The keel construction continues; the keel bolt holes are drilled; the cockpit gets some railings; and Hazel's cruising season comes to an end.

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Thank you :-)

Tony

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hello people out there in youtube world

i'm tony this is isfit apache and as you

may have heard me say before we're

building a cruising sailboat

and we're going to start here in the

cockpit area

because something happened this week is

that i finally got these

rails this sort of horizontal rails

in place between the aft bimini pole

and uh and the forward stanchion there

in the cockpit area

uh good and solid nice and strong

allowed me to chuck a small tarp over

the bimini just

and close the cockpit a bit

get it a bit protected

that was where we started

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see what it's about

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so we're at the very bow end here

and um i thought i'd say a few words

about the keel structure because this is

mainly what we're working on at the

moment

and something i said last week may have

been a little misleading possibly even

wrong

um so we've got the boat has a a degree

of rocker to it and a bit of curve

for an aft at the bottom line

and so um

full length keel coming in

and uh the goal at the moment is to fit

these

shaped pieces that will eventually give

us a

a flat line level line

four and after the rest of the kill will

fit too so so i'm shaping up these

wedge-shaped pieces there'll be a third

one under here that'll bring us down to

the lowest point of the

midships there so we can get that flat

line through there and obviously the

same thing aft now

the kill doesn't extend all the way to

the aft end it stops forward of where

the cell drive leg comes through so

there's less

uh curve required there or less of these

wedge shaped pieces required to flatten

it out

but that's that's the goal get these

wedge shaped pieces in so i've got this

flat line running all the way through

underneath

the rest of the kill

will then obviously be flat on the top

to fit to that and i shall make that up

in the in the boat shed

uh separately so we've got the wooden

structure that comes below this and then

the ballast keel obviously on that

or underneath that the ballast kill

bolts up through the whole thing up

through the floor timbers inside the

boat and holds the whole thing up

together you know good and good and

solid

um and that's how it's going to go

that's how i'm going to build it so i

should build just get this bit flattened

out as i said through here on the boat

and then in the boat shed i'll make the

rest of the keel structure when we

transport her up to the yard in the yard

they can lift her up on a crane and then

lower her down onto the rest of the kill

structure that is the plan

i've just put in a big order for

douglas fir for the keel structure for

the wood keel structure

that should be coming any day

and obviously the ballast kill to make

which would be rather exciting

it's raining hope it doesn't disturb you

too much

um i thought i'd say a couple of quick

words about the material i'm using for

the first sections of the of the wood

keel

and in fact that is a couple of boards

that i salvaged from the from the

remnants of the strongback that i took

off

last week

so um there's something i've tried to do

in this build i've tried to use

when materials were needed for something

outside of the boat such as the lofting

boards and the the strongback

i've

made them out of materials that i could

use later in the build so i made the

strongback out of doug fir

and as you saw so i took the very last

part of the strongback

off of the boat or away from the boat

last week and now i've got a couple of

good fireboards

for the first parts of the kill

and the technique i've got this ball

here and

as you can see there's this angle coming

on there mark it out obviously

and i've just roughed it out on the

table saw it doesn't really matter where

you cut it as long as it's waist side of

the wood

and then you finish it off with the

planer and the technique then is the

plane down at an angle down to the line

all along both sides

and that then gives you a very very

clear guide to playing the middle

down to down to flat and the right angle

that you want

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oh

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right

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hmm

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yeah that's so good

can we're in the right spot

so

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get some screws

you ready

right there

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good

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one other thing that that clearly is

required is that

in order to get this whole thing to fit

it's most important that it lines up in

the right place so i thought now is the

time to uh to drill the holes through

the floors so that i can mark it onto

this separate part that i'll be building

in the in the boat shed so that

everything will indeed line up when it's

time to put it together

so one at station four

one there one there

we're going to put a double in the next

one back

it should be this one here

this one here

we're putting two in here

see them

smack on them

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five

is

that's up right that way

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quite spicy and comfortable yeah

yeah

i'm like

like the light from yeah

yeah because everything's white

everything's light yeah

you could see both of them yeah yeah it

can't fall out because no exactly let's

walk exactly

that's good what's the technique there

you know uh

hold your finger in a space

so that it's level that's about right so

that's the guide for the dreams

let's drill a hole it's in the right

spot

and upright not once

it's good that way

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good

look

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now one can't deny that this isn't the

most accurate way to do it but

that's about right

look this

way a little bit

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and that way

is good

this way i thought we wanted to go

i'm just over compensated a little bit

he's got over there

across

we are true

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so i've deviated a bit from the

designers plans when it comes to the

kill bolt arrangement

according to the plans there's one

kill bolt

on each floor

down the way and i wasn't wild about

that so i've gone for one at the front

the ballast kill slopes up at the front

so um it's less mass there at the front

end and there where the bulk of the

masses i've gone for two side-by-side

um

all holes are drilled over size so the

very front bolt that i'm kneeling upon

is a half inch diameter bolt i've

drilled that out 16 millimeters all the

other ones are 5 8 of an inch

and i've drilled those out to 20

millimeters so there's a beard of play

on all of them

and the idea of what all of these

builders do is that when it's in place

pour some wet epoxy down the holes

seals the wood obviously seals the whole

thing thoroughly

and

makes the bolts fit the holes

like that

so one little difference is is those

wedge-shaped pieces full of keel um

forward they've got a straight

slope on them a straight angle that the

bow of the boat as it the rocker at the

front is is very straight so it's very

easy to cut those at the aft end it's

much more curvaceous and and have to

play in a concave curve into the piece

for

for fitting there um so

with the straight edge you can see the

degree of curvature by just you know

rocking it measuring four and a half

mark that out on the wood um just by

measuring it in the midpoint and marking

that degree of curve with straight lines

and then i the curve from that is

accurate enough

and luckily enough didn't need any fancy

planes or anything it's a gently enough

curve that i could could plane it just

with a standard plane the aft end of

that piece where it comes down to the

cell drive tape is down to a to a

thickness of an inch and a half or so

to allow water flow you know cleanly to

the cell drive lick

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so

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screws

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uh

and that's where we're leaving it for

this week um she'll be pushing on with

the keel structure this week coming

get the last i've got one more piece

underneath the fit for the leveling out

and then start making up the

timber keel structure which you'd hoped

would go fairly quickly it's fairly

straightforward

and there we are

massive thank you from me to you for

watching and to the lovely people who

support us on patreon paypal

we've been back next time see you then

bye

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