Sail Boat Rebuild. Would It Have Been Easier to Build a New Boat from ZERO 😅| SAILING SEABIRD Ep.55 

You guys simply have to see this through. For my whole 67 years on this planet I have wanted to do exactly what you are doing. I let life get in the way and now all I can do is watch on you tube. Really love what you are achieving.

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I had forgotten about the movie Wind! Thank you. My other favorite is Master and Commander.

This looks amazing and at the end of the day you just need to be able to read it which you can very easily. Looks great guys keep it Stew with the labels.

Good luck with the floor and the mast step

What are you on about!? You are "building a new boat"! And you were smart to get the hull and mast for free!❤ good job guys🎉🥰

If you're going for an authentic vintage look, I can see matching the Dymo labels with the electric panel. It's not the prettiest choice, but it gets the job done.

Closer!

Nice experiment

You guys are doing great! Really enjoy your Friday Videos.

I like for forward going! BR

Good to see Marina guiding the mast into the correct place like a pro. 😂

Electric panel looks better than mine which is now unmarked since the pencilled note faded and then fell off! Glad you both got some time off together. ❤

'....this is good sawdust '....😅👌

hey guys, our side has been cold but here never froze, South of France,should be warm...right?? But no! 😁!!! Nice video! its good to see you guys. Hugs🤗

Stu, possibly you could forge a mast collar? There must be a forgery close by. Looks cold!

I think that label maker was from my elementary school circa 1976.

Might have been easier to get new but the joy you are going to get when you actually sail is totally different. Enjoy the difference . I am working on a trimaran from 1979 .

Reminds me of the classic film "The Plank"

Floor will be fun 😅. Keep up the good attitude. Everything will come together.🤩

You could use some oxalic acid wood bleach after sanding to get it all tune up before varnishing.....keep up the good work

I would recommend a new floor

There are hundreds of vids of people trying to rebuild scrap boats. It is expensive enough to upgrade an existing good working boat, but to try to rebuild a rotten boat with little money, tools and experience is a pipe dream.

Great movie. You should react every now and then to sailing movies. That'd be awesome.

Learn to use a cabinet scraper or scraper plane. It'll be so much quicker than sanding. Get something like a Record 80. second hand would be cheap. Also build a work bench

Glass in a couple of frames to hold the shape of the mast plug perhaps?

Always interesting,and humorous.I can’t thank you enough!

Hahahah I am on the wrong video I just the frozen ocean and was like wait wtf went back in time 6 months thanks to youtube. LOL

#yay

I have fond memories of the movie Wind, cool reference. Love seeing all your hard work. Thanks for including us in your journey.

😂"when it's too cold to epoxy... we just sand something"lol😂 ❤

I can't see how using a fibreglass insert will be strong enough. You could get a piece of 50mm alloy, shape it and then bolt it to an alloy plate.

Yes. It is always quicker and often cheaper to build new than to patch up old. !

It really looked COLD! Still making progress, in spite of the weather.😎🥰💕💕💕💕💕

"Wind" was a good movie.

Tough one that mold for the mast. Might be and idea using strips if wood as the basis of the foot. Bit like strip planking. I was watching the channel yacht teleport, they had the same keel problem as you. So you are not alone.

There is an old boatyard saying “the safest place for a mast is up” I suggest you focus on getting the mast up even if you jury rig it

Maybe you should buy a power hand planer, shave off a thin layer on you floor deck boards, finish with sanding and varnish. Then sell the tool for 75% of what you bought it for.

Belt sander go with the grain

WIND WAS A WONDERFUL MOVIE BUT HAD SUCH A SAD SAD ENDING. SEABIRD WILL FLY ONE DAY!!😉

thanks for cheering me up on a Friday after a hard day cutting hedges, good luck to you both Kev in Devon (rudder STILL not done) 🙂

Yes. Yes it would easier to build a boat. All you have to do go to a boat builder talk to designer give them most of a million and then wait about 2 to 3 years, and then pay the rest of the bill...

The preperations for the floor looks so descent and tidy now, - such craftsmen you have become !

Ooh, like Stu's shop very well 😂😂😂

I think your idea of making the mast base out of fibreglass and epoxy is very clever. I hope it works out for you

I love learning from you two as your progress keeps advancing. Keep up the good work. Stay warm.

Hi! You always wonder if you do the right thing half way (or more than half way) such a big job… But I think that it is not all about efficiency: the fulfillment that restoring something rotten and forgotten gives you, is priceless. And salvaging old stuff is good, isn’t it, in stead of buying new things all the time?

You are both doing very well. Congratulations on another great video

Have you tried using a paint scraper on the floor boards before trying to sand. Scraper should remove old varnish easier.

Fridge is actualy spelled correctly aka Refridgerator.

Just so you can remind viewers to check and see if they are still subscribed, I have been getting unsubscribed on alot of channels frequently. And I am not the only one seeing this.

I made a switch panel from scratch. Got a sheet of perspex, drilled holes , 32 of them ,purchased breakers. Had someone engrave the perspex and had indicator lights. Took quite a while but it worked so was happy. Regarding weather conditions. Time you headed for the Great Barrier Reef via S.E Asia. Never freezes. Can get a little chilly at times but such pleasant sailing. The movie Wind seems to involve Aussies of a rebellious nature. Have never seen the film. Might have to look it up. Enjoy the floor sanding🤮🤮. Till next time. CYA.

I understand that! A lot of money would have you sailing already. You are working so hard! But it pays off and it is very inspiring to watch you making this boat beautiful and working again (and waterproof 😉)

Good job guys.

Coming on slowly. Better not to rush these things❤❤

Courage boy and girl ! You're learning so many things, which won't be lost all along life. Stuart and I met very briefly in a bar down my place few weeks ago, and Pierre, who owns a boat in Port -St -Louis told me more and from then I'm following you with great pleasure, enjoying your videos. Soon enough, sooner than you may think, you'll be sailing free on the waves on the world oceans. KEEP ON FOLKS 🤗 !

Great video as always looks like your getting on great so looking forward to seeing even the sub floor down as I bet you are also 😊

Hi, I would build this inside mast foot in two parts first so you can get it in and out more easily, starting just with the bottom half and when this is cured take it out and sand its sides so that you get a bevel. Next cover the bottom with packing tape. Now insert this first part upside down into the tape covered mast and laminate the other half. To compress the glass epoxy laminate use an old fender insert and blow up strongly. When you have your first two stable parts glue them together and continue with laminating the inside, you could then also use parts of the iroko laminated in to the part. I would try to get atleast a thickness of 1.5- 2 cm in the pure laminate using the heaviest glass available, like 1000 gr/m² The most importand part will be how to attach this laminated part to the wooden mast base. I would laminate a solid bottom in the part which can the be glued and screwed into the mastbase. Matthias

Looks cold. I am just thinking it has gotten warm enough I can do some epoxying on our dinghy. I don't know as I would worry about the floor colour too much. Clean it as best you can and be happy, it is part of the boat's story. The bottom needs to be clean too. If you are replacing the bottom plates, I would suggest treated plywood for that.... the green stuff used for sheathing on houses. This is much cheaper than marine grade anything and it would have better rot and mold resistance. I am sure there are lots of viewers who would disagree and ask you to spend top dollar on the "right stuff" (what ever that might be). I guess if the stuff thats on there is just stained and not soggy (it is really hard to tell from the video), then sand it up and paint it with bilge paint or deck paint. bilge paint and a good deck/porch/floor paint are basically the same stuff. I use deckcote which is compatible with plastic, resin or wood or whatever but is a Canadian product so maybe not available there (or expensive if it is). There are a lot of outdoor sitting in water products in your local bigbox building store that do not say marine on them or carry the marine price tag, that are just as good or even the same thing with a different label. Have a good one.

G10 isnt cheap, granted. but if you buy a 50 mm thick piece big enough to accomodate your mast section, all you need to so is to place it underneath it, trace the outline and then use a small hand trimmer to route the channel corresponding to the mast section thickness.(20 mm deep routed channel would be enough imo) be as precise as you can but no need to go crazy, you can always use butyl as a filler and sealant (assuming the mast section as a small hole to get the water out.. G10 will outlive all of us and its a one time repair.i would have even used it for you mast step as it can more than handle the compression forces and again will never, ever, rot. cry once, do it once.

💚💙👍👍👏👏👏 don't worry how the labels look. as long as you know what they mean that is all that matters. its not like you are trying to restore the boat back to original, you just want it safe so you can go sailing. good job

Hello again, Well you're making progress on that floor and the mast too. As I have said I don't know anything about sailboats and their masts but I think you might reconsider that heavy metal insert that you removed from the bottom of the mast. As someone has said about manufactured items-"things are put on there for a reason". Just my thought about that. Ok, keep up the good work and I can't wait for warm weather so you can finish the inside epoxy work. Ciao, geo

Please add the word, jyellowee, in your next vid, love it!😂😂

Step by step, it's coming along. That floor looks like its going to be a pain in the ass to clean up, hope it comes up well. I'd pop a ridge or two around the inside of the mold to keep it more rigid without using a ton of fibreglass. Keep up the good work.

fighter jets all round...lets hope they dont go mad with power and start the..next war, great work and peace brothers and sisters 👊

Hello from Down Under. Wouldn’t it be a little easier when you plane the boards first with a hand planer and then sand it??

Good job Stu. Keep up the Great Work 😅 🇨🇮

You are going well, Marina and Stu (alphabetical order 🙂)! The floor panels will take some doing, but I'm sure you'll end up making it look great again! Stay warm and all the best!

Again a cool episode. Keep up the good work 💪🏻

You just needed a puzzle to solve as well besides having your hands full of work at the boat…I do like your motivation 😂😅

⛵️ ⛵️ ⛵️ Phil...

The French air force has it in for you :P Mast foot looks pretty good, nice piece of wood! :D

New floors will make a bigger difference than just about anything else....is the sweat equity in trying to bring old plywood back worth it guys?

Amazing. I am also at the sea side 150 km from you towards Nice. No frozen sea here, have not seen frozen sea since I am living here from 2012.

Hi. I've seen a lot of mast steps in my time and not one of them was made from fiberglass. It will not be strong enough and the first time you are pounding to windward in a seaway the compression forces of the mast will cut through the base of your step. Please follow my original advice and have an aluminum mast step fabricated. It needs to be strong and it needs to be firmly attached to the keel. When you tighten the backstay to put some rake in the mast and tension in the forestay, there will be a lot of forward force at the base of the mast. The step needs to handle that. Your mast step, chain plates and standing rigging are all critical and no place for compromises. A dismasting ruins your whole day. Ask me how I know!

Wind is a classic ❤ Keep up the good work. Love watching your journey.

Wood shrinks and expands, you can't make it fit exactly, it could break the surrounding material if it's too tight.

Great videos guys

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You're going to have Seabird exactly how you want her before you know it.. I seen online here in America somewhere that someone had purchased a gulfstar 41 which was never finished inside or even put in the water and they were selling it.. that would have been a easier route for you but also more costly

Pressure wash before sanding?

What is the red material on the swith panel you're sticking the labels on?

Get a balloon and spray foam

Are you guys totally sure about those floor boards? They seem to look to be in pretty darn bad shape. Especially the big one with the V cutout. Have you considered replacing them with new plywood and use the old boards as templates to cut out? I'm worried that if those go back in they will be a constant source of bad odour. I think new paint sealed plywood with a layer of vinyl would be a good compromise for them

Woohoo...I made it in the "top ten for likes" this week :D

Good going, hopefully you can get the wooden floor all the same shade as a new floor might be expensive 😮. Keep up the progress ❤

You 2 are barrelling along, such progress. Marina, talking about old and terrible boat movies, if you like them,, Summer Rental with john Candy is pretty old and pretty terrible. But funny,, 80s movies are great, not so serious.

Brrr, there should be fewer bugs this summer, right?

Why didn't you just make the mast insert out of wood instead of glass?

Great video. What size is the space for the lettering on the switches and what is the words needed?

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Why don't you just build a new mast step exactly like the original one by welding up some stainless or aluminium?

:-)

I can help you with labels for you switch panel, I am a professional digital printer. let me know your button size and what text you require on each and I would be more than happy to help.

Is it worth????? NO. Why???? Do the math. Plain and simple: Each of your net worth is a minimum of what hourly? Let's say $30. $60 per hour x 8 = $ 480 per day. Plus: Marina fees. Plus: Transportation fees. Plus: Material costs. Plus: Parts cost. Plus: Living costs. To be realistic. Buying a sea worthy vessel is cheaper. Bonus: You start sailing right away and not wasting time on nonsense. PLUS: The mental draining of a relationship is bare minimum. Wish the best of luck 🤞

You're lying! I saw the ripples. S'not frozen, it's just moving REALLY slow - must be the tide...

Where is Greta's climate change to the warmer, as she says "cold is warm"!

The wood at the foot of the mast must surely be a high density type of wood that won't crush under high pressure. Just wondering