Well, the bimini construction is progressing but there's not much to see on the boat from it as yet! The concept is certainly complete and steelwork is being made, but the real snag is fitting, sealing and painting the mounting pads in between the rain showers...



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Thank you :-)

Tony

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so

hi i'm tony this is sv depa we're

building this

32 foot

sailboat designed by the american

designer jay benford

and intended for

cruising lure board sailing vessel junk

rig schooner

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so

is

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soon we'll see what it's about

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um i'm going to start off this week by

talking about

the three things that are obviously

obviously missing from this boat

occasionally but regularly i get

inquiries about

the keel

masts

and rudder that are clearly not on the

boat as yet

and uh i talked about the keel last week

um and the same applies to all three of

those things in that

um

they're basically the last things that

need fit into a sailboat as you're

building it

um depending on the design with the keel

admittedly but mars and rudder are

pretty much the last things you need to

fit so

um

that's the case with this boat also with

the keel with this design

and uh it makes the most sense to be

building them last really

in fact i have made a start on the

rudder we'll have a look at that in a

bit

but the keel and masts

will be built

last will be fitted last um

and perhaps it's fair to say that we're

actually getting close now to the

situation

where we're ready to start building

those things

and here

as i said is the rudder as it stands at

the moment it's it's you know total

intents and purposes

built

um it will have end plates top and

bottom

hardware missing obviously

tiller

steering it's all pretty simple hardware

for the tiller hardware for the the

pintles to hang the thing

uh and a bottom bearing support where it

sits on the keel supported by the back

end of the keel

air foil shape and uh

therefore profile which is a nice big

rudder that should be should be very

effective um

having said that

let's have a look at what's been going

on this week and if you look up at the

very top of the picture there

you'll notice something

um maybe if you watched last week

i think at one point last week i said i

hope to be fit in the bimini frame this

week

and as you look up there you'll notice

that it didn't happen

we'll have a look at the bimney what has

been done

made good progress with it but um

obviously it's not there

i've got the camera up high and i've

attempted to set the bimini frame up in

a way that you can you can see it

uh what we've got

so this is the main forward arch of the

bimini

um and i

first one of the first things i wanted

to to not have that strut upright i

wanted to be able to lean it back

so one of the first things i did i've

got these joints

and i welded them into the legs of the

upright sections so that i can i can

adjust the angle

to suit as i want

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so

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and then the idea to support it is that

you'll have these diagonal struts going

down to the

to the raised deck and then there'll be

another diagonal strut coming up in fact

i've got these fittings here

got these fittings here that'll go onto

there

to allow us to have another diagonal

strut coming up

um forming a sort of truss structure got

those joints in there got all of this

welded up i welded a couple of a couple

of brackets onto there that take those

diagonal poles

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so

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the fittings for the aft end of those

diagonal poles are on the deck installed

and one other thing

that i wanted to do because of the deck

crown

these obviously don't fit flat onto the

deck so i made up a couple of little

pads couple little blocks that go under

those feet

raise those up a little bit off the deck

which will certainly

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decrease any chance of leaking

and and fair them up so they sit level

on the deck

um

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come on

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um

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hmm

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pretty good

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and that's so we're going to pick it up

to without moving it which is going to

be

challenging

yeah so move back so this edge of this

block

right now extend it beyond you

that's going that way around okay

okay if you try one of them now

good luck stop there and the other one

yeah

remember that sticky catch and the ball

with the

yeah

yeah that was pretty darn good

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sinking

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looking good so far but

not fitted

i've got five coats of epoxy primer

sealer on there now

two coats of top coat to go on and then

we'll be ready finally to fit this

structure to the deck

well it hasn't all been fun with the

bimini this week

i've also been

these these trim pieces i've varnished

them

uh and fitted them they're looking good

there's one little bit of the back

corner missing still needs a bit of

attention but they have been done and

between the rain we've had a lot of rain

this week between the rain i've been

getting coats of epoxy sealer on those

pads for the bim for the bimini fitting

uh a little bit also on a part i put on

the anchor box a while back

so i've been painting vanishing fitting

these trim pieces

uh yeah looking good happy with those

they really really finished the boat off

nicely hide that that gap

between the soul boards and the cities

for the piece of trim still to come down

here

but we're getting there

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good

well that's it for this week guys thanks

for watching all that youtube stuff give

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please

we'll be pushing on this week getting a

bit more done hopefully getting that

forward bimini foam fitted should do

just need to get two coats of top coat

on those pads and it's ready to

to fit so that should be going on

maybe this week be getting out for a day

of sailing as well

hazel's back in germany

elizabeth her sister is coming over so

uh i think the three of us will get out

for one day of sailing at least be nice

and uh we'll see you next time

thanks for watching

massive thank you to everybody who

supports us on paypal and patreon

see you next time bye

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fever

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hello

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so

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you