Is our boat dry? - Osmosis Repair Nightmare | Sailing Mahalo Episode 11
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ค. 2024
- So, after a winter of being exposed to the air, and drying out the osmosis, has Mahalo's hull dried enough to start patching it back up? Chris goes over the boat and measures the moisture between the layers of fiberglass with a moisture meter. Meanwhile we try to stay busy during the COVID-19 lockdown in Canada.
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I love how when Chris says "laminate" it sounds like "lemonade"
Well, at least it was very good news for a change! Happy you are all well!
Another one bites the dust. Can't blame them for trying though. More than most do.
Great to see some positive results. Onwards and upwards from here on in I hope. Cheers
Keep your fingers crossed! Cheers, Robin!
Aye m8’s, Thnx for update! Nice progress! Maybe we all should gather around the hull and tell some dry jokes, then evaporate… 😜
🤣 Oh what an episode that would be!
Hey there, just wondering how the project is going, haven't heard from you in a long time.
They ran out of Prozac..........
We’re very sorry for the radio silence, it’s been a rough couple of years. We will try to get a video update out soon, but to say the least, Mahalo did not survive. Thanks for your support!
@@SailingMahalo Looking forward to hearing what happened and seeing what your next steps are going to be.
Lâchez pas et bravo pour votre projet !!!! :)
So I am guessing, with no word or videos, the dream has died?
Would be interesting if you ground back the the outside skin to the core in like a 1 foot section. Is your plan to lay up additional glass on the outside when done? What about glassing the keel into the hull so you dont have to worry about more water intrusion. Edited my original statement, missed the video with all the blistering shown.
where are you guys? Hope everything is ok.
What is going on? How are you doing? Would like to get an update!
How's it going?
So the “2’s” and “3’s” etc are moisture percentages?
Correct. We wrote the baseline numbers on the hull when we first measured last year. Now we can see how much it’s dried.
Maybe future boat???? :-D
hello the is a 65 Mcgregor for sale on ebay is a beter deal than fix that and is a fast boat. saludos
How is it going?
Not great. We will give an update soon on our plans for the future.
where are the new episodes?
In Davy Jones locker
What is the update on the project?
We’re very sorry for the radio silence, it’s been a rough couple of years. We will try to get a video update out soon, but to say the least, Mahalo did not survive.
@@SailingMahalo what have you done with the boat?
What are you doing now?
We’re very sorry for the radio silence, it’s been a rough couple of years. We will try to get a video update out soon, but to say the least, Mahalo did not survive.
Many years ago I found a material called C-Flex which consisted of hollow tubes linked together to form planks which were supposed to make boat building cheaper and easier;It came on the market briefly and disapeared just as quickly.I believe you may have such a boat but cant say for sure with the limited video I've seen thus far.Any chance I could see a bared spot (10" around or so would do) of that layer of your build?
Dean Farina No , c-flex was just an efficient way to wrap a skin around a temporary frame and then layup the fiberglass hull. Solid or correct and the c-flex became part of the hull . This POS was made from wrapping pipe , I think pvc or fiberglass around the temporary frames then fiberglassing over, but from the quality we can see of the amateur fiberglass work it was full of voids that allowed water to get into the hull laminate , into the pipes that were not continuous and spread total Mayhem. The hull should be condemned. With this amateur build the rest of the structure of the boat must be highly questionable , there may be some nice varnished wood inside but the structure and original design are so questionable it should never go to sea, cheers warren
@@CheersWarren :Thank you for clarifying that Warren.Do you know anymore about how C-Flex construction fared over time?I thought the rods in C-Flex were solid.Were they some sort of glass or resin glass mixture and what made up the skin its self?
This project is intriguing on so many levels.I would love to get involved if my health and age permitted.I'll settle for following along and arm chairing it as long as I'm able lol.Good luck to all the folks involved.
Also,I worked a project involving osmosis in which the shipwright(I was a journey man at the time) who headed it used heaters then window air conditioners under a tented bottom to bleed and dry it.
We then made a one foot square 'bed of nails' paddle which was laid all over the bottom and whacked good and hard to perforate the glass.We followed this with multiple coats of penetrating epoxy and finished up in the standard barrier fashion.Worked out beautifully I must say.Cheers to you as well.
Warren is right, it’s not C-Flex. It’s a system called RFK (German for pipe and fiberglass composite). The pipes seem to be made of PVC. We do know of at least one other boat that’s still kicking with this construction. Germany’s smallest research vessel, Mercator, is made using this system. Thanks for joining the adventure, Dean!
warp21drive We don’t take your comments lightly and appreciate your input. Your first comment on another video definitely hit home and gave us lots to think about. Cheers and be well!
Aye m8’s, how are you? All OK? 8 months and I guess the old schooner is drying up?
Thanks for checking in! Let’s just say we’ve been held up by many variables. I’ll have to make a video filling you all in on the situation.
No sweat, just making sure you are OK.
How about giving your subscribers an update...? 😉🙂
We’re very sorry for the radio silence, it’s been a rough couple of years. We will try to get a video update out soon, but to say the least, Mahalo did not survive. Thanks for your interest!
i take it these guys aren't coming back.
Great news , another boat!!!! anything is better that that time wasting money pit in Dussildorf !!!
I wonder about these channels where the information is completely stopped, even if otherwise everything seems normal.
It’s been a rough couple of years to say the least. We are very sorry for the radio silence and we will try to get a video update out soon, but Mahalo did not survive the osmosis cancer to say the least…
@@SailingMahalo Really sorry to hear. I didn't even know that fiberglass could really get in such bad shape.
I love how when Chris says "laminate" it sounds like "lemonade"
Cuz we got a lemon of a boat 🤣 Let’s make it into lemonade!