“The bigger the radius, the less the owie” - yet another phrase enters the DIY lexicon. Even my kids now say stuff looks pretty dang spiffy! Nice one Mads.
You should have raised the deck around the chain plate like new boats with glass 1/2 inch ,that way water running along the deck will not leak down into the chainplate
Its called a "Shake-down Cruise." Surprising you have gone so long without other "tweaks" becoming apparent. I am fully confident you have this all well in hand and will be more than prepared for the trans-Atlantic. Good luck
If your water is sulphery/skunky, look at your watermaker membranes. You may not be flushing enough, or using it enough and you're having bacterial growth within the system.
Mads I've been with you since near the beginning. I am a 'car guy" and have built several, starting from just a bare shell. So I know a bit about what you have been through with Athena. I have to say you are shortchanging yourself. Since you guys left Denmark you've sorta been on a shake down cruise, and if your list of major bugs is as short as we are seeing then I would say you've done a heck of a job restoring/updating/rebuilding Athena.
I just had an issue with my water tanks also... marina has well water and I had not known that there was a sulfur contamination. SO>.. A) I purchased a RV water filter ( a blue water filter that screws on at the hose tap. popular with RV folks here in the states ) B) Filled the tanks to about 80% and added pitcher of water to each tank with 1/4 cup of bleach per 15 gallons ( for me it was 1/2 cup ) C) Ran water thru all lines until I smelt faint wiff of bleach. D) took the boat out for a 6 hour +- sail to get it good and sloshed around E) drained and flushed the thanks a few times. Smell gone. water tastes fine.
Mads is so good at the Do It Yourself yacht projects and goes at it so intensely that I am strangely slightly intimidated. Then, I remind myself of Mads falling in the stairway and remember that he tends to get a little wound up.
Thank you Mads. You looked like a kid just getting out of school for the summer. It isn't very obvious that you love DIY, but we can tell you do. Take care and looking forward to next week's video.
Just round the corner you have Telilu tribe with their boat a white 40ft Colvic Ketch with an interesting layout and car, they have been looking for a local plymouth rigger .. could be useful. 😉👍🏼
Thanks, Mads, you've cheered me up! I did exactly the same thing with my lifeline. Now I know it's a Thing shared with even the best. As someone else has mentioned, you are currently sharing your marina with Teulu Tribe - cheerful Brits, newbie-ish, similar size boat, lots of fun. Their YT channel is deservedly growing quickly. Re fresh water - my co-skipper doesn't like tainted water, so we've installed a Seagull water filter. Well worth the cost. Water quality is never an issue now. Happy co-skipper.
Would love to hear the generator working under load with regards to noise in the bedroom etc and whether you are happy with it cheers from Perth Australia
Glorious Oh Glorious DIY is back ! Mads the way you go into such detail on each project is exactly the reason I love watching your channel . No other sail boat refit channel I have found come close to you . The devil is in the detail and you help so many people avoid that devil , thank you once again .
Thanks mate. I haven’t seen an episode for a while. Cancer and chemo will do that to someone who hasn’t really been I’ll before. I really enjoyed this one and it’s great to see you both and that wonderful boat doing and looking great. Take care. I look forward to the next instalment. Cheers from Sydney OZ.
Everything on a boat fails eventually. We've been cruising full-time for a few years now after starting with a completely refitted boat where every single system was replaced, including a repower. So far every single electronic.item has been replaced in 5 years. Getting hit by lightning didn't help that but things had failed before and after that. IMHO everything on a boat gets replaced on a 5-10 year cycle. Some things last a tiny bit later and others die faster. The marine environment is just really harsh on systems. A boat is a hole in the water that you dump money into. Stuff breaks constantly abd that is just a fact of life. Being able to fix things yourself and knowing your boat is a.HUGE help. But the more complex the systems are the more parts are in there that will eventually fail. Water tanks are a constant source of issues. I think wr have had to clean ours thoroughly about every year. We have fiberglass tanks so we can use chlorine to keep them fresh which we do with every fill up but still every year the darn things get away from us. One thing we have not had an issue with is diesel bug. We use BioBar every fill up and have a self-polishing system with its own racor and fuel pump. Cleaning that diesel tank is a real pain on our boat.
Spares are your friend. We have a spare or two for every system onboard and tons of tools and supplies to do just about any task without even a trip to shore. Two is one and one is none. With your lifeline chafe issue I bet if you were to have put a short piece of shrink tube over the section where it ran through the holes in the stanchions it would have prevented the chafing completely. But I still think that stainless steel rigging cable is best for lifelines, especially the top one because you can then hang fenders off of it using a clove hitch without worrying about chafing. We often will "clean" very filthy items by tying a line to the item and tossing it over the edge to rinse in the sea. This practice can also chafe on the top lifeline too. I am glad we used cheap uncoated rigging wire for lifelines. Using dyneema to tension the lifelines is a good idea. Not only can it be cut in an emergency it can be easily removed for other reasons as time goes by. Stainless turnbuckles are notorious for seizing up eventually in a saltwater environment and are the #1 failure point on lifelines except for the crappy plastic coating peeling off eventually because of UV damage. Going with uncoated rigging wire is the way to go. They will basically last forever.
We've just returned from 2 years full time living aboard our boat in the tropics. I'd really recommend installing a 10 inch filter housing with a carbon block filter to your water system (or at least your drinking water tap). Then add a small amount of chlorine (perfume free bleach) in your tank water. The chlorine keeps the tank and water clean, the carbon filter removes the chlorine before drinking. Happy to provide dosage information if you're interested.
For your water, there are some treatment chemicals to add if you're going to store long term. Long term is directly proportional to how warm it is. Our old Wellcraft would have a nasty smell develop within about 3 or 4 days in the middle of summer. Using the 1/2 tsp per 50gal (~190l) was enough to keep our water fresh for up to 10 days without any off smells. Note that we did NOT use our water to drink. The boat was from 1987, it had been through a few owners and we did not know the condition of the tank. It also was "winterized" with RV Antifreeze every winter. When we were in our slip, we would generally just hook direct to the water at the dock...something Ava had never seen before until she was out on the boat with her family, but is fairly common in our area when you lease a slip for the year. Our slip came with power, water, cable TV, and secure WiFi, but those slips? EXPENSIVE in Michigan...$2800 and up regulated by the State when it is a state owned marina (independently operated).
Nice work as always Mads. Please add trim to the nav station, around the end where the stainless pole comes out. It screams at me every time you stand in front of it doing your commentary. Cheers Andy UK
Mads you need to fix the headliner above the Nav Station, the panel that the pole goes through. It is not straight across like the other ones, it is driving my OCD crazy! :-)
OH MY GOD! He did it, he worked sanding into this one! I'm sure he was really missing the Oh Glorios Sanding back into his life. +4 brownie points for you Mads.
Another great episode and yeah, it was good that Ava was not there for the glitter-fest. I am hoping that you will take your old AP drive back to the factory to get it repaired and serviced since is is close to where you are. As long as you are there, you might as well talk them into a plant tour. Oh yeah, and make sure to take us along for the ride.
While the wife's away, the DRYER will play. The water in my marine is heavily chlorinated. And my boat tanks are ABS plastic. However, I have a silver-impregnated filter cartridge which eliminates all unwanted tastes. Even after several months of not being used, the water is great.
Productive episode! ps, if I may suggest another task for the scrum board: I would really love to see the trim around the pole at the nav station finished 😅
Man, this video really went fast. Maybe you could double the length. I could watch you fiddling about all day. But wait, I can’t do that….I’m building a boat and I have to get back to work! 😆😆
Obviously don't know you other than your videos, but you seem almost giddy going back to DIY projects; wonder if that isn't more familiar and comfortable than the sailing/touring vids. Thanks for all the hard work!
You miss Ava? We miss Ava. Just over a year ago little did Ms. Ava know she was on the cusp of becoming a TH-cam star. It seems to me like the to-do/in-progress/done board needs to be upgraded from temporary blue tape to permanent inlaid teak.
Hi Mads, always get a laugh no matter how many tasks present. Your comments about "man glitter" rings so true. Got to make a mess to do some jobs, especially with limited work space. A good vacuum and wipe down always concludes task. Cheers
I thought I should pass on my experience with seasickness. I had sailed my 27ft boat from the east coast of USA and through a lot of the great lakes over a couple of decades. Never experienced seasickness until it suddenly happened. No major sea condition. What I discovered was that my recently renewed continously ground bi-focal eyeglasses were the cause. There is a definite co-relation between eyeglasses (maybe even non-bifocal) and the boat motion. Lesson learned - don't wear the glasses when at sea. Suggest that they be hung around the neck with strap so you can use them only when needed to see details.
Check out the local Auto Parts store for a can of 'Fluid Film' or similar lanolin based anti-rust spray. Great for 'tucked away' components you can't regularly inspect, that may be exposed to humid conditions. The one time our water developed an odd taste was when I realized I had forgotten to completely drain our filler hose, yuck! Had to dump and flush the tank twice... ⛵💦
That’s my problem , when at the dock my hose is the supply . The only reason it matters you can taste it in the ice from the ice maker . It’s like having free hot water when showering
Mads just some info on the locktite. On some stainless steel it will not set, depending on the iron content. They do however make a spray to spray on the threads that will make it cure.
ECO WORK makes great products,try using the ecowork glass cleaner . It's cleans fantastic and there's never any streaks or places that aren't completely clean and Shiney. We love ecowork products.
Try using a water filter when filling the tank from the marina hose. Two under bench type water filters in series with hose fittings will help with what you put in the tank from the beginning.
Tastes and odors suprisingly often stem from the tiny sieve at the exit of the tap. For tanks I usually take a sniff before taking action. If it doesnt smell look elsewhere (hoses etc).
Seeing the shine insides of your tanks, after shocking my 40+ year old plastic tanks a couple of months ago, gave me some healthy tank envy! Glad that chemical did the job well. I also have an old accumulator that doesn't seem to help much, I never thought to check the pressure. So I learned something, thanks.
Water tanks are just a good place for nasty stuff to grow. Even making all your own super -pure RO water eventually the tanks will get nasty with time. We use chlorine treatment because our fiberglass tanks don't mine, but the inside still eventually gets nasty on almost a yearly basis. Water tanks just are a tough one to keep clean.
If there is a silver lining with all this maintenance and fixes is that it can help identify which items or parts are more likely to fail 'short term' so that you can have spares available.
the boat builders here in new zealand ( think rain, wind, big seas ) dont like butyl tape and i agree with them. once its packed down it cant expand slightly like a flexible adhesive sika, bostik, dow corning etc. because its not adhered to all surfaces it gets compressed but then wont expand when needed hence leaving a gap.
Can you remind us again on the timing for finishing the headliner in the main saloon? there is that one section in line with the Nav Station post that has an upward "bow" to it. it shows up behind your head in most shots, and my OCD wants to crawl through the lens the pull it down straight.
Another thing you can use the butyl tape for is wrapping it around the pl239 connector for your VHF antenna. That will keep out any water from getting inside of it. For that smell in the water tank add non-scented or colored bleach to the tank. There are tables online that tell you how much to add to whatever volume you have.
This channel is something different! You didnt make a three part series and clickbait title of you diesel incident. I know a handful of other sailling channels that would have done that!
Ha, yea that one niggles me too, probably because it is in the back of so many of the camera shots. You have to leave a few things unfinished to keep the project a project :)
Thanks for today's episode. I hope you are staying cool. It always helps to be on the water, especially if there is a breeze. Hmmm, do you have windscoops yet?
The water taste could be coming from the pipe work and taps. It’s pretty common to have a taste in boat water, but not harmful. I clean my tanks with a Milton the baby product cleaning liquid. Then run it through the pipes and let it stand and then flush out.
On our boat the genset was small. The charger could draw a good percentage of the total output. Every one in a while the generator's regulator would become unstable and the voltage swings would burn things out. As an engineer I'm sure you have studied feedback / control loop theory and know it's quite complex. All that is to say, consider keeping the charger draw to a reasonable level or you may have a similar instability.
Great video again. I was one of those people you spoke of very interested to know which systems would fail first. It seems like nothing (except the massive fuel leak) was particularly distressing. Looking forward to the rest of your improvements.
Thanks Mads. I've had the exact same problem with my pressurized water system but without any information onboard about the accumulator fixing the problem has been beyond me. Regarding your lifelines, perhaps pelican hooks could provide a quick disconnect solution. I slide a piece of garden hose over the lever arm to stop them accidentally opening. Fair winds my friend.🌏⛵
Great job again. Those trims look great! But that "no more nails" is as good as adhesive as used bubblegum. Casco xtremfix or superfix are the way to go if you want it to hold :)
When the weather gets cooler here in the NW of the US, I get water in the air side of the pressure tank all the the time. I have found that using a conditioner works wonders in keeping the condensation from accumulating in the tank. It also prevents the diaphragm from freezing and getting stiff when the temp drops. Have a great week Mads and keep up the great work.
@@ekavoian As air compresses in the tank it can sometimes cause condensation to build up in the air side of the tank. I use an additive made by CRC that helps to prevent that. It also is a great antifreeze as well preventing the diagram from freezing and stiffness so it won't crack when the temp drops below freezing.
Having lived in the country with a well for many decades, I can attest that pressure tanks are a royal pain in the butt, a constant source of misery and needing loving care and adjustment. Of course, ours were much larger and operated at about 70 lbs, but the principle is the same.
Everything is looking fantastic, except for the place where the down tube meets the partition between the stove and the nav station. Is it me or does that need a small coverage?
Coating new iroko with cold tea (no milk) or used tea bags will knock back the colour a tad - not perfect but cheap and effective. This is my sort of video - lots of bits and bobs. Many thanks Mads.
If you're on a boat, everything leaks. Sooner or later, no matter how well insulated and sealed, if it's not welded together, it will leak.. At least that's what I learned from watching hundreds of hours of sailing/shipwright content.. :D
@@inventiveowl395 very true, overtime all boats leak, it's probably about the only guarantee with boats. And for all the Americans on here who claim butyl tape to be the only option that never fails, proof that it does aswell
same here. if that happened to him with the near psychotic attention to detail what hope do we mere mortals have to avoid chain plate leaks? i suspect i have one but have never been able to track it down.
@@bobadam7021 it never fails? You might need to rethink itas there was a leak so that means it failed, whatever the cause of it it failed plain and simple. Only option again I think you need to do some research there are afew other options available which if done correctly work just as well.
I've never seen someone looking so seemingly happy to fix system failures. You are a special breed of cat. A true DIYer, through and through.
I got the same message on my comment. This guy below with the fake sale life logo
Mads is in his natural element. Alone on a boat fixing stuff.
“The bigger the radius, the less the owie” - yet another phrase enters the DIY lexicon. Even my kids now say stuff looks pretty dang spiffy! Nice one Mads.
I liked the man glitter
Another great vid see next week
The less skin removed on contact.
Another saying added to Mads' list of amazing one-liners "Man Glitter" this is what sawdust shall forever be called
Bravo. And bigger the radius the less the owing 😂
. . . owie
You should have raised the deck around the chain plate like new boats with glass 1/2 inch ,that way water running along the deck will not leak down into the chainplate
Smart thinking. I wondered why they did that.
I’ve never seen anyone so happy to have things break 😂
Another great video!
Its called a "Shake-down Cruise." Surprising you have gone so long without other "tweaks" becoming apparent. I am fully confident you have this all well in hand and will be more than prepared for the trans-Atlantic. Good luck
If your water is sulphery/skunky, look at your watermaker membranes. You may not be flushing enough, or using it enough and you're having bacterial growth within the system.
Man glitter, OMG you are so wonderful to listen to.
You'll never be bored on a sailboat. There's always something to do. Great video
Mads I've been with you since near the beginning. I am a 'car guy" and have built several, starting from just a bare shell.
So I know a bit about what you have been through with Athena. I have to say you are shortchanging yourself. Since you guys left Denmark you've sorta been on a shake down cruise, and if your list of major bugs is as short as we are seeing then I would say you've done a heck of a job restoring/updating/rebuilding Athena.
"O glorius man glitter" best frase this year, love your DIY vids Mads 🤣
I only come back every week just to see if you’ll finally fix the wood around the nav station compression post. . . This is a toxic relationship
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Don’t do it, Mads. That hole proves your humanity 🤓.
Haha I just mentioned that as well….it is just screaming out in every video, “fix me please”.
You have OCD. Like me! The hole is very annoying to people like us. Mads need to address the issue ASAP.😆
If he fixes it, you’ll stop watching 😆
She is very beautiful and has lovely lines. Oh, Athena is pretty as well.
I just had an issue with my water tanks also... marina has well water and I had not known that there was a sulfur contamination.
SO>..
A) I purchased a RV water filter ( a blue water filter that screws on at the hose tap. popular with RV folks here in the states )
B) Filled the tanks to about 80% and added pitcher of water to each tank with 1/4 cup of bleach per 15 gallons ( for me it was 1/2 cup )
C) Ran water thru all lines until I smelt faint wiff of bleach.
D) took the boat out for a 6 hour +- sail to get it good and sloshed around
E) drained and flushed the thanks a few times.
Smell gone. water tastes fine.
As always Mads, good to see some DIY. Always a pleasure! Looking forward to the crossing. Get her in spiffy shape before you go!
Mads is so good at the Do It Yourself yacht projects and goes at it so intensely that I am strangely slightly intimidated. Then, I remind myself of Mads falling in the stairway and remember that he tends to get a little wound up.
Hi Mads. I see at the end there your saloon is starting to look much more, er... familiar. And somehow strangly comforting to us DIYers!
Thank you Mads. You looked like a kid just getting out of school for the summer. It isn't very obvious that you love DIY, but we can tell you do. Take care and looking forward to next week's video.
Just round the corner you have Telilu tribe with their boat a white 40ft Colvic Ketch with an interesting layout and car, they have been looking for a local plymouth rigger .. could be useful. 😉👍🏼
Thanks, Mads, you've cheered me up! I did exactly the same thing with my lifeline. Now I know it's a Thing shared with even the best.
As someone else has mentioned, you are currently sharing your marina with Teulu Tribe - cheerful Brits, newbie-ish, similar size boat, lots of fun. Their YT channel is deservedly growing quickly.
Re fresh water - my co-skipper doesn't like tainted water, so we've installed a Seagull water filter. Well worth the cost. Water quality is never an issue now. Happy co-skipper.
Dawn dishwashing soap, Mads. Best diesel cleaner ever.
I had two household accumulators on my last boat and that system was sweet and smooth
excellent diagnosis on the water pressure tank failure
Would love to hear the generator working under load with regards to noise in the bedroom etc and whether you are happy with it cheers from Perth Australia
Glorious Oh Glorious DIY is back ! Mads the way you go into such detail on each project is exactly the reason I love watching your channel . No other sail boat refit channel I have found come close to you . The devil is in the detail and you help so many people avoid that devil , thank you once again .
Thanks mate. I haven’t seen an episode for a while. Cancer and chemo will do that to someone who hasn’t really been I’ll before. I really enjoyed this one and it’s great to see you both and that wonderful boat doing and looking great. Take care. I look forward to the next instalment. Cheers from Sydney OZ.
Everything on a boat fails eventually. We've been cruising full-time for a few years now after starting with a completely refitted boat where every single system was replaced, including a repower.
So far every single electronic.item has been replaced in 5 years. Getting hit by lightning didn't help that but things had failed before and after that. IMHO everything on a boat gets replaced on a 5-10 year cycle. Some things last a tiny bit later and others die faster. The marine environment is just really harsh on systems.
A boat is a hole in the water that you dump money into. Stuff breaks constantly abd that is just a fact of life. Being able to fix things yourself and knowing your boat is a.HUGE help. But the more complex the systems are the more parts are in there that will eventually fail.
Water tanks are a constant source of issues. I think wr have had to clean ours thoroughly about every year. We have fiberglass tanks so we can use chlorine to keep them fresh which we do with every fill up but still every year the darn things get away from us.
One thing we have not had an issue with is diesel bug. We use BioBar every fill up and have a self-polishing system with its own racor and fuel pump. Cleaning that diesel tank is a real pain on our boat.
Spares are your friend. We have a spare or two for every system onboard and tons of tools and supplies to do just about any task without even a trip to shore. Two is one and one is none.
With your lifeline chafe issue I bet if you were to have put a short piece of shrink tube over the section where it ran through the holes in the stanchions it would have prevented the chafing completely. But I still think that stainless steel rigging cable is best for lifelines, especially the top one because you can then hang fenders off of it using a clove hitch without worrying about chafing.
We often will "clean" very filthy items by tying a line to the item and tossing it over the edge to rinse in the sea. This practice can also chafe on the top lifeline too. I am glad we used cheap uncoated rigging wire for lifelines. Using dyneema to tension the lifelines is a good idea. Not only can it be cut in an emergency it can be easily removed for other reasons as time goes by. Stainless turnbuckles are notorious for seizing up eventually in a saltwater environment and are the #1 failure point on lifelines except for the crappy plastic coating peeling off eventually because of UV damage. Going with uncoated rigging wire is the way to go. They will basically last forever.
Sounds like our house.
Enjoyed the DIY, but missed Ava. The boat’s going to look great when she returns. 😎👍💕
We've just returned from 2 years full time living aboard our boat in the tropics. I'd really recommend installing a 10 inch filter housing with a carbon block filter to your water system (or at least your drinking water tap). Then add a small amount of chlorine (perfume free bleach) in your tank water. The chlorine keeps the tank and water clean, the carbon filter removes the chlorine before drinking. Happy to provide dosage information if you're interested.
For your water, there are some treatment chemicals to add if you're going to store long term. Long term is directly proportional to how warm it is. Our old Wellcraft would have a nasty smell develop within about 3 or 4 days in the middle of summer. Using the 1/2 tsp per 50gal (~190l) was enough to keep our water fresh for up to 10 days without any off smells. Note that we did NOT use our water to drink. The boat was from 1987, it had been through a few owners and we did not know the condition of the tank. It also was "winterized" with RV Antifreeze every winter. When we were in our slip, we would generally just hook direct to the water at the dock...something Ava had never seen before until she was out on the boat with her family, but is fairly common in our area when you lease a slip for the year. Our slip came with power, water, cable TV, and secure WiFi, but those slips? EXPENSIVE in Michigan...$2800 and up regulated by the State when it is a state owned marina (independently operated).
Nice work as always Mads. Please add trim to the nav station, around the end where the stainless pole comes out. It screams at me every time you stand in front of it doing your commentary. Cheers Andy UK
Mads you need to fix the headliner above the Nav Station, the panel that the pole goes through. It is not straight across like the other ones, it is driving my OCD crazy! :-)
OH MY GOD! He did it, he worked sanding into this one!
I'm sure he was really missing the Oh Glorios Sanding back into his life. +4 brownie points for you Mads.
Yes to seeing the leaky chainplate repair!
Good DIY episode
Love The T-Shirt
Another great episode and yeah, it was good that Ava was not there for the glitter-fest.
I am hoping that you will take your old AP drive back to the factory to get it repaired and serviced since is is close to where you are. As long as you are there, you might as well talk them into a plant tour. Oh yeah, and make sure to take us along for the ride.
While the wife's away, the DRYER will play. The water in my marine is heavily chlorinated. And my boat tanks are ABS plastic. However, I have a silver-impregnated filter cartridge which eliminates all unwanted tastes. Even after several months of not being used, the water is great.
Productive episode!
ps, if I may suggest another task for the scrum board: I would really love to see the trim around the pole at the nav station finished 😅
Hell to the yeah!
Man, this video really went fast. Maybe you could double the length. I could watch you fiddling about all day. But wait, I can’t do that….I’m building a boat and I have to get back to work! 😆😆
Mads, Did you send me text number to call?
Obviously don't know you other than your videos, but you seem almost giddy going back to DIY projects; wonder if that isn't more familiar and comfortable than the sailing/touring vids. Thanks for all the hard work!
I remember caulking chain plates and cleaning up diesel leaks. So jealous of your journey!
You miss Ava? We miss Ava.
Just over a year ago little did Ms. Ava know she was on the cusp of becoming a TH-cam star.
It seems to me like the to-do/in-progress/done board needs to be upgraded from temporary blue tape to permanent inlaid teak.
Hi Mads, always get a laugh no matter how many tasks present. Your comments about "man glitter" rings so true. Got to make a mess to do some jobs, especially with limited work space. A good vacuum and wipe down always concludes task. Cheers
I thought I should pass on my experience with seasickness. I had sailed my 27ft boat from the east coast of USA and through a lot of the great lakes over a couple of decades. Never experienced seasickness until it suddenly happened. No major sea condition.
What I discovered was that my recently renewed continously ground bi-focal eyeglasses were the cause. There is a definite co-relation between eyeglasses (maybe even non-bifocal) and the boat motion. Lesson learned - don't wear the glasses when at sea. Suggest that they be hung around the neck with strap so you can use them only when needed to see details.
Missing Ava. I spent the majority of my life in Michigan - it is a lovely place.
I think Mads is trolling us detail/completer finisher-types by not having a 'chart table trim piece' task on the scrum board!
Check out the local Auto Parts store for a can of 'Fluid Film' or similar lanolin based anti-rust spray. Great for 'tucked away' components you can't regularly inspect, that may be exposed to humid conditions. The one time our water developed an odd taste was when I realized I had forgotten to completely drain our filler hose, yuck! Had to dump and flush the tank twice... ⛵💦
2nd the Fluid Film....or if you don't want build up...Beoing Spray.
Nice to have you back 👍
Are you filling the water tank with your garden hose ? Some garden hoses emit a chemical smell from the plastic.
I doubt that that is his garden hose, as he is quite a few nautical miles from home.
That’s my problem , when at the dock my hose is the supply . The only reason it matters you can taste it in the ice from the ice maker . It’s like having free hot water when showering
Mads just some info on the locktite. On some stainless steel it will not set, depending on the iron content. They do however make a spray to spray on the threads that will make it cure.
If your fuel pump is prone to corrosion, better coat it with some oil or grease.
P.S. I missed the sanding.
ECO WORK makes great products,try using the ecowork glass cleaner . It's cleans fantastic and there's never any streaks or places that aren't completely clean and Shiney. We love ecowork products.
Your footage looks especially clean this episode. Enjoy some quality bachelor time - grin...Cheers
Try using a water filter when filling the tank from the marina hose. Two under bench type water filters in series with hose fittings will help with what you put in the tank from the beginning.
It's nice to getcha tools out an fix the this an that's ... Thanks for sharing your lives with us ✌🏼💗😊❣️
Tastes and odors suprisingly often stem from the tiny sieve at the exit of the tap. For tanks I usually take a sniff before taking action. If it doesnt smell look elsewhere (hoses etc).
You are simply amazing. The attention to detail is great to see. !!
You should consider having shirts printed with "oh glorious man glitter". 😁
Have you considered a charcoal taste filter on the water tank ?
Seeing the shine insides of your tanks, after shocking my 40+ year old plastic tanks a couple of months ago, gave me some healthy tank envy! Glad that chemical did the job well. I also have an old accumulator that doesn't seem to help much, I never thought to check the pressure. So I learned something, thanks.
Water tanks are just a good place for nasty stuff to grow. Even making all your own super -pure RO water eventually the tanks will get nasty with time.
We use chlorine treatment because our fiberglass tanks don't mine, but the inside still eventually gets nasty on almost a yearly basis. Water tanks just are a tough one to keep clean.
Mads, whilst you have your tools out, can you fix that ugly gap in the chart table. It spoils an otherwise awesome man space!
If there is a silver lining with all this maintenance and fixes is that it can help identify which items or parts are more likely to fail 'short term' so that you can have spares available.
the boat builders here in new zealand ( think rain, wind, big seas ) dont like butyl tape and i agree with them. once its packed down it cant expand slightly like a flexible adhesive sika, bostik, dow corning etc. because its not adhered to all surfaces it gets compressed but then wont expand when needed hence leaving a gap.
Can you remind us again on the timing for finishing the headliner in the main saloon? there is that one section in line with the Nav Station post that has an upward "bow" to it. it shows up behind your head in most shots, and my OCD wants to crawl through the lens the pull it down straight.
Another thing you can use the butyl tape for is wrapping it around the pl239 connector for your VHF antenna. That will keep out any water from getting inside of it.
For that smell in the water tank add non-scented or colored bleach to the tank. There are tables online that tell you how much to add to whatever volume you have.
thanks for another great update
This channel is something different! You didnt make a three part series and clickbait title of you diesel incident. I know a handful of other sailling channels that would have done that!
Excellent video again!! Thanks.
Call it part of my OCD, but what is your plan to address the 1" gap in the metal trim around the portlet above the nav station?
Ha, yea that one niggles me too, probably because it is in the back of so many of the camera shots. You have to leave a few things unfinished to keep the project a project :)
Thanks for today's episode. I hope you are staying cool. It always helps to be on the water, especially if there is a breeze. Hmmm, do you have windscoops yet?
Great video! We always had trouble sealing the chain plates on our boat.
The water taste could be coming from the pipe work and taps. It’s pretty common to have a taste in boat water, but not harmful. I clean my tanks with a Milton the baby product cleaning liquid. Then run it through the pipes and let it stand and then flush out.
On our boat the genset was small. The charger could draw a good percentage of the total output. Every one in a while the generator's regulator would become unstable and the voltage swings would burn things out. As an engineer I'm sure you have studied feedback / control loop theory and know it's quite complex. All that is to say, consider keeping the charger draw to a reasonable level or you may have a similar instability.
said before but I would not drink water direcly from the tank, Get a jug filter for this relatively small volume
Great video again. I was one of those people you spoke of very interested to know which systems would fail first. It seems like nothing (except the massive fuel leak) was particularly distressing. Looking forward to the rest of your improvements.
Maybe some Damp Rid in the little compartment with the diesel pump?
Great work as always and the trims look great I do love Sundays 👍🙂
Thanks Mads. I've had the exact same problem with my pressurized water system but without any information onboard about the accumulator fixing the problem has been beyond me. Regarding your lifelines, perhaps pelican hooks could provide a quick disconnect solution. I slide a piece of garden hose over the lever arm to stop them accidentally opening. Fair winds my friend.🌏⛵
Thanks!
Just an awesome vlog! Great job explaining all you do!
Great job again. Those trims look great! But that "no more nails" is as good as adhesive as used bubblegum. Casco xtremfix or superfix are the way to go if you want it to hold :)
When the weather gets cooler here in the NW of the US, I get water in the air side of the pressure tank all the the time. I have found that using a conditioner works wonders in keeping the condensation from accumulating in the tank. It also prevents the diaphragm from freezing and getting stiff when the temp drops. Have a great week Mads and keep up the great work.
do you mean air conditioner?
@@ekavoian As air compresses in the tank it can sometimes cause condensation to build up in the air side of the tank. I use an additive made by CRC that helps to prevent that. It also is a great antifreeze as well preventing the diagram from freezing and stiffness so it won't crack when the temp drops below freezing.
Man glitter? I love it.
See you👍🏽
Having lived in the country with a well for many decades, I can attest that pressure tanks are a royal pain in the butt, a constant source of misery and needing loving care and adjustment. Of course, ours were much larger and operated at about 70 lbs, but the principle is the same.
Good stuff, excellent work as always 👌🏻
Everything is looking fantastic, except for the place where the down tube meets the partition between the stove and the nav station. Is it me or does that need a small coverage?
Love your show gov xx
Back to DIY like it 😎
Coating new iroko with cold tea (no milk) or used tea bags will knock back the colour a tad - not perfect but cheap and effective. This is my sort of video - lots of bits and bobs. Many thanks Mads.
“The bigger the radius, the less the owie”……Mads, 2022.
Dyneema exposed to UV only has an expected life span of 5 years. That's the issue I have with it for rigging or life lines.
If there is one main faucet you use for drinking water, you can put a carbon filter on that just in case the tank smell comes back.
I'd be interested, particularly, in the leaky chain plate. I know the restoration and I really didn't expect that to fail.
If you're on a boat, everything leaks. Sooner or later, no matter how well insulated and sealed, if it's not welded together, it will leak.. At least that's what I learned from watching hundreds of hours of sailing/shipwright content.. :D
@@inventiveowl395 very true, overtime all boats leak, it's probably about the only guarantee with boats. And for all the Americans on here who claim butyl tape to be the only option that never fails, proof that it does aswell
same here. if that happened to him with the near psychotic attention to detail what hope do we mere mortals have to avoid chain plate leaks? i suspect i have one but have never been able to track it down.
@@benmac940 It never fails, it is the only option, and its far more likely that there was an installation failure. Mads is still human after all.
@@bobadam7021 it never fails? You might need to rethink itas there was a leak so that means it failed, whatever the cause of it it failed plain and simple. Only option again I think you need to do some research there are afew other options available which if done correctly work just as well.
Stay safe.
Bedankt
"The bigger the radius, the less the owie" I enjoy you madly Mads" Ouch.
It is no surprise that stuff ‘fails’ the key is to keep on top of stuff and not allow the list of failures to build up and you are doing exactly that.