JUST ME & THE BOAT | SAILING SEABIRD Ep. 66 

There may be plenty of experts on RU-vid, but I'm not one of them! I am however, an avid DIYer though, and as such have done a lot of projects "for the first and last time" with varying levels of success. An early one that left an impression on me was when my boss asked me add a two stall addition to her barn when I was 16 years old. I'd never done much construction, but I looked at the existing pole-barn, and designed a small addition following its construction methods and handed my boss a list of materials to purchase, at which she said "no way I can spend that much - cut that down by at least two thirds!". So, I did, and the result *looked* like a barn at least... I later learned that while my addition held up the rain and snow loads just fine, the roof on my addition carried away in the first really serious wind storm a few years later! No horses were harmed in this failure, but it did teach me to spend a little more time thinking about worst cases! When I think about those tanks full of water nestled under your cabin sole, I find myself a little concerned about where they'd go in a roll-over, or getting bashed around in the rolling forties! You two are doing a great job on this ambitious rebuild, keep it up! Here's some food for thought: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wcUk0RDMpNI.html

22:12 could you imagine if they all had bells 🔔 (loud). I think sheep travel in flocks so only the lead needs a bell. Where a cows wonder away from one another

Stew..befor you drop the tanks in ..but a couple of lifting strap loops round them ... If they have liquid in you will at leas get a grip on them to lift them out. 🤞🏼👍🏼🧙🏼‍♂️

Nice bin finds!!!

You did great Stu!

Love the music...you should call it the "neverending boatwork. sheepyard blues". Budapeter

20:20 nuggins lol. I like it. Think they are blocks

Hey Stu, there are 2 sorts of expanding foam available: the cheap one, that needs aircontact (to be exact: air-moisture contact) to harden. This one is used on construction-sites if you want to fill a gap that has aircontact on all sides. What you was trying to do (to fill the inside of a bag with NO aircontact) you HAVE TO use 2K Foam otherwise it will never ever harden. These bottles usually have a rotating bottom of the can. By rotating that "knob" you break out the hardening component INSIDE the can, than shake it good and spray. This will fill your bag . . .the other will not. Another tipp: for creating a foam-wedge you should NOT shoot against an empty tank ! The expanding foam will force a massive dent into your empty tank or will force the tank out of its enclosure. So: make a "dummy" of your tank-bottom out of a very sturdy piece of wood (better) or fill your watertank completly BEFORE placing the bag under it and BEFORE pressing that button! A good idea will be to stand on the tank while the foam expands because (professional PU-) foam pushes with a force of 70 (!) TONS until it had fully cured !!! Good luck and best regards from Berlin, Germany

Well done you done a great job on your own

Just when you think you’ve seen every possible RU-vid sailing shot, along come sheep in a boatyard.

Well done Stu.

The Bellwether. Literally.

Check out for the foam with the closed cells

luv ur speed sawing skillz

Brilliant vids stu keep em coming

Excellent video this week

Oh Stuart, the Desaster with the expanding Form rallye made me laugh 😂😂😂😂 cheers

A wonderful video!!!!!!

Stu great video.

Only just discovered this channel. Love it. Sense of humour and great narratives from two great characters. From an earlier episode I remember......you guys in Rouen trying to open a box of bolts. Stuart said: "We are in a city, there should be someone around with a switchblade". That was fun, at least for me. And the sheep...in Holland we use them as lawnmowers also, others as food. And, as the wolf returned to my country, they like sheep as well. Jeremy Clarkson, he had something to do with sheep in season 1, will be back on Amazon Prime with season 3 of his "Clarkson's Farm. Looking forward to that. And.....I sailed wooden sailboats all my life. Wood is honest.

You are doing a great job Stu! salutations from Cornwall

Good Job.. What am I telling: great job! Keep on it ;) And please insert some good food whille working!

while the cats away...the stu will play er

Phew. Relieved Marina came back.

Great episode Stu. Missing Marina. Keep up the great work. 👍

Awesome Stu...Always enjoy your vids.

Buy a nylon welding kit and alter the tanks to fit and gain capacity at the same time. Nylon sheets are cheap.

Have you thought of a way to strap the tanks down.

You did quite well on your own! Work's looking good. Bèhh! 🐑

All I can say is WOW good going. Cheerio Young Sport!!!

Stu you pulled it off. Great job.

A verry productive week there, Stu! Decent upload too, considering being a man down. Just make sure you check yourself for tick bites after those sheep have done their mowing job. Look forward to next week😀

Thanks!

Great vid!

The tank surrounds look great..!! Lots of fiddling, but worth it. I reckon the bin bag and expading foam should work - I'd put the bag in the gap first, then let the foam fill the space. Good luck..!!

You two are very inspirational! I do love the struggle!!!!!❤❤❤❤

Well done, 🎉🎉🎉

Good work, Steward!

Put the bin bag underneath the water tank and then fill it with expanding form, but go easy on the expanding form as it might lift the tank

"Sheeps and griding"

Nice episode ! You did make a lot of progress. But I know how frustrated it can become. My project will start soon. I had to hire a draftsman this week who will draw up the changes I need to make on my little old house. take out a door of a 400 year old house, build a window where the door was, take out a window and build a door. I personally won't be doing that. lol. I missed Marina. Hope her trip was nice. See you next episode. Bravo

Hi stu . Love what you’ve doing been watching from the beginning? Keep the good work going old boy. Richard &caroline our old neighbours for new Road. 👌

Quality bin treasure at the end, good work.

That idea with the expanding foam is not too bad. It is actually being used like that already, and prefabricated bags are available. But for your intended purpose they are of no use. Since they are *expanding* they will push up the tanks with some force..

the background music reminded me of The Commitments,no bad thing tbf !

You're welcome for the gloves. This was a small participation but I had no doubt about the usefulness. Stay strong and we'll meet on the sea someday ;-) LaurentP

Great episode Stu. Love the music. A couple of webbing straps under the tanks will help if you ever need to remove them. Put the black bags under the tanks before you put the foam in them. It will be almost impossible to stuff the bags under with foam in them. You will not need much foam. ATB regards from the UK

19:00 Good idea, I thought you would have bouncy floor without it

Great going, Stu! My, that mistral was piping at the end! Glad you survived without a broken heart while Marina was gone 🙂

Well done fantastic content and a,l on your own filming as well 😊

Stewart, great video. I think the ply in between the tanks was a very good idea, the floor will be a lot stronger that way. And the tanks will be more secure as well. I hope Marina had a nice visit with her family. Cheers.

Great getting closer to getting the sole down. Loved the music to.

expanding foam in the bag should work, done something similar

Sweet sweet bin finds. 😆 Great episode friend. Missed Marina, but so nice to have family time. Sheep are wonderful! (We’re still fiddling with holes in our hull.) 😎😂😎🥰🥰🥰

Danke!

Woo hoo bin score.

looks like the bulkhead is not even attached to the cabin top. 14:25

Another nice job stu. Keep at it mate. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Nice work flying solo Stu. You killed it this week :) Glad you put that piece of wood in between the tanks. Think it will provide a lot of support! Cheers.

Use floatation foam , mix the two parts together and pour into the cavity . Progress is awesome !

Great job on a solo week Stu!!

Don't tell Marina but you're doing a terrific job in an entertaining way!

Lots of good jobs done while alone, I missed her too. Someone’s good idea for sheep to keep the grass and weeds down, although they do leave little messes about. The one sheep in the little flock with the bell is called a “bellweather”. It is a leader the rest of the sheep will follow so they will stay together, they each really like being part of the flock. Also, out in the larger fields and pastures, the shepherd can more easily track them. Love your show.

She is a very hard worker and deserves a break, and will be so very prod of your efforts today!

These are not stringers but carlings. Stringers are the longitudinal structural reinforcement of a ship's hull. Carlings are the longitudinal structural reinforcement of a ship's deck (floor).

Nice work Stu, as usual!! Nothing wrong with using expanding foam around your tanks but, if it’s not too late, make sure that you are using "closed cell" expanding foam that won’t absorb moisture and, ideally if you can, fill your tanks with water before applying the foam so that it doesn’t compress the sides of the tanks. The cheap bog standard expanding foam will absorb water and, aside from being a nice place to cultivate rot next to any timber, it will stink as the moisture in it grows all sorts of fun cultures.......

See if you can find some insulation board or polystyrene buoyancy blocks in the yard that you can cut up to fill the voids under the tanks. Builders foam is dreadful stuff to manage and may swell bigger than you want when you are not looking 😂

I have been following your activities from the beginning. You've done some good work. Respect. Greetings from Poland.👍

Good work on those jobs. Gotta love the bin that keeps giving.

Be careful with expanding foam it tends to absorb water and is a devil to remove . Memory foam offcuts might be better

Great content, really enjoyed. Loved the music. Hope the expanding foam worked, novel idea.

Stu is the faithful worker of the week. It seems tougher to keep motivated when the wife is away. but you kept going. Good job, Stu.

You clearly strive to do the work as accurate as possible !

Very good Stuart. They are stringers and you got floors correct as well. Your boat vocab is definitely improving. Keep up the great work

Dang, that throne you found in the bin looks like it's brand new! People throw out the weirdest things...

Stewart, You'll find the sheep with the bell is a Ram that has been " seen to" and his role is now to act as leader of his flock of ewes without being able to expand the numbers. I believe he is called a Bellwether Cheers Eric

OK I lied we missed Marina!!!

Make a cradle by adding plywood to each side of the bottom board with curved riblets to match the hull and angle of the bottom of the tanks.

Always good to finish the week with a bit of bin treasure!

I see lots of people build the stringers with foam these days..,. Saves weight (if your boat is big enough to make the scale work.,

Another fantastic video great to see you have the tanks in at last. Missed seeing Marina and her jolly self.😊

The spray foam need oxygen to go off.

Woe you ran ghrough a few jobs my man well done boat is coming on great and the chickey chick chick is gonna lovit ehen she is coming back Steward

The Stu show was great. Miss the smiling Marina though.

Awsome video

Nice one…really liked this one with lots of stuff going on. And if it wouldn’t be a boatyard but a shipyard I would assume you could have made a couple of really nice sheepish puns..

lot of work done Stew well-done, nice music a well.

The wood barrier on the tanks i think is a good idea. The polymers may otherwise bond together leaving the tanks stuck together. Having them framed will allow flexing but stop Them shifting. Like the logic.Also liked the idea of straps. Or handles to assist in removal for maintainance.

You can always cut the foam to the perfect wedge that you need..thanks for sharing your journey with us..

New episode, huiii! \ü/ It’s always so amazing to go back in the series and see how far you’ve come. So excited for the future!

Stuart: Marvelous episode, the water tank installation is coming along, much as planned, good idea to have a cork backing. The sheep herd in your boatyard is an excellent idea. Thanks for sharing and we can't wait for next weeks episode.

Working alone is never fun great work Stu !!

Im sure you've already thought if it, but in case you haven't it might be a good idea and save you a lot of swearing and lost skin to fit the pipes to the tanks before you put some sort of flooring down. Bin toilet??? Change all the seals and hit it with all the bleach you can find lol

Marina leaves Stu with one song and one song only that he gets to recycle for the entire episode. :D

What do you mean;...If she comes back,..., ??? This project Seabird is a team play ,and hang in there ,great project,but takes time ,you both get their, look at Jaba ,took over 3 year,.. now better as new .

Alone is alone man ! Courage in french ! 😜

Mistakes bring us to knowledge.

Hi. Good work! I think you would benefit from having a solid 5x10cm beam in between the two white tanks. I think the floor on top later will get less flex compared to just having a beam on either side of the tanks? Keep the good work going!

Stuart, making progress from that stage is hard, but finally we can start to see it. I just wonder why you leave the plywood uncovered/treated. From its looks I would guess it's ordinary plywood, not water resistant. In contact with water the floors and what else is from plywood will disintegrate in no time if you don't protect is adequately. Best would be a layer of fibreglass/epoxy, or several, to make the floors structural.

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