Patrick Childress Sailing - Thanks for the video. 🙏 I’d like to know everything about your Navigation table (if you haven’t already made an episode about it.) 🧭 🗺
How beautiful to see Rebeca, we think she is the most important asset to your navigating the vast oceans of life! She’s a keeper! Looking forward to more of your “ Wisdom” . Thank you Captan!🇨🇦
Hi Patrick, for the last year or more I've been watching and reading as much as I can on the internet about sailing. I must say, your videos have been by far the most informative and an absolute pleasure to watch. I look forward to seeing more. Thank-you for taking the time to make them.
Extremely informative and clear presentations. Wonderful to see a woman who installs and operates her nav equipment. Thanks for sharing your beautiful floating home.
+Diane Swift Thanks Diane! Patrick probably gives me too much credit. I might be a little quicker to remember the menus, and I enjoy the installation and troubleshooting of any problems that come up. But for an old dog, Patrick learns the new tricks pretty darn fast! - Rebecca
Hi Patrick and Rebecca, just wanted to say thank you once again, as a cruiser that is planning to shop off in a year and a half your information and tips are absolutely invaluable. Please keep up the good work, Fairwinds
Thanks guys for the info. I really love those good old boats. My boat has the old Raritan PHIIs and they work well. Thankfully Raritan still makes parts for these heads as they haven't changed much over the years. I'm sure the Jabscos are the same way. My boat has aluminum tanks also and I may do what you did to keep them.
Decades ago I sailed around the world with a Raritan head. That was a good inexpensive head and only leaked a little from the pump shaft when I did not lube it. The Jabsco is pretty similar to the Raritan. It was a lot of work prepping the water tank for painting but well worth the effort. Also, that 2 part paint is very toxic to breathe. I had fans running but also set up the hookah so I could breathe good air through the regulator during the application. Just the fans would not have been enough.
Hi Patrick, a solution to fix the problem of the rusting springs within those lipped seals in the jabsco pump, is to remove the spring from within the lipped seal and replace the spring with an O ring of similar dimension, this never rusts but still provides positive tension in the lipped seal. Same applies to lipped seals within your raw water pump, works a treat. Fair winds, Cheers 👍👍👍
Paul and Eula, Thanks for the great idea! I know people out here who have been sailing most of their life and have always been disturbed by having to replace that shaft seal so often. What a great fix. I just got out my box of metric O-rings and it appears 8X2 fits the tightest. The next size down will not fit. I don’t have imperial O-rings. The next video will finish up the Valiant tour, which will be the engine room and transmission. That will be a short video so there will be time to add a few little items at the end. I will certainly give you guys credit when I show how to install the O-ring in place of the absent spring.
Would love a.whole nav station and electrical video...my project is gonna be ready soon LOL, really!!!...love all you vids, big help seeing what is used and what is unnecessary...thanks and favorable winds!
Pro tip on the Salon table - crazy how so many cruiser boats are not set up to handle gnarly sea states. Super pro tips to keep the head functioning - because life sucks if you have no where to go and the bucket method is no fun for anyone! It would be nice if you could get a machine shop to make you some stainless or aluminum bronze springs for the plunger instead of the common steel which just sucks. Gosh I hate masonite - contractor used it on my house when the were supposed to use hardi-board (cement based product) and I rue the day I did not tell them to tear that shit off my house and put up what they were supposed to use. It has not held up well. I can only imagine how poorly it fared in a marine environment. Great video! I am at the end of the PCS channel run on the older episodes, enjoyed them all, and look forward to watching progress of the refit of Brick House in Richards Bay South Africa. Fair winds Patrick and Rebecca!
What a big difference between Masonite and Hardie Board! Was it the Masonite clapboard that was used? I sure hope not. For the head pump seal, replacement spring, two mechanics said to use just the right size rubber O-ring, which I did and that works great. I have not the opportunity to share their great suggestion. When I get into redecorating the head, then maybe I can show it then.
Rebecca, Thanks for the tour of your Nav Station & thanks to Patrick for his many instructions. If you give more details about the various Navigation elements in your setup, I would be interested. You guys are great ! Tks Ken
In the newest video about our passage from Tanga to Zanzibar, I get into a few more details on what the MFD, Multi Function Display, can do. We will have to get to work on a more in depth nav station video. Thanks for your comment.
Patrick Childress Sailing Hi Patrick, Since you visit such exotic locations, maybe you could show or describe the area & what you & Rebecca see &/or do when you anchor for months; but please keep up the good instructions on the boat systems.
Kenneth, there have been a couple times where interesting things got me motivated to make a little local video. Some of those items are at the end of videos. Eventually we decided to start putting those up separately in our new Travels and Animals, You Tube channel. Do a search for Travels and Animals and it will come up. Thanks for the comment.
Patrick, that rusted out spring in your Toilet pump. Have you tried finding an appropriately sized O ring in your collection, and inserting it into the channel the old spring was in? Works a treat, a trick I learnt with the shaftseals in a Volvo saildrive.
Paul and Eula, Thanks for the great idea! I know people out here who have been sailing most of their life and have always been disturbed by having to replace that shaft seal so often. What a great fix. I just got out my box of metric O-rings and it appears 8X2 fits the tightest. The next size down will not fit. I don’t have imperial O-rings. The next video will finish up the Valiant tour, which will be the engine room and transmission. That will be a short video so there will be time to add a few little items at the end. I will certainly give you guys credit when I show how to install the O-ring in place of the absent spring.
Another enjoyable, informative vlog. Thank you. Glad to see both of you participating! Although I read your article on Iridium Go.....and am a Predictwind subscriber currently.....a two or three minute segment illustrating A-Z, starting from “wonder what the weather looks like for this next passage” to “reading the gribs on the Ipad” would be appreciated. Perhaps the same with the 802 (I am a ham with a 700pro onboard, no pactor, callsign KG5WBU General class). Good Jabsco maintenance review...just like mine, maintained like mine (with a Lavac second for offshore). Thanks again! Andrew
Andrew, Good ideas. Day after tomorrow we leave Tanga, on the coast, for the island of Zanzibar, about 45 miles to the southeast. I think Rebecca is receptive to doing the weather check and routing, on camera, so we can show some real sailing. But also have to finish up the "tour" by going into the engine room, my favorite place.
Patrick Childress Sailing - thank you.....folks I chat to enjoy your videos, and enjoy Rebecca and the travelogues equally....but the tech upgrades are cool and all can relate. Many of us will only get to Zanzibar via Rebecca’s vlogs and imagery.....we all however, at some point, will end up knee deep in a Jabsco repair!
Please more info on the Navigation station. I have a Raymarine e125 chart plotter, Raymarine i70 wind gauge and a vesper 8000 AIS. I’m installing the Raymarine Quantum Radar. I’m new to the boat and am still learning my system, so any advice would be appreciated. Still trying to learn how to the weather info. Thanks in advance.
Sound like you are off to a good start...Raymarine makes great products! ...Here is our marine electronics video: th-cam.com/video/2HwX2Ilr2f4/w-d-xo.html
That is a really great idea that only two other commenters mentioned in the life of this old video. One of these days, when the opportunity arises, I will show that in a video. Thanks for this little known remedy.
Thanks Patrick (and Rebecca). Am interested in your thoughts on how high up a priority list should radar be for someone who doesn't have one. Are the energy drain and tuning/noise issues worth the hassle? Has your experience with one been good? Thanks.
Hi Patrick. I love flying this boat IFR. With all this powerful instrumentation we can see far beyond the horizon and get a clear trace of the ocean bottom, thousands of feet below. We have a powerful RADAR and is absolutely necessary in S.E. Asia, along the Mexican coast and other areas where we get early warning of unlit, small, fishing boats we would have hit. I have watched 200' fishing boats turn on their AIS when the spotting helicopter launched then turned off the AIS when the helicopter returned. Plus, at night, the terrible distance perception to lit fishing boats, without AIS, is cleared up by using RADAR. AIS has taken over much of the RADAR work but will never eliminate it because of all those other vessels that will never have AIS. Still, there are container ships, like which operate intracommercial, in Indonesia that do not show AIS or keep a proper lookout. I reported one of these negligent ships to the ship owner who was very happy to get the report. The self adjustments of modern RADAR is so good I don't normally have to do more than manually adjust the gain when searching for difficult targets. Our RADAR is used far more at night than during the day. The power usage is only a fraction of what the old RADARs were 15 or 20 years ago. When not in active use, we set the RADAR to standby and the energy use is minimal. We do not have a built in generator so we do what we can to conserve amperage. For the type of ocean and coastal sailing we do, which is often multi overnighters, it would be far too risky to do without RADAR. Cheap insurance. Just the other day I looked to see if you have any new vids. I am looking forward to the next one!
Thanks Patrick. It's reassuring hearing someone with your experience confirming that radar is more than 'nice to have', and that modern radars are vastly better than early generation ones. It's (high) on my list. I have just installed an inner forestay and staysail, so I am slowly but surely making progress on 'the list'. :-) I'm doing local sailing now, but when it gets a bit warmer, I'll be heading North to Iceland for the Spring/Summer. Looking forward to your next video.
Patrick Laine hey Patrick we use BG 4g radar it’s invaluable in the Great Lake as we run into heavy fog quit often also on a trip to Newfoundland it was used many times during night sails and again fog I have sold the boat and purchased a union cutter on the west coast and it will certainly have a BG radar system installed cheers mate looking forward to more of ur videos
I did the ceiling work in the Philippines and it had to be ordered from the capital, Manilla. In the U.S., check with a local lumber yard. The lumber yard will have access to PVC trim boards and certainly the PVC panels.
In case of a front collision is there something stopping the water from entering the boats bilge through that pipe? I often see these lockers be treated like water proof compartments on blue water boats.
While at the dock, or even at anchor,and all the chain is out, I will vacuum the locker to get the dirt and bits of things out to help keep from plugging the drain hose. At the dock, I will run water through the locker drain to help flush it out. Otherwise, it is a pretty maintenance free area. Never used any soap in the locker.
Hi Patrick. My wife and I are looking to retire on our yacht and sail her down to Thailand. I was wondering what your out goings are for your where you are? Regards Charles.
Everyone's economic situation is a little different. Some people never go into a marina and some people can not pass up a marina. You can live as frugally as you want. The big money breaker is all the unexpected boat repair bills. Best be able to do most of the work yourself. It is far cheaper to live on our sailboat than to live in a house in the U.S.. There, we would have to go back to work just to pay the property taxes, mortgage, electricity, heating, insurance, then all the expenses of a car....a lot of overhead expenses that don't always exist on a sailboat.
This is Rebecca. We really like them...and it’s nice to not have the wires to contend with. We have had to replace the solar batteries twice, and Patrick does regular maintenance on the bearings and cups on the top of the mast. See these two videos for details : th-cam.com/video/2xATulCi3hE/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/P_9pZX1LjyE/w-d-xo.html to see details
Did you have any concerns around the health issues from PVC fumes along with the water tanks not being used with food grade chemicals? I guess it’s not as toxic after the first years, but maybe not something worth doing for a live aboard. I like your anchor chain set up!! We are purchasing an 88 Valiant currently so I appreciate your videos and contributions to the knowledge of all bot owners. Best wishes to you!
I trusted Patrick to not poison us...so far so good. I’m sure you have watched my latest videos...Patrick passed in early June from covid. Thanks for watching.
th-cam.com/video/2HwX2Ilr2f4/w-d-xo.html. And. whereisbrickhouse.com/2017/08/24/i-thought-public-wifi-was-a-thing-of-the-past-ancient-history/. And whereisbrickhouse.com/2019/04/09/communication-evolution-on-brick-house-iridium-go-predictwind/ The two links to articles I wrote on our web site apply specifically to your question, and th evidence referenced refer to them too, but only for part o father video. Short answer ...a little bit of everything depending on how far out to sea you mean... Long answer is in those three places, and others on the blog... Please if you have any questions after looking at those, don’t hesitate to contact me back here. -Rebecca
I love all the electronic eyes that see out over the water and down into the sea. It can be like flying an airplane IFR, instrument flight regulations. The Lorance fish finder is like looking out an airplane window but down to the ocean bottom. At 1,800 feet, while sailing along the Caribbean, Mexican coast, the Lowrance traced out the perfect outline of a volcano complete with "smoke" coming out of the cone. The Raymarine has two different types of SONAR which uses a sweep of radio frequencies to give a much finer definition of the ocean bottom but only to a couple hundred feet. The Lowrance uses the standard 50 or 200kz frequencies. Rebecca knows the electronics better than I do.
Hi from Oz. Patrick, what concentration of chlorine are you using in your water tanks? My tanks are sealed FG and I have inline filters for the drinking water, but so far have not used Cl.
Hi David, we use 1/8th cup of 5.25% sodium hypochlorite, common house bleach, to 45 gallons of water. That is about 8mL of bleach to 205 L of water. Google it and there is a lot of info about adding chlorine to fresh water. If the water is cloudy, we add additional bleach. Recently we stopped at a marina in Zanzibar and put on some very clean RO water. In 7 weeks, that water sitting in one tank, is now growing muck so that confirms I need to constantly keep the chlorine level to a minimum to keep our water fresh.
@@RVLifeNOW Thanks Patrick. Lots on the internet but also a fair amount of disagreement, so tapping into your experience is helpful. I just recently cleaned all of my tanks and now want to keep them that way.
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Patrick Childress Sailing - Thanks for the video. 🙏
I’d like to know everything about your Navigation table (if you haven’t already made an episode about it.) 🧭 🗺
Thanks for the head stuff Patrick. You just thought of everything. All these little Pat'isms are unforgetable, as you are.
I would love a more detailed Nav Station video. Great videos, thank you!!
Thx..hope you found that one!
Yes.....please do a long video of the nav station. and thanks guys for being you.
Thanks...one of these days. I don’t really like being on camera ;) But one of these days. Rebecca
How beautiful to see Rebeca, we think she is the most important asset to your navigating the vast oceans of life!
She’s a keeper! Looking forward to more of your “ Wisdom” . Thank you Captan!🇨🇦
Rebecca was the big motivator to begin this trip 12 years ago. Thanks for you comment!
Hi Patrick, for the last year or more I've been watching and reading as much as I can on the internet about sailing. I must say, your videos have been by far the most informative and an absolute pleasure to watch. I look forward to seeing more. Thank-you for taking the time to make them.
Thanks for taking the time to thank him....he enjoys making them, but they sure do take a lot of time and effort. -Rebecca
Extremely informative and clear presentations. Wonderful to see a woman who installs and operates her nav equipment. Thanks for sharing your beautiful floating home.
+Diane Swift Thanks Diane! Patrick probably gives me too much credit. I might be a little quicker to remember the menus, and I enjoy the installation and troubleshooting of any problems that come up. But for an old dog, Patrick learns the new tricks pretty darn fast! - Rebecca
I have so much love for Robert Perry designs ,but you can't think of everything .Good work on the pin on the table .
Thx
A star is born, thanks Rebecca. Another great video. Please keep them coming.
Yeah..
always informative and great to see the channel growing - Congrats
Thanks Kiwi.
Hi Patrick and Rebecca, just wanted to say thank you once again, as a cruiser that is planning to shop off in a year and a half your information and tips are absolutely invaluable. Please keep up the good work, Fairwinds
Thanks, Glassman.
Excellent! Thanks for the tour & tips! Always interesting, Always useful info!!
Thank you.
Very informative video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
MightyMerc Thanks for the thumbs up...we appreciate it!
Thanks for watxhing
Yes thumbs up I appreciate the knowledge!
Yes. In 2021 thumbs up still going up. So good video.
Thx
Great video. Would love a full detail of your Nav station!
I’m a bit camera shy...it’s hard to remember what I want to say....but at will try it one of these days. Appreciate the comment and request. - Rebecca
Liked the PVC idea, thank you.🙂
Thanks for watching!
Thanks guys for the info. I really love those good old boats. My boat has the old Raritan PHIIs and they work well. Thankfully Raritan still makes parts for these heads as they haven't changed much over the years. I'm sure the Jabscos are the same way. My boat has aluminum tanks also and I may do what you did to keep them.
Decades ago I sailed around the world with a Raritan head. That was a good inexpensive head and only leaked a little from the pump shaft when I did not lube it. The Jabsco is pretty similar to the Raritan. It was a lot of work prepping the water tank for painting but well worth the effort. Also, that 2 part paint is very toxic to breathe. I had fans running but also set up the hookah so I could breathe good air through the regulator during the application. Just the fans would not have been enough.
Great video, thanks for sharing all the tips.
Thx
Toilet section very helpful would take me a while to get my head around all the nav station machines !!!!lol
Ah glad the head helped your head.
Hi Patrick, a solution to fix the problem of the rusting springs within those lipped seals in the jabsco pump, is to remove the spring from within the lipped seal and replace the spring with an O ring of similar dimension, this never rusts but still provides positive tension in the lipped seal. Same applies to lipped seals within your raw water pump, works a treat. Fair winds, Cheers 👍👍👍
Paul and Eula, Thanks for the great idea! I know people out
here who have been sailing most of their life and have always been disturbed by
having to replace that shaft seal so often. What a great fix. I just got out my
box of metric O-rings and it appears 8X2 fits the tightest. The next size down
will not fit. I don’t have imperial O-rings.
The next video will finish up the Valiant tour, which will be the engine room
and transmission. That will be a short video so there will be time to add a few
little items at the end. I will certainly give you guys credit when I show how to
install the O-ring in place of the absent spring.
Very much like your videos and your good advice. You really know your ship.
Haha..yes he did!
Would love a.whole nav station and electrical video...my project is gonna be ready soon LOL, really!!!...love all you vids, big help seeing what is used and what is unnecessary...thanks and favorable winds!
We will soon get started on that video. Thanks for the comment!
Excellent vid ya'll, thanks for the info.
Thx
Always great tips! Thanks to you both!
Thx
More great tips. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
Pro tip on the Salon table - crazy how so many cruiser boats are not set up to handle gnarly sea states. Super pro tips to keep the head functioning - because life sucks if you have no where to go and the bucket method is no fun for anyone! It would be nice if you could get a machine shop to make you some stainless or aluminum bronze springs for the plunger instead of the common steel which just sucks. Gosh I hate masonite - contractor used it on my house when the were supposed to use hardi-board (cement based product) and I rue the day I did not tell them to tear that shit off my house and put up what they were supposed to use. It has not held up well. I can only imagine how poorly it fared in a marine environment. Great video! I am at the end of the PCS channel run on the older episodes, enjoyed them all, and look forward to watching progress of the refit of Brick House in Richards Bay South Africa. Fair winds Patrick and Rebecca!
What a big difference between Masonite and Hardie Board! Was it the Masonite clapboard that was used? I sure hope not. For the head pump seal, replacement spring, two mechanics said to use just the right size rubber O-ring, which I did and that works great. I have not the opportunity to share their great suggestion. When I get into redecorating the head, then maybe I can show it then.
@@RVLifeNOW Yes the clap board siding and the sheet goods for soffits. Blech.
Rebecca, Thanks for the tour of your Nav Station & thanks to Patrick for his many instructions. If you give more details about the various Navigation elements in your setup, I would be interested. You guys are great ! Tks Ken
In the newest video about our passage from Tanga to Zanzibar, I get into a few more details on what the MFD, Multi Function Display, can do. We will have to get to work on a more in depth nav station video. Thanks for your comment.
Patrick Childress Sailing
Hi Patrick,
Since you visit such exotic locations, maybe you could show or describe the area & what you & Rebecca see &/or do when you anchor for months; but please keep up the good instructions on the boat systems.
Kenneth, there have been a couple times where interesting things got me motivated to make a little local video. Some of those items are at the end of videos. Eventually we decided to start putting those up separately in our new Travels and Animals, You Tube channel. Do a search for Travels and Animals and it will come up. Thanks for the comment.
Great tips thanks
Thanks for watching!
new ceiling panels look like a good improvement
The old panels were a real wreck of peeling paint and delamination. This boat is 1976 so there isn't much which hasn't been replaced.
Great info and video.... thanks!!
Thx
Very interesting and helpful guys!
Thanks, Umadum!
I noticed your boat today moored close to me at Slipway :)
Which boat were you?
good job
Thanks
Patrick, that rusted out spring in your Toilet pump.
Have you tried finding an appropriately sized O ring in your collection, and inserting it into the channel the old spring was in?
Works a treat, a trick I learnt with the shaftseals in a Volvo saildrive.
Paul and Eula, Thanks for the great idea! I know people out
here who have been sailing most of their life and have always been disturbed by
having to replace that shaft seal so often. What a great fix. I just got out my
box of metric O-rings and it appears 8X2 fits the tightest. The next size down
will not fit. I don’t have imperial O-rings.
The next video will finish up the Valiant tour, which will be the engine room
and transmission. That will be a short video so there will be time to add a few
little items at the end. I will certainly give you guys credit when I show how to
install the O-ring in place of the absent spring.
Another enjoyable, informative vlog. Thank you. Glad to see both of you participating! Although I read your article on Iridium Go.....and am a Predictwind subscriber currently.....a two or three minute segment illustrating A-Z, starting from “wonder what the weather looks like for this next passage” to “reading the gribs on the Ipad” would be appreciated. Perhaps the same with the 802 (I am a ham with a 700pro onboard, no pactor, callsign KG5WBU General class). Good Jabsco maintenance review...just like mine, maintained like mine (with a Lavac second for offshore). Thanks again! Andrew
Andrew, Good ideas. Day after tomorrow we leave Tanga, on the coast, for the island of Zanzibar, about 45 miles to the southeast. I think Rebecca is receptive to doing the weather check and routing, on camera, so we can show some real sailing. But also have to finish up the "tour" by going into the engine room, my favorite place.
Patrick Childress Sailing - thank you.....folks I chat to enjoy your videos, and enjoy Rebecca and the travelogues equally....but the tech upgrades are cool and all can relate. Many of us will only get to Zanzibar via Rebecca’s vlogs and imagery.....we all however, at some point, will end up knee deep in a Jabsco repair!
Please more info on the Navigation station. I have a Raymarine e125 chart plotter, Raymarine i70 wind gauge and a vesper 8000 AIS. I’m installing the Raymarine Quantum Radar. I’m new to the boat and am still learning my system, so any advice would be appreciated. Still trying to learn how to the weather info. Thanks in advance.
Sound like you are off to a good start...Raymarine makes great products! ...Here is our marine electronics video: th-cam.com/video/2HwX2Ilr2f4/w-d-xo.html
You can use a properly sized oring to replace the rusted away spring on the seal for that head pump.
That is a really great idea that only two other commenters mentioned in the life of this old video. One of these days, when the opportunity arises, I will show that in a video. Thanks for this little known remedy.
Thanks Patrick (and Rebecca). Am interested in your thoughts on how high up a priority list should radar be for someone who doesn't have one. Are the energy drain and tuning/noise issues worth the hassle? Has your experience with one been good? Thanks.
Hi Patrick. I love flying this boat IFR. With all this powerful instrumentation we can see far beyond the horizon and get a clear trace of the ocean bottom, thousands of feet below. We have a powerful RADAR and is absolutely necessary in S.E. Asia, along the Mexican coast and other areas where we get early warning of unlit, small, fishing boats we would have hit. I have watched 200' fishing boats turn on their AIS when the spotting helicopter launched then turned off the AIS when the helicopter returned. Plus, at night, the terrible distance perception to lit fishing boats, without AIS, is cleared up by using RADAR. AIS has taken over much of the RADAR work but will never eliminate it because of all those other vessels that will never have AIS. Still, there are container ships, like which operate intracommercial, in Indonesia that do not show AIS or keep a proper lookout. I reported one of these negligent ships to the ship owner who was very happy to get the report. The self adjustments of modern RADAR is so good I don't normally have to do more than manually adjust the gain when searching for difficult targets. Our RADAR is used far more at night than during the day. The power usage is only a fraction of what the old RADARs were 15 or 20 years ago. When not in active use, we set the RADAR to standby and the energy use is minimal. We do not have a built in generator so we do what we can to conserve amperage. For the type of ocean and coastal sailing we do, which is often multi overnighters, it would be far too risky to do without RADAR. Cheap insurance. Just the other day I looked to see if you have any new vids. I am looking forward to the next one!
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Thanks Patrick. It's reassuring hearing someone with your experience confirming that radar is more than 'nice to have', and that modern radars are vastly better than early generation ones. It's (high) on my list. I have just installed an inner forestay and staysail, so I am slowly but surely making progress on 'the list'. :-) I'm doing local sailing now, but when it gets a bit warmer, I'll be heading North to Iceland for the Spring/Summer. Looking forward to your next video.
Patrick Laine hey Patrick we use BG 4g radar it’s invaluable in the Great Lake as we run into heavy fog quit often also on a trip to Newfoundland it was used many times during night sails and again fog I have sold the boat and purchased a union cutter on the west coast and it will certainly have a BG radar system installed cheers mate looking forward to more of ur videos
Thanks Slipstream. I'll check it out. Much appreciated.
Where can one find the 4x8 sheets of PVC? Do plastic suppliers carry that?
I did the ceiling work in the Philippines and it had to be ordered from the capital, Manilla. In the U.S., check with a local lumber yard. The lumber yard will have access to PVC trim boards and certainly the PVC panels.
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Thanks
thank you PC ( and Rebecca ),,, OMG,, do i need a Rebecca on my boat ?????
Every boat needs a Rebecca.
In case of a front collision is there something stopping the water from entering the boats bilge through that pipe?
I often see these lockers be treated like water proof compartments on blue water boats.
No..not on this sailboat, Thanks for watching this part of the sailboat tour. ;) -Rebecca
Do you add anything into the chain locker? Simple Green?
While at the dock, or even at anchor,and all the chain is out, I will vacuum the locker to get the dirt and bits of things out to help keep from plugging the drain hose. At the dock, I will run water through the locker drain to help flush it out. Otherwise, it is a pretty maintenance free area. Never used any soap in the locker.
Hi Patrick- Are your PVC panels glued to your ceiling or just held up by the trim strips? Thanks!
Hans, The PVC panels are held in place with the teak strips screwed into the plywood ceiling.
Patrick Childress Sailing Thank you!
Hi Patrick. My wife and I are looking to retire on our yacht and sail her down to Thailand.
I was wondering what your out goings are for your where you are?
Regards
Charles.
Everyone's economic situation is a little different. Some people never go into a marina and some people can not pass up a marina. You can live as frugally as you want. The big money breaker is all the unexpected boat repair bills. Best be able to do most of the work yourself. It is far cheaper to live on our sailboat than to live in a house in the U.S.. There, we would have to go back to work just to pay the property taxes, mortgage, electricity, heating, insurance, then all the expenses of a car....a lot of overhead expenses that don't always exist on a sailboat.
How are your experiences with the Raymarine Wireless systems?
So far so good. No complaints. We have had them for I don't remember how many years.
This is Rebecca. We really like them...and it’s nice to not have the wires to contend with. We have had to replace the solar batteries twice, and Patrick does regular maintenance on the bearings and cups on the top of the mast. See these two videos for details : th-cam.com/video/2xATulCi3hE/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/P_9pZX1LjyE/w-d-xo.html to see details
Did you have any concerns around the health issues from PVC fumes along with the water tanks not being used with food grade chemicals? I guess it’s not as toxic after the first years, but maybe not something worth doing for a live aboard. I like your anchor chain set up!! We are purchasing an 88 Valiant currently so I appreciate your videos and contributions to the knowledge of all bot owners. Best wishes to you!
I trusted Patrick to not poison us...so far so good. I’m sure you have watched my latest videos...Patrick passed in early June from covid. Thanks for watching.
What u use for wifi when in middle of ocean?
th-cam.com/video/2HwX2Ilr2f4/w-d-xo.html.
And.
whereisbrickhouse.com/2017/08/24/i-thought-public-wifi-was-a-thing-of-the-past-ancient-history/.
And
whereisbrickhouse.com/2019/04/09/communication-evolution-on-brick-house-iridium-go-predictwind/
The two links to articles I wrote on our web site apply specifically to your question, and th evidence referenced refer to them too, but only for part o father video.
Short answer ...a little bit of everything depending on how far out to sea you mean...
Long answer is in those three places, and others on the blog...
Please if you have any questions after looking at those, don’t hesitate to contact me back here.
-Rebecca
No wonder you let Rebecca handle the nav station, I've seen less instrumentation on a space ship.
I love all the electronic eyes that see out over the water and down into the sea. It can be like flying an airplane IFR, instrument flight regulations. The Lorance fish finder is like looking out an airplane window but down to the ocean bottom. At 1,800 feet, while sailing along the Caribbean, Mexican coast, the Lowrance traced out the perfect outline of a volcano complete with "smoke" coming out of the cone. The Raymarine has two different types of SONAR which uses a sweep of radio frequencies to give a much finer definition of the ocean bottom but only to a couple hundred feet. The Lowrance uses the standard 50 or 200kz frequencies. Rebecca knows the electronics better than I do.
Hi from Oz. Patrick, what concentration of chlorine are you using in your water tanks? My tanks are sealed FG and I have inline filters for the drinking water, but so far have not used Cl.
Hi David, we use 1/8th cup of 5.25% sodium hypochlorite, common house bleach, to 45 gallons of water. That is about 8mL of bleach to 205 L of water. Google it and there is a lot of info about adding chlorine to fresh water. If the water is cloudy, we add additional bleach. Recently we stopped at a marina in Zanzibar and put on some very clean RO water. In 7 weeks, that water sitting in one tank, is now growing muck so that confirms I need to constantly keep the chlorine level to a minimum to keep our water fresh.
@@RVLifeNOW Thanks Patrick. Lots on the internet but also a fair amount of disagreement, so tapping into your experience is helpful. I just recently cleaned all of my tanks and now want to keep them that way.
Whoops! Eula beat me to it 15 minutes ago...
Haha
Thanks for the video. 🙏
I’d like to know everything about your Navigation table (if you haven’t already made an episode about it.) 🧭 🗺
th-cam.com/video/2HwX2Ilr2f4/w-d-xo.html. Thanks for watching!