Building a cruising sailboat Kerry does some welding and I do some low-tech cabinet making!! This is the story of the building of a Jay Benford designed, 31....

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oh well it's a beautiful day spring is

well and truly springing warm - we're in

on the old Volvo engine project project

fun may let these blocks for that for

the rear engine mounts you see that one

in position plan tom is not welded yet

but made up two of these or for its size

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warum on the topic of welding I invested

in this new world in Moscow you may have

noticed that my welding technology is

rather old-fashioned chorizo and you

know back in late seventies about 1980

maybe I did a one week long welding

course so my logic knowledge mainly

stems from back then and technology

progresses a bit doesn't it

okay I'd seen these on on YouTube

whatever and then our local DIY store

for selling a motor carrier nah we never

read a look together two different

models they had one was about twice the

price of the other one I'd be good look

at them decided to choose the cheaper of

the two it's a brilliant thing now if

you know in from that welding you'll

know all about this button it's new to

me LCD all in masks they automatically

go down so you know with the

old-fashioned world of NASA I'm used to

you have to sort of hold it aside look

where you're going to strike your arc

and then before you strike you put your

mask in front and sort of try not to

remove your hands on these things and

excuse me if I'm teaching my grandmother

to suck a tit these things you can see

through them perfectly well as soon as

you strike the arc they can up in 0.0003

of a second the tens hundreds of

thousands a 30-30 thousands of a second

is it another three three hundred

thousandths of a second there's a tens

hundreds thousands ten thousands three

ten thousandth of a second it's supposed

to get dark in three and a half

we're in half 10,000 for a second I

don't know they do something about that

quick it goes start quite quickly we

could that we can say and it's brilliant

it's really brilliant you can see what

you're doing you strike you're out

looking at what you're doing instead of

the old striking you're up blind thing

and and you can watch your world it's

not quite as dark as the standard one

that I'm used to so you can see the

world really well but it's dark enough

to not you know there's we're very very

good and because it's you've got two

hands we as opposed to one that's

holding this I'm the holding the screen

no cool so fantastic thing I think is

about 30 something euros now Gary yeah

he's nodding so good deal comes with a

couple of spare screens I keep it at the

boxer stop scratching it a wonderful

thing I recommend

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so what did you think of the mask Carrie

so you can see what you're doing exactly

yeah yeah all right

all right very good I'm welding easy yes

yes basic stick rolling piece little bit

of practice especially with thick metal

it's this it's not hard as it yeah yeah

that's well done in this part open doing

a lot of work in the heads this week and

basically the construction is almost

finished there are many things that are

missing the two two side pieces to come

down for this curious under under sink

wolf basin covered versus done so but

the covered in with two she'll was under

the workbench that almost finished

really this side of the shelf in

position and a puff the word top of the

the medicine cupboard clearly all

laughing door wasn't shelf won't have a

door Elizabeth don't think so thought

was to come their doors become they're

thought to come in or drop him bulwark

up there and one of those run away even

for us famous not even for us just

famous as he's not even that is it one

of my Scott style dropping boards now I

was going to say a couple of words about

my construction technique for galley

cupboards and all of this and that

technique is pretty low-tech that's what

it boils down to it obviously you know

that person could build beautiful

furniture or properly and fit it in

position I tend to go far but sort of

fast but functional so as you see as you

see now you screws I glue the screw

required a lot together pieces tend to

be parted with perhaps a reinforcing bit

behind if need be and the thinking is

that that obviously work tops are all

going to be covered in for like a so any

screws that go down through the worktop

I'm not an issue

it'll be covered the Front's I'm gonna

paint so we're kind of a color scheme in

here belong to the worktop will be grey

and above the word tops will be the

pearl white got elsewhere same idea in

the galley you carry through the color

scheme grief for the cabinet's

I did talk about Spain and them did

mother I decided to paint them bright

and white above so that means that you

know if I use any screws through the

fascia it's not the issue this I put a

bit of filler over them the screw heads

are filled over I was painted you won't

see them so that enables a very very

simple construction technique which is

your strong punch and all of them will

look fine it's not a piece of polished

wood antique furniture but functional

boat furniture it is it goes to get it

quite quickly and my thoughts on that

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so hopefully been paid for the toilet

that's real come on and Ponte

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what's that awesome

mincing cabinet is my shadow in it

that's just to give you an idea where we

are

there's a door clearly purpose

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alright guys that's it for this week

thanks for watching and see you next

time to get on to put some work um it's

very healthy in these curious times

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satsanghs

let's see tell me when you go into the

decisively what's your destination

tell me about we can move together where

revenge is about running free

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it a removable stay would be the way to

go after all we do have a working jib so

this stay would only be used when we run

long tacks

and what it'll do is create that bow in

the center of the mask

that'll give that right shape to the

mass to make our main perform better

guaranteed an interstate like a sincere

interstate and then you'll you'll sail

with a lot more peace of mind for sure

and that's synthetic as well you're

saying why not you're not gonna Hank a

sale on it right and and it's not a

tease and how do you split tension on

that just a block and tackle at the

bottom how do you tension it sure sure

or a high field lever right if you have

fixed link yes dude yeah cuz blocking

tackles sometimes it's hard to get

enough tension on it like right if you

really want to constrain the behavior of

the mast it'd be great if you if it was

like when you threw the lever up right

was the length right that put the

positive pretty bend in the tube right

and that was the end of the conversation

and what's that gonna do for the head

cell is it gonna slack that no the head

stays controlled by the backstage okay

so you're just gonna take the middle

section the middle panel of the mast and

give it a positive prebend the way they

like to be and then what what'll happen

then is is that when you're when you're

sailing deep briefed and powered up your

leech won't be dragging the center of

the mass back right I bet you when

you're sailed this sailing this reef

that mass gets deeply inverted right

another thing is is if you have an

interstate to pause a positive prebend

then when you put the runners on you're

actually going to control the top at the

masthead better because right now when

you pull those back the whole mass the

mass would love do it continue inverting

into a buckle this way right it's nature

of a column right right so when you

tighten these you're actually putting

more negative inversion into them just

due to plain old compression

right you're like it's like a bow yeah

so but if you have an interstate that

that check that negative movement when

you loaded the runners who would

actually let it would bring the

mast-head back so that would help push

the midsection forward to some extent

especially the heavy load on the main

cantilever it you know to some extent it

would deep our domain another thing we

talked about was really exciting to me

and it was adding a light wind sail

adding a pull off of our bow and running

a screecher or code zero and leading it

aft that to me is what we really need

you know our jib here our new ninety

percent jib it's a great sale but it's

not gonna do it in ultra light winds

that's where that screecher

or code zero is gonna come in handy

because I want to put tracks here with

other jammer I want to put a code zero

on here the office creature and it'll

run off that and then actually blocked

over these positions let's get started

there's sign up she's over there - so

the big takeaway from this whole meeting

was we knew we needed to you know

obviously modify this rig it's an older

rig

but some of the things he said was

encouraging I think he really got a kick

out of flying up her mast and looking

how this boat has been put together you

know this isn't the original mass that

was on our boat and to make this mass

work the rigger had to get creative and

John could appreciate that some of the

things he thought were innovative some

things he got a kick out of some things

he flat out giggled at so it was a good

time it was insightful and you know

we're gonna take his advice on

everything he said because these are

items that we knew were issues items

that we knew we had to take care of and

it felt good to have somebody like John

come on board and just confirm our

original thoughts

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so our next step is now tail is going

through and looking at everything that

we need and I'm talking making a list of

all the parts evaluating the condition

that what we have currently is in and

just taking stock of what we need in

order to get this all together it's a

lot to take in and you don't really

realize how much you have to have in

order for one thing to pull together

it's not just like buying a boom and

just slapping it on and calling it a day

there's a lot more to it than that one

steel gets the list down then I come in

and do my work I absolutely love doing

the research and resourcing trying to

source out where we're gonna get these

items you know it's some of these things

you can buy at the marine store

ready-made but there are other things

that it's gonna take a little time

you're gonna have to have that special

customized and made for you so you know

we have to figure all that out whilst we

get all the pricing down then we have to

set our budget yes we set budgets for

ourselves anybody that says that they

don't have a budget

you're lying I mean we're all human and

this is going to be a huge and

kind of spendy project so we budget for

everything that we do once that budget

is set then we break down all of our

projects what we need and can do right

now some of these items will take time

to place the order and and just figure

out when it's going to be coming in you

know the boom is not ready-made these

are made special for your vote and it's

designed for your boat so that can take

up to four weeks we don't know so it's

it's a lot and then aside from that you

know now that spring and summer is near

and the weather is getting better we're

going to be on the move anytime that

there's a nice weather window we're

gonna be taking the opportunity to sail

down the coast which means logistics

wise we have to plan where our orders

are going to be coming in we're not

gonna order everything all at once and

just carry that on board so since we've

left Port Townsend I have been trying to

anticipate and plan all of Till's

projects so when we go into a port I

want to make sure that we have the parts

I want to make sure that it's been

ordered if it's something that takes a

little bit longer so imagine placing an

order and not having an actual address

so

that has been a struggle but it hasn't

been too bad my main I guess advice to

anyone that's doing this is get to know

the port and marina get to know the

personnel there they can be your best

friends

I have called ahead introducing

ourselves and letting them know that

we're gonna be there and maybe I'm going

to ship something over there to them

they usually keep it really safe for us

and it just gives us that much more of a

connection there's a lot to take in and

my brain already hurts

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so that was a productive day and I think

it's time for us to annoyed and what I

mean by unwinding is just having some

family time over a meal and just

relaxing just kind of taking it in of

what we've done it's a balancing act

when it got comes to boat projects and

family life because you know you gotta

have a little bit of both

so our biggest thing is after dinner and

you guys know that food is really

important to me is we sit back and play

a card game or we do a board game and

most recently with movies we watch a lot

of movies not only do I love movies I

love Messick gums and it's so funny

because since we've left Seattle there's

been really no TV for us so we've been

really creative in trying to find things

that we all are really interested in one

of the things is as we've got into ports

we've done a little research to find

movies that have been filmed in those

areas first in Port Townsend

there's the officer and gentleman we had

to watch that and then in Port Angeles

there was returned to Red October and

that was really interesting

then of course La Push we went and

watched or we watched at the Twilight

series so now that we're in Astoria

obviously there's been a lot of movies

I've been filmed in this area but did

you know that the Goonies house is just

right up the street from us so tonight

we're gonna be watching The Goonies and

having a meal

so if you watched our previous video

you'll understand that we are carnivores

actually we're omnivores but we are

right in the middle of Lent and is

Friday so we do not eat meat

tonight I'm going to be making crab mac

and cheese this is all the ingredients I

have on board already

it sounds decadent well it kind of is

but this is crabs @mn teal caught

locally and I have a freezer full of it

so why not indulge

let's eat you gonna say crap mac and

cheese let's eat that looks delicious

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