First use of the anchor winch and installing OpenCPN 

you have been through trials and tribulations with the project but seeing the vid today i have a good feeling you may start to enjoy your work and thats what its about, good fortune finding your fortune but either way i think we all hope you have a good time with many adventures and if you take us along with you a bonus for us. i had to smile watching the vid today it made me feel old, when i started of on my fishing adventures and boats, i started with a paper printed sounder, and lining up shore marks to fish a reef ect, now with the gear we have i still get a buzz looking at the new kit.

Ya know he's a proper boat captain when he's got a stash of rum in the cabin.

That awning has really made Renko civilised.

Blimey all the technology now, to go where no man has gone before Renko's evolution is exciting 'make it so' 👍

Excellent! All the weeks of work are finally bringing this project together. Please consider a Renko progress review and what’s-next video. Perfect for a bad weather day when you have one. Best wishes from the Chesapeake bay!

Also, what you discussed previously about a rolling project is spot on. You will find that the balance between fun usage of the vessel and repairs/upgrades will maintain motivation. Also work on a boat is never finished so best crack on with the fun part.

So glad to see your hand is back up to speed👍. 🦀

Coming together nicely. Get back into it big time now that your hands are better. Make up for lost time. Looking forward to seeing it all with a fresh coat of paint.

There is certainly a pecking order in nature... Nice one Stu. I like the way you are doing the sea trials and setting up stuff at the same time. I have the same trouble parking outside my house sometimes. Atb.

Man this made me miss Australia, I lived there for two years. Sometimes you do or say something and I think "we don't have that where I live"

I was just about to ask about the ceiling thanks for sharing

Love the dead outboard as a garden ornament Stu🤣👍

I think I would have put two grab bars on the back of the awning.... more is better :) Thanks Stu... always a pleasure to come on board.

Stu I have to thank you for the laugh out loud moment when you brought the anchor up "on the bow roller", that was great!

Its really starting to come together Stu.

Stu, paint your anchor chain so you know when to let off the windless. Ironically, I have the exact new bow roller you need but I’m the states and it would cost more than it’s worth to ship it to you. I couldn’t put it on my boat because of slip limitations and now I sold the boat. That Ronca anchor is one of the the best but it may be one size too small for your vessel. I used two anchors to keep my boat from “swinging” when there were space limitations so hold on to it.

Renko is really coming together. You are going to have a lot of fun on that boat.

Hey from New York. Enjoy your channel. Nicely stocked tool box at 6:09.

She's looking good Stu, well done . Many adventures to come.

Looking at the awning again, it really looks like a fantastic solar arrange, sure gives you lots of power. I am amazed by the beautiful blue sky and and I envy you for your winter (so tired of our long and freezing canadian winters and our too short summers)

That engine fires up lovely well worth the time and money spent on it.

Have been watching since you got the trawler. Really looking great now 👍. Beautiful part of the world that.

Good one Stu! I've had open cpn sitting on the laptop for ages and was unsure about buying, downloading and installing the Aus charts. Your video made it pretty clear, so I went ahead and got them installed this evening by following along. I just have to buy a GPS puck now and I'll have a good backup to use inside my yacht.

I first came to your channel via the " how to recover a dunked engine " to see how similar our approach was. Turns out " very close" I got the engine running superbly so we must have done it right. A while later I upgraded to a suzuki df6a four stroke. Ever since I have been watching and appreciating the great work done by you on Renko. Well jealous of you as my attempt at owning a boat fell through. Now that you are through the main restore and heading for adventure land if a mate has a four stroke that goes " crook " I would be very interested in you going back to your roots and detailing the fault finding and repair as well as the main "gotchas" between 2s and 4s. Cheers mate keep up the good work. Clive in dripping wet Cumbria

Great to see you out and using the boat Stu.

I have a love hate relationship with openCPN. I’m so glad you have it working as it’s on our to do list. I can see Brupeg parked next to Renko with Stu being lassoed into computer favours to get CPN working on the black boat... also loved the anchor retrieval!

I was going to roll the swag out on that beach Friday night but this bloody wind put an end to that idea. Great video as always Stu. Thank you.

Great progress Stu, enjoyed the bird aviary that surrounds your home, Have a great week, Jeff in LA USA

Got that Detroit Humming just right...good to here her purring!

Great video. Love the electronics, gps tracking. You should keep a tube of 5200 on the boat. Excellent for waterproof adhesive sealant. I’ve seen a guy patch a zodiac with it. His tube sprung a leak. Was stranded on an island. Took a piece of rubber covered it on both sides with 5200. Slapped it on the deflated tube. Let dry two hours. Pumped it up. Got under way. Patch held in rough seas.

Great video 👍 . It's great to know a good tec man. You need to make good use of it now and find some treasure. We have a lot of wind in the UK at the moment . Happy treasure hunting. 👍✌️🇬🇧

Technology is great; as long as it works! … Stu, if you want to cut down on the glare in the pilot house consider painting the white around the windows flat/satin black. You can only squint for so long. Also, it will help with the visibility of the tech displays. Doug is really packing the spaces on SV Seeker. I enjoy all videos and look forward for each one … Thanks

Thanks mate....Glad to see you are getting some stuff sorted out alone the way...Cheers from Kentucky...!

Looks great! If you want to get really fancy, run a second monitor off of that computer into your cabin so you can have the charts etc available while you are down there. Either touchscreen or they make tiny Bluetooth keyboard/mouse combos

That anchor shackle is nicer than anything I own

Nice tech addition! Can't wait to see it in action on a search/recover mission. Well done mate!

I've been waiting for this update all week! Did not disappoint. Great progress. Funny how getting one gadgety doohickey to work leads a person straight on to looking for the next gadgety doohickey! Many thanks!

Hi Stu, The maps are cool. My Helix5 has the slot for a card but they are expensive. The anchor works great👍

Hey Stu, I have been told it is safer to add a shackle at the anchor connection before the swivel because there is a possibility of side loading the swivel in line with the anchor - too much stress on the pin.

Great improvement upgrade. Hello from a Rotonda West Florida on the Gulf.

Looking good ! 👍 maybe a bit of chain across the port side door opening ? Just a thought ! Double rollers for your anchor chain might work .

Nice update Stu. That windlass sure makes life easy. Im getting sick of these freezing August westerly winds

That Detroit sounds so good

Nice video. Enjoyed watching the progress. Cool technical upgrades! 👍

Its all coming together very quickly now stew brilliant

Another great video. If you install wood nuts (like you use in furniture) in the top side, you could install bolts from the bottom

To lock the screws in, you can make a mirrored steel plate dab of weld on each screw, rout out the square of the plate use your epoxy to seal it and then you will never strip them when you tighten the nuts.

Hi Stu, I just took delivery of the same shirt you are wearing at the beginning of this video. I wear it proudly!

Hey stu I was advised to never connect a swivel directly to an anchor shaft , always to a few links of chain , it’s easy to see why when the current or wind changes then you have a twisting force on the swivel which can spread it

That's a helluva windlass ya got there! I like it!

Did you think about using nut inserts on the bottom of your seat ? Could be replaced without having to remove all of your apholstery if there is a problem. We use them when making disability seating. Also the use of boatboard rather than marine ply. Boat is coming along great. You have put your heart and soul into it, great to see the rewards.

..anchors away me boy,..lol..good one, stay safe and have a great weekend..

I love that you’re using OpenCPN!

For years I have made a folding funnel from a plastic file holder. Easy to cut out, weighs very little and can be tucked anywhere. I cannot add a photo here, so I cannot show it to you.

Nice work on the computer!!!! Knowing where you and where you been is a good thing!!!!

Really nice tech your getting in the wheel house, I’m a totally non-nautical person, find this stuff very interesting 👍

If you tie a bit of soft rope in the anchor chain a couple of meters from the anchor it can act as a marker to where the anchor is while retrieving.

Computer? In wheelhouse? You just opened a wormhole of things I didn’t know I needed? Lol

I'd come upwith some way to cover those solar panel wires. Someone's going to grab a handful of one someday trying to brace themselves.

To lock the seat bolts in place, drill a counter sink in the bottom side to recess nuts into

Bloody Hell ! A PUBLIC mooring ..... and it's mostly available. I'd heard rumors that these exist - but never actually seen one in the wild

I noticed the wavering heading indicator on the OPNCPN chart. You could preclude that behaviour with a heading sensor (fluxgate) if you can find one that will plug and play. You need a heading sensor to overlay a radar picture onto a chart assuming OPNCPN could handle that.

I would use coach bolts for the seat base. Some folks call them carriage bolts.

Very good, great improvement!!!!!

She's really shaping up!

Another outstanding video, thank you!

Look out world, Renko is gradually coming online. These on the water videos are good fun. I can’t wait for what’s ahead. Be well.

Inevitably you will awaken to the necessity of a radar/GPS unit. Tip: dielectric grease the wire prior to crimping and dielectric grease the terminal prior to insertion.

Trick for thru hole mounting on tubes. Make bolt side hole big enough for a spacer tube to go in and not the nut side hole. For your anchors front roller I'd make an 8" dia x 3" wide spool type roller you'd have to cut the old mount side bolt plates and raise bolt holes up 4-1/2" on 2 new triangle plates welded to the bottom plate.

For the seat if you used a T-nut you wouldn’t have to epoxy anything. I reckon that the screws will spin. I don’t think the epoxy will hold but if it does great but if it doesn’t use a T -nut. Great video Stu. I really enjoy all your videos.

This is complete not related to this video but it would be very awesome of you did a learning to weld video. It’s a lot to ask for so sorry for that but there really isn’t anything that is very understandable that I have found. Thanks as always never miss a video and love the anticipation of the next one coming!!

Nice, i like your tempo in explaining things, thx

Love that black mud

Hex head bolts into undersized holes with epoxy works great!

In case you are interested in pattern research openCPN has a plugin just for that. Extremely customisable like the width of the corridor. You can download it for free from the openCPN website. It can also control the rudder position with a NMEA autopilot.

I'm sure the "gate" in your side rail is on a back-burner (or is it off the plan?). Either way, since you are planing on venturing out to sea and thus getting into some real heavy weather, I suggest you put a chain on a hook across the opening. If you're beam on in a moderate seaway, rocking and rolling, you could step out on deck (just for moment) and you could get dumped right overboard. A chain across would give you a chance to keep your behind from plunking into the briny deep.

Nice AvE terminology Confuser 👌

Hey Stu...who was the guy with the vacuum? .. seemed out of place in the video!

Put a line chalks on each side of the roller and then make a line bridal for your mooring ball that goes around the anchor. That way you can leave the anchor on the roller.

Stu You are a brave mate, unzipping on RU-vid. 😉😲 Glad you're making progress on the final touches. Kathryn said you can always hang fish from that handle to clean .😃

To stop a lightweight box section crushing you can drill and fit a sleeve but for what you need then close to the wall is just as effective....

NOt heard of OpenCPN before, I'm off to research it! Wind might drop down by Tuesday.

It's really coming together.

Impressed with OpenCPN. Might set it up in my tinnie.

Bill Murray as desk top background.

Have you ever heard of rivnuts?? It's a rivet with a female thread. Pretty handy little things.be perfect for that hand rail job

I read "installing OpenVPN". *Oh, damn that's cool, he's gonna fix remote access to his boat for monitoring stuff*

Take a piece of aluminum angle of the size that it is wider than the thickness of the accessory box under the wheel. Cut it to suitable length with 45 deg. mitered corners and mount it over the carpet and around the edge of the cover. the side extending down will dress up the raw plywood edge, reinforce the top and provide a seal, keeping dirt and water out of the box. It need not be tight to the sides of the box. An angle with a top dimension would look best, I think perhaps 1 1/4 x 1. This depends on how thick the lid is. JIM

Did you add any sealant to the bolts to hold the handrail? Would not like your boxing to get water in it.

Don't you just love the Westerlies on the Hawkesbury this time of the year...:-)

Nice one Stu, I can’t get my head around open cpn so I gave up on it and installed another system but I certainly like the wench (oops), can always find a use for a good wench lol

When are painting the sides Of the boat to make this thing look beautiful, just needs that finishing touch!

You could have used a 'Tee nut', for your seat instead of glassing in those bolts. Always good videos Stu. Thank you.

If it is not too late before you cover the seat, change the screws to T-nuts or carriage bolts.

Use a blind nut for that seat hardware. Amazon calls them T-Nuts.

Absolutely love the Zissou!!

I think I would've used some those pronged tee nuts under the seat upholstery then stick the bolts in from the bottom side but your way will work too as long as you don't try to over-tighten

Very interested in OpenCPN I had a play with it a couple of years back using some free charts. I would love to see a bit of a practical guide to it when you gain some proficiency 👍

I would round off the corners of the helm seat. I would hate to stab my thigh on a sharp corner in rough weather.

Hey dude, next time you have your mig down the boat you could just weld an ally grab rail down the back all the way across, could even add some rod holders 😉😉😉