A look at the keel design that I've selected to put on Tapatya, hopefully clearly explaining the way it's going to be. Also a look at the Jellas belt sander.

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Tony
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and we're now in a very very pleasing

situation having

a piece of the kill wood running all the

way from the forward end

all the way back as far as the cell

drive leg

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we see it all in black and white

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i'll make the

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hi i'm tony this is svitapaja and as you

may well know we're building this

cruising sailboat a j bimford designed

31 foot eight

cruising

dory sailing dory uh junk schooner

rigged will be

and as you may also well know the last

few weeks have been all about uh

concentrating on the keel

and uh judging by one or two comments

um i get the impression that some of you

are not completely clear what's going on

with this cure sir so the big goal of

this video is to

get some clarity on the keel structure

and design

let's start there now to all intents and

purposes all boats have this curve along

the ball sailboats have this curve along

the bottom line known as the rocker

maybe one or two exceptions but they

basically all have it this bottom line

is curved and one of the first things

for this kill structure was to fit some

pieces forwards and aft to level that

out so we can finally get a straight

piece all the way through and that's

where we got to last week with this

this is the bottom piece here is a long

six meter long piece

going from the forward end all the way

back to just forward of the cell drive

leg gives us a flat

level surface under there to attach the

rest of the keel to and the rest of the

kills can be made up in the workshop

uh some more kill timber and the ballast

kill

led to ballast so i guess one question i

should answer is is why am i doing it

like that

because indeed most boats are built from

the keel up

which is true

but uh this method is not from me this

is following the the method

stipulated by the designer or suggested

by the designer and i support it 100

it makes total sense and as jay bimford

says you know it allows you to keep the

boat lower in the shop as you're

building it and this is we're in my shop

here

it's

maybe 10 foot 12 foot high 12.6 12 foot

high maybe at the highest point

you know so the boat had to sit fairly

low in here

um you see sometimes in boat yards don't

you see these

multi-storey tarpaulin sheds where

people are working on their boats

but the beauty of this was it could sit

low in here this in fact is the ladder

that i used for going up onto the the

forward or the aft deck up to the

cockpit you see the height i think it's

about five foot high i suppose

that was

the height of the decks

it was very very easy to get materials

up there

and back down again and when you're

building a boat you're spending a lot of

time going up and down onto the boat

back down to get things to work on

things to machine things taking them

back up again

and it makes it very very easy so

keeping that low in the shop is is such

an advantage

and yeah i support that all the way

and then of course because you've done

that you then

get the keel afterwards which is where

we are so here we are

and

i hope you can recognize this as the

beautiful drawing of a of the outline of

a benfidori hull not to scale

uh i've got the rudder hung on there

and it was an approximation and

see we've got this rocker on the bottom

and let's have a cell drive like coming

through there shall we

there we go so driver leg

got this rocker on the bottom

and what we've done so far is we've put

in three pieces forward

coming through here somewhere

three pieces forwards

one piece at the aft end

through there somewhere

and then one piece

from there

rubbing it all the way through

like that

so we've got this flat surface

underneath now clearly that the boat's a

bit shrunk put them in terms of length

but that's what we've got on there

and then in the workshop

the task will be to make up

some more pieces that fit to that that

come in should we sound onto here

when it's fitted on there we'll come in

something like that

this is made up of five planks two

three four five

one two three four five

five planks laminated up solid wood

there we go

that was easy enough then we need to

make a ballast kill ballast kills i'm

approximating where it comes to it's

coming in there

palace kill is a great big lump of lead

1280 kilos is the designed

ballast

that's what we're aiming for or possibly

a fraction more

um but in that region

and behind our ballast kill we've got

this comes down a little bit more

now from here on

these taper down to uh to give us a sort

of an airflow shape we've got a curve at

the front and a taper there gives us a

sort of air force shape to the entire

kiln

and then the last piece

comes through here

under there

like that

and supports we've got a bronze rudder

support shoe a couple of pin tools on

there

three position support for the rather

good and solid ocean worthy

so that's what this is looking like and

this remember is laid

the lid is bolted up through the whole

lot with

now i've adapted jpenford's plans a bit

i'm putting 11 bolts i'm putting two

i'm putting one i'm putting two

that's five

but one

one

seven

two

and two nine eleven okay they come down

a bit further in the lid than that

come down there and they go up through

the floor timbers

they're all lined up nicely with the

floor timbers

bronze bolts embedded in the lid

nuts on the top big washers or some kind

of plates to spread the load

and those keel bolts hold the whole

thing up together it's quite possible

that i'll embed

a bolt

in the wood there

and now where i've got enough

meat to get an embedded bolt in embed a

couple of bronze bolts in there

um and that's what we're doing

as it stands the leveling out pieces are

on

and

this freak has been working on this

wood section here

i hope that's clear

uh

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wow

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so having roughed out those five boards

next job was to mark the uh the kill

bolt holes

which involve taking the uppermost one

of those the longer one of them

out to the boat

fixing it in position underneath and

drilling through the various holes just

to mark the position of those

those bolt holes before could laminate

those five pieces together

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shouldn't get that jacked up

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well a very strange thing happened this

week

something that

was quite a surprise

a company uh this company

jealous

if that's how you pronounce it

wrote to me

and uh they obviously found my email

address and asked me if i'd like to

try one of their tools and give it a

review

let me say this straight away

any tool review i've done up until now

has been completely independent you know

i've got nothing from any company

anywhere up until this stage so

this is the first time anything like

this has ever happened weird but there

we go

so the there had a list of a few tools

and i

thought the belts and

most of it was stuff i already had

but and i've already got a belt sander

but i thought it'd be kind of nice to

have another belt sander a lighter one

and one that could be clamped to the

bench maybe to use as a bench sander

so

they sent me the belt sander

and here it is

well here's the box

and first thing

i'll say is

you know far from the most important

thing but i think the box is good in

that there's no glossy print on it

looks like the sort of box that could be

recycled easily

when we open it up what we've got of

course

unsurprisingly is a belt sander

a dust bag

a couple of clamps for clamping it to

the bench

this is unusual comes with half a dozen

one belt on the machine and half a dozen

spare belts that's quite something

and the vacuum cleaner attachment

plus the

destructions

um let's have a look

well it's light compared to my makita

which is a beast of a machine let me

grab it for you

here's my makita it's you know it's a

beast of a machine weighs a fair old

chunk

this one decided lighter um

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you wouldn't want to swing it too long

with one hand but it undeniably lighter

and

i've used it a little bit tried it out

it works

well i couldn't possibly comment on is

is its longevity of course it's

um i've had the thing just over a week

now and

it seems fine but i have no idea how

long it'll last as anyone's guessed

i don't know these things by trying them

but

quite good

felt release as you expect on the lever

there

felt tracking adjustment on the knob

there

speed adjustment on the forward handle

let me hold up there one two six i

believe

doesn't go to 11.

and you know

the usual buttons turn on with the with

a little lock thing there

lock it on

nothing surprising about it

it comes with i say these clamps

so you can

clamp it to various positions that you

can clamp it from

suppose you're clamping why would you do

that

that's the one i use i use those two

there

clamp it down

um to a bench

i would like

and this isn't this company's fault but

i'd like i'd like a belt sander to be

able to be clamped

like that

and i have had a good look around

and i don't see any possibilities clamp

it like that

but you can certainly clamp it like that

and use it upside down

and the clamps you know

seem to be up to the job

dust bag is

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rudimentary

but i suppose the vacuum cleaner

attachment will be better

if you're keeping the dust down

um yeah

it's fine

it's fine jealous belt sander they have

a few other tools they've got an orbital

sander that looks like a copy of the

dewalt that i have

um

what can you say about it it sands

so plugged it in now and uh give it a

spin

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quite a breeze comes out of the motor

um

from the airflow the cooling flow

through

through the motor

if we compare it to

the mckeezer

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the

makita the air comes out the sides there

this one comes out that way

surprisingly the makita's quieter

i suspect these are quite a bit cheaper

and will probably do the job

yeah

swinging door catch

quite nice quick hands hand

ah

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so

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thank

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much

do

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so

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and here it is

in all its glory

five fairly heavy-duty douglas fir

boards laminated up epoxy glued

thorough epoxy gluing job wetting out

the surface and then putting some

thickened glue boxy blue in there

clamped together

and uh next job will be to fair it up to

clean it up got a few dribbles there a

lot of dribbles

clean it up fare it

put a filler here and there if necessary

drill the keel bolt holes through all

the way through

and then that will be that one done cut

this cut this obviously that's a steady

angle and later it is shaped to her to

an airfoil leading edge shape

i should do that when i've got the

ballast kill cast and make sure they

match

but uh

there it is that bit didn't take very

long and i hope that has brought some

clarity to the keel

it for now thanks for watching if you'd

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just get on with it

um

we'll be back

see you next time

bye

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you

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is

you

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