So these welds are from the original location and we are not super happy with them. Did you see our previous episodes? You should check out when we had to sail her here. She has been water tested several times plus the trip. But we will be looking to improve some of the quality of the service we got in the last place. So stay tuned for that!
One of the ways I paid my way thru college was as a sandblaster/painter on offshore platforms and steel fabrication yards. Offshore we blasted with sand and it produces a very fine particles. If you don't have the proper equipment that is maintained properly, the very fine silica dust could damage your lungs. In the fabrication yards, we used Black Beauty. I think it was crushed lava or something, I'm not sure. But it didn't produce dust. After college, I worked in a series of steel fab shops that had sandblast/paint facilities. One of them used metal particles, as you did. One benefit of using steel filings to sandblast is that they can be recycled. Our closed sandblast booth had a grating floor. The metal particles fell thru the grating and were sucked up into a filter system and recycled thru the system as many as seven times before the particles were small enough to get filtered out of the system. I don't think that those guys had that system. However, whenever they clean up those pile of metal particles they can be sold for scrap. For painting offshore platforms and things in a marine environment, we primed the steel with a zinc-rich primer. It was a 70 pound can of powdered zinc mixed into 5 gallons of base primer. The paint was 89.9% zinc. It was really good at preventing rust.
Very interesting! We are very glad to hear you always were supplied with the proper equipment in all those places you work. Do you find you have any lasting heath issues from working long term in sandblasting? Certainly hope not!
Blackbeauty is crushed copper slag & i think that is what was used. Steel shot is grey/silvery. Blackbeauty gives your steel a good profile for paint adhesion.
Pro blasters and painters are your best choice. But. I saw a lot of welds that were poorly done. They will bite you on the butt in a couple of years. I STRONGLY recommend that you go back and grind out the bad weld, recap and then re paint. And I do speak from experience. 30 years of it.
Good eye and good advice! We arnt happy with the quality of the welds as well and the blasting revealed some spots that need attention. We will definitely get right on that!
You were blessed to get this help. She looks great. It's good you showed the dangers in sandblasting. I would never be in this position as my favorite sailboats are wooden. Highest Blessings
I'm convinced you made the right decision. The price must have been enormous, but the final product was outstanding. I can't wait to see your next video and wish all involved with Lahakai success. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!! Well, it’s one of those things where perhaps people buying used steel boats should consider this process as part of the cost as it’s so important. That could be a good lesson for people watching us and thinking about their own project!
What an improvement. This is a process that I feel I could do but wouldn't be able to do it in a way that would actually protect the steal. Media blasting can be done DIY but not on the scale that you were needing. Getting the pros to do the work was the best thing you could do. For smaller things like restoring old deck hardware that would be fine as a DIY project. Now all you need to do is get the interior in, install all the various systems, and run a few kilometers of wires and your all set to hit the high seas. Sounds simple but from all I have seen about boat projects simple will still take weeks. Looking forward to seeing the install of your electric drive. As well as how well it does. I want to get a sail boat my self and like the idea of going fully electric.
Not only will blasting clean off corrosion and dirt it will make the surface of the metal much better for the primer to grip on to so the job of protecting the hull will be better and longer lasting.
Congrats , you kids made a mature decision!😇! Your boat will be more maintenance friendly.... Keep up the good work... Only wooden and metal boats are friendly to the environment. They are recyclable!!!!!
Always happy to see a video from you on Sunday Morning! Of course you made the correct decision to use professionals for the cleaning and painting as there is such a short window between blasting the metal and getting it covered before the surface begins to rust . She looks like a brand new boat inside and out! Well done and Cheers!
That’s the key right? The timing! That’s really where we failed the first time. It was just impossible to do it coordinated enough to avoid rust. Hats off to anyone who accomplished this on a big boat without blasting. See you next Sunday! ⛵️🙌
Now she's looking good now y'all can start having fun don't fight it just go with the flow and before you know it she'll come right back to life more beautiful than you ever imagined
I would have to agree with your choice, expectantly for a vessel of "Lahakai" size, although because of toxicity issues, except for small spot blasting, pro's are the way to go.
You did the right thing... I would hate to think of what cleaning up a property used for sandblasting boats could cost, even years later. We know someone that had a sewage pipe joint under a new house and it cost the seller around $20,000 just to clean up less than 50 square meters under the home. This was a DIY job done wrong, and they didn't correct the problem when warned about it . Hardly a way to save money... I think future generations will be paying a high price for a lot of very short sighted things now being done to maximize profits, even in the name of environmentalism and to produce "clean" energy. For example, wind turbines with the huge fiberglass blades are very expensive to recycle, and it costs so much just to transport them that the windmill blades sit in big piles near the wind farms. Same story with fiberglass yachts trashed in storms. Fiberglass can be recycled, but the plastics have to be burned out of the glass fibers, which releases styrene and other hazardous chemicals. When fiberglass is recycled they don't want it chopped up because they want the glass fibers to remain intact to make new fiberglass.
Lahaki is looking far more like Frankenstein’s monster. From her hideous welds to those eyesore davits, she is truly hard on the eyes. I built custom blue water yachts for many years and I’ve never felt more sorry for a boat. Lahaki is salvageable with care and effort ❤ Looking forward to seeing what path you take with her. 😊
I totally agree with you and have also pointed out many things to them but well as they say you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. As you point out the welds are horrendous and am afraid to say that the rust will be back sooner than later due to poor welding and the davits ?? what were they thinking . When I pointed out the cockpit drains will fill the cockpit the answer came back they are above the waterline even when heeling ???? I admire their dream but not the vessel at all.
You made the right choice to have a professional do this for you. You need it done correctly otherwise you would be wasting your time and money for all the hard work you will be doing afterwards. You might want to have someone paint the boat for you. This way you can protect the boat and save time.
Those before and after photos are all the proof that I need to convince me that sandblasting is one job that 😋 is definitely best left to the professionals! And that's before we get to the environment! Now you have a virtually new hull to start building your new boat and the freedom to build it any way you want! I have a crazy idea that if it were my boat I would like to continue with the steel for the structural components such as bulkheads because they could be welded, not bòlted or glued, directly to the hull giving the greatest strength to the hull as a whole! Only then would I introduce wood to the boat in the form of panelling etc. And I would insist on having wooden spars! I think that I would very quickly become an Old Salt complete with massive white beard!
definitely with a professional job for that, especially if it has some form of warranty. Just the risk of environmental fines doing it at home is scary. They have the proper equipment and the experience.
Oh yeah, you are right. Could hit you in your health and your pocket if you’re not careful! And good that you mentioned that. We did find a couple small spots that could be improved upon after the blast and the company guarantees their work and will have an inspection and go over any spots needed. It’s a great service!
I worked with industrial painting for 2 years some 20 yrs ago. I did a lot of sandblasting, even inside a Submarine in very tight spaces and I am a big person 195 cm tall. I can tell you I hated my life back then with that job and I would for sure take the same decision you guys did and hire qualified people to do the job if I had the finances for it. Only if there were no other way financially I would do it my self. You are also in a good place were labor is quite cheap compared to other parts of the world so good decision!! I hope you used a good system for the coating, I know Akzo Nobel is used on many steel boats, I have quite a funny story about it. The company I worked for was working on a build of a big cruise ship. There was that new guy there and he was put to the task of mixing the paint with hardener and make sure the guy who spray painted a 1000 sq m deck had his pump filled with paint all the time. To mix you of course put a smaller can of hardener in the big bucket of the paint and mix it together. The new guy did not understand the instructions to do that and when the painter had finished about 700 m2 he leaned over the railing and shouted down to the new guy asking if the paint would be enough for him to finish. Then the new guys replied, "Yes I will soon start with the smaller buckets, it should be enough" New guy never mixed in the hardener so they ended up having to wash 700 m2 from the deck with thinner. The company lost money on that job 🤣
great video thanks for sharing. How did you deal with areas under the chocks on the cradle? If left untreated they will become anodic relative to the rest of the hull. Also any cockpit drain pipes etc.... cheers from Victoria BC Canada, former shipyard specialist and boat builder.
When doing the whole boat I would use a professional just because of time. I wet blasted an interior once (half waterblaster half sandblaster). Cleaning up and getting the wet sand out of the interior it worked and no dust but it looked like I sank on a beach. Small sections and repairs I just grind but you will get years from a properly done job like this
We can’t even imagine the cleanup! They have an enormous vacuum here that sucks out all of the material and they use it again. The wet media machines we’ve seen people use are very interesting. How do they remove wet sand?
We saw a very good video of this on YT. They said the water eliminates the dust and then evaporated almost entirely to leave just the waste that has fallen below. We haven’t seen this available in Brazil but hopefully in the figure it will be! Do you know what kind of equipment is needed?
@@lahakai Around here, a company called dustless blasting can come to you or in a boat yard and provide this service. They use a air compressor, water tank or hose, and abrasive tank all on a trailer in my case and removed automotive paint, Bondo, rust and other crap to reveal bare metal. Zero environmental issues, all captured on canvas tarp and portable catchment basin, the antifouling paint on a boat might be and issue but I can't see that it would be worse than laquer paint used in the 60's....the guy didn't wear any PPE as it's not required since the water controls the dust. In Arizona, the water was gone within cleanup time post spraying....then you let it dry and get a coat of primer on in a couple of days, we don't worry about rust here
For all the reasons that you gave in your explanation, is why I would not have done the sandblasting myself. Besides which it is a hot and horrible process to go through on that scale. 👍
Great video. We are starting a trans-Atlantic at the end of May, headed for Cabo Verde and Brazil, thinking our destination port will be Florianopolis. Do you have any thoughts on this plan?
There are so many great places on your way down the coast! Fernando de noronha, Rio de Janeiro, Ilha Grande, Paraty, Ilhabela, São Franscisco do Sul, Itajai, Florianopolis. Out of all those we think Paraty is the best! But Ilhabela is very popular too. There is a sailboat show happening on June 9-12 in Ilhabela if you speak Portuguese that is very nice as well!
Soda / bicarbonate or soda blasting is, from my experience, the only type of blasting allowed in food flash freezing tunnels, because of the food / human safe properties as listed on the MSD sheet. However anything, including water, can be toxic if proper safety measures aren’t followed. Everyone involved in a project, or those that can be exposed to the products used on a project should read the MSD that is included with the product. Also be very mindful of the off gassing associated with two-part coatings. This off gassing can continue for days, weeks, or even months.
Don't be put off. DIYers can do this easily enough. Just use the correct media and know the substance you're trying to remove. But in many cases, it works out cheaper to get a pro to do the work than renting because DIY will end up using more media and extra derv the compressor will use. Plus, it looks a lot easier than it is 😁
Agreed, there are factors to consider if you want to DIY or not like the size of your boat or the what you want to accomplish (spot treatment, deep cleaning, etc). Also if you are in a place (like USA) that has more options available. After seeing these guys do this job, we were happy to save our energy for other parts of the project. They certainly made it look way easier in this tropical heat 😅
Where did you take your boat to be sandblasted and how much they ask for the service? Ive been thinking about building a steel boat for some time, but im not sure there are any cost efffective blasters here in the southeast of brazil... This kind of information is hard to find on the web. Anyways, congratulations and best of luck with your project.
Good question. We are currently building in Brazil, so that's a tough thing to calculate because it is a different economy here. Example, a welder in the US could be $75 an hour. While in Brazil you could pay $50 for the best welder in the business for a whole day. Also things like the price of steel fluctuates according to market value. Top this with the BRL (Brazilian Real) to USD fluctuating as well. That being said there is no straight forward calculation. We can say that a new boat wouldn't teach us all the lessons that we have learned and would cost more upfront no matter what.
Since we didn’t do this our selves, we don’t have the calculations but it took about a week. One person dedicated to blasting, someone assisting cleaning and painting. Later a painter and an assistant. The costs of labor are significantly different in South America, it’s a fraction of the price compared to europe and the US so we opted to contract this part.
Most people who cruise carry fiberglass supplies to fix things that break on the boat. You guys need to take some welding classes so you can fix your steel boat with the welder you need to take with you. Lots of talk here about how pretty it looks but seriously, I'm surprised that after sandblasting, you didn't find thin places under the rust that needed to be patched. Maybe you did and didn't show it. Along that line of thought, it seems like there is a kind of duct tape that works under water. That would be good for small holes that (will) pop up with any kind of hull. A good rule of thumb about welds is that if they don't look good, they probably aren't good, and once you are out in the open ocean, you won't have any control over how long or how hard the waves hit your boat. A rough weld usually indicates a lack of penetration or porosity which will fatigue crack when hammered by heavy seas. Just my observations from 50 years of welding experience. I hope you follow through with having a marine engineer look her over. It does look like a new boat though and I admire your can-do attitude. I really enjoy following your adventures. You can put this comment in the "Constructive Ideas" column. These are all things we would be talking about if we were face to face. Your videos are getting noticeably better with time and experience. Great work!
Thanks so much! We're so glad you are noticing improvements in our videos!! It's double duty learning about boat building and video editing at the same time 😅 We are going to look at the previous welds as we're not satisfied with the work that was done on the hull exterior either. So look out for that coming up! Love the idea of welding classes as well. We both have some experience with welding but would be nice to feel completely self sufficient. And its perfect timing for your comment about a Marine Engineer as we just made a post on our community page about an engineer looking at the Lahakai. You can even shoot some questions at them if you'd like. Check it out on our profile > www.youtube.com/@lahakai/community Thanks for the great advice!! Cheers!
not being critical but some of that welding looks rough and will take a lot of fairing off. i have built my own 30'' yacht all under cover, before climate and environmental became an issue. mainly like sandblasting i reused all the sand even in the early 80s it was not cheap. my main concern you were in the shed, and guys sandblasting and painting etc you can see dust etc in the air i hope you at least had on a face mask on, sorry not being harsh on you, i will follow your project with interest. best of luck.
Defiantly worth shot blasting this old boat to find any hidden issues. Did you ever consider building a new hull and reusing all the gear from the old boat ? Maybe if you knew what you know now …. But you will have a new old hull soon so most of the work will be new work which is so much better. Sailing yacht Zora finish and just finished sailing slowly from Ireland to Caribbean ua-cam.com/video/IPhptaIMQcE/v-deo.html So don’t give up Cheers Warren
Ah yes, if we knew what we know now 😅 Building new has different challenges and costs so it's tough to say. But if we knew the issues of this boat from the beginning, we would have planned our execution differently to optimize our build and avoid some pit falls. Thanks for recommending Zora! We love seeing others working on their dreams as well 😁⛵️ Cheers!
Yes, you are correct. The laws exist and are quite strict. Unfortunately, some professionals simply ignore the laws and do not use the necessary protective equipment, which puts their health and lives at risk.
In this scene no painting or blasting was happening. He was hand sanding with a piece of sandpaper in his hand. That being said, we do wish there was more overall awareness and care for health and well-being in Brazil. The laws might be there but the follow through isn’t always.
There's self contained sand blasting equipment. It's a hose to blast within a hose to suck. It's meant to be used outdoors. I think it would be hard to find such a thing in brasiu.
I have used both small and large vacuum blasters (10 kg & 1000 kg vacuum hopper)and they are horrible to use!! Booth blasting is much faster and easier, wet blasting is terrible clean up job.
Thanks! This channel is a vlog/documentary that follows our lives and also includes our current boat repair in the most informational way we can convey it. We are following real-time so some of these events are not resolved in a short period of time to conclude in one video. Things will overlap or continue as they do in real life. We hope you like this style as we are amateur video makers working really hard to make entertaining creations and are learning as we go! cheers!
After 5 min with good and highly needed needed education about the environmental and health issues with sandblast for any prosperous DIY endeavor we see shots where Lori is standing in a impenetrable mist of grit and sand and paint followed by another guy behind the blaster (and a light boom guy?). With absolutely *no protection.* Epic.
We appreciate your concern for our well being and your attentiveness! A few facts to put you at ease. In scene you are referring to, we are in a side hanger where there is no sandblasting taking place nor did our boat have any antifouling when it was sandblasted. They had painted the boat the day before and we were arriving in the morning so no painting was happening either. Any dust particles had over 24 hour to settle, its just really dark as there is no light in the cockpit and the front camera of the phone makes everything look worse than in person especially in dark lighting. There is also no "light boom guy??" this is not a professional production. Regardless, we personal always use masks in this hanger but the decision was made that it was fine to remove it briefly and replaced immediately after this 10 second shot for better sound. The research we do is for ourselves, making our own personal decisions that we document in videos published for entertainment. We are not professionals and do not consult other people or companies on how to conduct themselves. We see how the editing could not have made that scenario clear and we will be more aware with our editing in the future. Thanks for helping us to improve our videos and be be more aware!
I’m glad you didn’t attempt this job yourself, the trouble is that people watch somebody else shot blasting and they think it looks easy. That’s your first mistake, most people have absolutely no idea how hard industrial shotblasting is. And they completely underestimate the equipment needed to carry out this size of job. If you attempted this size of job with diy equipment it would literally take weeks instead of a couple of days. Plus you wouldn’t have access to proper airless spraying equipment so therefore you wouldn’t be able to apply the correct coating or at the correct thickness. UA-cam videos of blasting are fine for little jobs but be careful you don’t get out of your depth on a larger project.
You make an excellent point. We didn’t look into the difference between DIY equipment verses industrial but can imagine it’s significant. They also have a mega vacuum here for clean up. And timing is everything when stripping metal. Thanks for the comment! Always something new to learn and think about. Cheers!
The paint thickness looks way too thin. You can basically see every little surface imperfection through the coating. It should be a lot smoother. Measure your coating thickness. Hopefully the minimum thickness is defined in your contract with the contractor..
no-one will do it better then the owner of the boat .. iv spent over 50 yrs doing sandblasting .. put on a mask and hood and get going , kinda like driving a forklift at first , and after a couple hrs youll have it figured out .. always try and keep 'nozzle at a 'angle and work into places at the angle , the over-blast will help you remove rust and paint before you get to that area .. use leather gloves and a hoodie sweat-shirt , and when you get to places you cant see good , use a 'hard-face spotlight .. when you get to tight areas make sure you do deck first and up walls at least 6" , there-for you wont have to remove sand before you get it done , yep , you got this .. eh
Interesting to see the blaster and the painter wearing PPE, however whomever it was holding the light had none. Looks like the portion of the video devoted to environmental and personal safety was completely skipped by light man. All of that floating paint particulate that he’s standing in? That’s what he’s breathing. As someone that ignored the vast majority of contaminant warnings from the products used in abrasive blasting, industrial chemical stripping, spray painting with primarily oil base paints, and basic shop dust, and who now has a compromise immune system, and chronic respiratory infections linked directly to a lifetime of chemical exposure, I can tell you that the light man needs to invest in good full face respirator, or he’s screwed for life.
We totally understand your concern. We created this video because we wanted to share things we were learning during our construction and our thought process of why we chose not to DIY this process. Unfortunately, we are not professionals and do not consult companies on conduct. Depending on what country you are in, laws vary and also how people comply to them. But hopefully videos like this and many other great once we have seen on YT will help change things for the better.
Todos cuidado ainda é pouco para essas operações (Jato de granalha e Pintura) . Inclusive durante as filmagens, TODOS deveriam estar usando equipamentos de proteção individual, sem exceções......It's still not enough to be careful with these operations (Shotblasting and Painting). Even during filming, EVERYONE was required to be wearing personal protective equipment, no exceptions.
Looks like a god blasting job. But the paint job don't look good, you have a lot of overspray and that are never good. The painter need a station to stand on when painting upper part of the hull.
Interesting! We are going to do some more coats of the Intershield 300. We haven’t decided about hiring or doing on our own but we will definitely look into the proper techniques.
It was a first primer coating to seal the freshly blasted steel it now needs fairing and hi build primer for final fairing. Then seal coating & top coating. So another at least 3 coats with sanding between coating and at least 2 coats on top of that probably 4 on under water sections.
I like the tutorial on the environmental safety aspects of sand/media blasting, but why weren't the same environmental concerns applied to the painting process? Uncontained paint overspray is disastrous to the environmental column. The open vents on the eves of the painting shed, as well as the vent holes in the walls makes a mockery of your environmental concerns. I watched as you filmed the guy apply paint directly to the air. Why not apply the paint by roller and brush? safer and much more accurate for cleaner environment.
We contracted a company to do the whole process. After sandblasting you must seal the steel within 3 hours so this process is included. That being said, we are not consultants and do not have much influence over the practices of companies here in South America. Generally speaking, a lot can be improved. Our hope is to show our thought process to our decision making.
We are definitely interested in alternates and are looking into silicon options. We do not know what is available in Brazil but using something less harmful is a priority.
At 64 I can no longer sail due to 15 years of unprotected media blasting and painting on our boats. My COPD is directly related. Just hire the guy and save your lungs
Very sorry to hear about your health but very glad you shared it with us. In the process of making this video we learned so much and hopefully experiences like yours can help others make better decisions. Thanks and once we get into the water, you can follow us sailing around the world so you can keep enjoying the waves and adventure!
Hello there, the concern about sandblasting seems excessive to me. The circulation of millions of vehicles is much more worrisome. To give an example about my country Spain, collecting all this data, the Spanish car park is made up of 34,434,791 vehicles (data for the year 2022), of all categories, that is the number of vehicles that can circulate daily, how much waste Toxics are emitted every day, one ton, several hundred, or perhaps hundreds of thousands of tons, apart from the fact that they not only circulate through Spain, but also throughout Europe, Asia, America. And what about the factories, power plants that burn coal, etc. etc It is not possible to compare it with the sandblasting industry, which I doubt exceeds the figure of half a million worldwide. Greetings and regards to all, let's take care of our greatest good and the environment on which we depend to live. 🌎 🌏🌍
Have you ever been to one of those specialized landfills?? It's nothing special other than the only thing they bury is toxic stuff. There's still runoff that affects the entire area surrounding such a place. Then as you talk about taking the boat to a special place to have this done and coated with a finish. These so-called specialists are spraying paint out in the open.
Yea too much talking, justifying why they didn't do the work themselves (even made info graphics).. im sure there will be more of these tactics to come.. would be better to just say.. we are not skilled enough to do it.. lol .. way to overproduced for a "new" channel.. seems like a rip of Odd Life Crafting..
Of course it's a no brainer the results!! It's such a big job and the time and effort it would take for such an undertaking is immense, not to mention the cost of such a project, removing all the attached items, such as railing and navigation, propulsion, etc, then media blasting, painting and then final assmbly. The cost of time, materials and resources had to have been enourmous!!! I have done ground up restoration of vehicles and the amount of time and energy and materials and labor is VERY pricey, I cannot imagine the cost to do something on this scale, $$$$$?? Unless that vessel was dirt dirt cheap, like scrap metal price cheap OR less and had an immense amount of time and resources to do all that work, for me it would have been a pass. I think I would have bought a different vessel that would have taken less energy and expense to bring up to modern. On the other hand you could customize it to your liking. In the long run, it's all in what you can live with with the time given and expense of energy and resources and manpower and budget given for the project. I do wished you would have included the results after the media blasting, bare boat down to bare metal. Was there any repairs done such as welding in new pieces to repair the vessel? Thank you for sharing!!
The video turned out really cool. Thank you for the opportunity and forgive me for the mistakes in English.
You did a fantastic job! And we really appreciate your help and kindness to get the word out there!
The welds and metalwork look real rough. Are they even water tight? The davits for some reason look disproportionately large.
So these welds are from the original location and we are not super happy with them. Did you see our previous episodes? You should check out when we had to sail her here. She has been water tested several times plus the trip. But we will be looking to improve some of the quality of the service we got in the last place. So stay tuned for that!
One of the ways I paid my way thru college was as a sandblaster/painter on offshore platforms and steel fabrication yards. Offshore we blasted with sand and it produces a very fine particles. If you don't have the proper equipment that is maintained properly, the very fine silica dust could damage your lungs. In the fabrication yards, we used Black Beauty. I think it was crushed lava or something, I'm not sure. But it didn't produce dust. After college, I worked in a series of steel fab shops that had sandblast/paint facilities. One of them used metal particles, as you did. One benefit of using steel filings to sandblast is that they can be recycled. Our closed sandblast booth had a grating floor. The metal particles fell thru the grating and were sucked up into a filter system and recycled thru the system as many as seven times before the particles were small enough to get filtered out of the system. I don't think that those guys had that system. However, whenever they clean up those pile of metal particles they can be sold for scrap. For painting offshore platforms and things in a marine environment, we primed the steel with a zinc-rich primer. It was a 70 pound can of powdered zinc mixed into 5 gallons of base primer. The paint was 89.9% zinc. It was really good at preventing rust.
Very interesting! We are very glad to hear you always were supplied with the proper equipment in all those places you work. Do you find you have any lasting heath issues from working long term in sandblasting? Certainly hope not!
@@lahakai No breathing problems at 70.
Blackbeauty is crushed copper slag & i think that is what was used. Steel shot is grey/silvery. Blackbeauty gives your steel a good profile for paint adhesion.
I loved having the odd beer or two when i was in Brasil Lori. It's great to see you knockin one back mate.
Then you know about how ice cold they like their beer here! 🧊 Nothing like a cold one in the tropical heat! Cheers 🍻
@@lahakai We love our beer ice cold where i'm from as well Lori, so i'm on your side mate. If have space have a cold Brahma or two for me please.
very, very smart decision to professionally sand blast. Beautiful result.
I was going to say look you all the boys in the yard get to play with all their toys LOL
Pro blasters and painters are your best choice. But. I saw a lot of welds that were poorly done. They will bite you on the butt in a couple of years. I STRONGLY recommend that you go back and grind out the bad weld, recap and then re paint. And I do speak from experience. 30 years of it.
Good eye and good advice! We arnt happy with the quality of the welds as well and the blasting revealed some spots that need attention. We will definitely get right on that!
I agree I would leave the blasting to the pro's. Fantastic outcome. Looks like a wonderful canvas to start your masterpiece on.
so satisfying watching the painting. now you have a nice blank canvas to play with.
She looks amazing now!👏👏👏👏👏
Looking Great !
Great job, well planned, well done after a wise decision! Go for professionals for a professional job! Cannot wait to see the next update!
I've done it and it's the only way that all of the rust can be removed. Necessary process. Looking good.
You were blessed to get this help. She looks great. It's good you showed the dangers in sandblasting. I would never be in this position as my favorite sailboats are wooden. Highest Blessings
Love watching your adventure from down under
Thanks Bruce! Love to have you watching along!
I'm convinced you made the right decision. The price must have been enormous, but the final product was outstanding. I can't wait to see your next video and wish all involved with Lahakai success. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!! Well, it’s one of those things where perhaps people buying used steel boats should consider this process as part of the cost as it’s so important. That could be a good lesson for people watching us and thinking about their own project!
What an improvement. This is a process that I feel I could do but wouldn't be able to do it in a way that would actually protect the steal. Media blasting can be done DIY but not on the scale that you were needing. Getting the pros to do the work was the best thing you could do. For smaller things like restoring old deck hardware that would be fine as a DIY project.
Now all you need to do is get the interior in, install all the various systems, and run a few kilometers of wires and your all set to hit the high seas. Sounds simple but from all I have seen about boat projects simple will still take weeks.
Looking forward to seeing the install of your electric drive. As well as how well it does. I want to get a sail boat my self and like the idea of going fully electric.
You did the right thing no doubt looks great
Lahaka looks good a very good decision to get a professional do her for you and you will benefit more by being able to get on with restoration quicker
Wow, what an amazing dufference from b4 2 after! 👌👍
Not only will blasting clean off corrosion and dirt it will make the surface of the metal much better for the primer to grip on to so the job of protecting the hull will be better and longer lasting.
Yes! Unlike sanding with a flappy, sandblasting makes primer stick better. Suppose the initial costs are higher but the savings is in the long term
@@lahakai definitely. Your hull will be well protected now for a long time👍
Looks good I would add a sealant between the hull and the stringers to stop rust forming.
Congrats , you kids made a mature decision!😇! Your boat will be more maintenance friendly.... Keep up the good work... Only wooden and metal boats are friendly to the environment. They are recyclable!!!!!
Always happy to see a video from you on Sunday Morning! Of course you made the correct decision to use professionals for the cleaning and painting as there is such a short window between blasting the metal and getting it covered before the surface begins to rust . She looks like a brand new boat inside and out! Well done and Cheers!
That’s the key right? The timing! That’s really where we failed the first time. It was just impossible to do it coordinated enough to avoid rust. Hats off to anyone who accomplished this on a big boat without blasting. See you next Sunday! ⛵️🙌
Now she's looking good now y'all can start having fun don't fight it just go with the flow and before you know it she'll come right back to life more beautiful than you ever imagined
A new very impressive video!!! 👏👏
Thanks! You have to visit her sometime!
@@lahakai i really have to!!!!!
I would have to agree with your choice, expectantly for a vessel of "Lahakai" size, although because of toxicity issues, except for small spot blasting, pro's are the way to go.
Love it, looks great, just watch "Flying Coney" a 100 year old steel hull with a long way to go. Think you all are making good choices.
Oh wow! And we thought we took on a big project! Now we are dying to watch their videos 😯
Good job 🍺🍺🥂⛵⚓
Thanks 🍻😁
Keep up the good work I love your videos.
Thanks a million 🙌⛵️
Looks great 👍🏻
Looks great ! Right decision to let the pro’s do this job.
Now I’m waiting to get the measurements we talked about before Christmas…
Oh yes! We have not forgotten! We have not had a chance to do this yet but we will soon 😄
You did the right thing.
A divulgação das informações ambientais foi 10. Bons ventos!
I personal would like to see welds smoothed out on the hull to make her look sleeker.
You did the right thing... I would hate to think of what cleaning up a property used for sandblasting boats could cost, even years later. We know someone that had a sewage pipe joint under a new house and it cost the seller around $20,000 just to clean up less than 50 square meters under the home. This was a DIY job done wrong, and they didn't correct the problem when warned about it . Hardly a way to save money...
I think future generations will be paying a high price for a lot of very short sighted things now being done to maximize profits, even in the name of environmentalism and to produce "clean" energy. For example, wind turbines with the huge fiberglass blades are very expensive to recycle, and it costs so much just to transport them that the windmill blades sit in big piles near the wind farms. Same story with fiberglass yachts trashed in storms. Fiberglass can be recycled, but the plastics have to be burned out of the glass fibers, which releases styrene and other hazardous chemicals. When fiberglass is recycled they don't want it chopped up because they want the glass fibers to remain intact to make new fiberglass.
Lahaki is looking far more like Frankenstein’s monster. From her hideous welds to those eyesore davits, she is truly hard on the eyes. I built custom blue water yachts for many years and I’ve never felt more sorry for a boat.
Lahaki is salvageable with care and effort ❤
Looking forward to seeing what path you take with her. 😊
I totally agree with you and have also pointed out many things to them but well as they say you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. As you point out the welds are horrendous and am afraid to say that the rust will be back sooner than later due to poor welding and the davits ?? what were they thinking . When I pointed out the cockpit drains will fill the cockpit the answer came back they are above the waterline even when heeling ???? I admire their dream but not the vessel at all.
@@howardbeer5214 But at least with a "boat" like that you don't have to watch weather forecasts - just the fluctuations of the steel market .. . . ..
@@dancarter482 You think so do you ??
@@howardbeer5214 When the p£ice is right ~ CA$H out!
You made the right choice to have a professional do this for you. You need it done correctly otherwise you would be wasting your time and money for all the hard work you will be doing afterwards. You might want to have someone paint the boat for you. This way you can protect the boat and save time.
Sandblasting and painting that you did was the best solution, I don't see what you could have done better than all this work
Good job by you guys, great job buy thr pros.
Those before and after photos are all the proof that I need to convince me that sandblasting is one job that 😋 is definitely best left to the professionals! And that's before we get to the environment! Now you have a virtually new hull to start building your new boat and the freedom to build it any way you want! I have a crazy idea that if it were my boat I would like to continue with the steel for the structural components such as bulkheads because they could be welded, not bòlted or glued, directly to the hull giving the greatest strength to the hull as a whole! Only then would I introduce wood to the boat in the form of panelling etc. And I would insist on having wooden spars! I think that I would very quickly become an Old Salt complete with massive white beard!
Thanks for an intresting video again. Be safe and skilful. Pinge
Hey dear couple. we would like it very much that when you talk , the music is turned off . we keep following you..
Now I start to feel safe and confident on your boat to stand the ocean forces. Not like on the beginning of your adventure
She come a long way from the beginning, hasn’t she?! 😅
definitely with a professional job for that, especially if it has some form of warranty. Just the risk of environmental fines doing it at home is scary.
They have the proper equipment and the experience.
Oh yeah, you are right. Could hit you in your health and your pocket if you’re not careful! And good that you mentioned that. We did find a couple small spots that could be improved upon after the blast and the company guarantees their work and will have an inspection and go over any spots needed. It’s a great service!
I worked with industrial painting for 2 years some 20 yrs ago. I did a lot of sandblasting, even inside a Submarine in very tight spaces and I am a big person 195 cm tall. I can tell you I hated my life back then with that job and I would for sure take the same decision you guys did and hire qualified people to do the job if I had the finances for it. Only if there were no other way financially I would do it my self. You are also in a good place were labor is quite cheap compared to other parts of the world so good decision!! I hope you used a good system for the coating, I know Akzo Nobel is used on many steel boats, I have quite a funny story about it. The company I worked for was working on a build of a big cruise ship. There was that new guy there and he was put to the task of mixing the paint with hardener and make sure the guy who spray painted a 1000 sq m deck had his pump filled with paint all the time. To mix you of course put a smaller can of hardener in the big bucket of the paint and mix it together. The new guy did not understand the instructions to do that and when the painter had finished about 700 m2 he leaned over the railing and shouted down to the new guy asking if the paint would be enough for him to finish. Then the new guys replied, "Yes I will soon start with the smaller buckets, it should be enough" New guy never mixed in the hardener so they ended up having to wash 700 m2 from the deck with thinner. The company lost money on that job 🤣
😂😂😂 Poor guy! Hope he didn't lose his job with that one 😝
Sandblasting is a tough job! Hat's off to you for doing it for so long
great video thanks for sharing. How did you deal with areas under the chocks on the cradle? If left untreated they will become anodic relative to the rest of the hull. Also any cockpit drain pipes etc.... cheers from Victoria BC Canada, former shipyard specialist and boat builder.
Thanks!! We moved the boat a little in the cradle to access the covered parts. The drainage pipes are stainless steel so they are good!
When doing the whole boat I would use a professional just because of time. I wet blasted an interior once (half waterblaster half sandblaster). Cleaning up and getting the wet sand out of the interior it worked and no dust but it looked like I sank on a beach. Small sections and repairs I just grind but you will get years from a properly done job like this
We can’t even imagine the cleanup! They have an enormous vacuum here that sucks out all of the material and they use it again. The wet media machines we’ve seen people use are very interesting. How do they remove wet sand?
I prefer to use water media based blasting with full recirculation n filtering...cuts down on the volume of media and waste
We saw a very good video of this on YT. They said the water eliminates the dust and then evaporated almost entirely to leave just the waste that has fallen below. We haven’t seen this available in Brazil but hopefully in the figure it will be! Do you know what kind of equipment is needed?
@@lahakai Around here, a company called dustless blasting can come to you or in a boat yard and provide this service. They use a air compressor, water tank or hose, and abrasive tank all on a trailer in my case and removed automotive paint, Bondo, rust and other crap to reveal bare metal. Zero environmental issues, all captured on canvas tarp and portable catchment basin, the antifouling paint on a boat might be and issue but I can't see that it would be worse than laquer paint used in the 60's....the guy didn't wear any PPE as it's not required since the water controls the dust. In Arizona, the water was gone within cleanup time post spraying....then you let it dry and get a coat of primer on in a couple of days, we don't worry about rust here
Very cool! We hope this becomes common practice if it is as you say, zero impacts environmentally! Thanks for sharing
For all the reasons that you gave in your explanation, is why I would not have done the sandblasting myself. Besides which it is a hot and horrible process to go through on that scale. 👍
Oh yes, indeed! Imagine doing this in some tropical heat. Lucky we had some mild days this spring as its been quite rainy.
That’s what I’m talkin’ about! Adios naysayers! Cheers 🍻
🥳🙌⛵️ The Lahakai will live to sail again!! Thanks to your ongoing love and support 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Keep a record of all the costs & the hrs worked. I reckon it will be cheaper to buy a nearly new boat of the same size.
Great job, having someone else do it in a timely manner and facility would be worth the expense.
Totally! No regrets here!
Great video. We are starting a trans-Atlantic at the end of May, headed for Cabo Verde and Brazil, thinking our destination port will be Florianopolis. Do you have any thoughts on this plan?
There are so many great places on your way down the coast!
Fernando de noronha, Rio de Janeiro, Ilha Grande, Paraty, Ilhabela, São Franscisco do Sul, Itajai, Florianopolis. Out of all those we think Paraty is the best! But Ilhabela is very popular too. There is a sailboat show happening on June 9-12 in Ilhabela if you speak Portuguese that is very nice as well!
Before: Ready for the scrap heap. After: Looks like a new hull and deck ready for finishing
It’s a dramatic difference huh?! 🙌⛵️
Soda / bicarbonate or soda blasting is, from my experience, the only type of blasting allowed in food flash freezing tunnels, because of the food / human safe properties as listed on the MSD sheet.
However anything, including water, can be toxic if proper safety measures aren’t followed.
Everyone involved in a project, or those that can be exposed to the products used on a project should read the MSD that is included with the product.
Also be very mindful of the off gassing associated with two-part coatings. This off gassing can continue for days, weeks, or even months.
Don't be put off. DIYers can do this easily enough. Just use the correct media and know the substance you're trying to remove. But in many cases, it works out cheaper to get a pro to do the work than renting because DIY will end up using more media and extra derv the compressor will use. Plus, it looks a lot easier than it is 😁
Agreed, there are factors to consider if you want to DIY or not like the size of your boat or the what you want to accomplish (spot treatment, deep cleaning, etc). Also if you are in a place (like USA) that has more options available. After seeing these guys do this job, we were happy to save our energy for other parts of the project. They certainly made it look way easier in this tropical heat 😅
Where did you take your boat to be sandblasted and how much they ask for the service? Ive been thinking about building a steel boat for some time, but im not sure there are any cost efffective blasters here in the southeast of brazil... This kind of information is hard to find on the web. Anyways, congratulations and best of luck with your project.
Would be interesting to know approximately what it cost to restore this boat to the water. Compare that to what another, finished, boat would cost
Good question. We are currently building in Brazil, so that's a tough thing to calculate because it is a different economy here. Example, a welder in the US could be $75 an hour. While in Brazil you could pay $50 for the best welder in the business for a whole day. Also things like the price of steel fluctuates according to market value. Top this with the BRL (Brazilian Real) to USD fluctuating as well. That being said there is no straight forward calculation. We can say that a new boat wouldn't teach us all the lessons that we have learned and would cost more upfront no matter what.
For the blasting, each paint coat, etc. How many man-hours of labor?
Since we didn’t do this our selves, we don’t have the calculations but it took about a week. One person dedicated to blasting, someone assisting cleaning and painting. Later a painter and an assistant. The costs of labor are significantly different in South America, it’s a fraction of the price compared to europe and the US so we opted to contract this part.
Most people who cruise carry fiberglass supplies to fix things that break on the boat. You guys need to take some welding classes so you can fix your steel boat with the welder you need to take with you. Lots of talk here about how pretty it looks but seriously, I'm surprised that after sandblasting, you didn't find thin places under the rust that needed to be patched. Maybe you did and didn't show it. Along that line of thought, it seems like there is a kind of duct tape that works under water. That would be good for small holes that (will) pop up with any kind of hull. A good rule of thumb about welds is that if they don't look good, they probably aren't good, and once you are out in the open ocean, you won't have any control over how long or how hard the waves hit your boat. A rough weld usually indicates a lack of penetration or porosity which will fatigue crack when hammered by heavy seas. Just my observations from 50 years of welding experience. I hope you follow through with having a marine engineer look her over. It does look like a new boat though and I admire your can-do attitude. I really enjoy following your adventures.
You can put this comment in the "Constructive Ideas" column. These are all things we would be talking about if we were face to face.
Your videos are getting noticeably better with time and experience. Great work!
Thanks so much! We're so glad you are noticing improvements in our videos!! It's double duty learning about boat building and video editing at the same time 😅
We are going to look at the previous welds as we're not satisfied with the work that was done on the hull exterior either. So look out for that coming up! Love the idea of welding classes as well. We both have some experience with welding but would be nice to feel completely self sufficient.
And its perfect timing for your comment about a Marine Engineer as we just made a post on our community page about an engineer looking at the Lahakai. You can even shoot some questions at them if you'd like. Check it out on our profile > www.youtube.com/@lahakai/community
Thanks for the great advice!! Cheers!
What primer do you use ?
The brand we used is called International
not being critical but some of that welding looks rough and will take a lot of fairing off. i have built my own 30'' yacht all under cover, before climate and environmental became an issue. mainly like sandblasting i reused all the sand even in the early 80s it was not cheap. my main concern you were in the shed, and guys sandblasting and painting etc you can see dust etc in the air i hope you at least had on a face mask on, sorry not being harsh on you, i will follow your project with interest. best of luck.
12:57 Why did you choose a freemason for the job?
Defiantly worth shot blasting this old boat to find any hidden issues. Did you ever consider building a new hull and reusing all the gear from the old boat ? Maybe if you knew what you know now ….
But you will have a new old hull soon so most of the work will be new work which is so much better.
Sailing yacht Zora finish and just finished sailing slowly from Ireland to Caribbean
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So don’t give up
Cheers Warren
He also did a video on cost too
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Ah yes, if we knew what we know now 😅 Building new has different challenges and costs so it's tough to say. But if we knew the issues of this boat from the beginning, we would have planned our execution differently to optimize our build and avoid some pit falls. Thanks for recommending Zora! We love seeing others working on their dreams as well 😁⛵️ Cheers!
In the paint shed, why has the guy holding the light not got a mask. That kind of questions the safety laws in Brazil, doesn't it?
Yes, you are correct. The laws exist and are quite strict. Unfortunately, some professionals simply ignore the laws and do not use the necessary protective equipment, which puts their health and lives at risk.
In this scene no painting or blasting was happening. He was hand sanding with a piece of sandpaper in his hand. That being said, we do wish there was more overall awareness and care for health and well-being in Brazil. The laws might be there but the follow through isn’t always.
Olá, tenho um Bruce Roberts 43' vocês tentaram fazer esse serviço no Guarujá? Pode dar uma ideia do custo?
Ola Marcelo tudo bem? Você pode nos enviar um e-mail no info@lahakai.com por favor? :)
There's self contained sand blasting equipment. It's a hose to blast within a hose to suck. It's meant to be used outdoors. I think it would be hard to find such a thing in brasiu.
Oh really? We have not heard of this here as equipment is expensive to import. Could you recommend a video about this machine? Would love to see!
@@lahakai ua-cam.com/video/6PZiG4UrkLI/v-deo.html
I have used both small and large vacuum blasters (10 kg & 1000 kg vacuum hopper)and they are horrible to use!! Booth blasting is much faster and easier, wet blasting is terrible clean up job.
We were wondering what the clean up was like with these wet and media machines. Thanks for sharing!
Great job. Probably could have been done in a single video, instead of 5! Best wishes to you both ❤
Thanks! This channel is a vlog/documentary that follows our lives and also includes our current boat repair in the most informational way we can convey it. We are following real-time so some of these events are not resolved in a short period of time to conclude in one video. Things will overlap or continue as they do in real life. We hope you like this style as we are amateur video makers working really hard to make entertaining creations and are learning as we go! cheers!
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After 5 min with good and highly needed needed education about the environmental and health issues with sandblast for any prosperous DIY endeavor we see shots where Lori is standing in a impenetrable mist of grit and sand and paint followed by another guy behind the blaster (and a light boom guy?). With absolutely *no protection.* Epic.
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We appreciate your concern for our well being and your attentiveness! A few facts to put you at ease. In scene you are referring to, we are in a side hanger where there is no sandblasting taking place nor did our boat have any antifouling when it was sandblasted. They had painted the boat the day before and we were arriving in the morning so no painting was happening either. Any dust particles had over 24 hour to settle, its just really dark as there is no light in the cockpit and the front camera of the phone makes everything look worse than in person especially in dark lighting. There is also no "light boom guy??" this is not a professional production. Regardless, we personal always use masks in this hanger but the decision was made that it was fine to remove it briefly and replaced immediately after this 10 second shot for better sound. The research we do is for ourselves, making our own personal decisions that we document in videos published for entertainment. We are not professionals and do not consult other people or companies on how to conduct themselves. We see how the editing could not have made that scenario clear and we will be more aware with our editing in the future. Thanks for helping us to improve our videos and be be more aware!
I’m glad you didn’t attempt this job yourself, the trouble is that people watch somebody else shot blasting and they think it looks easy. That’s your first mistake, most people have absolutely no idea how hard industrial shotblasting is. And they completely underestimate the equipment needed to carry out this size of job. If you attempted this size of job with diy equipment it would literally take weeks instead of a couple of days. Plus you wouldn’t have access to proper airless spraying equipment so therefore you wouldn’t be able to apply the correct coating or at the correct thickness.
UA-cam videos of blasting are fine for little jobs but be careful you don’t get out of your depth on a larger project.
You make an excellent point. We didn’t look into the difference between DIY equipment verses industrial but can imagine it’s significant. They also have a mega vacuum here for clean up. And timing is everything when stripping metal. Thanks for the comment! Always something new to learn and think about. Cheers!
Excellent.ice blasting seems to be increasingly recommended.
Interesting, right? We don't know about the availability or costs of ice blasting in brazil but we are very curious to see others doing it.
Tack welding not spot welding!
The paint thickness looks way too thin. You can basically see every little surface imperfection through the coating. It should be a lot smoother. Measure your coating thickness. Hopefully the minimum thickness is defined in your contract with the contractor..
It is beter to leave it to the professionals
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Wonder if anybody has sandblasted with barnacles.
😂😂 you made us LOL and then google it 😅
no-one will do it better then the owner of the boat .. iv spent over 50 yrs doing sandblasting .. put on a mask and hood and get going , kinda like driving a forklift at first , and after a couple hrs youll have it figured out .. always try and keep 'nozzle at a 'angle and work into places at the angle , the over-blast will help you remove rust and paint before you get to that area .. use leather gloves and a hoodie sweat-shirt , and when you get to places you cant see good , use a 'hard-face spotlight .. when you get to tight areas make sure you do deck first and up walls at least 6" , there-for you wont have to remove sand before you get it done , yep , you got this .. eh
Interesting to see the blaster and the painter wearing PPE, however whomever it was holding the light had none.
Looks like the portion of the video devoted to environmental and personal safety was completely skipped by light man.
All of that floating paint particulate that he’s standing in? That’s what he’s breathing.
As someone that ignored the vast majority of contaminant warnings from the products used in abrasive blasting, industrial chemical stripping, spray painting with primarily oil base paints, and basic shop dust, and who now has a compromise immune system, and chronic respiratory infections linked directly to a lifetime of chemical exposure, I can tell you that the light man needs to invest in good full face respirator, or he’s screwed for life.
We totally understand your concern. We created this video because we wanted to share things we were learning during our construction and our thought process of why we chose not to DIY this process. Unfortunately, we are not professionals and do not consult companies on conduct. Depending on what country you are in, laws vary and also how people comply to them. But hopefully videos like this and many other great once we have seen on YT will help change things for the better.
a good idea for a video, but standig in the dust without a mask is not so good.
Todos cuidado ainda é pouco para essas operações (Jato de granalha e Pintura) . Inclusive durante as filmagens, TODOS deveriam estar usando equipamentos de proteção individual, sem exceções......It's still not enough to be careful with these operations (Shotblasting and Painting). Even during filming, EVERYONE was required to be wearing personal protective equipment, no exceptions.
Looks like a god blasting job. But the paint job don't look good, you have a lot of overspray and that are never good. The painter need a station to stand on when painting upper part of the hull.
Interesting! We are going to do some more coats of the Intershield 300. We haven’t decided about hiring or doing on our own but we will definitely look into the proper techniques.
It was a first primer coating to seal the freshly blasted steel it now needs fairing and hi build primer for final fairing. Then seal coating & top coating. So another at least 3 coats with sanding between coating and at least 2 coats on top of that probably 4 on under water sections.
You keep mentioning a wild ride . You have hardly scratched the surface ; you've basically have a bare hull to start with . Now the real work begins .
I like the tutorial on the environmental safety aspects of sand/media blasting, but why weren't the same environmental concerns applied to the painting process? Uncontained paint overspray is disastrous to the environmental column. The open vents on the eves of the painting shed, as well as the vent holes in the walls makes a mockery of your environmental concerns. I watched as you filmed the guy apply paint directly to the air. Why not apply the paint by roller and brush? safer and much more accurate for cleaner environment.
We contracted a company to do the whole process. After sandblasting you must seal the steel within 3 hours so this process is included. That being said, we are not consultants and do not have much influence over the practices of companies here in South America. Generally speaking, a lot can be improved. Our hope is to show our thought process to our decision making.
I really hope with all your comments your no longer choosing an ablative antifoul.?
We are definitely interested in alternates and are looking into silicon options. We do not know what is available in Brazil but using something less harmful is a priority.
150000.00 $ boat?
Thankfully not! This build is in Brazil so the price of things are different down here
At 64 I can no longer sail due to 15 years of unprotected media blasting and painting on our boats. My COPD is directly related. Just hire the guy and save your lungs
Very sorry to hear about your health but very glad you shared it with us. In the process of making this video we learned so much and hopefully experiences like yours can help others make better decisions. Thanks and once we get into the water, you can follow us sailing around the world so you can keep enjoying the waves and adventure!
Hello there, the concern about sandblasting seems excessive to me. The circulation of millions of vehicles is much more worrisome. To give an example about my country Spain, collecting all this data, the Spanish car park is made up of 34,434,791 vehicles (data for the year 2022), of all categories, that is the number of vehicles that can circulate daily, how much waste Toxics are emitted every day, one ton, several hundred, or perhaps hundreds of thousands of tons, apart from the fact that they not only circulate through Spain, but also throughout Europe, Asia, America. And what about the factories, power plants that burn coal, etc. etc It is not possible to compare it with the sandblasting industry, which I doubt exceeds the figure of half a million worldwide.
Greetings and regards to all, let's take care of our greatest good and the environment on which we depend to live. 🌎 🌏🌍
Since when does Brazil take care of environmental impact?
Have you ever been to one of those specialized landfills?? It's nothing special other than the only thing they bury is toxic stuff. There's still runoff that affects the entire area surrounding such a place. Then as you talk about taking the boat to a special place to have this done and coated with a finish. These so-called specialists are spraying paint out in the open.
No way would I attempt to DIY this project.
6 minutes of moving it in! Waste of time viewing it.
Yea too much talking, justifying why they didn't do the work themselves (even made info graphics).. im sure there will be more of these tactics to come.. would be better to just say.. we are not skilled enough to do it.. lol .. way to overproduced for a "new" channel.. seems like a rip of Odd Life Crafting..
Look ! Ewoks do sand blasting
Background music is not in the background, it is competing with your voice. I would delete it. When you are spaeking
Thanks for letting us know! We'll work on this. Still learning the ropes 🙏😅
Of course it's a no brainer the results!! It's such a big job and the time and effort it would take for such an undertaking is immense, not to mention the cost of such a project, removing all the attached items, such as railing and navigation, propulsion, etc, then media blasting, painting and then final assmbly. The cost of time, materials and resources had to have been enourmous!!! I have done ground up restoration of vehicles and the amount of time and energy and materials and labor is VERY pricey, I cannot imagine the cost to do something on this scale, $$$$$??
Unless that vessel was dirt dirt cheap, like scrap metal price cheap OR less and had an immense amount of time and resources to do all that work, for me it would have been a pass. I think I would have bought a different vessel that would have taken less energy and expense to bring up to modern. On the other hand you could customize it to your liking. In the long run, it's all in what you can live with with the time given and expense of energy and resources and manpower and budget given for the project. I do wished you would have included the results after the media blasting, bare boat down to bare metal. Was there any repairs done such as welding in new pieces to repair the vessel? Thank you for sharing!!
The music is excessively loud.