Touring SV Seeker
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2019
- In this video Doug shows me around his 74 foot steel motorsailer SV Seeker. Be sure to checkout Doug's channel SV Seeker / @svseeker
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I hope Doug lives a long life so that he has time to enjoy his ship on the sea. He is a clever and hard working man.
He’ll probably be a bit bored...
He won't be bored, he's taking his whole workshop with him. ;)
@@DangarMarine Dead right. No stopping him. I hope he doesn't realise his ambitions.
I agree with you but, the dude's already happy as it is. He'd die happy even if he died before the boat hit the water. He's doing what he loves and he doesn't make any concessions about it. Mad respect to him.
Well he’s in the hospital now from a explosion. So maybe not but hopefully he finishes.
Thanks again for the visit amigo. I am looking forward to working a salvage project with you.
Me too mate. We'll get that old toilet to the surface yet! ;)
Doug,: you're a treasure, and Stu is also gold-- would love to see the two of you on a project!
Doug, have you any interest in working with Matt Rutherford's research project?
@@mechanicdave80 Yes, absolutely.
Where is the Dry storage located for food?
I love what he has done. The man has a dream and is making it come true with his own hands.
Real treat meeting you and your Dad Stu. Had a dandy Saturday with all the folks that attended the Meetup, lots of stories and good ideas exchanged. Been looking for this vid for awhile but realized you didn't get home like Yesterday..Thanks again to Bruce (Stu's Pop) and you Stu, delightful guys from Down under. Sorry Rosco you didn't make it but rest assured there was no Need for a Aussie Translator..(smiles) !!!
Thanks Bart, it was great to meet you too. Looking forward to seeing you again! :)
OMG........Doug and your diesel mechanic would be talking all day........my God , what a storage of information........a blast to listen to and learn !!!!
I live 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean and know nothing about boats but I watch SV Seeker whenever I start to become lazy, even on my good days he makes me feel lazy and guilty for it but it does motivate me.
I'm like you, live in KY, never welded sanded, or a million other things I see here but I'm sure I could tell my wife how to do it if I ever had to,ha
It's great that you are bringing together a world wide community.
It's been great fun meeting all these guys. :)
Best thing to do,we build our 45 ft boat from scratch too....now 38 years ago.Took 3,5 years and all the money but well worth it.Have to say that we were young and probably would think a bit longer to start now at 61.So lot of admiration for this guy!
Nice work Robert. Yes, it sure is a big project to take on later in life.
This guy is 15 YEARS on in the project and it still cannot sail. It barely moves without flailing itself apart.
"Thats all a boat really is isnt it? A thing for keeping water out"
I laughed so hard at this..
You and i have such a similar sense of humor that goes lost on so many ears.
Love it that your always saying "what?" When ever someone says aluminum
I don’t think even Doug picked up on the aluminium bit. ;)
@@DangarMarine lol nope it was lost on him but had me laughing. Come to canada!!!!
A boat is a hole in the water, into which you pour money.
@@williamdegnan4718 Exactly. The sigh I saw in a sailboat on a trailer was "A boat is a hole in the water, lined with wood into which you pour money". Of course Doug's will be lined with steel.
@@royreynolds108 Somebody also suggested a test to see if you should buy a boat. Put on a rain suit. Turn your shower to full cold. Stand in it -- on your head. Proceed to tear 100 bills into little pieces until you run out of cold water. If you like that, buy a boat.
The best thing to do is get a friend who has a boat. Honor invitations to go boating by bringung wonderful things to eat and drink (responsibly, of course). Whatever you spend on catering is a bargain!
I want to see SV Seeker under way under sail.... let me live till then ole Lord....
Video of the year for me! What a Highlight. Love both of your channels. Just gotta day thanks for your knowledge Stu, you’ve helped me get my Johnson outboard running like a dream. As for Doug, huge fan of his. You both take a simplistic look at the problem, as well as a common sense solution. Wish you could have come to Florida. If you ever do, beers are on me. 🍺👍
Thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed. Will definitely get to Florida again one day.
What a great episode....love to see the comradeship! Now I have a new show to binge watch. I love watching the ingenuity. Thanks for sharing Stu....remember you are still our favorite 😝
Such an honest interview dealing with working with one's hands... this is excellent.
unreal human thought in the project... far more than any i have ever seen... Excellent!
Amazing mission, building it for joy and to share it with others, that's true philanthropy. Never stop discovering!
Wow, that's a big boat. I really like the duel keel. Very Ingenious idea
WOW! Have been following your tour and I realize I watch most of the channels you visit!
Yep! He's visited some of the greats!
I have been watching SV Seeker since the day dot. great to see you two catch up.
Sounds like you're have a good time with your visit, would really like to have been there, my two favorite boat channels, but work had different plans for me this week. LOL. Enjoy your visit.
Great video. Been watching Doug for ages, his wooden submarine looked like it was a blast
Excellent episode...fun and informative/..educational ...Doug has a real genuine,positive presence...so do you🙃...nice boots...I lived on my 29’ sailboat for 7 years in Long Beach and Marina del Rey and bought cowboy boots...they didn’t get a lot of wear, but I’m glad I bought them..steady she goes...
Thanks mate, and they do get a bit of wear. :)
I could watch you two all day long... I hope you guys get together on the water someday that would be the ultimate culmination of both your adventures.
Thanks mate. I think there is a very high chance of us meeting up on the water in a few years time. We both like the same things when it comes to boating.
How cool is this two of my favorite shipwrights on the same video , you guys have the same characteristics a very positive attitude and a good sense of humor .
THanks Greg, glad you liked it.
Now that's a boat tour! Really enjoyed this as it answered a lot of questions we had. Sail Safe. Ant, Cid and the pooch crew. xx
now we need 2 more people building metal boats. Then we'd have a heavy metal band!
Can do it with 3 in a pinch ;)
Well said!
You could get canvass covers and have a covers band
I'll be building a aluminum boat soon. not heavy metal but still. Join me on "kingherog" if your enthousiastic and patient enough. first video is gonne come in about a month. We wanna build up some video's backlogs first so we can be consistant.
S/V Rusty Junk
Great report - I've followed Doug for years but still nice to have this sort of walk-around. He and his helpers have achieved so much - incredible.
The boat is coming along amazingly well.
Doug’s such an inspiring and humble guy. I owe him a great deal and wish him all the luck and joy he so deserves.
You're hitting my favorite channels. Nicely done (again)! What brought me to your channel was your visit to Arabella. I'm hooked now.
Thanks Bill! :)
That was eastern red cedar I saw in that below deck area. Its the most aromatic cedar in the world and very rot resistant. Unbelievable amount of work in that thing. What a can do attitude. A true Amer I can.
I am so jealous . That ship is a dream. The work that you and your helpers have put in to It is incredible.
I can only say Wow. I never thought this would be this big when I watched him self the first two plates together when I found his channel last spring.
OMG THIS IS AWESOME I WAS JUST WATCHING SV SEEKER AND I HAVE BEEN SUBED TO BOTH OF YOU GUYS FOR A WHILE AND I SAW THIS VIDEO RIGHT BESIDE SV SEEKER. AWESOME VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it Luke. :)
@@DangarMarine OMG you responded you guys are my FAVORIT UA-camRS I HAVE TO SHOW MY GRANDPARENTS THIS BECAUSE WE LEARNED ALL ABOUT BOATS FROM YOUR UA-cam CHANEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Almost everything I bought before I needed it I regretted..." I can agree and I have to remember this badly!!
I can relate BIG TIME. They're starting to use aerial shots of my place for 'after" shots when covering the storms that go though....lol
Absolutely amazing! Every video just keeps me from doing anything I need to do myself! It's like a great movie or a book you just can't put down! I'm hoping that it's less than 18 months and we get to see this amazing and extraordinary boat in the water serving its purpose for all. There's so many things I'm sure were unexpected and they're just knocking them out one by one and doing a damn good job. Most people would've quit or cut corners anywhere they could've. This takes so much patience and skill. I'm amazed more and more with every video I watch. Good luck and keep the videos coming!
Looks like I have another channel to watch. The man has a plan. Can't wait for the launch and the sea trials. Thanks Stewey ! Have a safe trip home. Hope the boat is still afloat !
Thanks John, me too!
Lover your sense of humor, definitely a rare man .
Been hangin out for this for a while now. Great to see you and Doug going thru talking and comparing notes etc. Use to watch SV Seeker a lot but not so much these days but watching Dangar has been a nice local replacement to it. Thanks Stu for bringing us all along with you. See you on the next one... ;-}
Thanks Shane! :)
Really good show, its great everyone knows each other.
WOW ! THE ENTIRE VIDEO WAS ASSUME ! My two most favourites boatmen...Doug you are the guy ,, scientific director for little money ..great spirit sir .
Hope you're each other's christening...thanks so much..
Great video you guy's , great laughs..great tour ! From California. Namaste..
I have been You Tubing for years, have never been interested in pushing the LIKE button.... Until I saw the story about SV Seeker. Way to go Doug!!! Love what you're doing, Hope to see your project in person one day!!!
The most striking thing about SV Seeker is being DIY boat the level of craftsmanship is excellent much better than even high quality brand name construction. That is a great tribute to Doug in striving for excellence, the best that can be!! Crusty old man has high standards and is hard to beat!
Go Doug!
It's so cool to see the boat painted. When years ago it was just 2 steel sheets welded together haha
He certainly has come a long way in that time.
Really loved watching this. Two of my favourite you tubers that I have followed from their earliest days.
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it. :)
Been watching thid since you started. Ex Navy, served during the Korean War. At 86, I was hopping to see if it would float, but I can see it might take awhile. I wish youwell smooth sailing. Ol Ron
6:05 Nice to hear a little love for Keith Fenner at Turn Wright Machine Works. One of my favourite channels for making hot chips. :-)
What a great visit! I follow both your channels and I enjoy them both. Good Job gents!
Thanks mate.
Nice visit with Doug and lots of good information. Looks like your having a great holiday.
Thanks Richard, we are having a great time.
Nice video, glad you are enjoying the States.
A mulit-year SV seeker viewer. Once again great minds meet!
cool. I watch his channel but not all the time. Good to see how much the boats come along
I love it when two UA-cam channels I watch come together on one channel.
I sent the 1st video about this build to my wife. I said "Be happy i'm not THIS GUY".
This is the kind of stuff I like to build in my shop. Only on a smaller scale.
Currently building a HOT ROD 37' Motorcoach with a 450 HP motor.
LOL
This was great! It's like a crossover event with my most favorite boat channel and my third favorite boat channel!
Glad you enjoyed it Randy.
SV Seeker is an amazing project and Doug is as entertaining as dedicated guy I love his videos. Great video Stu! Many trawler owners from USA are a bit reluctant to steel boats. I’m glad this motorsailer is steel, love metal! 😊
Metal is a great material to work with for sure.
So... been following Acorn to Arabella for several weeks, and just found SV Seeker about 10 days ago. And been following you, Stu, for a couple of months (in all cases, binge-watched the episodes prior to my discovery of these projects to catch up on everything). Gotta say I've been hugely happy to see you visit the guys at Arabella and Doug at SV Seeker while you're visiting the States!
This is incredible to me! All the guys I admire doing the work I enjoy seeing all meeting up and supporting each other-- what a gratifying thing all this is. I truly love it.
I follow a couple of other projects as well: a young man restoring a 109 year old sailing yacht, Tally Ho! And a young couple building a George Buehler-designed (not positive on the spelling of that name), sail boat from scratch-- “Redivival” (Salt and Tar is their channel). Very impressed with both.
(A word about George Buehler designs: in the general snobbery of boating, his name is scoffed at due to his 'hard chines' and usage of materials considered sub-standard for marine usage. I read his book years ago (or one of them, anyway-- unsure if he wrote more than one), and found his methodology and philosophy on all that entirely plausible and sound. His designs have all been built dozens or hundreds of times over throughout the world, and apparently no-one has perished due to poor design. A builder using his designs can certainly make it more robust as they build. Enough on that...)
The Salt and Tar duo are four years into their build, and Garrett has certainly shown some major woodworking skills-- he just completed the bowsprit, and it's truly a work of art! They're in Central California, along the coast. Perhaps you can pop up there from Pasadena for a moment or two while you're in California? Just asking...
Anyway, I love all that you do: from the Green Machine to engine rebuilds to your major trawler refurbish... love it all. And I look forward to your videos every week. Carry on!
A side note: also been following a guy building a 41' George Buehler- designed boat, and he's making some stunning progress. He's no boatwright or shipwright, but he is a competent carpenter. I don't begin to agree with all his methodology, but he does command his talents with skill and determination. Worth a look...
It's really coming along! Love the paint!
He has made great progress.
..........just like the idea of the 'barbeque pit' in the corner of the wheelhouse, that's the way to live !
Can’t believe I missed you while in the states!!!! Glad to see you doing some touring, keep up the great work!
Next time, we'll be back. :)
Awesome collaboration between you guys.
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it.
Loving the tour of the United States. Welcome to our country!
Good man, will watch the progress with great enthusiam ...well done.
Enjoyed the heck out of this video. Good luck with your dream.
That episode was flat out fun.
Great vid, thoroughly enjoyed this..brings back memories of helping build a mates dad's similar chinese junk over nearly ten years..ironically 29 yrs later, it now sits unloved on the next row in the marina I'm at now, waiting for a new owner..hmm.
Great to see you two bounce off each other - ATB
Been watching SV Seeker from the start, but sad to say only found you about three years back, but now an avid follower.
Great video and enjoyed it a lot.
Thanks for watching Neil!
I love how this 'chinese style' boat is even painted in Chinese inspired colours!
I was looking forward to this one. Love the tours of other channels. Keep going!
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it. :)
Why would anybody give a thumbs down to this guy for what he has accomplished.
Stephen Taylor SMH, just haters and jealous
Some people are just stupid and like to troll people trying to be positive like this guy. Perhaps someone that has more time than me feel free to go troll the person trolling this guy. Go harass them for a change. I would if I had time.
Because the world is popped full of pussys and pieces of shit
Little Kids passing through...immature brats.
coz its a free world,we cant all go the same direction as if we are water,theres a ton of reasons why anybody could "thumbthis down"
great work! the fact that you can also sail with the mast is excellent I recommend solar panels also
I first seen this on a channel i think was called. Awesome things i made or something like that. This boat is amazing! Great work sir
Loved it! I wonder who will finish their build first...
boot city was 5 min from my house. Right there on us 41, wish i knew you were stopping there i would come down and said hello. Keep up the video's buddy cant wait to see what happens when you get home. Hope you got a friend keeping a eye on your boat to check for leaks or make sure the bilge pumps are still working.
Next time, and yes, the boat is being watched closely.
Great video sorry I missed it the meet up. Going to try see Dougs boat in the summer. Cheers Stu
Been watching Doug for years! Each episode is better then the last! Doug, watched JAWS one to many times!
Don't know about watching the movie Jaws... Watching the real thing will tend to set your caution level really high too...
Great tour!!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to share. Must have been a tough interview. Doug seems very intense. 👍👍👍👍👍
He is, but only about boat building. Hanging out with him was fun and effortless.
God I cant wait to see this thing running amd operating.
Hi Stu.
That word appeared again. I found this:
"American readers are used to aluminum, while British audiences prefer aluminium. While aluminum was the original spelling of the element, many scientific communities have standardized around aluminium, so if you are writing for a scientific journal, that might be your best choice."
Thanks for another great vlog.
I live just a few miles down the road from Boot City in Terre Haute really wished I knew you were going to be there would have come to see you
That prop works much like an airplane prop ! I watched a lot of when and how she was being built. A very interesting ongoing project for sure !
Great video. Living vicariously!
THE MOST IMPRESSIVE GENTLEMAN I'VE EVER SEEN ! 🇺🇸
Stu! Good to cya buddy hope all is well and hope you have a great weekend drink a cold 1 for us! Cheers Mate!
Thanks mate!
Variable pitch propulsion systems amazing piece of machinery that is common place in small ships mainly..love it..
Laughed when you said "see how I'm not trying to interrupt so much". Best interview/overview yet, barely a cringe moment mate haha. Great to get the macro details on SV Seeker, so many videos of the smaller stuff on the channel makes it hard to see the overall picture.
R P bit of a different rhythm in conversations in different countries. As a Midwesterner I do find the Australian rhythm sometimes exhausting - it’s so fast back and forth.
I totally agree....SV Seeker should use this video as a Tour of the Boat reference video.....
Apparently there's this new thing called binge watching. The back episodes of these 2 channels would give you a couple of days of that. Add Brupeg and Life on the hulls and there's a week's worth.
Thanks mate, glad you liked it.
@@earthwizz There would also be S/V Mistress and the liveaboard-on-water outfitting on a shoestring Rhys of S/V Zora did/does in the metal branch, and, to look into "other" materials, too, You could add Leo Sampson's Tally Ho, Steve'n Alix with Arabella (from -scratch- Acorn... ), Tapatya and the occasional earlier Lou Sauzette project vid called "tips of a shipwright". You probably don't have to leave the telly-armchair for the rest of the year this way (should there be a snooze-function ... 😄)
Darn wish I knew you were in Indiana I would of love to meet you, yeah boot city is a funny place. Hope you enjoy your trip.
We'll be back there, have friends who live there.
What an enjoyable video that was, fantastic. 👍
I really think the wife had as much fun at the meet up as I did. Great to meet you, your dad and Doug. Have a safe rest of your trip.
Thanks mate. Glad to meet you both!
Well done great creation stuff. Watching from London uk. Big fun of you. Peace.
Welcome to USA Mate! Liked also your tour with Dad at the stop in west Mass w the Acorn guys!!
Thanks mate!
Saw one of the first vids... STUNNING to see the progress!! 👍🏻👍🏻
He certainly has come a long way!
Dangar Marine Dang.. I am amazed.... please never give up
In the main cargo hull with "decorative" bracing you will see that those as well, are works of art. In he shape of a beautiful woman. Quite fitting if you ask me. Embracing the safety and vitals of all that is important for the journey to come. Love this boat and bless all on board. Can't wait to see what explorations and discoveries to be. 28:40
I can just see you getting a price on some 6mm steel when you get back home, Stu. A very entertaining look at Seeker, enjoyed it.
It is very tempting to build something from scratch for sure.
This is a really good looking ship!
Came over from SV Seeker! Time to go alllll the way back to the beginning and watch here now. **rubs hands together greedily** I'm excited about this.
Enjoy. :)
I've watched the Seeker since it was a pile of sheet metal on the ground. The journey has already been long. Regards, Solomon
Thanks for the tour Stu Well done mate
You're welcome. :)
Dang and I thought I was crafty for putting a Big Block Chevy in a 1972 Vega.
Bravo 👍👌 vous êtes un génie... vôtre bateau est génial vivement la suite des vidéos.
I'm sorry no speak english... I am french 🇫🇷
Very good ...
👏👏👏👏
Awesome walk through