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hello lovely people uh here we are is

we are building a cruising sailboat um

and as you can probably tell i'm sat on

the off deck

again which seems to be the place for

hanging out and talking to you these

days

um and here we are this week a lot

lot done this week again very very happy

with progress

um the first thing i've done which i

shall shoot a little bit of film of in a

minute is is that a

vanished completely to the end

everything inside all of the wood trim

is now completely varnished

and very glossy very lovely

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uh i did not film revenge in it

um you've seen me doing a bit of varnish

and frankly

i'm not sure it's the most interesting

thing to video

so just take it from me it has been

vanished me

with a brush in my hand going around

there

and lots of coats of epiphanys

then here quite a bit that's happened in

this vicinity as well

if i kneel up here

you will notice that the sliding hatch

is back in position

and sliding i've still got to put the

blocks underneath to stop it lifting

off of the runners but it's in position

and sliding which is jolly good

so that's there and i'm also i'm working

on the wash boards for here the

washboards

there's a bit of a story but more about

that i think next week

the story of the washboards for now

suffice to say

that they are in progress on their way

towards completion with a little bit of

a delay

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leaving the washboards alone i've also

fitted the lazerette hatch

i think last week it was laid in

position now i've got the

hinges on it hinges

beautifully and

still needs to catch at the front end

but it has been fitted

hinged the fitting of something like

this is

quite involved there are three screws go

through

each hinge

and in this situation where something

that moves and could potentially have

leverage on those hinges i

thought it was wise to go for the old

drill fill

drill approach so drilled an oversized

hole

filled it with epoxy wait until it's set

off

and then re-drill with the correct size

hole so the hole is running down the

middle of the

of the epoxy core and that core is

sealing all the end grain of the plywood

so i did that and also made up some

stainless steel backing plates and about

under the deck so to prevent it pulling

through the deck to support the loads on

it

so quite a lot of work what you see at

the end is

a couple of hinges on a hatch but um

it's an involved process

so

there's okay

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if you're like me one of the many

thoughts of me

burning deep in your brains is it

possible to cut

a bit of stainless steel like that which

is

eight centimeters i believe wide

eight centimeters by five mil i believe

five millimeters thick is it possible to

cut a bit of stainless steel with that

like that with a bosch rechargeable

battery

um grinder 12 volt

let's find out

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hey

of course you know you might see that as

being fairly silly but

because anybody who was in a workshop

would clearly get out their trusty

makita and uh

cut it with power but we're not always

in a workshop are we

and i know from experience if you're out

there at anchor on a boat

haven't got a massive generator or

inverter you're down to

hand tools sometimes on our last boat

i sometimes spent absolutely ages

drilling holes in the boat with this

this very hand drill

which is a fiskars actually a better

mate than i imagined but

um sometimes i spent considerable

considerable amounts of time winding

that through

so if you can use power tools of some

sort on the deck

on a boat at anchor and if you can cut

stainless at anchor

and you can we've proven it with

something like that that

could be a really really helpful thing

and you may remember some

months ago i also proved it's possible

to charge these batteries

from 12 volt dc power aaron said that

i'm fitting an inverter

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oh it does work oh it's perfect

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uh

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uh

so

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huh

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can i get one in there

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foreign

so

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looking nice and while we're still on

the aft deck you may notice

two fair leads in position um

look fairly simple from the inside but

from the outside they look very

pretty

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foreign

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so

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so

i've still got to put a bit of filler

around here and i should paint right up

to that so we'll just see that stainless

rim sticking through there

i think it's going to look nice happy

with those fairleads

there will be a big old cleat here

somewhere one central cleat

ropes come through the fair leads onto

that cleat for for mooring or

whatever yes so all of that has taken

place

and looking good and i have to say i

rather like the shape of these fairies

because they sort of match the shape of

the

of the scuppers so it's all quite

pleasing

to my eye at least obviously it's not

just all about

putting bits on the boat although

although that is a major part of it

also spent a fair bit of time

researching thinking

and planning what's coming next and and

um

i'm certainly getting ready once this

well

let's take it back a step i have ordered

the paint for the hull

it should be here in the next day or so

so the final top coat gloss for the hull

you'll see what color it is soon next

week

possible um it's on its way very

exciting

also another little bit of this white

gloss for the four deck

so once they're done glossed and you'll

remember

you will remember i'm sure that the goal

was for me for the summer to get with

that glass

so we've got another two or three weeks

of august then whatever's good in

september which would probably be most

of it

then i'm thinking about getting into the

engine room and i'm starting to plan

um installations in the engine room

looking at diesel installations

final versions of the engine mounts i'm

thinking about planning

that's coming i've got various

electrical pieces to fit inside i've got

a small inverter and a new battery

charger that needs installing so

that'll involve some adaptation of the

electrical system as it is

so that sort of and thought and a big

one i've spent a fair bit of time

researching

calculating uh for the keel and and

a hope to be getting to the keel which

will excite lots of you

um hope to be getting to the keel this

winter

we shall see hey but i hope to get to

that it's a nice little winter job

um yeah so that's where we are

this evening i should be getting inside

i think i've got a few dribbles of

varnish i need to clean up

a couple of bits of paint on here and

around about the knee cleaning up i

should do a bit of a clean up

paint clean up session and so that's

walk to a close just a bit of filler

around those fairleads probably as well

and that's it for this week thank you

for watching um as you may well now

know we have a bit of a patreon thing

going on a paid patreon site

and some very very lovely people support

this project support the film making the

video making

and what we're doing here and if you

feel like joining the

the gang there um it's as little as one

dollar a month

and be lovely to see you good we'll cut

there

see you next time bye

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