Sail Life - Flat cabin sole YAY + knees! DIY sailboat refit 

I just realized, that when I move into the elderly home in 30 years, my sunday evenings will still be like: "Welcome aboard Athena for another fun DIY video" 😂

You have a great attitude when you find another problem to solve! Needs to be bottled and shared.

Love what you did with the bilge! While episode after episode I grit my teeth over the idea of closing that deep bilge back up the access door is/was ingenious. The perfect compromise! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I think you have just devalued just about every warrior 38 on the market with that discovery of the deck to hull seal, or lack there of.

When doing all this work in the bilge and knees, I would consider to install some pipes for the wiring already now. It's always a mess to pull cables without at a later stage.

Ex-PPG quality engineer here.... The reason you see a visible color difference is because color isn't a primary quality metric in most functional (as distinct from "decorative") coatings. It's entirely likely that both lots of paint were within the manufacturing spec, just at opposite ends of the acceptable range, which wouldn't be entirely unusual. You should definitely keep a "master standard" for your projects and always use it as reference when buying paint as the color from the factory can be adjusted to your specific need. This is pretty much industry standard for functional coatings, and you will have similar challenges from the other major manufacturers if you try to apply a decorative standard to a functional coating. If you're happy with the performance of the PPG, keep using it and plan to adjust the color match as needed. If you have a performance issue, just know that your color issue may crop up with other manufacturers, too.

When you bought Athena, I thought what a cool boat...maybe I should get one of those...after today's video (along with several other discoveries you have made) I will never buy one...unless it is yours. I love that you see every new bit of craziness as a challenge. You are inspiring Mads, thank you :)

Ppg is actually one of the better paint companies when it comes to quality control of their colors. Now you understand why professional painters buy a larger bucket and "blend" all of their gallons together to achieve a single color.

This is a great never ending story of glorious fun and patience. It’s very thrilling that the refit extends every now and then. We’re all looking forward to see you sail off into the sunset, but loving it’s not going to happen too soon. 🛠⛵️⏳

Isn't it always something?? ;) Paint, hull joins, etc. Your positive attitude always brightens my day and gives hope for my projects...... Thanks

Hi Mads, Before drilling with a hole saw, it helps to drill a hole or two just against the inside diameter of the circle to clear the hole saw debris. Otherwise, the debris just hangs around the teeth, clogging them and generating heat. It’s a game changer.

love this Mads, but I'm not sure I would have stayed the course this long. But then again, it's always one more thing on a boat.

You are a joy to watch, with a great attitude to match.

Attention friend I had a situation where I had to dry a camper. it had water leak. we covered the leak. then i install a dehumidifier (the drain in the bath) in the camper let it run for a week. the next week we had full dryied woods studs. and in the black reservoir i had nearly 1 third on the tank. water i got out from the walls. I strongly suggest you do this for a few day to really dry up(don't use that bilge or it will cycle true get the water out with hose on the dehumidifier) the wood of the boat. Try it you won't regret. btw i love the video. To see that turning it too a sailing boat wow You will deserve that time on the ocean, you work very well!

Great shirt at the beginning! My home U.S. State is Michigan! Great Lakes, Great Times - thanks for another great video!

Mads, if you need to stop water from coming in the boat, gorilla tape will stick when it is wet, and it can also be used to plug a hole in your boat if you get one, it can be applied under water.

Your vids always make me itch!

Another great video. You are truly an inspiration for any diy person. Keep up your great work

As a viewer each episode gets you that much closer to life on the water with Ava. Keep up the good work.

1:18 GREAT selection of shirts. Too bad when you come over that the wreck diving season will be over here in Michigan...nothing like hitting 30M~35M to see the Eber Ward (a wooden schooner)...just amazing...

Excellent video as always

It looks awesome!

Thank you for another great bit of glorious sanding and painting and all of the stuff you do so well Mads. Athena is going to be a beautiful piece of art when you get done and a wonderful home afloat for you, Ava and Jurkill. Take care and have a productive week.

Mads you are making cracking progress, it must be a real good feeling to have a flat surface to walk (and work) on - at last.😀👍⛵️

Mad you have used the original Warrior 38 as pretty much a template for the boat you're building. Love your work and channel.

I had a boat that was like that glassed on the inside and open on the outside of the joint, I ragged out the outside of the joint and sanded in the gap with folded 80 grit paper, let it dry right out in the summer, blasted it out with the air line and filled the joint around wit Sikaflex, taped to keep the edges neat and that worked a treat it stopped my intermittent leaks down the inside of the hull.

Looking very nice!

SUCH NICE WORK AND EFFORT ! have a great week. Love TURBO mode , so exciting to watch her coming together..smiles from California, namaste.

I'm always so impressed with your drive and sticktoitness. Not sure how you keep up the momentum, but good on you! I look forward to your videos every Sunday. If you did a sail life hat, I would definitely buy one.

So much work. Way to go Mads (?)! It's been a couple of years since I watched your videos but hopefully I got the name right. You were a great inspiration leading up to buying my first boat and preparing it to sail that summer. Your positive attitude can not be matched! Fair winds and greetings from Norway

Thanks for the shout out to Lake Michigan! That's where I sail.

Great job Mads.Excellent preventative restoration for chainplate knee.Ross

Been following this refit(as well as your past videos due to this series) and have not commented as of yet, however, I am sooo intrigued and impressed with your "jump in" and learn it, try it and do it attitude. Love it! Gives me and probably most watching this encouragement to do it themselves. Your explanation and walk through is awesome. Love the videos and await the next. Now the rebuild and layout, very exciting....

Just a tip when using hole saws.If you drill the pilot hole first with a standard drill bit your pilot bit on your hole saw only has to act as a guide. It never fails drilling the center hole with the hole saw the instant the bit goes through the material the saw catches and breaks the bit.

When drilling through thick wood with a hole saw I have a tip for you it's one extra step but it does help. start your hole normally and once the pilot drill goes through the wood and you have an outline of the hole from the teeth of the hole saw stop,remove drill and with another drill if you have, drill one or two holes in the teeth tracks a 6mm drill bit woks well, then carry on drilling with your hole saw the holes you drilled with the 6mm bit seem to help with the heat and saw dust

Love the Michigan shirt in the first section of video...my home state!!

I'm hoping Chris didn't already comment from this account but: Awesome video Mads! It is so awesome to watch your process and progression. You are an inspiration. Cheers! ~ Marissa

After all this time ,you now works at light's speed , WOW !!!

Mads, I feel for you brother. That sucks about the deck joint. You have the patience of Job! After you get this far into the project there is just no turning back. Good luck

“Good enough for government work”. Love it mate. Keep up the great attitude, it is so nice to see such a fantastic work ethic being done with a smile.

You are an inspiration. I have learned so much from watching your videos...though if I see a Warrior 38 for sale...I am going to RUN AWAY!!!! I am not sure if I would have your patience.

Wonderful video so glad to see all of your progress. I’m sure you’ll figure out a solution to the moisture / hull / deck issue.

One mention of chopped fiberglass and I'm ITCHING! (But it's SPIFFY itching.)

you will have the best ever Warrior 38 when you finish,great job.

You have more patients than most with all the set backs and surprises. Bit you have come too far to change your mind on this now. Buddy you are a rock. I've been rooting for you for years now. Keep on keeping on. Peace

PPG really dropped the ball on this one. Enjoy the videos. Thanks for your hard work.

FYI, the loads on a chainplate are tensile. Tensile loads are great because they happen to pull things straight. Tabbing uni-direction glass to the hull in the direction of the load would introduce sufficient structural material to handle the compressive loads of a person standing on the deck above. No core is necessary in that situation. Sandwich-construction and scantlings are great for those flat, wide-open spaces which are prone to bending. Areas with bends and compound curves are inherently stiff. Of course, when you get down to it, I am a random-internet-stranger skimming over a technical matter. I am happy to upvote your efforts to believe the manufacturer. Their product has made it this far, warts and all. And the restoration looks like a million bucks to me. Best of luck.

Great- Great Lakes shirt- I live in MI near the shore of Lake Huron- really enjoying your posts-

I was so sceptical about the structural members. Amazing how you dealt with that setback you got some months ago. The solution you used is perfect. You really pressed on, and already you are sealing up the floor. I am impressed at what you accomplished in such short time, especially because you still have your desk job! Keep up the good work, I will definelty be following your video’s with great interest

That primer really ties the room together.

So are we starting the university sweatshirt wars ! You can expect a few more in the mail soon. Uma had a deck/hull joint issue also. They just fiberglass the whole seam from the outside.

Thank you.

I doubt that PPG mixed the paint. That is probably the work of your reseller. I wouldn't leave PPG and mix in other brands on my boat! So happy that I finally have a consistent paint system that I can overcoat for ever!

Born and raised in Michigan!! Love seeing the shirt Mads :D.

Great progress! Can't wait for next weeks video :-)

Really enjoy your videos and your positive outlook. I haven’t gone back through your whole back catalogue yet, but wondering how good your surveyor was?!....Athena is a lucky boat! Anyone else would’ve consigned it to landfill by now! As someone else said, try Jotun...

Looks like no more heatwave in Denmark. Nice job as always 👍👍

Here is a little life hack to make drilling out holes with a hole saw. Take your hole saw and start to drill out your hole. just enough to mark the outer edge. next take the largest drill bit you can handle and drill a hole to the inside of the hole saw where it intersects with drill bit leaving plenty of meat in between the pilot hole of the hole saw what this will do is give a place where the gullet of the hole saw can clear it self thus keeping the saw dust from over heating and burning and will make the action of drilling a hole quicker.

When battling relentless advisories like water/gravity, always good to have repetitive solutions. Why not glass where you can on the inside & the outside, with just a bit of luck your mistakes won't line up. Keep up the great work. Quality always takes time, keep enjoying the journey

Great shirt! Michigan is the best! GO GREEN!

Really cool vid Mads, I'm watching this most recent one out of order, and I am in the process of doing all in sequence; I'm funny that way. I subscribed because this is something I too love to do, rebuild sailboats, and you produce good videos with impressive detail. I'm a recent subscriber. I need to do this RU-vid thing too and could use advice. Some time perhaps. I have done three boats to date, two from hurricane damage, the other was disuse and was stuck in the mud at the dock, a little O'Day. A lot of people (most it seems) wonder why I do this and why I don't just go buy a boat in good condition, but it's hard to explain to folks who don't enjoy designing, building, and creating things just like you want them. Also, I trust my own work, and at sea, I trust my boat with my life. Besides, you can build it back exactly as you like it if one has the skills, or willing to learn. I do the same with all fittings through cored sections, drill oversized, fill with thickened epoxy, and redrill. Now, if done right, your core is safe and dry even if the fitting or hardware leak. It seems all boats leak at the hull deck seams, some worse than others. I always glass these over for peace of mind. Even worse, they will put trim over the seam for cosmetic reasons and not only not seal it, but penetrate the deck and core in some cases with the hardware used to fasten it down. I'm considering an Endeavour 37 at present, priced at a fraction of its value because of neglect and disuse. The bottom has been done in the past two years with some minor blisters professionally repaired with fresh new bottom paint. The cutless bearing and prop shaft were replaced at the same time. She's had the optional 4-foot bowsprit added, and the stay and jib moved forward. She's ready to be a cutter, which I like. Other than that she needs sails and to go onto the hard for a re-rigging and total makeover. The interior, the plan B model, is rotten from where the present owner has ignored the leaks for too long. I like it like that because I can not only get the boat cheap, but there's nothing like starting from scratch standing on a brand new sole in an empty cabin just waiting to be created in the image in your mind's eye. Should I, or shouldn't I, that is the question, right? I missed a 25-foot Catalina for USD 1750! Damn, I could have cleaned her up and doubled my money. All she needed was some tender loving care, a new set of sails, and a bottom job. Those little boats can bring as much a 8k.

Looking great Mads. My pro tip for hole saws is to replace the drill bit with a section of rod stock. It makes drilling the hole a two-step process (drill pilot hole then drill large hole) but you never snap the bits again.

Most sane people would just smear a little thickened epoxy in their limber holes, thank you for another wonderful episode of the obsessive compulsive chronicles! And for gods sake mads, Do some sanding with you! :-)

So definitely glass the outside, we say "water always wins" if you glass just the inside, the water will work its way down into the hull causing de-lamination. Up to now, the water found a way out into the core of the knees and bulkheads. Stop it at the source, epoxy, glass and fair, then put the toe-rail on.

Mads, I've used Petit paint with success. For the other difficulty, I think I see a call/message to Andy (BoatWorksToday) may be in order! Keep up the great work; the "steps ahead" you're making far exceed the "steps back" you've encountered.

My recommendation for paint would definitely be ' Epifanes' wonderful paint. Used it before. Quality brand, you'll never have a different color if you buy the same paint number. Hope this comment is of any use for you. Keep up the good work👍

Thanks for another great video. Can I recommend the Bosch Progressor range of quick-change hole saws. I’ve found mine to be absolutely brilliant.

Wow! First time on youtube you've put nice backmusic. As for the paint, buy two and mix together, or get completely different color for both.

Well done some excellent work 👍🏻

paint is like yarn need the same batch number to guarantee its the same shade. my cousin worked for a paint company as an inspector on the fill line trying to make different batches match

thanks

Speaking of synthetic, a guy named Teal on his channel Onboard Lifestyle. Has done some amazing things with honeycomb board

Dinsdale Piranah yes , you are right. All these issues would have to be considered. You may even need new chainplates and longer stays. There are costs and benefits to every approach, short term and long term.

One thing for sure your dream of fixing up an old boat sure as hell came true! Warrior 38 nope !

I like you have soothing chopping out music and exciting banging sanding music

Great progress Mads, looking really good and a good solution to do keyhole surgery where the deck and hull aren't sealed behind the bulkheads. Disheartening to say the least but cannot be left to leak forever. An opportunity to install wiring conduits at the same time maybe. Commiserations on the toe rail project. What were they thinking when they built it ? Warranty period only ? ? Unbelievable to leave a water path straight to the chainplate core.

Making good progress man! :D

Great job enjoy watching your channel wish I could find more doing this kind of work if there is I can't find them lol keep up the good work and have a great day

hi the boat is looking good

Try jotun xp gloss and jotun hb epoxy primer. Used it for the hull and deck on my sail boat. Very good quality for the money.

Mads. Make your own G10 if you need some. You already have the material and the equipment.

Har sagt det før 😁men du er for vild Mads 😊

Time to check the deck joins on our Warrior 38 now too!! 🙈🙈 We’ve just started doing chain plate maintenance this week, so I have a sneaky feeling there’s now going to be much more involvement than I initially expected 🤯⛵️

I saw the coolest thing on a sole the other day. the person had placed a 1.5x1.5 sheet of glass over his bilge so he could monitor it without having to open the hatches.

Good job. 👍

FWIW I'm partial to Milwaukee Hole Hawg hole saws. Buy once cry once, but they work. Also, remember they are saws. Drop the rpm and let them cut not grind.

Mads I really look forward to Sunday evenings, I have one question ...... Do you ever find yourself bouncing around swearing and having a minor meltdown every time you find another piece of shoddy work ? If not you must have the patience of a saint. 😆

hey mads love your videos you might want to think about just mixing the two paints together then you'll have double the amount of one color just saying.

Sisyphus has got nothing on you, Mads. I admire in the extreme your work ethic. What puzzles me is why these suffer-fest videos are so entertaining. When you eventually do throw the lines, your cruising will be so justly rewarding. Thank you for sharing the experinece.

I use altex coatings ovetr here in new zealand. good quality and a large range of products.. not sure if you'll get it were you live though

Love the Michigan State shirt....go green.

I recommend Jotun paints 👍

I have worked in a department store for some years and when you bought more than one can of paint they always checked for batch numbers. If you couldn't get alle from same batch they would mix up the different batches. Even Jotun has small variations in color. Though your example is pretty severe.

You are a proper danish resilient product of danmark super parenting.

as always a wonderfully spiffy video! great work! i was wondering if there is enough room in your bilge to use a winch handle to open that cover over the deeper parts? it looks winch-handley (is that a word?) but even my itty bitty winch handles dont look like they;d fit in there. really looking forward to your next update!!! :)

One spiffy bilge, no doubt...

Keep up the good work and exposing all those mistakes made by the builder at first. 👍

Mads we need at least a 30 minute video please!!! It has to last us a week!!! Great video I just wanted to be entertained longer ha ha 🤪😂🥳😎😎👍👍👍

FWIW, when I was a merchant seaman our bosun used to add a different color to our paint when we were doing multiple coats. Kept us honest.

re hull deck joint: read Hall Roth After 50000 miles page 41 to 44 for an alternative solution re chainplates: I would prefer them to be attached to the (outside of the) hull, rather than to the knees.