@@Potsie I prefer to think she saw the light.and changed her evil profession.And now she's on retainer ,to cover Troys backside .Always have a lawyer on the crew.
Ahhh you guys ROCK, Friday Arvo in Logan City QLD , after a crap week of Not much work to do I can sit down with a Bundy rum or a Manbrusco or both and watch the Dodger getting built ....You guys are my DAY SPA, DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE ETC , Relaxing and quite effective for stress ......THANKS FROM BJ ...
Troy, have you ever considered writing a book on practical maintenance and improvements for boats? You have a lot of experience to share from a very hands-on perspective. I'd buy it!
After scouring online for different dodger builds and ideas I believe this it the most straightforward, budget friendly, and logical dodger build out of all of them. The one built by Sailing Triteia was really good even though he explains it in hindsight, and is the most beautiful DIY dodger builds I have ever seen as he does a lot to make it fit with the original curves and accents of the boat, though it kind of throws simplicity and budget out the window.
Pascquale , your increasing confidence in your own abilities is a joy to watch . You have been taught by a guy I consider to be a superior craftsman (I was no slouch myself before I retired many years ago ) . Most of the products you now use weren't available then . But it still takes skill to make your finished product look professional . Troy , I also had to smile on your rollbar :)
I was just thinking of building a dodger out of starboard but now I'm completely rethinking my entire build. Great vid and thanks for the helpful advice.
You;'re turning Mirool into a tiny Super Maramu with that beautiful hard dodger. Try to figure out a way to open both front windows to get some air moving through there at hot anchorages. The Super Maramu's open from the outside on hydraulic struts but I've found that even popping a couple of wine bottle corks under the window while underway stops any spray from coming in but allows a bit of air movement (and helps quickly defog the windows on foggy mornings). Nice job!
The most helpful and informative hard dodger how-to I've ever seen! Free Range Sailing is making a huge contribution to the cruising community by putting beautiful, strong, light-weight hard dodgers within reach of sailors like me. Watching Pascale flip the hard dodger over single handed was incredible. Thank you so much for the careful and thorough details and explanations!
Great channel guys, keep up the hard work. Here's my pro trick for no fiberglass itchies. Say you forgot your gloves or cut a huge tear in them on a sharp edge of fiberglass or something. Fiberglass fibers will lay on your skin like a pile of toothpicks dumped on a table. The trick is to not rub them around so that the pointy ends can stick in. So if I notice my protective coverings have failed, and I have fiberglass fibers on me, dont touch the area, if it's on your hands keep your fingers spread out, itches between fingers are the worst. Then rinse under lots of cold water, without rubbing your hands together. You want to just float the glass shards off your skin, without pushing them down so the jagged tips can stick in. I've invented this method when I was living in Texas where it's so hot, wearing a tyvek suit is an actual safety hazard, from heat injury hah, and I haven't gotten fiberglass rash since. Don't mess around with your eyes or lungs though, I don't have a slick trick for getting glass shards out of those!
I saw on Sailing Lady Africa them building a swim platform with foam board and enough fiber glass it was strong enough to hold a deisel engine without breaking a sweat.
Super helpful overview of the build. I want to build one for my Rival. I watched SV Tritea and he referenced your video as a good guide. Thanks. Andy UK
I am wondering the same thing as I have on order plans to build a Duckworks 6' Skylark pram for my 24' Pacific Seacraft Dana 24, and if there is any benefit to be had in stiffness and/or weight, I would like to give it a try.
What a wonderful and talented team you two make, working together so well and always so kind. God Bless you both! Thanks for sharing your content. I always loved Australia... but probably won't ever see it in person.
G'day from an overcast Sydney. What a fantastic build guys. Awesome craftwomanship! Can't believe the strength of the piece you stood on. I reckon the new dodger will outlive the rest of the boat. Also good to know that everything you're building will be super well finished and should something untoward happen, you'll know exactly how to repair it. If you ever sell her, the next owner will get a fantastic 'new' boat. Way and above, the most interesting build of the refit.
Just discovered you guys me and my partner are refilling a westerly 33 but watching this it’s the best detail on fixing stuff. Really appreciate you guys thank you👍
I have been making a lifelong living out of boat work mainly on timber boats . Between you guys and Teal and family in SV Basik you are showing me so many much easier ways to construct with feather light products. Thank you for you videos.
Kettering is a great marina but does suffer from katabatic wind gusts with colder, denser air rolling down under gravity from the tiers behind. Luckily they only last a few minutes. On still days you hear the gust start rattling halyards before it hits full on. More common in the warmer months.
I live in Las Vegas in the middle of the desert and I have never been on a sailboat, but, I have been watching for a couple years. It was somewhere around episode 35 and of course I immediately went back and watched from the beginning. Even though I'm not a "sailor" I get to see some really great places. What I did for a living was build exhibits for tradeshows (RIP covid) so I still get to see something that I'm very interested in. I'm excited for the "new" boat and thanks for kind of taking us along.
Thank you for good video. Before, I would try to not use PVC and epoxy for same project because usually hard to get good bound. But you have shown that PVC foam is different story. And possibilities are endless. . .
I enjoy this so that I've started waiting for these videos. impatiently. I guess asking for two a week would be too much. I've fallen in love with you two, not in a stalker kind of way, just admiration for your skills and a bit of envy for your adventures.
Thanks Michael. We hope that the showing inspires doing for other people once they see what's involved. On the other hand, if after seeing this, someone decides it's not for them, they won't have got themselves into a messy situation.
@@FreeRangeLiving You may not be aware of how those of us who live vicariously through your creative efforts get just as much enjoyment out of seeing you do something that we know we could have easily done when we had our capabilities, as the free diving we could never do. They fire the daydreams that improve my quality of life.
So nice to see Epoxy fillet work! 25 years ago I used the same technique building an outdoor shrimp sorting/packing system for an aquaculture farm here in Hawaii. On the shore, very harsh exposed conditions on sweltering lava fields. The system is still in use today. Not a crack. Goodonya! Cheers!
Next week Troy will show use how to make and install foam and fiberglass pullouts like on motor homes!! Once your on the hook,you double your beam.A mind like a steel trap.You have.
Troy would now be a good time to put a half dome fiberglass tube to run some wires for roof light's and dome light's underside of roof. ??????? Ps: Polycarb can be polished where as Acrylic will last longer but UV will dull off faster.
I think if I was building the dodger I would put maybe three 2.5cm per side triangle strips running side to side under the top. That little "V" shape you would get when you fiber-glassed over it would add tremendous strength to the top of it. And then maybe some curved supports put in under that forward overhang would make it much more solid as well. I overbuild things. It was once said of me that if I ever built a jewelry box I'd build it out of 2x4s.
That is a very interesting machineshop you guys are working in. It would be great to take a quick tour around all that old engineering gear. Thanks for all the good info learning soo much for upcoming projects on my own boat. Thanks
For best adhesion and minimum weight you should hot coat the pvc with resin and let it gel or green before laminating. I would have laminated all flats on both sides and any curves on one side before assembling. I would cut and round the windows before glassing. If you want to decorate edges around windows etc use an Allen key in a drill it works in seconds. If you used vinylester you wouldn't need to decore you can just use 220 g split strand. And go around the radius, I do this with a single layer of 10mm foam. Always use qcell with glue powder or cabosil. 50 50 for structural and fillet and 10% glue in your qcell for bogging it stops sagging. If you insist on using epoxy use peel ply, with yinylester you use unwaxed resin which stays sticky, no prep or sanding just glass or bog straight over.😊
Really impressed with the glass work you both are doing. Glass is VERY strong & this will be like steel when finished. Great video can't wait to see the dodger finished.
Now I am going to be ripping off the ply and epoxy dodger that I have been making and will be using a foam core in stead. Thanks for this video Troy and Pascal, looking forward to the next episode
Great lesson in composite structures! It’s also beautiful work! And secondly, the oscillating tool, they are a real asset; you don’t even know all that you can do with one until you have it. I think the oscillating tool is a game changer, at least it has been for me. Between dust control and finesse alone it is worth its weight in gold for this DIY guy. Try plaster! All I do is cut the plaster with the grout tool until I hit the lathe and then I change bits for a wood or metal blade.... sweet dodger Troy and Pascal!
I've got to say I really love the real glass hard dodger windows on our Hallberg-Rassy. All the plastic window materials out there today, as light as they are, all have their issues. Being able to just run a squeegee over them at any time, dirty or salty, and not having to worry about scratching or damaging them is pretty nice. At 45 years old and a number of ocean crossings back and forth across the Atlantic and they are still like new. They are crystal clear with nearly zero maintenance other than hosing them off now and then and maybe treating with RainX every year or so. What's a little weight? We are not a race boat ;). I don't think I could go back to plastic windows.
I’m convinced that if every man had a Pascale, we’d all be better men. Great project. Terrific video.
I reckon she's probably the most useful lawyer on the planet :)
@@Potsie I prefer to think she saw the light.and changed her evil profession.And now she's on retainer ,to cover Troys backside .Always have a lawyer on the crew.
@@Potsie : comment of the week.
Yes, She really gets into it. And does a really great job!
'Every man' must be a Troy to deserve a Pascale. Level up fellas!
This was maybe my most favorite refit video.
I hit the 'Like' button
...but where's the "LOVE' Button???
Love you guys, and love these videos!!
I have a feeling you could dump a huge pile of various materials in front of Troy and Pascal and say, "ok, build a boat" and they could. ⛵️
By the time you are finished you will know every inch of that boat like the back your hand....and thats not a bad thing
If you ever quit sailing, you could have a boat repair shop. Great team spirit and resourcefulness.
That workmanship is A+ I would have given it a raised lip for gathering water, having a small pipe/hose connection for direct fill to watertank.
I was thinking the same thing. Troy mentioned that the dodger would shed water, I would have thought that they might want to collect some water?
@@jimwesselman I have a feeling I have since heard mention that they do just that.
Ahhh you guys ROCK, Friday Arvo in Logan City QLD , after a crap week of Not much work to do I can sit down with a Bundy rum or a Manbrusco or both and watch the Dodger getting built ....You guys are my DAY SPA, DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE ETC , Relaxing and quite effective for stress ......THANKS FROM BJ ...
Troy, have you ever considered writing a book on practical maintenance and improvements for boats?
You have a lot of experience to share from a very hands-on perspective.
I'd buy it!
I would not have thought of that digging out the foam core and reinforcing it on cutouts NICE
It's always a pleasure when Free Range Sailing comes on board !!
VERY Cool...You two are SO Much fun to watch, and you Do BEAUTIFUL Work together! THANKS for Sharing
Thanks for filming this for us guys. Your old dodger is what caught my eye in your thumbnails and I immediately thought "I need to make one of those!"
Impressive DIY, guys. Budget conscious without skimping on quality.
Thats a bunch of nice machinist tools. Tool an cutter grinder, lathe, horz mill, surface grinder, maybe a small boring mill.....a shaper and planer!
After scouring online for different dodger builds and ideas I believe this it the most straightforward, budget friendly, and logical dodger build out of all of them. The one built by Sailing Triteia was really good even though he explains it in hindsight, and is the most beautiful DIY dodger builds I have ever seen as he does a lot to make it fit with the original curves and accents of the boat, though it kind of throws simplicity and budget out the window.
Also inspired by Tritea’s hard dodger, and with this video I feel pretty confident about building my own dodger
Pascquale , your increasing confidence in your own abilities is a joy to watch . You have been taught by a guy I consider to be a superior craftsman (I was no slouch myself before I retired many years ago ) . Most of the products you now use weren't available then . But it still takes skill to make your finished product look professional . Troy , I also had to smile on your rollbar :)
99.9k subscribers! Cograts to the best sailing/working team!
Nice rain at 23:30! We need some here.
Your construction videos have been so interesting and well presented. I’ve learned a ton from you both.
I was just thinking of building a dodger out of starboard but now I'm completely rethinking my entire build. Great vid and thanks for the helpful advice.
Troy, I love the way think a project through. Very educational video. You and Pascale keep up the good work.
You;'re turning Mirool into a tiny Super Maramu with that beautiful hard dodger. Try to figure out a way to open both front windows to get some air moving through there at hot anchorages. The Super Maramu's open from the outside on hydraulic struts but I've found that even popping a couple of wine bottle corks under the window while underway stops any spray from coming in but allows a bit of air movement (and helps quickly defog the windows on foggy mornings). Nice job!
hairspray also makes the fiberglass anti-fray. Spray it where you want to cut. its a cheap spray glue that the epoxy will bond to as well.
You lot have a new name; The Artful Dodgers! Beautiful work, the new dodger will be strong and durable!
The most helpful and informative hard dodger how-to I've ever seen! Free Range Sailing is making a huge contribution to the cruising community by putting beautiful, strong, light-weight hard dodgers within reach of sailors like me. Watching Pascale flip the hard dodger over single handed was incredible. Thank you so much for the careful and thorough details and explanations!
Great channel guys, keep up the hard work.
Here's my pro trick for no fiberglass itchies. Say you forgot your gloves or cut a huge tear in them on a sharp edge of fiberglass or something. Fiberglass fibers will lay on your skin like a pile of toothpicks dumped on a table. The trick is to not rub them around so that the pointy ends can stick in. So if I notice my protective coverings have failed, and I have fiberglass fibers on me, dont touch the area, if it's on your hands keep your fingers spread out, itches between fingers are the worst. Then rinse under lots of cold water, without rubbing your hands together. You want to just float the glass shards off your skin, without pushing them down so the jagged tips can stick in. I've invented this method when I was living in Texas where it's so hot, wearing a tyvek suit is an actual safety hazard, from heat injury hah, and I haven't gotten fiberglass rash since. Don't mess around with your eyes or lungs though, I don't have a slick trick for getting glass shards out of those!
I saw on Sailing Lady Africa them building a swim platform with foam board and enough fiber glass it was strong enough to hold a deisel engine without breaking a sweat.
I'm amazed at the craftsmanship you put into each of the projects you do. Great job by both of you!
Excellent video guys,and beautiful work...looking forward to part two.😎👍
Super helpful overview of the build. I want to build one for my Rival. I watched SV Tritea and he referenced your video as a good guide. Thanks. Andy UK
In the UK that bit is called a sprayhood and the fabric parts that go either side of the cockpit are called Dodgers
Sculpturing great job guys
That subtle curve on the roof just finishes it off brilliantly, looks like it could be original! 👍
Is it practical to build tender with such foam glass coating maybe Could be. Amazing job on the old boat.looking like new boat.
I am wondering the same thing as I have on order plans to build a Duckworks 6' Skylark pram for my 24' Pacific Seacraft Dana 24, and if there is any benefit to be had in stiffness and/or weight, I would like to give it a try.
What a wonderful and talented team you two make, working together so well and always so kind. God Bless you both! Thanks for sharing your content. I always loved Australia... but probably won't ever see it in person.
Stitch & Glue construction with modern materials - Excellent
G'day from an overcast Sydney. What a fantastic build guys. Awesome craftwomanship! Can't believe the strength of the piece you stood on. I reckon the new dodger will outlive the rest of the boat. Also good to know that everything you're building will be super well finished and should something untoward happen, you'll know exactly how to repair it. If you ever sell her, the next owner will get a fantastic 'new' boat. Way and above, the most interesting build of the refit.
Merry Christmas to you both. You never seem to run out of energy during this extensive refit. Your work is impressive.
You guys have rapidly become my favorite refit content producers! Love the videos!
Congratulations on 100K !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How excellent is this?...wow...this is a great channel
Just discovered you guys me and my partner are refilling a westerly 33 but watching this it’s the best detail on fixing stuff. Really appreciate you guys thank you👍
Looks great. I can't wait to get started on my own boat. Transforms great. 👍my concern is allowing clearance for the boom. 😣
I have been making a lifelong living out of boat work mainly on timber boats .
Between you guys and Teal and family in SV Basik you are showing me so many much easier ways to construct with feather light products. Thank you for you videos.
You two have done a wonderful job on your new dodger, lighter, waterproof, harder and all around so much nicer than your previous one! Thank you
I would just like to let you both know my sweater came In on time and I am absolutely in love with the compass pattern.
Kettering is a great marina but does suffer from katabatic wind gusts with colder, denser air rolling down under gravity from the tiers behind. Luckily they only last a few minutes. On still days you hear the gust start rattling halyards before it hits full on. More common in the warmer months.
I live in Las Vegas in the middle of the desert and I have never been on a sailboat, but, I have been watching for a couple years. It was somewhere around episode 35 and of course I immediately went back and watched from the beginning. Even though I'm not a "sailor" I get to see some really great places. What I did for a living was build exhibits for tradeshows (RIP covid) so I still get to see something that I'm very interested in. I'm excited for the "new" boat and thanks for kind of taking us along.
I have a lot of fiberglassing experience including 2 large hard biminis yet I learned a couple new things from your video. thanks
Thank you for good video. Before, I would try to not use PVC and epoxy for same project because usually hard to get good bound. But you have shown that PVC foam is different story. And possibilities are endless. . .
Wow amazing work guys ,💓💛
I enjoy this so that I've started waiting for these videos. impatiently. I guess asking for two a week would be too much. I've fallen in love with you two, not in a stalker kind of way, just admiration for your skills and a bit of envy for your adventures.
Vary impressed with your skills there,
Think ya did very well documenting build reasoning & steps.
Only thing didn't like . . . it ended too soon.
Thanks Michael. We hope that the showing inspires doing for other people once they see what's involved. On the other hand, if after seeing this, someone decides it's not for them, they won't have got themselves into a messy situation.
@@FreeRangeLiving You may not be aware of how those of us who live vicariously through your creative efforts get just as much enjoyment out of seeing you do something that we know we could have easily done when we had our capabilities, as the free diving we could never do. They fire the daydreams that improve my quality of life.
Can't remember how many times I've watched this video! Think it's my favourite DIY video on youtube. Best prep for a similar job :D
Brilliant stuff that...wonder if I could build a car body out of it... btw, great clear and concise narration Pascale. Excellent video guys.
VERY INFORMATIVE !!! Thanks for the great video!
Congratulations on 100,000 subs! Love all that you do, and thank you for sharing.
So nice to see Epoxy fillet work! 25 years ago I used the same technique building an outdoor shrimp sorting/packing system for an aquaculture farm here in Hawaii. On the shore, very harsh exposed conditions on sweltering lava fields. The system is still in use today. Not a crack. Goodonya! Cheers!
I have a fiberglass boat project waiting for me come spring. You are helping with both knowledge and confidence. Thank you kindly.
Love the PVC foam idea...for my new ultralight camper. Thank you!
Ha, when Pascale was applying epoxy, my mind was saying (loudly), "Don't get in your hair, don't get in your hair, don't get in your hair!".
Next week Troy will show use how to make and install foam and fiberglass pullouts like on motor homes!! Once your on the hook,you double your beam.A mind like a steel trap.You have.
Excelent! I´ve made a rudder profile of that PVC Stuff.
Oh so close to 100k....great work...
Peel ply is your friend.
Dodger is looking bloody marvellous.
True inspiration as I take on my own refit. Thanks guys, the boat looks amazing so far!
Excellent demo of the minimum strength of the foam/epoxy/glass.
Very well done.......
Troy would now be a good time to put a half dome fiberglass tube to run some wires for roof light's and dome light's underside of roof. ??????? Ps: Polycarb can be polished where as Acrylic will last longer but UV will dull off faster.
Thanks for talking to us and not "mansplaining" to Pascal. Love the videos!
Very entertaining and educative
Hobart, if you don't like the weather, hang around 5 minutes.
I think if I was building the dodger I would put maybe three 2.5cm per side triangle strips running side to side under the top. That little "V" shape you would get when you fiber-glassed over it would add tremendous strength to the top of it. And then maybe some curved supports put in under that forward overhang would make it much more solid as well. I overbuild things. It was once said of me that if I ever built a jewelry box I'd build it out of 2x4s.
CONGRATULATIONS! 100K subs!!🤗🤗🤗🍾🎂🍷🍻
Thanks again for another excellent video. A tutorial with slick editing and music. You make it look easy.
Best wishes.
Brilliant instructional video, we are so going to copy you. Many thanks for taking the time to make these.
Congratulation's on reaching 100,000 Subscribers ! A well deserved Kudos to you guys !
Hi Guys, What great work, Dodger is looking fantastic .
What a team. you make it look so easy.
Did you ever imagine 100,000 subs.
That is a very interesting machineshop you guys are working in. It would be great to take a quick tour around all that old engineering gear. Thanks for all the good info learning soo much for upcoming projects on my own boat. Thanks
2:40 Super envious of that tub of clamps!!
For best adhesion and minimum weight you should hot coat the pvc with resin and let it gel or green before laminating. I would have laminated all flats on both sides and any curves on one side before assembling. I would cut and round the windows before glassing. If you want to decorate edges around windows etc use an Allen key in a drill it works in seconds. If you used vinylester you wouldn't need to decore you can just use 220 g split strand. And go around the radius, I do this with a single layer of 10mm foam. Always use qcell with glue powder or cabosil. 50 50 for structural and fillet and 10% glue in your qcell for bogging it stops sagging. If you insist on using epoxy use peel ply, with yinylester you use unwaxed resin which stays sticky, no prep or sanding just glass or bog straight over.😊
That thing looks great can't wait until I see the finished product
Can't wait for the next video. I want to see how you prep the cockpit for paint. Really good stuff the dodger looks great.
Outstanding video
Really impressed with the glass work you both are doing. Glass is VERY strong & this will be like steel when finished. Great video can't wait to see the dodger finished.
Cool build.
I think you two are a remarkable couple!
Awesome job, your dodger caught my eye when I was up on the hard at Kettering, thanks for the great vid
Wooohoooo, congrats on 100k!! You guys are so deserving!!
Great work guys.Maybe put a return on the rear edge and glass over some foam to make a beam as the rollbar ?
You've been so lucky to always find fully equipped haul out yards to do your upgrades.
Now I am going to be ripping off the ply and epoxy dodger that I have been making and will be using a foam core in stead. Thanks for this video Troy and Pascal, looking forward to the next episode
still love your giggles, Pascale
Great lesson in composite structures! It’s also beautiful work! And secondly, the oscillating tool, they are a real asset; you don’t even know all that you can do with one until you have it. I think the oscillating tool is a game changer, at least it has been for me. Between dust control and finesse alone it is worth its weight in gold for this DIY guy. Try plaster! All I do is cut the plaster with the grout tool until I hit the lathe and then I change bits for a wood or metal blade.... sweet dodger Troy and Pascal!
Forgot to add that, for a minute or two, isn’t you were going to catch rain water with the filets on top.....
Lovely episode 👌
Love your channel and always sailed when I could but my first love is metal working and I'd love a shop tour of your friends place.
Great build. Light, stiff, inexpensive, rounded surfaces. Thank you.
I've got to say I really love the real glass hard dodger windows on our Hallberg-Rassy. All the plastic window materials out there today, as light as they are, all have their issues.
Being able to just run a squeegee over them at any time, dirty or salty, and not having to worry about scratching or damaging them is pretty nice. At 45 years old and a number of ocean crossings back and forth across the Atlantic and they are still like new. They are crystal clear with nearly zero maintenance other than hosing them off now and then and maybe treating with RainX every year or so.
What's a little weight? We are not a race boat ;). I don't think I could go back to plastic windows.