I make a start in the engine room, finally deciding on the location of the main diesel tank and beginning the fabrication of the rear engine bed reinforcer. At the front pointy end, the bulwarks get their caps.

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hello

um we're building a cruising celebrate i

can't i can't not say that

um a couple of things to tell you about

this week

um and the first of them is what i'm

lent upon here which are these

hardwood caps and i'm in the the process

of putting around the tops of the the

forward bulwarks here

got them boxed it in place black locus

caps round to shape as you can tell i'm

just in the process of

planing them up getting them flash here

shaping them a bit they'll have a little

bit of

take the sharp corners off um

i've put some bronze nails down through

now i didn't really just want to rely on

that

on the epoxy glue to the end grain of

the ply so

i've decided to put some bronze ring

nails down through there i've sunk them

and i'll just put a little bit of filler

over top of that

and then once it's shaped up

uh coat of epoxy and varnish

which should be tricky but that's a mask

up around there and and yeah

looking quite nice goes forward there

not quite shaped at the forward end but

it covers up everything that wasn't

particularly pretty at the front end

coming on well i think pleased with that

and i'd say

shaping this side it's coming up nice

and flush

looking quite good

uh

okay

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come on when it comes to

and there you go it is so now i'm using

it

okay what do you think

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all right

is

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watching

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the other thing that's been going on

it's quite a big project in

well really it's the start of a big

project it's the start of the

lazarette engine room installations

um quite a bit going on and as you might

imagine quite difficult to film

so i've got a a diesel tank perhaps

kerry you can

check that that's good hopefully you can

see that diesel tank sat there

um 55 litre diesel tank

which i'm putting in place there now mr

benford

specifies two tanks under

one each side under under here and under

here for diesel

and bigger but that's another discussion

but

the tanks to fit them in position they

need to be custom-made tanks and

um that's possibly beyond my budget so

i've gone for off-the-shelf tanks and he

also specifies

a holding tank

down there in the lazarette so i've sort

of compromised i'm fitting the diesel

tanks sort of in the position where that

where the holding tank goes no diesel

tanks there you remember i've got a day

tank in here as well

which brings us up to another 25 liters

so it brings up to 80 liters in tanks

you know i'll have jerry cans for the

rest diesel tank going in that position

where the holding tank goes

um but whilst i'm at that if i drop down

here and pull it out

you will see as is

as is so often the case

with boats

um let's just return to the diesel tank

for a moment

this engine the uh 2010

nd 2010 volvo penta burns approximately

a liter an hour so

the 80 liters i've got on board clearly

enough

in the region of 80 hours of motoring

which is in my opinion plenty it's a

sailboat

but i will have some jerry cans as well

um

so that's fine for me in terms of

diesel tankage i know other people like

more tankage

in that previous server we had much much

less it's also a

small volvo engine and a much much

smaller tank so and it was fine

so i'm perfectly happy with that where i

was what i was going to say was that

as you saw often in the case of boats

one

you don't just work on one project

because it's all so

close together that things are sort of

intertwined shall we say

so what we've got down here if i drop

down in and carry your attempt to fill

this it's a bit of a real to get in here

can you see anything kerry yeah i kind

of saw it off

well

yeah if you remember

the engine bed fitting

um i always said i said that i wanted to

go for a belt and braces approach and

i've got these metal

mounts that will be bolted firmly to the

bolt

to the boat as well so this is the aft

engine now

that will have a plate running from it

to the framework of the boat just to

prevent

any danger of that engine bed moving

which i really really do not want it to

move

so crawl out again

i'm just going to make some exciting

view and see me crawling and now there

phew so i'm fabricating up this

bracket stainless bracket that will bolt

through

the floor uh the horizontal frame of the

boat

and the engine bed or engine mount

will bolt to that so that means that the

engine bed is also

firmly bolted to the boat at the aft end

similar thing at the forward end and

that

fits underneath that diesel tank the

diesel tank itself will be raised

this will tank itself will be raised up

a few inches

so to be accessed to it

but that's all one big

process so i cut a big old hole in that

bulkhead for the diesel tank to

sit through and i'm working on that now

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yeah and as you can imagine probably

cutting that hole in there i tried to

stand still to talk to

cutting that hole in there made a mess

of dust

there's a good old vacuum good old clean

up it's looking fairly tidy now

and it's exciting to get in there and

start on this

sometimes you have amazing luck

something else i was in the

basic home depot diy store whatever you

want to call it

um and

looking i've needed a bit of doug fur

because i'm just just

for in that lazarette construction there

and i was

generally speaking the duck fur they

have in there is pretty poor quality

but these two amongst a load of really

poor quality posts with these two look

at that

look at that cleaned up for straight

grained

it's beautiful i searched through the

entire stock

there were two of them but by jingos

they are lovely

look at it that is a really lovely bit

of dog fur

so i bought the two you can't turn down

an opportunity like that can you

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where that tank protrudes into the

lazarette if you just look down into the

lazarette hatch

tank comes in here you see my hand

probably

there'll be a plywood box in there and

that will be the start of the second

level in the lazarette so that

that level will go all the way through

making a solid thick

shelf in the lazarette there so it's

good to be

starting on that and getting on with it

very pleasing

that's it thanks for watching all of

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see you next time bye

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we see it all in black and white

and painted all so

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soon is

you