DIY bow railings - new safety additions before Alan's launch. Lifeboat Conversion Ep79 [4K]
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EPISODE 79
The bow platform is tiny, and easy to topple off, so I built a railing.
Products mentioned:
Bostik Simson ISR 70-03
PU40 sealant
GS Products custom wires
Diolen fabric
Model: NME A/S (Husnes, Norway) 7.5m TELB
Engine: Bukh DV48 turbo diesel
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it's a spaceship and You could not convince me otherwise
It occur to me.
That you are putting a lots and lots of holes in your boat. Which for a boat is fine. But for submarine these are all a million different points of failure.
Because that epoxy may not be Stout enough to resist almost 24 psi. When you're 20 ft underwater.!
I understood that reference / Remember that video!
Well done, you can always find someone with a pipe bender later to swap over the bow railing with a single piece of pipe bent into a U shape for the bow railing if you want but it's not important now.
A length of bent pipe for the bow railing would be less complex and stronger than the current set up with the composite and extenders. It would also look better
Alan is coming together so well. I eagerly anticipate Alan's maiden voyage to the land of ice.
Yup I can remember the last time I was emotianally invested in a composite crossbeam............. Always njoy your vidoes, Thanks!
your pursuit of detail is inspiring.
Function over form 👌
Great channel. Impressed with delivery time of purchased Alan t-shirt! I think I will get a hat next...Thankyou. Something you may wish to consider when drilling holes through glass with foam core (Ep79); the sealant will most likely break down over time leading to potential (unknown) water ingress into core. Ideally, it's best to seal the core with epoxy. On my boat, I drill oversize holes, apply a laminate/glass backing, fill hole with thickened epoxy and re-drill to required fastener diameter. If the sealant fails, you will see the leaks from the inside of the boat and hopefully it shouldn't enter the core. I believe some shipwrights drill to size, recess the core (with engineers scribe) then paint/fill small channel with thickened epoxy. Thanks for filming your efforts with an entertaining sense of humour. Catching up to your latest episodes. Shaydon, Australia.
Cheers for the input
It might be a good idea to through bolt the extender pipes that go from the vertical rail to the curved front rail. Currently those are relying on just friction of the set screws to resist the force of someone leaning into the curved horizontal rail. That could cause the curved rail fitting to come
Off the extended pipe or the extender pipe to slip out of the T-Bracket.
Also good to put tie wire
Around the turn buckle clevis pins so they don’t back out over time.
Cheers
been following you for a while now Alex, love this channel. keep going cant wait to see the maiden voyage!
Cheers
@@AlexHibbertOriginals you never ever use the tool to tighten the disk on angle grinder. You should always hand tighten it (when it's spinns it is self-tightening) therefore you can unscrew it by hand. if you have pu$y hand use the tool to remove the disk.
You could add a stop light on it for when you brake. Better safe than sorry.
I am very excited that you got a rivet nut tool! I expect you will do great things with it.
as usual pushing the limits of cinematic work the zoom was 😘👌.
The railing curve bar you wont really see from that angle once Alan is floating. Well unless you take a dip. great update 2x👍
Gonna have to use the spanner trick as is proven itself now more than once! Can’t wait for the official launching ceremony and hopefully you’ve given thought into the selection of Alan’s godmother.
Installed 24 bolts today using the magic spanner technique … worked like a charm after I got the impact driver to turn the correct direction.
Tip for those big Heatshrinks.
They need to be worked from center towards the ends. 👍
I always get excited to see when a new video comes out. I love your channel.
Cheers!
Woohoo! More updates and grinder! I had wondered if you were going to use the cables and turnbuckles to connect to your upper railings. As long as your composite railing does the job, that's all you can ask of it. Are you going to put on something that will let people anchor themselves, such as the bolts you see in high windows now?
I think you should seal up where the tubes go into the brackets. Inevitably, sea water, rain water etc will leak in there and galvanic action will cause that alloy tube, zinc, stainless grub screws... to corrode badly. Not to mention water freezing and expanding etc... What do you think???
(Pirate voice) - Arrr ! We'll ave no dainty curvaceous railins on this vessel !
Ha! My 43rd most favourite channel on TH-cam (oh, all right perhaps you're in the top 10)....
edit change your to you're.
Have you put any thought into ice build up on the hull and all the railings and accessories on the outside of Allen?
I have. Not much to be done except chip it off with cold-rated plastic tools. The boat exterior can't be bare.
What’s the “haul”?
@@teeanahera8949 when you think you found a troll free channel..... thanks for lowering the level of discourse.
to be honest, I get your dissatisfaction with the bow rail. but as you said, it's functional, and something more elegant can wait for after Alan's obviously triumphant return from his first voyage. onward!
I didn’t notice backing plats on your thru-hulls. Hopefully they were installed.
3mm steel.
👍👍👍👍
Master of Zoom
Yeh. Not feelin' it myself. Friendly man with a pipe bender required.
😎🤙
Cheers?
Cheers!
I’m going to guess that the cables aren’t enough to add strength to the front rail. You are only adding some strength in one direction with the cables (force applied forward) - if someone pulled hard enough those galvanised mounts or the aluminium bar could deform or snap. turnbuckles can make this problem worse as you might be preloading the bars. If you have time a solid bar /rod mounted in the same location as the cables would give tension and compression advantages.
Well, as with any design I have to balance various things. In terms of an impact so strong it would deform 5mm steel or 3mm alu tube, it wouldn't be a human being, as there's no distance for someone to fall with more than a trip. If colliding with something solid, I WANT the railing to fail, instead of anything else more important like my fibreglass shell.
That makes sense that you want the rail to be sacrificial Alex. There’s no substitute for being there, having hands on the job. Loving the build mate.
Don't be cross. You should be beaming!
Seriously? This is the second video I'm early at by sheer coincidence.
Very odd how all those names got up on there.
Yeah, also don’t like the crossbar. Get a single aluminium tube of the correct diameter professionally bent into shape and just fit to
your clamps either side. Get it done or it’ll annoy you for the whole trip. 😂
Hmm. That railing seems to defy physics. Hope you don't need to lean on it. Can you tie it into the upper one for some support?
When are you going to be finished on on expedition?
Never!
Seeing the defunct angle ginder reminds me of videos of my dead mother. Morbid history with an element of love. BTW your not building an oligarch's yacht. Seriously lose the appeal of the asthetic and yearn more for function rather than form. Your an adventurer after all. Having said that your boat videos are irresistible.
the center of gravity is now way too high
Quite right. I'll remove everything above the waterline.
How long is Allen?
7.5m
what's that polyester weave called?
Diolen.
Am I incredibly dumb or was that viewport thing not there before? The former is more likely than the latter, btw.
Always there!
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I realized I was looking at the housing your placed over the searchlight. It's so well done I thought it was an original feature I hadn't previously noticed.
Oh! Sorry I thought you meant the circular window on the bow hatch.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals No worries! Big fan, and I am always impressed by your remarkable attention to detail. It's a good day when we have an Alan update.
I don't like it either. It looks wrong in that it should have bracing / safety bars going to the rear. Either horizontal or angled. And at the front maybe a lower bar across the front. Nothing worse than a false sense of security. Well, maybe a reactor meltdown or burnt bacon.
I looked at this, but you'd end up having to use a ball or swivel joint, as the angles are not 0, 45 or 90 deg in two planes. These sorts of joints aren't that rigid.
good evening i have been binge watch ya vids on alan for the 3rd of 4th time and i came across the Q&A from a year ago do you realise you come across as quite condescending to us your viewers with how we spell and structure our question if we spell alan as alan or allen it dose not matter at least they are trying different parts of the world spell names differently you are educated and think of things as a highly educated man we are not all educated please try not being so pompous and rolling your eyes at a question looks so bad please look back at the vid and watch you body language as you read some of the questions if it wasn't for spell check this would have been filled with a lot of mistakes all the other vids are great thank you for your time you give to make them for us
What about sea-sickness, Alan looks like he's going to be vomit inducing as he rolls around.
sorry but thats a mess.