Wow! 200 episodes! Who'd a thought it!

The bimini hardtop progresses, the solar panels put in an initial appearance, The doors for the lockers in the heads near completion and Karin hunts more mushrooms...

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 build as it progresses and aim to show as much detail as possible of the various aspects of the build.

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Tony

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hi i'm tony this is es vita pagea

we are building

this cruising sailboat that you see

behind me i'm stood here in the boat

shed at the moment looking out through

the doors

and this

is episode 200 who would have thought it

amazing and i stood here

making that intro video four years ago

saying this is what's going to happen

um it was one of the first times i'd

ever picked up a video camera

here we are now four years later 200

episodes later

um it's been busy for years it's been a

busy four years

uh but

we've done well i think boat's there

behind us uh coming on well making good

progress

um i've learned an awful lot about

making videos and camera work as i say i

think that introduction video was was

one of the first times i've ever shot a

bit of video

um still a way to go no doubt but

learned a lot along the way and it's

been a busy four years you think back at

laying out the stem here and lofting

um you know obviously you know building

up the hull out of those various um

station segments and planking it

glassing the thing

and then alex from tinkerlock come over

and we hauled it out and rolled her over

back in the shed and fitted it out

it's been been exciting and along the

way of course making editing the videos

putting them out the channel has grown

steadily over that time

and uh let me say now massive thank you

to everybody everyone of you watches

these videos and even more so to the

delightful people who support the

channel on on paypal and patreon and

provide

provide incredible inspiration to keep

going keep making these things

thank you guys

200 episodes

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so

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soon we'll see what it's about

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well it's a bit gray and overcast today

but we're up here on the boat and we'll

start off down below let's go down

and we come

and if i spin you around there

covered doors and heads got them hung

uh put a magnetic catch on this one i

may put a second one on

just got the one on there

i might put a second one on under that

shelf but

clearly that won't be the final catch

and that's some kind of

one of my fancy wooden catches as well

to stop it coming open in the seaway but

the two covered doors in the heads third

one

you'll see later it's being made

coming on

uh

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then of course the big action is still

this bimini hard top that

is now looking a sort of uh

greenish white color

uh coming on

first job i've got these three one six

stainless fittings that fit it to the

bimini poles the stainless poles that

have drilled up the holes for those

and then

massive stand up session i routed

these

profiles on the beams

and then put an epoxy fill it along

every both sides of each of those bins

and then there's a case i say a lot of

sanding smooth it up put a fill in here

and there

and get some epoxy primer on it

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hey

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oh

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okay

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hmm

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what's going on here

more mushrooms more mushrooms this is

the mushroom year it seems to be

and after last week's announcement we

have now gone out and bought a new dryer

haven't we because the old one didn't

actually last very long no

that didn't really work did it i suppose

after decades standing in the cellar

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a couple of packages have arrived

so look

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right here

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primer for the hardtop

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it's the small ones

45 watts

and bigger ones are 60 watts

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ready

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then we've got four of these

victron energy solar panels

um all relatively small these are the 60

watt panels

260 watt panels and 245 watt panels all

veteran energy

i originally thought i left 460 watts

but

when i

measured out on the hardtop it didn't

look good so it went for that i say 2 60

watts to 45 watts

clearly gives us a nominal 210 watts of

solar

if you reckon it seems to be standard

that you know you may get 60 percent of

that

takes us down to

120 130 watts

uh some 10 amps or so

roughly charging

now that i've designed

the systems and patio designed you know

karen not karen and i have spoken

through and basically we've got the same

as what we had in our previous cruising

boat um which was uh miss molly um so

very very simple very low electricity

requirements

and i certainly hope that that these 10

amps of charging which you may get for

you know on a good day you may get

six hours of charging time 60 amp hours

on a good day you know clearly some days

will be significantly less but

we'll more than cover our electricity

requirements

um

so

that's what's going on there also you

know in all seriousness is what fits

well on here

i've gone for the

rigid panels not the flexible ones

also as i said already from victron so

um the entire charging system is victron

the controller

will will be on board yet but will be an

mppt

controller from victron

all of my charging's victron energy

stuff

these are supposed to be fairly tolerant

of shading fairly you know as these

things go

so hopefully it's going to work

clearly

one can adapt at any stage

but one thing you need to think about

with these rigid panels is that they

need a bit of ventilation underneath to

get them cool so they need to be mounted

an inch or so above the surface to allow

an airflow

um unless they're at an angle i should

get a bit of convection air flow

underneath them

so

next job really on the other side

clearly was to make up some battens to

the curve of the hard top that would

just allow us to mount these rigid

panels

raised up a bit

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ah

good

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uh

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so

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yes

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yep

switch yeah

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yep

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good job

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yeah and here in the workshop

the last of the cupboard doors the

locker doors

one for the heads

last door it's been made and uh

very well

one coat of primer

second coat to go on there

get it glossed and uh hang it using

stainless hinges

and i should just make up some kind of

wooden catches full of

coming up

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this one's coming on there

mmm

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that's it for this week

thanks for watching

all that youtubey stuff you know

leave us a comment hit that subscribe

button please

and uh we'll be back next time episode

201.

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