I sometimes wonder if you're ever going to go out and sail this thing, but man I love watching you work on it! You're very inspiring to me to keep on doing the things that I do. Thank you
Just having a crazzy thought Motorcycle and a trailer in the little red boat be able to load it into the little red boat. Maybe like a rokon not fast but cool I know you have Tons of Friends But just in case😂😂😂😂😊
@@shannonmullane318 Sure, you could put one of those in the tender. We have a crane on deck. Just lower it in and out and drive it off the front onto a beach.
@@SVSeeker I have just sorted all my stuff in to new tubs that fit in and under new work benches, almost done I will upload some pics when it's more finished.
I could entertain you, but it a better advice would be to tell you just to get off your ass and go out and do something yourself so that you’re not bored. Live your life.
@@SVSeeker Doug I doubt you could keep up with me just following me around for 2 days , I just want to see you sail the heck out of your boat. I'm Older than you so pick it up sonny. lol
I love your what you are doing with Seeker. Your gett'er done attitude is what the world needs more of. I am sure I won't be the first to mention to put your chip curtain on the inside of the chip tray might be a better idea.
You should definitely make something to slide into your bow that’s open for heavy waves. That pins in maybe with pre-designated areas for emergency welding during heavy heavy storms so you can run out there and weld it on.
I noticed, after a few years of one project, the day comes when you think you are done, then up pops a new idea, a modification, a must have, and the dream continues, ha ha I predict, there is no end in sight ever !!!
btw, you can also clean the epoxy brush with acetone, or less toxic and cheaper, denatured alcohol. just use about a bottle cap full, work it in and flick it out. or better, use a comb. either cheap plastic comb or metal brush cleaning comb. it doesn't come out perfect but good enough for spreading epoxy. best with cheap plastic bristles because the epoxy doesn't stick as much to them
I like the shelves for the welders but was wondering if they are secured to the shelves or do you plan on maybe a cargo net in front of them. Rough seas could make them projectiles, not to mention damaging your tools. Just a thought. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you Doug. After spending the last month or so endlessly working to move my family onto an old farm, some nights I just want to vegetate now that we are living here. Watching you always kick starts me into remembering “the work” is what keeps a ship sailing. Thank you for regularly doing what you do, it matters.
First wreck brought up from the bottom. First adrift boat salvaged. You might want to consider putting an air dryer after your compressor or before your expensive tools that use compressed air (the CNC and the plasma cutter) with all the moisture and salt in air. That line that you discharged when attaching the new lines had a lot of water that condensed out of it and having rust form on the inside more expensive and potentially sensitive tools could become a problem. Valves sticking and failing being the biggest problem that it could cause, but there are other ones, like water sitting inside of the tools after use and causing problems that way as well.
I’ve had plans for a dryer. I’ve been using it without one for sometime now and really haven’t seen it to be much of a problem. Of course I’m just using it occasionally not in a production environment.
@@SVSeeker Volume of air through does matter. The solenoid controlled air valves is the type of valve that will get rust issues that can cause them to stick, but again, it takes enough volume for that to happen. I would put it on a low priority since you have time before there will be enough corrosion to worry about.
I live in a beautiful world with ample opportunities. I hope you find your happy place in the new year. I was told I’d never finish the boat. Never launched the boat. Never make it to the ocean. So on and so on I am so done with listening to people like you and your negative outlook on the world. At this point, I only feel pity.
A workshop is mandatory on a research vessel as a lot of research equipment can be surprisingly fragile and needs constant refurbishment and repair. Eventually I am sure there will be a "Laboratory" area setup as well, which is essentially just a more refined and polished workshop area at the end of the day.
Spoken like a man who has never spent any time on a boat. The bigger the boat, the more you need a maintenance shop. To be able to fix something broken while at sea, instead of having to return to port (possibly while being towed), is priceless. I'm very impressed with the workshop Doug. I see you have a RapidTurn on the Tormach--so at least you have some lathe/turning capabilities. The other option for you is to have a little Sherline lathe as well, for doing small parts. I have a couple of them and they're incredibly handy.
Regarding your anchor-watch monologue: becoming old and retired was the best ever for me. I've been trying for 2 weeks to solve one detail on the roof of the garden shed I'm building for Wife. I woke up from my nap a couple hours ago thinking about it. I go to sleep at night thinking about it. Not having deadlines is wonderful. I bought tile, etc. for my Stepdaughter's kitchen splash a week ago, delivered it and told her I'll let her know in a couple weeks or so when I'll install it (no charge, of course.) Sometimes I wake up at 5 a.m. and sometimes not until 10 a.m. This is a natural way to live and though slow, is very productive.
Wow look how much you’ve achieved on one video, bet you’re super pleased. Happy New Year to you and Hope you have a fantastic 2024 Cheers Doug from a wet and windy England
I have to agree about the PVC. Only once over my rather long lifetime did I see a PVC pipe explode that could have taken my head off. The shop manager before me used a 4" pvc pipe to plumb a large air compressor. I thought the pipe was leaking around the tank fitting. I bent down to take a look, and as soon as I touched, the elbow it sheard off at the thread taking a 2' section of 4 inch pvc pipe with it. I almost lost my hearing and my head. When you're storing 180psi in a 200 gallon tank, use steel. One inch or less no problem. I figured I'd share my cautionary tale. Thanks for another great Seeker update.
LOL I’ve used PVC for my compressor. It lasted about a year. BOOM! Man it was loud. I wasn’t out in my shop. I replaced it with some heavier PVC. No issues. We learn as we go.
Many huge things have started from the single step. Massive expeditions require practice and experience, as any massive process does. I'm sure when you're ready, you'll find some students that generate decent papers from practical results they acquire within the area you're comfortable to be right now. You'll get the experience and definitely help to prepare for next expeditions better.
Doug, hilarious what you think of when someone talks of a subject. Shop that I worked in, was an old gas station, we relocated the chassis grease drum but we piped the grease supply pipe through a cinder block wall into the managers office with PVC pipe and then out into the shop. This worked for 6 months until it did not work, the manager walked out into the shop with strings of red chassis grease all over him. It seams that the failure was not catastrophic failure but a momentary leak until the pipe failed completely. No one was hurt but it took a minute or two too get to the store room to shut off the air to the grease pump, one hell of a mess.😅
Pay them no mind. If they’re not hating on you, they’re not paying attention. 👍😁After all these years you STILL make hard work look like fun. You motivate me !
Doug, where did you get those magnets for the shower curtain? I used to harvest them out of air suspension pumps that failed, but yours are new, and shiny, and not peeling or corroded or broken. I like. Also, neodymium? Great video. It's cool seeing you rearrange and set your workshop up so it actually WORKS now that you've had to use it. Your boat is pretty cool man. Congrats on getting as far as you have. Fair winds and following seas.
You are so amazing, the things you can put your hand to is brilliant 😊 I hope you have a fabulous new year and 2024 brings you everything you wish for 😊❤
you had a small hatch that the paint was pilling off . what I did once to a old truck bumper . Heated it to get the moisture out then painted it , never peeled .
I like that magnetic work light. It's $40 USD on the US Amazon, and the same light is $63 USD ($80CAD) on the Canadian Amazon. That's typical... This was a great episode! Thanks,
We used to use schedule 40 pipe and 4f powder to make pipe bombs back when i was a kid. Blowing up canals down in Cape Coral FL. It was open land with no houses then... more than 40 years ago. They would put you under the jail nowadays. 😢
As an electrician that does IT, my advice would be to keep the computer for the CNC machine away from the metal shavings and coolant, or to put filters on it to keep them out.
I enjoyed your take on "When will you carry researchers?" As I have worked on my boat my answer to the question of when will she launch was mostly; "no deadlines because the wreck the therapy value of doing the work." I wanted to be in the water by now, but I can see light at the end of the tunnel!
Great video man! Question: how do you go about project planning. Most of the time when I’m building projects I inevitably end up forgetting something or falling victim to my ignorance. Seeker I’m sure in many ways or situations was this for you, how did you get past this?
Better watch till the end but as crew I would tend to have some belts cause its a boat… And I‘m pretty sure captain wouldn’t be amused when his tool flying around like cats. But what a great workshop and tool set on a boat!
Everytime you say what did you make today I feel like you're calling me out I'm a master of procrastination. I have 3 projects that are 80% done. I guess I should quit bitching and start doing
I use just plain vinegar for cleaning uncured epoxy brushes and such. bought xylene long time ago, smelled it once, and decide to never open the container ever again... cheers.
I use it for my hands sometimes, but that would take a long time for a brush. You really need to try the xylene. Great for the hands and drips. Also thins epoxies.
agree totally that xylene works better and faster. I have gotten the idea that vinegar only dissolves one of the components of the epoxy, thus leaving a residue. on brushes that are repurposed for epoxy, it is not a problem in my experience. quick rinse in vinegar, and dry on a cloth is what i do.@@SVSeeker
I folded and put away my laundry today. Minor accomplishment but I'm focused on quitting vaping nicotine. I want my lung capacity back for other goals I have in mind.
A marine surveyor once told me he can almost tell the condition of a boat based on the condition of the workshop. My first 3 days on a 60ft trimaran was spent unF'ing the workshop. It's the lifeblood of your boat because independence.
I used to work for a company that performed brown and blue water survey and the mentality for how everything should be kept "shipshape" extended to the on-shore workshops too. The workshops were kept immaculate and they had a documented procedure for everything and not just encouraged people to create new documented procedures but required it. One of the surprising things for me when I first started working there was finding out that the company actually had an arrangement with a a mobile vehicle detailer that would come by on a regular basis just so that people who were offshore for an extended period of time could come back to a nice and clean vehicle.
@@Jack-yl7cc Keeping something 'ship shape' requires constant routine. Not periodic events. What chaps my hide is when people use a work bench for storage leaving no place to work. 🙃
@pgnandt Tom Sachs has a video for his "10 bullets" rules for his studio. The one rule that has really changed the way I work on things is the "Always be Knolling" rule. That level of organization on horizontal surfaces has really helped prevent that pesky problem of interrupting my workflow just because I "lost" something right after putting it down in a chaotic mess of things on a horizontal surface.
I like them but if you heat them with a torch you have to be careful not to burn through the insulation. An air gun is the better way to go. ....but I'd have to go find the dam thing. : )
No, because I’m gonna put a fire out. I worry about this new generation that is too often trained to run away from everything and wait for the professionals. Better to take a firefighting in first responders class. Otherwise you’ll watch someone bleed out and the professional spray water on ashes.
@@SVSeeker I used to buy that exact style of dell from goodwill and savers all the time for 10 bucks. I used to work in Point of Sales repair and I had stores with computers from the 90s still working and still doing everything they needed to do. One sports store I handled had computers so old I had to use floppy disks with the diag tools. Old stuff always has a use when its reliable. Look at your ship the design for the Chinese Junk is over 2000 years old and its still a good design.
@@SVSeeker I just thought of a computer you might find better for many needs. Its called the Raspberry Pi. Low cost very powerful and easy to configure for different applications. Best of all its tiny
Really like your prospective on time constraints! Curious about why you’re not using copper for air lines. Happy new years! Thanks for sharing your awesome skills.
Jealous of the workshop! And I agree: turned me around in my work ethic many years ago to realize that productivity in and of itself has some enjoyment, which means a path to some enjoyment regardless of the job. (And I like having some of the 15-minute epoxy handy for small jobs like your cedar joint)
Doug you are an inspiration man I did have a question or two there was a guy building a barge and I'll look for that video and I can't find it I was wanting to check him out and I just can't find the video and then the other question is how old were you when you started the project versus how old you are now kind of personal tell me to fk off if you're not comfortable with it I'm 50 welded on dry docks for years built countless tugboats anyway I'm thinking about starting a project I sure do enjoy your videos if you come to Texas I'll damn sure come see you but I'm kind of stuck here right now so peace and blessings happy New Year and Godspeed
That's Andy, and he took a break from it when he started Engineering school, but he's going to be back at it soon. @Andrew.McDonald. And Fk Off!!! Naa, I'm 62 and I started at least 15 years ago. Sort of depends on what you count as a start. Frankly, it's been a delightful project from the start, so if I had dropped from a heart attack just twelve years in I would have died happy and with my boots on. And Happy New Year to you.
Well, I have been building it for about 15 years I guess. But I didn’t build this book to escape. I cubicle job. I rather enjoyed my cubicle job. I am very happy to be where I am today as well.
@SVSeeker yes you're right I just ordered some, I saw it on the recent sailing RU-vid video, Sailing Zingaro... rigging expert shows how to prevent many rigging failures. 40% PTFE