Ep052 Making Foam Core Yacht Bulkheads - Life ON The Hulls - Catamaran Build 

Great plan,thanks for tuning in,it certainly is my mission.Cheers and thanks again Ross.

Too funny

I reckon I might have to vacuum him to the laminate.Thanks for watching again Barton.Cheers Ross

Thanks Gordon,not enough bikini action I am afraid,There is plenty to come,share it out buddy it all helps.Cheers Rossco

these videos will stand the test of time. ross is a good egg as well

I get jealous when I see you two about to realise a dream and its getting close.So happy for you seeing it all come together.Have fun with that z0 drive buddy.Simone get back to editing its the pits eh.Ross

@@LifeOnTheHulls Thanks Ross .We cant wait ! we broke but anxious to get sailing haha. awesome Cat that you going to have though! we will have to make a plan to get some beer when we make it to AUS or some tropical island !

@@livingwiththemaias You are on.I will be broke by the end of this as well.Not much actual paid work going on this year as I forge ahead.See you in the tropics team.

Gotta love the rat.,thanks for tuning in and watching the vids,they are fun for me to keeo track of my project.Ross

Thanks Tony,I have a bottle of baby poweder always on hand for exactly that.Thanks buddy appreciate you watching.Cheers,Ross

Love Ya Jimmy.Cheers Rossco

Thank Robin,all good fun.Cheers

I am a huge fan of the green trim,I was given that advice many ears ago and live by it today.In this case,it is simpler to cut of with the grinder as the shapes are all varied and I am now laminating full sheets rather than patterns,just much simpler to di it that way .When making kayaks I always green trim so important to speed up demoulding.Thanks for the hint,I love this feedback from you guys.Ross

He is very happy until my Golden Doodle chewed his tail off.Pardon,did I just say that?

I fear I am not accustomed to all the subtleties of the English language. In other words : Say whaa ? Lol.

Hey buddy,havent quite got around to that yet.I have filmed a bit but the editing will br more detailed than the Cat Build.Stay tuned and thanks for the great comment.Ross

Good onya Bobby,gotta love Doug and Betsy,just a crack up, and fully into the whole sharing the boat building scene,I locmve it.Ross

Great advice Tim,my multi tool is on the blink at present and I struggle to get blades for it do might be time for a new one I feel.Cheers and thanjs fir joining in.Cheers Ross

Me too,great to be moving steadily forward.Cheers

Funny boy Stephen.Thanks for checking out my project,helps me keep motivated

Gidday Andrew,cheers buddy appreciate your feedback.Ross

Is this ultralight Dan Johnson?

You champion Dan,love ya buddy.Cheers Rossco

Thanks Steve,it is hard to satisfy everybody,but I struggle to fill the silences.appreciate your feedback much more to come.Rossco

Dunno about spiffy but the peel ply finish will save coutless hours of sanding upon finishing and tabbing.

Thanks for watchin Brian.Cheers Ross

Thanks so much for your feedback,most appreciated.Cheers Ross

Great stuff really appreciate your support,Thanks again.Rossco

Thanks so much for lifting my spirits,classic stuff and much more to come.

Watch and speak with these guys all the time.Our engineer wouldn't allow nidacore for our survey as it had to have the h80 std.Great stuff and he is doing an incredible job.Cheers Ross

Thanks Jerry,appreciate the comment.A couple beers a week is my limit.All the best Ross

All coming dont you doubt it,I am committed to making the whole world witness my suffering.Hah.Rossco

It is a beast.Neale the mechanic next door owns her and they have a number if classics on the go.All the best Casey Ross

Thanks for the tip.I have a jigsaw table,great idea I will give that a crack.Cheers from Aus.Ross

Thanks Marcus.We have a set budget of course but you know what they say,Bolt On Another Thousand.I am currently right on target.

Thanks Lindsay,i have used various nylons before but I guess I have an account with the supplier and roll price is almost the same as the price you quoted.Amazing result with it and the sanding it saves and the finish is so good.I love peel ply.

For sure.Cheers Ross

Thanks for your comment.I originally tried the template overlaying and the router and it simply wasn't the right tool for the job.I found the grinder and multi tool to finish it off accurately.All done now in any case and thanks for watching my channel.Cheers Ross

Hey Dave,went on to laminating ccmplete sheets ,and using excess to complete bracing blocking etc,there will not be much waste rest assured.Rossco

Definately considered it and sadly I simply dont have working time to vac bag,infusion perhaps but not vacuum bagging.I weighed it up and even though I have infusion gear the weight saving is this instance would probably not warrant the extra set up,costs and consumables.I am already taking substantial weight from the original design so a trade off indeed, but these panels are as strong as is needed. Thanks buddy. Ross

Surveyors inpecting bulkhead construction and tabbing next,multi tool is great but nowhere near as quick,albeit a bit more accurate though.Love my grinder,just messy as hell.All the best, Ross

Gidday John.I already have a demo in mind,looking to find a pressure tester like a torque meter to demonstrate the insane rigidity of this medium.All the best ,Ross

Brilliant stuff Michael.My chain locker will be fully flowcoated with a removable cleanable substrate as we all relate to that smell.Thanks for the lovely description.Cheers Ross

Yepbm certainly solved a lot of issues Brian.Offcuts are then used in various bracing and critical areas later on.Very little wastage.Cheers Ross

How much would you be looking for for it,freight would be crazy,

Life On The Mold - Building a Catamaran It’s a system that will handle 2 55 gallon drums of resin I have loads of replacement parts all in organization bins And the manuals 9000 us plus the shipping I’d have to build a crate the arm and base for the unit would be impossible to ship it’s large you’d have to build something I have allot of rubber chopper anvil wheels it would be a huge time saver

That is some system,Sadly it wouldnt be cost effective as I already have a Graco Rs gun and can add a chopper to it for less than 1000 aussie, dollars.My pumping system will deal with it flawlessly as well but I have no intention of usung a chopper in the immediate future.If I was just setting up I would get yours for sure.Cheers Ross

Laminating around the corners is tricky so you don't do it unless you need to. All those edges will be glued to another laminated surface, with more glass and epoxy. They won't stay exposed.

Hey Don,the edges of yhe bulkhead sheets are tye n bonded to he gloor,other bulkhead etc,then raduised and tabbed with multiple layers of double bias 45 x 45 glass cloth tapes about 6 inches wide.Every surface is tabbed at 90degrees to each other for integrity.Cheers buddy.Rosd

Each motor on my compressor is separate but the compressor is single phase so can be used on any premises.Oil less as well so no contaminates in lines.Volume is 100ltrs so more than enough for my purposes.Very quiet and I love it.All the best

Bulkheads are bonding to deck and other bulkheads with bonding paste,radiused and tabbed with multiple layers of 600double bias tape in every jont and peel plied for smoothness.Heaps of that to come.Rossco

Hey buddy,the gold one is a 73 TC cortina fully worked V8 and the silver one a VX Holden Commodore V8.Neither of which are mine.Cheers

We tried a smaller filter and simply couldn't cope with the thicker viscosity of gel coat.Was ok with vinylester but thickened resins like gel coat was a problem.Thanks for watching buddy.Ross

Thanks Craig,originally used the template but the router wasn't a great solution without a fibreglass cutting bit.The grinder and multi tool dolved the issue and was as accurate as I needed.Thanks for the comment,Cheers.

Gold Tim.I have a few in mind,cheers buddy.Ross

Don't forget the "Don't tell Janet" one as well

It is a bosch pr250 roller sander. Silverstream also make on in the UK.

@@LifeOnTheHulls wow thanks so much

Its a matter of speed and the fact that I am using vinylester not epoxy is both well suited to this type of laminating.I will of course pay a weight penalty of approx 10percent perhaps 20 if I infused rather than vac bagged but in the grand scheme of things,speed of layup and excessive consumable costs and materials wastage I would be ahead economically and with way less wasted vacuum supplies,ie bags,resin blankets,hoses,etc.I do have a vacuum infusion system and if i had a crew i would certainly consider it as it keeps employees busy working,watching etc.The wright of this boat has been revonfigured from the original and is set to be about a tonne lighter in any case simply from the changes we have made..

Thank you for your information and reply. I one day will be building a larger cat and you input is very important to me!@@LifeOnTheHulls

Hey Jack.I headed into thatcexact topic a long way back so if you missed it perhaps start with the videos below and work forward there is a huge amount of detail to be had.All the best buddy. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9kmjvyG4kS0.html And ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gqoje-2e3Zk.html Cheers Rossco

Peel ply instead of sanding later when it goes pass re-laminating window and gets rid of all those sharp needles on the surface

@@vettepicking (Fiberglass 101) PEEL PLY is never used in hand lamination (Fiberglass 101) .... Peel Ply is used in vacuum bagging only.... If you don't want little pickers or splinters, you use WAX RESIN, it forms a film when it cures above the fiberglass and incases the pickers! .... however you have to sand the wax resin off in the areas where you will fiberglass to it later..... I've been fiberglassing for a living for a very long time...from Race Car & Vintage Corvette bodys in press molds to full size yachts to vintage drag racing and hot rod parts to custom Harley parts..... Peel Ply in lamination is a waste of time and two extra steps to get the same results using waxed resin, not to mention high cost in wasted materials!

@@GasserGlass wrong

@@vettepicking Trust me, GASSERGLASS knows his fiberglass composites he's made car parts and bodies for racers that hold land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats and holds 2 records of worlds fastest fiberglass bullets @ 2,700 feet per second and carbon fiber clips on the space station @ (17,000 plus mph)

@@vettepicking yeah,okay, whatever you say

To be clear, SV Seeker does not make a dime off of the coins. The coins are $20 to buy, cost $5 to make and Russ gets $15. I'll say that I looked at doing a coin myself and the only thing holding me back is coming up with the art work.

So SV Seeker is doing a nice thing for the other builders, for that alone makes them great people.

I believe you're mistaken. I looked into the cost of making the coins, and I believe it was between $1.50-$3.00 (and I don't think that was for bulk orders). I looked into it in the past, after watching an SV Seeker video that smelled a little fishy to me. I believe the numbers were (at the time) that they were going to bring in ~20% of $60,000-80,000 - and remember, this was excluding any patreon/paypal direct donations, purchases of their merchandise, etc. This was also back when they had advertised them as a 'limited production' run. I posted the numbers, and sources for the information, asking for some clarification of their budget & priorities, and I was blocked from their channel. Please consider that you're seeing a community which is moderated or censored, and there is critical, legitimate, information which is deleted. Watch the Patreon video in which they request further donations, and read the comments (some of the people clearly cannot afford to donate any more). I followed the project back when Kay was around, and it was a person funding their own DIY boat project. I believe that now it is a business, prioritizing making money for personal gain. I think that if you continue to watch their videos with a critical eye you may begin to notice incongruities with the image they project. I do not want to focus on personnel, but you should also listen for slurred speech. I believe that if you follow along with a critical eye, you begin to notice that the atmosphere is more focused on continually bringing in money (for what? what are the costs? it is a retiree who budgeted for this project), much like the generic 'makers' who focus not on pragmatism, but marketing. If someone is going to run a profitable business on youtube, I believe they should project it as such, and not prey on the members of their community who are being misled into thinking that they're supporting someone worse-off than themselves.

@@honeyforce996 So yeah, your calling Doug and his crew liars and can't quite figure out why you have been muted... I too have been watching Doug and SV seeker since Kay was around. My daughter and I have gone to Tulsa OK and met Doug and Bart, we helped on SV Seeker for the weekend. So while I have met Dough personally, have spoken with him OFF CAMERA, have dined with him and I am in no concept of the word gullible nor naive, saying that you are miss judging him and his project from your arm chair and judge what you yourself are unwilling to do, you choose to look for fault and judge that which you know nothing about. Should you find yourself around my channel and start posting such clap trap I assure you, you will be muted there as well if not already.

Epoxy 1/3 more expensive,has to be faired painted whuch can add up to $100 000 in fairing and painting.Vinyl is compatible with gel coat and is actually a modified epoxy with a similar chemical backbone and is equally as effective in minimising osmosis and is UV stable unlike epoxy that is not.Vinylester is also much faster and easier to work with and far less temp and humidity reliant than epoxy.I use tonnes of epoxy for adhesion and in my profession but for this cat vinyl is far more suitable. Ross

@@LifeOnTheHulls Ok. Cheers. Sorry for all the questions, I wanna learn as much as possible.

All good

It is a dilemma as the freight and customs varies so much worldwide.I always buy the guys shirts as it does progress their projects even though it adds up costwise.All the best Ross