EPOXY EXPANDING FOAM to fill the keel (SICOMIN) [E31] 

That’s right! 💪😄 thank you 🙏

ECF have a great range of products, are most efficient in terms of delivery and never failed us in terms of their stock levels. Yes, that’s a good point 👍 , we shouldn’t use the term “dry” when talking about resin. The next video is being edited as we speak, so we are probably still referring to it as “dry” rather than “cured”. Will rectify this in the future though 😉

@@sailingsqualo 👍

Happy New Year to you too! 🎉🍾 We have been absent from boatyard and YT as we have been pretty ill over Xmas, but we are back on board Squalo now 😃💪

Thank you 🙏☺️

Aww, you are too kind. Thank you 🙏☺️

She will definitely be better than when she left the factory 🤩 also by the time we finish we will know her inside out.

Thank you 🙏 would have liked to see Poland advance, but the better team won and has gone through 😉

Thank you for watching every episode 🙏😊

Outside the “tent” we made would probably not work very well. The shed is massive and removing humidity in the middle of winter in the UK is mission impossible hehe inside the tent, it would definitely help. We might look for a cheap one. 👍

We would have probably approached it in a similar way. Well done to them. 👍 Now I wish we had paid £1 for Squalo 😒 Yes, all those problems we've come across, as well as all other boaters with the old boats aren't definitely made up.. they just happen cause it is a common thing to happen to boats build in similar fashion. Back then GRP was a revelation in boatbuilding and wrongly thought of as maintenance free.. years later we hear 'Osmosis', delimitation and 'rotten core" more often than not.

😂 couldn’t have summed it up better myself! 👍 Thank you ☺️

That’s right, even smallest step and shortest visit to the boatyard takes us one step closer to ultimate goal 🙌 It is extremely cold these days..plus the humidity makes it super cold! 🥶

That's right! The one we used also expands but not as much and is much more structural. We aren't boat builders and also couldn't find a solution to similar problem elsewhere. Let' hope it was a good choice and the way we chose to do it, with alternating layers of glass strengthened the keel and we got rid of that (what we believe) was a weak point.

Thanks! ☺️

Neither have we, but few videos back when we mentioned we are planning to fill the sump tank with expanding foam (we bought polyurethane at that time), someone suggested using Sicomin. We looked it up, not many suppliers have it in the UK (it is a French product). You can get them at various densities, it doesn’t shrink after it cures, they have flame retardant option available, it is water resistant, it can be used as structural core material and it doesn’t exert too much pressure when it expands so it won’t damage fragile parts. I sound like I am trying to sell it here 😂 Filming can sometimes get in the way of things when like you said you try to get the stuff done. But it’s a fantastic way of documenting this project, even now when I look back at the first videos we released just over a year ago it brings back wonderful memories..I can only imagine what it will be like watching this journey when we retire. 🥰

Thank you 🙏 rudder is filled with what looks like polyurethane foam.. it was wet when we drilled holes but it should dry out. We will then fill them with the Sicomin and close up the holes we drilled.

W szopie zimno, Squalo bidula marznie..🥶 u nas śnieg leży od kilku dni! Niesłychane w UK.. może poszczęści się nam i będziemy mieli białe święta 🤞 Pozdrawiamy 😘☺️

We did ask the Oyster Technical After Sales Support Team that very same question. The answer was that the bilge sump was just a low point in the hull for any water leakage to drain into and make it easy to pump. Well.. there was a big hose running under the engine oil pan to the back and straight into that sump tank in the keel, but it was short and never reached the bottom and there was no way of changing it as there was no access to it...it worked on manual pump, so it probably wasn't even pumped out often.. and all the stinky oils and other gross bits that have overflown in the main bilge, went there and sloshed about freely. Only after we cut the bottom of that engine oil pan open we could get it out and the stench was unreal!🤢

This Sicomin one has got quite a pungent smell 😉 Belgium..that’s almost round the corner from us! 😁 Best beer ever and excellent croquettes. That’s all I can remember from a very short visit to Belgium 🥰