Building an ALUMINUM Sailboat Pt 9 - Arctic Cruising: Will our New Boat Pass the Test? | EP 229
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- #aluminumsailboat #boatbuilding #arcticsailing #metstrade
Paul makes a trip to the Netherlands to see the progress on the build of Distant Shores IV, our new custom aluminum Enksail Orion 49 cruising sailboat. While he is there, Paul attends METStrade, the annual Marine Equipment Trade Show in Amsterdam, to speak to suppliers and learn more about the options we are considering for the boat.
At the show, he meets up with a group of other sailing TH-camrs, who are either experienced Arctic sailors or metal boat owners or both. Later, this fun-loving group drive up to the Gebroeders van Enkhuizen Shipyard in Makkum to give their thoughts on whether Distant Shores IV will be a good Arctic cruising boat or not, based on their experiences. Lots of good info here!
Sail with us in the British Virgin Islands February 24 to March 4, 2023 distantshores.ca/sailaway-wee...
00:00 Intro
00:45 METSTrade Amsterdam
01:47 Fast-forward building aluminum sailboat hull
03:19 MJ Sailing, Odd Life Crafting, EarleWrites, BRNKL visit
06:23 Sailing Uma tour aluminum sailboat
08:07 Prepare for polar bears
11:27 Planning the route north
12:53 Come sailing with us in the British Virgin Islands
13:41 Toronto International Boat Show seminars coming up
Special Thanks to:
Earle Writes - / earlewrites
MJ Sailing - / mjsailing
Odd Life Crafting - / oddlifecrafting
Sailing Uma - / sailinguma
Partners:
BRNKL Yacht Security & Monitoring: www.brnkl.io/
Brunton’s Propellers: www.bruntonspropellers.com/
Enksail Yachts - gebrvanenkhuizen.nl/?lang=en
Gebroeders van Enkhuizen Boatbuilders - gebrvanenkhuizen.nl/?lang=en
GN Espace Galley Systems - www.gn-espace.com
KB Alubouw - www.kbalubouw.nl
Lewmar - www.lewmar.com/
MG Energy Systems (lithium batteries) - www.mgenergysystems.eu/
Navionics Charts - www.navionics.com/
Oceanskies Yacht Registration - www.oceanskies.com/yachts/
Raymarine/Flir - www.raymarine.com/
Satellite Yacht Design - www.yacht-design.nl/
Scanstrut - www.scanstrut.com/
Seldén Mast/Furlex - www.seldenmast.com/
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See You at the Toronto International Boat Show (January 20-29, 2023)
The Toronto International Boat Show takes place at the Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place 100 Princes’ Blvd., Toronto, ON Canada M6K 3C3
Home: www.torontoboatshow.com/
Schedule of Main Stage Seminars: www.torontoboatshow.com/educa...
Cruising Seminars with Paul and Sheryl Shard:
Friday January 20th - 2 PM to 3 PM Eastern
Presentation: Building a Custom Aluminum Sailboat
Location: Studio X (formerly Presentation Theatre)
Saturday January 21st - 3 PM to 4 PM Eastern
Presentation: Cruising the Dutch Canals and Frisian Islands
Location: Studio X (formerly Presentation Theatre)
Saturday January 21st - 4 PM to 5 PM Eastern
Patreon Meetup
Location will be sent directly to Patrons of Distant Shores
Want to join the club and receive member benefits such as meetups, live Q&A’s, coaching/mentoring? Check out the Distant Shores Cruising Club on Patreon here: / distantshorestv
Saturday January 21st - 6:30 PM to 9 PM
Sail Away Week Reunion Dinner
By invitation. Location to be announced.
Sunday January 22nd - 12 noon to 1 PM Eastern
Presentation: Sailing South to the Bahamas and Caribbean
Location: Studio X (formerly Presentation Theatre)
That Timelapse was amazing. It was more like a house build than the fiberglass molding for other boats. Looking forward to the launch.
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Cheers to all of you.
Thank you Paul. Looking forward to the next steps in the making of your boat.
We're flying to the Netherlands next week to film more updates, Michael. They will be attaching the keel and starting on interior work. Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Such a wonderful sharing ❤ I really appreciate your work 👍 May God bless you always 🙌
Awesome video 👍 👏 Full of info & advice 👍.
Thank you for sharing with us.
✌❤🍀
wow this is an amazing project thanks for sharing I enjoyed watching your video amazing time lapse
Thank you Keeno! Cheers!
Thank you for having my favorite sailing TH-camrs visit your new aluminum sailboat. I have followed each one of the TH-camrs for years. It was gratifying to see all of you together.
Our pleasure!
Hi Lisbeth! 👋
Thanks for providing an update and time with fellow YT sailors.
What a great video and it is nice to see you meet and chat with fellow YT sailing channel peoples. A very nice segment with Dan and Kika from Sailing Uma - such a great younger couple sharing info with the DS cruising veterans. Super psyched about the completion of DS 4 and watching your journey North to joint the 80 degree north club. Thanks for sharing!
Nice to see my heros togueders.
wow beautiful boat!
You guys never disappoint. Cheers.
Fantastic!
awesome!
Great to see al those fameus sailers on your channel and your boat. Great episode! Would like to invite them on my boat as wel 😂
Wow!
I am your subscriber in Korea. All my role models are here.
I salute your passion and spirit of challenge.
I'm going to go your way soon, too. It is my dream and wish. Your adventures always make my heart flutter. Dear adventurers, I hope and pray that you will always have a safe and peaceful voyage.
I hope we see you out on the water soon ❤️
Thank you for the update. We always enjoy seeing our new boat's progress. Since we don't have a boat, we have adopted yours, if that's OK!
Our pleasure! :-)
love those guys, love this episode, you are living the dream
@Hermitanio76 glad you enjoyed the show. I had SO much fun filming with all our TH-camr buddies!
Fijn to see all those faces together.
I see they submitted to beer from Texel.
Netherlands has a good beer culture imho.
Cheers everybody!
Great To see you both this week after so many years. The presentation was a lot of fun especially seeing the pictures of the boat that started it all
Can't wait to see you guys back on the water with DS4 I think you guys 2023 is gonna be a year for you two🙏🏼and ❤️Happy and Safe sails and Winds⛵🌬️⚓as Always ⚜️ Jennifer from Connecticut
Thanks very much for your kind words Jennifer! We are both looking forward to 2023 for sure!! Launching the new boat!!!
Great show. I can't wait to see the infill progress. All very exciting 🙂
Thank you
I laughed with the comments about leaving Norway by November. I’d want to be well passed Biscay or batten down the hatches for November gales around the UK. I’m too soft 😂
Hi guys. The new boat looks amazing. As a hot air balloon pilot and yachtsman I can confirm that the most stable air is in late Autumn. So departing for the Artic would be best done in Oct / Nov. Happy days to you both.
Thanks for the tips about the stable air Vaughan! Our plan is to leave early Spring and come back down by Oct / Nov
Hyped up with that Northern passage.
If your Orion 49 will have any "isolated" DC systems, the article by Nigel Calder in Professional Boat Builder magazine (#201 Feb/Mar) may be of immediate interest. ABYC standards for such systems are being revised/upgraded. I'm eager to see more of your videos about the progress of the build. Patrick
Nice to see a 🇨🇦 in the hall! Also your hull time lapse was perfect. I was in Port Townsend last May and saw your old boat. Like said in the video how much larger they look on land vs floating. Thank you for taking us along.
Thanks John! It has been fun, making the time lapse over these last few months, collecting the footage and watching the boat come together.
Mets is indeed a good source for ideas. If you are still in Europe, then ‘BOOT’ in Dusseldorf, Germany (3rd wk January) is also a good source. It is the biggest indoor watersports show worldwide.
Cheers! Harry
the Netherlands
Hi Harry, yes we’re going to be there at Düsseldorf Boot also. Will we see you there?
Hi to you guys. I am living in the south western part of norway. Dont forget to go sailing into our deep long fjords. My place the hardangerfjord is higly recomanned at least by me. Welcome!
Really cool yacht!
I noticed that they cut the bit where Dan and Kiki said they will never spend the winter in UK again! ( I'm guessing).
But that ok!
Cheers Warren
You 2 are the best.... "GOAT" And if you don't know that means... "Greatest of all time"
Thanks for the kind words Matt!!
And no I hadn't heard that so thanks for translating :-)
I think it would be fantastic to sail with you two legends!
Amazing video guys!! Sailing Uma's Svalbard series was epic and NAT GEO worthy. Lots of amazing cinematography loads of tips on how to navigate through the elements. Cheers from Canada...how to the Toronto Boat show this weekend 🙂
From a construction perspective, I'd suggest spray foam insulation against both the aluminum hull skin as well as all ribs and stringers. It's okay to place fuel next to the skin, but not water, as sea water can easily fall well below the freezing temperature of fresh water. Thermally isolate the interior, then install interior water tanks, as well as all control lines, wiring, ducting and plumbing.
Just my two cents.
Oh, and double-pane portals with thermally isolating structures.
This was fantastic! I can only imagine how you two feel about the new Distant Shores being completed. I have to let myself be distracted in order to hold down my own excitement regarding your new boat. Maybe you'll be able to sail her down to Annapolis in October? : - )
If you have time for a Sail Away experience in northern waters, I would be thrilled to participate. :) But I imagine that by summer you will be enjoying the many new adventures that your custom yacht enables. Safe journeys!
The time line to sail back for Norway to the UK in November is a biggest challenge. Dan and Kika are right when to leave for the north but sailing the North Sea in winter can be havoc. Be prepared to hunker down at a good spot for longer periods.
I agree it will a matter of waiting until there is a good weather window. We did the same when we left UK (Falmouth) in late-November to sail across Biscay to Spain back in 2008. A good window came and we grabbed it :-)
Awesome video guys, very cool to see all the progress on the build, such professionals in Makkum!
How did the Texels Skuumkoppe taste? 😉
LOL yes Texels is my favourite !
I ❤ sailing Uma
I agree ☝️ they’re wonderful!!
Most of my sailing channels in one vid
Great to hear, Kevin! Paul had a lot of fun with everyone. There was also a lot of information sharing when they were together which was so valuable.
Best wishes on the launch. I would have thought 700l was not a huge amount of fuel but I guess it depends on sailing plans in the ice and desired time off grid.
Hi James! I think 700L should be good but you're right to be thinking of more difficult access in case of ice cutting us off! Hope the cat project is going well! Hugs to you both!
I would have thought it would have been more efficient to install the interior prior to installing the deck on the hull structure. It must take many more man hours to move the interior into the inside of the boat rather than lower it into the boat. Plus there is also access questions from a vertical install (drop in) verses how to navigate interior sections into a space.
Hi guys, loved the youtube! Where do I find out more about the virgin island cruises you are putting together. Our neighbors bought a small cat and trying out the sailing lifestyle and hope to set sail after their kids are off to college in a few years. I would love to come and do it too, what a great idea. formerly SV Equus love Patricia and Steve
Hi Patricia! So great to hear from you. It would be wonderful to welcome you guys aboard and do some more sailing together! We have 2 cabins available on the first week, February 24 to March 4 2023. The second week, March 4 to 12, is now fully booked. Here's the link to our website for what's included in the package we've put together, plus photos and layout of the Voyage 520 catamaran S/V Osprey, rates, etc. distantshores.ca/sail-away/sail-away-schedule/
Mets 2022? Oops! 🎉 😊. Love the new boat!
Yes, METStrade was in November 2022. We're planning on attending the 2023 show in the coming months. So glad you are liking the new boat!
What a nice video again, and, seeing Uma here too. As to being on watch, e.g. for "ice" has anybody ever tried to mount a depth sounder horizontally under water on the bow of a ship as an instrument to be warned of big things that you might need to avoid bumping into?
Glad you enjoyed it JP!
I looked into forward looking sonar many years ago for exploring in shallow waters. Back then it wasn't very effective especially for the very shallow waters (less than 6 feet) that we needed. I'd love to hear from anyone who has had any luck with forward scan sonar to find ice.
@@DistantShoresTV - I feel we have to break this down into two: (a) shallow waters and (b) forward looking elsewhere. I would think that (a) your sonar pulses in shallow waters, fired forward, will not reflect back in a usable way, just because of the angles between water surface and bottom. This may "look" like a long triangular cross section and reflect nothing back.
If you have a chance to look at a few videos of the Adventures with Purpose YT channel, then you can see what sonar can do.
This is a specialised "volunteer" dive team travelling the USA to specifically scan water bodies around locations where a person went missing. What they see on their computer displays from their sonar is almost eerie and would be called photographic if a bit better. A car on the bottom of a lake, a school of fish, tree trunks. They started with the noble idea to clean waters from car wrecks and now they have become an authority for cold cases revolving around cars intentionally or accidentally driven into a body of water - with people in them.
They do an excellent job on the scales of humanitarian help.
My point here is that the kind of sonar they use has an extremely detailed resolution and precision. It may be too expensive for your use case - I simply don't know what this technology costs and of course not what it would be worth to you. It would certainly work horizontally too, as obstacle detection. If it could deal with shallow waters remains to be seen. Whales, containers, ice - I think it will see that effortlessly.
Dan and kika are awsome
We agree!
I sure hope you get to eventually take that gorgeous yacht thru the Northwest Passage someday. Is that in the plans?
Considering it…
✨🌸✨❤✨🙏✨❤✨🌸✨. ⭐. ~~~~ all you guys! ~~~~. (from New Hampshire)
Thanks Steven!
Very nice. Is there a reason a metal boat is preferred for cold water cruising?
Impact and abrasion resistance.
Happy New boat, and it is a beautiful boat; Personally Id have chosen wood over aluminium for the arctic, reason being aluminium hulls are very cold, so cold your skin can stick to it in artic winter weather.
😃👍👏👏👏
I'm curious how aluminum boats are in the tropics. Do the decks get too hot to sit on or touch? The hull is immersed in water, so I assume that helps dissipate heat somewhat.
Hi Kenyon,
Our plan is to have the decks painted white and to leave only the hull topsides bare. Then decks should be reasonably cool.
what will the boat cost raffle?
PS: Hiya, Dan and Kika! One of my favorite sailing channels.
how much is it ?? wow aluminium hull
envy....
The boat is beautiful and user friendly ---- but personally I would not spend years to build a boat ----- rather search and find the ideal blue water boat ---- get the money together and purchase it ----- there is a LOT of fantastic cruisers out there for sale ---- instead of spending water time building it, rather spend actual time on the water
Hi Paul, have taken a welding course in preperation for owning a steel boat? Guess small repairs can be done by yourself if you know how to do it?
The boat is not steel.
Al you mini um.
:-) indeed!
I really really really hope that you will not do what You said in the programme.
that you will go straight from the Netherlands to Norway.
because you will really miss something incredibly beautiful.
if you want to do it the (right way) with the maximum amount of enjoyment and beautiful scenery.
I would personally recommend go through Denmark and go up the coast of east side of Denmark.
and then cross to Sweden and then start your journey around the coast of Norway.
the part between Germany and Denmark and going up the Danish coast is really amazing.
a lot of good harbours and beautiful places to go lie on anchor it is really something that is not explored enough.
and it is not Known enough.
it would even be better if you would go straight up to Finland and spend some time there. because it is amazing and pretty much no (sailing channel) has done it.
Hi Andre, Thanks for your advice!
We actually visited and filmed the very lovely Danish Archipelago back in 2010. It was on a summer trip from UK - NL - Germany Kiel Canal - Denmark - Sweden and back. We even sailed across Sweden with the Gota Canal. We made 10 TV programs about it :-)
Kind regards
Paul
There seems to be a spam in here, unfortunately.
Distant Shores has been leading the way for 40 years. It’s sad that their views are less than other sailing channels. Is it because their video’s don’t have a woman wearing a thong?
Thanks for your kind words❤️ You may be right! I’ve had to sell my thong… Paul
These yutubers are spending thousands of dollars from their patrons flying round the globe. Sailing seems to be very environmentally friendly...
@@otto.kretschmer Ich will keinem etwas vorschreiben. Es zeigt sich nur manchmal eine erhebliche Diskrepanz zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. Und bekantermaßen hinterlassen einige wenige Wohlhabende die größten CO2 Fußabdrücke.
@@klausmenzel9449 and you are spending thousands of your employer's customer's dollars. Maybe you should not cash that paycheck every month.
Love your channel and your approach to almost everything! I’m watching your build with interest as I am trying to convince my Sylvia to do a circumnavigation retirement project and I’m looking at aluminum cats ( Explocat, Portofino, VAAN, and now Slyder). I have yet to get on board and review on, but the safety just seems to make sense. I could also use a word of encouragement from your lovely wife to mine regarding the lifestyle. I need all the help I can get in my quest. Lol! Thanks again! @navalgazingatcampdavid.
I guess you know about, but if not check Alluric Arctic Sailing and x-Trip-sailing and Erik Aanderaa on TH-cam. XTrip is in german, but you might get some idea Or contact Michael anyway
… Alluring…