What a DESASTER: My boat hull looks like SWISS CHEESE - UNTIE THE LINES IV #16
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- The reason for hauling out had been a tiny little hole in my aft cabin below the water line. At the same time, we wanted to try and fix the hole in my diesel tank.
To reach said hole, I had removed a stainless steak water tank which had revealed a whole bunch of lead bars. I had feared that there would be some corrosion hiding below those bars which is why I had not tried to remove them in the water...I guess, this precaution was a clever move...but see yourself...
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That wall of concrete you were close to in the beginning is what’s left of a three story building. Called it the balboa yacht club back in the day. There was a restaurant on second floor, third floor we had high school parties up there. Every Friday night. 1st floor was the outside covered bar area. It was beautiful. Used love to hang out there. I see the concrete stairs leading into the water are still there. The bridge, taboga. By the bridge, there are the old pilings from the ferry slip, huge snook are in there. Speared a few. On the opposite side of balboa. One of our secrect spots. Probably hasn’t been dove or fished in years. No one knew that held big snook. Course you only have 6-12” of visibility. Hit the bottom and look up. When one goes by, blast it. Nice vid.
I remember that place too! It was lovely! ✨✨✨
Pity they weren’t gold Bars!!You girls are fantastic!
Nike you are one BAD ASS WOMAN!!! I have watched many of your Videos. Not in order unfortunately. But I never leave without thinking how YOU are an inspiration!!! Your work ethic is unrelenting and your knowledge is vast.
NIKE The next time you weld up a hole remember this trick if you can get to the top side of the hole. Cut a piece of copper pipe length wise. Pound it out flat with a hammer. Hold the copper against the bottom side with something. Then have the welder fill the hole with the MIG welder. You will be amazed how fast you can fill a hole. There are some special carbon devices sold to do the same thing, but copper sheeting will work great, or better...especially when doing aluminum.
The way it works is; the copper sheet will support the weld puddle. The molten aluminum will not bond to the copper. So you weld, wait 5 seconds, remove the copper sheet, project finished. If you keep some aluminum disks the same size as the drill bits or hole saws you have you can use another trick. When you need to repair a spot. Drill out the damaged area to the same size as the disk you have. Put the disk in the hole, then weld it. That way you have no through hole to mess with when welding.
If you learn how to TIG weld aluminum. You will then have a foundation to learn how to weld aluminum with a torch. Small torch setup with the correct tips etc. you will be set.
That doubler plate is a good quick fix. Just make sure you don’t get stagnant seawater behind it and between the original hull plate. Anaerobic conditions will form liberating sulphide compounds which are aggressive to aluminium, as aluminium passivises with oxides.
Inside of the hull needs to be welded where the holes are. Keep that area dry.
thats good advice
You have come so far from where you were when you started this adventure. Now you will tackle anything, and with the help of friends, achieve it. Amazing......
Well done capt'n Nike and the amazing crew.
I love your DIY videos but I always want to see Karl back in the water ,,,, thank you for the places you go and the fixes you do..
Keep showing the world that fighting for your dreams is the thing that makes any obstacle crumble!
My boat is 30 years old. Always something to fix. When I need inspiration I reach for wine. And your TH-cam channel .... and everything feels better. Immediately. Thank you, Nike, for being totes awesome. Here’s to you and your amazing friends ... 🤙🎉🥂⛵️🤙
For all your efforts to make Karl safer I hope the reward is that your “hearts” are filled with happiness and joy, lots of sunshine, fair winds and following seas as you again set sail for new horizons with plenty of fresh food, coffee and lots of cold beer to quench your sea captains thirst. The Dynamic Duo can conquer the world! Cheers.
John Archard thank you, John, that would be an awesome treat for sure!!!!
You are so resourceful and dedicated! I admire your ability to enlist the support of others! People care about you a great deal which speaks volumes about the quality of your character. A great video!
It's great to have friends and especially the kind who are willing to give so much of their time to help you with Karl projects. All 3 of you seem to work well together and have fun doing it. Hopefully these fixes will hold up and you can get back to sailing.
Just read a lot of the comments and your commitment is amazing. When a problem is uncovered with an older boat the heart sinks. A glass of wine, a head shake and into the problem. The reward for tackling and completing the task applies to all aspects of life and provides for future motivation. Newer boats have more money thrown at them and more work done by the yard, they all become bottomless pits if you let them. The choice of an aluminium hull was a strange one for me, but the relative ease of carrying out major repairs and the inherent strength is proven here. I've always associated them with more northern climates though, but I think you've proven me wrong. The other comment I would make is the help you have is priceless and meeting people of this caliber would be my biggest motivation for sailing. Well done everyone. Great blog.
Boat jobs never seem to end Nike,lucky for all the good help👍
Thanks for sharing not only the sunshine but also the rain. And even a newer boat needs lots of maintenance.
The funny thing is, I enjoy working on my boat as much as I do sailing it. (up to a point...)
Kudos to you and your friends! They're worth their weight in gold.
Looking forward to the next episode.
I think the cat was searching Maria deep in the ship somewhere.😂
Maybee the lead was used to trim Karl and of course as ballast.Once l just glued those leadpieces with SIKAFLEX in my steelboat.Fixed and isolated.
Best wishes 👍
You ladies and your friends are amazing.
Yay Manny and Maria. What great friends! Damn it Karl. Keep your hull together man.
Im watching all episodes in order. Started watching 2 weeks ago. Inspirational story, I dont want to get to the end.
Thanks for sharing. Such tough work.
True friends are the BEST! And Karl will love his new shoes lol nice job Nikki ⛵️👍🏼😎
You are an Amazing Team.... ❤️
Nike you have become quite the confident Sailor over these years..I admire what you as a Young Woman has accomplished with your Journey and Karl...Even during your toughest times you always continue Positive and Never give up.....Thanks for making White Spot Pirate so enjoyable to view>>>>
"Life Is Good when you Keepa Smilin....:)"
Great job.
I do love to watch women work. You two are amazing. I really don't think there is anything you guys can't do. Manny needs to come sometime when you are just sailing so he doesn't have to work so much. Great job. Karl should soon be ready to tackle the Pacific. Thank you for sharing.
You are such a hard worker! I admire you. 🐬
It’s amazing the work you girls complete in the conditions available to you so looking forward to meeting you guys on Joana this feb in Columbia cheers
Sailing S/V Slipstream we are looking forward to meet you, too! Good winds right now to travel south!!!
Nike your one amazing person my sailing life has slowed down but like to return soon as I can .
Was a member LA Yacht club community sail to learn to sail .
Hope in the future I'll have my own boat .
You be safe your beautiful person.
Tony
Well started watching night before last,just caught up,great job looking forward to next video!!!
nice to have friends who are willing to put in the hours, well done all
Boat yard friends are the BEST!
Ok now I'm thoroughly impressed. I have a lot of women in my class on how to work on trailers (caravans) but I haven't met one that can weld yet. And one that can weld aluminum no less. Very impressive.
AND weld overhead!
Maria is just so freaking awesome! Heck - you both are! (And The guys are great help too ;) )
Knoklsnedkr she totally is!
My god girl, you are a sailors sailor and do more work in a week than I can accomplish in a year,, fair winds
Looks like Manny is going to need a vacation from this vacation. Take care.
Uncle Muir possibly 🤣🤣🤣
I had a fiberglass boat which had about a dozen lead bricks laid in the keel area. I think it's a way for the designer and builder to fine tune the ballast and waterline. After all, it's easier to add a 25 pound lead brick than take out 25 pounds from somewhere. I actually enjoyed having it when I was cruising with the family because we tended to lower the waterline once we were loaded so it was nice to be able to remove several bricks to lighten the load a bit.
Nike you are so lucky to have such fantastic friends. It would have been a killer if you tried to do all of that own.
You ladies & manny kick a**!
Wow, it sure pays to have great friends huh?I would not trade my fiberglass posters for aluminum cancer for all the beers in Panama!. You guys are the best friends ever, cheers to you all
glassman51 ... just don’t hit any rocks with glass.
You are amazing!
Hi, could you do me a favour and take some close up pic's of the back of the alternator and tell me the number of wiring connections on the engines oil and water sender units, Pics of these would be nice. especially with the dissimilar metal problems, between the led and the aluminum.
Indeed as it looks like there's a problem with galvanic corrosion pomametals.com/how-to-prevent-galvanic-corrosion/
Love your channel, hope to watch many more episodes, i'm no expert on boats or boating but I read a little about boats, thanks to your inspiring journey i am saving for my own boat The 40 pieces of lead you removed from Karl is the ballast it's the only explanation for lead to be in the bottom of a flat bottomed boat, used to increase the 'Angle of Vanishing Stability" (AVS) this is the degree of heel Karl can do before capsizing. it's proportionate to the sail area and rig height. it's also important of the location it is placed in the bottom of the boat. I hope one of your other subscribers that do know about boats a lot more than I, can explain it better, the lead is important put the lead back in. Also canoeing with crocodiles might be classified as an extreme sport.
Robert Pawley no worries, it will all go back in. But first, the holes below must be fixed, then insulate the bars properly, put back in and make sure they don’t fly around 👍👍👍
Endlich wieder …..Berenike am Start! Allzeit gute Laune und allzeit eine Handbreit Wasser unter Karls Kiel! LG Jörg
well done thanks
The bars are ballast, may want to find a replacement unless the keels are weighted? Nice work, brave to fix such extensive things on Carl.
Have you considered covering the outside of the hull with epoxy and glass? It will stick to the metal and will provide for watertight shell. Any future repairs would be simple.
Re the lead ballast - I have seen that material that was used to stabilise the lead bars in rudders - it looks like a form of cement. The YT channel Just Sailing covered it a year or so ago.
Norman Boyes ah thanks! That might be possible actually!
Just checked the Just Sailing rudder video it may be slate dust mixed with polyester resin. How are you going to resecure the lead ballast?
Might want to consider your changing the center of gravity of your boat. Designers don’t put lead in the bottom for no reason. At any rate you need to electrically insulate and fasten the bars in place, so you don’t upset the stability of the boat. Rolling over is really a bad idea. Great boat!
guesswhotoo6 of course the lead is going back in...but as u mentioned correctly, it needs to be newly insulated and then fastened because the way it was sitting it was obviously damaging the hull, so not such a great option to leave it the way it was ☺️
WhiteSpotPirates Very happy to hear! We don’t want any last episodes of your great adventures. PS. I also have an aluminum boat and have a bit of experience in that regard. Your redo of the hull episodes were exactly correct in every detail, so this problem happened for exactly the reasons you described from the inside out. Keep up the good work! Regards from Boston.
guesswhotoo6 that’s what it seemed like 🤞
Those are real friends... you are lucky
Aluminium repair jungle style. Ladylike, as usual. Well done. I'd put the lead in again though.
manfred schmalbach that’s the Plan 👍🤞
You are both tough gals. Quite frankly, there are very few people that have as much determination. I salute you.
May you have many nautical miles in your horizon and starry nights to spark your muse. HUGO
Nice to see Karl getting some TLC, That pizza looked real good ;) If you get anymore small holes there is a product we would use for engine casing holes that would have 200 liters in the sump and it worked great, There is a few variations on the market where it is 2 pack and you just mix it and put it on then it goes real hot, So hot you can't go near it, There is a aluminium version and a steel version of the liquid weld, It is expensive, But does the job, Stronger than any weld and last for ages if kept at right temp.. Them trousers nik had on was so funny, Good old working clothes, Can't beat some air condition circulation, My workshop jacket is full of welding holes, Hope you did not get any bombers down your backs putting that plate on. It is very sore when that happens. Is it cheaper going their than going to a posh marina or does it work out the same price? "Per day" Don't like the sound of that one!
Shaun Sim oh nice what’s that called?
It was cheaper, yes. Fancy Marina haulout is 700$ plus 125$ per day on the hard. This was 170$ a day...so for a total of 6 days was cheaper
Shaun Sim plus, some fancy marinas sometimes don’t let u do your own work or bring in ur own peeps but u have to hire their staff...which is usually also more expensive...
Good vid ya'll.
it's great you are willing and able to Jump In & Take Care of Business - I foresee calm seas at sunset with a fishing pole in one hand and a highly chilled adult beverage in the other - film it!!
❤️ the women team welders!!
The lead bars is maybe to hold all the metalic sediments from getting into your fuel filters.
If we were choosing team mates on the playground, I'd want all of you on my team. No question. Luck to you.
Nike, ich möchte Dir einfach mal sagen, dass ich Dich unglaublich bewundere. Dein Optimismus, Deine Willensstärke ist einfach umwerfend. Und daneben, bist Du so unglaublich ehrlich und natürlich. Wünschte mir eine Tochter wie Dich. Herzliche Grüsse aus Holland, Thomas, www.ms-escape.ch
Is Aluminum really a good hull material OR are your problems due to poor exterior upkeep before you took on Karl ?
add an anode or split s/s shaft collar in front of your pss seal it will stop it from backing off and is insurance
Hang in there! Everything you have done to Karl is making him stronger and improved. Could those concrete bars that Many is removing be some sort of weights for ballast? I’m going to google this and try and find out
I just found an article saying that concrete was a cheap form of ballast for metal boats - but has been banned in Europe for new builds for a number of reasons - the most prominent one being corrosion and the inability to stay on top of it - sounds like you made the right decision to get rid of it 👍
Anne winning 🤣🤣🤣 yeah, whatever that was, it was not so grand 🤣. The lead bars, of course, need to go back in...but the need to be reinsulated and held in place.
MAINTENANCE! Und dabei auch noch gut dokumentiert.
Heck, if your doing Pizza and Beer, I’m in, lets party.
Do you have the correct zincs where needed for your aluminum sailboat where they should be designated throughout the hull and take a meter reader to check for electrolysis. Maybe you already know but do everything you can to learn about aluminum boats in salt water for the best protection. Make sure on a regular basis make it a habit to clean the bottom of the boat do not let it go too long maybe like every week or sooner clean the bottom .
Thanks for posting. Nasty looked quite comfy in that spot. Does Tito run the tire and line service for the canal also, or is that another Tito? Peace. S/V Good Karma
Grins that’s another Tito 👍☺️
I don't watch that often but it seems every time I do(since 4 years) there is something wrong with this boat. The amount of time, effort and money spent you could have well brought something much safer, faster and well, just being actually sailing. Good lesson for others right there. Save up and buy a GOOD boat to start with.(unless its a Project you're after)
Big props for your tenacity though!!!
All boats require continuous maintenance and if that maintenance gets deferred, major problems can arise later. By doing the work herself, she gains knowledge of the boat that she wouldn't have otherwise. It's a good feeling being out on the water knowing that things were maintained properly as opposed to operating a vessel with unknown history but a fresh coat of paint.
@@pdutube Yes obviously. My last boat was 40 years old and I got right into the maintenance, upgrading, cleaning, repairing, thinking I'd eventually get on top of it. You know what? 4 years later I was still going, I'd sail 3 days then have to spend 3 days fixing stuff. What made me decide to ditch it was that my goal is to sail around the world and I just realised with that old boat I just wouldn't be confident to cross big oceans. So then I brought a 10 year old boat and you know what? Now I get to sail about 70% of the time. I sailed to 4 countries and around 4000Nm in 2018 and apart from routine maintenance I had to fix nothing. Obviously things will need replacing as time goes on but my point is that if you start out with a old dog you'll spend most of your time chasing your tail. You don't save money you just spend it fixing stuff instead of sailing. Its the emotional connection to the vessel that keeps people invested.
@@SailingLearningByDoing It's true, I've become attached to things that other people would have parted with. It's my nature to want to build things, like my airplane, but you're right about the time aspect. If I bought more than I built or repaired, I could be out enjoying myself. I enjoy the process but more than once I've thought to myself that I must be out of my mind LOL.
@@pdutube Haha yeah. Don't get me wrong, I loved my old boat and took great pride in every little upgrade I did. But after 3 years I thought again why I actually brought a boat in the first place and it was to go see places that others couldn't get too and I was too scared to leave the coast and the nearest chandlery.
you dont know what kind of boat do you have and do you live on it i guess we all cant be you
You´re an adorable little group ! Marias smile though... breathtaking.
Good friends! :)
The old traditional use for lead bars was ballast.
The lead may had been put there to balance up the boat , looks like a Crete mix to hold it there , if you put it back wrap it up so you don’t get dissimilar metal problem and water between cause corode ,, well done where is all your mates when you haul boat out
I think that concrete and lead may have been ballast for the boat, maybe you know something I don't, hope so!
It’s great to have friends like Manny and Maria. Having a support network is important, but do you think a Pacific crossing is possible this season. Karl seems to be shaping up, what say you?
Wish you all the best - hope you can find all the corrosion and solve the cause too. This is one reason many boaters, myself among them choose fiberglass instead of Aluminum.
Corrosion of aluminum hull is caused by electrolysis or galvanic reaction. Both are easy to prevent...much easier to prevent than the problems that come with fiberglass. Just have to keep an eye on the preventive measures. Just can't splash it with no regard. All in all aluminum is not a bad way to go. Keep in mind that Karl has some age. Odds are high a fiberglass hull of the same age would not be without it's own demons as well. Aluminum hulls weigh less. Aluminum can be welded without loosing strength. Years ago welding aluminum was a voodoo process. Now it is common the world over. Each material has it's on merits. I have yet to walk on a spongy soft deck of a 5 year old aluminum boat....I can't say that for fiberglass. We could talk about 20 year old spongy fiberglass decks if you really want to compare the two materials. Speaking of decks, aluminum decks have hardware welded to the decks, not thru bolted; thereby reducing leakage. Below deck cleaning of an aluminum boat requires dusting the bilges in many cases.
If you watch from the beginning of the series you will notice that Karl has a pitting problem. I'm sure the previous owner didn't care for the hull properly, or the hull is not 5000 series aluminum. I surveyed a 1997 Ovni last year. Not one single speck of a pit on the hull...not even up inside the centerboard trunk where there has never been paint. The hull is over 20 years old and looked great with no degrading anywhere. Can't say that for many or any fiberglass hulls that age.
With the availability of CNC cutting, CAD 3D solid modeling and technologies like pulsed MIG welding I wouldn't be surprised to see fiberglass only used on high volume production boats 20 years from now. Biggest problem with aluminum is getting paint to bond. Surface prep, product selection, and timely application is key. As far as aluminum and sea water contact goes think...outboards and saildrives are aluminum.
From what I have seen, the acme problem with Karl is more of the exception than the norm. Aluminum construction is a common thing with the Europeans, especially the French yards. I personally wouldn't be quick to bash on the French for their sailing or boat building attributes.
@@Caliber40LRC Mmkay I see you like anecdotes, heres one of my own. The 43' West Sail I first lived aboard in 1980 is just as sound today as she was then - all fiberglass, and solid and dependable as a rock.
@@Bravo21 You have a good one. Consistency with fiberglass is not always a given. Sometimes problems show up because of the builder, or chemical supplier.
I looked at an aluminum last year that was being re-skinned do to reef bashing BIG TIME BASHING. The welder was getting all kinds of pitting in the welds. The problem was the original material used was wacked. After I studied the rest of boat I found all the original welds were pitted. My point being. Odds are high the boat was probably built with the wrong grade of aluminum (Not all aluminum grades can be welded).
The most common place I find aluminum corrosion is when it is used for water tanks. Chlorine or RO (reverse osmosis) water really works over aluminum tanks.
As chemical cost, work site health concerns, and EPA regulations become more difficult to deal with, fiberglass construction will increase in cost. Providing auto manufacturers don't demand so much aluminum it drives up cost of the material I expect to see more aluminum boats being built.
I'm already starting to see a trend towards aluminum for runabout, and fishing boats. When CNC can cut it, bend it, and hold it in place for a $15 hour guy to pluse MIG it, you know how that shakes out.
When fiberglass came on the scene, you know there where guys at the bar that were standing their ground on boats must be made of wood, steel, or ferro cement...We know how that turned out.
Steel aluminium fibreglass concrete they all have their own issues
Bravo21 ....fiberglass is by far the least maintenance. And steel the toughest. Aluminum has gone by the wayside because of the high maintenance and corrosion issues for almost no practical gains in a cruising boat. I haven't seen an aluminum sailboat built in 15 yrs.
Yeap! A never ending story, with the help of friends, it makes the job a lot easier.
Bonne Chance all of you.
I've never seen a cruiser never actually go anywhere like this before (except maybe Australians). Do you have residency status in Panama, or do you have to keep renewing with them? Or do Germans not need to?
Problem with 6 series Aluminum is that it will always corrode when connected to dissimilar metals like stainless. Stainless and Ali forms a battery and with an electroltye like salt water speeds up the corrosion. Best way forward is painting all bare metal with slow drying etch primer which really burns on a coating on raw ali.
My friends used all say a boat is a deep hole in the water where you pour all your money. I can see this to be partly true but a boat can also be called home and a place where adventures take place. I can see that this would be a way that I would like to spend part of my life but not all of it.
Maria ist ja wirklich ein Könner Aluschweißen und alles.....wahnsinig gute Arbeit ... so alte aluminium boote sind nicht zu empfehlen?
Won't that aluminum plate between the keels create a lot of drag? Why not cut a hole and then weld in the new piece so it's a smooth surface? Keep up the good work on the videos, really enjoy watching what boat life is really like.
Todd Armstrong the plate we had at hand was was a different alloy, different thickness and the wire was not the right alloy either. The chances of something going wrong are too big to cut a 60x40 cm hole below ur hull. Karl is not a racing boat, I doubt that it will make a significant difference...
Where the bars for corrosion control, like they sacrifice their metals to the corrosion, instead of the hull, or were they weights for stabilizing like counterweights?
RV Curious De Warren They were for ballast.
RV Curious De Warren for aluminum, u usually use magnesium and not Zink annodes. And half a ton might be a bit over the top, too 🤣
curious tough where did you find the mig whelding machine, it was a rental?
ElectronicMarine it’s my friend Erick’s. He works in the balboa yard and i knew him from the haulout when I changed my engine. He was so kind to lend us the welder for the cost of the gas .
@@WhiteSpotPirates a good friend!
@@WhiteSpotPirates I went back on the videos installing the engine, Usualy on metal boats the engine stay disconected electricaly from the hull, the power negative wire on manny of them is controlled by a big power relay or manual switch since having him always connected with the hull creates galvanic corrosion. The negative wire should stay connected on the engine only when is running... the electrical distribution pannel in metal boats should also disconect the negative wires for every appliance. is a good habit to controll if there is anny continuity between hull and negative/positive wires from the 12v system. Especialy on metal boats the harness that goes to the running lights, sollar pannels egg must be checked periodicaly... if a wire is just allitle bit stripped or lost the insulation will corrode the hull. not tryng to do the proffessor here but this is an aspect manny metal boats owners take lightly.
Obviously after a mouse. Working for a living. Good kitty!
I built my own steel sail boat and also have leadbars in the bulge. About 1000kg as There was not enough room in the keel.
There were two Pandoa's boxes, one of Greek mythology and one much closer to you.
After the news of the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty had reached the Admiralty in England, the frigate HMS Pandora was dispatched to find, arrest, capture and detain the mutineers of the Bounty and return them to England to face trial. At the time this was the close equivalent of sailing to the moon and returning. It was 1790.
Because HMS Pandora was a warship she didnt have enough space to hold her captives, so the carpenters were ordered to construct a space on the fore deck suitable for detaining sixteen men, This space was to become known as Pandora's box.
As it eventuated, the Pandora was never to return home, she was wrecked on her return on the Great Barrier Reef on the edge of the Coral Sea in what is now known as the Timor sea. She is to this day one of the most significant wrecks in the Southern Hemisphere.
SV Zaya thx for that interesting piece of history, I did not know that!
I still like watching. But. What is her goal? Gunkholing and drinking around Panama? When will she turn the tiller towards blue water? Excellent channel. She sure is a worker.
gold maybe :)
so frustrating to find another hole in the hull, afer the welding you've donne a few years ago. You've gone a long way since. Not envy you when you where under the hull keeping the palte still while maria was whelding :( pour girl, you must have a couple of metal burns on your skin :(
They will come back. This hull is in some kind of advanced deterioration.
You can't do anything else than patching it where it leaks. And again. And again.
Why are you removing your keel weights? It looked like Bondo and lead, I hope you put it back!
Neil Shubert this is not the keel lead but lead that sits in the bilge. Why am I taking it out? Did u miss that there were like 3-4 big holes below it 🤣🤣 of course it’s going back in since it’s obviously there for a reason. But it needs to be newly insulated because obviously that insulation was not so grand anymore since quite the while...
@@WhiteSpotPirates Good news! I was wondering why it was there! possibly some final ballast after it was built? are there any Zinc anodes down there too?
It is lead embedded in epoxy
Did I see you using urethane paint on the bottom of the boat? You seem to be redoing the bottom way too often. May I suggest a TWO PART EPOXY PAINT. This is a hard Industrial 30 year paint for Bridges, Drilling Rigs and Heavy Equipment. I put it on my Sail Boat and found it to be hard, shinny and very slick. Nothing seems to stick to it. The can says you can use a roller, but don't do it. Leaves bumps. Found a brush is best. Be careful it can sag if applied too heavy. It is mixed 4 to 1. In the U.S. the paint is $59. gallon and the epoxy activator is $52.pint. from Anchor Paint. Isn't that plate going to cause a separation of the water from the boat and drag? Not that it really maters I guess except for any depth finder behind it. Been watching since day 1.
best way to eat pizza with a little garlic sauce.
Were those lead bars ballasts?
Yes, they must have added them as additional ballast. Maybe they miscalculated the lead ballast in the keels, no idea!!!
@@WhiteSpotPirates it was pretty common practice to ballast boats with iron or lead back in the wooden boat days and sometimes it was set in concrete or cement to stop it moving and also as a quick fix to stop leaks. You may find that lead is needed and the boat becomes unstable without out it. Or it may just get faster and you won't have to motor everwhere :-)
Nick Bowles it definitely needs it...we left it in yard by accident when we splashed and it was very obvious that Karl wanted it back 🤣🤣🤣
@@WhiteSpotPirates it is common and is how sailing vessels can be trimmed.
Out of coffee? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
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jesus christ..... sailing must be real fun 😯
This epoch tale is a classic. Nike as Ahab, and Karl as her Moby Dick. Only, better- Secure Nike becomes Insecure Nike, by being tethered to deficient and handicapped Karl, through, bad luck, bad timing, bad intuition, all adding up to circular, gambler, decision making. As well, 'You go girl!' will be the death of her. What a story, the hero killed partly by her, and her own fans', longings for manifested reality to materialize from sufficient desire. Misplaced Faith. Great Story. Biblical! "But more about that..." which never arrives. (Who doesn't know how to coax a cat out vs. challenging!?! Ans. An Ahab-Nike)
fine fettling
I hope you've used this opportunity to recalculate how much and where you want
this ballast. Maybe, in your situation, you can safely shed 100 kilos or so.
do you by any chance play the guitar man
Awhhh.. PLEASE MORE CAT 😋 ahh come on, thats perfect, name it BLACKIE :)
Inventor Gadget his name is Turk and it’s Maria’s cat...so he is only a short time visitor on Karl.
okay, Thanx for the reply!
Why go through all that hard work grinding use a sandblaster. With the right protective gear and air compressor don't have to be anything big something on a small scale will clean quite well. Look to purchase ALUMALOY RODS with map gas you can do small repairs to fill in any little holes when you beach your boat if necessary. Look into it, watch some videos it would be a big help to do any necessary repairs on a small scale.