This is the story of the building of a Jay Benford designed, 31.8ft, junk schooner-rigged cruising sailboat. The videos are a week-by-week record of the build as it progresses and aim to show as much detail as possible of the various aspects of the build.

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hi

this is espioza i'm tony and this is the

video record of what it's like to build

a 32-foot cruising sailboat

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hello we're in the middle of the coldest

cold snap we've had for

for years actually i'm afraid it cannot

be denied

but it slows things down a bit it's

still

uh still forecast to go on for

a week or so yet so 10 days to forecast

as far as the forecast goes this is

forecast to go on so

we're doing our best in a in a cold

situation

my chill brains are burning

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we see it all in black and

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i'll make the dough soon we'll see

what it's about

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yes

so

thank you

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like that

yeah that should be okay

so

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is the dickinson bristol diesel stove

that would be fitting is the fronts off

and looks

looks a bit of a mess but it looks good

when it's assembled

um and these old stoves they have a

diesel metering valve on the side here

i'll just zoom into that a bit this

metering valve

controls the level of diesel for the

burner

and basically what we've got here is

we've got the diesel comes in here

um into a float valve in here that

controls the level

and just in case as i'm so the diesel

goes into the burner through this pipe

here

just in case we've got an overflow there

and the overflow has to be plumbed into

something

could be plumbed all the way back to the

diesel tank but a much easier option

that i've done before is to plumb that

into a catching tank a small

catching tank in truth very very little

comes out of it very little indeed

so it just needs to go into a container

i think on my previous boat i used

a peanut butter jar but i thought this

this time i'd do something a bit more

professional um

and so first job i had to do was to turn

this valve around so so that the pipes

access from the back

because previously they came from the

side into the front of the valve but

that's easy enough to do spin that

around

and then i wanted to mount that tank for

the uh for the overflow

at this strange little corner between

the between the stove

mounting platform and the jelly covers

here

um and weirdly nobody ever commented on

that weird corner

but it was always always destined to be

this place where i was going to put that

overflow tank

for the stove so we've got that in the

holder a little aluminium tank

melted that in there and the tank has a

side

tube on the side so i've cut a slot out

of that so we can actually see the side

tube

keep an eye on on on the level in it i

shall cover that with a bit of perspex

but of course in order to empty that

tank you need to

access it so i've made these boards that

will

lift out and that will be a hinged door

on there

something like that that'll open it's

then possible get that out to access

that tank

so let's come along put a couple bits of

trim around the edge there that look

quite nice i think

and the other thing that's going on here

is that

the stove as it fits it has two holes at

the front that you screw through the

feet

and at the back you're not supposed to

have a tie bar

a tire like that now i haven't got the

original from the stove so

but it's nothing difficult it's just to

be sustainable doesn't it

so i made that piece of stainless there

that will bolt down through there

the stove slides under it and then

screws into those two holes there

so that's how these stoves are mounted

so that's all ready to go

i have waiting for bolts because as i

told you before

the hardware stores are shut so i can't

just nip out and buy screws for it but

as soon as the bolts arrive we're ready

to mount the stove

hey

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wow

ah

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uh-huh

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yeah good

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uh

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now

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so

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foreign yeah

yeah that's kevin let's go

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it made a bit of progress with that with

the mask fitting um

i put this eight millimeter round

stainless bar around the top that gives

us

gives us a lip that the uh that the mask

boot will fit over

the last boot will clamp around there so

that locates that

and it's come out rather well i think

the last step is to

put some webs up here so they'll come up

leaving enough room for the mast boot

fitting there

they'll come up there somewhere with

some webs

eight webs to come around and then

that's looking pretty good i think

um yeah getting on

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um

some fold

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so

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oh

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that's it for this week guys thanks for

watching give us a thumbs up and hit

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and uh we'll be pushing on see you next

time

bye

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okay

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