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My boat finally gets some TLC after 4 years heavy use in Indonesia. I haul out at Rosshaven in Townville, Australia and get to work scraping, sanding, filling and painting. This is part 1 of the refit.
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all right guys good morning welcome to
another episode here learning by doing
right now
we are in
ross haven marina townsville and today
i'm hauling out
i didn't get any further south i gave up
too much wear and tear on the boat and
on my mind physically mentally
too much wear and tear going south and
just waiting waiting waiting i could
have already hauled out two weeks ago
and be done with this there's a boat
getting put back in the water there and
then i'm next to get hauled out so yeah
i'm doing this by myself marie's in
france obviously
i've got everything organized i think
quite a few jobs to do i've booked seven
days out that's probably a bit
optimistic so it might be 10
and then we'll see how we go but yeah
i'm going to rip into it i'm not going
to film everything because i really just
want to get the work done i'll show you
the basic stuff what i'm doing the big
jobs in that but i won't film every
detail but i'll probably do one or two
videos from this fallout but i better
move the boat we're drifting a bit close
i'm just bobbing around here waiting for
my turn
oh hold on
just give me a second i'm going to pull
out the wheel i forgot about that speed
wheel
i forgot to pull out the
speed wheel
the data log the speed log thing
i'll make sure because the uh
strap could pretty much damage that oh
there's always too much going on when
you're hauling out always forget
something pull out the data log and put
in this blank it's flat
okay that's good
because anything that sticks down below
the hull if the strap of this thing goes
on it
then the whole weight of the boat's on
it so just push the data log thing
through up through the hull that's not
good we're good now
all right coming out of the water
it's always a bit of a scary moment
everyone says that but these guys seem
know what they're doing so i put my
trust in them
to see old shahelian out of the water
again
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all right
she's getting a nice clean down you can
see in the background
darling always looks nice out of the
water i like your lines for sure
as you can see
the international anti-fowl
is just getting blown off it's just
dissolving with this power blaster but
the interesting thing what i've said to
international all along is
the red paint is also international
ultra too as same as the blue paint
they should act the same way i would
think
but they don't the andy fell underneath
the red is four years old now four and a
half years
the blue paint well it's 11 months since
i put it on but it's been like this for
eight months yeah i just knew it would
do this
international didn't really believe me
that it was soft and it never went hard
it's actually a hard antival it's not an
ablative andy fell it's a hard andy fell
pretty much sure that this sort of
proves my point that it never went hard
okay we are situated
the boat's sitting here on all the
stands as you can see
hull is looking pretty good
it's a few little places here
for it to sand back if
it's not osmosis it's just down to the
primer coat and yeah this is where the
slings were so i didn't wash that but
everything else
is looking pretty good
this international paint let me show you
a good a good uh example
obviously you can see most of the blue
paint came off it was all on the ground
but here's a good example
you can see around the sail drive i put
on a
a different sort of paint one that
doesn't have copper in it because i
don't want it to react with the
aluminium sail drive
and that was in a blade of paint
sherwin williams something of that uh
brand too and williams something but it
was for a steel boat so it was for a
non
non-copper but ablative and that has
stayed on much better than the hard andy
fell it was here
which shouldn't happen you know it
shouldn't happen the hard andy fell
should stay on
so that's
a pretty good example of that this
andy fell
that i put on in indonesia has just
obviously failed pretty catastrophic
catastrophically i'll talk about that
you know the international thing
a bit later on when i'm putting the new
stuff on so what i'm doing here is
obviously the anti-foul is the main
thing
i'm putting taking all this off well
there's not much of it left but i'm
taking it all off back to red
fixing any problems on the hull and then
i'll be putting your andy fell on i've
got some water in the oil of the sail
drive so obviously the seals of the sail
drive are corrupted i'll be putting new
seals in the sail drive checking the
bearings at the same time but i think
they should be fine
if they're not i can do that here
so that's everything under the water
done and then i plan on painting
the top sides half of it's glossy enough
it's not anymore and there's a few dents
where the dinghy is banged on it and and
mostly in indonesia you know the locals
coming up alongside him there there
they're hard dug out canoes and that and
just banging on the boat so there's a
bit of damage
and i want to repaint that that's going
to be the bigger mission obviously
sanding it's not too much of a problem i
just have to rough it up i don't have to
do too much and then fairing up any
little dings and holes that's not too
much of a problem putting the new paint
on rolling and tipping i'm not very
confident of doing that but at the same
time
it'll work out i'm going to probably get
someone to help me i can't really roll
and tip myself i'll hopefully find
someone around here or someone in
townsville that wants to help out you
know it'll look much better and it's
just it just needs it you know you
there's a few places where fiberglass is
showing through and you can't have that
and i just don't want to touch it up so
i'm going to paint that up to the top to
the deck i'm not going to do anything on
the deck in the yard i might do
something when i'm back on anchor all
right i'm going to change clothes and
get some gear out and get moving
ah
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all right i've sanded
a bit
the air gun is definitely faster sander
and it takes way more off
which is cool you can see here even gone
through the red in some places which is
really good
it's uh it rips through it this the air
gun really rips through so i've done
about a third
i only had about two and a half hours
this afternoon to do it so i've done
about a third of it and yeah i wanted to
keep going now but they knock off here
at 4 30 and then they turn the
compressor off so i don't have any more
air yeah it's all right um
you know i'm starting to get sore
shoulders the air gun it's fast and it's
powerful but it's quite heavy you know
it's all steel there it is here
and um
it's quite heavy you know so so holding
it up here and i can fill up my
shoulders probably if you saw tomorrow
but another another like four hours
tomorrow i reckon i'll be done with the
sanding i mean the sanding of the bottom
part obviously i've got to sand the hull
i'd have to get new stickers made as
well i don't even think about that but i
can put them on when i'm in the marina
or in the water somewhere that's not a
big drama it's only 4 30 now i sort of
feel like i should work a bit more so
i'm going to take the propeller off
the problem i have now is i checked the
gearbox oil in it a month or so ago and
it's milky so there's water getting in
obviously it's pretty normal on a sail
drive it happens quite often you know
you only need one
um
fishing line or something to get in you
know what wrapped around and it buggers
the seals on the drive
so a little bit of water comes in it's
not that big a deal you know online
people say oh it's going to destroy
everything but it's not not really like
that if you feel the oil there's
different sorts of oil but a good sort
of oil if you feel even if it's got
water in it it's still oily it's still
lubricating it's not like it's just pure
salt water in there rusting the bearings
it's just a bit of salt water
mixing with the oil and the oil's still
oil so i'm not so stressed about it but
anyway it means i've got to take the
i'm going to take the propellor hub and
this part off
and then pull
the drive out
and yeah put new seals in there now i've
got new seals ordered here
so i think i'll get that
done today wait i won't put the new
seals and i'll just get the old one out
and if the bearings are in need of work
they've got bearings here too so i can
get them done
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this is big jace up here
he's a
fan of the show
came down and saw me in the marina a few
days ago and then just showed up
yesterday at the yard and said oh i've
got a couple days free i'll come and
help
super awesome so stoked
big thumbs up to jase he's getting
getting going with the sanding on the
top sides
so i'm gonna
be very happy to have that help
i've been busy here with the andy fowle
you can see everywhere it's completely
red i've sanded
you can see the difference here so this
is what i'm up to
good morning guys
another day in the yard
it's a windy shitty
day and there's apparently about a meter
of water coming down out of the heavens
in the next three days
so i think i'm going to be standing here
on the hard stand for uh
yeah probably a week longer than i would
expect
a little bit of an update i didn't
really film that much on the first day i
showed you guys just sanding it
a friend jason was here helping me he
unfortunately got called in to work so
he had to leave after lunch but anyway
he was he was a good help in the morning
oh it's a bit windy i hope you can hear
me here
and um
yeah so that was a couple days ago i
didn't really film anything yesterday i
was just flat out trying to get
as much done as i can to be honest but
i'll give you a bit of a rundown of what
i've done so
far all right so
i finished all of the
anti-fowl
sanding
i got all the blue stuff off that was uh
i put on lombok
and got back down to the good red i used
40
grit sandpaper so and the
air gun so just ripped it off pretty
fast you know you still got to do the
whole thing but it came off pretty fast
and as you can see
if you can see here it's really heated
up it's got a real um rough
surface on there so the new paint will
hold really good
there was some dings and some bangs
so
i've used primer on those places and
then i put primer as you can see on the
whole keel
and then yeah just just around wherever
i sort of
wherever i saw the paint wasn't in quite
as good a condition
um i just put primer on but i didn't put
primer on the whole
bottom because the paint is still really
good in most places as you can see on
the rudder as well
the rudder the rudder and the keel sort
of tend to wear the most to be honest so
the paint comes off easier and faster
so anyway the
underwater is is ready to go basically
well i have to move the stands obviously
haven't sanded under the any of the
stands
but i think i'll put on all the andy
fell on the rest of it and then move
them sand them and paint them
and then the top sides
they're all ready to go as well
obviously here on the front some people
have a stainless steel sort of cover
because when sometimes when you pull the
anchor up
it bashes on there so you often get sort
of dings along the front i've filled
them up with epoxy and fed them sanded
them and uh
yeah any other holes sort of filled up
i'll show you the back here
um obviously a lot of holes here
but this is all fed now it doesn't look
very good but it's smooth relatively but
all of these holes
you can see all of them the big one the
corner there all of these ones that's
caused by
local boats in indonesia they've all got
very sharp pointy bows on them that's
them coming up behind
to say hi or bring coconuts and just
going donk onto the back of the boat and
you know it's fiberglasses composite
you know it's not the strongest part of
the boat so yeah that was i knew that in
indonesia i could just look down on
certain lights and see all these dimples
everywhere but
it should look better when i painted it
i'm not putting primer on that i'm just
going to go straight over it with uh
international perfection
i should put two coats of that on and we
should have a better looking boat so
that's sort of oh another thing i've
done just now is um
take the
take the shaft out of here
so it's on the table
so i basically got to take
all of that part of it off and put new
seals in i also noticed that the um
the
the screw
here
to
drain the oil out that also has got a
little kink in the o-ring so it's
possible the water was coming in there
although i can't imagine all of it was
so
um i don't think it's a big deal to
change those seals
and that's another job i can do when
it's you know it's raining and i can't
be painting
look at this
bloody nightmare
i'm even sleeping with the
scooter
no because we've had these three days of
bad weather
i've been working inside the boat you
know trying to try and at least you know
i'm paying to be here on the high stand
trying to at least get stuff done
so i've uh yeah the engine's all
free
i've got stuff everywhere
yeah she's a bit of a bit of a bomb
theater right now but um we have made
some progress
i
got the fridge and freezer working again
listen
so that's good
got some new lithium batteries and a new
dc to dc charger
i'll be doing a whole episode on this
but basically i tech
from perth a family-owned company over
there
hooked me up with uh some new batteries
pretty stoked because i've been telling
you guys for ages now that my batteries
are pretty much
buggered and uh
having to watch our power consumption
all the time
things like that so this is going to
change life on the chahelion for sure
we're going to have a lot more batteries
than we had before they're going to
charge a lot faster and they're a lot
lighter
everything is good but as i said we'll
probably do a whole uh episode about
that i went and picked this baby up this
morning
a little
optima
optima blue top that's going to be my
new crank
battery just then i've got a good
baseline i've got house bank crank
battery brand new this one i paid for
this morning
it's a bit of an ouch i spent like 1500
bucks this morning oh it's really
hammering got this thing
this is a memory foam
infused with
i'm it's confused i don't know it's
apparently got some
copper or
gels or something or other anyway it's
supposed to be super fantastic
and uh yeah it's to go on top of the
v-berth because right now we've got
three cushions in the v-berth because of
storage underneath and i'm gonna cut
this to go over top and have a proper
memory foam mattress
maria we're pretty happy about that
so that was 520 bucks for this thing and
the dumb thing is i'm going to cut half
of it off to make the triangle fit and
i'm going to chuck them away probably so
yeah
yeah welcome so here in australia you
can get everything i've been blown away
by all of these shops you go to bunnings
or wherever and it's just a million
different choices everything you could
dream of and stuff you've never even
thought of
but the thing is it all costs a lot of
money
so you can have everything but you just
walk out of there going like ah
i'm broke again
yep got a new wind instrument
i'm just about to
oh i've actually just started
wiring it up i've wired it all up
actually and just tested it and now i
have to replace it with this older style
one here you can see the difference
um
both raymarine but that's the old st60
and this one here is uh i-60 so that
basically the same but i just had to get
this cable differently because they have
a different
sea torque system
other than that they're all the same and
it all works so i'm going to
put that in now and so i'll know where
the wind's coming from and how strong it
is and be able to use the autopilot on
the wind instrument um so sort of you
have a wind vane steering so that's good
but obviously it's raymarine it's eight
hundred dollars eight hundred dollars
for this little thing
here bought some new safety equipment a
new horseshoe ring
a few other bits and pieces that i
didn't have that i really needed
so yeah today's been the buying day but
my mate jase drove me around in his car
to all these places
and laughed at me spending all the money
and then he nicely took me out for lunch
and paid for it so that was
a good ending thanks jace freaking
radical and gonna come and help me paint
tomorrow
g'day guys another day in the boat yard
big difference today look at the weather
beautiful day
finally i think it's been five days but
it's been rubbish weather now
but yeah all ready to go i'm gonna put
on andy fell today hopefully get two
coats like both the coats on get it done
um jace is coming to help roll it on so
that'll that'll speed things up
and
yeah we'll probably wait three four
hours in the middle of the day then put
on the second coat in the evening it's
about eight o'clock in the morning now
jase is coming at nine i'm gonna
run over it with acetone quickly
just clean the whole boat off
and then put the
tape around the line
around here
and then we'll get stuck into it this is
the lightning conductor it's attached to
a copper loop that goes up the mast and
all the way through the boat
don't want to paint over that i'm gonna
mask it off
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that last bit is for around the
sail drive so the sail dries made out of
aluminium and the paint i'm putting on
the hull
is copper
infused we'll call it that
and so they would those two different
metals would react so you've got to put
a different paint and aluminium
suitable paint on the sail drive so you
just have to sort of mask it off around
there so there's a different you know
there's a distance from the different
paints
all right that's everything taped off
we'll start getting the paint on
all right so i'm getting the rollers now
ready for painting i'm using these small
fairy rollers for the anti-fel
and they tend to lose a bit of their fur
so a good way to sort of stop that or
like at least mitigate it
just wrap tape around them
then just rip it off again and the
sticky side of it will pull all
the loose fluff out
all right time to stir the paint up i
don't have a professional paint steering
machine so i made one
this is the handle off a roller like a
paint roller i just bent it to
you know so it fits
check out this is a bit off balance
i'll give it a crack
that's a treat
all right so i've got two colors of andy
fell
of this uh international ultra two i've
got
dover white which is
a little bit creamy
and then i've got one over here
that one's navy blue
so they're both identical paint ultra
too
um
and there's yeah four liters of each so
that's more than enough
for two coats it'll probably be three on
some parts
by the leading edges so what i'm going
to do is uh instead of i don't know
mixing and making a really light blue
i'm going to paint the
the rudder
and the keel and bulb with the white and
then the hull
with the blue
all right i got a coat of
white although it doesn't look white
it's nearly silvery gray
looking but i i didn't even finish what
am i doing
i left a big hole
ah i've gone and cleaned up oh what an
idiot
oh well it looks like definitely more
gray or silver than white but i guess
when it dries it'll probably
go more white but anyway this is jase
say g'day jason hello
thanks for coming to help mate i'm the
hired help
so he's getting the blue on this is a
very dark navy blue
yeah pretty stoked to look good and it
just feels good to be uh
you know getting busy because all the
stuff until now has just been sanding
and prep work and it sort of feels like
you're going backwards in a way but now
i'm
getting those on we're like we're
getting ready to go in the water again
so yeah i thought i'd finish the first
coat on the keel and rudder but it turns
out i left a big hole
so i've cleaned my hands and you know
put the paint lid on and got rid of the
roller and all that and now i've got to
take it yeah do it all again for
i had to find good help mate oh i'm
getting older getting a bit senile
just take me out the paddock and shoot
me soon
make some glue out of me
thanks patrons um
pretty awesome there's actually been
three or four
new
patrons
and i've seen an increase in interest
overall since being back in australia to
be honest uh it's pretty cool i guess
especially australian viewers we're a
bit more relevant now um for those of
you who you know had no interest in
going to indonesia there was probably
not much interest in what we were doing
the last years whereas now we're in
australia there's probably a little bit
of interest
you know it's been funny
in the marina or sailing around people
have waved out or called up on the radio
it's pretty cool don't get that in
indonesia because indonesians don't
watch youtube sailing videos so that's
been pretty cool and it's nice to meet
all you guys and if you do see me out
and around give us a wave
come over and say hi definitely don't be
afraid we're always ready for a chat and
uh
nice to meet all of you guys a little
teaser for you marie's in france and
she's actually been feeling quite
artistic and has come up with the two or
three new
designs for uh
merch so there's some real cool ones
coming actually so keep an eye on that
we'll probably get quite a few of them
printed off and she'll bring them back
with her
and model them and then you get to see
them how they really are but that oh
that might be a couple months away but
just as a little teaser some new cool
stuff coming on the merch site anyway
thanks you guys and see you next week
bye bye