Hi, I'm a wood turner I noticed you have a couple of spindles on the inside of the boat toward the bow. If you would like I will happily turn you new spindles as my contribution to her resurrection
That is so so nice of you to do that, I will have a measure up for you and send you some measurements when I am back in the boat yard, your a star thank you for this opportunity. ⛵️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I like how you take it in your stride, a least on camera. You help put things in perspective, the state of your workload makes mine look a doddle. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for the comment, I hope this keep you pushing on your own project as this one is challenging but I can always see the light at the end of the tunnel ⛵️⛵️⛵️🙏
Will you be replacing all that hideous expanding foam with something more suitable, or isn’t it necessary? It already looks 10 times better than when you started 👍
Thank you, I won’t adding anything to lockers and bilges as she definitely doesn’t need it, I think the last owner was thinking of safety that would have never worked unless using a different method, locker space is definitely more useful. Space is a small yacht is always useful. Thank you for your comment. She is slowly getting there. Weather will definitely help this process as it’s been hard with all the rain we have had ⛵️🙏
@@BoatzUK There are foams that you can use in a marine environment for dead spaces that will basically act as a means of 'sink proofing' if you have enough of it. However it makes other maintenance a headache and unless there's enough of it to make a difference to flooded buoyancy, there's really no point and it will use up space that you might otherwise want for storage or tankage. So whether it's worth the trouble or not depends on the boat, for this one, probably no real point as it's fairly small and storage space is more important than dubious antisinking. Fit decent bilge pumps and float switching once you have reliable 12v power. There is no such thing as too many bilge pumps or too big a bilge pump. Do that and unless you tear a huge hole in the side, mere leaks won't sink it. All the weight of that waterlogged expanding 'foam' and engines at the back were a good part of the reason she sank, when she took in enough rainwater to let the transom drop below the waterline, she filled up and down she went. Bilge pumps would have stopped that happening, but less weight in the back would be brilliant.
Much cheaper to buy trade paint stripper on line in 4 litre cans, then give it a good brushing and when it has reacted with the paint most will come off with a power washer. Makes life so much easier
That’s what I should have done, I was experimenting and didn’t want to melt the gelcoat even though it’s in a sorry state, but that’s great advice and whatever makes life easier is always a better option. Thanks you for your advice as it’s always appreciated 🙏⛵️
I have stripped paint from the textured deck of a Laser dinghy with no damage. I used caustic soda as paint stripper which is much much much cheaper than solvent based paint strippers. I used a 10% solution - apparently the weakest caustic soda that will strip paint and it doesn't even sting when you get it on your hands. I mixed it with wall paper paste to make it cling on thickly and coverecd it with polythene and left it overnight. I removed the polythene and pressure washed the paint off.
This is definitely what I am going to do as weather at the moment is my biggest down side, I was looking at a portable garage that you would use at race meetings and they look great 😊
£1, i paid 50p for mine. I love fast forward and am about to start work on my boat. I will create a channel but would love to keep in contact as what you are saying is pretty much what i have to do with mine. Wish you all the best fella X
This is so interesting to follow! As I'm also in the works of trying to get my hands on a cheap sail boat to restore. Love to see how other people does it!
i did it.. took me the better part of a decade.. with about 75% of it not working on it.. i lost a bit of wind after a year or two.. but i put in a year or so lately and got it put out.. my only issue is that i was a bit of a dumbass when i was checking the mast.. i stumbled on the rope for the mainsail effectivly yanking it out from the mast.. it goes on the inside of the mast and i didnt have time to fish it out before the car came to lift her out.. so now its going only by the front sail.. but sailing with 2 sails is a 2 man job on my draco summerwind.. atleast when your a noob like me..
Somewhat stunned to see extensive use of black iron and galvanised steel in what is the harshest possible environment . The original owner / builder must have been either cash poor or stupid .
Thank you for reaching out, sounds amazing, I think I have enough to do the job but it’s great to know your here if I am stuck, highly appreciated 🙏🙏⛵️⛵️⛵️
Galvanized rigging is great if you worm parcel and serve it. It'll give you stronger rigging for less money but requires more work. Not that it'll make much difference in a boat that size but it's a good option.
Hi mate great progress, funnily enough I bought some of that paintstripper from wickes as I've just bought a new project that is covered in silver and gold paint, completely butchered it needs lots of work lol 😂 Anyway the 🛥 boat is looking so much better, hopefully the weather will get better soon, have a great weekend cheers 🍻
@@BoatzUK You did well there, a test patch, shortening the time etc and then the patience of a saint doing the whole boat. I didnt and left it on blistering and perminantly softening the gel coat .. oooops LOL
@@michaeltongue yes it was a gamble but it did the job and saved a lot of disc and sanding, still needs a lot of prep work before I start on the repairs with epoxy but next video I should be a lot further ahead ⛵️😎
Great vid fella ....I was wondering if you were going to wear a mask ...coming from where you grew up there's no chemical that ICI could poison you with... so that paint stripper was a good shout. But for that particular project i would have opted for Napalm and started it on Nov 5th... keep going marra. Looking forward to the re-name 🤣🤣
@@BoatzUK Sound4aPound.....or you can get some other ideas from these guys fixing their boat up ..ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5pyKLV_P7uk.html
You absolutely have to test the 3M Bristle disks. I Stripped our Boat 8Meter LOA with 3 of these. Sure they are a bit expensive but the use case in close enviroment is worth it. For the big surfaces i recommend a Fartools Multi Grinder. They come with a 100mm wide cylinder where you can put a variety of abrassive materials on
I will definitely order some to make life that little bit easier, it’s definitely a slow process the way it’s going with standard discs, massive appreciate this advice as it all help 🙏⛵️⛵️
pro tip. there is no need to use and angle grinder. Is you but an M8 screw through the with a nut on ther other side. you can use them with youre battery drill. Makes you self sufficient without the need for a power supply and also got the benefit of a bit of a more gentle cleaning and therefore more control @@BoatzUK
One trick for stretching your paint stripper and making it work harder is to cover areas you painted with the stripper, with plastic bags or sheet.... it stops the solvent gassing off and makes it penetrate better. I like to rough it up a little with coarse sanding paper before applying the stripper too. gets through little waxy crud and helps it get behind the paint coat.
Having done something similar, I'd suggest removing windows and ALL deck fittings and hit it with a sander. You're going to have to reseal all the deck fittings (sikaflex or mastic) and probably windows anyway. I tried Owatrol which was shit, and was worried about fucking the gelcoat. Its not a £1 yacht, every day you work on it is adding over £100 in labour.
Yes I completely agree, the windows are being replaced, and all the fitting are being removed, I was just getting ahead while it wasn’t raining, but thankfully the weather seems to be improving now. And my labour is free as it’s a labour of love 🤣 kinda 🤣⛵️⛵️⛵️
Grinder with sanding disk. Super aggressive and will get down into the glass. Need full face respirator. Does work fast. My boat is similar to yours. Can have a look what I’ve done. Cheers 🇨🇦
Definitely, they is a lot of layers of paint to remove but it’s the only way to get that nice new finish, his account at the builders merchants was 100k in paint alone 🤣⛵️⛵️
If your sand paper gets gumed up you can really quickly sand an old tennis shoe sole and it will take the melted paint off the sand paper. They make a sand paper cleaning stick that does the same thing.
If it helps mate I bought an aerosol paint stripper, I’ve used it really impressive results, but could be expensive for the amount you’ve got going on there. Loving this mate keep up the good work
I also bought the aerosol version first and it worked really well, I used it on the starboard side first but didn’t document it as I was not sure of the outcome, it did start to make the gelcoat soft in areas I missed from cleaning off but nothing to be concerned about, I was going to document that part but I thought it would have not went down so well 🤣🤣🤣 so went for the less aggressive version 🤣🙏⛵️⛵️thank you Simon for your support 🙏
Can I suggest you remove that horrible bent horse from the back of the cockpit fairing and replace it with a proper track. The boat will sail a lot better.
That’s a great suggestion, as we move forward and get to that stage of the re build process all these suggestions will be taken onboard thank you 🙏 ⛵️⛵️
I found the 'gel coat friendly' paint stripper worked fine with no problems on a 30yr old Westerly - but had to be warm. Absolutely no effect in the winter.
May I suggest investigating Dyneema for your rigging? I think it's a bit dearer than metal but you'd eliminate the labour cost of having the rigging made up.
@@BoatzUK There's a lot about re-rigging with Dyneema on Free Range Living. The chap on there really knows his stuff, and he's got a brilliant dry Australian sense of humour.
Now, my glassing knowledge was limited to making costume helmets for costumers. But during my knowledge basing, I knew 2 things, the gel coat was the last part to a boat but the first to making helmets and that boat gelcoat had wax in it to prevent water ingress. I know very little about epoxy gelcoats, but if you damage the gel coat, shouldn't a renewed gelcoat be a good resolution?
You are completely correct in your comment, gelcoat is the last layer that makes it basically waterproof, I will be giving her a epoxy primer and a marine top coat that will give her that waterproof seal again that she will definitely need, I could re gelcoat but she need that much epoxy to repair the years of damage she will be good for a paint topcoat after I have repaired the currently gelcoat, I really appreciate your input as it’s all good knowledge and it all helps in moving forward 🙏🙏🙏⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️
Memories. Last boat I did this to was a ferro ketch. Which meant excavating rust throughs, cleaning up the metal core, flushing with huge amounts of fresh water to get all the salt and chlorides out of the cavity, browning the exposed core, then mortar and BondCrete to fill the cavity, then sanding to fair it off before painting. Lot of work. But she did look good after we finished. Even the broker did a double take when he saw what we'd done and came out to take pictures of the process.
That sounds like you did a much much bigger job than this little yacht project hats off to you, it’s a good feeling when they start coming together and looking better ⛵️
I'm informed that in the UK, it rains six months of the year and drips off the trees for another six. LOL. I can't remember the last time it rained here, but it was probably a storm early in summer, so not for about four months lol.
Wow you are very lucky, I could actually get some work done if I lived where you are. Weather here is always my biggest set back, but summer is coming ⛵️⛵️😊
@@BoatzUK LOL. Autumn's first gift to us was 5 days in a row where the temperature was 40C plus. Needless to say nothing outside interested me during that run of just too flamin' hot.
@@geoffroberts1126 40 is definitely hot 🥵 I don’t think I would get much done in that temperature 🤣 to hot or to wet, just need that nice mild rainless days 🙏⛵️
@@BoatzUK haha i get ya. and what you said about editing a timelapse of sanding. i accidentally recorded like 8 hours of footage instead of timelaps the other day, and i did it in 4k 60fps. so now i gotta try to just pull 1 frame per second out from all that. o! can i ask what settings you do for your timelapses? like resolution and frame rate. been trying to figure out a good setting for a build i'm working on, but i keep messin stuff up lol
I just use GoPro time warp mode on the camera but when I add it to the pc I have to use handbrake to convert my files so I can use them, ( they is probably a easier way) but then I change the settings to 60fps 4k creator settings, problem is it take hours to edit as my pc is always processing the clips before I can drag through them to see what I want to use, if you have recorded for 8 hours on standard mode I am not sure how you would convert that to Timelapse as my software only lets me speed it up 1000% which is still to slow and would probably turn 8 hours into 7 hours 🤣 I am still new to editing and still getting the hang of it, I am spending about 2 days on each edit when using 2 or 3 cameras
@@BoatzUK well, i have found that VLC Media Player has a function that will let me turn a 30 or 60fps vid to around 2fps, it just takes foreeeever lol. there are other tools that do the same thing, but it's going to take hours in any tool. for now i have changed my main time lapse settings on my gopro 11 to 1fps and 1080p, so ill be trying with that for now and see how it does. i went with 1080p because picture qualityy is much higher than video quality, and i'm expecting the majority of people to be watching my vids on their phone, a tv/monitor that isn't 4k, or a monitor that is 4k but i don't think they will be sitting 2 inches from the screen so the difference in detail will be negligible lol but the file size of the videos and time lapses will be much smaller
@PKAdventures that’s great news and yes the time it takes to convert is a lifetime 🤣 I have been leaving my files to convert overnight as it’s like scraping paint off waiting for it, I also need for find a easy way so this info also helps, and yes I don’t think we need to upload in 4k as it’s overkill, I think I just automatically want to upload in the best quality but I don’t think it’s really necessary as you say most watch on phones etc, make sure to link your channel so I can subscribe ⛵️🙏
