The Bimini hardtop gets its second layer of ply and some glass. We try it in place and trim it to its final dimensions, before starting to finish it....



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Tony

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hi

i'm tony this is s vita patcher and

we're building this

cruising sailboat

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so

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we see it all in black and white and

painted all so recently

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soon we'll see what it's

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she's a jay benford designed uh sailing

dory 32 feet long or 31 foot eight

basically speaking

um a couple of things missing clearly

the keel still to come

the rudder to be hung on the stern which

can only be hung once the kill is on the

boat's up at a fuller height

got the mass still to build because

she's going to be a junk rigged schooner

um the junk rig is perhaps

poorly understood in the western among

most people

um a few enthusiasts of course

um and this

jay bimford designed sailing dory it was

perhaps made

famous by pete and annie hill annie hill

wrote the book voyaging on a small

income and they built a 34 foot version

of this

and selled it fairly extensively

ocean sailing but there have been many

others built

since then over the years

one recently zebedee which i believe is

a 36 could be a 34.

um recently he completed a

circumnavigation

uh junk rigged schooner same rig as this

one as tapachio will be

uh zebedee completed his

circumnavigation without an engine so

um perhaps that's testament itself to

the sailing ability of this rig

and perhaps the one of the great

beauties of the junk rig is that it's

fairly low tech the hull is put under

very little strain you need very little

in the way of winches things can be

handled with with ropes blocks and

tackles

all fairly simple and the sails are

relatively easy to maintain they last a

long time

can be mended quite easily so it's quite

a kindly rig on the hull

and the rig itself

this week been all about working on the

on the hardtop for the bimini last week

i was talking about the bimini frame

and started making that hard top

been uh continuing with that hard top

construction this week so the first job

was to

take

all the screws out that i put in holding

the first layer of ply onto the frame

and then laminate the second layer onto

that

now unfortunately my camera my trusty

old camera that's been with me for some

four years now from filming me at work

epoxy and painting welding grinding all

that unfortunately it finally gave up

the ghost and

it said enough enough

but when it died or before it died it

had a few flaky moments and

had a load of corrupted video files this

week which means

sadly there are one or two quantum leaps

in this week's video work um

my apologies it was out of my control

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so

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you

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so what you're doing karen

i um i have collected mushrooms this

morning lots of steps about

um

and i am going to try and dry them

because we don't have that much freezer

space yeah i'm going to dry them in this

drying machine that we bought

like decades ago

about 25 years ago exactly yeah so it's

got the wrong plug and tony ordered um a

transformer a transformer yes

but in the meantime we try to dry it in

the sunlight yeah yeah

got a load of parasols as well

yeah parasols exactly yes

you're gonna cook them i am tonight

breaded parasols tonight for dinner

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uh

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so

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kerry and i

lifted it up there tried it in place

marked it out um knocked out to its

final size and then cut it one thing is

important to say is that um

when we tried it up there you should be

aware that it was

intentionally built too big oversized

the idea was to fit it or to sit it up

there in place

mark the

final dimensions bring it back down and

cut it to shape

i'm good all right

now what we want to do is stand up on

that in your app

okay

right

and then there's fun

i just get my fingers

a little bit more to you

you can reset down on the anchor box if

it says on it no a bit short could be a

little bit more to you then

then rest down on the anchor box and

then i'll come up

when we're nearly into that portfolio

just

all right

that looks good

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okay

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oh

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so

then it's a question of glassing it

i've glassed it with some very heavy

duty bikes or cloth

um to give it a bit of extra strength

which is possibly not necessary for

linear

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so

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uh

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okay

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and here it is in all this glory

carrier knife i've turned it over

before that i fitted these trim pieces

around the

edges i need to sand up the corners

right off

run off corners for the water to run off

in the corners

trim around the edges to sort of protect

the end grain really

needs a good clean up the idea now is to

tidy up the bottom side

get some paint on it

route these edges

make it look nice get it painted and

flip it back up the other way

and epoxy primer paint the top sides i

have to say i'm very pleased with the

final shape uh when we set it up on

there you know i liked the lines i like

the look of it the height wasn't too

high i felt

and now with that final shape to it's

going to look significantly better than

that

coming out the side of it to access up

onto the range there could be easy

i've got some very nice grab rails that

will be going on the top to to give you

a grab funnily enough

and also of course the solar panels and

solar installation going on the top um

behind the scenes there's an awful lot

goes on all the time and

this week i've spent a lot of time

reading up on solar panel installations

i've ordered the solar panels they're on

their way

um i've also read up about how to mount

them so

i'll be showing you how i go about

mounting them to the top of that next

time i dare say or soon at the very

least

um elsewhere a few other bits are gone

as well i've got the covered doors in

the heads

i'll probably show you that next time

for

because the time constraints here today

but yeah getting on

and that guys is where we leave it i

think plenty to do

massive thank you from me to you for

watching and to all the

marvelous people who support us on on

patreon and paypal

we'll be back next time be pushing on

see you then

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you

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