REPLACING ALL OUR LEWMAR HATCHES. Ep. 41. 😬 The boat job that almost broke us.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 เม.ย. 2024
- ⛵️ THE BOAT JOB THAT ALMOST BROKE US 🌬️
Hello sailors,
Join us, Faye and Rob, aboard Reach Out, our Catalina 400 sailing yacht. In this week's episode, moral takes a dip and we battle the elements while installing 6 new LEWMAR HATCHES.
🔧 Rob gives and overview of our latest project as we set out to replace the aging, crazed Luma hatches.
💨 BATTLING THE ELEMENTS: With more gales rolling through #RoyalQuaysMarina and the north east of England we struggle to keep Reach Out water tight.
🛠️ MATERIALS: Instead of using the traditional Arbomast sealing compound, we opted for butyl sealing tape. We'll share why we made this choice and how it worked out for us. #BoatRepairs #DIYSailing
🔄 HOW TO FILL HOLES IN A BOWT COACH ROOF: The new hatches didn't quite fit where the old ones were. Watch as we work out how to fill the old holes before drilling new ones.
🎨 EPOXY WORK: For the first time, we delve into the world of epoxy to ensure a secure and watertight fit for the new hatches. Answering the questions, how to mix epoxy, how to thicken epoxy, how to apply epoxy.
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Thickened epoxy is your friend. Wood dowles are a bad idea. Also, over drill new holes and fill with thickened epoxy and then drill to proper size to keep deck core dry.
Thanks for the advice Paul. We’d never worked with epoxy before and we’d heard horror stories of curing gone terribly, awful mess etc etc etc so we were quite nervous about using it. I actually really enjoyed working with it, shades of old science classes 😃 I’m looking forward to getting onto a few chips and dings that were in the boat when we got her. But I’m defo going to wait for some warmer and less windy weather first!
Hi both, our friends who are moored next to you told us about your adventures & vlog. We have binged watched the lot!!! Absolutely brilliant.. We look forward to watching the next chapter of your sailing trip. Loved the cooking segments too.
We can only apologise for what we’ve put you through 😂 looking forward to a beverage later!
If your boat has a balsa core you may be in for some trouble. I would have liked to see you oversize the new holes and use the syringe and epoxy to fill them and then redrill them. It works nicely to protect the hole from allowing water to penetrate any core. I don't use dowels either - just epoxy with microspheres or microfibres depending on the job.
Thanks for the feedback. We finished all of the holes with epoxy, so they should all be watertight!
Butyl needs to be tightened a touch until it is fully seated. It isn't truly 'compressed' at first. Keep tightening, and if you've used enough tightening over a day or so will sort it.
This is what happened Peter. Love the butyl tape. So easy to work with and so far, zero leaks!
Glad to hear you've set off on your new adventure. Great meeting you both the other night. Don't forget to turn your AIS on then we can stalk you 😂
Bon Voyage.
Thank you very much Liz! Our AIS is now ON! (When under passage!)
Great Video in very testing weather 👍👍👍
Thanks for the encouragement Kev!
When butyl is warm it softens so don’t panic if they drip. They just need a nip to tighten. Also get a pack of grinding heads for the Dremel, they’re great on epoxy.
Thanks for the advice! That’s exactly what happened, after a few days of the butyl setting, we have no drips!
@@sailinghjem Decent Butyl should be fine. It's much better than 3M. Only trick to it is to give it a bit of a tighten after a day as it tends to need a day or so to compress.
@@peterbyrne652 on the money again Peter!
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Glad I found your channel. We have replaced the polycarbonate in all our hatches on our Moody 47. Our Lewmar hatches are unavailable now.
Thank you for the feedback! I’m sure that was a big but satisfying job on your Moody. I’ve always liked Moody boats, we almost bought a Moody 44 instead of Reach Out.
To get epoxy into small spaces, just cut a corner off a small plastic bag and use like an icing bag. Less mess, cheap.
Great tip, thank you very much!
Hi guys, couldn't hear Radio 2 in the background with all that wind;)
Just dropping you a line to say if you are stopping in the river Orwell on the way south, your'e welcome onboard for fish & chips. Can't guarantee stottie cake and pease pudding and we drink Tetley tea.
Best wishes, Rob & Angie
Hi guys. What a lovely offer. We haven't worked out our passage plan for getting south yet, but Harwich is a contender. 🐟🍟☕
Hi Rob and Angie. Don't know if you'll get this in time, but it looks like we are heading for shotley marina tomorrow for a night or two if you would like a tea or a pint! We're on FB if you want to DM us. Faye, Rob and Yewy.
@@sailinghjem Sounds like a plan. We're heading to the boat this evening. Could pick you up in the car if you need shopping?
`as im watching the dowel bit im thinking no no no if/ when it shrinks it would leave a void, all the channels ive watched fiill the hole completly with epoxy or thickened epoxy , ok on with the next bit
Thanks for the advice Mutley. We live and learn my friend 😀
Oh no!!!!!! The hatch on the NETTY??? (granda, what's a netty?)🤭🤭
😂😂 you wouldn’t want me peering down at you holding a drill while you’ve got your kegs round your ankles 😀
You can have 4.10 as epoxy time but 4.20 is spoken for 🤫😉
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Where were these hatches leaking and what did you try to resolve it?
Unfortunately from many places, some more than others. The bedding was giving way but to were the actual hatches as well. But they were 25 years old. It was actually difficult to see through them too as the acrylic was so crazed. During last season, our first, we used Vaseline to try and help the gaskets but it was clear we needed to do a lot more. We looked into replacement gaskets, acrylic, hinges etc but the cost of the components were more expensive than a new hatch, which we couldn’t believe!
Not that you need this comment at this point.., all boat jobs suck...all, and will take you 3 times longer than you think. On the other hand, you will get better and faster, and strangely care less about the perfection of the job. Also you'll be able to nod sagely when someone complains about the same work. From one Catalina owner to another, it's nice to see one across the pond! Catalina's sail well, and are good stiff boats.
Thank you so much Peter for sharing your very wise words. I particularly have found that my sense of perfectionism in each job has, as you’ve suggested would happen, dramatically reduced! I now look for a ‘solid, that’ll do’ standard and my sanity is better off for it!
@@sailinghjemI agree! I also find there is overlap in how you can solve seemingly different issues with the same approach making it easier over time.
One upside to having to fix different things is eventually you become the 'Doctor" and simply know what is wrong by the way it sounds or looks! You look like a magician! 😂