Home built Catamaran
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2020
- My husband and I spent 2 years building our dream boat. We started with plans that we had to change quite a bit to make it how we wanted it.
The Darla Jean is a 34ft Motor Catamaran with a 16ft beam and a 1.5ft draft. We have twin Honda 60’s on her and get 3miles to the gallon with a cruising speed around 16mph. We have 3 solar panels that get 310watts per panel, a fresh water catch that can hold up to 66 gallons of water, a generator out back and 2 AC units on board.
We hope to be cruising in the Bahamas on her in the summer of 2020! I’m not the best at editing videos so don’t be to hard on me ;) hope you enjoy!!!!
As a professional boat builder (back in the day) not only do I see your hard work, I feel your pain. People ask me if I’ll ever build again and the answer is a resounding “hell no”. I just finished my probably last project for my life. At 65 years old I just finished a complete refit of my 50 Lien Hwa trawler. To be clear what that means is it was a 10 month, 8 to 12 hour days, six days a week slog. Is it beautiful, yes. But honestly...I’m done. Now I plan to spend the rest of my able years cruising. Wish me luck and a long life. Thanks for sharing your videos.
Congratulations on completing your trawler! I will most definitely check out your channel so I can see that beauty. I feel you on the “hell no” I unfortunately developed epoxy sensitivity during our build so anytime I’m around the stuff I have to wear a full hazmat suit, which really sucks in Florida. Best of luck to you and I wish you many more adventures 😁
@@darlajean1045 thanks. Hope to see you in Florida in a few years.
Women like this are so rare. Love seeing couples do these projects together. Great job you two!
Thank you!
@@darlajean1045 A talking boat? COOL!!!!!!!!!!!! lol Great job on the boat!
Beautiful boat with a job well done, I’m envious now, lol. But I truly wish y’all the best in your journeys, on the boat and with each other.
Desiree is Amazing! She did all the hard work!
Keep up the good work.Happy sailing.
I love it, she’s working her tail end off on the bulk heads and it says “we” your one heck of a worker lady !
Super work! Thanks for share. I think I just stumbled upon my almost ideal boat!
Absolutely amazing. Love it.
She looks HUGE for a 34 footer! Well done!
Great job.
A lot of boat for 34 ft , nicely built and designed too.
Best of luck to you , I hope you have many great adventures.
Love it , I felt your pain , I hate removing Peel ply and vac media. So hard!
Cheers warren
Wow, truly amazing, and it looks beautiful in the water👍👍
Thank you!
Dezy Hopkins www.goldenmotor.com/ Electric ⚡️, and solar. 👍😉
She's a beautiful craft
Thank you Kyle!
Wow epic !!! 😳😳
Vacuum Infustion system...👍👍👍
Inspirational!!
Nice one I like it
Very impressive! Though your hope of sailing in the Bahamas this summer may be ambitious given Cov19. Very best of luck to you - that's a lot of hard work!
Thank you......and you’re right about the Bahamas :’( While it does suck I have to remind myself to be grateful for the things I do have. Stay safe!
You are amazing
Top bravo :)
Very nice Cat ... If you put a mast/boom and sails on her .. That will help cut the cost of fuel consumption .. Or it would have .. 😀
I love it! Vacuum formed fibreglass foam composite? Sorry my knowledge is low on this. Is this state of the art for boat building? Did you end up with a lighter and stronger hull than a wood/fibreglass overlay? Thanks! Fair winds and following seas!
Thank you! If you check out the video at 1:40 I showed what the boat is made out of. Vacuum seal infusions are not new but I haven’t seen many people that build their own boats try it. We love it because we’ll never have to deal with rotting wood. We also put fillets on every connection on the boat to make it super strong so I never have any worries in ruff seas.
can i ask how much the build cost was and if you were to guess the cost of making a 22ft version how much would it be? Thanks.
Could you tell me why did you sandwich foam between the two pieces of fiberglass?
great work, wish I had learned infusion, tired of wet bagging, that bulkhead in the video looked like stock flat panel was a big square
also, do not call it home built Dezy, that is called a custom build
I only said home built because it is searched more frequently than custom built. Plus I feel that your average joe would assume we hired someone to build it for us. While you do see other people in my videos 90% of the work was done by me and my husband......everyone shows up for the fun stuff but when you start sanding everyone disappears lol
@@darlajean1045 😀😀😀 nobody likes sanding, I've been planning to build a 40 ish foot sailing catamaran for few years and I built several models already.
But seeing the part you mentioned endless fairing and sanding made a cold shower effect, it is a tedious work.
But the end result looks wonderful 👍👍👌
@@bizim_eller
That'd be a a nice-sized family live aboard [~(40×20)]. Then again, my "family-sized needs" are a permanent "drink-4, eat-2.5, sleep-1.25"; plus maybe a dog. Either way, my realistic dream isabt ½-⅓ ft² of yours.
Make it happen!!
Lmao😂 isn’t that the truth!!!
Nice work you two that's a major undertaking. Hey we're we're you anchored? Just curious.
Thank you very much! That day we had anchored right off the beach of Don Pedro Island.
Wow it turned out beautiful, I didn’t even know you could make your own boat like this… Is this the boat you road the hurricane out in?
Yes it is!
great job! Did you have any experience with vacuum infusion prior to this boat build? I love this design and I am contemplating building it.
Thank you! We had no experience with vacuum infusions but did our research and learned the hard way at times. We just got back from a month long trip and we couldn’t be more pleased with the way this boat handles in all types of seas.
Dezy Hopkins thanks for the reply. It seems like with the vacuum infusion if you are careful it comes out better. Glad to hear it handles well
Mind me asking about what was the budget for this boat ..?
WOW! What a build. Where did you learn to do the foam injection? Those engines look lie real beasts. Did you ever consider an electric solution and a solar canopy? I'm guessing not, as it looks like Mike likes speed.
Believe it or not my husband learned the majority of stuff for the build from UA-cam and his own independent research. We also would need a bigger boat for all the solar panels to get the power Mike would want 😆. Plus people don’t think about all the overcast days. Thank you for your comment!
Where you get the plans?
Working those little 60s hard pretty big boat I think you would have got better fuel efficiency going bigger
The designer of the boat specified 40 to 60 hp……we are using high thrust motors which are designed for the purpose of pushing heavy loads. It exceeds predicted efficiency numbers. Bigger motors use more gas and are less efficient if you don’t need the extra power.
So it’s basically just cheap thin wood covered in fiberglass and foam to float? How strong are these things then are they capable of hitting offshore big waves high winds without tearing apart
No wood = No rot There is no wood on this boat. If you watch the first video of the build you’ll get a better understanding. We’ve crossed the gulf stream with her 6 times and ran into 6ft to 8ft waves during a squall and handled it just fine but personally I wouldn’t want to be out in anything bigger than 4 footers with this boat.
Epic!!!Great. I want also build cat , but how, where ???Maybe , you have a rights to sell plans?
Thank you. It’s a Richard Woods design modified.
What design is this cat. Also pretty simple mould build ... Is there a specific name to the infusion technique you uses here. It looked rather painless
Oh and congrats on your build good work!
It’s a Woods Skoota 32 modified and it’s a vacuum seal infusion process.......... unfortunately there is nothing painless when it comes to any aspect of building a boat but it was all worth it in the end! Thank you for your comment :)
interesting boat and story
is there boat plans available somewhere, this would suit us
only thing, we would like a full solar powered boat
Hello,
The boat plans are available from Richard Woods Design. It is a modified Skoota 32. You can solar power if you are willing to accept slower cruising speeds and have lots of roof space for solar panels. Best of luck with your dreams
@@darlajean1045
Thanx for the info
Do both hulls come off one mold ?
Yes they did.
Just read more comments. What did it cost for materials, please?
It cost us around 125k in materials.......we spent 25k on epoxy alone. At least the labor was free lol Thank you for your comment!
Where did you get the plans? Please.
It’s a Richard Woods design modified
Dezy,
Would you have any interest in passing-on, or selling, your molds? I'm not looking to cut Richard out of license & plan fees.
My utopian thought has been a set of "community molds" available to any builder, with the custody controlled by/of (at least paperwork/legal if not physical) Richard. Fwiw I've personal and other options for dry secure storage 90 minutes outside of downtown Chicago in the middle of a booming wharehouse truck-shipping lane(SE, WI).
That'd make it much more likely for those [of us] to build what we ultimately want instead of the Skoota 30.
We'd somehow make you whole on your cost...
Lloyd.
We had some extenuating circumstances after the boat build was completed and ended up not keeping the molds. If anyone would have asked for them we probably would have gave them away for free.
@@darlajean1045 Nice boat. Who makes these plans ??
@@OzcarMike641 plans were purchased from Richard Woods Designs. The model is Skoota 32. Thanks for watching
no beams?
We have a trampoline beam…….not really sure what your asking.
Did y’all need a special kind of permit to haul that boat?
Uhhhhh sure lol we did everything by the book 😉
Dezy Hopkins I was just wondering. I been looking at a lot of boat videos. I want one but I live in west Texas. Maybe I can haul it all the to corpus? I
Dezy Hopkins it’s a really nice boat too!!
Bb
Home built LoL. Do you live in a warehouse?
My husband owned a warehouse for his ebay business. Its technically called a custom build but with UA-cam algorithms people search for "homebuilt" more often. You obviously can't build a catamaran inside of a house.......didn't think I'd ever have to explain that to someone 😆
i love women who work. rare they are!
Shut up
Entièrement d'accord avec vous !!!
home built my ass unless you live in a shipyard
We built the pieces in a warehouse you dumb fuck and put it together in the parking lot of the warehouse. I’m sure you have built many boats lol
Why not just glue 2 sail boats together ?
we couldn’t find glue that was strong enough 🤭