We Found an ENGINE for Our €1 BOAT | SAILING SEABIRD Ep. 26 

Your cheery attitude never fails to lift my spirit. Now you’ve reached a milestone with the engine and drive, and crossing my fingers that the inspection goes well. Enjoy your holiday !

So glad you got the engine,.

4JH is a great engine. Just sold the 4JH-2TE in my 1997 Hylas and she ran beautifully. Obviously now is the time to put new engine mounts on and spray all the rust spots. If you can, put a drain plug in that sump with a hose before you install her so that you can run the hose to an external electric pump. That's the set-up I had and it really made oil changes super easy! Good luck.

I appreciate your efforts to provide some physical / financial costs. You do not overwhelm us with too much detail. I hope your efforts to obtain a gearbox/motor are successful! Thx for.bringing us along- great video! 😊😊😊 John Ken

Patience and persistence are excellent virtues in a project like this. You've got them in spades! Congratulations on getting the engine. It's going to be super interesting to see how you put these disparate parts together. There'll be bumps in the road but we are with you all the way. Great job.

Hello, great video. I think I try to meet you next time I come to port St Louis Du Rhône.

That forklift carrying your engine sounded like it's seen better days.

"Look at the size of this van....wow wow a weee waaa"....a line from Borat?......nice....

I'm sure it was a long day but well worth it. Just keep at it and soon you will be out on the water with the fruits of your labor.

I am keeping everything crossed for you two. I really love such trusting people like you,,,and me!

Seeing. The inside of seabird compaired to when you guys first bought her, wow nice job she's going to be a great boat...

What I like about this is that you guys are taking your time.

.... you got an engine .. well done ..... massive upside, you can do all the beautification/paint outside as opposed to trying to do your best on an engine installed ... bright clean/painted engine room for a pristine engine ..... yes am repeating myself .... well done! .... have you ever seen those people that start out with say a washer and continually trade up and end up with something unimaginable considering what they started with, like say a house ..... all those bags of goodies from the second engine may bring more than you ever imagined ... sorta like that scenario of selling a junker car for say a hundred, but parting it out realizes way more .... love your optimism ... thx for sharing .. as always .. never stop dreaming, just dream bigger .. have fun be safe, save our oceans ...

I'm happy to know you found an engine for seabird, that's a good new, continue that way ! Have a good holiday ..

Yanmar is a good engine. Good choise. Con grat.😊

Good deal

congrats!

If you can't sell the 'Spare' engine as is, be sure to strip all the possible spares from it before scrapping. I'm sure you will appreciate having a working spare starter, injectors and such, but I'm also sure you've already thought of that!

Tanks for the road trip! Great to see you making progress and knowing all the research to find what you needed for your engine and tranny. Yes, long days ARE tiring-however having acheived your goal-you will sleep VERY WE:LL!! Cheers!! Rich

Great for you guys !!!

Love your videos guys but can you put the episode number first please? I can't always see them depending on what I am viewing on.

Love the info you give about the boat before and after events

Great video great news Aboyne getting the engine enjoy your holiday 😊

Marseille to Sète, that's a long drive ! I hope you took some times to walk and have a look at the Calanques in Marseille, or the étang de Thau in Sète in between the drives those are cool places, anyway, I think that engine looks in good condition, but certainly better than the forklift, I think they missed a few maintenances, it does not looks very safe Good luck with that engine, and the whole ship in general, still a lots of work to do, but a whole summer ahead, which surely won't help, the temperatures can get very high in the south, like sometimes over 40°C, it's probably hard to do anything at such a high temperature. Working on such a boat is a very big and complexe project, but with some times and love as everything, I'm sure it's gonna end up looking awesome ! Keep it up !

Great stuff 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Congratulations and good luck with the engine. It'll be a good runner no doubt. S!

Awesome score on the engine! Excited to see next weeks video. ⛵

Hey guys, thank you for this wonderful episode. You are so lucky to have this great engine❤❤❤

Great on the engine- just wanted to say that your music sound like a Max Richter composition which l love… carry on!❤

Stay positive and keep going, thanks

Well done onward and upward slowly

Glad that you have found the engine you want and fingers crossed it will work well. Looks in good nick anyway. Looking forward to your next video guys

great job you guys, we love you, keep up the great work

Big News! All the best on this one.

Thanks!

Did you see the engine hand cranked to make sure it's not froze up. If this Yanmar doesn't have a compression release, then removing the glow plugs should allow hand cranking the engine.

The boat is looking lovely.

🧙‍♂️🇬🇧😎🤞🏼🤞🏼😂👍🏼 Stay out of town till things calm down a bit ... 😉

Have a good weekend.

As you do the inspection I would clean up all parts of the motor and repaint that way it be clean rust free and you can check all gaskets and fittings good luck

Very exciting. I have fingers crossed for a good outcome. Go well!

May you sail the seven seas with your new engine❤

Lots of work, I’ve just subscribed- Interested to see how you go.. Always interested in how people make their dreams come together.. 😊. 👍👍👍👍

Awesome garry from new zealand

There’s a lot of anxiety when it comes to buying used engines, I bought a rebuilt engine for my 67 Camaro, I was a nervous wreck until the day I fired that engine. It’s a lot of money on the line, and so many things can go wrong, I hope you are both blessed by the engine gods.😂

I miss the old presentation of your videos guys! 🤩

One step closer......keep going ❤

Hope the bell housing are the same and you can make one good un out of the 1 and a 1/2 you have.

May the new engine bring you guys many blissful miles of sailing 🎉. 🚣. Happy weekend.

Pozdrawiam

Yanmah-- excellent choice

Re the engine mounts, have you thought about getting them sandblasted to clean and strip them back? Once again, it would be cost of sandblasting by someone else v trying to clean them yourself. Keep cracking on.

Hope she is a good one.

Sump has been sitting in the drink,with stray current they rot out quick,happened on my old man’s prawn trawler in less than 12 months,second hand engine with rattle can refurb.Knowing now I’d have resin painted the sump before going in.

Time to get the engine room painted!

That rust don't matter on the motor just go with it

I didn't buy a boat engine for a boat. A168F 3 HP air cooled Chinese diesel, brand new. It's 44 LBS and should devote half of it's power to making 12 volts. There are bigger undersized air cooled diesels for giant boats, too. The hot air is welcome.

All starting to come together. I was a bit worried that the pallet was going to split in half with all the weight, as it was been carried 90deg to hopw it should be. Allways have the top slats across the forks not in parallel. Saw one split once when it was full of crates with bottles in, made a right mess. Looking forward to seeing the work on the engine and its install.

Nice intro ❤

It's a canted drive so the motor will be level Yanma designed it for that reason don't change it!!

Be thankful you are not in the States. LOL 4900km one side to the other!! :)

That forklift is about to croke ,,, you shouldn't have a problem with a yanmar their really good engines. super dependable.

GBU bought a brand new British made Beta Marine engine and gearbox unit for that kind of money. Well congrats anyway looks like a fine engine. For that kind of money we're you not tempted to buy a whole fleet or a completer boat?

Fantasy and reality collide with low information and hope.

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I keep reading that as a €1 euro engine 🤣 well dream on 😃😜😉🍻

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Nice engine , how much was it bru?

Delighted that you found an engine. you definitely need sometime away from the boat A bit of time to yourselves, enjoy your holiday. As always I look forward to the next update.

They are reasonably good motors but like the volvos the parts are very expensive. A Beta Marine would have been a better choice, but it's very hard to find a used one. Being cheap to operate, people run them till they are complete junk or need a complete rebuild at a machine shop

Congratulations on your new engine! (It’s bigger than our Yanmar 3GM 30F, which we just had lifted into the boat.) Nice! Progress Progress Progress! 😎😂😂😂🥰

Hope you’re not being affected by the riots we are hearing about.

RU-vid is like a window, one can watch realty tv and find the dream one would have liked to live themselves. Modern reality. I have one gripe, I have no idea what the order of the videos is? It’s seabird sailing then getting a motor then selling seabird… I m confused. My dream is vague.

I like watching your episodes but please don't play music while you are talking. I want to hear what you are saying🙂

Please try not to narrate over background music. When you are old and going deaf like me it's hard to make out your words. Thanks, and as ever an interesting and informative episode.

Please get the whole engine checked over by a Qualified Marine mechanics

At 9:42 I thought that Stu was going to lean over and kiss his new baby. 😗😙

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Yanmar are great engines but the paint they use at the factory is not so good, they rust really bad.

Hi Guys. It's Liam from Ireland again lol Its great too see you two again. You've done so much Work on that Boat. Lovely clean engine you managed to source. I could have got an engine and drove it out to you for €3000 but its too late now. But at least you have one. Listen if there's ever anything i can do for you just let me know and i will give you my Phone number. I ❤ what your doing Stewart and everything is so expensive now. 😊 so keep it up bro.