Rainwater Collection System ...my roof's got a hole in it and I might drown. 

You can NEVER have TOO many fittings or connectors this same holds true for Electrical work, Networking work just about any diy work your doing. I promise one day will come that you will be very glad you had the part you needed. Keep the videos coming personally i would love to take a trip up and see your boat with my own eyes but work just has yet to allow for it, Maybe one day

Those pumps you installed are great. Used that style for 16 years, under terrible duty cycles, both repeatedly on and off and extremely extended use, and I think only had to replace like four or five pumps ever, don’t believe I ever lost a motor.

Question? Will you be going back through and labeling all of that? Ball valves, direction of flow, check valves...etc. I mean you will remember what it all does since you designed and built it but for future crew and researches when you tell someone to go open or close X valve.

A Mate That Primer your using on the PVC is to dissolve the Excursion Molding Wax off the PVC so the Glue is contacting direct PVC to PVC. Not Eching or Basic Cleaning as most people think. Some don't even bother. They're the ones with leaks when under pressure. Stay Safe and Stay Happy ole mate

Excellent video. Good to see you are off LSD. For the deck bathtub, scorpion xo2 spray liner would need very nice addition. It is has a biocide and is softer for the sensitive parts. Possibly they would send you and kit. Other grain of sand in your britches is thermal coefficient of expansion. Epoxy doesn't move like metals or other plastics. Please have one of your supporting engineers calculate if your epoxy fixes everything approach is solid. When the ship is tossing the simple tasks get very challenging. Good to see you are on the end line sprint to launch.

Visible plumbing and electrical work is great

Stumbled onto your videos yesterday because I bought a 28' cruiser and I have the Jabsco manual toilet so I wanted to learn more about it. I've never owned a boat before, only driven them, lots to learn. Your videos are very informative and you're funny, can't stop watching them now. Your boat looks awesome and I love the open plumbing concept.

Im so excited to see this boat float! Wish I could have had a hand in building it!

Plenty of progress, good to see

Hey Doug I have worked on a few RO machines. Add a pressure relief valve on the high pressure side in case a crew member accidentally closes the needle valve fully and blows the shit out of a membrane housing or worse the pump housing blows out. I have seen it all before.

Hi Doug, from experience it is always better to have the pump motor above the pump or mounted horizontally to stop any water leakage running into your electric motor. Have you thought about accumulators for the pressure side of the system to stop your pumps short cycling?

Impressive Build.....I believe it is the best built I have ever seen, You have a lot of teaching to do when the boat is finished on operational instructions. Whoever builds the operational manual will be doing a lot of writing.. Zombie Hide out ship when the firestorm hits.

Never giving up and going on without helpers. Thats the spirit! Greetings from Berlin!

That's what I love about my 1967 offshore race boat. Everything is out in the open.

The epoxy doesn't stick well to polyethyleen (PE) and not at all to silicon. Maybe the hoses are a composite with one of those two as a part. Testing it upfront to see if it sticks to the materials you are about to bond is an idea ;) I don't know if it's available in the US but we have a kit here in Europe that's called "Poly Max". It'll stick to everything, stay somewhat flexible and you can paint over it when it's dry. I use it alot.

Amazing system Doug - hope you will have some labels to add here and there so other folks can see what does what! Oh and - a reference diagram. Incredible the stage you have reached now - I remember joining the channel back in the days of the pilot house being built.

I am impressed as heck. All of that plumbing, trouble shooting, fixing, re-testing and you didn't jump off of the boat. I might have.

that ships wheel was a wonderful opening, always remembering Hugh....

benefits of building your own boat... you actually know what the fuck everything does, and you have something to be proud of.

Did anybody else think “oh shit” when Doug said “I’ve got an idea”? Lol

Hello, I used to plumb machines, fixtures, dies etc with air logic. I was told by the sales guy we were buying our air stuff from to use Loctite instead of tape, glue, dope. I like the blue color. one little bead all round the threads and push on type fitting and it would keep it from coming loose and it made it leak proof under pressure.

Love the stempunklook a little copperpaint and weathering and som random guages would look awsome.

Hi Doug, with the Sureflow pumps you will need to have a regular maintenance rule to remove a soft chalky deposit from the non return valve faces and other surfaces in the pump valve matrix. On our feshwater system with fewer people than you'll have, it occured annually, the pump output to sinks nd shower decreased rapidly. Great stuff on the install . although I think I prefer pushfit connectrs to pex.

This plumbing system looks extremely complicated to me, I'm amazed you're able to put all this together yourself. I guess it helps being an ex DBA when dealing with all these dependencies and connections and shit. Good job as always, love this channel.

Run a couple of 12 0r 24" cartridge filters to filter the rainwater coming into your system. one with a charcoal filter and one with a 1 or 5 micron set of filters, very inexpensive...

This vid was so chaotic...organized chaos lol Your doing an amazing job Doug, never been so proud of a complete stranger before 🤙🏽

Back to my binge watching🙂✌♿👍✌🙂

Just a quick tip for rain water users, we have a 5 micron filter, a UV light, and a circulating pump on all the systems I design and we size the pump or time it to turn our all the water in the storage system at least once a day. Hope this helps!

Save the instructions on the shurflo pumps. The allen screw is an important adjustment if it doesn't shut off. I put one in my RV and had to read the instructions to get it to shut off.

Exposed is good for maintenance when something ends up leaking later, as you showed, and it looks kinda like a submarine too ! Hope you all are well including the menagerie, and Bart too !

So cool, you will walk through your ship, knowing what each pipe doses! That’s awesome!!! Go Doug Go !!!

The amount of salt and minerals you will get in the rainwater is a good thing. great for the body.

Doug that was awesome! Really clever system for collecting water and moving it about the boat. And if you're serious about collecting rain water to drink could you also consider treating with sterilization tablets when its in the tank?. Think bird shit can be pretty dangerous stuff so would always be on the lookout for it. Always impressed bud! :)

Profit sharing... definitely has its place. My company does a bit of that..sure does motivate me to do the right thing.

Windows on a pilot house - no problem! Seal's not critical, boat is functional when they're broken, and you can fab any replacements you're not carrying out of universally available materials like steel and glass. The only thing to worry about might be whether you could get cut by broken glass when a big wave hits.

You are a rock that gathers no moss my friend! Looks like you about have the plumbing done. Awesome stuff Doug. Like most of us on here, can't wait to see her float for the first time.

The pump in my motor home sucked pvc crumbs from where a hole saw had been used to put fittings into the nylon water tank. The crumbs choked up the little check valves in the pump. Luckily I took it apart and solved the problem and avoided buying a new pump. Since then I have learned that the manufacturer recommends a simple strainer ahead of the pump.

You need a switch to make the runoff go out the Dragon's mouth.

Looking good Doug 👍🏻

Hey....it's bn yrs.now.....get n consult a speed , feed , materiel and tool / bit, drill, ect....chart...plz...! You do coool much good n help people n are a really neat guy. I'm sure u know a old time plain ol machinest who has a chart he once used . Keep up the great work ! Thanks.

Is the boat going to have a maintenance manual or do you just back up through the videos?

Interesting. I’ve been doing plumbing for many years and using uponor expansion pex, haven’t had a single connection leak, tested up to 60- 80 psi. Wondering if the fittings used here were Type-A “cold expansion kind”. There is a significant difference between type-a and type - b pex products. In fittings and tubing itself.

"God that is so inviting. Shit!" LMFAO

G'day Doug ,, I can see you now , in that tub , Aside from that , everything is looking really good . Great episode ,thank you . Much Respect from Down Under

Awesome video. Have you thought about color-coding the values for easy sight referencing? Especially the ones for the sea-kock? With having so many people coming and going as crew and as researchers, just thought it might make for simpler inspections when underway and when leaving the boat for any length of time.

Hi Doug, Check out clamp tite tool for making hose clamps. The advantage of this tool is if you carry a length of suitable 316 stainless steel (mig wire works) wire you can make up whatever size hose clamp you like and in my opinion they are far superior clamping capability to the worm drove hose clamps. Saves having to carry a range of hose clamps with you and much cheaper.

some sort of a new Rickover 👍👍👍👍

Newer subscriber, it's great finding a channel that is entertaining, educational, no fake bullshit!! (You make mistakes like me lol!) Very good job with the work did!! I'm disabled and can't tackle many big jobs. But like you I take pride in everything I do! 🙂 (even when what I did is hard to see lol) I added a 20 amp breaker to my panel (in house) and ran it out to my she'd in case I want have a light, radio, or use a power tool out there👍👍. I really took pride in that👍👍🙂✌♿✌🙂👍 I apologize everyone! I'm rambling, I usually don't comment. (Because it takes to long, and I'll probably fuck it up LMFAO) I just really wanted to share what I did🙂 I had a TBI (traumatic brain injury, and I'm learning how to do basically do everything for the 2nd time in my life!! (I'm proud of myself for making a comment)👍✌♿🙂👍✌ my daughter warned me about people making remarks about me? Not quite sure what she meant, she said I would figure it out. If not she would help me🙂 Once again, I'm sorry my comment is so long! Everyone have a great day and please be safe 🙂✌👍♿👍✌🙂

When using a mag drill on thin metal, you can put a thicker piece of metal on the backside and it will act as one so you can use more leverage on the drill

Que trabajo hermano!!!te mereces el premio Nobel !!!ala perseverancia!!!!

Looks like things are coming along. The hot weather does SUCK though. Hopefully this weeks little cooldown allowed you to get a little more done. Worked more than a few days out in the 100 degree plus Oklahoma heat. But when things start opening back up and you are looking for crew for a day let me know. I think the tenth or eleventh is going to be a get out of the house and spend a few hours under water day for me though since it's gonna warm up again. Most of my time has been spent tinkering with some sonoff switches and tuya based lights but I did sit down and build some Lithium battery packs to swap out the lead acid's in my battery backup systems.

I use some hose clamp made like shrink tube stuff but thicker, gates powergrip hose clamp I love them !

In the navy and commercial shipping we have metal or plastic label tags attached to every valve like waste and fresh water would be WW1 / FW1. Plus all systems pipes tubes motors are labeled too so the FNG you told to open, shut or turn on something can find them. As a FNG in the navy we had to follow the system and draw everything in each system (fuel,waste water,fresh, salt, air, steam, etc) before we could even take the test for our first watch station. Just a thought if you didn't think of this already. God I wish companies would start hiring now I need to get to work welding something. Oh well happy builds happy life!

I have found small leaks often seal themselves up if you leave them for a week or two. I have tested this on copper compression and ridgid npt gas pipe. I would assume it would work sometimes on those pex fittings as the compression ring relaxes into position.

Have you considered maybe putting a couple small flip down cots/bunks in the pilot house. For those long hauls when you need a copilot ready for watch.

omg ... I was trying so hard to not comment till the end of the video but you are making it hard .... its like craftsman comedy hr. lol like old age nice and floppy lmao ... I'm crying over here in the plumbing section ....................... lol

hi the boat is going well looking very good cant wate to see it on the wather

In Australia, Bunnings Hardware teaches the non trades people about their stock and actually hires tradesmen to work in store. I always find them helpful, they also all have a little tablet device that they can search the store for you, and the website will tell you what isle an item is in and failing that they have a trade counter staffed with tradespeople or at least very clever people and they will special order hard to get items..

doug as a former home depot employee i can tell you asking a electrical sales agent questions on plumbing materials wont get you great information you at least have to goto the department. secongly most employees do not stock the shelves so if it isnt a hih volume well known item there probably going to guess. having said that they do continually educate employees in all aspects of the job and all the tools and materials , they also have a policy of meeting any advertised price of any product they sell so if you find it on sale elsewhere just bring in the flyer. great place to rent a van too lol . hope the info helps

Awesome video!! You're doing a great job👍✌♿👍✌🙂 binge time, everyone have a great day and be safe🙂✌👍♿👍✌🙂

Good chance you have thought of this already, but it would be worthwhile to have a color scheme and a laminated card in each compartment that shows the safe (read: fully isolated) configuration for the valve lineup so anyone, even with minimal experience, can safe a cabin in the event of a casualty. Also, it is so cool to see those heads come together. It is always amazing to see something you have worked on personally take shape and start to function like that.

I wish I could fast forward to when this thing is completed...im too stoked to see it in the water!

I am pretty sure that the motor shaft socket in that plate is not only offset, but also tilted. That would be a wobble plate diaphragm pump, a very efficient design also used for tiny low voltage compressors.

Keep extra pex and sharkbite fittings on board. They work great.

The spindle is designed to pop the plug out of the bit when not using pilot holes.

A way to make that mag drill hold better is to take a chunk of thick steel on the other side of the plate and just hold it up there when you turn the magnet on at all actually give it more power to hold to and then when you turn it off course the steel will just fall. I used a magnet to hold the steel where I wanted it if I could reach it from where wanted the drill.

so for a few years ive been thinking i want to learn to sail... back in 2017 i took a kayak 2k miles downt he mississippi river... maybe if i find a cheap used sail boat ill take it down to check out seeker

Very nice video and I love the progress you made I’ve been a sub for sometime now and I haven’t been keeping up to date because I recently joined the marine but I’m glad I sat down and caught up on the Seeker. Hope to see more from the channel.

3:04 Ha! Carnival cruise lines!

Great video Doug. Have you considered adding labeling to the piping to show hot, cold, potable water, etc.? I was once told that if you didn't have at least one leak in your system the plumbing gods would be upset and your whole system would fall apart. Good thing you had the leaks you did, don't think you would want to start that job over again (lol). Great job. Take care and stay well.

Those sureflows are nice (pricey, but nice). They do tend to be loud. Had them in my old boat for water, and yea...not the quietest pump in the world...wasn't bad, but we didn't have a big noisy boat, and our pump was located right where we could hear it. As for wash-down pump? ABSOLUTELY. You will want that anchor chain washed down. Way too many times I've seen the "rot" creep in on the chains...and the SMELL...Yea...a simple wash-down will help immensely. Did you put a drain in your Chain locker? I can't remember.

"Plastize" it Doug!!!! Lol, Lol. Hey it works with just a little heat! Keep it buddy. It is looking great. Be sailing soon.

Didn’t see a cleanable strainer for the rainwater inlet - May help reduce crap getting into the pipes?

I recently bought a 1981 Hunter 27 sailboat, I learned very quickly that 3M 5200 is the go-to, end-all, be-all, do-all solution for 90% of boat problems/repairs. It cures even when submerged in sea water, and can be used as an adhesive, sealant, wood and metal glue, fiberglass repair substance, you name it. it stays flexible for the most part but is ungodly strong in its bonding. I usually joke that 5200 is the only thing keeping my boat together and afloat, but my pride won't let me tell me that i'm not joking at all. Some boat yard people told me once, that you only use 5200 when you absolutely, positively, don't want something to ever come apart ever again... Well, when it comes to most boat-related things, that is a good attribute! Cheers SV Seeker, been watching you guys from the beginning, and although I've put my dream of owning a boat off for YEARS, I am glad that I recently said 'Screw it' and made the purchase. My boat was in rough shape and barely afloat, I had no idea (and still have no idea) what I'm doing or how to work tools, just going off what I had as an idea in my head. Used your videos to give me ideas, but mostly learned from trial and error. I've taken her out sailing twice so far and I'm sold hook line and sinker in saillife. I hope one day S/V Seeker and S/V Aardwolf will cross paths, I'll save a bottle of rum for that day!

Going to have to label stuff. Depends on the store I had in where homedepot sucked and menards was good, moved to a different town now it’s flipped. Btw vitamix is still 12amps!

Essentially we all drink rain water or ground water that has been filtered in some way. When a big box store employee asks if they can help me, their eyes usually glaze over at the 3rd word. Naked rain baths at sea are the best, unless the rain stops mid soap. Will you keep spare sump pumps aboard, or can you repair those clever pumps in the water tanks.

I probably just missed it, but don't you need a vent/exhaust for the toilet waste tanks to the open air? Love your videos since the beginning! Take care!

love the videos! you're an inspiration!

I am a American boat and yacht council certified technician in the rulebook It says you cannot do what you just did in the beginning of the video with just using a pipe as a nipple even if it’s no pressure

Have loved your buiulkd from day one. Can't wait till I see you at the helm, pushing a decent bow wave. Cheers from Tasmania

As always, amazing content!!

Are you making a ( PMS ) "preventive maintenance service" logbook as you go. That way you can look in your logbook and under MONTHLY CHECKS it will say " check ..... pressure pumps to make sure it's working. The NAVY uses these logs on all ships and it prevents a lot of things from failing and suddenly surprising you. Just a thought.

Fantastic content always. I always learn something. Thank you

@28:32 because that's what a gentleman does 🤣

“Like a virgin...” - tap just squirts all over the place 😄

Are you gonna can tags for those valves? We had labels at one plant I worked at. And within a couple of years, most of the labels were painted over or gone. We started making plastic information tags and zip tieing them to the valve body or handle. Hard plastic, engraved by a machine and they are indestructible. Sure saved us a couple of times during an emergency.

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Home Depot use to have tradesmen for every department, but you’d be lucky to find that today.

try rotating the head of the tool everytime you expand so there is no inconsistency

i never trusted those plastic pex clamps. i only use the steel rings, but i can see how the steel rings would be an issue on a boat at sea. ;)

I can’t wait to see the ship

I remember the first time I saw one of those multi tools. It was a Fien Multi-master and I thought that could be kind of handy to cut door trim to slide flooring under or other such activities, but I didn’t pick it up that day. Then the day came that I absolutely needed one and of course couldn’t find one anywhere. It would be a few years before they were everywhere and now I have two. On a different thought, you were talking about going to stores where the people working there don’t know the products. I’ve been to several stores in the tool department where people were asking questions of the employee of the store and they didn’t know the answer so I helped the customer out by giving them the information they needed. In one case it was about a saw blade for a Circular saw that would have a narrow kerf. I showed him the difference between a carbide tipped blade and a stamped steel blade with small teeth which would make the difference between a Kurd of 1/16 of an inch versus 1/8 of an inch for the carbide tip. On another occasion a gentleman need to make a cut with a 10 or 12 inch saw through concrete and the sales rep was showing him the $180-$220 diamond blade. The gentleman had commented that that seems like a lot of money for making a 3 foot long cut through 4 inch thick concrete. I pointed him to the more disposable epoxied made blades. I’m not sure if their exact name but I’m sure you’ve seen them whether they were for a smaller grinder or regular circular saw. They sort of eat themselves up as you go along but for a one time job they only cost $10 each and you can probably get by with two or three of them. That’s a major savings for when you’re doing it yourself at home and probably won’t ever need the diamond blade again. But even if you did you would have to go through multiple jobs before you would use up enough of the disposable ones to justify the cost of the diamond blade. These are just two examples of how I knew more about the tools than the sales person.

Doug, you need to search for a video about the "knack". It is a Dilbert skit by Scott Adams. You have the "knack". I believe that drive is called a wobble yoke. Similar to a swash plate, but it doesn't spin, only the center bearing does.

Most yacht racing rules require all through hull fittings have an appropriate stopper wired to fitting for use in case of failure. Typically a tapered soft wood plug is sufficient.

Funny, the pex that I’m using have copper crimp rings and brass fittings. Way more resilient methinks! Bryan from Vancouver

I hope you have a manual for all the ball valves if you aren’t there to explain them! I remember hearing about a submarine that sank because of complicated valves on the head!

EMT is metal, it stands for electro metallic tubing. The Grey plastic conduit is also PVC

Label those pipes/valves! Great work!

Doug, I hope you only used epoxy on one pipe fitting cos at sea everything will move and flex and even with a solid pipe joint epoxy will break as well as expand and contract differently to other materials. 3M 5200 or Sikaflex 291 here in New Zealand is your friend.

Exposed where you can see it gets a great assist with labeling...and a flow chart.