Building Cradles to WEIGH THIS BOAT [EP 127] 

Just to clarify, we are weighing the hull with the modifications made only. No keel, and empty of rigging, mechanical or electrical equipment.

It is interesting to note that RAN sailing is in the process of also constructing wood cradles but for the incredible task of rolling his under construction sailboat out of his barn and turning it over.

The BBC nature documentary spot on! Observing creatures bustling about their lairs is always fascinating!

I thought it was the anchor you weigh.

Yanni , Loved the BBC Quadruped piece !! Keep up the great works.

I am always super impressed with your skills and precision in building your boat. You and your wife are superb videographers.

Gotta love the BBC documentary! Building the cradles was well done--I am amazed at the detail you use! I know you have to, but it still is a great skill!

Next episode. Building another cradle.

La Pawz has found her spot on the back step of the boat

12.500 lbs - amazing skill building the cradles. Hope all goes well with baby and congrats 🎉💚

Great episode! More progress! Keep rolling along! 👍👍

Great video 🇬🇧

Last time I looked at Duracell I think she weighed 7865kg - 17339lbs. Maybe it has changed a little since😜🥳

Proud of ya. Congrats parents! ❤

Loved the doco. New Zealand 🇳🇿

I take it that “futzing” is another one of those arcane boat building terms? 😂 Thanks for sharing your fascinating process with such a massive project. 👏

Good luck with the delivery!

huge congrats on the little man soon lol. You will have loads of fun. Just relax and take breaths all the time. Things work out they always do.

Looking good 🎉 nothing is more accurate than a plumb bob

The cockpit looks inspiring.

Y'all are simply amazing! Great info from each episode and wonderful music, filming and editing...which I've never attempted. Your cooperation and symmetry comes across in the final post...to me anyway. I really enjoy watching your progress and your mutual enjoyment of the process of (re)building the boat.

Good luck with the baby project.

13,780 lbs., 6,250 kgs. Glad everything is going well and excited for your new adventures as parents!

It would be interesting to me and possibly others to know about All the glues as you use them; types and thickeners, etc.

Go on the boat and baby 🎉

Tack!

I was so pleased when I saw you use the jack to get the frame glued tight to the hull. I was looking at it and thinking "lifting that or kicking in wedges isn't going to work". Thank goodness you're ahead of me. Matt, your patience is admirable. All this work that, on the face of it, doesn't progress the build. But, you get on with it just the same. That, or Yanni's editing skills are great at getting rid of the frustrations. Keep going, I'm loving watching the channel. The best wishes for the birth.

Matt, the things u do at home working out of your garage often have me wondering, what could this cat do if he had a proper building with all of the tools that he needed at his fingertips. Awesome job as always. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to your next video. Stay safe guys…

I CACKLED when you screwed the screw into the ground!

Thanks!

15,000 lbs. Looking forward to weigh in time. Good luck with the baby.

We are so happy for both of you and totally understand your feelings. When you hold the baby for the first time you will be worried about hurting them. But your heart will be changed for ever. We are guessing weight of 9023 lbs.

I have binge watch all Duracell project. must watch till the end, nice job on build and video production. I will subscribe

Nice cradles

love your overkill approach .. I mean who vacuum-bags a cored composite boat cradle 😂 but in the words of Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith of the A-Team "overkill is under rated"

It weighs just the right amount 😊

Hmmm 5,950kg . Interesting episode guys. A chance meeting which could make all the difference. Better to find out now!

Paul sounds like a fellow Kiwi(New Zealander)

Awesome idea Matt and very clever approach with cradles. I assume you will have a load cell under all four corners Not only will you be able to weigh it but also balance up when adding the heavy stuff. Not going to bet on weight but I bet RAN sailing and Artic seacamel will follow your lead.

Congrats on the baby coming in a few days. My guess is 3460 gr. Exiting times ahead..

Considering that there is stuff still missing, I would go with 9850 lb. Congratulation guys! Good luck with the "new comer"! Very excited for all of you! Cheers!

Neat project. My guess is about 12000 lbs. I kind of wondered whether it would not have been easier just to make the cradles out of sheets of OSB, cut to a hull shape template to fil the hull, and glued and screwed together to get the desired thickness and strength? The inside (where the hull rests) could be lined with foam or old carpet.

And here I thought building a outboard engine hoist was hard. But I get it your building your house

Did 7 years and 52k nautical miles. No one knew what our motor sailer design was. Maybe a modified S and S On the hoist it weighed 26 ton. With A 12 meter mast it was very tender.

I've just added "fudsing" to my vocabulary! 😊

23,395 lbs. great video as always.

Pretty hectic racing against the catalyzed polyester resin while trying to get the vacuum bag on overhead! But you guys pulled it off.

My guess would be 32500lbs. Good luck to both of you with the new lil one almost here. :)

I think all of us following would appreciate Matt doing a hornpipe dance while singing a shanty. Its what proper sailors do of an evening....

22,604 lbs.... minus the 10,000 lb keel... is 12,604 lbs. Loved Alan's comment about "futzing." That's a highly technical term for what you have to do to the boat before you can go "putzing" around the bay. Congratulations to both of you! You have very interesting timing for when you decide to build a "cradle."

Shout out to Janni.. This was so funny :D (Do not fear your neerdy side🥴🥴🥴)

Are you able to tie the cradles together with longitudinal members and diagonals. Looks like you are going to jack the boat up and weigh the boat at each of the four pads. The cradles are narrow and look real tippy just now👍

Janni you are a wonderful narrator, that voice over was too funny, poor Matt, but then again he just writes his own comedy at times. 🤣🤣 Great work both of you and an amazing interesting video too - stay safe mum, but dad get on with the work why don't you? 😉😂 Much respect from Scotland - be safe all

I’m guessing around 4 tons! Pietro from Italy!

My guess would be that she weighs 16965 lbs 😁 All the best with the coming new addition to the family hope all will go off great looking forward to seeing the new crew member.

Far out, Matt, that's a lot of work, mate, I'm sure it will be worth it.

Great job on building the base and cradles to get that beast weighed. I have nothing to base this guess on, but my best guess would be that the boat is around 18,00-20,00 pounds.

18333 pounds. Tom Barton Charleston WV. Congrats on baby!!!

Channeling Attenborough!

I'm very curious how the weighing is going to be done, and what the need for the cradles is. But at the same time i'm impressed at the quality of it it all, very nice. I'd wager the boat ways just about 5000kg as it is.

Gotta love shrink tape. Has a lot more uses than shrinkwrap. When I coached high school sailing I would use it to quickly seal a blown out 420 auto bailer. Just capsize the boat, wipe the hull dry, and slap some tape over it. Also my guess is: 12,500 pounds

I’m betting it’s within 11% of what you think she weighs 😎. I’m a carpenter not a boat right but I’d be adding some lashings around the frames and also diagonal bracing fore/aft as well, if you haven’t already of course 😉. It’s to cool to se show it’s all coming together and thanks for sharing the journey with the world

My weight guess is within 50lbs of your personal estimate! Congratz on the baby!!

I’m not going to guess the weight, but I think Matt will be close. Much love The Senior confessor, England

OSB sheet orientation relative to frame affects strength differently in a diaphragm application. Your cradle is strong in shear but perhaps less in downward load

Weighing Duracell sounds bonkers! Next you roll out a plan and build the cradles. Looking forward to next week. My guess 12,256 lbs.

12800# is my guess... incl the "Inspector"..🤣🤣

Keep up the good work, 16,500 lbs

Hé papa ! Calme toi ! bébé est bientôt là ! Duracel attendra ! 😂😅😂😅😜

crazy. yet so cool to weight the boat. are the vertical panels vanity reason or they add to the strength of the cradle?

Great. Nothing like an experienced hand. 30,000 lbs.

I would guess the yacht is currently at 34,000 lbs or around 15,400 kgs. I am wondering how you are going to weigh the boat by the way :) Looking forward to the next video!

Not the foggiest idea - 14 tons? 😱🤨😂 phil , Suffolk U.K.🇬🇧. Oh! Impressed by the cradle construction and the trouble you go to in progressing things. 👍

He's about to weigh his shelter😆

well we don't have a tare weight for the cradles until they are removed and weighed, the reading on the scales minus the tare will be just short of 15.5 tonnes

I laughed so hard when they did the nature thing lmao

18,000 lbs As she is. Loved the Attenborough spin orf. Very amusing indeed.

Total surface bearing, we take alginate impressions in prosthetics.

as is, with no keel, rudder or any systems on bord , I d say around 5 tons (around 11000lbs) maybe less.

Kiwis know everything.

I'm going with 12,000kg or 26,500lbs approx. (excl. the 2 hull supports). Our fully kitted our Jeanneau 53 weighs 17,000kg+. I think there's probably 5ton of junk inside that you don't yet have on board Duracell...and your is a longer hull.

1380 lbs as is without keel, engine, and everything else. Great work and project

It’s going to seem light with no ballast rigging or power system. I’m going to guess it’s current weight to be 13683lbs. And I’ll bet the balance is pretty darn good at this point.

Hi there, great video 😍 I say 16.925 lbs.

13,200 lbs. I'm probably over, but Duracell, is a large boat.

I'm going with the Price Is Right strategy.... 1 lb.

8 tons!

I guess we'll know the weight of 2 important things next week (or so). Very interesting video. There's a lot of work going into something that is not permanent. I understand the need though. Will the boat weight be also used in designing the keel? Thanks for the video 😁😁😁👍

Funny how this side of the pond we think of the BBC as ours yet it is part pf your natural vocabulary.

This is very interesting. I'm going to say 15,200lbs.

9.2 tons!

I'd say 10140lbs though your admirable work on this project weighs way more!

Nice job as always, 37000 lbs

22,000 ❤pounds

Ive actually wondered why you haven’t used polyester resin for other new construction parts? My understanding was that most boats are built with polyester resin and the big advantage of epoxy is better adhesion to old work.

Geez dude. You really can vacuum bag anything.

Just learned on Sailing Uma you can build for speed or comfort. The heavier the more comfortable at sea. Which are you shooting for?

Id definitely add support in the middle of the cradle to the ground…

Hi, I estimate the actual weight at 5800Kg , which is 12786.68Lbs in your part of the world !! 😉

I have no idea how the weighing will take place without a helicopter. Look after yourselves during this transitional time . 💖💖💖🇦🇺