Building a cruising sailboat This is the second part of the installation of the Volvo Penta saildrive engine bed. After the prep work last week, we now fit t...

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last week on SVT Pacha we started

getting ready to put the engine bed in

the book you cut up five one centimetre

think laminates out of plywood do it up

a plug that's it inside the engine bed

to locate it in the boat making sure

that they fit well inside a bit then

after a number of preparation steps

we've got a hole in the bottom of the

boat that the sound of leg we passed

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well hi everyone this is week two of the

the engine bed fitting videos and I will

excuse me taking two videos over fit in

the engine bed but as I said last week

so it's a very important part of the oat

build and when you look at the way J

Benford has designed these boats as I

said again last week I said he's

designed them to be fitted with a an

engine with a sail drive not everybody

goes down that route if you look at what

other builders of dumb Hester for

example has gone to traditional route

with an engine with a with a prop shaft

Stern gland Zebedee went most of the way

around the old navy even all the way

around the world with no engine at all

badger didn't have an engine for a long

long time other people prefer to put in

an outboard well which is a sealed well

that you can fit an outboard in it's

obviously a good option but if you want

to go down the way that the Jay Binford

design these boats to be that is to fit

a sail Drive then you've got to do

something like what I've done here an SS

what I've tried to do and I thought it

was important to take these two videos

to show you how I fit in this engine bit

so you remember last week as you've just

seen we've got as far as cutting the

hole in the bottom of the boat and we've

carried on this week and those five

laminates that I cut the one centimeter

thick laminates going up to 5

centimeters obviously of a plug for the

engine bed they were glued in position

nailed in position

with the bronze silicone bronze grip

fast nails epoxy glowed

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and then I once overall in

I fire blast them too just in case

there's any water leakage that water

couldn't soak into there and get some

rock going so they're all epoxy sealed

and glassed particularly around the the

end grain

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and then I spread I spread some fill

around them so she got the conical shape

to it and in put some some wet epoxy

glue on there I'd ground down the inside

and the outside of the engine bed

ground-up jolco off and roughed up a

surface wet epoxy on the plug sat the

engine bed down over it and left it

there to dry

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and then the next stage is to fiberglass

around the outside of the engine bed

around the well whether that the soil

drive goes through around the well

that's the engine build various layers a

fiberglass went in there and you end up

with six layers on put in a narrow so

ten centimeter wide six ounce cloth then

I went round with a 15 centimeter wide

six ounce cloth twice and then I went

around three times with a very heavy

cloth it's double that so it must be 12

ounce cloth went around there three

layers of that so everything this was

some pretty heavy fiberglass work in the

end

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and finally on top of all of that I put

a filler of thickened epoxy epoxy with

with microfibers

so that's how glued in she feels really

solid I last week I talked about a belt

and braces and braces approach so the

huge sub which is the belt which is the

braces but we've got the plug that

locates the engine bed the engine bed is

in fiberglassed in position and the

final securing of it will be that when I

built the engine now adapter plates I

built them to take bolt on steel pieces

that will bolt through to the floors of

the boat so the engine mount plates the

engine bed itself will be bolted down

physically with these steel plates to

the to the floors as well so I'm

confident than that all of keeper in

position you do have to think that in

the onion Oh in the unfortunate event of

a knockdown you could be upside down the

whole engine could be hanging upside

down in the boat and also it would go

over with some force so you've got the

g-force on top of that the mass of the

engine plus the g-force so that melt has

got to be strong enough to hold that

these guys gotta be pretty strong

something I say steel plates poker

through the floors and then I'm gonna be

happy with it

I've just finished putting the filler

around which is my final layer tomorrow

once this is dry tomorrow I'll put there

just a coat of clear epoxy over it and

then when that's dry

I've got epoxy primer a couple of coats

of that in bills paint and we're ready

to get the engine in so that's where we

are well there we go

thanks for watching usual YouTube stuff

and we'll be moving onto something new

next week we may even be putting the

engine in place you'll be very exciting

not the sale drive yet because I'm

nothing

hate have enough height underneath the

boat get the so drivin but we'll get the

engine in place prop it up on a piece of

wood quite likely to do that next week

that'd be a great thing cuz it gets the

engine into the engine room frees up the

galley area progress

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and fixes sunsets

never say tell me when you go into the

decisively what's your destination

tell me about we can move together where

revenge is about running

days such as

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