Discouraging news on my water tanks... Its cooler now and my floors are done!

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19:34 county building my new home in the

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hey guys I'm back for another week to

work on hush puppy very excited about

that

all I do when I'm at home in Houston is

think about and wish I was on this boat

doing something to get it ready there is

nothing worse than having a day off and

being four hours away from the boat and

just thinking about all the things that

could be getting done and not getting

done so when I am here working every

minute to me is just extremely valuable

I wanted to discuss a little bit about

my short-term and long-term goals some

people have been asking me the first

video was a little vague other than I

just got a boat and Leninism selling so

let me discuss that a little bit

short-term goals this winter probably

late winter getting over to the

Caribbean aback taking my dad something

he's wanted to do it was a dream of his

to do that in this boat actually and

never really got the chance so that is

my short-term goal to get this thing in

the water and get it over to the

Caribbean this winter and back safely

and then I'll be tinkering on it and

selling around just here in the Gulf for

the next year until the winter after

this winter which I will be going back

to the Caribbean with probably two or

three man crew taking the right going

across the Panama Canal and heading over

to the other side of the world via the

Pacific sort of a short boat to be doing

that in southern 30 feet but they very

seaworthy boat so there's not a doubt in

my mind have the utmost faith in this

boat that that could happen and make

that happen so this is my floor in the

cabin that's the bills down there and

those two wooden things are my two of my

freshwater tanks I've got a total of

five on this boat and those are the two

cabin ones they actually make my floor

level because if not sex there's

actually a concave in the floor right

there

and what we've done a long time ago is

make two fiberglass tanks to fit the

concave of the bottom to make the top

flat and also to hold fresh water

problem is there's no excess in the top

to clean it and the other problem is the

forward cabin tank is so well fitted in

there that as you can see it will not

come up because of the bench how in the

world

my dad got that tank in there to begin

with is so far beyond my dreams I have

no idea he doesn't even know and I've

already tried twice over the last two

times I've been here to get that tank

out to no avail but this is the day it's

going to happen now

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son of a that was difficult but

that tank is out after a rock

eight hundred thousand when he tries on

to the next one

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that's - just look at this poor boat

you're just so Turkey oh my gosh I'm

gonna get to cleaning I can't bear to

look at it anymore

Oh got my water tanks out very excited

about that it was a and getting it

down the ladder was even way harder so

let me show you what I'm what I'm

looking at here this is the one that

goes around the bilge pump as you can

see by the hole here and this is the one

that's forward just bored of that one

not exactly sure how many gallons they

hold I kind of want to test that I don't

know how I'm gonna test that other than

just pouring gallons of water in there

but I don't know I'm really curious

though to see see how much they hold

this little peacock thing broke off and

I've got it wedged in there it's not

secured but I'm gonna refire glass this

in and and then cut holes in the top of

this one as well

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shut up Stan I feel the motor buster -

bro stand up in the mother was

countess burning money burning prey RT

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so we've used duct tape for a million

different purposes right but have you

ever used duct tape for duct work its

intended use crazy I know using duct

tape for duct I'm trying to put air

conditioning in my boat while I work on

it because temperatures in Louisiana and

Texas suck you know and trying to work

on a boat when it's just triple digits

is a nightmare so a little comfort I'll

show you what I'm doing I got an air

conditioning unit right there hanging

from the rafters and I'm putting it in

the boat right there huh comfort

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my heart opens another scenes in our her

she was a seamstress girl of my dreams

but I will never know you because I

never sleep yet honestly so that's why

you can never see me and I could never

see you and now this guy don't lose so

blue in a world without you it is

Thursday I don't know two three o'clock

in the afternoon and I have been working

on floors I've got an enamel good enamel

paint that dark gray color that I just

laid on all the fiberglass on the floor

and then i sealed my hardwood floor in

the galley area you can see

yeah so I'm proud of myself I'm having a

very hard time with the water tanks

looks like there was there was mold in

them and it's going to be a to get

cleaned up so we got to cut the tops off

and sand and coat the inside with the

gel coat and just do all kinds of stuff

and then fiberglass it all back together

again so that's gonna be a tremendous

chore and but like everything else on

the boat has been a tremendous chore but

it's that chore of love I absolutely

wouldn't want to be doing anything else

right now and I'm having a good time

with feeling a lot better I felt

horrible earlier this week and now I'm

just I'm just very much enjoying myself

hanging out in the boat and getting

things done checking them off the list

one by one and slowly creeping toward my

goal of getting out of here

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these tanks are pretty old they were

made a long time ago and they were water

sitting in these little compartments all

these years so we started to delaminate

on the inside and grow mold so we've

taken the lid off and I'm going to let

this dry out completely and then finish

grinding out all the loose fiberglass

and all the mold get everything out of

there completely gonna get sanding in it

and then coat it with gel coat hey guys

it is Friday and I am trying to get a

lot of little odd jobs done while I'm

waiting on the floors to dry on the boat

I've had some serious setbacks with my

floor water tanks that I've been working

on

as you know I've took the top off and

I've grinded and grinded and there's

mold and it's just it's not going like I

like I've expected it to go or wanted it

to go and it's a very tedious and I

don't even know if I'm gonna be able to

use them for water anymore so I'm

contemplating not even putting it back

in even though I've done so much work on

it already but I'm gonna sleep on it and

maybe use them just for JA storage for

food or ropes or miscellaneous boat

parts or whatever so I might consider

that or I might just not put them back

in and have the extra height in the

cabin I don't know I don't know I'm

gonna do at this point but I'm I'm a

little bit disappointed and I've put a

lot of work into those tanks so we'll

see

I'll keep you posted

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hey guys it's Saturday and I'm tying up

some loose ends I'm trying to get the

transducer the old transducer out of the

boat there's two of them and to make

room for the new ones I'm getting and I

could not get down there to get the nut

off so my dad welded me this contraption

he just threw it together and it's

pretty ingenious let me show you what's

up so this is the V berth and those are

my two forward freshwater tanks and down

here are the two transducers that I'm

trying to get out as you can see there's

not much room to you can't get a wrench

down there and eye socket would be just

too big you need a ginormous socket and

that'd be crazy so my dad made this

contraption fits over there that fits

over there just like this it's a

spinning so I'm gonna get this off

thanks dad I am wrapping things up to

head back to Houston I have some jobs to

do and a few more parts to order I am

getting so close I've got the Cutlass

bearing which is less than 100 bucks and

just get the prompt it on and the two

transducers in the front that I've taken

out I'm gonna replace them with two new

transducers and hushpuppy will be

seaworthy at that point so there is a

light at the end of this tunnel I'm very

excited I was discouraged midweek but

now looking back on it I got more done

than I thought I was going to get been

so I'm very very excited about that I

got the floors done in the galley and I

got the floors done in the cabin in the

shower and I started polyurethane in the

walls and had a leaky gas

the engine that dad and I fixed I had a

bleed to bleed the injectors again to

get the engine going but she's burned

and it lights up let there be light

so yeah although I guess it was a pretty

productive week even though even though

we had some setbacks but I will be on

the road here about an hour or so

Houston

thanks for watching guys I very much

appreciate it I wish you guys would

leave us some comments or some messages

or something to you know start up a

conversation to help me out I could use

all the advice I can possibly get no

miss Jerry and I will see you in a week

or so thanks

you