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good day to you all I hope you enjoyed

the last episode both to a number one

today I'm going to show you the boat the

actual boat what makes it go how I how I

can sail it single-handedly all these

sorts of things so as with the last

video I'm gonna start up on the bowel

and work my way towards the aft part of

the boat so when I bought the boat the

bow roller was made in a real

lightweight material so I rebuilt the

whole thing out of 10 mil 12 mil

stainless steel just because I knew when

you're pulling up the anchor especially

by myself and the anchors out there and

the winds blowing me this way that the

old one would have just been dawei so I

built a whole new one just before I left

I have a Manson supreme anchor I'm not

sure of the weight but it's definitely

holds the boat I think I have 60 meters

of 8 mil chain and about a hundred

meters of of nylon road to go with that

and I keep some fenders and and snubber

and the roads all down the bottom this I

think it is part of the racing

regulations that offshore boats need to

have watertight bulkheads so this boat

has a bulkhead up the front here so you

know if I would hit a container or

something hard no waters actually going

to cut ingress into the boat itself and

also one of the in the aft section I'll

show you that later just for the anchor

winch and yeah yeah I've got a Felix

filler for the jib the jib is it is

fractional rigged I had it

Riis to Sun shading on it before I left

also just had the whole thing checked

out and any loose threads researched

it's a hundred percent sail and it only

goes as far as the mass so there's no

overlap on this sail on the jib here are

two spinnaker pole

a very long and heavy one in a lighter I

guess you would call it a whisker pole

one thing I didn't mention in the last

episode was the fact that I don't have

any leaks on this boat and I know a lot

of you old salts out there won't believe

that because there's a you know there's

a saying that there is never a boat that

doesn't leak but I honestly have had no

leaks since I've been on the boat it

could be that if I was in the southern

ocean and it was very heavy water that

something would leak but until now and

in the storms that I've been in so far

there has been zero leaks and I put that

down to this boat being very very stiff

my last boat I know leaked a lot because

in any sort of waves that boat flexed

the whole hull flexed and when you have

flex over time things just start opening

up you know like around hatches and and

where I'm staunch and poles go through

the deck and things like that

when this flex this movement and then

over over time the Sikaflex or the

sealant that was used it goes hard and

that'll crack and then water will come

in there's the main hatch into the V

berth here we have the forward section

of the jack line where it attaches to

the deck and it goes all the way down to

the back of the boat this is what I clip

on to whenever I have to come on deck

when I'm at sea my dinghy sits right

here comes right back to the mast and it

comes up to the front of the hatch so I

can actually still open my hatch when

the dinghy is loaded which is very

important because that is as I said that

is my calling my my air conditioning if

I would have a bigger dinghy that it

would just cover that hatch and that's

such an important part of sleeping in

Anchorage is for me my dinghy is 2.6

meters long its aluminium Holt it's it's

very light and I have a 9.8 horsepower

which for me and one other person is

fine we can rip around but when is three

people on board I just have to go slow

with it but anyway so ties down here

very securely on three points I've never

had any problem and it's it's upside

down so any waves that come over the

front don't go in the dinghy it's very

safe here to the

now as you saw in the last video the

mast goes down through the bathroom to

the keel this is its point of entry a

nice big aluminium base plate for it

here and as you can see all of the

controls for the sails and the mast go

straight back to the cockpit

so reefing lines topping lifts spinnaker

halyard main halyard jib halyard x' they

all come back down through the two masts

back to the cockpit the van has a good

angle and a lot of power to keeping

there keeping the boom down and the the

mainsail shaped well going down wind

taking a look from the bottom of the

mast up to the top you see that this

bread is a very backward swept and very

wide the strength of this rig is quite

impressive the shrouds come down to the

very outside of the hull as you can see

here so this gives the rigging extra

width if you look at a lot of boats the

the shrouds actually come angle in

towards the center after leaving the

spreaders and for me that's just

engineering wise is just wrong you're

just rubbing the rubbing the rig of

strength the wider you can have the

shrouds out based on the boat the

stronger it's going to be a mess y-you

see a catamaran doesn't need many

shrouds because it's got such width

you're making a big triangle from the

top of the mast down also having the the

shrouds coming and the chain plates on

the outside of the boat there's also no

chance of leakage there a lot of boats

will have the chain plates going through

the deck and attached to a bulkhead

inside the cabin somewhere and this is

the number one place for leaks because

they are always moving when you're

sailing on the port tack or starboard

tack some of them are loose some of them

are tight depending on how strong the

windows there's always pressure changes

and that that's just opening up holes in

your deck all halyards on this boat

spectra or Dyneema

I'm not sure but very strong non-stretch

rope the sail is on a roll

tract and the main halyard is two to one

then it's got a pulley so it's a lot

easier to pull up you have to pull a lot

more rope obviously but it's a lot

easier to pull up alone the mainsail is

not your normal cruising Dacron I think

it is some sort of fancy racing material

with some UV tolerant taffeta layer over

it seems to be still in quite good

condition it still has a really good

airplane wing shape I have had to fix it

a couple of times so far but I'll try

and make it last because this is

probably a very expensive sail but next

time I have to replace it I don't think

I'll go for this fancy material I'll

probably go with a with a heavy ish

Dacron and just save a bit of money and

maybe lose half a lot of speed it would

be sad hate to lose speed but I don't

want to spend ten grand on a new sail

and I think the sail has three reefs the

third reef is very very deep and that is

sort of the storm sail as such I don't

know it probably comes down to maybe

eight square meters or something that's

just a guess but the whole mainsail size

is 43-44 square meters so on chelonian I

have two tracks for the head sail sheets

right now it's on the outside and have

also this one the reason we can do this

is because the rigging comes so far back

and I don't have an overlapping jib so

I'm free to do anything up here the

ropes are never in the way of the

shrouds the inside track is for going

upwind when I have it fully suited down

on this track I can go slightly under 30

degrees to the wind which is about well

an old score full full keel heavy boat

will probably not sail under 50 degrees

to the wind

so if you can imagine the winds come

from straight on and someone can only go

50 that's a lot more distance they have

to do if they're attacking backwards and

forwards so it's a huge huge difference

and then going downwind I use the

outside track it just means you have got

that extra width so that the sailors out

here already

it still sales to windward pretty good

on this outside track and if I'm only

doing it well I don't if I don't care

too much about how fast I'm going or if

I don't have to go exactly on 30 degrees

I'll just leave it on here but if it's a

long upwind and I am really trying to be

as efficient as I can I'll run it

through this track for sure it makes

about a difference of about 10 degrees

and probably it not how nice and wide

and free these walkways are up to the

front I mean I know this boat now I know

what to watch out for with my feet and

things like that

but there is really nothing to trip over

the the walkways are wide and smooth and

there's no tryouts going down through

the middle of them and I really really

like that

here we have the furling line going up

to the Furlow it comes back through this

clutch and it's just a hand hand pull on

the jib is relatively small so I never

have to use the furling line on a winch

I only I feel even in big storms just

just by hand maybe just point up into

the wind slightly pull it in a few reps

the clutch doesn't let it out again and

then when I need to to let the sail out

I just let the clutch off slowly and and

let some line out by hand jib sheets

come back through this turning block

here and then up to the primary winch

here we have all the controls for

sailing the boat basically as of as I've

said before I don't really have to ever

leave the cockpit I normally only leave

the cockpit when I leave the the

Anchorage I'll go forward and put the

halyard onto the mainsail and that is

about the only time I leave the cockpit

everything else is controlled from here

this is my driving position I can

control the whole boat from here

autopilot steering reefing drop in sales

tacking jobbing if I want to raise the

spinnaker I have to go forward I have to

pull the sock up but that's about the

only reason I only have four winches on

this boat two on each side all of them

in the cockpit there's no winches on the

mast all of these winches are identical

that Anderson 40s teas and this is also

a real good feature because it allows me

to carry less spares I just carry to

spare kits and between four winches

that's a real good feature because a lot

of boats will have six winches in the

cockpit two or three on the mast all

different sizes some of them self

tailing some of them not it's a bit of a

nightmare trying to show new people how

to use everything what they'll what

everything does whereas this is just a

very very simple layout so let me show

you what these controls all do here we

have clutches for some of the systems

what have we got here topping left jib

had a spare jib halyard a main halyard a

second reef they out haul for the main

Nova this side we have another topping

lift first a third reef first reef jib

halyard and a spinnaker halyard they all

come each one just I just used the winch

depending on which which thing I need to

use here I have a little ray marine GPS

plotter I installed this one myself it

is a completely standalone unit it just

has a power cable has its own GPS module

inside it's not connected to anything

else on the boat I actually do this on

purpose a lot of boats these days and I

guess it's I guess it's the electronics

manufacturers they were trying to lock

you into their systems but

there's a backbone and they try and wire

everything up together and your plotter

is connected to your AAS and your iOS is

connected to your radar and all of that

is connected to your autopilot and it's

just all one big system and it's it's

wireless and you can control it from

your iPad and all the stuff that sounds

really really great to me it sounds

really really complicated and it sounds

a lot like if you have a problem with

one thing you're probably gonna have a

problem with all of your things and to

be honest I don't need a wireless app on

my iPad that I can control the stuff

from it's right here

the other thing is if you get hit by

lightning and you have all this big one

system it's just all gone it's just all

dead it's fried this one is one plug in

the back if there's lightning around I

unplug it it's isolated it is easy to

undo and put in the oven if I need to

the oven of course is uh you know like

it's a steel box basically where it's

the most safe place to put electronic

things when there's a electric lightning

storms around so my autopilot is

standalone it does not have connect it

to anything else my iOS just goes on my

main plot of downstairs I don't have a

radar this blotter is completely

separate and none of its wireless and

none of it can connect to anything else

maybe old-school but I think if I have

what problem with one thing I have

backups for everything and it won't

migrate to other other other parts of

the system this is the tiller I'm very

happy to have a tiller in this boat and

not a wheel obviously most people will

prefer a wheel but I think it just makes

them feel like they're in a big boat and

not a not a laser or some optimist or

something but I really like the fact

that when it's up I have nothing else in

the in the cockpit corner thing I got a

knife and some pliers on there and I use

them in the cockpit a lot so when I'm

going into the wind and heeling quite a

bit you actually sit with your butt over

the edge here and it's very comfortable

because you don't you don't fall down

into the cockpit and just steer steel

with this it's like a big laser

basically this boat is also very

to balance the sales on and and this is

really you can really just steer this

with one finger it just sails along by

itself has a really big rudder a big

blade rudder and it steers so smoothly

it's so so good the Dodger is very well

built it's quite small that it doesn't

offer a lot of protection is one thing

that I wish I had a little bit more

protection in the cockpit but yeah it's

a compromise for racing I think as a

window here in the middle that can open

up to 160 watt solar panels that I've

put on there myself HF radio aerial you

have speed through the water boat speed

I'll set this up here we have speed over

ground which is a GPS speed speed over

the ground is sort of what I'm

interested in that's how how fast we're

going across the face of the earth

basically but the other one speed

through the water is the speed the boats

actually going compared to the water

around it so by comparing those two

different speeds I can tell how much

current there is if they're both thus

showing the same speed I know that

there's no current and that's what we're

actually doing if there's a two-knot

difference between them I know that I've

either got 2 knots of current with me or

2 knots of current against me second

down here we've got water depths right

under the boat over here we've got the

wind speed and direction I'm up here is

the autopilot up here this is for the

vang and do everything all the ropes all

the lines and sheets are all put away in

these nice bags along the sides here so

the cockpits are very tiny because of

that and if you if I were sort of

zooming back yeah you can see that the

cockpit is very very empty so very tidy

and easy cockpit and this is yeah this

is my view when I'm sailing

also a very good view of the of the

sails so I can keep the sails tuned

really well the only thing is as I said

there's there's a little bit lacking in

protection for example if if it's if

it's a if there's a lot of a lot of wind

and rain I'm under I'm undercover here

and this is where I sit and it's nice

having this rope bag as a Beck backrest

one of the alterations I did to the boat

when I first got it and I'm quite proud

of it or I'm really happy I did it

anyway it was a Main Street traveller

that went straight across here you can

see some marks haven't really painted

them very well because I like to sleep

in the cockpit when it's nice weather

and I'm you know travelling offshore

there was no flat place in the cockpit

to go to sleep that traveler had stood

up a couple of inches

I could imagine just banging it straight

on my shins every time at night or

whatever I when I wasn't taking care I

just didn't like the idea of having that

traveler in the cockpit and so I just

came up with it basically the triangle

shading system here and I've reinforced

underneath inside the boat here and I

put pet eyes on both sides as you can

see and so how it works is I just let

one loop and I pull the other one off

and the boom goes across to the other

side and it's the same like a traveler

but it means that there's a triangle and

I can actually pull the boom down on all

points of sail nearly so I have really

good sail shape control through that but

also means if I'm tacking going upwind I

can just leave the boom pretty much

centered tech deal with the the jib and

then just retune this but the booms not

flying over to one side and bashing over

the other side so that's really good and

when I'm going down wind all I do is

unhook that yeah

hook it to this pad I and then I also

have a preventer so it's it's a very

good system that I've I sort of lucked

into in a way I did it with this purpose

in mind but I didn't realize it was

working out this good and so far I have

nothing no regrets and nothing bad to

say about this system there is a hatch

and this has the life raft and a hose

but it has a six-man life raft it is

attached to this point here and all I

have to do in the sad horrible event

that I would want to use this thing is

lift it out and slide it off the back of

the boat

they're quite heavy it's surprisingly

heavy and if the amount of people I see

they've them downstairs somewhere

baffles me that they think that they'd

be able to ever get it out from

downstairs in a time of panic and you

know there's so many things probably

going to be happening in that moment

when you decide to abandon ship that

hauling a 50 or 60 kilo drum from

downstairs and you know the boat's

probably going to be going up and down

in a six meter waves and you got water

sloshing around and you think you're

going to get that from down there out

the back of the boat I highly doubt that

I think a lot of people carry a life

raft to offset the fear factors I think

I would have got that as a last resort

but actually thinking about how to use

it I think a lot of people go that far

there's also a crash box crash bulkhead

in the aft part of the boat it basically

goes through here right in front of the

rudder post so if the rudder would get

ripped off completely water is still not

going to come into the boat and this is

a real big feature it also means that

these hatches here at the back and not

part of the main cabin so I can keep my

fuel my spare fuel I got diesel petrol

I've got 150 litres of jerrycans down on

these sides one thing you might have

noticed on my deck I don't have it

cluttered up and most cruising boats

will have five or six tier

ken's tied to the rails and they'll have

all sorts of junk just tied around all

over the boat which a those things being

in the Sun is not great be it's easy for

people to come and steal your fuel and

see and most importantly when you're at

sea and you've got a something happened

you've broken a rope or a shackles come

undone in a storm and you have to go up

front and you're tripping over all this

crap and you've got to tie it down with

all these different ropes and you're

tripping over that and in a big storm

they're probably going to come loose

depending on you know you didn't

remember to tie them up properly and so

it's just it's just a bad idea to have

have stuff on deck down on this side I

have some more jerry cans and some

diving equipment things like that some

tarpaulins and also the autopilot it

goes here straight on to the steering

quadrant this the system is a Raymarine

linear drive one it's called it's the

same one I had on my last boat molasse

boat was more than double the weight of

this with a full keel and a big heavy

heavy rudder so this auto pilot handles

jahaly on with probably half the effort

of thereof on my last boat because of

that this autopilot will probably last

twice as long as well but I have spares

for it I talked to a man in Mooloolaba

in Australia who's worked his whole life

with my marine and he told me he has

never come across a autopilot braking

for other than for three reasons

it was the electric motor in the drive

unit it was the fluxgate compass and

what was the third I can't remember the

third one but anyway I have bought

brand-new spares of all of those three

things so that was a good piece of

advice for him so I feel pretty secure

the autopilot for me is my crew member I

couldn't do this without it basically it

allows me to go to sleep this this unit

has just never failed me I've just

pushed on as soon as I

get out of the Anchorage basically and

it steers me everywhere steers perfectly

so there's no reason not to love it it's

my it's my crew member that I never have

to feed or talk to these hatch on the

side this is also part of the bulkhead

is here so these are also not a part of

the main cabin here I have spare ropes

the GPS head for the chart plotter

downstairs is mounted in here and then I

have grease done fishing gear things

like that and all the ropes over on this

side I have my gas bottles some fishing

gear as well but have my gas bottles the

gas all come stays inside so this this

what I've got one two three four five

five gas bottles the small ones are only

two kilos and the bigger one is four

kilos so all together with these five

gas bottles I have 12 kilos of gas and

this lasts me a whole season so I only

have to fill up once per year so across

the back of the boat here I have these

safety lines strong stainless steel

lines and it stops me falling out the

back basically it's a very open cockpit

any water that comes in go straight out

the back but it you know it means you

have to be careful not to fall out

urinating off the offer boat is I think

statistically the highest chance of

falling overboard and dying

most people have to climb out of their

cockpit and go and hang on to it to a

safety line the only comes up to their

need and the boats going up and down

here when I'm standing up it comes up

over my waist and I've got the back stay

got handles everywhere so it's a very

safe place to urinate off the back of

the boat which is hey let's you've got

to do it a few times every day here is

where my outboard motor goes on this one

down here hooks on to the back back here

we have a hydro vein unit wind vane yeah

and I install this this hi drone before

leaving Australia last year as a backup

auto pilot but for me more so to have a

spare rudder a hydrophone unit is quite

unique and it uses its own rudder most

wind veins you know have control lines

coming to the tiller or wheel hydro vein

just steers itself with its own rudder

so for me having a spare rudder in case

mine would fall off or break it's a big

safety factor so in in the case that my

I don't know a tanker or something a

tanker I would swing on to coral and

break my rudder or it just broke or fell

off or something in the water hit it in

a whale or something because it is it's

a 2 meter blade that goes down to the

water with no sched protection nothing

like that so if it did get snapped off

and it is one thing I do think about

it's a very uh you know it's a very

unprotected part of the boat really so

having the hydro vane rudder as a backup

gives me a good peace of mind I haven't

had to use it yet and I don't use it as

a wind vane even though it works fine as

it went vine I prefer to use my

Raymarine electronic autopilot each

water tank port and starboard has its

own fill a hole and this is also how I

collect water from from when it's

raining so basically what happens

whenever it starts raining if I see that

it's you know it's a decent squall or

you know it's going to be prolonged

rainfall I'll come out with a broom and

I'll clean the whole decks

once it starts raining and I'll get a

shower at the same time I'll clean all

the salt off the decks of everything and

then I'll put my little little damn

walls up and then the entire deck of the

boat is basically a water catchment area

and I've been amazed on the amount of

water I can catch in a short time I've

filled up my tanks probably three four

hundred litres in 30 40 minutes of I

mean here you get when you get a

downpour it's a proper downpour

it's basically solid water but I've

filled up my tanks there's just been

water pouring into these holes filled up

my tanks in the span of 30 40 minutes

and that's another six weeks of sailing

for me without having to go and fill up

with

water so it's pretty amazing the

backstay on Chalian is is spectra or

Dyneema and it is non structural as in

the rig doesn't need the backstay for

strength the backstay on Chihuly on is

just for shaping the mast so about

tensioning or loosening the backstay I

can shape there the curve of the mast

and also the tension of the force day we

noticed that the cockpit is pretty

rough-looking it is very much a working

environment for me I just drag fish

straight into here I work on the

outboard this is my workshop so the

paint is taking a hiding in here it

doesn't bother me too much I don't care

you know my my boat's not a show item

it's not a speaking span in vironment

that a lot of people you know a lot of

people spend all their time doing that

keeping their boat perfect I go sailing

I use my boat and my view on is every

3-4 years when I'm in a good location

like next year in langkawi it'll be a

time when I lift the boat out of the

water for a month or two and repaint

their cockpit for example and I'll refit

things and make everything look really

nice again but in between these these

periods of refitting I just use the boat

I don't really get upset when I scratch

something or when I drop at all and it

chips some paint it doesn't bother me

too much to be honest I am I'm by myself

most of the time and be it's you know

life's too short to worry about little

things like that like if I'm scratching

the boat because I'm pulling fishing it

means I've just caught some awesome fish

and I'm going to eat good food and you

know I'm happy about that I'm not

worried about the blood getting

everywhere and things like that

as you can see from the footage here and

the pictures Chalian has a very

streamlined underwater profile there's

not much of her in the water compared to

my last boat here as a full-size full

keel

there's probably 30% less actual wetted

area on cherylin and there was on that

boat so obviously that makes a big

difference in speed she's got quite a

flat bottom quite wide at the back fin

keel with a torpedo bulb on the bottom

a big blade rudder 2 meters long Chalian

draws exactly 2 meters of water which

allows me to get into most Anchorage's

and the advantages of having a slightly

deeper killed and especially the big

bulb on the bottom it allows me to carry

much more sail and carry the sail for

longer before half the reef just because

of the pendulum the weight on the bottom

so you know you're not you're not

healing as as much or as fast the more

about heals the less efficient it

becomes the less higher you bafta point

because the sail is like an aircraft

wing it doesn't the wind doesn't push

you along it actually pulls you along

most of the time it's it's aerodynamic

so the fin under the water does the same

thing it actually creates lift that's

why often when you when you you finally

reef and you actually start going

slightly faster or at least as fast but

you're not healing as much it's because

the boat's more efficient so having a

big bob on the bottom of the fin

obviously helps us two and a half time

it obviously helps keep the boat more

upright in very stormy conditions I

might want to hook my harness onto

either of these two anchor points just

in case there was huge waves coming over

the boat I wouldn't get thrown out this

tends to be my spot of choice for when

I'm sailing in good weather defender

here it's a nice big fender good

backrest and I can brace myself well on

this pole and on the cable here and my

feet are in a good spot and I can see

the whole way down the boat here down

the front I can see everything and it's

just a real nice spot there's always

some breeze I'm under shade from the top

here and I'll often just bring a book

and sit back in here and read for hours

on in or listen to a podcast or whatnot

or just listen the sound of the water

coming out the back of the boat is also

a beautiful sound the faster you go the

louder it gets I love it you get up

around 9 10 knots and this thing it

starts roaring he keeps me up at night

sometimes anyway let's come to the end

of the boat tour I think that's about

all I've got to show you without

spending hours and hours more if you

have any questions if I didn't cover

things either from the first one or this

one please a comment below ask me

questions

we'll definitely get back to you as I

said in the first one this is my home

for a large part of the year

I love living on board sure hey Leon I

love the opportunity she gives me to go

and visit great off-the-grid places my

footprint is tiny when I'm living on

Shelly and the solar panels just give me

all the energy I need I have enough

water I catch my food I find my food I

bake my bread I have everything I need

here and a lot of things that I don't

need like the internet queues waiting

lines stress bad press negativity in in

the general public politicians that

drive me crazy with their lives I don't

have any of that on this boat and it's

such a simple beautiful life and I've

never felt more comfortable my own skin

to be honest

then since I've started living on che

Leon I'm really not doing this to try

and show off or show that I've got a

better life or anything like that I just

hope it inspires some people that it is

possible I have no background in sailing

I didn't start even knowing sailors

there was no inspiration of of an uncle

or brothers or someone who did sailing

it was just something I decided to do

and I hope that inspires some of you it

is possible you don't need a great

amount of money my first boat costs

40,000 Australian dollars it's it's a

lot of money you know if you just got

cash in your wallet but in terms of what

people spend on an apartment I was

spending 20,000 a year on an apartment

in Zurich that I hardly ever lived in

two years of that and I had my first

boat and I've never been happier so you

know if you look at it that way it's not

a big amount of money for a huge amount

of happiness and satisfaction so anyway

that's a long video now about this I

would like to end us up by that again

thanking my patrons you're all a

wonderful mob I really don't know how to

express my gratitude when I first

started making these videos I'm not sure

patreon even existed but if if it did I

didn't know about it

some of you my very first patrons were

were the ones that asked me to start a

patron account so you could support me

and that blew me away I never started

making these videos to make money the

interaction with you guys the amount of

support and and constructive criticism

and just general good vibes that you

guys give me every time I put a video

out it's just it's mind-blowing it's so

good like yeah it really really makes it

worthwhile meet me investing this much

time and effort into making these videos

so I say every video but I really mean

it too so thank you very much to all my

patrons to all you others who like

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thanks until next time enjoy have a good

life

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