We have a little look around the boat as she stands at the moment. Then, the raw water filter and diesel prefilter/water trap are fitted, along with the battery isolator/charge splitter. In the EE bay, I fit some new battery switches. 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. These videos take a lot of time and effort to make, in what is already a time-intensive project. Your support in watching, subscribing and sharing these videos is very much appreciated. You make a real difference!! If you'd like to throw a few bucks in the boat building kitty in appreciation of the efforts here, you can do this by; Joining the Patreon crew - https://www.patreon.com/sv_tapatya Supporting us on PayPal - https://www.paypal.me/svtapatya SV Tapatya merchandising - https://www.svtapatya.com/shop.html or via the tips jar; http://www.svtapatya.com/the-tips-jar.html Music tracks "Sit and Wonder", "Ocean View" and "The Great Divide" available on iTunes, Amazon etc. EP "Shake a Leg", album "Out of the Moloch", single "Ocean View". Check out Hazel's music at https://music.apple.com/us/album/1503250522?app=itunes Music from these videos is available from: https://ynotb.bandcamp.com/album/the-sv-tapatya-tracks Thank you :-) Tony
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i guess
yeah few bits arriving as you saw raw
water filter
beta for all water filter
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water trap and pre-filter for diesel
plus the
the hose nozzles barbs
i've got some diesel hose which i hope
is enough to run from the tank
to the pre-filter onto the lift pump
and the return from the second filter
back to
the pre-filter i've got some
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very flexible raw water hose this should
be good i think
enough to run from the the uh through
hole which is
part of the the cell drive up to the
raw water filter and from the raw water
filter through to the
pump the water pump lovely
plus a nice
lot of battery cable and the
ends for that so starting to think about
wiring the batteries
one in there one in there connecting
them all up via the switch
um up through to start the motor
obviously
it's a pretty heavy duty battery cable
good stuff nice lot of stuff arriving
let's just start doing something with it
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soon we'll see what it's about
and here she is she's a 31 foot
normally a 31 for eight pounds for dory
blowers hard giant and one of the great
things about these boats is that you can
build them low in the
in the shop so because the kill is
fitted
towards the end and the plans are to
get her on a trailer at some stage shift
her up to a local yard
where i could get her lifted up on the
crane
and get the keel in underneath and
fitted in so
the fitting of the kill would be one of
the very last things to do which is nice
because i say
you can see the boat sits fairly low
down doesn't it
yeah so this is the forward deck you
just have a little scan
carry really nice and slowly
now what you've got here is is the coach
roof is full width
so it's described as a raise to deck
then we drop down to the forward deck
which is which is quite protected by
these combings
uh big old dog house on there
so my own adaption with a box here for
the anchor chain
um so we don't have any holes going
through the deck
the way i like it not everybody does
we'll have two masks you see the forward
mask fit in there
and up on the main deck there's
yeah forward deck looking like this i'm
pretty much done
plan is fairly soon in the next several
weeks to pull her out
forward so the forward deck at least
would be out of the shed it'll give me
good access to the afternoon yeah
but i think we'll have a little wander
down the side and try and show you
a bit about the boat and this
the side with the ray's deck is is the
hardest bit to show you because
the shed is not that much bigger than
the boat so we haven't got much room to
get a
you know good shot at the side of the
boat so there's not much to see here i'm
afraid
um we can wander on down
part of the shed that's the very
smallest there you go
and the after also
nearly completed clearly you know rather
and tiller to come on which would be one
of the things i'll be thinking about
when we've got that bit forward that i
was
saying i want to pull it forward enough
to clear this beam because
for the whole duration that this boat's
been this way around
in this position i've been ducking under
that beam and
yeah it'd be nice to be clear of that
but
after a small cockpit won't hold much
water
no feet i suppose nice big lazarette
which
still needs a catch but the hatch is
done the diesel tank and various other
things in there
plenty of storage in there these
combings still need a capping on
and i think i'm going to put a little
storage unit right up in the aft end
here
still to come but we're nearly done in
here one or two little bits obviously
um yeah looking good got through sort of
traditional
wash boards or are there a bit bigger
than standard perhaps
quite a heavy duty hatch there so main
deck has a
bit dusty needs good clean up and
obviously we haven't got a right a lot
of height here for me to
show you effectively but um you know
it's a big flat deck
got the stove chimney coming up as i
said the other mast
fitting there um a couple of nice
hatches in there
big deck area which
will be interesting how we keep this out
obviously various lines have got to come
across here with
guide rubbers and whatever it's a
favorite to do here but it's a nice big
area
and here we are inside it has a diff
different sound quality down a little
bit of echo because
obviously we've got no cushions or
anything to damper
don't sound but uh four peak room enough
for two
um yeah simple thing we're gonna have
two cities
a nav table here behind this bulkhead on
my left
with the switch panel and the galley
area here obviously
the dickinson diesel stove a small
double sink that won't take much water
to
put some water in the sink and a bit of
work top
some storage cupboard shelving heads are
in
here simple enough with a what we should
call a composting toilet for want of a
better word
no flush out anyhow uh yes they're
coming on quite well good
so up here this end we've got a quarter
of birth up in here which will
work quite nicely as a sea birth i think
um
yeah one person's up on that one the
tiller you know the other person
is sleeping but they're quite nearby
within ear shots
and this is where i've been working
largely this week
the injuries starting to get some
connections in there
um volvo md
2010 got the charge splitter in there
for the batteries
obviously raw water filter diesel filter
in
exhaust up the back various other bits
and another thought going on in there at
the moment this week
and that pretty much is a basic tour of
the boat at least
both of those places not very much
really
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i fished over 20 with plenty wouldn't it
that would go up there wouldn't it
easily and it would come up
quite easily
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okay
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so starting to think about the engine
room the diesel filters
the raw water sea water filter
plumbing for those water pipes for the
cooling of the engine the diesel
hoses from the tank through the engine
and uh
state of play at the moment it's not
hasn't gone very far
i've got made up to glued up this board
that will be the mounting plate for
those two filters for the diesel
pre-filter and water trap and for the
the saw the filter and just whacked a
few
drywall screws for it just to hold it
together they'll be coming out later
when the glue is drying
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get your phone
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so
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nice
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so
so
so
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should fit on that
looks interior
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so
foreign
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another thing this week was was to fit
in these two
batteries switches and a few other bits
in the in the electric
bay there so in the end i've gone for
two battery switches
the thinking being that battery one
battery two
this will be mainly service battery
battery one battery two mainly motor
battery
but you have the off the opportunity to
start from
motor battery or if need be from
from service battery or of course both
to start the engine and this one will be
the load so the basic you know the
things in the boat
lights and whatever which normally would
run for battery
one but you do have the opportunity to
run the battery to
should need a rise which is less likely
so we've gone for two battery stitches
in the end and that means a bit of
tidying up around here which is still
covered
coming on
very nice
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nice
real big question is can we get that one
there
and i think we just about can can we
come in there like that
through that into there
like that
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is it too close to there that's all
right then there's a little
electric body the back of the two
battery switches there
got a negative bus in here um there's a
big old battery box that will have a big
old battery in it at the moment it
hasn't it's got a very small battery
battery charger charges both batteries
individually small one enough and a
small
250 watt inverter um and that's about
what you've got to see in here really so
it's fairly simple
fairly simple although not the simplest
stuff
in the world no doubt and perhaps that
leads me to a point
yeah you you may have heard me in the
past
if you've watched most of these episodes
you will have heard me in the past
describing this as a low-tech boat and
clearly you know the idea of low-tech is
is relative isn't it one person's
low-tech is
not on others um and i'm very aware that
this isn't the most low-tech boat in the
world
in fact you know i've sailed on my first
real
ocean sailing or yeah we can call it
ocean sailing
was done on a boat that um funnily
enough i just found a classic boat
article
about the same boat it's been bought by
some people in spain and
really built completely you know to the
sort of extent
that leo is doing tally ho that kind of
reload
which is nice to see it back in life but
when i sailed on that boat
it had nothing it had no electrics it
had a
basic stove but other than that
and a couple of benches and some
cushions but that's all it had
um and for the nav lights we used to
have an old car battery wasn't my boat
but
the owner had a car battery that he
carried on board with him and
sort of twisted the wires onto the
terminals from the neverlight so
that was a proper low-tech boat and i'll
admit this isn't but
i've tried to keep it simple
ish you know functioning systems
that give us a degree of comfort but
nonetheless are
simple and easy to maintain and
relatively cheap to install
and that's what we've got here
looks pretty good
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what's going on there hazel uh lighting
time to switch on please oh it's
beautiful
wow very nice
good one