Best maintenance video I"ve seen. Slowly, methodically; every detail counts! Your engine room is dreamy! Amazing to see it so clean that you're wearing socks! Hallberg Rassy is my dream boat, and I hope to be doing the same someday!
37 years sailing, reading and watching boat maintenance stuff and I have to admit I never saw this level of dedication to detail and endless compromise with any boat system. Your determination and dedication is impresive!
Thanks Richard. I think Selden guys in Sweden could do it just as good. Maybe even in the UK. Trouble is, most of the so called Selden services centers dotted around the world, cannot :( Or, they say they can but in reality they service so few, that its like the first time each time they do them.
Glen, you (and your lovely wife) are the best thing on the internet. I am a life-long sailor and the owner of a (little) Beneteu First 30E. This boat (and my wife) is my life's happiness. Your videos inspire me to maintain my boat, and in doing so, stay safe. You "get it", you aprreciate sailing and the work that goes into it. Sailing is life. We are the lucky ones to realize it.
@@SailCloudyBay just finished a 2 year refit on our 50ft Ketch. All done by a boat uard in Spain. Good job. However as I get closer to retirement having a 10th of your skill set will keep me in good order. Greetings from a very damp North Yorkshire
@@SailCloudyBay In Port Bali’s north of Barcelona. Good experience even though we were unable to go for a year. She is a Beliure Ketch built 1979. Great sailing area.
The master demonstrates the value of dry fit, test and retest before final assembly and test again! Even following the destructions required time, concentration and careful adherence to the details. $50 aerosol is the price of doing it right to be safe and confidence at sea. Do it right or go home. Thanks Glen, all my diy is measured against these high standards and I have some way to go ... Good luck and great fun for you both in the coming seasons sailing.
Hi guys, i work in the motorsport industry for over 30 years and i watch loads of sailing chanels in order to help prepare myself to sail full time once retired.... Your chanel is one of the very few which displays the amount of attention to detail regarding maintenance and general tidyness needed I would expect from every cruising boat owner. Obviously you have the technical as well as financial background and understanding many other boat owners are lacking. Thanks for sharing your travels & upkeep, your chanel is a rare gem in the YT sailingverse. Best regards, Jens
Thanks Jens. Thats quite a compliment! The good news is that even the most complex boat systems are about the same complexity are cars from the 1980s! You'll be fine.
This master class in higher level required maintenance shows why the junk rig is so popular with some folks. Very impressive work, and the reason why you and your wife can have time in gorgeous places without a hugely stressful voyage to get there in the boat you've chosen. Thanks for sharing.
Well Hoa, I do enjoy the maintenance (as you can see!) but its also true that I enjoy low stress smooth sailing without breakages or worries. Especially comforting when weather is bad and the chips are down.
@@SailCloudyBay I doubt many people fully understand how time consuming video production and especially editing is. I would be interested to know how many minutes of footage it took to arrive at the final cut.
Impressive attention to detail and unusually good technical skills- certainly great to have when you are very remote with parts and support days away. Your boat is gorgeous and very well kept- fair winds and following seas, I enjoy your adventures.
Thank you Glen . You manage to create an easy to follow narrative for each repair making the viewing of same easy, enjoyable and satisfying. This viewer , and I’m sure many others, is willing you to succeed. Wishing you both well on your return to Cloudy and the adventures ahead.
Brilliant Glen. There is joy in this work. I have followed all of your travels. Thanks for sharing and I can't wait to see Cloudy Bay off on her next adventure.
Great video and great editing. I imagine there will be more that a few buyers waiting for your vessel to come up for sale, once you decide to upgrade. Few get this level of maintenance. No wonder SlumberJ does so well!!!
I loved the skateboard transport!👍👍❤ a bit of wire shrink wrap on the stainless threads where they penetrate the aluminum would provide an insulator between the two dissimilar metals. A very thin plastic washer on the other side would prevent the nut from contacting the aluminum. As seen at 24:13.
Well done Glen, l can watch you work for hours, as a former machinery rebuilder/engineer, l am especially impressed with the heating and freezing prior to assembling the Timken bearings. However,,,,,,, once again the key is called a round end box key and NOT a Woodruff. Excellent demonstration about how to properly rebuild all these components. Thanks for sharing. Oh and by the way, the fact that you can do all that work on the ground and on your knees also amazes me.
Glen I did shout you just didn’t hear me. Again a brilliant and informative video, I just love Fridays at the moment, looking forward to when your travels begin again.
Hi Glen, truly impressive boat maintenance work and mastery, a joy to watch ! You make it looks so easy and logical. Makes me wonder how I manage to struggle so much just changing my boat's primary fuel filter 🤔 You are in a league of your own as far as I am concerned 👍 Alain
Thanks Alain. But I think the video editing is what manages to make it all look so easy. In reality alot of the usual "frustrations" footage is cut out. But we do leave in the occasional one just for a reality check! Like the balls on the mainsheet traveler scene!
@@SailCloudyBay Yes, something to think about way down the line, I dread to think of the cost, batteries for us first. Our previous Genneker was on a manual furler - what a pain, and ultimately ended in it's demise, ouch! We now have a snuffer, no more arms like Popeye! One things for sure, you really appreciate the cups of tea in between the repair jobs...
Great maintenance videos. I like all the detail including loctite blue & red, I realise now I’ve been using the wrong one. I look forward to part 3. Cheers
Funny you should mention that film Ivan ... I mention is in about 2 videos time, when I'm (secretly) digging the hole in the yard to drop my rudder into!
Glenn, I would have helped you in guiding the propshaft into the Aquadrive. But, the lights under the engine were to bright! 😎 👍 keep up on the extensive overhaul.👍
Advanced engineering, one can understand the price level of HR. Those electric furlers look like a nightmare. To do the same service in a yard must be pretty expensive. Good job, well done.
Yes HRs are expensive, but they also have very good quailty systems. And, the an added benefit of an HR is the resale values. SO I think the overal cost and pleasure of ownership is excellent.
Very informative, thank you. Please check your shaft anodes. First the one in the middle is of no use. I suspect that the lack of erosion of the others is because they are of a less effective metal composition than the one at the end of the Gori. I have had this with anodes myself. Well done.
Thats intersting Stephen: that different compostions will erode differently. Having now dropped the rudder, and found alot of galvanic action no the post, I think this is why the tip anode has the most erosion. Now that I have an anode dedicated to the rudder, it will be iteresting to see next year.
As a marine engineer myself, I really appreciate your attention to detail in these maintenance jobs… I’d hire you in a second to work on my oil rig . Let me know if you want to work again😂
Well Glen - you just showed how it can be done in all the detail, rather than either let those pieces of machinery die and get replaced or calling in a "specialist". Sometime you obviously have to but with time, attention to detail and patience one can do a lot of things oneself. Thanks for the inspiration. Now where did that bl**dy ball bearing go?
Thanks John. yes, sadly when it comes to these hydraulic systems, the professional specialists are few and far between - and either not that good, or more work than they can handle. Anyway, for me, much more sitisfying doing it myself.
I watched the episode on the accidental jibe. Aside from having your radar on and anticipating the squall, would you have done anything different in hindsight? A preventer perhaps? Love your videos, thanks you!
Actually this accidental gybe was totally my doing. Tge wind was always infront of the beam so no need for a gybe preventer. The squall had passed and I was struggling to get the propeller to fold again. And in my efforts I got disorientated and steered the boat into a gybe 😡
Hey I yelled, stop! When you were pulling that shift out,, Didn't you hear me? Haha 😄, great video 👍 🖐 by the way. Tell Oana hello, can't wait to see you out sailing again. Sorry if I didn't spell your wife's name right.
Are those washers on the top mast pullies the same material as the washers in a wench. I have the old style Lewmars. I tried to find a sheet of it and couldn’t find it . I wanted to make washers on the cheap. No luck. I wish I new what it was called the guys at bacon didn’t know and rob usually pretty quick at answers. On the wench washers ,as it wears ,it looks like biaxial fiberglass pattern. Nice drivetrain. I bet she is smooth
Man are you ever patient and methodical ! Great job ! What did you do before starting to sail and doing your own maintenance ? From Canada here ! Retired Automotive Industry Tooling Engineer .
I was an engineer in an Oil and Gas company called Schlumberger. Well hands on in early days, office and aircraft bound the last few decades. Doing this kind of stuff reminds me of why I actuyally joined the company I had a life-time career with!
Well Done!! As always, your maintenance skills amaze me as you are always improving the OEM parts. Now that it is October, I assume Cloudy Bay has had her mast reinstalled, prop shaft fitted etc and has been test sailing. Are you headed to Annapolis for the US Sailboat Show? 😁
@@SailCloudyBay Have a great time at the Sailboat Show! From AIS information, looks like quite a few boats are already at anchor. There are several other RU-vid Sailing Channel folks who are attending: Keven & Wendy (Talisman); James & Philippa (Aequus) that I know of.
hi really love your videos i am ashamed to admit although i trained as a marine engineer many many years ago i love your dedication i have only one ? if you don't mind answering all the different greases and compounds glues and sealants ect ect how did you manage to accumulate all that know how i mean the putty you put into the holes when doing the dorades deck vents that never go hard i assume someone told you about that and you just seam to have a massive amount of bits and bobs to enable you to carry out all the work must save you a fortune well done ian
Thanks for being such a fan Ian. Yes, Cloudy Bay is pretty loaded up with tools and all manner of glues and goos! This is the way it has to be if we want to stay totally independant when off-grid for the rest the round the world - Pacific, Asia, Indian, South Altlantic .... Not mony boat repiar placed in that geography, excepting New Zealand and South Africa. How did I learn? well reading and being part of numerous yachting discussion groups here and there.
The epoxy plate mast head cover was a great idea to prevent water, salt, and guano from entering the mast. It will protect the shives and other components from corrosion and UV degradation along with general foreign material exclusion. Any thoughts on how to keep birds from landing on your mast head or windex?
@@SailCloudyBay I admire all who meticulously maintain their boat. Also the knowledge gained by doing your own maintenance makes one an excellent technician for needed repairs or in an emergency because one can visualize how the device stopped working and what may be the best way to proceed. Consider your furlers for instance if they jam when your reefing. That’s why I admire those who build, repair and maintain over those who throw money and merely”drive”. The former are far more competent sailors. 👍
Why no crisscross tightening sequence for the cutter/genoa furlers when you bolted her together? You typically want to minimize bolt preload variations across any circular plate via diagonal tightening (I noticed you crisscrossed on the aqua drive flange). The burr on that cog sounds odd. Keyways are milled away from the shaft shoulder owing to the surrounding stress concentrations. I would have inspected the shaft and cog’s point of contact to try and figure out how a burr appeared. Did you grease both of those diff-style taper races before final install? It’s not advised to over-grease those tapers as it can cause excessive heat buildup when operated. I’m glad you mentioned anti-corrosion grease for those stainless-steel bolt shafts on your mast top. Many would have missed that. Did you have to bleed air out of those furler hydraulic lines? I must have missed the cutlass bearing replacement on the prop shaft strut. Oh well. Thoroughly enjoyable. Very nicely done.
This is inspiring me to do more of my own work (and to do it better!) - I love the reassurance of a job well done. I wonder if you weren't videoing your work would you still be talking as much? I constantly talk/ sing/ swear at components and tools.
Hmmm thats a long story Anthony. Short story is that it was 100% my fault. Its all in the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bOzJ_V4oUVg.html
Quem sabe futuramente uma visita ao Brasil . Temos um lindo litoral e lugares maravilhosos para conhecer . Que tal Bahia de Todos os Santos, , Armação dos Buzios no Estado do Rio de Janeiro , o próprio Rio de Janeiro ou Parati e toda baia de Angra dos Reis , ( cidade histórica ) . Ficaremos felizes e honrados com sua presença e suas possíveis palestras . Temos muito que aprender com seus conhecimentos de navegação e manutenção de veleiros . Um grande abraço do seu admirador brasileiro . Bons Ventos ao casal .
Ok ! Provavelmente teremos muito mais história para contar , será um prazer muito grande conhece-lo pessoalmente . Desejo bons ventos em todos momentos de sua vida pessoal e de sua atravessia pelos mares de nosso planeta . Até breve . Abraços fraternos !
@@SailCloudyBay it's not technically the same - but i really get a buzz from learning new things that are done well. ASMR is the physical reaction some folks get watching/listening to a particular sort of youtube content.
