Ever heard the number one rule in sailing 'Keep The Water On The Outside Of The Boat'?! In this weeks episode we fix a major issue that has been plaguing us. It's a big job and one we have been putting off, however with blue water and green waves soon to be swirling along our decks – we need to get this fix sorted!

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Transcript:
in our last episode we answered your

questions about us about our piracy

tactics and our cruisin plans so welcome

to planet chaos so yeah it's always um

confindent maintenance is fairly

consistent on boats but every now and

then you have to sort of pull over and

and stop for a while and do some really

big jobs which is what we're currently

doing we've had leaky tow rails for

quite a while and so waters getting in

the boat when we're in fairly good

weather and getting in all the cupboards

which is really annoying and the boats

quite wet so we've undertaken the big

job of pulling off the tow rails and

rebidding them but what this has

actually been done before and it didn't

end up being quite successful so what

we're going to do is take all the tow

rails off and then we're going to

fiberglass over all of the holes that

have already been drilled through the

deck and then we've basically got a back

to basic kind of platform to start with

and then we'll put the tow rails back

down again

but it is a huge job we're basically

having to pull apart the entire interior

of the boat so that's the ceilings out

and the walls out all the way along the

boat in order to get into the tow rails

and all the deck fitting nuts and bolts

to undo them and then pull everything

off clean it up and reboot it so that's

a big project for hopefully just another

sort of ten days fingers crossed

yeah but I'll just show you we've

started in the aft cabin and I'll show

you what chaos is in there

okay so welcome to our ask Kevin it

looks very much different from normal

there's normally a set of shelves along

here and a set of shelves along here but

we've had to pull all of those out and

then we've pulled out the wall lining

and then we've had to pull out the

ceiling underneath to access the tow

rails and all the deck fittings that we

need to get to and as you can see that's

bare fiberglass and this is these points

here are where the tie rails have been

leaking water so that's an example of

the first section of Tyrael that we've

taken off and that's all just this is

all just corroded away anyway it's 30

years worth of work this galvanic action

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sure exactly what that the correct

terminology is but that's probably the

worst section that we've got here so

that's you know the rest of its probably

only going to be better than it with a

bit of a bar what's happening here my

honey

well as you can see we've we've got one

section of Tyrael often we've we've

cleaned it all up so it sort of looks

okay at this point in time we've we've

actually run a small feeder resin we the

whole meets the deck which is just that

little crack in there so we've we've

made a thick resin up we've we've trails

a little bit in there and then now we're

gonna we're just gonna lay this tape

over it just to help strengthen them

strengthen it all up and alright drill

the holes and pop the tire rails back on

hopefully should be no more leaks we

were doing this just because it was

leaking so bad we're not really sure

where a lot of the water was coming in

from and mostly you could see it was

leaking down the bolt holes but we're

just doing a full on fiberglass job just

a yeah basis cover all bases because you

know this is sort of day three we've

we've really only got to the point near

where we've got one section of rail off

so

it's it's gonna be quite a big job the

inner workings of a sailor's food locker

so you know just reach the part where

we're going to take the tow rails off

from inside from the galley so we have

to access pull this cover tap we take

and so that we can access given behind

the cupboards and access the Tyrells up

under there there's some wind up under

there so yeah if being the galley

hopefully this won't take too long the

section

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how's it looking money

well done I'm pulling all the shows it

yeah 30 years of mankini not very pretty

but

anyway we'll clean it up won't get it

sore

peachie bad

this there's a fuel tank brewery there

in

the

will retain breathers

certainly pretty ugly looking

what Mesa don't know us issues they were

this mobi yeah yeah they go to a growing

honor and stuff that's correct yeah yeah

that's a good motive is that oh just

what I read Enoch I you know what you

love you junk like that every week so

welcome to day 9 of our rebidding the

tow wells

Tourelles project and welcome to our

galley as you can see most of the galley

cupboards are missing and dones just

been in there replacing some of the

hosing which was hidden behind the

cupboards growing lots of mushroomy

moldy spores which was quite gross and

so we've replaced those breather pipes

and water pipes and also giving it a

good old clean up and repaint so that's

good

yeah I have to say the mold that we've

been finding when we've been ripping

away all the linings to access the bolts

for the tow rails and all the other

associated deck fittings has been quite

challenging but the boat is feeling well

I suppose at the end of it you've got

nice and fresh in new and I can sleep

safely knowing there's no spores coming

to get me in the middle of the night so

so far we have replaced four sections of

the tow rails and the most along the

stern of the boat and we've replaced to

staunch ins and done quite a bit of

fibreglass and we've been fiberglassing

along all the rails as you will have

seen and then fiberglass thing over the

actual all the holes that used to go

through the deck so we've been basically

started with a whole new blank canvas so

we know there's no point that it can

actually leak outside of the holes that

we drill

yeah so we've then recycled the toy

rails that we did have and put them fix

them up and fixed up a few bits where

they had corroded off too much and put

those back down so we've done the to

staunch ends are turning block we

removed two two eyes I guess I clicks

that we kept popping our toes on all the

time that we never really used so we've

got rid of them

we've rebated this solar panel and the

solar arch base joins where they go

through the deck and done the two dingy

clips and yeah the four toe rail

sections and that has taken us a total

of nine days so this is an interesting

little scenario here this is where our

well the previous owner talked Darrin

that a few years ago or years ago he was

up against a pile on a steel pylon

against a duty and a big theory went

past and the boat took a bit of damage

along the side of the hill and we it had

been weeping from the outside and Darrin

did a bit of a repair which is this

white five of us that you can see from

the outside last time we hauled out but

it was still leaking from the inside so

now that we've taken the walls out we

can see what's actually going on so it's

vision here and you can see there must

be bits of steel in here still that it's

sort of leaking from the inside so

Darren's going to do a repair on here

he's going to grind that out from the

inside and then eventually will come it

again from the outside and hopefully the

repair will be complete

I win checked out a wooden boat many

years ago without sea salty sea dog

friend of mine and it was pretty funny

as a young young and just getting into

it to watch him move along the hull with

us with a big pocket knife and just go

jab jab jab into the hull and he said if

anything is rotten you know you've got

to work on that patch and so I kind of

got over the fear of digging holes and

boats but this is interesting

how's a guy thereby having fun

Oh digging holes in the side of that

girl's hell yeah yeah well place it's

about the waterline

oh did she

you get mallet

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so I'm just having a bit of a rest

it seems the screws in my neck recently

got put into my neck having a bit of an

aggravated kind of morning so yeah we're

still doing our toe rails and we decided

the easiest way for things to not cause

my nakedness train was for Darren to do

the strange postures trying to get

underneath the Tyrells to put the nuts

back on the bolts and for me to just set

up on deck and hold the bolts Diddy as

you don't want the bolts turning once

you're starting to sort of glue them

down otherwise you break the Sikaflex

bond and water can get in but even up on

deck you have to get it to get yourself

into some strange postures and my neck

just doesn't appear to like that sort of

horizontal holding it horizontally it

seems to really bother it yes so day

eleven

I think of anti rail project it's been

raining the last couple of days on and

off which has been causing us a few

delays and of course we had a whole

bunch of holes drilled through the boats

so

yeah some areas that the boat got quite

wet so Darren's just made me a nice cup

of tea and I'm going to have a ginger

nut and a bit of a rest

[Music]

so you're a bit of an interesting

episode yesterday yesterday afternoon

didn't get to film it unfortunately but

Darrin came down the companionway stairs

with a bit of a curious look on his face

and drill in hand and six of chain

plates are actually encased in

fiberglass and

we've discovered unfortunately they're

holding water so he came down with the

drill to check whether there was water

in fact on the template and about two

litres of water came pouring out all

over the all over the place inside so a

bit of a mess everything got wet all the

food got wet jumping around with sponges

and water and whatnot trying to clean up

the place so very curious times on board

we're going to have to look at the chain

plates after we've finished the toe rail

job and see whether or what condition

they're in fingers crossed

they're still okay but yeah it's going

to be quite a big job anyway we'll keep

you posted

what's that you my honey

sandy beaches clear water what it looks

like this is only a moment in time my

honey I'm an intern

seems like a long time it's a long

moment in time that glossy magazines

they just lied

they lied it's not all sunshine and

rainbows

after shadows

get any better than that

so in the middle of a lightning thunder

yes sir this is an example of what we've

been finding with some of the store

chains that were originally put in with

these little backing plates made of

aluminium I think or some sort of metal

and they're just not it's not been

enough area and not enough coverage and

over the over the years that just works

their way cracked right through the hull

and created this leak so yeah we've had

to take this all apart basically if you

stood on top of that five of us from the

deck it's really quite punchy you could

almost put your heel through it so we

have been grinding away the entire area

of that fiberglass and then building it

up again and creating basically a new

part of the deck then putting on new

backing plates fiberglassing thousand

much much bigger backing plates yeah

then rebidding the Storch and so that's

what's been going on a bit disappointing

to find it but at least we're getting to

repair it

so that is the new plate that Darren's

been fiberglassing in and then I'll hold

that staunch in and he's just up on the

deck putting a bunch of five of us in

from the other side now so that's a joke

the year is it back yeah yeah you can't

stick it in too thick when you put the

hardener in it has a bit of a chemical

reaction sickly you make it the hotter

it gets

despised a liar in you know not not to

stick yep good job bud okay so we're

just about to

distortion back into its little position

and so what we've done is

we've taped around with masking tape

around the bottom of the store turn and

then we're going to we've got this epic

stick that we're using which is sort of

a silicon-based different probe product

asuka flicks but they say this is really

good as well so we're using this so

we're going to spread that around the

bottom the base of the distortion then

we'll then we'll pop our bolt through

and

a little trick that's quite quite

important is actually not to break the

feel of the silicon although whatever

product you're using so I'm going to be

a up top I'm gonna be holding the bolt

burn so that it doesn't move while

Darren's down below underneath doing up

the nut nice and tight so that's that's

how we managed to do it ourselves okay

so that's worked out quite well the sick

stick is hosed out over the side which

is really good and when that's all dry

we'll just be able to cut that away with

a knife and then I come away nice and

clean and look how strong that is so

we've picked fix it up really well

pretty happy we shouldn't get any leaks

and that's now nice and strong again

okay so we have finished that project

and it took a stunning 39 we certainly

didn't we thought we'd have it done in a

couple of weeks so I just wanted to go

through a couple of figures with you

we replaced 178 Tyrell bolts eight

cleats four blocks we removed two eyes

that we keep knocking our toes on which

was a real pain we never use them so we

got rid of them we repaired the solar

panel arch and the bimini basis we rebid

the tracks for the jib and the spinnaker

and store cheon's

two three six fourteen store chains we

really been a buttery fiberglass turn we

also replaced a bunch of holding all of

the headlining and did a heap more

fiberglass thing so it was a much bigger

job than we anticipated

and we use a total of two hundred and

eighty two bolts and it took us a total

of two hundred and seventy three hours

so work that out how much that could've

cost that it cost us a grand total of

thirteen hundred and eighty two dollars

and ninety two cents so yeah we did

pretty good okay

people have asked about the water maker

timer here's the that's a little follow

there are three Jake are digital timer

yeah it's just wired in any day anytime

any week it's that's great sixty bucks

uh yep just plug that for ten minutes

every two days and you'll keep your

water make a functioning nicely so thank

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