a dory or cat hull with permanent buoyancy built into the sides and a decent freeboard.
Try one on the water or show the guy he will probably be interested in trying ideas that increase the robustness and stability of his boats.
The people who make the Daz cats actually built a specially dingy and cat for a wheelchair bound sailing explorer type..
He had to be able to lift lower board and navigate in complete stability in rough waters the Daz cat and the boat .. what they produced was akin to a mini landing craft that could run ashore and despite being hooned around on the water would not tip or easily get swamped. 🧙🏻♂️🇬🇧 Take a look.
BTW.. Basalt fiber products may be produced in Vietnam but are common in China and India.. originally being developed in Ukraine area of the old USSR.
Ideally the dingy would be built using Basalt around a sealed cell foam core for strength abrasion resistance and permanent buoyancy.
Your fibreglass dinghy may be too heavy. Its a problem I have with RIB's too. If you get it hard aground can you lift it? What about lifting it into the deck? I have often thought about making a ultralight dinghy with a foam or paulownia core. A dinghy over 45kg is impractical. Stowing the dinghy on davits at sea is dangerous.
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Congratulations to the both of you ❤
I hesitate to write this, contractors everywhere need to work on a deadline, if you tell them, we will be back in six months, they would "bank" your job until you are back anyway. Malaysians are no different than others. However, I urge you to create specific milestones for the contractor and time frames. I had a friend who left their 65-foot sailboat for a whole year with a long list of jobs, when they came back none of it was done. Contractors the world over work the same way, you do the urgent job first and worry about the future later. Sail Life and a complete punch list, urgent, necessary, all the way down to nice to have.
On the other hand, some jobs are nice to have but will be a major boost to your morale,. As an example painting the pilot house is a two-day job. HOWEVER, in terms of look, it is massive. Also contractors will see that you are serious about moving ahead. Right now the boat looks like it needs another two years of work (it doesn't really). As for your bed, I suspect that the carpenter is overwhelmed. Anyway best of luck
The dinghy's in the video didn't seem to have anywhere to pass a metal chain through.
I hope you've spec'ed out where to put chains and padlocks on your fiberglass dinghy, you don't want people being able to steal your motor, or steal the actual dinghy.
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What a shame. Crack on.
Sounds like a bunch of ZEUS' work at that yard. Zero Effort Unless Supervised.