Installing a masthead antenna for VHF and AIS! - SV Tapatya EP242
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- So, the foremast is now complete and ready for final assembly and it's time to make a start on the main mast. Along the way, I try to get a few other little jobs done and also get visited by various wild or not so wild creatures, some nicer than others!
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Tony
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I love your style Tony. There was a time when all of us long distance sailors built everything ourselves out of what we have and with basic tools. Happy to see your progress!
Thanks Alan. Yes mate!
pigeon is a sign that you very soon shall finish your boat! like Noe saw a pigeon on his end of his journey
Hope so, Viktoras 😃😃
Doing a fantastic job mate, don’t forget to get out a ride while that weather is good. Cheers from Nuffys Builds
Thanks Nuffy 😃😃
Another wonderful video showing your meticulous hard work on this baby of yours!! It amazes me the skills you have!
Thank You for sharing. 🙏❤️⛑️🇺🇸⛵️🤙
Thanks Melinda 😃😊
I thought that pigeon was too pretty to be wild, that was an awfully nice thing you did, poor little thing. Your hand was noticeably swollen, you could hardly see your knuckles, nasty little buggers those wasps! I was once stung on my middle finger of my right hand, besides it being painful it was a sight to see as it was twice the size!
Splicing is always nerve racking for me, especially on a part you know is going to be practically inaccessible. The mast is looking so nice and the chase inside works exactly as planned. Fantastic work on the AIS antenna too. Thank you Tony.
Thank you Nena 😃😊
Your VHF antenna is unlikely to come adrift in a breeze, Tony! AIS is a great idea, especially in busy shipping lanes. I'm looking forward to seeing how that works out. Another excellent video, for which many thanks.
Thanks Chris. Yes, I’m generally a low-tech sorta person, but I think the AIS will be good to have in certain situations - shipping lanes, fog, etc 👍
Nice work, Tony, and very neatly done. If you haven't already thought to do so, I'd suggest you add a rubber grommet to the hole through the mastcap, even though it's quite large. May as well eliminate a potential, if unlikely, source of chafing in the cable, while it's still just a trivial job rather than a mission.
One thing I think I'd have done different, though, was the cable exit at the bottom of the mast. My intention is to exit the cable just below the cabin ceiling, then route the cable overhead all the way to the navstation. In fact, I intend to route all cabling overhead (and ducted), as I think it makes sense to keep power for essential things like radio, lights, radar and navigation gear, etc, as far away as possible from potential water ingress. I want the power to be available up to the last minute, in the event of a sinking. Not that I intend to permit that to occur. The boat will also be divided up by 4-5 watertight bulkheads throughout her length. Should help reduce flooding to the point where getting holed is just a huge nuisance rather than a disaster.
Thanks Garryck. Yes, valid thoughts! Horses for courses is one response that springs to mind, although of course, we all try to build in the soundest way possible.
I just don’t intend to sink! ( please take this with the humour with which it’s intended)
@@SVTapatya - No worries, mate.. it wasn't intended as a criticism of what you've done.. (which I like and have learned a great deal from) more an observation and alternate way of thinking.
I too, just don't intend to sink.. but since I also intend spending most of my time in un or poorly charted waters, I plan on doing my best to ensure it's just not possible.
No criticism taken, Garryck. It was a consideration I hadn’t considered 🤔. I was more concerned about running the cable tidily and where it’d most likely be free from damage.
I’m happy enough with the way I’m routing the cable, but I can see the sense in your thoughts.
Designing is a fascinating thing!
As always another great video!! She’s getting closer and closer to get wet !! Well done 👍
Fair winds ⛵️
Thanks Tom 😃
It’s moving on very nicely Tony and you are making great equipment choices, in particular transmit /receive AIS - improves your chances of not getting run down. Great fabrication work too. 😀👍⛵️
Thanks Norman. Yes, hope so!
Great vid, Tony. The close up work was meticulous and the narrative slightly Tommy Cooperesque, which made me grin because I loved to see my dad laugh proper when the great man was on TV..
Thanks Chris. Tommy Cooper, a very funny man 😂😂
Another great video.
Thanks for creating such interesting content.
Thanks Jim 😃
For a minute there I thought that was a stool pigeon keeping an eye on you. Nice work on the VHF antenna installation Tony. Sorry to hear about the wasp sting and your reaction to it. I have found that if you rub the sting area with an aluminum chlorohydrate deodorant it seems to draw out the venom. A styptic pencil will also work. Take care, stay well and best wishes for a productive week ahead.
Thanks Matt. Good tips 👍😃
Thanks Tony great updates
Thanks Michael 😃
Very entertaining
Thank you 😃
well if you planning on traveling the globe and do serious sailing you smart man to get AIS that will definitely give you that security that you need. I use to operate heavy equipment, went on a two week holiday in July or August and came back to work jumped in the loader and slammed the door of the cab and all of a sudden I got stung by a swarm of yellow jackets. There were a lot of them all of a sudden the cab filled with them. I jump out of it and in a matter of minutes had to be rushed to the hospital my neck had swollen to a massive size and my neck was totally on fire, they had to inject me with Epinephrine. It was brutal experience I had been stung before but never to that extent.
That sounds terrifying, Fon! Mine was just one silly little sting!
OMG, that’s terrifying!
Great video as usual 👌 🇬🇧
Thanks Wayne 😃
great work chap excellent videos
Thanks Donald 😃
Brilliant video Tony enjoyed it immensely
Thanks Kevin 😃😃
Well done…cabin looks great…steady as she goes…
Thanks Norman 😃
Just a thought for any wires in the second mast... Why not pull the wires from the top of the mast down so that less of the cable needs to make the bend at the bottom? This may introduce less stress in the wires. If anyone knows why this wouldn't work let me know
Could be a good idea, depending on the height of the mast, and the length of run from the foot of the mast to the navstation and VHF radio. Basically, you pull it through from whichever direction requires the least cable to be pulled through the bend.
Getting the cable through the small hole near the bottom of the mast would be tricky 👍
Good for having an AIS which I assume is class B?, good for you and for the other vessels as well!
Thanks Dan . Yes class B but with that gizmo that mimics class A ( or so claimed)
I am not really to familiar with junk rigs however, do they really require a mast head fitting that large and possibly pretty heavy or am I mistaking.
Nice job as always Tony!
They need something like that, Tom, but then they don’t have any standing rigging.
The masthead fitting isn’t that heavy. Some people prefer to fabricate them in aluminium, but the material needs to be thicker then and I don’t think they’re saving much weight at the end of the day. Anyhow, the whole weight aloft thing is a discussion for itself 👍
At 20:21, what is that odd conical drill bit used for?
That bit is used as a reamer or chamfer bit to relieve the sharp corner around the hole.
It can be used to enlarge holes in sheet metal. This stainless was a bit on the thick side for it, but it took enough metal off for me to be able to finish with a file easily 👍
That looks like a step drill. Each step drills a bit bigger hole.
You just lost all the benifits of RG 8x by your short adaptor RG 8.
Well, maybe 🤔 Not too late to change it though!