This video got released by mistake in a hurry before we could say thanks to our latest Tipsters!!! A VERY big Thank you to: Robert North Dave Meindl Andre and Santa Venter (S. Africa) Jonathan and Mandy Llewelyn (S Africa) Bert and Hazel Kirsten Craig Holland Valerio Parboni Thomas Salvisberg Langston Holland David Conroy Melvin Steck Michael Meschner Ecobyte Pty Ltd Boris Vengerenko John Armstrong Jorge Gonzalez Kia Gardner Stefano Loffredo Mike @ Compunications Systems Consulting in Kansas Charles Brust Fernando Castro Armor Fair Dave Earl Craig Elgut Ryan Salazar Ralph Lange Thomas O' Brien Jorge Bermudez Matthew Dobos Darren Moore Timothy P Lamar Baxter and Lorraine Williams Mark Bunch Clifford Craig Jonathan Clear Jonathan Fisher Stephen Killick (S Africa) Tod Mills David Pither Can you think of other areas where these boards...sort of like Coosa boards, would be useful on a boat for quicker, easier repairs?
Rest In Peace, Patrick. You’re still connecting with us through your videos. This video is helping me learn a new skill that I’ll hopefully pass to my child. You are living on in this way. Thank you.
You are welcome. Using Coosa board, or something like Coosa board, is a much easier way to do a cockpit floor repair, especially if it effecting the drainage of the water from the cockpit floor. This is of course not actual Coosa board, but is just like it, and a laminated foam core panel , as you can see in the video, is easy to make yourself for all kinds of DIY sailboat repairs. -Rebecca
Thank so much. If you likes the cockpit floor repair video, which was one of our lest popular, there should be many more you like on our sailing/how to channel! Hope you will subscribe and turn on the notification bell ;) -Rebecca
A tip for you when you fillet the corners before tabbing....use the round end of a tongue depressor on the thickened epoxy and you will get a smooth curve that you can glass straight onto after about 30-60 minutes and avoid all that sanding
Actually I used a table spoon to get the initial concave shape, but I am not good at this. In the battery box rebuild video, I set down blue tape to outline where the fillet would go then used a spoon to putty in the fillet, then pulled up the tape. That worked much better....but I got in a hurry on this and skipped the blue tape. My hands were so full of epoxy I couldn't turn on the camera to show the making of a fillet, this time. Thanks for your suggestion.
Patrick and Rebecca.. I really like how you show your appreciation for the work that these poor people do for and others. Us mixed breed folk's May not say much , but we see Everything. Your kindness is a quite statement of who you are. Both Rebecca and your self. Good on you. Fair winds folk's.
My plan for bulkheads and other flat panels (settee tops, etc) for my Tartan 26 project boat was to use a foam core, either Divinycell or Coosa, with appropriate layers of glass on both sides, using plate glass for a layup surface. It is gratifying to see someone already using this technique!
Hi Tod...thanks for your nice Christmas Tip! That was very nice of you! We have used these coosa type boards in a lot of places on the boat...real time savers! -Rebecca
I always had it in my head that these things had to be vacuum bagged. From watching different methods used here in the marina we are at, I saw you can get a very strong product without the expense and extra work of vacuuming. Good luck with your Tartan project. The 26 is a great boat.
I'm sure vacuum bagging would result in a better laminate, but whether it is worth the additional expense and labor for my project, I don't know. I'll make a test panel and decide at that time.
I used 100 psi extruded polystyrene insulation from the lumber yard for a lot of panels. With as many as six layers of glass per side the stuff ended up rock solid. If you need glass for the lay up table a good source is used building material sellers. I picked up a very thick glass panel that used to be a store window for next to nothing. Best of wishes on your Tartan refit, and good luck hiding all the receipts from the wife. 😁 EDIT: important detail I forgot to mention is I sealed the foam board with three sprayed coats of PVA to prevent the resin from eating it up.
Thanks..just released the video by mistake. It wasn’t ready or scheduled to go up til Friday! Merry Christmas...and yes...it will be nice to have a fast draining cockpit! -Rebecca
Thank you for what you do! Merry Christmas! I have learned so much. The GF and I are buying a boat soon and I feel more confident going into this after watching your videos. We are most likely buying something what will need work, WORK. We are no longer afraid. We will always exercise caution once we are on the water. The main thing we take away, is always have a backup. I got some Christmas money from relatives and ordered a sextant already. We will not be unprepared, thanks you you!
Thank you, Gikari, for your nice comment. I am happy to her the videos are a help. When we started out, our boat was in pretty good shape. After 12 years of hard cruising, it has taken a lot of work to set all things right, again. These boats are a maintenance treadmill. Good luck with your upcoming boat sailboat.
Hey thanks. Actually just released this video by mistake...didn’t want to push the button until Friday! But you guys are diehard...TH-cam on Christmas!?!
Congratulations Patrick and Rebecca on getting Brick House back in the water. Those smiles you both have on your face especially Rebecca's at the end on the bow of Brick House say it all. Great repair Patrick! I hope you both had a very Merry Christmas and will have a fantastic Happy New Year!
Hey David C...thank you for your compliment and good wishes ;) Great Christmas with friends, and we are very excited about next year! So many fun things in store! Hope you have a great year coming too!!! -Rebecca
Thanks for this informative video. I have to do the same thing with my 20 footer. I love Valiants..one of the best production sailboats ever built I think. Bob Perry drew some great ones.
Thanks for the comment. That’s what I am worried about...will we go around during the best possible weather to avoid any drama, and not have anything to photograph, or will he do anything for a good video. He worries me sometimes ;) -Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW, snow melted but more is on the way. We plan on escaping south for February. Maybe southern AZ or something. Nice to see your channel doing well!
@@RVLifeNOW I put a little something in the kitty for you both. It's not much, but hope it helps you somehow. Thanks for the time and effort you both put into making the videos. I always find something in them that's helpful to me.
Great video, yet again, thanks Patrick. A lot of good knowledge there which will be invaluable going forward. Happy New Year to yourself and Rebecca from SV Aurora Leigh.
Thanks so much for such a nice compliment. Do you prefer the How to videos or would you like us to get back to some sailing tips type videos like the older ones? -Rebecca
All the repairs and patching I have done to this boat have been using epoxy, except for filling the voids inside of the keel faring. Epoxy could have been used for laminating the skin on the foam panel but I went with the preference of the contractor and let them use polyester. In this application, there was plenty of strength using polyester in the layup and it set up faster than epoxy. I used all epoxy for the installation of the panel.
Thanks Keeldragger. I have seen the very expensive Coosa Board but thought there might a way other boat owners could make their own stress skin panels or fiberglass reinforced panels and here they are made on a regular basis in Richards Bay.
Hi Patrick and Rebecca great content, always a help for ideas on my rebuild. Perhaps a little more investment in sound gathering? I was having trouble hearing some of the content. Thanks you for your hard work in showing me your techniques and projects! Ben S/V Dawn
Yes, sound has been a challenge. I just picked up a wearable mic and recorder so now there is one more bit of equipment to learn, which might improve things. Sound in Hayden's shop was terrible, while doing the layup, since a compressor was constantly running in the background. I knew those sections would have to be a voice over. When Hayden was talking about the separating resin on the glass table, that short section was just barely usable after adjusting the equalizer. That was a new technique to me. The outro, with Rebecca at the end, was a very big surprise to both Rebecca and I, as it all sounded fine going into the rendering but quite muted on the uploaded video. Seems there is always a snag. But thanks for your comment and we always appreciate feedback on how to make the videos more viewable.
Also...remember too, that on any of our videos, you can turn on closed captions so you can get every word of what is said. (30+ languages too ;) ). Happy Nee Year!
I am so glad to see another post from you. Gives me a chance to one a new stream. How much longer are you intending to be in R Bay? At present it is not our usual December humidity. I have however spent timc in the complex pool wheee i live - a small splash pool, but is in the shade most of the time so is not to hot. Where I used to live in the village, the pool waa in the sun all day so heated up fast. When you do eventually depart from the Bay, I wish you fair winds!
Will you even see it from the ocean? It is virtually in the middle of the village, the only set of flats here. Downstairs is the ground floor with 1 office on the first floor, with 6 1 bedrooms flats. I own the one furthest from the sea because of the coral reefsthat keep the larger sharks from the beach, most wants sailing to Durban, do so over the horizon that is where the ships sail. Inshore, the sea is quite shallow and there are coral reefs that calm the waves, but are breeding grounds for Great Whites. These reefs made Port Durnford an ideal landing spot for troops from Durban, because the sea was calmed by the reefs. That is why there is a place that grew up in 1879 as Port Durnford, with a hefty out to sea. That has long since ceased to exist and Richards Bay became a commercial port, vlosevbybraik and road to the Gauteng hive of industry. There are often trains of many kilometres length loaded with coal shedding into the coal terminal facing you as you leave the Yacht club
There is a deep channel heading straight out of the Bay itself, a year ago, a coal tanker strayed to the left of this channel, ran aground and has to be broken up and towed further out to be sunk
How much longer are you in South Africa for? I will ask our dealer to provide you with some of our fuel additive to help clean your fuel tank and keep it clean.
Oh..that would be nice...please tell us more about it? We are in Richards Bay for another 3-4 weeks, and then heading to Cape Town by end of January, weather depending. That’s a nice offer...please provide a link or at least the name of it so we can see what it is first though OK? Our fuel will have been sitting for 9 months by the time we give it a good work out next month...so it could use something really good. Is your additive up to the task ;) 🤔-Rebecca
Hi Patrick. Let me try again. My son's name is Christof Schoeman and his videos are under CS-WildCAM on TH-cam. You should find the latest one of the elephants taken with gopro there. Regards Chris of Red Amber .
The cockpit has always been a bit too flat. The original construction did not give the floor adequate slope in consideration for all the trim loading snags a boat like this goes through over the course of a long passage. With 2 anchors on the bow and 300' of 3/8th chain, it takes a lot to trim the boat aft. With full fuel tanks, this helps to regain proper trim and better cockpit drainage. Trying to keep the boat light and buoyant in the stormy western Indian Ocean, the lack of fuel in the stern located tanks, and far less water in the water tanks, changes the fore and aft trim to decrease the necessary drainage of the cockpit. We had to sell our 50 pound sail sewing machine to get it out of the bow, which was the only place it could be stored.
For an ocean crossing boat that experiences different trim characteristics as fuel and water supplies are used, there was never proper pitch to the floor. What pitch was there was designed to drain the water aft to the drains which exit the boat above the water line. Adding drains through the forward section of the cockpit floor means having to put in thru hulls in the engine room and having to snake hoses to them or snaking long hoses a long way aft and trying to avoid the steering mechanism and somehow keeping the proper pitch to the hoses, then adding thruhulls through the aft of the boat. It is a far better design to just add the pitch which does not allow water to slosh around in the forward section of the cockpit floor. If you watch our Valiant-40 tour, the first one in a 3 part series, I show how I had to make the factory drains bigger and then added another drain on the vertical, aft, panel of the cockpit and hosed out the back of the boat. This is a high water level drain for when large waves fill the cockpit, which has happened. There are a lot of boats that do not have adequate cockpit drainage.
Good answer. On my boat the cockpit it is leveled out better, I think. No problem like yours. I hope your work will work out fine! Nice glass job! Keep up the good sailing and your vlogs. You are the best.
Thanks for your support and for watching! Yes...and we will be wearing socks more often soon, so it will be nice to not have a bunch of wet socks every time we go outside!! -Rebecca
Thanks for that information, Guy. How do the forward 2 drains exit the boat? I would hope through their own thruhulls and not tap into the other two drains.
The pedal has been down, 7 days a week, for the past 7 months. There is so much I have been wanting to do, without the surprise projects, for the past 5 years....and now most are done. There are a lot of videos to put together, like applying the Coppercoat, resin blister repair, granny bars, ripping into the rudder to see if the interior and welded parts will survive the long distances ahead, the refacing of the walls and cabinets along with new mirrors in the head, two sources of cabin heat are now installed......the list continues but almost all the projects are now done.
Many countries are much easier than the U.S.. Here, in S.Africa, we hung an old mainsail to help contain sanding dust from spreading to our neighbors. But I made sure our neighbors used the same sail as a tarp when they sanded, especially the steel boats. Also in an upcoming video I will show how well a cheap vacuum, using water as a filter, caught a lot of sanding dust and saved us a lot of cleanup. We did a lot of raking of debris and put it all in the dumpster so it could be transported to a distant land fill and pollute the ground water someplace far away, same as in the U.S..
Can’t afford to have the website without ads. It’s more than $300 per year for our website. Or are you taking about TH-cam’s site where you saw our diy sailboat video? If you are talking about the ads on the video...the user has the choice to see TH-cam videos with ads or without though you have to pay some kind of a premium to see youtube without ads. Websites that are growing are getting clobbered with lots of ads I’m sorry to say. It’s how they offer the real estate for free to us all. Like television...you can pay for premium TV or you can get the free ones that have the ads. Sorry! -Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW Thank you Rebecca for the quick answer. Hope you guys are doing fine considering what's going on I was talking about your website, not TH-cam. Also I thought the top part of your website was a bit messy to be honest, with all the writing above what appeared to be the top of the webpage. ( Where the menu is) $300 a year is quite a lot for a website, guess there's a lot of traffic :) Take care, in almost catched up on your videos. (not a lot else to do here where I am right now. Andreas
Andreas Yes if I could easily convert to a free one I would but it’s a LOT of work to do so :) Thanks for watching so many of our videos. We appreciate that and your comments...-Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW I don't think a free one would be any good. Is the text on top of the webpage supposed to be like that, or is it loading wrong for me? There are 8 lines of text above where the website appears to start :)
Yeah it’s different depending if you look at it from an iPad, an Android, a PC, a laptop. I don’t tend to concentrate on it much anymore....every time I touch it I break it. So I am always loathe to touch it. And with the templates they provide it makes it hard too. I’m not much a webmaster I’m sorry to say. The youtube is more fun, makes us a little more money than writing articles or blogs, and has an easier format. So we spend more time on that now. Thanks for the concern...and for watching our videos ;) -Rebecca
This video got released by mistake in a hurry before we could say thanks to our latest Tipsters!!! A VERY big Thank you to:
Robert North
Dave Meindl
Andre and Santa Venter (S. Africa)
Jonathan and Mandy Llewelyn (S Africa)
Bert and Hazel Kirsten
Craig Holland
Valerio Parboni
Thomas Salvisberg
Langston Holland
David Conroy
Melvin Steck
Michael Meschner
Ecobyte Pty Ltd
Boris Vengerenko
John Armstrong
Jorge Gonzalez
Kia Gardner
Stefano Loffredo
Mike @ Compunications Systems Consulting in Kansas
Charles Brust
Fernando Castro
Armor Fair
Dave Earl
Craig Elgut
Ryan Salazar
Ralph Lange
Thomas O' Brien
Jorge Bermudez
Matthew Dobos
Darren Moore
Timothy P Lamar
Baxter and Lorraine Williams
Mark Bunch
Clifford Craig
Jonathan Clear
Jonathan Fisher
Stephen Killick (S Africa)
Tod Mills
David Pither
Can you think of other areas where these boards...sort of like Coosa boards, would be useful on a boat for quicker, easier repairs?
Rest In Peace, Patrick. You’re still connecting with us through your videos. This video is helping me learn a new skill that I’ll hopefully pass to my child. You are living on in this way. Thank you.
I always wondered how to make a Coosa board, stress skin panel, laminated foam core panel. Thanks for this information.
You are welcome. Using Coosa board, or something like Coosa board, is a much easier way to do a cockpit floor repair, especially if it effecting the drainage of the water from the cockpit floor. This is of course not actual Coosa board, but is just like it, and a laminated foam core panel , as you can see in the video, is easy to make yourself for all kinds of DIY sailboat repairs. -Rebecca
I love your videos! You have a great style and they are very informative.
Thank so much. If you likes the cockpit floor repair video, which was one of our lest popular, there should be many more you like on our sailing/how to channel! Hope you will subscribe and turn on the notification bell ;) -Rebecca
You certainly the handyman's Handy Man... great job.
Great comment...we are both laughing ;) -Rebecca
A tip for you when you fillet the corners before tabbing....use the round end of a tongue depressor on the thickened epoxy and you will get a smooth curve that you can glass straight onto after about 30-60 minutes and avoid all that sanding
Actually I used a table spoon to get the initial concave shape, but I am not good at this. In the battery box rebuild video, I set down blue tape to outline where the fillet would go then used a spoon to putty in the fillet, then pulled up the tape. That worked much better....but I got in a hurry on this and skipped the blue tape. My hands were so full of epoxy I couldn't turn on the camera to show the making of a fillet, this time. Thanks for your suggestion.
Patrick and Rebecca..
I really like how you show your appreciation for the work that these poor people do for and others. Us mixed breed folk's
May not say much , but we see
Everything. Your kindness is a quite statement of who you are.
Both Rebecca and your self.
Good on you. Fair winds folk's.
Thank you William, for the nice comment.
Nice work! Fair winds.
My plan for bulkheads and other flat panels (settee tops, etc) for my Tartan 26 project boat was to use a foam core, either Divinycell or Coosa, with appropriate layers of glass on both sides, using plate glass for a layup surface. It is gratifying to see someone already using this technique!
Hi Tod...thanks for your nice Christmas Tip! That was very nice of you! We have used these coosa type boards in a lot of places on the boat...real time savers! -Rebecca
I always had it in my head that these things had to be vacuum bagged. From watching different methods used here in the marina we are at, I saw you can get a very strong product without the expense and extra work of vacuuming. Good luck with your Tartan project. The 26 is a great boat.
I'm sure vacuum bagging would result in a better laminate, but whether it is worth the additional expense and labor for my project, I don't know. I'll make a test panel and decide at that time.
I used 100 psi extruded polystyrene insulation from the lumber yard for a lot of panels. With as many as six layers of glass per side the stuff ended up rock solid. If you need glass for the lay up table a good source is used building material sellers. I picked up a very thick glass panel that used to be a store window for next to nothing. Best of wishes on your Tartan refit, and good luck hiding all the receipts from the wife. 😁
EDIT: important detail I forgot to mention is I sealed the foam board with three sprayed coats of PVA to prevent the resin from eating it up.
Happy Blessing Merry Christmas 🌏🌍🌎💙🎉🎊🍷🍾
Thanks...Merry Christmas. Actually published two days early by mistake...yet you guys are still watching! Thanks! -Rebecca
hope your xmas season is going well,
job well done, its always nice to have a fast draining cockpit sole, nice work,:)
Thanks..just released the video by mistake. It wasn’t ready or scheduled to go up til Friday! Merry Christmas...and yes...it will be nice to have a fast draining cockpit! -Rebecca
Thank you for what you do! Merry Christmas! I have learned so much. The GF and I are buying a boat soon and I feel more confident going into this after watching your videos. We are most likely buying something what will need work, WORK.
We are no longer afraid.
We will always exercise caution once we are on the water. The main thing we take away, is always have a backup. I got some Christmas money from relatives and ordered a sextant already.
We will not be unprepared, thanks you you!
Thank you, Gikari, for your nice comment. I am happy to her the videos are a help. When we started out, our boat was in pretty good shape. After 12 years of hard cruising, it has taken a lot of work to set all things right, again. These boats are a maintenance treadmill. Good luck with your upcoming boat sailboat.
Thanks for the Christmas gift of the video!
All the best to the two of you. Safe travels!
Merry Christmas, Marcel!
Merry Xmas and have a Happy NY Pat and Becca.
Hey thanks. Actually just released this video by mistake...didn’t want to push the button until Friday! But you guys are diehard...TH-cam on Christmas!?!
@@RVLifeNOW It's Boxing Day for me 9.45am
shane villis Ah well Happy Boxing Day! Good day to watch videos ? ;)
@@RVLifeNOW I'd be watching the Sydney to Hobart but the daughter did something to the tv :(
Thanks for showing this fiberglass layup technique. I've never seen such a smooth and shiny surface.
Thanks for your comment. Yes...these are brilliant...such time savers! -Rebecca
As always, another incredible episode from the “Patrick and Rebecca Childress boat building school”. My best to you both and happy holidays
Thank you, Glassman. Happy New Year!
Great stuff.But by now that is no surprise with your vids!! Cheers from Western Canada!
Thank you Darryl for the nice compliment which is encouragement to keep making these videos, which takes a lot of effort to do so.
Congratulations Patrick and Rebecca on getting Brick House back in the water. Those smiles you both have on your face especially Rebecca's at the end on the bow of Brick House say it all. Great repair Patrick! I hope you both had a very Merry Christmas and will have a fantastic Happy New Year!
Hey David C...thank you for your compliment and good wishes ;) Great Christmas with friends, and we are very excited about next year! So many fun things in store! Hope you have a great year coming too!!! -Rebecca
David C And yes...we are so happy to be back in the water, though Patrick misses his workshop...but he visits them often -Rebecca
Great job Patrick. Your videos are awesome for learning about yacht repairs 👍😀🍺🇿🇦
Thanks Gary for your comment! Would you rather see more DIY videos, or would you prefer destination, or sailing videos? -Rebecca
All of the above thanks. Your videos are just great 👍😀
Stumbled across your channel a couple of weeks ago. Love your vids, learning lots with each one ... thank you
Thanks for joining us!
Thanks for this informative video. I have to do the same thing with my 20 footer.
I love Valiants..one of the best production sailboats ever built I think. Bob Perry drew some great ones.
David Dickson Thanks for watching! 20 feet or 40 feet, it’s all the same procedures! good luck! -Rebecca
Great job Patrick! I look forward to videos of your trip to the "tip".
Thanks for the comment. That’s what I am worried about...will we go around during the best possible weather to avoid any drama, and not have anything to photograph, or will he do anything for a good video. He worries me sometimes ;) -Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW You guys will be fine! Linda and I envy the fact that you are both still sailing on such a grand scale. Keep at it.
@@gonagain Great to hear from you. I hope you had a nice Christmas and the snow has not gotten too deep. Happy New Year. Patrick
@@RVLifeNOW, snow melted but more is on the way. We plan on escaping south for February. Maybe southern AZ or something. Nice to see your channel doing well!
Happy New year Patrick!
I need to fashion a rudder for my sailboat since it blew off on the freeway... Don't worry no one was hurt :-)
Wow...sounds like a good video to me!!! Just released this video my mistake...yikes..it wasn’t ready! Happy New Year to you too!
Happy New Year and thank you for your time and effort. BH looking good.
Thank you for your nice comment, Mary....and Happy New Year to you.
Always enjoy your vidoes. Thanks.
Thank you, David.
@@RVLifeNOW I put a little something in the kitty for you both. It's not much, but hope it helps you somehow. Thanks for the time and effort you both put into making the videos. I always find something in them that's helpful to me.
David P Thanks so much for that David..that was more than just a little! -Rebecca
Good luck on Tierra del Fuego. I think you'll make it to Ushuaia, an amazing city!. Cheers!
Yeah...maybe as far as we get...the West winds may tell us to turn around there...we will see ;) -Rebecca
Hou het simpel ,dat werkt altijd beter.🎉
Yep as long as we have no wet socks it’s a good thing however one chooses to fix the cockpit floor :)
Great video, yet again, thanks Patrick. A lot of good knowledge there which will be invaluable going forward. Happy New Year to yourself and Rebecca from SV Aurora Leigh.
Thank you, William. Happy to hear these videos are helpful. Happy New Year to you too.
Looking good. 👍👍👍
Thanks so much! Is it too white? -Rebecca
Another great video - Thank You
Thanks for your comment...Do you want to see more sailing videos or more how to videos? -Rebecca
Ya'll make some of the best how to vids, thanks.
Thanks so much for such a nice compliment. Do you prefer the How to videos or would you like us to get back to some sailing tips type videos like the older ones? -Rebecca
Hola Tierra del Fuego Land of Fire Merry Christmas. Saludos
Yep...here we come! Yikes!!! Have you been there? -Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW yes very cold, but beautiful. Saludos
Pretty soon we will have a video about the ways we will stay warm down there....please let us know if you think it will be enough :)-Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW hello yes I will be looking for you videos. Feliz Navidades saludos
What about using epoxy for the foam panel
All the repairs and patching I have done to this boat have been using epoxy, except for filling the voids inside of the keel faring. Epoxy could have been used for laminating the skin on the foam panel but I went with the preference of the contractor and let them use polyester. In this application, there was plenty of strength using polyester in the layup and it set up faster than epoxy. I used all epoxy for the installation of the panel.
Nice work
Thanks Keeldragger. I have seen the very expensive Coosa Board but thought there might a way other boat owners could make their own stress skin panels or fiberglass reinforced panels and here they are made on a regular basis in Richards Bay.
Hi Patrick and Rebecca great content, always a help for ideas on my rebuild. Perhaps a little more investment in sound gathering? I was having trouble hearing some of the content. Thanks you for your hard work in showing me your techniques and projects! Ben S/V Dawn
Yes, sound has been a challenge. I just picked up a wearable mic and recorder so now there is one more bit of equipment to learn, which might improve things. Sound in Hayden's shop was terrible, while doing the layup, since a compressor was constantly running in the background. I knew those sections would have to be a voice over. When Hayden was talking about the separating resin on the glass table, that short section was just barely usable after adjusting the equalizer. That was a new technique to me. The outro, with Rebecca at the end, was a very big surprise to both Rebecca and I, as it all sounded fine going into the rendering but quite muted on the uploaded video. Seems there is always a snag. But thanks for your comment and we always appreciate feedback on how to make the videos more viewable.
Also...remember too, that on any of our videos, you can turn on closed captions so you can get every word of what is said. (30+ languages too ;) ). Happy Nee Year!
I am so glad to see another post from you. Gives me a chance to one a new stream. How much longer are you intending to be in R Bay? At present it is not our usual December humidity. I have however spent timc in the complex pool wheee i live - a small splash pool, but is in the shade most of the time so is not to hot. Where I used to live in the village, the pool waa in the sun all day so heated up fast. When you do eventually depart from the Bay, I wish you fair winds!
I think we are gonna go around mid January. Will you wave to us from your place?.
Will you even see it from the ocean? It is virtually in the middle of the village, the only set of flats here. Downstairs is the ground floor with 1 office on the first floor, with 6 1 bedrooms flats. I own the one furthest from the sea because of the coral reefsthat keep the larger sharks from the beach, most wants sailing to Durban, do so over the horizon that is where the ships sail. Inshore, the sea is quite shallow and there are coral reefs that calm the waves, but are breeding grounds for Great Whites. These reefs made Port Durnford an ideal landing spot for troops from Durban, because the sea was calmed by the reefs. That is why there is a place that grew up in 1879 as Port Durnford, with a hefty out to sea. That has long since ceased to exist and Richards Bay became a commercial port, vlosevbybraik and road to the Gauteng hive of industry.
There are often trains of many kilometres length loaded with coal shedding into the coal terminal facing you as you leave the Yacht club
There is a deep channel heading straight out of the Bay itself, a year ago, a coal tanker strayed to the left of this channel, ran aground and has to be broken up and towed further out to be sunk
Ah ok...won’t try to wave then...hahah -Rebecca
Ok, good to know...need to be ever vigilant. -Rebecca
How much longer are you in South Africa for? I will ask our dealer to provide you with some of our fuel additive to help clean your fuel tank and keep it clean.
Oh..that would be nice...please tell us more about it? We are in Richards Bay for another 3-4 weeks, and then heading to Cape Town by end of January, weather depending. That’s a nice offer...please provide a link or at least the name of it so we can see what it is first though OK? Our fuel will have been sitting for 9 months by the time we give it a good work out next month...so it could use something really good. Is your additive up to the task ;) 🤔-Rebecca
Hi Patrick. Let me try again. My son's name is Christof Schoeman and his videos are under CS-WildCAM on TH-cam. You should find the latest one of the elephants taken with gopro there. Regards Chris of Red Amber .
Thanks, Chris.
Why was the cockpit sole canted forward?
The cockpit has always been a bit too flat. The original construction did not give the floor adequate slope in consideration for all the trim loading snags a boat like this goes through over the course of a long passage. With 2 anchors on the bow and 300' of 3/8th chain, it takes a lot to trim the boat aft. With full fuel tanks, this helps to regain proper trim and better cockpit drainage. Trying to keep the boat light and buoyant in the stormy western Indian Ocean, the lack of fuel in the stern located tanks, and far less water in the water tanks, changes the fore and aft trim to decrease the necessary drainage of the cockpit. We had to sell our 50 pound sail sewing machine to get it out of the bow, which was the only place it could be stored.
@@RVLifeNOW Thanks for the explanation. I kinda figured that might be the case 'cause I have a bit of the "forward leans" as well.
Welcome...thanks for watching and for your question.
Nice work but why don't you make two drains? Happy glassing!
For an ocean crossing boat that experiences different trim characteristics as fuel and water supplies are used, there was never proper pitch to the floor. What pitch was there was designed to drain the water aft to the drains which exit the boat above the water line. Adding drains through the forward section of the cockpit floor means having to put in thru hulls in the engine room and having to snake hoses to them or snaking long hoses a long way aft and trying to avoid the steering mechanism and somehow keeping the proper pitch to the hoses, then adding thruhulls through the aft of the boat. It is a far better design to just add the pitch which does not allow water to slosh around in the forward section of the cockpit floor. If you watch our Valiant-40 tour, the first one in a 3 part series, I show how I had to make the factory drains bigger and then added another drain on the vertical, aft, panel of the cockpit and hosed out the back of the boat. This is a high water level drain for when large waves fill the cockpit, which has happened. There are a lot of boats that do not have adequate cockpit drainage.
Good answer. On my boat the cockpit it is leveled out better, I think. No problem like yours. I hope your work will work out fine! Nice glass job! Keep up the good sailing and your vlogs. You are the best.
Dry feet, you can wear your socks in your cockpit now... gone get me a T-shirt for Xmas
Thanks for your support and for watching! Yes...and we will be wearing socks more often soon, so it will be nice to not have a bunch of wet socks every time we go outside!! -Rebecca
Interesting video. The later Valiant 40s have 4 cockpit drains, one in each corner of the hull.
Thanks for that information, Guy. How do the forward 2 drains exit the boat? I would hope through their own thruhulls and not tap into the other two drains.
Last video you still had a boat load of work left. Looks like you put the peddle down
The pedal has been down, 7 days a week, for the past 7 months. There is so much I have been wanting to do, without the surprise projects, for the past 5 years....and now most are done. There are a lot of videos to put together, like applying the Coppercoat, resin blister repair, granny bars, ripping into the rudder to see if the interior and welded parts will survive the long distances ahead, the refacing of the walls and cabinets along with new mirrors in the head, two sources of cabin heat are now installed......the list continues but almost all the projects are now done.
No tarps or way of containing debris in that boatyard 💀. I guess that’s how it goes in foreign ports. They are really strict here in the US
Many countries are much easier than the U.S.. Here, in S.Africa, we hung an old mainsail to help contain sanding dust from spreading to our neighbors. But I made sure our neighbors used the same sail as a tarp when they sanded, especially the steel boats. Also in an upcoming video I will show how well a cheap vacuum, using water as a filter, caught a lot of sanding dust and saved us a lot of cleanup. We did a lot of raking of debris and put it all in the dumpster so it could be transported to a distant land fill and pollute the ground water someplace far away, same as in the U.S..
Holy f.. your website has so many adverts, i just closed the website... Really should remove.
Can’t afford to have the website without ads. It’s more than $300 per year for our website.
Or are you taking about TH-cam’s site where you saw our diy sailboat video? If you are talking about the ads on the video...the user has the choice to see TH-cam videos with ads or without though you have to pay some kind of a premium to see youtube without ads. Websites that are growing are getting clobbered with lots of ads I’m sorry to say. It’s how they offer the real estate for free to us all. Like television...you can pay for premium TV or you can get the free ones that have the ads. Sorry! -Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW Thank you Rebecca for the quick answer. Hope you guys are doing fine considering what's going on
I was talking about your website, not TH-cam. Also I thought the top part of your website was a bit messy to be honest, with all the writing above what appeared to be the top of the webpage. ( Where the menu is)
$300 a year is quite a lot for a website, guess there's a lot of traffic :)
Take care, in almost catched up on your videos. (not a lot else to do here where I am right now.
Andreas
Andreas Yes if I could easily convert to a free one I would but it’s a LOT of work to do so :) Thanks for watching so many of our videos. We appreciate that and your comments...-Rebecca
@@RVLifeNOW I don't think a free one would be any good.
Is the text on top of the webpage supposed to be like that, or is it loading wrong for me?
There are 8 lines of text above where the website appears to start :)
Yeah it’s different depending if you look at it from an iPad, an Android, a PC, a laptop. I don’t tend to concentrate on it much anymore....every time I touch it I break it. So I am always loathe to touch it. And with the templates they provide it makes it hard too. I’m not much a webmaster I’m sorry to say. The youtube is more fun, makes us a little more money than writing articles or blogs, and has an easier format. So we spend more time on that now. Thanks for the concern...and for watching our videos ;) -Rebecca