Time to Fibreglass the cabin! // wooden boat building (EP43)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- With Iefke still away Matt pushes on with the cabin prep and fibreglassing, this involves plenty of sanding, preparation and trenching the main cabin light cable in the cabin.
In this video you will see the ups and downs of boat building, a small mistake can lead to a big change and some quick action needed!
Sit back and enjoy.
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Hey all, Thankyou for the lovely comments rolling in! For anyone curious on what the Fibreglass cloth weight is - 450 Double Bias cloth.
... nice recovery ... love the bleeps ...
Hahaha thanks! It was a lucky one!
I loved Iefke’s bleeping each one made me laugh
I'm really impressed by what the two of you have accomplished, best of luck !
Thanks!!
Ditto...once again to the positive comments!
Thanks so much for responding to my comment, it means a lot. Too many channels ask for comments, however, they never respond. To me that means "they" just want the clicks, but when you respond it means you are taking the time away from building and your personal down-time to respond. I binged on all your videos over the coarse of a few days, REALLY REALLY enjoyed the journey and you now have a faithful viewer. Keep up the good work! Cheers from North Carolina
Oh no worries! It’s the least we can do after you comment and watch our videos! Hopefully we can keep you entertained!
Thanks again, Matt and Ief
Thanks for the heads up on The Duracell project, another wonderful mix of education, inspiration and humour in the company of a really lovely young couple. very much like yourselves
Matt’s (Duracell) a brilliant boat builder!
Yeah he’s amazing!
Yep Duracell is a great one to watch and learn, quite calm and informative
@@Building_a_Boat_by_the_RiverReally enjoying your vids as well. We have a cold moulded tri and it’s fascinating seeing the wffort go into wood boat building
I love the chickens clucking in the background. It reminds me of Pancho from Sampson boat Co.
They are pretty cute those chickens!
Way to pull the rabbit out of the hat, Matt! Good gob!
hahah yep!
Outstanding recovery, that took some character not quitting when a problem arises. Carry on, both of you are doing a stellar job.
Great recovery
Thanks!!
You are doing a great job and will end up owning a beautiful boat!
Looks good - you are making big mixes down there in Tassie. With big jobs, even those up to 1130 triax and a vacuum bag, I don't presaturate the base (foam or ply) before a big job. If you can work a squeegee well there is no need to presaturate the base to ensure a better bond. You can pin or tape the glass in place, get everything nice and set up on a dry base and then epoxy the laminate. I oversaturate a little and then pull a bit back out with the squeegee - anyone can do it. This technique allowed me to glass the hulls (one full 38ft side) of my cat on my own - I could not have done it on a wet substrate. There are absolutely no worries with doing this method - I still have the 38 ft cat I did this with first time back about 27 years ago and she is still as tight as a drum with no laminate issues - so go dry next time and make it easier on yourself. I do use presaturating the base on some large jobs - but rarely - such as when I am glassing upside down, but I try to avoid that if at all possible.
Good job Matt..nice recovery.
Nice safe my friend! Good to see all is well in the end - and what a great result! 👍👍👍
Excellent editing of the expletive deletives. You had your work cut out Iffie. Personally I would have been throwing things Matt. Glad you saved your day👍
I’m awfully proud of Matt for persevering and overcoming the fiberglass mess! 🎉
Thankyou! It was a full commitment job, had to get it right or the mess would have been too much once the epoxy cured
well done 🙂
Thankyou!!
Wow that was quite the stressful day for you Matt but you managed to overcome that's all that matters. Cabin Top looks great.
Yes the end result was worth it!
Those wonderful invention hand grinders can kick back and take a nice chunk out of your arm narrowly missing an artery. Never happened to me, haha.
Well done! Great job!
Cheers!
Another great vid, thanks
No worries! It seems you almost up to date!
It always seems worse when you're in the thick of it! Great recovery! It'll look fantastic
Yes true that! A lucky save haha
Beep, beep! The urgency of your situation brought us right there with you. Though yer pal Obie seemed totally unfazed. 😂. Nice save!
Oh man, Obie is our cool calm and collected idol. Hahah
When you are doing a hundred tasks a day, you have to expect the odd mistake. law of averages. You handled it very well. Onwards!
Yes that is true! It’s also good to share them, prove we are all human and it happens.
I think the end results after the recovery it looks great. I also love how you thought ahead and concealled the cabling while you could.
Yeah we were not sure if people would find the cable choice bad, but we are super happy it is hidden now
@@Building_a_Boat_by_the_Riverwhat is the cable for?
A valid question that we didn’t actually explain! It’s for our central light that hangs over the saloon table. A very tricky one to run a cable from the inside and make it look nice
@@Building_a_Boat_by_the_River once all the fibre glass is over no issues with strength or integrity. I would do the exact same if/when i build a boat or campervan etc. I guess some might have concerns that someone could potentionally drive a screw through it.
Good save👏
Nice save.
that work bench around the edge is genius! It must be so nice to use.
Oh mate it’s the best! Total game changer haha
When I was re-wiring my old gaff ketch, I would have loved to have that sort of brilliance in my lights. I used multiple LEDs on a PCB to get enough light.
The way you stay cool 😀💪💪 top job!!
Oh thanks! Yep getting it done!
Respect. The lift-up was spectactular and well executed. It takes courage to stop and re-do a thing like that on the fly. Love to join you there and lend a hand, but Tazz, you know, is half a world away from Amsterdam. Maybe later!
Yeah had to make a decision and it was to get it perfect, luckily it worked out ok!
PERFECT Sunday, your video and 3 rugby matches terminating 6 Nations Tournament with France-England this evening and loads of looks at me on the livingroom couch...cheers. richard Normandy, France
Saturday....lost myself there....
Beeap - - Beeap. Yer killin' me. Hahahahahaha. Matt, yer varied skills are right up there. Having the tenacity to roll that back and reset - nice. What I lack in skills, I make up for with dogged determination. BTW, I'll shout you out next time I comment on The Durrecell Project. Y'all need more recognition.
Oh thanks! Glad we made you laugh, we don’t beep much on camera! Would be great if you can leave a comment, we really love their project and how they tackle their fibreglassing jobs, makes it look so easy!
Yep, for others or for future glassing, when laying out dry for the original fit and cut, make a few registration marks with a marker. When relaying wet, just line these up properly and usually you wont have this struggle. But you did perfectly well with the recovery.
Yes that’s a good idea for next time! Almost prepared enough… next time will be perfect hopefully haha
When we were working with glass, we'd also mark STB and PT, and even numbers, to indicate where each piece was supposed to be. When you get to glassing the deck, we marked each section on both the deck and the glass so we got the appropriate piece where it should go.
Great save, hard going on your own but you got there
Yep it was a lucky one!
Minor miscalculation on the placement, lol! In the end you got it, well done.
Bin there! Done that ! Well saved!
Oh yeah, it’s always a bit of fun! Good luck with Petrel!
Not sure if anyone else mentioned this - but it is best to do a continuity check on those cable cores before glassing them in.
Oh yep a good point! We have a light already running off it actually. Works great!
Just wanted to let you know that when Leo launches Tally Ho this year I will transfer my Patreon donations which have been quite considerable over the 6 years from Tally Ho to your project. Of course when you Launch Tarkine you can then transfer back to my Resto - Petrel! We are all such dreamers!
Oh that’s so kind of you! And what is the Petrel restoration? Australian boat?
nice save
Dedicated perseverance wins out once again. Good save!
We put thin duct tape on the inside of lenses to tone them down. Masking tape works but the light turnes blue!
Oh yes nice idea!
Great job, beep!
Beeeeeeep!
No question that you bit off a lot, but not more than you could correct. I've done this kind of thing and it's akin to herding cats. Well done Matt.
Yes very true! Gotta dream and work big! Still looking forward to growing a third arm and hand hahaha
Matt,
Well recovered. There are some other ways about going about the fibreglassing though it gets tougher on the exterior of the hull. My offer of about a week ago is serious, and it remains open. Still no rush. I love what you are doing with a traditional design but using more modern materials. From experience, it is difficult to incorporate "modern" technology into a "traditional" design and still keep the traditional values intact. I think I have done that twice. Another challenge will come later when it gets to the instrumentation you choose, and where it goes. Doing it sympathetically with your boat will likely be important. Though that comes later.
I love what you are doing.
Loffy
Hey Loffy, yes we got your email and thinking about the lovely offer of yours, we really appreciate the thought and generosity! We will be in touch soon.
Cheers
Nice to see that you make Geert-Jan of good use. 👍
Hahaha you should have seen him polishing the portholes!
A good save there with your glassing. That looked like a pretty skillful reset of a wet sheet of some size with corners, many others would have ended that session with a nasty bin full of waste.
Yes! That is true, I guess the driving force was we didn’t want to buy anymore and we had just enough to do it!
Great recovery with that very tense maneuver. Not everyone could/would have saved it. love watching you two.
Hahah yeah it was an interesting moment, but glad I did it.
Mr Calm - cool - and collected.
Nice job: being an old Navy guy, I can teach you a few things to say at certain times if you wish. :)
Mr calm yes! Gotta keep your cool, thanks!
If I stuffed up like that, you would hear a lot more beeping than you! Well done on your restraint.
Hahah thanks, yeah it happens!
Great job of persevering through a difficult situation and coming out with a great resolution. Don't know many people who could have saved it. Great job, keep up the good work.
Oh thanks! Really didn’t want to have to join and glass so it had to come up again! And it worked luckily
All's well that ends well. Tense moment but great recovert.
Yes exactly! The beer tasted good that afternoon
Lovely music for a lovely project. (With nose of excellent doggo.)
Keep up the good work 👏
Thanks!!
Almost at 10, guys! Keep it up! 🤩🥰
Sooooo close now!!
Great recovery. Fun to watch cause many of us have Been There & Done That ... Yesterday as a matter of fact!!
Haha glad you could reminisce a little on your adventures also!
OMG, I didn’t think you were gonna make it, what a beautiful save, I mean it, now that right there took some skill!!!! Obie, the Inspector, approved all your work in the end, and he is a real stickler, by the rules kind of Inspector you know! What a great episode!
Great video. Good on you for leaving the cockup in the video.
Dimmers for led bulbs
A least it wasn't chopped strand mat,😁😁 Matt
Oh man, yeah we haven’t touch that stuff yet, and don’t really plan to
Put a resistor in the line and try different values to achieve the brightness that you like. this actually reduces the voltage and softens the light. LED's usually operate on a voltage range.
I felt your pain! Well recovered 👍🏻👏🏼
All's well that ends well!
Exactly! It finished up fine so we are happy!
Love watching, nice save
Glad your enjoying! Cheers
Well recovered. I am just about to make a new tender and hope the fibre glassing id turns as well as yours. Your fillets looked exceptionally nice.
Hey Tim thanks! Filleting is actually quite fun once you get he hang of it and it can look really neat with a steady hand and some time
I have time but a steady hand is more debatable.
I had some serious secondary PTSD there… totally know that anxiety in the middle of glassing a big “thing!” Y’all are doing great.
Yeah, it really gets the blood pumping when doing a fibreglass job! Especially alone and the size of it
Oh Matt! "Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell!"...my father's homily!
Ah no, I’m all caught up. Just have to wait till you post another episode. I’ve also been watching Mads from Duracell Project. Have you seen Andy from Boatworks Today? Fibreglass guru. Also Acorn to Arabella and of course Leo from Tally Ho on the Sampson Boat Co channel. Tally Ho was actually built just down the road from me in Shoreham by Sea ar Stows boat yard which is now the site of the Sussex Yacht Club where I’m refitting my own little project. Keep em coming 😊
I’m not sure I could pull off a save like that one.Way to keep calm and carry on.The project is coming along nicely,thanks for sharing and taking us along.
Such impressive work ⛵️
Thanks!
Another cool video and really enjoy you taking the time and effort away from the boat to use to record video so that people from all over the world can hear your dream and then watch it come to fruition.
Worst...did it before prolly will again! Goodonyas fir the save!
Nice save
Thanks 👍
Use a squeegee like surfboard builders!! Much quicker. No peelply? Saves a lot of sanding later
Let the first stone be thrown by the one among you who has not "biiip" a fiberglass job !
Hahah very true! It’s definitely always a bit of a beep session
Great save
Thanks!
Beep.
😂
Beep..
Keep chipping away guys!
Keep beeping on!
Take pictures and measurements of where the wire runs so when you have to install anything on the deck you won't cut the wire
Yep! We did that, and photos, so hopefully nothing goes through the cable!
Cheers to the pleasure of “the learning curve “. Keep moving forward!
but you got it done.
Do you use peel ply, also what are those sanding discs you're using?
Mighty effort you've both done here, it is a massive build, really impressive stuff
Why using fibreglass for the cabin?
How is the rudderwork going on? I’m kind of curious, as I‘m at the same challenge 😅.
Cheers guys ❤
Hahah glassing the cabin to protect the plywood and make it stronger and we only used one layer of 12mm plywood. We will lay a wooden deck on top also and wanted a good base to glue to.
The rudder…. Yes we have paused that one until we can work it out, they are very difficult things!
Nice work mate have you watched any Life on the Hulls mat?
Yep Rosco a winner
Ooooh no not yet but we will have a look!
Amazing work single-handed. Mat you keep boat building accessible, inspiring on how it's done raw and real. All the channels you have mentioned have sponsorship, many hands and keep us real folks a few steps away. I'll probably not vacuum bag or hire out , but I will be in both your shoes. You are courageous, diving in with inspiring ingenuity and creative skill. The boat is beautiful and so are the two of you.
Oh thankyou so much for your lovely words! Glad we can be an inspiration to some! We always hope more people take the dive and give it a go, it’s a great obsession and so much fun!
For some channels yes, but I wouldn’t say for Duracell. Matt’s working hard on that project and has been very responsive to messages I’ve sent to him, plus he and Janni are very down to earth. Same as Ross from Life on the Hulls. Such a change to the La Vags and Delos’ off the world
Good sa
Good save
Are you building a coracle on the deck?
For electrical now its a bit different so think different. My current boat I'm not wiring in as many lights (still 5 in my galley alone) but using rechargeable usb-c lights...and other appliances. Instead of bedding that wire in, you could have built a mount for a rechargeable light or simply a rechargeable battery for a trad light. Pop it out every couple of months to recharge or swap for a spare. Apple finally switched to usb c so figure it will be around for a decade or two. Rechargeable lights are cheap (maybe 3 bucks each) and require sticking a magnetic strip down. Some turn on and off with an app. If you go with Victron controllers and chargers...you can see how your boat is doing when your away from your boat. Ideas.