The stainless work in the cockpit/bimini area nears completion; I light the Dickinson Bristol diesel stove for the first time in over 25 years; the rudder gets some end plates; the shed gets a darned good clear out as we near the start of the keel build.

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Tony

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we see it all in black and white and

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soon we'll see what it's about

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hi i'm tony this is esv de patra we're

building this

cruising sailboat she's a jay benford

designed sailing dory junk schooner

rigged will be

and designed to travel

the waters of the world i guess oceans

seas and also inland waterways

started off this week as you saw making

the first stanchions that will form the

railings will be the complete railings

safety rails around the top of the boat

and these

corner stanchions here are

important to get in because they tie in

with the bimini i'm waiting on some more

stainless at the moment but you'll see

in due course that that stanchion is is

connected in with the bimini structure

and becomes

part of the part of the structure of

that

the

going to come in somewhere

around there

now we're going to find that where it's

going to come out

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let's see what happens

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there we are so where have we got there

perfect actually

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so

the writings on the inside would be nice

sorry

put the nut on so the writing on the nut

is on the inside of it that was very

nice yeah

and the washer the right around

that should come through can you see

that

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yeah so

there that is

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and the idea is is that where these

brackets are there'll be rails

that connect

let's show them around there

connect onto the bimini half structure

once they're in place i think i should

throw a tarp over the bimini

tie that down to those rails and get it

tucked up a bit for the winter because

it's sopping wet it's very moist time of

year and leaves are falling

starting to fall and they will only get

more

so we have to tuck her up a bit soon

and cover it up

but there you go they look good i'm

pleased with that as i say these these

rails that are coming in here till that

together

make it a bit more structurally sound

very safe as well solid rails there

um i've still got to do a bit of

polishing i don't polish the stainless

yet still

but uh that's to come

so coming up there with solid then it'll

be wireless on some stanchions on the

raised deck

forward to the pulpit at the front which

you can see behind me there

the aft end here

spin around like that

we have a loop or an arch thing that

comes up that the aft sheets that our

cell sheet or main cell sheet

connects to

and something going back there obviously

the tillers coming through there

wind vane being mounted on the back

that's still not 100 clear how it's

going to go and some sort of opening

gateway in here

for for boarding

or axis or swimming or nice things and

the final step for now on the bimini

structure was to get these diagonal

truss pieces in there

screw through to be really top

connected in makes it all good and solid

and a nice grip to grab onto as you're

swinging yourself out to go forwards

come out well i think

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you think of that there

i can't tell from that there but

i hope it's gonna look good

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so with autumn

approaching

one of the things i wanted to do was to

to fire up the trusty old

dixon stove you know you remember a

while back if you've been following

that i

basically completely rebuilt this old

and is a very old dickinson stove

it's got from what i understand from

dickinson is is they

had two different types of burner um all

of the ones these days have a newer

burner and they don't mention this type

of burner anywhere in their website but

i've got this type of burner which is

probably also why i had the different

size the

three inch chimney stack wasn't it three

inch which i think the bristol this is a

difference in bristol stove i think they

all have a four inch stack these days

but a different burner

by the buy i wanted to fire it up so

first thing to put some diesel in the

day tank

and i've got various

probably too many stop on the on

the diesel system for the stove one on

the bottom of the tank another one at

the inline filter come water trap

and another one

in here under this work top there

so that goes on then we've got the valve

on the side of the stove in this case to

lighten it up and to light these things

is really not very difficult but

beautifully low tech

you take a bit of some burning fluid i

use um methylated spirits or the the

white version of methylated spirits

squirt a bit in the burner light it up i

use that little

propane lighting torch i've got a

soldering torch lighted up

and then

obviously you've got the diesel turned

on on the valve fan control over here

um best to light it with a bit of fan

and as you'll see a little bit of black

smoke were not black but a little bit of

smoke could be seen coming out the

chimney when it was first lighting but

once it was up and running after just a

couple of minutes it was burning

beautifully cleanly

and they gave off a delightful dry

warmth and others

um the problem you get with propane

heating is is

certainly if it's not exhausted out

completely is that you get condensation

moisture from the burn but not with

these so it's a beautiful dry warmth

um and she run up

fantastically and and you know these

those are double as the boats heating

and cooking or cooking and heating

perhaps in that order keep the boat

lovely and warm in the in the winter

okay

the next one is from here

okay

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that looks all right

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turn it up

beautiful

fan off see what happens

a little bit of fan just

that's nice

let's try this out

this is

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oh look at that that's a beautiful burn

there

i'm going down

nice

like that

no fan minimum set in

best butter 300 degrees on the

thermometer

very lovely i adjusted the barometric

damper in line with with dickinson's

settings

that is burning absolutely beautifully

promoted for now

so

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all right

like that

so we're here in the workshop at the end

and

you'll have seen a bit of progress on

the rudder

we're now

at a stage in this build that is

we're about

to move on to

the things that many of you are very

excited about

we're getting very very close to

starting on the keel construction

um

probably you know the kill is going to

take a while it's not going to happen in

a week but we'll probably start on it

next week i expect

but one of the things i wanted to do was

to get this rudder finished or

so far that i'm happy to to put it in

the other shed out the way it's finished

enough so

got these end plates these are the top

end plates that are in progress somebody

fit the bottom one shaped it up

the top one still needs shaping then

there will be end plates on the bottom

as well

still to come

the bottom end plate i won't do until

i've fitted the rudder so i'm just going

to glass that up make sure it's all

properly sealed

i will glass these once it's shaped

glass and make it completely sealed

and then it'll go in the in what was the

boat shed and be stored until i'm ready

to fit the thing

um

which yeah well until i'm ready at least

and then that frees us up to start

thinking keel i've already started

thinking here thinking a lot about kill

i've also been doing a lot of tidying up

what i

you may not notice a lot of tied it up

in here and in the boat shed getting

ready again for that kill

construction kilomast obviously still to

come

and a lot of reading a lot of planning

and getting

the process straight in my head so we

are there

just about to start on the kill

exciting times

and that guys is it for this week

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and as i say

kill coming very soon

thanks for watching see you next time

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