This is the story of the building of a Jay Benford designed, 31.8ft, junk schooner-rigged cruising sailboat. The videos are a week-by-week record of the buil...

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we see

it all in black and white

and painted all so recently

i sit and wonder what we seem to know

how we sure

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i said

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i said

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hi i'm tony s vita patcher we're

building a cruising sailboat

and uh yes this week uh

mainly being inside so let's go straight

on inside

and have a look at it shall we yeah

in front of the engine room and as you

can tell the engine's in

but the first i had to do a couple of

things before i could get that

back in place and the first thing was to

fit the muffler which is

right the very back corner there you see

that kerry

i do believe so very good let's hope so

so i've got muffler in i made up a

stainless

plate that that sits on so it's a bit

raised off the off the floor of the boat

and also allows any water that's to be

able to run off

underneath that so i couldn't collect

there

so i made that up fitted the muffler

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uh

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so

just like that

another one there there's alright

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so

hey

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so

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result

so

how does it look it's very good doesn't

it

lovely

lovely and then

after that i had to do a bit of wiring

because this engine came delivered with

the wiring

loom sort of dangling and i had to get

the wiring diagram and there are

several different wide wiring diagrams

with these engines and to find the right

one

first of all get the wiring diagram out

and

work through it and it turned out there

were a couple of mistakes a couple of

wires have been pulled down into the

loom

had to dig them out and uh put new

terminals on the ends because they're

supposed to be the clipping terminals

that fit in those block

connectors for for relays a bit of

soldering a bit of wiring

had to run a new wire around to the glow

plugs

got that wired and then heat the engine

back in place which is actually not too

bad to do on your own

into 87 which should be that hole there

yeah good

this is the ac7 so that's down in that

one

like that and this one is coming in this

one

like that under there like that

a couple of

nuts on there

all right fuse comes up in there

with the screw

like that like that

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and about there

so

so

and you've got this little engine

control panel with a

a rev counter and a wall and beeping

water

a beeping water a warning beeper

uh the start button a couple of switches

got that and had to make a decision

where to

fit this thing and we had a bit of a

talk about it karen and i

and in the end we decided that the best

places in

the forward wall of the cockpit but

recessed so it's not sticking out

protruding into the cockpit it's

recessed

and then i had a bit of a thinking

session how to do that and then

clearly you need to make some kind of

panel that that panel

fits into and eventually i decided to

have a go at making it in fiberglass

i've not done

a right a lot of fiberglass fabrication

before

that could possibly be none at all but

it can't be that hard can it let's try

so i made up a

mold

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foreign

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foreign

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um

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oh

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and here it is the mold um and apply

and a bit of filler a thing of beauty or

obviously with with angles

angling in so the fiberglass can come

off again

um then i simply covered that with a bit

of cling film

and started laying up fog last night

something

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that's as far as it is for now although

in fact you'll notice it's not here

it is i've done a bit more lay up on it

it's in the house drawing so

i can't show you it's all sticky um but

next week we should continue with that

build or with that fabrication

uh it's i think it's going to work it's

going to be good

cut the hole obviously in the front of

the the cockpit there and fit it all in

there

and i've designed it to have room for

the stop pole as well which

i need of reinforcement around the stock

pool so just

just rip it out but a bit of metal

reinforcement there will stop pulling

should be all nicely tucked out of the

way let's hope so

as i say you'll see more next time well

that's it for this week guys

thanks for watching give us a thumbs up

from that old youtubey stuff

um i say thank you for watching thank

you for commenting thanks for your

support

see you next time bye

she was kissed by the sun

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hadn't thrown back

a

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you

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she was kissed by her son

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no one can stop him