DIY bulb with toilet floater. Ep.62 

Brilliant job mate.

I love that you're not afraid to have a go at anything - most people would run a mile from this or pay thousands to have a yard do it. great job

Brilliant. I just hope that if i am ever shipwrecked, that you are on the island. Your ability to solve problems is inspiring.

I like seeing projects from start to finish. Hello from Siesta Key Florida

Wow, that looks spectacular, I love how you think and your great sense of humor, it’s absolutely fantastic!

Excellent fix! Looks like it turned out solid and slick. Hard work looks to have been done well. Glad to see the videos too! Also I know the feeling about the chatty guy while your trying to work. Your a patient man

The GF cloth or chopped matt are made with a 'glue' in it so it holds its shape when you are handling it. When you apply the resin the 'glue' is dissolved allowing the GF to then form to the part.

Excellent work!

About halfway through, I thought NOPE, no way is that going to work, but man, you did a great job Wim!

Respect. Ik had niet verwacht dat het zo netjes zou worden.

Really enjoy your work and enthusiasm 👍

Great video, you don't keep anything and show your mistakes, very important to learn. It is also very very entertaining. I already subscribed. Thanks and greetings from Argentina!

Overbend everything and then pressure the tube up to the hull and heat and then form back to the hull and grind or cut to fit . Then wrap it and put cone on the front. Maybe consider filling void with som type of waterproof foam. Watch as some plastics give off phosgene which is a very poisoners gas when heated !

Mooi knap werk, petje af, creatief gedacht met de materialen die je gebruikt hebt voor de bulb, pvc pijp etc

That looks like a really good job to me.

"Nothing is symmetrical on this boat" ... haha, yep. That was one of the first things to discover, when I started to refit Thelxinoe. In all those years rebuilding stuff on board, I did not discover a single right angle. Not even the mast is situated on the centerline, but 3cms off to port and the starboard in-keel-watertank sits a full 12cms further forward, than the port one. So those guys at the Dean shipyard were doing a rather decent job on making those boats seaworthy, but accuracy was definitely not one of their strongpoints 🙂 btw:Good job. I'm not too sure, if PVC and Epoxy will stick together in the long run, but with enough layers of fibreglass on top, it might not matter anyways.

Very well done👍👍👌

Best toilet bowl floater bulbous bow ever

That’s BadAss!!!! I think it’s better than the original!!!

This is a variant of how a person would measure a swimming pool liner but without going into how to A/B an object in space I would measure equally off each bow point and drive a steak in the ground. Now measure from that stake or point in space to each hull point or change in contour then transfer to the other side.

Zank you very much for ze video. Wim en Anja, prachtig filmpje weer. En niet van het origineel te onderscheiden.👍

Looks okay Wim! 😊

YOU ARE INCREDIBLY RESOURCEFUL Whoa !!!I do not where you are situated but you use the metric system the bizarre north american way, all in mm personally i use the unit most in tune with the job, in your case the cm (if I ask how long the piece you would guess in cm approximations) so your pipe is 20 cm diameter and your length 1 meter and14 cm said "a meter fourteen" or simply "one fourteen". Conclusion 2345 mm would be said "two thirty four point five)Hard to believe but once adopted it make a huge difference in mental representation. Not sure I explained my point clearly ,if only one person gets it it is progress. Thank you for sharing your video.

That foam you squirted in expands a LOT.... some holes somewhere would have allowed it to escape over a day... You now have an inbuilt airbag on one side :)

Very Very Impressive, my friend. I have been thinkin' about adding a bulb to this Lady, and after this I have have the guts to do it myself (Have to pay attention to my bankaccount also - hahaha)

I would think the factory did it with the intent to keep the front floating higher while surfing down big waves in rough conditions.

good save. fair winds.

Why not take a cast of the other one in clay and then when dry do a cast of the mould in fibre glass. So simple and a lot less work and a proper job not a botch!

Haha Wim,je lijkt wel een gifmenger( alchemist epoxy Wim. Mooi om resultaat te zien verschijnen onder je handen..ik geniet van dit soort filmpjes!

Lekker bezig! 💪

I would use chop Matt glass to start best stuff for things like this but looks great

You should have put some holes in the plastic tube to allow for foam to exspand inside the tube and set !!!!

I have never seen anything like this on a Catamaran, interresting

Another way of getting the dimensions right is to use some simple cad software, sketchup, freecad etc of the existing bulb and the mirror the drawing and there you go.

When spraying foam always provide openings for air and material to escape otherwise you will have air pockets.

Why I wonder. Do you think it makes the ship faster ? Obviously the job is not bad. Super keen and cleverly done. Also their is more up floatation at the bow what can beneficial. The bow wil dip less. But still I wonder if it works out for you. Well try to fit a sonar in it .. one forward looking and one downward.

Where in Tunisia is this? I am also looking for a place to work on a boat in a sunny place around the mediterean see 🙂 Btw. like your attitude which looks like a mix of a lot of talent but also a healthy amount of detachment to not take things to serious 👍

Als je niet weet wat t allemaal voor moeite heeft gekost... Ziet er toch fraai uit😍. Mooi staaltje van improvisatie en doorzetten. Ben benieuwd of je nog airco gaat inbouwen 😅

Plus the burn areas will delaminate the glass plus resin will not adhere very well to plumbing pipe!

Ziet er prachtig uit broer. Gewoon jammer dat het onder water zit. 😊

Great way to make the mould for the bulb. What is the purpose of the bulb? Could you have just taken the other one off?

looks fucking great!!!!!

Well done. I think I would have just trimmed off the other bulb.😧

Nice job! Why wouldn’t they make catamarans with a bulbous?

Best episode since the Spectra rebuild….but enjoy them all. You think Dean put the bulbs on originally or were they done by a previous owner? Recently met a 365 in Florida….no bulbs? Keep up the videos….thanks, Andrew (Dean 400 currently in the Bahamas)

SUGGESTION; rather being frustrated with your talking “friend”, every time he talks to you, ask him to give you a hand. Maybe he’s bored and has nothing to do. If he doesn’t want to help, he’ll soon stop interrupting. You never know; you could have a really good assistant 😉

I am not sure, but could be, that I knew that ship... was it registrated in germany?

That is the second time you fucked up with that tape . Pick it up and throw it as far as you can and use the cloth. I would think a minimum of at least 3 layers of this lightweight cloth around the whole tube . Good luck !

The coated glass tapes like that are not well suited to Epoxy as they don't soak up the resin being coated either in PVC or PVA of various types. They are strong but don't shape as well, wet out, or as you found lay against the surface so standard uncoated glass cloth becomes denser stronger and naturally shapes better. What you have done will work but as you discovered its allot of work and messy to shape. Was that drywall or plaster tape you used? Not meant as a criticism of you, we are all learning on this journey through life :) thanks for the video.

Should've used bowling balls, nice and solid

Sent a question in all 'boat building' groups I'm registered in, asking if any advantage exists, when using a bulb in small boats. One member indicated this video, as his answer: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c5usbDb9o1c.html Almost all answers were 'a hard NO'. Looks cool, though.

I cant wait to start my journy. I have about 5 years before i start. Want to let my kids get old enough to start there own journy before i begin. But the savings account is started and i have begun researching.

What do those do on the boat

Does pvc adhere to epoxy or polyester?

hmm, they probably weren't perfect because they are a separate mold to the hull, added after.

What is the purpose? does it make it more efficient or keep the bow in the water underway?

Impressive red protuberance . You'll have whales swimming up to you looking to mate with it! 39:40

Looks store bought

It is evident that you don't know how to work with composites in a marine environment. Good luck with that .

I hope that spray foam is waterproof closed cell foam.