We take a road trip to pick up the lead for Tapatya's keel and to visit Frederik, a Dutch/Danish boat builder. Meanwhile, Hazel's engine is finally up and running again and we make a good start on the installation of her Raymarine Evolution autopilot. 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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we see it all in black and white

and painted all so recently

i sit and

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i said

you can see my so we're in denmark

just across the border um and it was

well we had to stop and show our our

coving tests but other than that it was

completely

straightforward and luckily we're early

enough that there was

virtually no queue and there was no

queue

through and driving up into denmark now

excellent

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i can see

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that's a big bridge isn't it

miles long

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again

then we stopped and visited

another builder of a plywood sailboat

frederick he's he's

up in denmark and he's building a

similar boat to this is a different

design but they're

a distinct similarities a similar kind

of size roughly i think 34 foot i

believe

i will vote and uh stopped in have a

look at how he's getting on

between now yeah yeah

oh maybe he's got one of those yeah

there we go

i'm there not on the inside i'm inside

kerry

but this is the last red here yeah and

here's the outboard belt

going yeah right and then we'll have

some sort of

uh food well here probably yeah i

haven't

quite decided yet uh on the layout of

the

of the cockpit but that's easier when i

started out and then so here we go

companion right here yeah well this is

going to go out but

yeah just for stability for now yes

and then here is supposed to be some

kind of

uh navigational navigation

corner yeah the way i'm going to do it

i'm not sure

it's going to be the loo and the heads

and some sort of wet storage for

clothing and stuff like that when you

get in

yeah yeah and here

is going to be the galley from here

all the way over there and over here big

galley and this is your center

this is my sister box this is the one

all right so this is the whole boat yeah

it's 18 mils

three quarter inch yeah uh it's very

solid

yeah it's good looking you can see here

i glassed it on the inside

yeah and this one is also on the inside

of course but i i closed it at all

right so that's uh six mils of glass

yeah

six layers yeah three layers of mat and

three layers of

cloth yes and uh well i'm going to

perform

four layers on the on the outside so

it's going to be pretty

yeah yeah um all the bellas

is going around here under the

okay so your center board is going to be

what material would yeah well yeah i can

do it either way i can do it

i can make a a sort of false shade

yeah and then put a quarter inch ply on

top

and then press it heavily yeah or i can

uh

make glass sheets and then okay do it

like that and your leg is just it's like

yeah it's building

gears yeah yeah and uh there's going to

be two tones in here

yeah uh i got to a little bit more just

in case it's got 200 kilos extra

and then i know where i can get it

so this this this coin i think it's

going to be nice here too

if it's sort of rolling in the rough

weather

yeah i don't know and we have a sort of

table here kind of

sort of yeah maybe a little stove there

we'll see but all that stuff i can't

really

think about it but it's it's impossible

i think the first thing you have to get

used to is

that the kelly's going to be on the

other side

everything's upside down yeah yeah and

here is the master bedroom

um so lots of storage here i'm probably

going to put some water tanks in here

or maybe jerry cans i'm not sure yet and

then

this and i have to make i have to shape

this a little bit better but but it

should be uh

because this is going all the way in

fact we're going all the way out here

so we're going to have like a 160

2 meters long and then yeah big bear

yeah and here in the bed

is going to be the mask step here

in this area and it's going through but

i tested it in my own beard with a

with a with an old black bucket and it's

okay you know

it's just there so yeah it's no worries

yeah and here

this is well this is an interesting

thing in chris's design

he puts a well up forward here

so when you're working on your anchor

chains and then working your entity yeah

then you're like 50 centimeters down

yeah so you stand very seriously yeah

yeah so so here's going to be sort of

kind of well

and underneath is going to be huge

amount of storage yeah

white stuff i guess yeah and i'm not

sure where i'm going to put the chain if

i'm just keeping in the well or if i'm

going to make some sort of horsepower

so i'm going to put it there i'm not

sure all those stuffs because it's not

easy to do anything

sorry it's not easy what to do with an

anchor because i don't like the hole

yeah yeah you know me neither and then

you stuff some rags in it

and then you possibly bring a lot of mud

up and it stinks down yeah yeah yeah

you only got like maybe six 10 meters of

chain in the wrist

or

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and if she's too stiff then i might put

all the chain on top of the thing

so but this is uh this is basically it i

mean it's

simple yeah that means this looks great

you've done a great job right

it looks nice yeah yeah yeah countries

excellent top

well see when it got difficult

i got a good i got an old guy here all

right he's an old boat builder yeah

especially because that's where it's

going with the rolling bevel

bevel over there from number five to the

stern

it's it's getting more and more v-shaped

yeah so there was a rolling bevel

on the stringers and on the on the

frames as well yeah

so uh that took us two days going back

and forth

yeah this is going to be heavily glass

as well yeah

so like there okay so so this is going

to be glassed in

three layers four layers on each side

and then the rudder is going to

stand here or not even stand it's going

to be there to support it and hung here

and i'm here

yeah and then the rudder

is uh what do you call that the phone

brother yeah yeah

so there's a lot of big big old rugged

sticking out here yeah

big road so this is going to be nice too

i guess

make some fillets here you know so the

glass will go on yeah

yes

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no

and it smells good too

so yeah yeah so i'm very happy with this

and i'm just going to keep this to make

some tests with the

with mats and stuff like that right yeah

see if i can pull it off you know

so actually that was a serious bit of

blanking isn't it yeah strong

i have to take the bottom i want to go

on the beach with this thing

or on the other side you know

what the vat the button

so that's beautiful to lay there and

just let it dry yeah just

play some football and then

sounds good

holy moly this is from a freedom 45

luckily for me this thing burned down

one and a half years ago

and the mask was fine incredible

so what i'm going to use is

yeah from here this part you're gonna

use the top

that top here it's like 14 meters

and then i have to do work on the mast

uh plug the holes and this this is quite

weird because i have a jib

you know so i have to fill this take

this off and fill it out and hit it i

don't know what it's like

inside but of course yeah

but it's an old one

this whole thing weighs 300 kilos 310

but when i take the bottom part off

because when i when i picked her up

i weighed this the

the balance point

right here yeah yeah so that's 150 kilos

right there yeah

and the other 160 kilos right there you

take some more stuff

up 150 yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

so that should be doable i think

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then it's just a case of going and

picking up the lead that i bought

and loading up into car and trailer

i'm driving home

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so

oh yeah

so

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that's the road trip over let's see what

we did

what's it say 81.3 kilometers well

obviously obviously perhaps it's been

around the clock on the trip so

it was 1081

and it probably add 10 to that because i

forgot to press the trip

straight away 1091 kilometers

the round trip on the lead run

cool

a little bit in there look not much

and rather a lot

in there

just gotta get it all out now

what's he doing there shifting lead

oh what fun

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so we're up at hazel's boat um

and getting towards the end of a very

very long

ongoing piece of work we've been doing

because um this is

the companionway steps rather obviously

and if i just open it up

let's show you what we've been up to in

here

which is high

it's been quite quite involved

a little tight in here but let's get

those out of the way

what you see here a yamaha 2g m20

engine but what happened was last

late summer we worked out that the

diesel tank

had sprung a leak you might remember we

showed you a bit of that

um and looked into various options and

in the end we've replaced it with this

off the shelf

it's a can stainless 316 stainless

diesel tank

it's off the shelf as i say so easy to

get should

need be ever to replace it again got it

in

finally we've had to adapt the filler

tube to uh

to avoid all the pulleys and

things there but we've got the old

level gauge in fits perfectly that's

good

that's in and working and then

um because the diesel tank leaked and we

sucked a load of water up into the

diesel system

that rather ruin the injector nozzles so

we've had the injectors out we've had

them serviced we've put new nozzles in

them

um the other way around new nozzles and

service

they're in and working nicely

and then the latest thing that happened

was that one of the threads on the

filter housing

was stripped we discovered it was

hanging there loosely so we've

bought a new filter housing installed it

led it through and

it's ready to go isn't it along the way

we had to change a few other things we

put in

a bulkhead on the side here with the

battery charger we've cleared out a lot

up in the engine room too dark to see

our suspect

we've made a lot of space up in there

complete new exhaust system

um but we're ready to go now it's

finally

properly connected up and ready to run

let's give it a go

running very loud

and part of that diesel tank fitting we

had because the old tank was

in built without any removable boards

i think i've mentioned this before but

we had to cut a section of the cabin

sold out

and at the moment they're just replaced

with these delightful plywood boards

they will we'll use these as patterns to

make up so i'll get some ply with this

um you know boat sole

veneer on it and make up some new boards

but at the moment it's there and working

and we have a delightful little carpet

that covers them up

and can you tell me about it

uh yeah this is my belch pump i took it

apart

uh because it wasn't pumping as i said

um and well there was something lodged

in

one of the valley and one of the valves

here

now just like a little bit

something crusty all right of course

clean it out and put it back together

right now yeah

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very nice

oh hazel tell us about it

uh this is the motor from the

ultraviolet i believe

okay yeah yeah that's right just fits on

the wheel

so we've got a brand new raymarine

autopilot

the evolution something yeah one i think

good so that's the part that fits on the

wheel and what else have we got then

oh this is the compass

so obviously the boat needs to know

where it's going

yeah and for that you have a compass

yeah it's really good yeah

yeah and what else um well like

the autopilot itself so the computer

that's the computer part

yeah look at this uh-huh yeah

and there's one more box there isn't

there yes the

control unit

well i mean it's got a cover on it yeah

yeah

take it off and then it's got like all

these fun buttons and

okay good and we better start fitting it

then

so we've fitted the motor the wheel unit

we're not that impressed with the

exposed nature of that motor we're gonna

make a bracket up for that other than

that it's gone very nicely

and uh should be good when that's

working

so autopilot hazel yes what have we done

um

we've done a couple of things

filled a compass up in there open that

cubby hole there yeah

and so we had to drill like a hole down

here

for the cable right cable yeah yeah and

the computer itself is going to come

yeah you mounted there yeah

where are we going to put the control

part that you actually you know do the

switching with

uh on the outside of this

yeah okay bulkhead here so you have to

drill a big hole in there still

okay but yeah yeah and the motor unit is

the actual wheel unit is fitted doesn't

it

yeah yeah that works pretty much yeah

yeah we haven't quite finished the

wiring but

no no good

that's it for this week guys that's some

serious boat building

uh next week and uh we'll see you then

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