The ROT, RUST, & REWARD of BOAT Ownership | Ep.57
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- Welcome to Season 3 Episode 18. The boat projects continue! So much done in so little time. New Anchor chain and anchor to replace the rusty stuff, engine maintenance, and ripping more rotten wood out of the flybridge. A boat sure keeps life interesting. This is our boat life, our alternative liveaboard lifestyle on the ocean.
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We are a travel couple, looking for a non-mainstream life of living aboard a boat and cruising in the Caribbean/Bahamas in Winter, and the Great Lakes in Summer. Working when we can to fill the cruising kitty. We have sold everything we own, and we now own a cruising yacht. We have chosen to do this voyaging in a powerboat/motor vessel, instead of the popular sailing route.
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WILD - "Here We Go" / here-we-go
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Imaginary Love - INOSSI
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Watboi - Jungle Juice - / junglejuice
Music from freetouse.com
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LiQWYD - When I'm gone / when-im-gone
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To save some time in the future, I took a small chisel and cut it off to fit on a hammer drill. I placed the drill in hammer only mode and went through the wood like butter vs. swinging a hammer or mallet. Goes with the old saying, "The best engineers are the lazy engineers because they will always find the easiest solution to a problem." It was almost fun. Great show. I plan to binge watch! O.K. Update. Beautiful work. Way to go.
Nothing sexier than a nice new anchor..
True, unless the anchor was shiny new stainless steel instead of galvanized. 😃
As a Fort Lauderdale native, I implore you not to miss Cuban food. The best Cuban places are usually tucked into little strip malls. Usually very inexpensive, and once you have a cafe con leche you’ll be ruined for any other coffee. But you’ll love me for it, LOL. Thank you so much for your videos. Even watching Sheldon do repairs is a balm for me.
Thanks! We will check out the Cuban food next time we are there. Thanks so much for being here, watching, and commenting. We really appreciate it. Cheers!
Sheldon sure works hard on that boat
Someone has to do it I guess. 😉
Good job Sheldon. Did both sides on our Tolly. Messy job but rewarding.
Thanks Burt! You played a big roll in the successful project.
Shell: 2 thumbs up for doing the job yourself! You guys saved a piss pot of cash that way. The yard would have charged you thousands . Simply multiply the hourly yard charge x 30! You well deserved to eat out and treat yourselves surely. Looking fwd to seeing you next series of videos in the Bahamas.
Thanks David! Yes I'm sure we saved a bit of cash on that one.
Great video. It's like going on holiday each time, only without flying for 48 hours to get there. Awesome to see other people with the same love of boats and boating. It's not what you spend in $$$, but what you save in sanity.
Great job
So glad that you found Marine Surplus. We love just wandering around whether we need anything or not. They're good people too.
Yes, great spot for sure!
Nice job Shel! A lot accomplished.
Living the dream. Keep up the great videos. Thank You!!!
Thanks!
Great vedio
Great video you two! Hard work but rewarding just the same. Looking forward to the next video!
Thanks Steve!
Yep good ‘ol boats🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
(Break Out Another Thousand) 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻
Yes but I would expect in this case it wasn't. Mostly time invested and great satisfaction with the result
I lived and boated in Stuart/Palm City most of my life......thanks for the memorable views.
Awesome video, great job Shell!!
Thanks!
nice video :) that was alot of work done on the boat, well worth the time and effort looked great
Thanks!
I hope you have a chance to share some Great Lakes trips over the summer. Would be a nice change and their is a lot of great stuff there too.
Great vid. Now that you finished with the structure, would have it been better to cut the whole fiberglass panel out wit a dremel? Then replace substrate and refiberglass the panel back in?
Finally a new video! glad your season is starting back up, these help me get through the winter's here on the Chesapeake. Good luck with the drone, I lost mine this past summer flying it off the boat and it went down in the bay. Stay Safe
Thanks! Sorry about the drone. We have replacement insurance for ours, but we have to have the drone to replace it. They won't replace one if it's on the bottom of the sea.
cool
Great video.... It's getting quite long between videos but I enjoy them all.
Thanks Jason. We do what we can, but sometimes life can get in the way. Hope you understand. Cheers!
The less glamorous side of boat ownership!
Yes, but rewarding nonetheless.
Searching for C-Shels , yep, if you don’t enjoy working on boats at least a little, you are probably in the wrong hobby!
Great to see you back guys, Andrew
Thanks Andrew!
Where have you guys been? I have been waiting to see more adventures.
Thanks guys!
Great video. Thanks, as always, Cheers you two! Bret and Talyn.
Thanks Bret and Talyn!
Missed you guys !!! Great video . Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Tom!
You might consider using Cousa Board instead of mahogany. You won’t have to worry about rot in the future.
Just looked that up. Very interesting. Thanks for making me aware of it. May use it if I have to do the other side of the flybridge.
Great video ! And nice tool... lol !
Thanks!
thanks for the video
Thanks for watching Keith!
I also have a 44 Tollycraft that is suffering from rotten wood at the side of the flybridge. What size wood did you start with to fabricate your replacement? Do you have more step by step details that you can share with me before I dig into this project? Thanks in advance for your help!
Sheldon....ur getting too good on the repairs and if you get too bored😁...we can hire u to take over some work on the Ramblin Rose....😂 ur working too hard!
Hope to see u guys again....
Anytime my friend, anytime. My work comes with no guarantees though. 😀
Great work! When your ready to sell that boat of perfection I'm your man.
We will keep you in mind Ron. Don't hold your breath though. We don't plan on selling anytime soon. She is a great boat.
Hey I watch your videos all the time, I'm not a boater yet but I'm working on that. Anyway the repair you did was great but is there any reason you didn't use composite material instead of real wood which will rot again? Looking forward to new videos.
Thanks for watching Richard! With the wood, it came down to cost, ease of accessing the wood at the time, and my ability to whittle to the proper shape to fit. It is coated with epoxy so it will last a very long time.
New to your channel but I’m loving it you guys really deserve more subscribers! I was wondering what kind of range you get on a tank of fuel, and how many hours your engines had on them when you bough her?
Welcome Brandon! Glad to have you aboard. Feel free to share our channel with your friends who also might enjoy. Most of your range questions can be answered in our fuel video, th-cam.com/video/QpNBt0L9ww0/w-d-xo.html
There was ~1500 hours on the engines when we bought her. We now have 2800 hours on the engines. Thanks for your question.
Did you tip the guys that took the chains out to your car ???
Are you going to cover your wood piece with resin so it doesn’t soak up water like the old piece did?
Yes, absolutely. At 13:25 you can see the finished epoxied wood. Should be good for a very long time.
Cyndi & Shel: What video editing software package do you guys use?
We Adobe Premiere Pro.
Shel don’t you have to replace the other side as well?
Well, we looked at the other side and it appeared like it was already replaced, at least parts of it. It was still solid over there, so I'm not touching anything that doesn't appear to be broken. 🙂
Enjoy the project. Nice Job - Check Out "Ask Captain Chris" I believe he is from Ft Stuart ! He is pretty knowledgeable !
Thanks Robert. Yes we follow Captain Chris on YT.
Do they still have confusion corner downtown? That was a mess for locals and visitors alike.
Yes I believe they do. We have never drove it, so we don't really know how confusing it can be. 😀
I'd rather look at Cyndi instead of Lurch
You have had your 20 year old Tollycraft, for several years now. You have put quite a few hours on her and done couple of major projects. My question is would you by an older boat again knowing what you know now?
That's a good question Paul. To be honest we have thought about that quite a bit, and we have to say we think we would of bought the boat all over again given the same budget we had when we purchased. We see people doing lots of similar projects and refits on much newer boats as well. With the Tolly, we knew what we were getting into. We knew the boats well, and I knew there would come a day when I would be tackling this rotten wood in the flybridge. It's a great boat for what we paid, better than a lot of boats that could of been much more expensive. With the previous engine issue and accident aside, we don't deal with things like osmosis, rotting decks, leaking hull/deck joints, stringer rot, etc.
@@SearchingforCShels Thanks, that helps. It confirms my belief that quality counts for a lot.
Yes, totally agree.
Why didn't you use PVC that would not rot?
A few reasons. Plastic cost more, it was easier for me to get wood cut and delivered close to the marina, and I would get better adhesion with 4200 on the epoxied wood than with plastic.
Nice work on the repair. So do you have bolt heads exposed inside the cabin now? Not a big deal for a fix that will probably last the life of the boat.
Surprised you didn't mark the chain while you could lay it out on the dock or do you have a chain counter aboard? 200 feet of chain seems like overkill for the Bahamas, are you expecting to cruise elsewhere?
Sorry to say that sound kind of sucked on this vid.
Always nice when you guys take us ashore though.
Thanks Bob! No bolt heads exposed on the inside. There was enough material to screw into from the outside.
I know marking the chain may have been smart. However I'm use to this windlass, It lets out about 3 feet per second, so I count when putting chain out, then times it by three. It is surprisingly accurate. The boat had 150 feet of chain before, so another 50 feet isn't much, and yes, it is sort of planning ahead in case we head further south in the Caribbean.
Yes, we seem to always deal with bad audio. We work on it while editing and I think sometimes we trick ourselves into think it is better. So what was the worst? The windy mic at the beginning, so just the low pick up of my (Shel) voice when doing the project stuff? We also mixed music a little differently in this one, hope it doesn't come across too loud. We wonder if we should recut this and do voice over in the bad parts. Let us know what the biggest problem area was for you. Thanks again Bob.
@@SearchingforCShels The wind noise was bad but understandable since you were inside your work area or maybe I'm getting used to wind noise. What I found really annoying was when you were talking to Cyndi after she came back from the shower. Sounded like you were speaking through a sub-woofer and I was wishing for subtitles.
Got it. Thanks.
@@SearchingforCShels X2 on what Bob said. Additionally, when you were sitting at the table discussing hardware, it sounded like the mic was in an upside down bucket; it picked up your knuckles rapping the table and the ambient noises very well, but you sounded muffled. Is the mic in an enclosure? What are you using to record audio and video? Keep up the great work! :)
@Prototheria The mic that gives us the problems is the mic in the GoPro Hero 5. It is known for its crappy audio. This is the last video we use that GoPro, so from here on out, things should be much better. The audio should start being equivalent to the 2 Cost videos we published before this one. Also, I (Shel) seem to have a problem with mics picking up my voice, so I have a lapel mic now that I will start using when we are deliberately recording videos like this project video.
Your boat owners and you use straws shame on you. These straws and one use plastics are filling up our oceans. Buy an metal straws everyone or don't use at all we don't need straws period we have lips. : ) peace
We only have metal straws on our boat. Sometimes at restaurants they mistakenly give us plastic straws, but more and more we are seeing paper straws at restaurants.