Building a cruising sailboat It's finally time to start fitting the engine in the boat, and the first job involved in this is to securely fit the engine bed....

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oh hi everyone

you have been a very active week I've

had a few days holiday so I've tried to

use that to the best of advantage best

advantage and the main I've done bits

all over bird actually I've done bits

all over but the main thing I've been

concentrating on this week is getting

the engine bed fitted and it's something

that's I've been thinking about for a

long time as these boats are designed by

by J Benford they're designed to be

fitted with a so drive unit they come

respect for a Yanmar engine and the sole

drive I've gone for a volvo penta sole

driver i don't think the brand of engine

makes any difference but designed to be

fitted with a soul drive unit but what

you don't get is any details on how to

fit a sell drive unit to these boats and

I research all sorts of things online I

spend a lot of time online read enough

about things and also online I film very

very little about how to fit a sell

drive engine to a to a hard trying boat

and particularly to apply with boat so

it took me a lot of thinking to come up

with a plan that's how the best fit the

sell drive engine to this boat and and

perhaps I'd go back a bit further when I

bought the engine I got a second hand

with the sail drive and when I was

looking into engines to buy became clear

that it's best to for a sell drive

engine it's best that it comes with the

manufacturers engine bed because we're

the so drive unit goes through you need

that watertight seal and the engine bay

would give you that sorry then the

question is so that came it's a

fiberglass engine bed you do most in

earlier videos about that were there one

or two small issues but that's all good

resolved fire glass engine bed so how do

you fit a fire glass engine bed to a

plow boat

in such a way that it cannot possibly

move in any way it cannot crack it

cannot lead to leakage around that cell

drive unit so that's that took a lot of

puzzling and say I researched online

film very little about it so I shall

show you now how I went about doing it

or how I'm in the process of going about

doing it it's and I'm going for a sort

of belt and braces and more braces

approach I really do not want the thing

to move so it's potentially a big hole

in the bottom of the boat that that one

really doesn't want to leak so it's been

a long time thinking about it this week

I finally got into doing it and I

started my first thought I say belt

braces and braces approach the first

thing I wanted to do is to build a plug

that goes up inside that engine bed out

of wood plywood in this case that is

glued to the wood of the boat it comes

in an integral part of the boat and it

fits tightly inside the engine bed so

the engine bit can sit over top of it

and it locates that engine bed so that

engine bay cannot move side to side

laterally or fore-and-aft it keeps it in

position so that was my first job I

marked out some ply pieces five ply

laminates or one centimeter 10

millimeter 3/8 of an inch roughly thick

building up to roughly 2 inches 5

centimeters thick for this plug cut them

out the engine bed itself tapers towards

the top it's wider at the bottom and

narrower at the top so the ply pieces

that went up inside there to form that

plug they had the taper accordingly

which meant the first one I cut had to

be slightly smaller than that than the

subsequent ones so cut the first so I

made sure it went in there deep enough

and then use that to draw around and

mark out and subsequent ones each time

drawing it a little bit bigger than the

previous one I cut out five of those and

let's see how that went on but before we

get to that it's something that I'd like

to talk about

and that is you assume you mentioned

them before the the challenge coins I've

got mine on the key ring holder here

that's available from the s vck junk

store as well

the coins there are 12 YouTube boat

builders who issued coins they have made

a list

they are SP seeker Solon hora lady

Africa Tallyho finding Simon life on the

bold icon to Arabella rusty junk C

dreamer salt and tar and Brubeck rupak

each one of those YouTube boat builders

is issued one of these challenge coins

and I heard this week or last week that

Tallyho have sold all of their so well I

think 300 coins for each boat builder

were minted I believe I'm right in

saying and tell you how I've sold all of

theirs and I think I've probably sold

very few less than 20 I strongly suspect

I thought that the figures but in that

region I think less than 20 which

clearly isn't quite the same level of

performance why well Tallyho is is

rebuilding a traditional boat it's a

beautiful boat I'm building a new one so

it's a bit different and perhaps I'm

just rubbish at selling things that's

quite possible certainly not my forte

but this boat will need a set of sails

and every penny that are getting in

terms of returns proceeds from these

coins will go towards a sort of

professionally made sails Fort Apache

and not only am i rubbish at selling

things I'm also rubbish at sowing I'm

quite good all sorts of handicrafts but

sewing is really not my thing

it is possible I haven't practiced

enough but not I haven't tried at all I

have and I'm bad at it so the idea of me

sewing a set of sails really isn't a

good idea I'm gonna get them

professionally made and if I can sell a

few of these coins

most of these coins if I sell all of

these coins it will cover the price of

themselves that would be a marvelous

thing they're available on the SV seeker

junk store

you can buy them individually or in a

set and if you'd like support if you'd

like to support the patcher helper get a

set of sails the sv2 patch a challenge

coin I'll put the link to the s vck junk

store we can get the coins in the

description under this video

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yeah and the other thing of course with

fit in the engine bed was was that the

circle drive goes down doesn't need to

cut the hole in the bottom of the boat

so I've got this lovely watertight boat

and it's a kind of big hole in the

bottom of it bottom of it which is which

is rather unnerving

and so I approach that fairly carefully

as you might imagine I'll show you some

film of it in practice I spend a lot

more time measuring and marking and

lining up where I wanted the hole to be

and then cut that hole through it it

puts our drive in because I wanted to

make sure or wanted to check how this

lower diaphragm fits in the circle of

the sail drive opening lowered I come

over and just sort of have a look at how

it fits in there in fact it fits

centrally in the circle which was good

to know so what I want to do next is to

make a template for the opening for the

whole put a cut in the bottom of the

boat and at that you know a diet and

fitting

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so I need to make a template to guide

the router to cut that size hole the

router has a raised bit that you can fit

into follow a template a guide and I

needed to measure the distance between

the edge of the router bit and the edge

of that guide which was five millimeters

so that hole needs to be five

millimeters bigger as a template the

template hole needs to be five

millimeters bigger than the actual hole

lit cutting so just mark top five minute

is all around using this the hand of the

marking gauge technique

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you

well this was part one of the engine bed

fitting it's been quite a long process

and split it up over over a couple of

videos this is part ones I say thanks

for watching he keeps a thumbs up and

subscribe on YouTube and see you next

week

part 2 will be coming soon

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