Official Boat Tour!
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2020
- I hope you enjoyed my first video of the building of our boat the Darla Jean. This is a peek at the inside and some specs about the boat. Thanks for watching :)
Home Built Catamaran
• Home built Catamaran
A beauty. Thanks for posting.
Great job on the build! Enjoy your travels and be safe out there.
What a sensible, practical boat. Everything kept simple where simplicity is appropriate. And it looks great. Congratulations on all your effort and the outcome.
Thank you very much! I can always tell when someone fully understands why we built her the way we did and you sir get it!
Every boat is a compromise. But should I build a boat (and one day, I shall) this design is very close to my personal preference.
What a great job, and the feeling of fulfilment when she finally floats and carries your weight! Thanks much for the tour!
I too, love the design. I would love to know more as to design/build process. I am hoping to do something along the lines of a shanty-cat. I know nothing about fiberglass, yet. Can't wait to see you take it out.
What an excellent job you have done to make this a livable and seaworthy vessel. Thanks for posting. I almost left before you started talking because the music was loud and for me in the way of enjoying the video. I'm glad I waited.
Thanks for your comment! I tried really hard to get the sound evened out because it’s so annoying when you watch a video and have to turn the volume up and down the whole time 😩 sorry about that. Making my few little videos gave me a new respect for all the editing You Tubers have to do.
Well done. Great looking project. Hope you have a lot of fun with it
Awesome job!!!!
thank you for showing inside/outside video of your yatch.
I really appreciate your video. Nice job.
Thank you!
Well Done!
Fantastic build, congratulations! Hope the cruising goes well and maybe we will meet some sometime
Thank you very much! Give us a shout next time you’re in FL
Great build. We’re moving to Port Charlotte later this year. Hope to see you on the water
Thank you, best of luck on the move and we hope to see you out on the water soon!
Very nice boat. Nicely done. Congrats! I am building the Skoota 36. Took me 4 and 1/2 years. I hope I will be ready to launch by the end of next month. One thing that was funny in the end when you mentioned it. I am watching almost the same cursing channels on UA-cam that you guys do. keep me going too.
Thank you and best of luck with your boat launch!
Hey Claus, any chance of doing a 'tour video' of your finished Skoota 36? I'd love to see the layout as I'm just starting to complete a part-finished Skoota 40 and looking for ideas over the helm, kitchen and lounge layout. Thanks Al.
I sold the boat already otherwise I would have been happy to do that.@@alanbutterworth4219
Very nice vessel
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Sweet! I am building the demountable version which is a little smaller inside and a bit harder to build. We are hoping to get pictures by end of summer. I am so very curious about how well she met her lines. It looks bows high. I am trying to figure out how the operator can see, too.
Thank you for your comment! She met her lines quite nicely. In anticipation of the boat being a bit stern heavy we raised the waterline 2in higher in the rear. The boat sits almost level when lightly loaded. If there is one drawback to the design it is the view from the helm. In heavy traffic it is best to have a second set of eyes on board. It’s view is similar to the Gemini.
I've followed your videos under my other moniker (Fred Flintstone). I've just bought a partially completed Skoota 36 (adapted to be a 40ft boat). It is about 70% completed. It needs a full fit out of electrics, plumbing, the transom needs completing, the propulsion system and navigational stuff. Are the walls and ceilings in your hulls finished fibreglass? My cat is plywood with fibreglass sheathing. I think the original builder was going to line the wall and ceilings with vinyl panels. I'm planning on trying to kit the cat out as an electric boat, using possibly Aquamot Trend 15.0 electric outboards or if I can afford them, the new Epropulsion X20 outboards.
Thanks for the comment..our whole interior is somewhat faired fiberglass painted with rust oleum topside paint..no additional covering. ..sounds like a fun project…put as many solar panels on it as possible..we are using glass solar panels..we have not found any reasonably priced flexible panels that last more then a few months in tropical sun..wish you the best..Mike
VERY NICE!!!
Quality back-up cameras, even wireless ones, are very reasonably priced nowadays, maybe mounting one (or two?) to a stantion or fab a mount in the center of the front deck or cabin top would help the up-close view. I completely agree with keeping things simple, you could wire or Bluetooth or internet it to anything. Heck, add another one facing aft to record fishing and/or as a security monitor, mount some IR LED light(s) for a "I'm not paying $6k+ FLIR system no matter how nice it'd be" hack/option/work-around. Add abilities to record, time-lapse, movement sensor activator, hot-spot the boat to monitor it live whenever and wherever, etc…. Could make for a series of nice presents for each other or the boat, including any other electrontech gizmos you may want in the future. Yep, I've experience in spending other people's money, lol.
Do y'all have air conditioning on board?
Anything you'd massage or change if you were to do it, or have it done, again?
THANKS for posting and sharing it with us; back in analog video days the standard was one hour of non-preproduction time yeilds one minute of final video.
Lloyd II
We have two ac units on the boat, the one for the main berth is run off of solar. If I could change one thing it would be to put less tint on the windows because when they’re open and the windows are doubled up on each other and it makes it hard to see. We also have cameras on the front and back of the boat now and a security system with lights and alarm. Thank you for your comment :)
Ha. This is great. I’ve binge watched your channel and love your boat build. I don’t know how your channel popped up amongst the millions of choices but I love home projects like yours To me there real people doing real boating. (I shouldn’t speak too loud, my own boat is a 50 food Lien Hwa trawler). But my adventures on my little Sweet Pee (on my channel) vindicate my big boat status. I wonder where you guys are these days.
Very nice
beautiful boat and great tour. Are there doors going down to either port or starboard sides? I wouldn’t mind a slower 360 spin video of the top area just to get a better perspective of it. I am interested in this design and thanks for sharing with us!
No doors........drinks 6, feeds 4, sleeps 2 lol no need for doors but I’m sure you could work something out for that in the plans. Design by Richard Woods but we did modify it to our needs.
its a beautiful boat I’ve been researching the skoota’s. We have two kids, so we’d make that adjustment to sleeping spaces, but I love what you did with her.
Very good.
Looks like a great boat! Is the hull plug still around? Considering building a skoota 34 and would love to rent the plug and any tooling if its still available
Thank you! Unfortunately we had to destroy the hull mold.......I really wish we hadn’t since so many people ask me about it!
Beautiful boat.. how much more work would it be if it was a sailing vessel rather than a powerboat
I'm not sure but the mast and all the rigging looks like hard/ expensive work
WHAT a BEATY! It must be surreal to know that you built this. Did you make the plans yourselves and what was the cost of materials?
Boat building is tuff work and that’s putting it nicely! For 2yrs while working on our boat I would be sweating and itchy from fiberglass and my husband kept saying “it will be worth it”........most times i would just give him the finger but he was right! When we planned the build we estimated a cost of $55,000.......by the end we spent more than double that 😩 but that was for all the bells and whistles concerning electronics too.
Would like to know where you obtained the structure plans particularly the connection points between the hulls and bridge deck. Am interested in building a 39 footer liveaboard ketch.
Sorry for the delay. We bought plans from Richard Woods Designs. We used thickened epoxy fillets at the bulkhead connection points, using talc as a thickener, and 2 inch dia pvc pipe to shape fillets, and glassed the joints with 1 layer of 36oz 8 inch wide 45 45 biaxial tape on each side. Hope this helps and best of luck.
@@darlajean1045 Out of curiosity, how do you use a 2 inch dia pvc pipe to shape the filets? Do you drag the edge of the pipe through the length of the filet?
@@pauldicarlo3057 that’s exactly how we did it. Just dragged it at 45 degree angle…….it can get a bit messy so have extra rags ready!
hi, it is a possible to have the building plane?And lamination plane?Thank u and fantastic catamaran,enjoy your life
How .much was it???
Great work, shame about the mould! Do you know her final weight? TIA 😎🏖🌴☀️🇦🇺
How much did it cost to build it. And how many feet is it .
Awesome boat!..
just a suggestion though, get a better camera,
to get a wider field of view Cheers =D
wowwww
Hey, do you guys know the weight of the boat, the motors, and the prop and whether they make wot rpms? Trying to buy props. Thanks. Dan
11,000 lb medium load, 60 horsepower high thrust, 14x9 for propellers (aluminum three blade) and makes 5500 RPM wot. Hope your build's going well! Sorry for the late response.......we just got back from the Bahamas
@@darlajean1045 thanks!
Hello, How do you know the draft of your boat before you built it? Tnx
The draft is calculated by the designer, most likely using a computer program. The key to getting the draft accurate is to know how much the finished vessel will weigh. The weight of each and every component of the the boat must be added up to get an estimated vessel weight. Once you have that they calculate how water needs to be displaced by the hulls to reach the desired draft. The draft can be changed by making the hulls fatter or skinnier. Thank you for your comment.
What's the fuel burn/range?
Fuel range 3mpg at 16mph. Total range is 240 miles with 80 gallons of gas at 16mph.
Im really surprised it goes that fast with only 60hp engines. I was expecting big engines
Long and narrow flat bottom hulls are very efficient. Bigger isn’t always better 😉
I wIll never understand why people insist on filming in portrait mode.
When I was filming this footage it was just to send to friends and family. After the boat was built people started to ask me to make a UA-cam video and I just used the footage I had. I have come a long way since than and I agree with you completely!