Sail Life - Figuring out new autopilot & priming settee area - DIY sailboat refit
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2021
- In this week's video, I figure out the mounting of the drive unit for my new autopilot and get ready to finish the settee area.
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I am truly terrified of the amount of work this man will get done as a full-time boat-builder. My self-esteem has already been shattered watching this guy put me to shame, but I can always sink lower.
I was going to write the same thing :-)
I made my bed this morning.....
@@bluemaxx2006 Hail Lobster !!!
Be interesting to know his regular annual wages in computer work and divide by 2,000 hours (50 weeks at 40 hours per week) to figure an hourly boatwright rate chargeable to maintain previous income.
That was a masterpiece of self deprecation
I fully expect 1 hr episodes now ;-)
I expect seven episodes per week from now on! 😁
Why not go all the way, live 24/7! 😂😂😂
The Athena Live Cam !! Switchable between the salon and the mast cam !!
I JUST POSTED THAT TOO!
I've been watching your videos for several months now. I'm now 9 months into a refit of a Tartan 37 and while I don't aspire to completely gut the boat as you have done, the project has been nonetheless long and daunting. I've come to appreciate your optimism in the face of adversity and thoughtful problem solving strategies. Thanks for sharing your experience with Athena.
Congratulations to your "new Life". Don't forget to pace yourself, your enthusiasm and abundant energy can easily get the better of you! I really enjoy your videos every Sunday evening and want to be able to continue doing that.
Last day of work is definitely a big milestone. Congratulations.
You have been my savior the past several months and in the three months to come. November I had a full knee surgery and in March I broke my ankle iceboating on my DN iceboat. Well you’re videos give me something to get me to the end of each week. By June I’ll be able to get Gallivant my 36 1988 Catalina back in Lake Michigan water and cruise the lake. Thanks captain Jim from Escanaba in Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Congratulations With being a free man Mads. I have been following your videos from the beginning. If someone deserves your further life style, it is you! Kind regards Jacob, Jyllinge
You insinuate you are unemployed, but you are a UA-cam star. The patron saint of boat DIY!!
Enjoy your time on your yacht and pending sailing adventures.
You are truly an inspiration to us mere mortals.
Congrats Made. I retired last October, been living and preparing onboard for the last six months, off in two weeks. Someone asked me if I missed work.....I nearly drowned in my coffee laughing so much!
Auto-tiller suggestion: After mounting, have your spiffy stainless welder guy make a nice expanded steel grate cover for the servo and tiller arm to totally protect it. Mount the cover with four bolts so you can easily empty the locker and pull the grate away to access the tiller. As long as Mr Servo is doing his job, he can hide in his nice little compartment unfazed and unmolested by the tons of stuff jamboed in the locker with him. That way, you will still have the utility of the locker without worrying about snaggy-doodles with the electronic bits. The grate can extend over to the tiller arm extension to protect the whole doo-dah. And, made out of expanded metal grate, it won't weigh much to remove or install.
Regarding your "pinhole problem:" I used to make plaques out of redwood which I then coated with the thick epoxy used on table tops in bars and restaurants. I too got super annoyed with pinholes at first but soon realized that they were the result of heating from the epoxy heating up air in the dried wood. The air bubble would expand in the heat and bubble just enough to freeze in the epoxy or produce a pinhole. I found using a heat gun on the plaque helped get the air bubbles out but later simply heated the plaques in the oven before coating, which prevented the creation of bubbles afterwards. Problem solved. Sticking Athena in the oven might be problematic however the heat gun option might work in smaller areas in the future. The fast set mixture might be the problem as it likely produces more heat as it cooks off faster. Just a thought.
Nice to see a danish UA-cam sailor! Great project!
Thank you for all the entertainment and education over the years, looking forward to you and your better half exploring the world, your a true captain.....
I still remember the day when I was searching for options to heat a sailboat during a cold northern winter,
and maybe somebody else crazy enough to live on a boat all year round with ice & snow in the winter.
And stumbled over you, Obelix, and your channel.
You have come a long way, and have been a great inspiration.
Please don’t stop.
Congrats on starting the new phase of your life.
And all the best!
Welcome to a life of sunshine, I'm some what older than you but never regretted retiring.
Very entertaining. Your channel continues to improve. The amount of work you've done on that boat is astounding!
Look out every one ! Mads is about to enter TURBO MODE ! Sleep, eat, boat work !!
No one deserves the support more than you Mads. You put out a great product and you're never pushy about asking for support.
Mads, congrats on leaving your day job! Well done! You and your DIY vids are the “Gold Standard” for how-to create & produce a DIY video 🥇.
I hope you will be able to make longer videos since you wont have your day job. I love all the work you have been doing since day one.
Mechanical engineer here. I’m concerned about your plan for mounting the autopilot actuator. There are 2 issues I see. First, the bulkhead you are mounting to is plywood and second, the moment arm created by the shelf that will join the actuator to the bulkhead increases likelihood of failure.
Fatigue is an issue and where it will fail is in the plywood surrounding the screws that mount the shelf. Building something strong enough to withhold a static or infrequently moving load is one thing, building it to hold a dynamic load or loading and unloading with great frequency is another. Your actuator is going to fiddle with the rudder several times a minute and the load is not inconsequential. Think of a wire or metal strap that you can bend but cannot break. Bend it over and over and over and eventually it will break. That is fatigue. Even if each bend is so slight you cannot see the movement it can still break in fatigue. That plywood bulkhead cannot handle this kind of dynamic load. It needs to be steel reinforced.
If at all possible, the actuator needs to be directly mounted on the steel reinforced bulkhead. The planned shelf would act as a moment arm in effect multiplying the force on the bulkhead by acting as a lever. Think of a claw hammer applied to the head of a screw in plywood. In this case the shelf acts as a crowbar or claw hammer pulling on that screw with every tiny course correction just to keep a straight course.
If it fails mid ocean, you lose the autopilot. Maybe bulkhead integrity. It seems unlikely, but maybe the rudder or steering mechanism gets damaged in the process.
I agree. My experience with electric autopilot ram on 42ft boat racing to Hawaii is that mount design must be extremely strong to handle the short duty cycles of tension and compression.
Thank you Kristen R. And Steve Hass. I'm not a materials or structural engineer. Your explanation is clear and this comment is added nownmby me to hopefully boost the visibility of your very good explanatory comment. - Don, Phoenix AZ
Mads, I love your videos. You have such a positive and happy personality - inspiring. Thank you for sharing so much of your life with us anonymous randoms on the Internet. Each week I look forward to your video. You would make a 'Pretty Dang Spiffy' friend. Best wishes for all your future endeavours.
Last day of your day job!! Congratulations.
Congratulations on retiring from the day job!! I retired last June, and it has been wonderful to have more time for projects and sailing. The best part is waking up being limited mostly by the weather, and not the calendar! Your considerably younger than I am, and are to be commended for the hard work and frugalness (and no doubt some good fortune sprinkled in), that brought you to this point so early in life. Now get that boat together, get Ava aboard, and start sailing!!
13:20 wow! The interior is really coming together! Happy retirement from the day to day!
Congratulations on joining the working retired, oh sorry I meant the work vacationers club. Hard work has paid off and enjoy yourself.
Congrats on your retirement! I've been retired a couple years and it's a misconception you will get bored. Your videos are always entertaining and thanks so much for making them.
great update and congratulation on the big transition to non-office working :) Cheers from PEI Canada, Bryan.
Iiiii, our little Mads is all grown up and is now a full time UA-cam MegaStar.
When you start cruising, you'll be bored out of your mind, with the lack of Oh Glorious Sanding...
Congratulations on getting to go full time sailing after your boat building career. Time will fly buy before you will hoist those sails. Your videos are laid out so well as well as your editing skills because after every video I have to check the length because it seems to have flown buy. You are a good story tellers and leave us wanting more. I can't believe I've been watching for 5 years you are so much more relaxed and comfortable in front of the camera now. I don't think you even talked for the first couple years. Great job and thanks for sharing.
OH contraire my friend! In about 120 days the real work begins. Great work BTW.
I really like your approach to projects. No fodder or dramatic click bait, just straight up DIY/ tech talk. One of my favourite boat diy channels for sure!
I will second that 👌
Ha, you gave away the answer to what was in that package...I figured it out all by myself!
Congratulations Mads on your working retirement. It will take a few days to adjust but you will get so much more done having full weeks to get projects done. Thank you for sharing.
It won't feel like a retirement until you get past a regular "vacation" amount of time from work. It didn't really feel like I was retired until after two weeks. I woke up that Monday and thought, "I don't have to go back into work. I'm really retired." Spiffy. See you.
Took me about 2 days to get use to retirement, that was 6 years ago.
Great being able to make your own schedule.
I have yet to run out of things to do.
And every Monday forever 😁.
I can’t believe you’ve gotten so much boat work done while working full time! Congrats on the new freedom :)
You are officially a UA-cam star now Mads - the pair of you will make a nice living producing your travels videos. Well done for all your efforts keeping us glued to the laptop every Sunday night..
Congrats Mads! Much love every week from the dry part of Texas. I’ll get a boat one day and know exactly where to go for DIY help.
Huge step leaving the day job....congrats on your new found freedom!!
Congrats on your retirement ... the beginning of a very exciting new phase of your life
You are inspiring! I am absolutely amazed at 1) how much you’ve accomplished essentially working alone and 2) the evident craftsmanship. You should be very proud of what you’ve accomplished!
One question: would you be willing to do a video detailing how much all of this cost, including the cost of buying Athena at the outset? I know I’m very curious as to what a venture like this might cost. Many thanks!!
So glad your life plan is coming together. An inspiration to all!
Congratulations Mads! I know how you feel. It takes a couple weeks to get used to the idea. I retired from the fire service and moved aboard our sailboat. Best thing I've ever done. It's been fun watching you these past few years and its fun to see Athena gradually blossom into a sweet cruising sailboat once again. Thank you!
Nice one Mads, welcome to retirement, I highly recommend it!! you will wonder how you ever had time to go to work!!
Your to do list must be endless. Wildly impressive and informative as usual.
Mads congrats on your promotion to full time glorious sanding engineer. Seriously congrats on the next step in your and Ava's adventure aboard good ole Athena.
Congrats on jettisoning the day job. I did the same at age 35 and was fine selling on eBay (those days are behind me now) and doing odd jobs for others once in awhile. All the while raising two kids. When someone asks...you are an entrepeneaur. The future is so bright, you gotta wear shades.
It was scary when I left my job after 35 years....and I always worked too from 14 years old.....I still dream of my job after 6 years....lol.....I wonder how many pounds of sawdust you have scooped up...lol...you make it look easy which it is anything but....see you next week....and congratulations of being one of the few that can just walk away from your job!...John
I have the perfect piece of Aluminium to machine a tiller arm from. Its 50mm thick and 15x35cm long. Got a CNC too. Based in Lübeck.
I'm not your largest, nor was I your first Patreon, but I've been here for many of your milestones. As I've always said, your constant positive attitude and confidence to attack any project makes you the best DIY boat guy on UA-cam. What really drew me in was Jokul. Where's he been lately??? I'm glad you got the hookup with Garmin, but I'm disappointed we're not ever going to get the Pi Based OpenCPN video!!! Cheers and enjoy the feeling Monday morning! I'll be cursing you on the drive in to work!
I really like to see how Mads make a Rpi based OpenCPN. Good one Brad.
Mads mentioned in a comment a few weeks back that Jokull was well and living with a friend on a farm who have a female dog of the same breed. They were hoping for pups but that did not work out this time 👍
@@peterculverwell2030 How could I have missed that??? Jokul is getting pimped out??? Good for him!
Mads, I would bet once you start sailing you could leverage this channel's subscribers to start an open source community working with you on great sailing tools.
Congratulations on finishing your day job! Best wishes for the next stage.
Having lost two tv’s to water splashes we finally had a cover made with an elastic back to go over the tv on rough passages.
As you are switching to full time sailor, does this mean we get the pleasure of getting more videos ? ;-)
Congratulations on entering this next phase!
You are going to be so bored when you go sailing!!
Great video again 👍🏴
Congrats on quitting the day job! I've been following the Athena refit from the very beginning and it has become a Sunday night ritual to watch your latest video before bed. I'm excited to see you and her hit the open water!
Mas, you work so hard for us you deserve all the fruits of your UA-cam labor. Thanks for being there for us!
Great looking project 😀
You do first class work !
You can do this work for others worldwide while cruising. You Tube is your resume.
Congrats on your unemployment, cutting the chains.
Sail On mate 😉
WOW, a guy who reads instructions! I wonder what he will do for fun when he reaches 100,000 subscribers?
Quitting work to head off on an adventure is one of life's greatest joys!
Not only you tackle a lot different things but you seem to do them all very well.
Congratulations
My wife works for a marine engineering firm here in Australia and if you have a drawing they can cast or machine a tiller extension out of what ever you like and quote shipping. They are called Ingot engineering and foundry, in Brisbane Australia. With the Australian dollar at 80c to the US dollar it might turn out cheaper.
Congrats on the last day of work!
Looks amazing, we sure got most of the trades all in one vid......this is awesome...love it
Every Sunday for the past 6 years I’ve looked forward to your videos. Looking forward to the next chapter.
As long as you have something to do.... dont sweat retirement. The grass is definitely greener here. :D
My #1 problem with my current autopilot arrangement is the limited angle range. Make be sure that the 5º less in angle are not a problem. I was terrified too when I quit my regular daily job, but it was the best decision of my life! This is so exciting!
Yes, it’s our Sunday evening half hour with Mads. (Watching with my son)
These are always the shortest video series I watch even though all of the videos are the same length as all the rest :-) I guess I just enjoy them the most.
Congratulations on retirement Mads. I retired in 2011 and I am enjoying my time.
Cheers,
Jay
Find a couple of sealed foam floor mats at Søstrene Grene, cut to fit and glue them inside the anchor locker. No more chipped paint or rattling chains...
I always enjoy seeing the new items being installed realizing they fail in the middle of an Atlantic crossing during challenging weather. The machined odd looking items need spares? Then installing repairs on rough seas are the next thought. Lots of electronics and controls in his builds. Great if nothing critical during failures...like those remote control lights all over....don’t need lights at critical times....or maybe you need back-up thinking on all those neat things. Best wishes....just assuring your worst case preparations thinking. How does the axiom go..”an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure”.....well in his case ... change it to metric system weight equivalents....
Are you considering making more videos of your work? Since you'll be working everyday on Athena.
I love what you're doing.
Congratulations on retirement Mads! 🎉🎇
Always amazed at how fast your videos go by, can’t wait for the next one. Great job.
Be sure to procure an extra pin for the autopilot arm, or at least a stainless bolt with sufficient offset washers. You'd be surprised how often those bolts break and if you can't repair it you'll be back to hand steering. I broke my last one recently while crossing the Turks and Caicos Bank.
A nice episode again. How exciting you quit work. Fulltime building now. Can't wait till next sunday. Looking foward to watch everyweek. Where is yökull? Hope everything is ok with him.
Hey Mads, welcome to the club and sunny regards from Curaçao! U.
Thank you so much Ulrich 😀 I can't wait to join the sailing club! 😉 I hope all is well aboard 🙂
Good on you Mads! Wake up Monday morning and take a few minutes to savor what so many of us are looking forward to.
Two episodes a week now i hope 😍
Thank Goodness. I was afraid there was not going to be sanding in this episode!!
Remember its not sanding, its glorious sanding
Oh, GLORIAAAAA!!!
Sorry Mads I don't have Smell-O-Vision so the fumes did not bother me. Carry on carrying on, two thumbs up for your efforts, enjoy every minute of it.
Proud of you Mads it does 🤯 when you lose the safety net of general employment, but YOU GOT THIS!
Wow , it's looking great your really getting Athena together... Congrats!! I learn so very much from your channel ✌🏻💗😊❣️
Congrats on exchanging your day job for a full-time labour of love. Cheers!
Congratulations on your retirement. The boat is starting to look wicked. 🇨🇦
Congrats on the big step! I’m sure it’s quiet surreal!
UA-cam star for sure! Another spiffy video. GOD speed. JC
Mads, you're making amazing progress, I can't imagine what you will get done now that you're able to work full-time on Athena. Keep up the good work!
Nice being a youtuber and being able to afford the best for ones boat
Congratulations on taking such a big step toward pursuing your dream Mads 🥳👍
Second arm on the rudder stock is a good choice. We have it and means autohelm is a great emergency backup if primary arm fails.
Well, Mads you're a so inspiring! Time is runing but you so productive ! Good luck for the following weeks. We all are with you!
Does this mean we’ll be getting longer or more episode per week? Well done full support from me
Congratulation on retirement. Like most others I'm hopeful for more content.
Woah!!! Congratulations on full time Mads!!
Congrats on going full time my friend !
Congrats on a life changing decision for an office free lifestyle. Wish you and Ava the best.
It's quite interesting that you're installing your autopilot drive unit and looking forward to getting a windvane, with the owners of Uma (another sailing series I enjoy) just spoke of their two systems! Finally, something technical I know even a slight bit of, before you explain it (will wonders never cease?).
I watched you painting that wall and recall you making it with such pride. I feel like I am on this journey with you along with all others who watch your episodes with anticipation and joy. Thank you for sharing and continuing to bring all of us along with you on your adventure to complete this project. See you next week as always brother.
Buy a 1 1/2 inch spade bit for your drill. Using an angle grinder, remove the tip and smooth the edges. Bingo! Easy mixing tool!