I"m sure this message will be lost in the crowd but after working a lifetime in the Marine Industry, Including years as Forman on Marina hard-stands, the range of knowlage you showed really surprised me even if the experince wasn't entirely there. I've seen worse work by so called shiprights haha. Well done matey!
I know this comments a little old, but is a restoration thats this intensive actually any cheaper than buying a new or maybe lightly used boat? Even project boats are *expensive* where I live (WA State). I think ill need something at least 15'ft to feel safe taking it on the sound and I'm trying to find the most economical way to go about it 😅
I hated it. It was sickening and horrible. Guess we all have different tastes and distastes. B roll idea is ok, but please something less disgusting and aweful next time.
Dude as someone who works on boats regularly. Your fiberglass work was fantastic on this whaler, very few guys go as far as you did to remove all the old gel coat and repairs. Here's some tips encase you plan on doing anything similar again: to make it easier to laminate large pieces of 1708 biaxial matt you want to place the matt (chops strand side up) on a table wrapped in saran wrap or plastic sheeting to avoid destroying the table. Then pre-impregnate the matt with epoxy or poly and wet it out until transparent, removing any excess epoxy. Transfer the wetted out matt onto the repair area and lay it on and roll it out using a regular paint nap roller you can buy at home depot. Make sure the hardware you put on the rub rails was actually stainless steel, Anything else and your going to regret it. and for sealant, you should def go heavy on sealant, Best ones being 3m 5200 brands. Fantastic job with the skiff!
Being an old man, I love seeing younger smarter people using their brains and hands to make so many awesome projects. I have been following and watching for quite some time and really love the engineering and technical aspects of this channel. Not to mention I absolutely chuckle with the quirkiness of all of your comments and what seems like a great group of guys living their best life. Can't wait to see the second and further episodes. Great work and keep it up!!!
Man, the dedication... This is an amazing commitment and demonstration of how to take your time and do things right. The way you incorporated the pig roast and everything was awesome. Thank you so much for taking the time to film, and edit, and share all these amazing projects. I know how much work it is and I truly appreciate your content.
Yeah I got the perfect motor for your boat. I have several of them actually you're more than welcome to one. They're 48 volt 20 horsepower can be run on 96 volt for 40 horsepower made by Advanced DC. They are dual shaft and actually are perfect for mounting in an outboard motor. Removing the gas engine and keeping the lower Drive Unit diesel bolt right in. Jamie from Mythbusters used one to power a jet drive. There's another guy on TH-cam that use the same Motors for a ski boat that he can actually ski behind. Anyway they're brand new. If you want to mess with one let me know.
Skip the outboard lower unit, lose tons of power and energy to the bevel gears turning in oil + extra maintenance. Just get a stuffing box or dripless carbon seal and straight shaft it
@@JH-tc3yu if it were my boat that's what I would do. But with these particular Motors they are dual shaft and the one end of the shaft is the same as used by most outboard motors for driving the accessories. Makes for a nice conversion but I agree with what you're saying. I just didn't think he was going to want to go through the effort it would take to drill through the hull and make that work. There's a video on TH-cam of Jamie from Mythbusters using my motor the exact same thing on a 40 horsepower jet drive and it's pretty amazing. And there's another guy that did the exact same thing on a 20 horsepower lower Drive and he pulls water skiers with it. He's also on youtube.
I really love that you add odd unrelated tidbits to your videos of your friends, ducks, seaplanes, etc. This one had a lot more of that, but it was a longer video than most. I had thought this before with your RC builds, but redoing a boat showed you are a really determined and hard worker. That's a trait that seems to be on the decline so kudos.
You have a lot of patience. Day 2 I would have gone out to buy an aluminum jon boat, but I'm guessing the "unsinkable-ness" was a driving factor for this repair.
This is one of the best TH-cam videos I’ve seen in forever. I’m a southern electrical engineer. And I can tell you guys are way over my head. But cooking a pig and just being real is refreshing
I also have a 1972 Boston Whaler 13! Mine was converted to the sourpuss layout by the previous owner. My gelcoat is just as bad but the hull is in relatively good condition. I started sanding and scraping on it a year ago but I'm now thinking about sand or soda blasting it. I've just been using it like it is for now. It's still a fun little boat!
After recently doing half-assed repairs on my kids little sailboat, I can appreciate the effort & time you have put into the hull of that boat. Great job :)
May not have been cheaper, but I feel like it for sure would have been faster to just build your own boat, assuming you can get the foam they put on the inside somewhere. Plenty of channels on TH-cam where people have made their own fiberglass boats in a few days without having to basically un-make an existing one first
I was thinking the same. I've seen some YT vids where they use sheets of foam that they cut the sheets and assemble into a boat shape and then fibreglass over the top. I've made one attempt at building a catamaran using two part foam that was to be fibre glassed, but that failed terribly. Next will be this sheet foam approach.
I have an inflatable vinyl boat that cost me $60, max weight is around 800 lb. There are a bunch of videos on here of people doing plywood mods to suit their needs. I feel like it would have been easier to get one or two of those and make something. The plywood base I cut for my boat actually fits inside my car with the back seats down. It's all small enough that I don't need a trailer or a registration sticker.
That is the whole point, and why this channel is so fascinating and fun to watch: it is the journey and its challenges that are interesting. We learn so much more when faced with adversity. It is the impeded stream that sings.
I restored a near identical Boston Whaler 13 from around the same year. Took me like 2 years of sanding, fiberglass, more sanding, fairing compound, more sanding, paint, more sanding, building a console, more sanding... You get the point. The thing rips and despite driving boats for a living, I've never had my own motor boat until now.
The previous solar powered and gps boat videos are my favorite from the channel, so this new project is very exciting!! And congrats on all the hard work, it seems to have been so hard to bruteforce it all. But the results indeed look very good!
For future reference if you remove the outer wheel bearing and then put the axle nut back on you can usually remove the seal without damage by pulling the wheel off. Love the project!
That works on cars but on my small boat trailer the axle nut doesn't fit through the hub. I had to order new seals to repack the bearings because the seals a cheap junk and get dammaged.
Awww this brings back great memories. I had an old BW when I was in middle and high school I would take across the harbor to my friends house. Was faster than driving. I miss living right on the water. This was cool to see it electrified
This looks like an absolute endeavor. It's the kind of project I would end up storing in the back of my garage under all the other projects for sure 😂 Good luck!
Hi, when it comes to fixing old boats, I found that the cheapest way was to dig a hole in the back garden and each week throw money into the hole and drop a bit of soil on top. It’s the only way to keep sane. Cheers mate. Harera
What an epic video. Crazy amount of work, I don't think I would have had the perseverance to keep throwing myself at it like that day after day, especially all the sanding and fibreglass repair, kudos. "Seems Seaworthy" would be a good name, but I'm sure you've already named it.
great work! the only thing i didn't like was how you used silicone for sealing bolt and screw holes. I live on a 42-foot electric sailboat and I have found that it's usually worth taking the extra time to over drilling the holes and then fill them with epoxy then drill the needed hole size through the epoxy. in other words drill fill drill. seeing as you just put in so much hard dusty work and time on the fibreglass and gel coat it would be sad to lose the seal with that silicon and end up with a soggy foam core.
Your patience and commitment to this project had me in such awe, i could not stop watching. Also the storytelling showing the struggles made it feel more real than many other projects i've seen on YT. Oh boy! and this isn't even supposed to be the "fun" part with teaching all the fancy electronics to swim!
I love this video, I love that it went from a awesome nerdy boat refurb to a college pig roasting party, and back to a bout rebuild. I love that you did all the repairs correctly, I'm happy you got the boat you preferred and fixed it up rather than a lesser candidate. Great video man
omg this video was simply amazing. I was glued the entire video start to finish. When you said it probably would've been worth it to just buy a more expensive boat, I could see that. However, just looking at that boat and knowing that you did all the restoration is something money just can't buy. Considering what it looked like when you got it, the finished boat looks simply perfect! Phenomenal job and awesome video!
My father always talked about boston whalers! Nice catch. Your choices of materials are spot on: epoxy is durable, and gel coat is a uv blockage to protect the epoxy, so be glad you didn’t choose epoxy paint. And polyester resin delaminates with water! (I know they use it on boats! Insane). So with time your repairs would have died. This thing is going to last decades! Really nice restoration.
Nice work! I have found that it is best to repair polyester with polyester - it bonds better. Epoxy sometimes just peels off, not sure why? Bias tape conforms to curved surfaces much easier and you get more build more quickly.
My 3 by 21 Ryobi Belt Sander is one of the best tools I own. For years I used it with a 36 grit belt to sharpen my lawnmower blade (just to illustrate how tough it is!). Though mostly I use it on woodworking projects. BTW I own two random orbital pad sanders and I have yet to even use one of them because they suck the big sailor balls.
A better boat than new .Stunning. Sprayed large louvre doors with airgun, its an easy technique with a difficult setup. worth it for the results. fixing the rubber strip to the hull, as you say pop-riveting, its a commen problem, my house has plaster board walls . Ive tries several styles of fixing and what we need is a very soft pop-rivet that hardens when squashed, ooh, fiberglass washers .
Maybe you could have spent a couple hundred bucks more and bought a boat that doesn't require so much tlc, but otherwise great work! Love to see you working your magic!
This was great. My dad and I redid an old drift boat, and I wish we had seen this before because you have a lot of great ideas in here. It’s always great seeing someone fully do a rebuild!
I love how you followed the structure of found footage horror films like Cloverfield for this video. 😂 Horror story line (boat); interspersed with fun time clips (hog roast) Edit: I've always troweled on/skimmed gel coat I kidd, great job on the boat. I've worked on several similar boat restoration projects. Never again.
Amazing work, I know how much work goes into restoring a boat. One thing I'd recommend, in the future, is to use 3M 5200 instead of silicone sealant. 5200 is designed for sealing holes and small repairs below the waterline.
don't feel too bad, that boat needed someone to do something like that eventually, and now I can't imagine the confidence and experience you got from doing all that!
Best built boat EVER! Especially if used for Fishing/Cruising in the Puget Sound around the "Narrows Bridge". My brother's and I had a 17 footer, but due to lack of use (children) we chose to sell it... As I reside 5 minutes to a Boat Launch in Manchester, I really wish I had one again for fishing and leisure!
Juxtaposition of cutting back and forth the mind numbing sanding and the chaos of 20 people talking and a pig getting roasted, cut up and eaten is editing gold
I love how you used the storyline of a one-day hog experience and worked it into a months-long boat build. Messes with the timing in a really cool way.
An unbelievable amount of hard work all done by hand and by one person, you have my admiration for taking on such a job in restoration, let alone the electric conversion!! Extremely well done........!! You must have arm muscles like a horse's legs, that's an unbelievable amount of hand sanding!!!
I own 4 boats. 37ft Trimaran 16ft speed boat 13ft jetboat 10ft Rib So You did well. I even learned some stuff about gel coating. My family and I lived on our Tri during the pandemic and the 1 thing I found to be extremely important was.... SOLAR!! put it everywhere you can!! It's really amazing! I would recommend making a solar bimini.
aww man, I think my lengthy comment got auto flagged because I used a certain word to describe deal dash. It's not a good company, just by reading the copy they paid you for, they are using your credibility and reputation to spread lies. They make money off each bid so saying something "sold for $33" really means it cost for $1980 + $33 once you count up the cost of all the bids. I would maybe be careful about who you let be a sponsor as your reputation and credibility is what is at stake.
Cool restoration! I’ve got two of these whalers I restored. Most of those small cracks in the gel coat is called crazing. They are purely ascetic and do not harm the fiberglass underneath as long as there is not deep goudges or rot. The rear little cubby spot you had mentioned is a splashwell and fills with water. The front bucket holder is actually where they injected the hull with foam. If I were you I would look at the transom where the motor bolt holes are and see if the wood in there is rotten. If so you will need to pull the whole transom out and replace the wood inside.
For anyone interested in epoxy filler and fairing compound for building stuff, the Tech Ingredients channel has a video comparing properties of epoxy with a lot of different fillers including the glass microballoons, but also with stuff like basalt fibers, silicon carbide, graphite aluminum powder, and titanium coated diamonds
There is a tool called a gelcoat peeler or paint shaver. It's a lot like a rotary planer for wood. You can remove everything in one pass. It's a major time saver. Also, you needed to use a moister meter to check the moister level before reapplying the gelcoat. The moisture will cause the gelcoat to bubble and eventually peel off. You did a great job getting those small areas prepped as well. Amazing job as always!
i love how your housemates incompetence with the pig mirrored your own incompetence with the boat, same for the ambition, persistence, and (over)confidence... a kind of poetry...
@@39XenonD he was saying it entirely throughout the video "i dunno what im doing, im learning as i go, i tried this tool, this tool, this tool, this tool, finally i tried this and it worked.. but then it worked too well so i went back to this tool... i mean its not really a secret...
well we both can see your workmanship and we both know it's excellent… You're better off in my opinion because now you know the condition of the boat… Plus the pride that's always worth something. It's probably as good as new or better. I've seen quite a few your videos your very interesting person and good at doing stuff. It's great being a part of all this thanks for sharing
As a boat builder and a skipper on sailing yachts for many years this brings me as much joy as horror to watch. The painted on epoxi made me cringe but a lot of the work looks great! Use Sika Flex for all those drilled holes next time... Thanks for the great content!
I just bought an old fishing boat about the same size that you’re working on and I am going to be fixing it and looks like I’m gonna be running into the same issues that you did. So thank you so much for the video and it gives me a little insight on what I will have to be doing. I will start in the spring. I will be using the surface finisher from Harbor freight that I mentioned in an earlier comment. Hopefully it works well and doesn’t cause more problems than I already have.
I sanded and repainted a bicycle frame and didn't really think that it was worth the effort. This is madness !! Insane amount of work. As usual though the time, parts, materials, etc.. end up costing 5x more than if you just bought a better thing in the first place.
Nice work man. Just a quick tip for the next time you use your HVLP... rotate your nozzle 90 degrees, and set your spray to a vertical fan. Then you can cover a wider area side to side. That's how it works best for paint anyway... I've never sprayed gel coat, but it looked like it could have worked better that way.
Nice video... a couple of suggestions. 1) Where you had trouble getting the glass cloth to conform to the radius, you might have made fillets from thickened epoxy along those corners 2) this project would have been a good candidate for vinylester... about midway between polyester resin and epoxy in terms of price.. but much more waterproof than polyester. Would have halved your resin cost I think 3) the fairing compound you used under the new fibreglass... better to use the more structurally strong epoxy thickened with cabosil (and milled fibres if you want) for strength. Fairing compound is really for the final surface. 4) peel ply is very inexpensive and would have given your fibreglass repairs a perfect surface without sanding for secondary bonding while at the same time stopping amine blush. 5) gel coat wasn't the best choice for final coat... a 2-pack paint (or flow coat) would have ben better and cured better 6) finally some of the repairs you dammed up would have been better done by building up small layers of glass. Despite all that a good and very patient job.
Dang, if you're doing something, you're doing it right. Felt like watching Walther White reparing his crawlspace, but with more pig smoking experience in between the scenes. Loved the whole thing ! Also learned a lot regarding buying my own boat next year... thanks for this awesome video!
The B-storyline of the whole hog was very enjoyable alternate content.. felt like I was watching an episode of a TV show with switching between the main story and secondary stories.. good job keeping it all interesting :)
I've restored allot of boats over the years, going past the gelcoat is always nerve racking but it's the only way to get rid of the bad bits most of the time, if i had a dollar for every hour I've spent sanding i could afford to pay someone else to do it 🤣 , seriously though nice job man you clearly did your research, can't wait to see it finished
That was an impressive example of fibreglass repair! Gelcoat is a little intimidating to work with ... but you just forged ahead with it. Congratulations on the successful, and great looking, restoration.
For these thick fiberglass sheets you need a so called Fiberglass Roller, to really masssage the epoxi resin in there. But it will only work propperly when you use a chop layer. actually when glassing anything you allways have to use a first chop layer. Then Rolling will have the desired effect.
When drilling holes in the hull for screws / bolts, best practice is to over-drill the hole, use a dremel to remove additional couple millimeters of foam (to give a hard shell to bond to), fill the hole with thickened epoxy, let it cure, then re-drill the hole at the correct diameter, and place a donut of Butyl putty around the opening so that putting the bolt in compresses the butyl and pushes it into the hole. Just drilling a hole and putting a little silicone around the hole as you did will surely begin to let water into the foam and begin failing within a few years. Especially for things like the bow-eye which will be under higher pulling loads from various directions, the silicone will flex and fail pretty quickly. You did sooooo much work, it's worth re-doing your fasterners to make sure it doesn't fail again for a long time.
Absolutely awesome video, I should of gone to bed half n hour ago, but i stayed up to see the completion on the restoration. I knew nothing about fiberglassing before this. I reckon i could build a surfboard now!
Nice project! Most people would have turned this into a 26 part series. But I love that you did the project in a single video while mixing in your buddies roasting a pig. Man that pig took a long time to roast. :)
In my line of work we use a high build marine epoxy primer, once cured we machine down to about 600p. And for paint we use a aliphatic assisted linear 2k polyurethane, it flattens out really well and has very high resistance to chemicals and abrasion. Ideal for boats and aircraft It's a bit more tedious compared to gel coat, but I do find it's a better option, especially if your looking for a low orange peel Finnish.
From my experience polyester resin is the cheapest way to do it and for boat like this its plenty enough. This is also why you dont fill the gaps or cracks with anything other than glass fiber putty and then fiber glass top of it. Best way i have found is random mesh, only using weaved on the highest tress areas. The way you sanded this thing just by looking got me itching.. dear god amount of dust is just insane. Best way seems to be using course as possible grits to get biggest possible dust witch also works as rough surface to fiberglass repairs while at it. For places that need hand sanding just get "Reciprocating Saw" or construction saw what ever it is called. Electric saw with detachable hacksaw blades pretty much and modify dulled blade to attach sanding block to automate the work. Roller is used to get air out underneath while paint brush is good to wet the surface, though you might want to consider using silicone brush since its reusable after epoxy or polyester had dried. Though in this case polyester resin since as mentioned this boat takes lots of resin to fix and epoxy is expensive, specially stuff like total boat what is UV protected. Cheaper non UV protected is the stuff that local boat works use and i get is 30€/kg/liter from them, but could just order a barrel worth since that is even cheaper. Wait, you sprayed GELCOAT?! Ou nononononono, stuff you need to use is TOPCOAT. Gelcoat is when you mold something and it cant be contact with the oxygen. Topcoat is to repair and resurface existing construction like this. Guess the additive makes gelcoat to top coat but still..
nothing more relaxing than watching somebody else doing all the hard work x)
A whole summer's worth of work done in under an hour, if only real life could be like that :)
lol yes, even more so when you know the kind of work and definitely glad you're not the one doing it
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Lol until you want to build one yourself
Probably gives you anxiety watching at 1.5x
I"m sure this message will be lost in the crowd but after working a lifetime in the Marine Industry, Including years as Forman on Marina hard-stands, the range of knowlage you showed really surprised me even if the experince wasn't entirely there. I've seen worse work by so called shiprights haha. Well done matey!
I know this comments a little old, but is a restoration thats this intensive actually any cheaper than buying a new or maybe lightly used boat? Even project boats are *expensive* where I live (WA State). I think ill need something at least 15'ft to feel safe taking it on the sound and I'm trying to find the most economical way to go about it 😅
Agreed. I've seen some pretty crappy work by so-called "professionals".
An epic boat restoration montage with a whole hog roasting party side narrative. Peak youtube content thank you Daniel, never change
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I can smell the freshly sanded gel coat from here
does it smell bad? I've never even seen gel coat :D
@@Revefx it has a sweet smell when sanded, horrible styrene smell while spraying. Toxic as well.
@@jma2022 thanks for letting me know!
The hog b-plot is incredible, the screenwriter did a really good job
It really does help break it up.
hog b-plot is why I kept watching!
I hated it. It was sickening and horrible. Guess we all have different tastes and distastes.
B roll idea is ok, but please something less disgusting and aweful next time.
Yeah.. Dead animal cooked in rust, seasoned with fiberglass dust does not sound very Nommy tbh 😝
@@nommy8599 A good filmmaker is the one that is able to evoke strong emotions... or so they say
Dude as someone who works on boats regularly. Your fiberglass work was fantastic on this whaler, very few guys go as far as you did to remove all the old gel coat and repairs.
Here's some tips encase you plan on doing anything similar again:
to make it easier to laminate large pieces of 1708 biaxial matt you want to place the matt (chops strand side up) on a table wrapped in saran wrap or plastic sheeting to avoid destroying the table. Then pre-impregnate the matt with epoxy or poly and wet it out until transparent, removing any excess epoxy. Transfer the wetted out matt onto the repair area and lay it on and roll it out using a regular paint nap roller you can buy at home depot. Make sure the hardware you put on the rub rails was actually stainless steel, Anything else and your going to regret it. and for sealant, you should def go heavy on sealant, Best ones being 3m 5200 brands. Fantastic job with the skiff!
Being an old man, I love seeing younger smarter people using their brains and hands to make so many awesome projects. I have been following and watching for quite some time and really love the engineering and technical aspects of this channel. Not to mention I absolutely chuckle with the quirkiness of all of your comments and what seems like a great group of guys living their best life. Can't wait to see the second and further episodes. Great work and keep it up!!!
Man, the dedication... This is an amazing commitment and demonstration of how to take your time and do things right. The way you incorporated the pig roast and everything was awesome. Thank you so much for taking the time to film, and edit, and share all these amazing projects. I know how much work it is and I truly appreciate your content.
Yeah I got the perfect motor for your boat. I have several of them actually you're more than welcome to one. They're 48 volt 20 horsepower can be run on 96 volt for 40 horsepower made by Advanced DC. They are dual shaft and actually are perfect for mounting in an outboard motor. Removing the gas engine and keeping the lower Drive Unit diesel bolt right in. Jamie from Mythbusters used one to power a jet drive. There's another guy on TH-cam that use the same Motors for a ski boat that he can actually ski behind. Anyway they're brand new. If you want to mess with one let me know.
Excellent!
NICE
Skip the outboard lower unit, lose tons of power and energy to the bevel gears turning in oil + extra maintenance. Just get a stuffing box or dripless carbon seal and straight shaft it
Do all seven motors run on one boat
@@JH-tc3yu if it were my boat that's what I would do. But with these particular Motors they are dual shaft and the one end of the shaft is the same as used by most outboard motors for driving the accessories. Makes for a nice conversion but I agree with what you're saying. I just didn't think he was going to want to go through the effort it would take to drill through the hull and make that work. There's a video on TH-cam of Jamie from Mythbusters using my motor the exact same thing on a 40 horsepower jet drive and it's pretty amazing. And there's another guy that did the exact same thing on a 20 horsepower lower Drive and he pulls water skiers with it. He's also on youtube.
I really love that you add odd unrelated tidbits to your videos of your friends, ducks, seaplanes, etc. This one had a lot more of that, but it was a longer video than most. I had thought this before with your RC builds, but redoing a boat showed you are a really determined and hard worker. That's a trait that seems to be on the decline so kudos.
1 hour of pure goodness?? is it christmas already?
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I would like to like your comment multiple times, couldn't agree more
You have a lot of patience. Day 2 I would have gone out to buy an aluminum jon boat, but I'm guessing the "unsinkable-ness" was a driving factor for this repair.
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Non scripted activities with friends while doing nerd stuff is what I like with your videos, Congratulations on the new boat!
This is one of the best TH-cam videos I’ve seen in forever. I’m a southern electrical engineer. And I can tell you guys are way over my head. But cooking a pig and just being real is refreshing
I also have a 1972 Boston Whaler 13! Mine was converted to the sourpuss layout by the previous owner. My gelcoat is just as bad but the hull is in relatively good condition. I started sanding and scraping on it a year ago but I'm now thinking about sand or soda blasting it. I've just been using it like it is for now. It's still a fun little boat!
I'm not an expert but i was thinking given the complicated geometry... would not be easier to just pay for sandblasting it at a shop ?
After recently doing half-assed repairs on my kids little sailboat, I can appreciate the effort & time you have put into the hull of that boat. Great job :)
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May not have been cheaper, but I feel like it for sure would have been faster to just build your own boat, assuming you can get the foam they put on the inside somewhere. Plenty of channels on TH-cam where people have made their own fiberglass boats in a few days without having to basically un-make an existing one first
You must be new here
I was thinking the same. I've seen some YT vids where they use sheets of foam that they cut the sheets and assemble into a boat shape and then fibreglass over the top. I've made one attempt at building a catamaran using two part foam that was to be fibre glassed, but that failed terribly. Next will be this sheet foam approach.
Bro' do you even watch? He mentioned that already. I'll let you re-view the video and you can tell me where he addressed this. Have a nice day! :)
I have an inflatable vinyl boat that cost me $60, max weight is around 800 lb. There are a bunch of videos on here of people doing plywood mods to suit their needs. I feel like it would have been easier to get one or two of those and make something. The plywood base I cut for my boat actually fits inside my car with the back seats down. It's all small enough that I don't need a trailer or a registration sticker.
That is the whole point, and why this channel is so fascinating and fun to watch: it is the journey and its challenges that are interesting. We learn so much more when faced with adversity. It is the impeded stream that sings.
I restored a near identical Boston Whaler 13 from around the same year. Took me like 2 years of sanding, fiberglass, more sanding, fairing compound, more sanding, paint, more sanding, building a console, more sanding... You get the point. The thing rips and despite driving boats for a living, I've never had my own motor boat until now.
The previous solar powered and gps boat videos are my favorite from the channel, so this new project is very exciting!!
And congrats on all the hard work, it seems to have been so hard to bruteforce it all. But the results indeed look very good!
I can’t believe how much work you did on this. Many people dream of doing this but no many actually do it. I’m extremely impressed. Nice work!
Ooooh a series? I love when you are working on a new project. It's always fun!!!!
Excellent job on the restoration, the before and after is wild! Really excited to see how our battery performs on the finished boat!
agreed, and thanks for supporting this legend
@@isaiahhiggins We are happy to! Really excited to see what he gets up to with all that power 😈
Thank you so much for showing support in action and not just encouragement.
For future reference if you remove the outer wheel bearing and then put the axle nut back on you can usually remove the seal without damage by pulling the wheel off. Love the project!
That works on cars but on my small boat trailer the axle nut doesn't fit through the hub. I had to order new seals to repack the bearings because the seals a cheap junk and get dammaged.
Awww this brings back great memories. I had an old BW when I was in middle and high school I would take across the harbor to my friends house. Was faster than driving. I miss living right on the water. This was cool to see it electrified
This looks like an absolute endeavor.
It's the kind of project I would end up storing in the back of my garage under all the other projects for sure 😂
Good luck!
Same here. Really feel with the previous two owners you start doing stuff, see that it's much more work and give up.
Hi, when it comes to fixing old boats, I found that the cheapest way was to dig a hole in the back garden and each week throw money into the hole and drop a bit of soil on top. It’s the only way to keep sane. Cheers mate. Harera
What an epic video. Crazy amount of work, I don't think I would have had the perseverance to keep throwing myself at it like that day after day, especially all the sanding and fibreglass repair, kudos. "Seems Seaworthy" would be a good name, but I'm sure you've already named it.
great work! the only thing i didn't like was how you used silicone for sealing bolt and screw holes. I live on a 42-foot electric sailboat and I have found that it's usually worth taking the extra time to over drilling the holes and then fill them with epoxy then drill the needed hole size through the epoxy. in other words drill fill drill. seeing as you just put in so much hard dusty work and time on the fibreglass and gel coat it would be sad to lose the seal with that silicon and end up with a soggy foam core.
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I've never enjoyed a long youtube video with a B story before. this was damn well executed. absolute banger
Your patience and commitment to this project had me in such awe, i could not stop watching. Also the storytelling showing the struggles made it feel more real than many other projects i've seen on YT. Oh boy! and this isn't even supposed to be the "fun" part with teaching all the fancy electronics to swim!
It's so amazing seeing someone restore a boat on TH-cam THE PROPER way, thank you for not cutting corners :) made my day watching this
I love this video, I love that it went from a awesome nerdy boat refurb to a college pig roasting party, and back to a bout rebuild. I love that you did all the repairs correctly, I'm happy you got the boat you preferred and fixed it up rather than a lesser candidate. Great video man
omg this video was simply amazing. I was glued the entire video start to finish. When you said it probably would've been worth it to just buy a more expensive boat, I could see that. However, just looking at that boat and knowing that you did all the restoration is something money just can't buy. Considering what it looked like when you got it, the finished boat looks simply perfect!
Phenomenal job and awesome video!
My father always talked about boston whalers! Nice catch.
Your choices of materials are spot on: epoxy is durable, and gel coat is a uv blockage to protect the epoxy, so be glad you didn’t choose epoxy paint.
And polyester resin delaminates with water! (I know they use it on boats! Insane). So with time your repairs would have died. This thing is going to last decades!
Really nice restoration.
This makes me appreciate aluminium boats even more… Great work though, can't wait for the next videos! :)
Nice work! I have found that it is best to repair polyester with polyester - it bonds better. Epoxy sometimes just peels off, not sure why? Bias tape conforms to curved surfaces much easier and you get more build more quickly.
Damm i just watched a 50 minut video of someone repairing a boat and it kept me entertained. Can't wait for part 2. Looks amazing
I built a scratch built catamaran when I was your age, but I can't say I'd restore a boat in the shape you started with. Looks wowzer, hats off.....
My 3 by 21 Ryobi Belt Sander is one of the best tools I own. For years I used it with a 36 grit belt to sharpen my lawnmower blade (just to illustrate how tough it is!). Though mostly I use it on woodworking projects. BTW I own two random orbital pad sanders and I have yet to even use one of them because they suck the big sailor balls.
A better boat than new .Stunning. Sprayed large louvre doors with airgun, its an easy technique with a difficult setup. worth it for the results. fixing the rubber strip to the hull, as you say pop-riveting, its a commen problem, my house has plaster board walls . Ive tries several styles of fixing and what we need is a very soft pop-rivet that hardens when squashed, ooh, fiberglass washers .
Maybe you could have spent a couple hundred bucks more and bought a boat that doesn't require so much tlc, but otherwise great work! Love to see you working your magic!
This was great. My dad and I redid an old drift boat, and I wish we had seen this before because you have a lot of great ideas in here. It’s always great seeing someone fully do a rebuild!
I love how you followed the structure of found footage horror films like Cloverfield for this video. 😂
Horror story line (boat); interspersed with fun time clips (hog roast)
Edit: I've always troweled on/skimmed gel coat
I kidd, great job on the boat. I've worked on several similar boat restoration projects. Never again.
Amazing work, I know how much work goes into restoring a boat. One thing I'd recommend, in the future, is to use 3M 5200 instead of silicone sealant. 5200 is designed for sealing holes and small repairs below the waterline.
Must be the only TH-camr not getting their epoxy sponsored by totalboat, ironically considering you're actually working on a boat 🤣
don't feel too bad, that boat needed someone to do something like that eventually, and now I can't imagine the confidence and experience you got from doing all that!
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Best built boat EVER!
Especially if used for Fishing/Cruising in the Puget Sound around the "Narrows Bridge".
My brother's and I had a 17 footer, but due to lack of use (children) we chose to sell it...
As I reside 5 minutes to a Boat Launch in Manchester, I really wish I had one again for fishing and leisure!
Love your videos, but really disappointed to see an add for Deal Dash. Auction sites like that are nothing but a scam.
your place looks like such a fun place, its just filled with people who make cool stuff
I love your ideas and plans, and then you do so crazy stuff..
Juxtaposition of cutting back and forth the mind numbing sanding and the chaos of 20 people talking and a pig getting roasted, cut up and eaten is editing gold
Thats sponsor is sus af, how is that even possible? Money laundering? Selling stolen merchandise? Hidden fees? How can they not lose money?
They charge per bid and you don't get your money back when you lose. It costs something like 50¢ each so it ads up quickly for the company.
@@chuckdufault well that explains a lot. But I don't know how to feel, an sponsor from a quasi gambling site.
I love how you used the storyline of a one-day hog experience and worked it into a months-long boat build. Messes with the timing in a really cool way.
Deal Dash a scam. You have to buy the Pennies. If you bid and don’t win you lose the Pennies you bid. A Door Dash Penny costs more than $0.01.
An unbelievable amount of hard work all done by hand and by one person, you have my admiration for taking on such a job in restoration, let alone the electric conversion!!
Extremely well done........!! You must have arm muscles like a horse's legs, that's an unbelievable amount of hand sanding!!!
Deal dash... really.... that is a scam site... so disappointed you are plugging them :(.
I own 4 boats.
37ft Trimaran
16ft speed boat
13ft jetboat
10ft Rib
So You did well. I even learned some stuff about gel coating. My family and I lived on our Tri during the pandemic and the 1 thing I found to be extremely important was....
SOLAR!! put it everywhere you can!! It's really amazing! I would recommend making a solar bimini.
noooooo, you should be ashamed of doing a deal dash promo 😭
Having restored my own boat once - I don't envy you Daniel!
aww man, I think my lengthy comment got auto flagged because I used a certain word to describe deal dash. It's not a good company, just by reading the copy they paid you for, they are using your credibility and reputation to spread lies. They make money off each bid so saying something "sold for $33" really means it cost for $1980 + $33 once you count up the cost of all the bids. I would maybe be careful about who you let be a sponsor as your reputation and credibility is what is at stake.
Cool restoration! I’ve got two of these whalers I restored. Most of those small cracks in the gel coat is called crazing. They are purely ascetic and do not harm the fiberglass underneath as long as there is not deep goudges or rot. The rear little cubby spot you had mentioned is a splashwell and fills with water. The front bucket holder is actually where they injected the hull with foam. If I were you I would look at the transom where the motor bolt holes are and see if the wood in there is rotten. If so you will need to pull the whole transom out and replace the wood inside.
That auction site sponsor looks dodgy af, probably a good idea to steer away from sponsors like that in the future, even if you're strapped for cash.
After also having bought a boat with a bunch of fiberglass work needed this video was a good reminder of stuff I don't like doing.
I’m unsubscribing knowing that you support DealDash
For anyone interested in epoxy filler and fairing compound for building stuff, the Tech Ingredients channel has a video comparing properties of epoxy with a lot of different fillers including the glass microballoons, but also with stuff like basalt fibers, silicon carbide, graphite aluminum powder, and titanium coated diamonds
Disgusting predatory "sponsor", You have lost your self respect and integrity.
Super cathartic to see the progress so quickly. I really appreciate all of the lessons learnt along the way.
There is a tool called a gelcoat peeler or paint shaver. It's a lot like a rotary planer for wood. You can remove everything in one pass. It's a major time saver. Also, you needed to use a moister meter to check the moister level before reapplying the gelcoat. The moisture will cause the gelcoat to bubble and eventually peel off. You did a great job getting those small areas prepped as well. Amazing job as always!
i love how your housemates incompetence with the pig mirrored your own incompetence with the boat, same for the ambition, persistence, and (over)confidence... a kind of poetry...
Could you please elaborate on how the rebuilding can be improved and where the major flaws in his approach lie?
@@39XenonD he was saying it entirely throughout the video "i dunno what im doing, im learning as i go, i tried this tool, this tool, this tool, this tool, finally i tried this and it worked.. but then it worked too well so i went back to this tool... i mean its not really a secret...
well we both can see your workmanship and we both know it's excellent… You're better off in my opinion because now you know the condition of the boat… Plus the pride that's always worth something. It's probably as good as new or better. I've seen quite a few your videos your very interesting person and good at doing stuff. It's great being a part of all this thanks for sharing
As a boat builder and a skipper on sailing yachts for many years this brings me as much joy as horror to watch. The painted on epoxi made me cringe but a lot of the work looks great! Use Sika Flex for all those drilled holes next time... Thanks for the great content!
I just bought an old fishing boat about the same size that you’re working on and I am going to be fixing it and looks like I’m gonna be running into the same issues that you did. So thank you so much for the video and it gives me a little insight on what I will have to be doing. I will start in the spring.
I will be using the surface finisher from Harbor freight that I mentioned in an earlier comment. Hopefully it works well and doesn’t cause more problems than I already have.
I sanded and repainted a bicycle frame and didn't really think that it was worth the effort. This is madness !! Insane amount of work. As usual though the time, parts, materials, etc.. end up costing 5x more than if you just bought a better thing in the first place.
Man, I really felt that when the eyebolt just popped off. Power to you for taking on a project like that.
Damn its like you do all the random little things I think of doing but don’t have the time/resources! 100% my favorite subscription
Nice work man. Just a quick tip for the next time you use your HVLP... rotate your nozzle 90 degrees, and set your spray to a vertical fan. Then you can cover a wider area side to side. That's how it works best for paint anyway... I've never sprayed gel coat, but it looked like it could have worked better that way.
The vibes are ridiculous and immaculate. You did a great job!
Love the random interjections: "then some lady with a dog distracted us", "check out my tree of clamps", etc
the photos at the beginning where it was cut and still floating, i remember back early 2000's seeing those pics and it bought memories back
Nice video... a couple of suggestions. 1) Where you had trouble getting the glass cloth to conform to the radius, you might have made fillets from thickened epoxy along those corners 2) this project would have been a good candidate for vinylester... about midway between polyester resin and epoxy in terms of price.. but much more waterproof than polyester. Would have halved your resin cost I think 3) the fairing compound you used under the new fibreglass... better to use the more structurally strong epoxy thickened with cabosil (and milled fibres if you want) for strength. Fairing compound is really for the final surface. 4) peel ply is very inexpensive and would have given your fibreglass repairs a perfect surface without sanding for secondary bonding while at the same time stopping amine blush. 5) gel coat wasn't the best choice for final coat... a 2-pack paint (or flow coat) would have ben better and cured better 6) finally some of the repairs you dammed up would have been better done by building up small layers of glass. Despite all that a good and very patient job.
Wow, great video. I saved the video... I purchased a 1970 13' Boston Whaler... So this is what I have to look forward to... Very exiting.
Bro... I spent my Saturday morning watching you sand things endlessly. I'm exhausted.
Well done. Great job.
Dang, if you're doing something, you're doing it right. Felt like watching Walther White reparing his crawlspace, but with more pig smoking experience in between the scenes. Loved the whole thing ! Also learned a lot regarding buying my own boat next year... thanks for this awesome video!
The B-storyline of the whole hog was very enjoyable alternate content.. felt like I was watching an episode of a TV show with switching between the main story and secondary stories.. good job keeping it all interesting :)
Now I'm hungry, lol. Well done on the repair, man. I'm glad you didn't try to shortcut it and do a basic cover-up job. Two thumbs up!
As a Slovakian, I appreciate you mentioned our tractors. :)
I've restored allot of boats over the years, going past the gelcoat is always nerve racking but it's the only way to get rid of the bad bits most of the time, if i had a dollar for every hour I've spent sanding i could afford to pay someone else to do it 🤣 , seriously though nice job man you clearly did your research, can't wait to see it finished
That was an impressive example of fibreglass repair! Gelcoat is a little intimidating to work with ... but you just forged ahead with it. Congratulations on the successful, and great looking, restoration.
For these thick fiberglass sheets you need a so called Fiberglass Roller, to really masssage the epoxi resin in there. But it will only work propperly when you use a chop layer. actually when glassing anything you allways have to use a first chop layer. Then Rolling will have the desired effect.
For someone who doesn’t have a ton of composite experience you did a really good job
When drilling holes in the hull for screws / bolts, best practice is to over-drill the hole, use a dremel to remove additional couple millimeters of foam (to give a hard shell to bond to), fill the hole with thickened epoxy, let it cure, then re-drill the hole at the correct diameter, and place a donut of Butyl putty around the opening so that putting the bolt in compresses the butyl and pushes it into the hole. Just drilling a hole and putting a little silicone around the hole as you did will surely begin to let water into the foam and begin failing within a few years. Especially for things like the bow-eye which will be under higher pulling loads from various directions, the silicone will flex and fail pretty quickly. You did sooooo much work, it's worth re-doing your fasterners to make sure it doesn't fail again for a long time.
Wow what an epic project. Kudos for sticking with it as the time and money investment got larger and larger.
Absolutely awesome video, I should of gone to bed half n hour ago, but i stayed up to see the completion on the restoration. I knew nothing about fiberglassing before this. I reckon i could build a surfboard now!
Nice project! Most people would have turned this into a 26 part series. But I love that you did the project in a single video while mixing in your buddies roasting a pig. Man that pig took a long time to roast. :)
Lovely resto job... so nice to see it done properly...
In my line of work we use a high build marine epoxy primer, once cured we machine down to about 600p. And for paint we use a aliphatic assisted linear 2k polyurethane, it flattens out really well and has very high resistance to chemicals and abrasion. Ideal for boats and aircraft It's a bit more tedious compared to gel coat, but I do find it's a better option, especially if your looking for a low orange peel Finnish.
Nothing short of impressive! I admire your perseverance in getting it done!
From my experience polyester resin is the cheapest way to do it and for boat like this its plenty enough. This is also why you dont fill the gaps or cracks with anything other than glass fiber putty and then fiber glass top of it. Best way i have found is random mesh, only using weaved on the highest tress areas. The way you sanded this thing just by looking got me itching.. dear god amount of dust is just insane. Best way seems to be using course as possible grits to get biggest possible dust witch also works as rough surface to fiberglass repairs while at it.
For places that need hand sanding just get "Reciprocating Saw" or construction saw what ever it is called. Electric saw with detachable hacksaw blades pretty much and modify dulled blade to attach sanding block to automate the work.
Roller is used to get air out underneath while paint brush is good to wet the surface, though you might want to consider using silicone brush since its reusable after epoxy or polyester had dried. Though in this case polyester resin since as mentioned this boat takes lots of resin to fix and epoxy is expensive, specially stuff like total boat what is UV protected. Cheaper non UV protected is the stuff that local boat works use and i get is 30€/kg/liter from them, but could just order a barrel worth since that is even cheaper.
Wait, you sprayed GELCOAT?! Ou nononononono, stuff you need to use is TOPCOAT. Gelcoat is when you mold something and it cant be contact with the oxygen. Topcoat is to repair and resurface existing construction like this. Guess the additive makes gelcoat to top coat but still..
It's amazing to consider what this boat has become and how far its traveled since you got it. :)