Enhancing Access To Our Winches (MJ Sailing - Ep 332)
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- In our helm station we have built a custom underside panel which will give us easy access to service our winches.
This week we make a big visual impact within our cockpit and helm area by bonding in the underside of our helm area (which will give us easy access to our winches) as well as line and general storage space next to our steps.
The components for these have been partially assembled over the past few weeks, with gelcoat added to the areas which we will not have easy access to once they are in place.
One new addition though, based on some comments from last week's video, is an access point to the sliding door pocket, through the base of our storage unit. After Matt cuts a hole into the area, I test out if I can still get to the track for our sliding door, and thankfully I can still reach back far enough to work the furthest screws.
Then it's time to bond these pieces in place! After laying down a little bit of our thickened resin on some of the edges, Matt coats the new additions in our quickly curing methacrylate and we slide them into place and quickly add clamps to keep them there while the adhesive cures.
Matt added a little thickened resin to the aft edges of the storage area and we let the sections cure overnight.
The next morning Matt went through with our router to round the edges and make sure they're not too sharp for any future run-ins. The exterior was glassed and finished off with peel ply.
Since temperatures were so hot (90/32), later that same day Matt was able to pull off the peel ply, do measurements of the interior seams, and glass those in as well.
Over this next week we'll begin fairing these newly glassed areas and getting them ready for paint!
We hope you enjoy!
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Videos made by Jessica, featuring Matt and Georgie.
00:00 - Making access to our door track
02:39 - Hooray for little hands - again!!
04:57 - Prepping surfaces for methacrylate
07:05 - Bonding in winch access point and helm storage
12:04 - Routing edges and glassing exterior seams
15:19 - Measuring & glassing the interior
17:59 - Closing
Music:
It Was Never Enough - Sunbreak
Knockin on Whoever's Door - The Big Letdown
Madders - Wildflowers
Mash - Wildflowers
Waste Another Lie - Wellness
Wasted Tears - Isaac Elliott
Pandemonium (Tribute Version) - The Mondays
Camera equipment used:
- Google Pixel 7
- GoPro Hero 8
- DJI Osmo Action 4
Previous Boats: 1983 Trisalu 37 - custom aluminum, built in Quebec (Elements of Life) Where we've been: 2.5 year refit in Indiantown,
Florida; Abacos, Bahamas; St. Barth's; St. Maarten; Antigua; Saba; Azores; Ireland; Scotland; Norway; England 1989
Sabre 34 Targa (Serendipity)
Where We Sailed Her: U.S. - Bahamas - Jamaica - Cuba - Cayman Islands - Honduras - Guatemala - Belize - Mexico - Bermuda - Azores - Madeira - Canary Islands - Sint Maarten - BVI's - USVI's
Editing software: Adobe Premier Pro
Website: www.mjsailing.com
Facebook: / mattandjessicasailing
Instagram: / mattandjessicasailing
& / mj_wayfaring
Sooooo many details and such a process of not creating problems for your future selves. Thanks for your sharing, particularly of the bits no-one else will see when this is all white on a blue ocean.
You are doing an excellent job. Not many people can say they built a performance catamaran, much less documenting it for us to all enjoy and cheer you on. I can see how your skills have grown throughout this build and the fit and finish of the boat will benefit from that in spades. Wishing you well and thanks for sharing your journey.
Ignore the "hurry up and splash" comments, very interested in seeing what is involved in a significant boat build. Be encouraged.
I enjoy seeing these construction details explained, and then a speed sequence through the actual construction. Every Saturday I look forward to seeing what is happening with the project. It is all interesting to me!
Thank you so much for following each week! 😍
I totally agree. The explanation followed by the fast forward sequence lets us understand what you're doing with minimum tediousness but no missing details. Your production skills keep improving all the time. @earthstick's comment about the audio router solo is also great. My face is melting right now. Excellent work. See you next week.
These people stressing about you guys splashing makes me laugh. Sailing yaba just splashed, and they had a TEAM of shipwrights working on their boat, and it took them 3 years, and it's still not actually done. You guys are doing just fine!
Customize your boat to fit your needs.That's the ultimate goal of any DIY operation.
Gradually all the green board is disappearing. The attention to detail will be worth it in the end.
Lazy days in the catamaran you’ll be reminiscing about the time everything was covered in white dust.
All the very best to you both Great video
That interior view of the cabin really brought home to me the incredible progress you have both made.
Out of all the catamaran builds on CZcams , yours is the only one I worry about floating !
I hope you are trying to say you are hugely enamored by Jessica, Matt & Georgie and want nothing but the best for them. Yes, that must be it.
That's awesome of Matt to listen to a suggestion. 👏 👏
There are definitely people out there with more experience than us. 😉
What an awesome job ..I am constantly amazed when I remind myself you guys have built this cat from the ground up ❤ I watch a few sailing channels where they all have new boats, but their input to the actual build has been token at best so we'll done 👍👍👍
Guess we the followers just love your vlogs! Greatings from Norway😊
13:34 Really great editing there, mixing the sound of the router with the backing music. Sounded like a face melting solo.
Excellent work on the modification. Looks factory and can’t wait to see it done.
Thank you! 🤩 We're very proud of it too!
Ton of progress! Very good! Keep it up!
Based on the progress im guessing another 2yrs before she is in the water there is still alot of work to do in the electrical mechanical stuff.
Hi guys been watching you before you started building your boat. I admire your dedication and commitment to do it properly and thoroughly. No shortcuts. Keep up the good work, I too had learned a lot just by watching your vlog.
Slowly but surely..gettin done. Thanks Jess and Matt.
First time I’ve been back for a while WOW she has come on so much keep up the great work Steve
I like the small details you taking care off....I hope you will have a long summer and progress .....
❤ the videos. Bit by bit it's coming together. Like your approach to building the catamaran. It will be unique. Can't wait till your sailing it.
Watching you and the RAN family. Wonder who will finish first? Ooh a race!
You’re going to catch up to Rosco over on Life on the Hulls pretty quick. Nice progress! Looks awesome Matt n Jessica!😊
Just as long as we can get past this fairing and priming stage. 🤣👍
Looks good - keep up the good work
Interesting video. Any thought on talking to SailGp on the feasibility of adding hydrofoils in place of the daggerboards on your boat? Now admittedly this would add significant complexity to boat trim systems but might be fun if you had the world’s fastest cruising catamaran. Keep up the good work.
Once the door and windows are in, this is like almost finished 😎
Crushing it 💪💪
I hope you have a way to stay cool. It's about to get hot around here!
Great Job!!! Thank You... :-)
Good work and very detailed craftsmanship. I wonder how it compares the factory boats.
Gosh, I have been away from your channel for such a long time, came back and you still haven't splashed. 😢
Yeah... maybe next fall? 🤷♀️
Why didn't Matt install the track before glassing that area? Access there seems to be very tight now.
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1st! ❤❤
Delos, Nahoa, Odisea, are years long SV cruisers, with what they have seen, are building aluminum metal performance catamarans for their long term safety, for cruising speed, light air sailing, ventilation panaramic view and living space. The northern European motor yacht builders, Lurssen, Heesen, Feadship and Amel, will build yachts in aluminum or steel, and they do, for sheiks or anybody, but they prefer to build the hull in the water out of steel and the superstructure out of aluminum, joined by a part called Treclat, that is steel on the bottom fused to aluminum by an expolsion, so that the steel hull is welded to the bottom side and the aluminum superstructure is welded to the upper side. That fits with my seeing an 85 foot beautiful Whitbread, around the world racer, that had at the waterline and below Swiss cheese holes in the hull, some all the way through, that the multimillionaire owner was unable to prevent. I know you have mentioned replating about a 4x8 foot section of your bottom and several other aluminum cruisers have also done so. Since a multihull does not need to be canoe shaped as monohulls need, I have come up with a design that 25 feet of the hull are just the bottom half of a circle, for the minimum surface area for the displacment. I started with the 48 foot Mumby, because the extensive specifications are available. The widest hull width at the waterline is 3 feet 10 and 1/2 inches. There are metal tank manufactures here in Florida that will roll a 3 foot diameter tank without ends and that cut in half will be the below water line hull bottom for 25 feet of the hull. the fineness ratio is 19 to 1, width to waterline length. Knowing that the hull shape will not have to push the water 5 and a quarter inch as far on both sides of the hull and 5 and a 1/4 inch down as well, necessitates a longer waterline length to displace the weight and I know the added length will add weight, but performance cats are narrower and the longer waterline adds speed as well, noting even the ARC race from the Canarie islands to Antigua, has the longer hulled non-performance Lagoons closer to the 13 day finish than the 22 day finish. The biggest shock came when I found 4x8 x 1/8 inch steel sheet for sale here in Florida for $15.70 and 4x8 6millimeter aluminum for $550, 31 times more than steel. I am a born and raised Michigander also but I am 81 years old and running out of time, so I need someone to turn some of these ideas over to, even though they will be a back burner item. Contact me, if you wish, at jilly_sam@hotmail.com --386-247-3099, I can send drawings, and pictures. Oh, Yanmar has a 36 Hp diesel outboard for $534. Jamie from Jupiter say they only use their motors for manuvering in marinas and anchorages. No prop and shaft drag while sailing and two less hull holes with easy engine in and out for repairs.
All aluminium materials are not created equal! There's Selium and Alustar amongst other grades. Work and expedition boats are in alloy for a reason. Mixing it with steel is suicide! Even Chris White admits aluminium is excellent - it's just a case of knowing how to treat it. Most of the anti-alloy arguments are potential problems that apply equally to carbon fibre.
A 19 to 1 length to beam ratio is extreme. This could be good at 20 knots of boat speed, but will slow you down in light winds due to greater wetted area for a given displacement. A slightly fatter hull would be better for a cruiser. Mixing steel hulls with aluminum superstructure can work well if you "know how to treat it" and is not suicide. See Bering Yachts in Turkey for examples of this being done with great success. $534 for a 36 horsepower outboard seems unbelievably cheap. Is this really true? $5340?
OOPS! -- Isn't this Episode number 332, rather than 322 ?
Matt, I need you to tell me how you hit the jackpot of partners? Seriously, she does it all. The dream partner of salty sea goddesses.
Second
Your boat will be far superior quality than those built in Vietnam
A jack a lit
First!
trap door for Jessica
Mates this going in creasingly, boring I have followed you from the beginning and you have achieved a lot, but your content is drab just post once every five or six weeks and spare hours, it’s the same old same old😊
✅ Noted. From here out I shall make 2-3 episodes a week with heavy emphasis on sanding, fairing, priming, and sanding some more.
Oh, and very long and drawn out technical discussions with only a talking head and no other visuals. 😜
But in all seriousness, putting out weekly videos about the build is how we earn an income to pay for said build.
Without them, there would be even less progress because we'd have to take up other jobs, which would then take us away from the build. 🤷♀️
(And no, we do not have a desire to hire people to come help us. We want to finish this build on our own. ♥️👍)
An alternative, Alan, is that you choose to watch the channel once every 5 or 6 weeks and catch up with what the rest of us are enjoying watching weekly.
You make a fair point, perhaps, but the solution is, and always was, in your hands
Are you guys making any side money working in the yard on tasks for other boaters not on site ? Custodial wellness checks of pipes, batteries, bilge pumps etc ? I know you don't have much in the way of "spare time" but filming the boats around you to show their status, or offering webcams might make other owners happy to pay you for being their onsite superintendant, might even be an insurance discount for owners to have such services if the yard doesn't provide these services ?
Seriously, if they carried on working 💵 making money for Fuel and moorings ⛵⛽ in the future, rather than save on Vietnamese labour, they would be in a much stronger financial position. False economising🙄 l mean this kindly, you have done a great job with the boat, you you need to splash💦
I would go back and take a look at the first three minutes of last week's episode, we address this concern. 😉
I'm sorry, is this your boat? No? Cool, worry about you, and they'll worry about their boat. 👍😁
i'm done... come back went by finish... they show the same thing, i feel it just for make videos they dont want sail anymore.
Please don’t show anymore sanding
Unfortunately, there's more to come.
@ronheidemann2063 - Dude, you do realize you're watching a video about making a fiberglass boat, right? It's 90% glue stuff together and then sand it.
I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but you need to speed up your process, as you are losing your audience. So after fast forwarding these last three episodes (I always give a Thumps Up), especially both of yours "three itch"comment, I now understand what you are doing just like they do in land real estate. I call it, "Flipper's"; buy it, fix it, sell it. In this case you bought the bones of the boat, and you are finishing it on your own. You'll probably sail it for a year and then flip it for something else. How did I do? I do enjoy the detail explanations, but you all are soon reaching your 40's. I sure hope the boat is done before that happens. Life goes by too fast to waste this much time in what you are trying to achieve. I'm 78 and I always as some of my friends, "when is enough, enough". By the time you finish this project, you'll be in the "upgrading mode".🙂
I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but finishing details takes a lot of time. Some of us really like the detail work. Why are YOU so concerned about their viewership count?
I don't want to be the safety police but that mask can't do it's job without a good seal, and it can't get a good deal with your beard. Please stay safe guys.
not enough building too much looking for Is vendors and freebies. You're going to start losing . Many of your viewers are going to move on. Looking for channels that are building not looking for freebies
That sound track wore me out. Very fatiguing
Worn out????? Take a nap. 😌💤
turn the sound off and just watch
"Face melting" can be strenuous.