Time to clean the BILGE! She needed a shower after that...
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It is a very disgusting job to scoop out 100 lb of sludge that accumulated over the years.
But it gets us one step closer to a clean bilge. And massively reduced the smell in the engine room of our historic steel ship.
Furthermore we finally reconnect our water tank. After 2 weeks without running water it feels so luxurious to get water by just turning on the tap.
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The bolts we found in the bilge compartment are probably the remains of an older stuffing box. The guy who changed the packing probably doped it and didn't bother to dig deep into the sludge to salvage them. Since they are much bigger than the bolts of our current stuffing box they must be there since at least 1977.
Two things you never want to be on a boat or submarine is small and slim…….guess you found that out aye Barbara, you are a legend for cleaning out that crap, well done
I must commend Barbara on taking on the work in the bilge. It’s dirty nasty smelly work, I know. I admire her courage and determination.
Oh dear, Barbara is very courageous scooping that goop, I was feeling sick just looking at the video.
That shower must have felt like a God-sent.
"floating building site" Ha! That is a good one".
Congratulations on getting running water again! I thought for a moment we were going to witness Barbara slip down into the bilge, never to be seen again. The sunset video was stunning.
Great engineering and work, especially by Barbara
Soups ready !
That is a heroic purification of your windship, sister, She's going to treat you well after all your gifts. Highest Blessings
Thank you for caring for that ship. Every job is a great thing in its own place.
I am a new subscriber and have arrived at episode 8 with much enthusiasm for your future. Your energy and determination is inspiring. I will eventually catch up and hope to comment in real time then. Until this yet unknown future, thank you so much for these early videos, beautifully edited and with perfect camera work and sound. It makes such a difference. Very best wishes from Kenneth.
Welcome aboard and please enjoy watching our playlist. We try to make each video better than the previous one so it should get more and more interesting.
With all that black oily gunky stuff. Your bilge certainly isn’t going to rust 😂👍👍
All in all the steel in the engine room looks fine and is in most parts rust free. It seems like people thought as long as they don't look behind the cork insulation there is not rust and no problem. Schrödingers rust problem or so...
"Your floating building site" Ha! I Like that. @ some point in the process, it will metamorphosis into your "floating home!!" I'll be watching as that happens. Thanx for sharing the process.
Would have liked to have seen how you cleaned and repaired the leaking water tank.
We do want to cut it in pieces and replace it with a plastic tank so you haven't missed the cleaning and repairing. At the moment the old one is still in place.
Oh my that doesn't look like a lot of fun. But I can feel your boat giving a big sigh of relief to have all that goop out of there!
Servus. The joys of boat ownership! I can't decide if I envy you or pity you. Maybe a bit of both 😀 Good luck with the rest of the work 👍
It's always nice to follow your adventures. You seem so calm, relaxed and that you like each other which is the most important. The scale of the project may give me butterflies in my stomach, but I wish you all the best.
Great to see another video from Sailing Flying Coney!
When tightening or loosening fittings it helps to hold the two tools side by side, it gives you more leverage. It also reduces the risk of injury as in bruised palms, carpel tunnel, and skinned knuckles due to slippage.
I agree totally that Poly based tanks are better, it will be less to worry about with Electrolysis and possible corrosion as time advances.
Barbara your my kind of Lady ,not afraid to get dirty and wiling to do the nasty work .Your plane to replace the water tanks is a sound one and considering the environment not using metal tanks again is a wise decision .And don't think your the only one who has trouble with a wrench .Have a good week you guys .
Excellent results hey I love that song.!😁👍🤞
Love your videos and always looking forward to the next one. A little tip, whenever you are fitting two jubilee clips onto a hose, it's a good idea to offset them so that the screw/clamp sections aren't side by side. This gives a better all round seal, avoiding the possibility of any flat spot being side by side. Aber sehr gut!
Thank you very much for your advise. Makes sense and we will definitely pay attention to it in future plumbing projects! 👍
Such a cool project. I fully endorse your vision of restoring the square rig. I found your channel about six weeks ago and you were an instant follow. Love your can-do attitude. I learned to sail on small, open steel boats as a teenager, and I did the winter maintenance. Everything I am ever onboard of today is fiberglass, but I still have a soft spot for steel as the “proper” material (those foiling Nacra’s though…)
P.S. You’re moored not far from where I live. Cool that you have found your boat here!
Great to have you aboard. I loved to teach sailing on a small open steel gaff rigged dinghy. I was one of two sailing teachers who managed to tack that thing. Probably a very similar boat like you have learned sailing on. Well Flying Coney waited for us. She was on the market for two years and we've been on the boat search for two years. Almost bought a boat in Zwolle but the process took so long that we thought the owner has found another buyer. So we visited "Sally" just to have tried everything. Initially we thought it's not worth going down into the filthy engine room. But at the end of the boat tour we were almost sure: That's our boat!
@@FlyingConey mine were Lelievlet dinghies. It’s a boat designed decades ago for Scouting Netherlands. I am *far* from unique in having sailed and maintained those. They’re brilliant for their purpose, utterly indestructible and very versatile.
Thank you for taking us along on your journey. We enjoy your videos.
👍👌 it is good to see that the water is running again, great job 👌💪
The crescent moon! What a beautiful sunset 🙂
Mmm nice soup😋
When a nut does not loosen, you must first tap on it, then heat it with a blowtorch and it ends up coming...!!
Interesting to see a gentleman in white shirt and seated in a chair talking about dirty boat jobs 🙂
Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste 😈 Actually the contrast between the dirty work and the white shirt as well as the second topic of the video with the clean water was something we had chosen deliberately. One dirty thing is enough for one video...
@@FlyingConey Nice it was on purpose.
Just found your channel and 👍 and subscribed ✌️💙🎵
Thank you! Welcome aboard! ⛵️
Beautiful timelapse beginning at around 6:50
As a steel boat owner I'm really concerned about the way it looks down inside the bilge - yes, good that there is no water, but there are significant patches of rust scales, which means the structural integrity might be compromised. I know you are getting there to fix everything, but this really scares me each time I see some close-up spots of the rust in the bilge. Good luck and best wishes for the restoration 😀
I have to agree with you, it looks scary. But the surveyor just slammed the thinest part of the hull with a huge hammer (while the boat was in the water 😳) and nothing happened. Also quite some rust actually comes from inside structures that where added later on. I've no idea why for example the structure that holds the metal tank in place is almost completely gone. And since we are the first ones who actually try to restore her and not only use for a few years we come across some areas nobody has seen for 72 years 😉
@@FlyingConey - I think it could be that riveted hulls were of better steel quality than the steel used on the inside structures - this is not the first time I see riveted hull surviving, but newer, "normal steel" completely gone. Slamming the thinnest part of the hull while in water - that must be a risky test here 😆
I think that he thought he is above the waterline. Can you tell me which particular part of the bilge in the video concerns you? The part that looks really horrible is where the first guest cabin was. Behind the cork isolation. In the foreship, the area of the water tank it looks better in reality than in the video. All the rust accumulated at the bottom. But for the saloon area, keep your fingers crossed 🤣
@@FlyingConey - it is not just this video, but in this video somewhere around 8:24. Not sure if all the flakes are from the sides here. In any case, I believe your boat is no exception - steel ships rust from inside out, this is why bilge must be kept as rust free as possible, especially in areas with limited airflow.
We try to empty the hull as soon as possible so that we can blast the hull and get a new coating done hopefully in the spring next year. Also we have a haul out planned this September or Oktober. But the spot at 8:24 is a very good example for looking worse than it is. Actually the bottom here is concrete and probably all of the rust flakes you see is either from the tanks or from the bars holding the tanks in place. Back in the days they knew that there will be rust and the built the ships overly heavy. 1cm for hull plates! Haven said that the ships was supposed to fish about 25-30 years. Everything after that was considered bonus years...
Wow…Dirty Job Week☹️…Barbara is quite the “Trooper”👍 Continue to Stay Safe & Enjoy😎
It was an horrible job FILMING it 😂 It really was a very smelly and dirty job, but Barbara has a "just do it" attitude and it was also somewhat rewarding that it was a one day job. One of the few aboard our 25 meter ship.
Thanks for sharing your adventures. I look forward to each one.
Next time you want to undo a seized union use 2 hammers. Use one as a dolly on one side and use the other to bang in the direction of rotation. This works every time. I have undone unions that have been under water for 25/30 years and in bad environmental conditions for a long time. regards from the UK
A good job well done 🌞👍
Good choice on the water tanks,you can move them around and block them in with timber frames.
Danke für die Videos!
Da habt ihr noch genug zu tun.
Lg Karl
A truly grotty job excavating the bilges.. well done.
The time lapse of the sunset or rise over the water was very 😎.
One language tip you are using the word isolation when in English we would use insulation.... protection against electricity or materials used to protect against heat loss. 😉👍🏼
Thank you for correcting me. Things like that are a bit tricky to look up. I did and all I found was that you can use both and I went with the word I'm using in the German language. But I trust you and use insulation now for material that prevents heat from escaping.
@@FlyingConey
Its just the way English works .. oddlife crafting are Brazilian so speak Portuguese and they also use isolate not insulate.
The way to think about it is Isolate means to keep seperate or cut off from something.. insulate means to keep something inside or within something. 😉
Oil in the bilge of a steel boat is probably a good thing at least till it's sandblasted and re sealed
The engine room is mostly rust free. Even down in the bilge. But oil is much better than sludge and you can't imagine how much better the ship smells now... As far as I would like to approach this job the hull in the foreship and saloon area has priority.
Since you have the space you could look into IBC water tanks, probably the cheapest way to have a lot of water.
Fur eure schaft bearing, uberleg mal ein (de waal seal) das ist eine rvs sleave uber der akce und rubber dichtungs ringen mit ein fet lip und staub dichtung. Firma "De Waal" im Werkendam.
Hi guys... to de-grease and de-oil your bilges and contaminated parts of the hull, I would recommend using Unitor Enviroclean, (supplied in 25L drum)
It is available from Wilhelmsen Ship Services (worldwide)
It is bio-degradable, and not harmful to the marine environment. (See the SDS)
It is DNV / GL approved.
It takes all the sweat out of cleaning up. I use it regularly to degrease oil and grease contamination on saturation dive systems.
As always a great pleasure and so much fun watching you what a relief 😅 from the horrors of my Twitter feed… A bit late but guess wearing a respirator wouldn’t be that bad for working with such sort of garsty stuff?
We do wear the respirators quite often but more when we destroy things, remove isolation and such things. The stuff in the bilge is smelling horrible but it's basically really old animal grease gone bad. I wouldn't recommend eating it but I also wouldn't worry much about toxic fumes and since it's all wet particles are very unlikely. Barbara was in training to become a ship engineer and we are quite more concerned about our health than the guys doing it professionally. On the other hand in the newspapers in northern Germany you often can read: "We congratulate Captain ... to his 85 birthday". Right next to the lines: "We express our deepest sympathy at the ultimately demise of engineer ... who passed away aged 65."
@@FlyingConey guess you really know what you do… what a job! I just had to think on @salt-&-tar when they had kidney issues shortly after taring the hull… On the other hand Doug from @SVSeeker is still alive so what possibly go wrong! Admiring your courage that you took on this project.
I'm a high & dry land lubber & even I know what a stuffing box is.
Technically it's a dynamic seal (moving not static) achieved w/ very low-tech materials, like rope, grease, a sealing plate & bolts/nuts, to do an otherwise mid-tech job like keeping outside water out from a rotating prop shaft. It does the job well, but not low maintenance; it needs some TLC, occasional adjustments & added grease periodically.
Your previous artist/owner had no clue.. & I'm sorry about that.
I'm sure you'll find lots more "newbie" mistakes, some potentially catastrophic - it's a labor of love that will test your skills, fear levels, patience & wallets.
Some days you may even hate your decision to buy the ship.
Me.. I'd have instinctively favored a wood hull, which just loves the salt sea water. You guys are brave & just slightly crazy to undergo this life long project. it's good you both love sailing.
Cheers & best of luck.
Hi!! Greetings from Argentina!! I just subscribe to the channel and watch all the videos, really looking forward to see more.
Little request, can you make a drawing of the ship to understand better the compartments? For the no sea people haha
Great to have you onboard! The drawing is in the making, last week I was a little bit sick and found the time to make a quick draft of the interior. But to give you folks a better understanding on where we are working on the ship Barbara always starts in the wheelhouse and takes you with her. From front to back: foreship, saloon, wheelhouse above engine room, captains cabin.
And let's face it nothing gets to smelling worse then old grease and sea water that's probably the bad smell you had in the Guest cabin
Since it seams like you're enjoying the playlist, you'll find out what caused the smell in Ep.19 😉 But the smell of the boat after scooping out the sludge on a hot day in summer was, lets say intense...
And I'm sure eventually you're gonna get a Fresh watermaker on your ship.
That would be awesome. But even with a water maker aboard you need to have enough tank capacity if that thing fails. Since we plan everything for 16-20 people we will need at least 3000 liters water storage.
on your axle I would think there are two lubrication points, one is where you showed in the drawing, but it doesn't lubricate the rope, it releases the grease on the inside of the rope, the rope should be changed on land after maybe 5 years.... it also tends to be lubrication at the end of the axle ... I can tell you that this is not the last time you remove grease from the keel ... this is a dirty job. also under the engine..that it smells of the wake can be good, it is a sign that the boat is not leaking
Guys, What an amazing project! Why not use a water vacume to clear the bilges next time?
That would be full in no time at all. I'm thinking about building a pre- separator for our M-class shop vac. But until last week we didn't care much about the last few liters in the bilge because WE filled it up again anyway 🤣😂🤣
👍!!!
Asking out of ignorance: when you have large tanks of fresh water, do you treating it in any way to prevent water-slime from forming, or to maintain freshness? Just curious.
The easy answer is, no because we are not drinking the water. We have two additional jerrycans we fill up every three days for cooking and drinking.
I love your restoration of this boat, can I ask a cheeky question, is there more reswtoration work going on during the week than what we see in the short weekly videos. hope you dont mind y question.
Not much... Usually making a video takes in between two or three days and every work takes at least twice as long when you try to film it. What you don't see in the videos is preparation, research and boring tasks. For example last week Barbara spend a whole day going through the pile of wood and deciding what we want to keep, what will become fire wood and what needs to be thrown away. I forgot to mention the labor intensive part... getting all the screws and nails out so the wood either can be re- used or burned.
You might have to get a steamer to get that muck out.
That's probably a good idea! Do you think a pressure washer works as well?
Please save that lovely photo of your face to show your Grandchildren when they come along. They won't believe your life story without proof.
Keep the faith that this too shall pass.
How do you get all the easy jobs
It looks like you don’t have very much travel on your packing gland what we called it stuffing box do you have a bladder you can inflate so you can change the packing in your stuffing box or are you just going to put on dock to change out your packing
We think the packing gland is at the end of it's lifetime and we also want to check the anodes and put a new layer of antifoul on the hull. So I think these three tasks are enough to justify a haul out. Maybe also check how accurate the previous thickness measurements are. I have the feeling I would do a lot of people in the comment section a massive favor with that 😉😀
why is barbara the one who is shown doing the majority of the work?
P.S. wassertanks from P.E kan man auch im form machen, das kan genau so wie bei rostfreistaal.. ist fiel billiger dan rvs.
Don't chuck the ladle it would do for my bilge, I have a Go Barbra issue in my bilge to get to the bottom of soon
Love watching equal rights in the bilge , you sly guy ,,,,send me your formula lol . You have a beautiful ship
At one point Barbara wanted to become a ship engineer and a part of her thinks it's fun to work with oily engine parts. Then she studied mechanical engineering until we followed the olympic dream. She loves to work with her hands and is quite good in solving specific problems. I'm good in operating vehicles, tools and coming up with general plans and solutions. I think we are a very good team.
The water tanks can you not get bladders and put in the tanks
:)
A proper cleaning of the keel would probably have made it nicer to work in. Pressure washer?
You mean pressure washing the bilge? That's something we also are really looking forward to, but it's a non priority project. Also I have no idea how to get to the space underneath the transmission. It's probably best to get the engine and transmission out and overhauled and in the meantime we clean and repaint the bilge.
@@FlyingConey You achieve a lot with the high-pressure washer without lifting the driveline
Are you gonna sand blast the inside hall
Sandblasting, hydroblasting or laser blasting. Not sure what method is the best for us. But we need to get the rust of and blast the hull down to white metal.
You have an impressive project!
Can you say what you were doing at: 11:08 ? You appear to be scratching or damaging the threads on the brass fitting for some reason.
Yes that's exactly what we are doing. No joke! It's to prohibit the teflon tape from slipping when screwing the joint together. However it's not necessary when using teflon tape. Most professionals use hemp to seal the treads and then it is necessary. We thought it's good practice to prepare the threats anyway.
Since you brought up the subject of winding of tethlon tape, here's a little tip from a guy with a lifetime into pipe installation and testing after ....wind your tape onto the threads so that the lay is smoothed into place by the passing of the female part, not bunched up. That would appear to be opposite to what you did.
I admire your wish to get to the heart of problems. Happy results!
It is not good practice to kink the hose like you did. Always allow a bit extra that can be trimmed back now it's short and kinked aargh!!!
Plenty of hose in the foreship, but unfortunately the corner is to tight and it works. It's not the right hose, the whole hose to pipe thing is a bit over complicated if you ask me and it's probably also not the correct way to go through a watertight bulkhead. However, we now have running water again 😛
Doe jij nou ook nog wat of hoe zit dat
Why does Barbara get to do all the “dirty” work?
Barbara was complaining because I did all the work when deconstructing both guest cabins. And with a grin on my face I said: The next job is yours 😉😁😛
I don't think that is good for the skin do you it may be good for something els but not for the skin lol you have a good channel good jobs cool chin up you will have a good looking ship soon 😉
Ahh, it's just good ol' natural grease 😂 Thanks for the comment!
Besser where eine non toxic slaug zu benutzen fur die zeitligen anslussen. die gelbe ist toxic. das hat zu tun mit der weigmacher im materiaal!!! achtung
We are not drinking the water from the tank. We only use it to wash our hands, flush the toilet and do the dishes. But thank you for your advise! We will pay attention when we instal ne tanks and plumbing. At the moment it's improvised...
und das stinkt
Hallo wieder😂
Get uses to it, it’s a boat, not a royal yacht , all that stuff falls right into your lap! Get used to it!
Why flying Coney ?? Coney is a rabbit and they are bad luck to fisherman for sure !!
The "Flying" is because our past in the foiling Nacra 17 olympic sailing class. And you never say rabbit on a boat so I've been told so it's "coney". Also coney has some bawdy tune to it, so I think that's very much appropriate for a ship. And for the cursed part, I am no fisherman and lot's of cursed names on boats: Flying Dutchman, Black Pearl, White Pearl, Blue Pearl, Grey Pearl...
@@FlyingConey ok makes perfect sense 😀 interesting project, I'll look forward to the next episode. Good luck 🤞