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last time on sailing bella chandra

i made a video about psychology dealing

with your brain

and cruising hey guys

if you're new to this channel i'm dan

and my partner is noelle and we're

sailing bella chandra

we sailed all the way from nova scotia

canada to the caribbean and we are

sailing all around the caribbean now

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button press that button in this week's

video we're going to do something really

different

we're going to go back and look at all

of the diy

that i've done on this boat since buying

it back in 2017.

i've done tons of diy on this boat

lots of projects and i filmed pretty

much every one of them

some of them are buried inside of other

episodes some of them are just dedicated

diy episodes but i figured just to save

you guys some time i'd make a new video

and show you snippets of all of my diy

projects i've done for bella chandra so

as you watch this video

look for the little cards as they appear

at the top of the screen it's like a

little gray bar

you can click that button it'll take you

to the video and you can watch the

entire project that i'm talking about

and when you're done

you can just go back to this video and

keep watching for more diy boat projects

i hope you enjoy it so the glow plug is

behind

this sort of rubber thing

close to 1 ohm awesome

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so my goal for this afternoon is to

install the

framework on the boat that i'll need for

the winter cover

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all right so my plastic enclosure is

completely shrink wrapped

continues to run until i manually turn

it off myself so

obviously the bilge pump itself is the

problem

and i'll be putting this new bilge pump

in to replace the old one

so what you want to do is hit this thing

until it starts to ooze out and you'll

see it it just the whole thing just kind

of melts

hey guys so today i'm going to deal with

some creaky floorboard issues i've got

here on balochandra if you look down

here when you walk across

the floor it's a bit of a creakiness to

it

shove the syringe into the hole

fill it with epoxy before clamping down

this piece of cabin sole

i applied a layer of plastic wrap so my

wooden blocks wouldn't stick

all right so here it is uh this is the

replacement

plumbing for my raw water

in in the forward head brought the c

strainer with me we're going to clean it

up we're going to take it apart

change the seals put it back together

make sure it's

looking nice and take it back to the

boat reinstall it and make sure it's

watertight

and you know how it is when you have two

dissimilar metals in a marine

environment

one will typically eat the other

literally eating the hole right through

like i mean it kind of looks like on

alien when

the acid hits the metal and eats a hole

the fiberglass

door to my chain locker i'm going to

camphor

this edge off just slice right across

here

and remove this big chunk

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back aboard balochandra and i brought my

chain locker door it's

finished with the fiberglass all

repaired so in this week's episode i

found some wet core on the deck around

my anker windlass switches

they clearly didn't isolate the core

when they installed this

these switches and that's kind of a big

no-no bend

them like this to fit them in the holes

pulling out long strands of fiberglass

right off the cloth itself and

mixing it right into the epoxy we're

going to start by scraping the bottom

then we're going to sand the bottom then

we'll put another coat of paint on the

bottom and we have to change our zincs

and we have to look at those through

halls that were frozen

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i was able to bring this in to get 3d

scanned so

that's what they did they put this on a

3d scanner and they scanned the whole

thing in dimensionally for me

and created a 3d model from this and

today i was fortunate enough to

receive my first print so here it is

i went up and had a look at the winch

and disconnected things and then i've

been using my multimeter

to test out this control box which is

mounted just

in our v-berth there and there's some

like nasty corrosion on there

it's not it's not terrible but it would

stop it from making contact so

to fix this switch i think all i really

need to do is take some sandpaper

and clean up these contacts put it all

back together and give it a shot

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all right so that's it holes are cut and

it's all cleaned up

i flared all these little holes here

so that i don't get gel coat cracks i'll

be ascending with the

bosun's chair but this is sort of like

if something goes wrong

this will hold me really well and i've

also got

an ascender that's what this is called

but i'm just using

one as a way to hold me

on one of the halyards in case something

goes wrong and i slip

this will catch me so it's just hanging

there i got all my tools in a bag here

and every tool

this time is tied to a string so i don't

lose it

so with this system you can use your

existing instrument if you have an

existing masthead unit depth sounder

speed over ground instruments as long as

they output an nmea signal

you can input that data into the

raspberry pi which will multiplex that

data out as a stream and then you can

broadcast that through a wi-fi signal

out to

your tablet or your pc or your phone or

you can just run

your full navigation system right off

the raspberry pi because it's

essentially just like an

onboard computer so let's get started

and i'll show you how i install the

raspberry pi system with open plotter

in my nav station as our onboard

computer in this video you'll learn how

to build your own wi-fi multiplexer with

chartplotter autopilot control ais

and a live nme80183 or nmea 2000 data

feed for all your sailboat data and use

it with your phone

ipad android or windows tablet or laptop

today

i'm taking a look at one of our port

lights this is the only leaky

port light we've got and obviously we've

been trying to deal with it

by putting tape around it and the tape

did work for a while you know

but it's not a permanent fix and before

we go south this is something that i

need to address

it's really important not to tighten the

screws and bolts until the caulking has

dried

also the screws should remain stationary

while tightening

if you happen to be installing a new

windlass or you're having someone

install a windlass for you

make sure that they're isolating any

core that they dig through i mean these

are some pretty big holes

put through a piece that's a permanent

fixture on your boat

this piece here is bolted right onto the

deck and the windlass is then bolted

into this piece

fairly thick piece of plywood but right

here

they didn't isolate it so i took some

chisels and i dug this out

and made a cavity

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this needs to be stripped down and

cleaned and then repainted as you can

see

i have been able to remove the motor

shaft

right from the motor this is where i

removed the gasket on the gearbox

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the main reason i'm taking the mast out

is because some of the keel bolts that i

need to tighten and replace the washers

for

are located under the mast step

hey guys so as you can see we got the

mask down we used this crane

and we got it down so yeah we're gonna

drop the rudder today

there's this space here but that's not

enough to get the rudder out when this

slit moves we can drop the rudder lower

and get it out all right well it took

all day the way these things typically

do

but i got my rudder now tied on and i

did this rope that goes across them

below kind of a little basket for the

rudder to hold and that's my car jack

underneath got my rudder out i'm ready

to cut it open

and see what i've got inside i know it's

wet

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okay with this foam you use equal parts

a and b the first thing you want to do

is shake this up really good

so you can see that i've already kind of

carved this to a degree

i had poured all this foam and it

overflowed and everything i took

a regular saw like a wood cutting

handsaw

and it worked really well for carving

this out and then i just filled all the

low spots with

some more foam

the surface of the fiberglass is uneven

so i'm going to use some thickened g

flex epoxy underneath this to level it

until that epoxy's 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 316 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 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

the first thing i did to start building

my series drogue was download the

instructions from sailrite

you need three straps per cone to

measure the strap to fit the cone

you can double it up like this so it's

basically

folded in half you find the middle by

the halfway point

you line that up to the top of the cone

like this along the

marks that you've made and in doing so

you'll know that you have 15 inches of

strap above

the cone and roughly 10 inches or so

below the cone for the lower attachment

point

you want to push it in about three

quarters of an inch or so

then turn it about 45 degrees

so that it comes out through the braided

line at an angle

so here it is this is our jordan series

drogue pretty much completed

so that's the end of this interactive

dedicated diy boat projects video i hope

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