We're finally back with a new video! We finish up our refit for the Carribean having re-built our rudder, replaced our keel bolt washers, replaced a bulkhead...

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Zeus Zeus what happened to you buddy

oh my somebody got a haircut

so the boats back in the water finally

and we're out on a mooring still

massless but hey we're in the water and

look over there

sailing uma how cool is that right

across from us yeah I think we should

yeah do you want to go say hi yeah

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last time on sailing balachander as we

built a wet rudder

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hey Susie taking in Mia yeah

Hidan

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there's a pretty sweet they fit right

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and they're going on a deck you can walk

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are sweating there's no laces if it's

not luck great grip for the deck yeah so

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guys so we just brought our life raft in

to get serviced and I removed the old

hydrostatic release and I want to see if

it actually works this one is dated 2013

so just for all you out there who wanted

to know if an expired hydrostatic

release actually still will release your

life raft let's find out you ready as

well as deep as I can go with the pole

here let's see if it worked

still attached your life raft might have

to be really deep in the water before it

can actually release if your boat was

sinking so you want to get it deep

enough that the water pressure causes it

to release I think what it boils down to

is get a new hydrostatic release when

your hydrostatic release has expired

this rope is supposed to cut when this

is submerged

I just submerged it into about 7 feet of

water we tried out the hydrostatic

release yesterday on the boat hook and

it didn't work so I tried it again but

the Sun went down so I didn't get a

video of it but I tried it on a little

anchor that I have for the dinghy and 25

feet of rope and look it actually worked

but it had to go down at least 25 feet

underwater in order to actually activate

and for the little blade in here to cut

this wire which is what releases your

life raft like that so this one's

expired I think they're supposed to work

in shallower water so if you haven't

expired one it might actually work but

your boat has to go pretty far down so

if you sink in shallow water your life

raft might not deploy so it's a rainy

day here at the boatyard I'm working on

the keel bolts today all right so here's

what I got done so far I was able to

remove this keel bolt and it turns out

the washers underneath

this keelboat were actually made out of

aluminum which is really not cool

because aluminum won't last very long

anyway it was looking pretty bad so

those are gone so once I had removed the

washers there was also kind of a gasket

under here that was old and deteriorated

now that I've sanded and cleaned this up

and I used a dremel tool and really like

dressed it up nice so I could put some G

flex on there so here's my

chemical-resistant board and I've

already drawn on the shape that I want

to cut the surface of the fiberglass is

uneven so I'm going to use some thick

and G flex epoxy underneath this to

level it until that epoxy is dried and

then I can put the washers and the bolt

back on and torque it all down and here

are the washers I picked up from

mcmaster-carr in the United States you

can see it says 3/16 these are 316

stainless steel and then the bolt will

go on top of that and then I torque all

this down using a torque wrench to a

specified torque in order to meet that

torque I have to use a torque multiplier

okay so I was able to get this chemical

resistant fiber board coated the

underside of it with a lot of thickened

epoxy and then I pushed it down so it

would find its level and to keep the

epoxy from bleeding in and touching the

keel bolt which would be really bad

because it would just like freeze this

cue bolt in place I made a cellophane

cylinder here where I just took a piece

of cellophane and then stuck it down

over the comb it's really important not

to tighten your keel bolts until after

all this is cured up and starting with

removing this cellophane cone then a

washer and then the nut so I'm ready to

tighten that first cue bolt back in

place let me show you what I got done

here so things look a little bit

different now I painted some

polyurethane paint over top so I've

mounted a few things here there's a

rubber washer 316 stainless steel

washers basically I'm ready to start

tightening these guys down and bring it

up to its torque specification all right

so I'm just finishing off the last two

keel bolts down in the bottom of the

bilge this is the lowest part of my

build right here it's about two

two-and-a-half feet down but I've been

able to do it just step arms-length I've

doubled up to machined half inch

stainless steel washers that I had

machined at a machine shop remarkably

the ones that I've removed from here

were believe it or not

aluminum mom surprised they were the

keel was staying on with that so first

I'm going to use this large deep socket

and just to get it started and I'm just

going to use a standard ratchet I'll

just hand tighten that to a certain

point and then when I'm ready I'll use

the torque multiplier basically just

getting the nut down onto the washers at

this point this is a ratchet that I ever

truly showed you here is an extension

bar and that is the torque multiplier

and then this is my adjustable torque

wrench turn this to adjust which

particular foot-pounds I need for this

bolt I believe this one is 300 foot

pounds this torque multiplier is a four

to one ratio that means it will magnify

the amount of torque that I can apply by

hand four times therefore I can get this

up to you know 300 350 pounds easy so if

I go down here and look at the gauge

here I'm aiming for 90 pounds on the

torque wrench which multiplies by four

and because I'm using tefzel you're

supposed to remove 10% so the math goes

400 pounds of pressure minus 10% which

is 40 pounds and then divided by four is

ninety pounds so all I need to do is 12

to 90 pounds and they're done

good day yeah I think we finally got the

boat back together the reef it's

finished I'm just like a really big reef

it you get a lot of stuff like the keel

we did the we did the lazy jacks

the biggest thing was rebuilding the

rudder I was in our last video and like

countless other things like we've just

been working so hard I feel bad that we

haven't videotaped at all but

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next time on sailing balachandra we

prepare the boat for hurricane durian

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