Welcome to Free Range Living! We are Troy and Pascale a couple of sailors, farmers and adventurers currently setting up a 9-acre homestead in the South West of Australia. We upload new episodes on our farming, gardening and homesteading experiences for you here on a weekly basis. We will also share with you what we've learnt from local sustainable farmers and producers in the area as we strive to live with the land.
In addition, you can find more than 200 episodes of our 5 year adventure sailing around Australia in our tiny 1969 30' sailboat. Thanks so much for dropping by and, if you like what you see, don't forget to subscribe, like and comment. We'd love to hear from you in whatever corner of the World you find yourself in.
FYI: I have been subscribed to your channel from the beginning. About 6 months ago RU-vid stopped giving me notice that you have posted a new video. I don't know if it is an isolated issue or not.
Yes, I recognise the name you use here. A little while ago, our views abruptly halved which doesn't seem organic. I wonder if some of our topics covered involving use of animal as food etc. has offended the sensibilities of the Google blob. It's hard to say, because they monkey about with the algorithm so much for various reasons and we could have just been caught up in that. We get this sort of message fairly regularly.
Cheers guys!. Have you sped up your speaking/informative parts of the vlog? It sounds a little odd. Might just be me. 8 ) Looking forward to seeing you sail again. Hope you're all well. 👍
Beautiful video with great information! Your cat has the most beautiful color arrangement ever! And I just love the part in the end of the video, when you go for a walk in the forest with your little baby and one by one come along your animal friends! It just shows so much care and friendship, and love. Great work!🎉🎉🎉
Looking great and more boat-like in every video. Over several builds I have discovered occasional flaws in plans, usually the same way you discovered yours. Sometimes it was because there was a change made on the plans and the corresponding change to the mating part was overlooked. It happens but most of the time there is a remedy, albeit not pleasing to have to make, just as you are doing. Keep the vids coming. They are great.
Troy, aka "Mr. Does It Right", explains boat building again. I'm glad all the 'sailing' vids are archived on your site. Re-watching over a long winter will be a joy. Thanks, G King, SV Intuition
Troy, aka "Mr. Does It Right" explains boat building again. I'm glad all the 'sailing' vids are archived on your site. Re-watching over a long winter will be a joy. Thanks, G King, SV Intuition
Regarding clean-up of cured epoxy, a heat-gun and scraper works great. Much better than sanding. Keep up the good work! Pathfinder seems like one of the best small craft designs out there.
Troy: you are so talented at everything You Do!! Your build project is coming along beautifully. I started watching you guys such a long time ago: have missed your adventures on the ocean. Cheers from Barry Deacon Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
G'day Troy! I'm having a slight problem watching the boat build. When I forward on to episode 12 it forwards to #13! Other than that its all been great! (and please say hi to Pascy for me! Tim)
hey troy its looking unreal, well done. can you tell me why there is an 11mm gap between the bow end of bottom panel and the stem notch, noticed this in plan and couldn't figure out if its suppose to be there. sounds like it was raining there, hope it comes our way, in SA, very dry here on our farm
G'day Troy, the boat build is looking good. You need to reconsider using the allthread as your centreboard pivot pin, essentially it's not a bearing surface instead it's a cutting surface and will chop out the bush in the centreboard. A plain shanked bolt would give you the smooth bearing surface required. The centreboard in the last boat I built had a plain stainless pin fitted into a plain blind bush on the port side of the case and sealed on the starboard side using a slightly modified transom drain plug. Works great and an elegant alternative to exposed theads. Regards daveTHEbastard Vic.
The cb rotates around a smooth stainless bush, with a hole through the center. That all thread just holds washers at each end so it doesn't pop out and remains water tight.. The weight is borne by the double ply in both sides of the case, so no weight or rotation is passed to the all-thread, as far as I can see.
Thanks Troy, that clarifies things. That stainless bush would need to be gripped by the case inner sides so it doesn't turn on the threaded rod. Regards Dave.
It won't be long, now. Impressive. I learn something each episode. This morning, over coffee, I taught a young lady the how-to basics of using a sewing machine. Learn it, Do it, Teach it. And tell the misses to pop in more often... she's prettier than U R. 😉🙃🤪
Always get tips from your videos so here’s one of mine: I’ve found keeping the 413 filler powder in a bucket (with lid) makes it easier to load into the epoxy without so much getting into the air. Since the bucket is rigid there’s less chance of a knock ejecting a cloud.
A build to be proud of. Still kicking myself that I missed you guys when you called in at Port Macquarie N.S.W. all those years ago. Don’t think you will be sailing your next boat back here. 😆🤣🤪
@@FreeRangeLiving I understand. I hope I didn't come across as mean or demanding. I so much love your farm life and you sharing glimpses of Australia . 🇦🇺
Hey Troy ... nice to see another Pathfinder project coming along. I'm currently trying to build one of these in the lounge of my one bed flat ... which comes with its own challenges. Since you encouraged comments for others who might build a Pathfinder in the future - I found it helpful to fit the bottom edge doublers before I glue the stem/spine assembly onto the bottom panel. I think the plans/instructions suggest using temporary screws through the bottom panel as well, which I hope to avoid by clamping boards across instead. I also have these doublers going uninterrupted all the way, although they are not on the plans for frames 2 and 3. It's a bit unclear from the plans how they are supposed to be cut to not interfere with the limber holes there, so I just notched the frames, kept the doublers all the way and moved the drain holes next to them. I found a few things in the plans that didn't quite line up, so I did a lot of dry fitting. The notches in the frames for example - I have seen they did often result in stringers that are not quite fair, which then might transfer to the plank lines, so I used a batten to get the final positions of these. Then again, I am going to strip plank my hull with no laps, so I am trying to get these as fair as I can to minimise problems with the strip planking. You'll probably be sailing way before I even start getting the strips on, so I'm looking forward to see your progress to encourage me to keep going :)
I've been watching since the Kimberly's. Sorry for the spelling... but the things that you do Troy reminds me of my Dad, just knows a little about everything. My Dad now has dementia. And I find myself very involved with something I unfortunately no longer have. THANK YOU... I miss it..
Sorry to hear about your dad and his condition. Its tough to know what to say, especially as I just have become a dad, but thanks for sharing something so personal. Our thoughts for your family.
I saw this builder join 2 sheets of plywood and was intrigued by it, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_gT4gpY-L1U.htmlfeature=shared. I was thinking a template with a repeating pattern and using the plies as the steps might work. I know this is very late but wanted to share with you and others.
Sorry to hear about your struggles (although you seem to have still had a tasty outcome - the proverbial lemons into lemonade?). If it’s some solace, the struggles you’ve encountered largely illustrate why there’s not really any commercial rabbit farms anymore in Australia (except one last holdout in WA). A few (minor) corrections to your theory/background though if you’re interested- calicivirus (RHDV1) was indeed released (unintentionally) here in the 90s, and worked remarkably well to knock back invasive rabbit populations. Unfortunately, the wild populations evolved resistance to RHDV1. Sometime after 2010, an entirely new strain (RHDV2) which was first detected in Europe started showing up in Aussie rabbits (how it got here, no one quite knows). RHDV2 is different enough to where wild rabbits that evolved immunity to RHDV1 (or domestics that were vaccinated against it), were susceptible. Importantly, RHDV2 is the most common variant circulating and is highly contagious, so is most likely RHDV2 that your rabbits would have encountered (if that’s indeed what caused their demise), and not the one from the 90s (RHDV1). Second, the two available vaccines in Australia (Cylap and Filavac) are both inactivated viruses. They don’t work as well as live viruses (which is why the requisite booster jabs can add up to an expensive vet bill!). So I’m afraid your theory about viral transfer from vaccinated does to their kittens doesn’t really hold up. Finally, both wild and domestic rabbits have HEAPS of diseases (e.g. pasturella) and parasites (e.g., E. cuniculi) that can be very difficult to diagnose, but can lead to all sorts or mysterious mortality, behaviors, and reproductive problems (e.g. stillborn litters). Which is all to say it might be impossible to pinpoint exactly the cause.
Greetings from India! I've been thinking about keeping a couple of milking goats and going through RU-vid to learn everything I can before taking the leap. Just found your video which has covered the most comprehensive info I could find. Waiting for our rainy season to get over and subscribed to you 😊
Great video showing the trials and tribulations of boat painting, including all the questions and head-scratching that accompanies the process. I'm currently doing the same job and appreciate every detail that you discussed. Great job!
