After a good search, I've decided on an electric bilge pump and it duly arrives. I make a start on the settee cushions and discover I've been cluttering up the house for no good reason. And obviously, I make some progress on the keel timber; fairing it up and drilling the keel bolt holes.

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one thing i haven't mentioned as yet and

is

rather important is bilge pumps

and i've got a couple of bilge pumps

i've just well i've had this one for

donkeys it's an old henderson pump

with a double chamber thing

lovely pumpkin it's very easy to he says

very easy to take apart

and clean and you know service if need

be

marvelous one

that's over two chambers so that will be

going in somewhere

but all the parts of that one the manual

pump and for the electric bilge pump i

just purchased this one here this is a

bulkhead mounted bilge pump

which i rather like the idea of that i

like the idea of keeping the bilge pump

itself up out of the water not having

electrics in the bilge water keeping the

pump up dry obviously has a pipe down

into the bilge

and now

and i'm very pleased with that um

it's got these comes with various

fittings

straight or right angle

and they're quick

just pop them in there push that blue

thing down and they're in

so they can be removed quickly

wrong thing

so it can be removed quickly if need be

come

that's very nice i should be fitting

that soon up on the bulkhead

in the engine room

obviously going up through a loop and

then back down to a to a

through hull

with a stop clock on it

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unfortunately this this build pump i

just showed you it's a flow jet

and it's come with no blurb there are no

indications on it which way around it

flows an arrow would be nice you know

nothing so i'm gonna have to do an

experiment see which way around which

one's the end and which one's the out

why aren't they labeled

i suppose maybe it's possible you just

wire it up the other way around and it

flows the other way

i think we'll see which way it runs with

the conventional wiring

yeah see some water spray

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the end here somewhere

it should be fine we should get the hose

down there no problem

one and two

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um

a little bit

that's really not bad

hi i'm tony this is sv to patia we are

building this

basically 32 foot cruising sailboat with

which we hope to explore hope and plan

to explore various waters of the world

and

we're in the process of building

and i thought i'd start this week with

something a little bit different the

last few weeks have been a lot about the

keel wood we'll come back to the kill

wood later but i wanted to start

somewhere a bit different

so as you saw

bilge pump electrical build pump

electric build pumps going in

got it mounted on the bulkhead in the

engine room

um i've ordered the through hull

for it um it's actually just arrived but

the ball valve hasn't i want a ball

valve on there even though i've probably

never shut that ball valve

um i felt it was wisest to have one on

there just in case so i'm waiting on the

ball valve so i can get that through

hull in

and then get the pipe work in there

the electrics are already in the engine

rooms just a case of connecting the

bilge pump up there

so that's pretty straightforward

the manual build pump will be fitted i

believe i'm going to fit it in the

lazarette i've had a good look around

with it find the best spot

and i think the lazarette will be a good

spot for it

i think the electric build pump will be

the primary build pump and the manual

as a as a kind of back up and be able to

open the lazarette hatch and pump if

need be

so that's what i'm planning there

um and as you saw also just made the

very first hint of a start on the

upholstery in here

and i'll tell you a story about that

it's it's uh

seems a bit silly in retrospect but

anyhow

since before i started building this

boat i've been saving

cushions mattresses and things for the

foam

and because i wanted to keep them dry

and essentially mouse-free we kept them

in the house

and

it was it was four or five of these big

things cluttering up the place for years

on end

so i brought them out here eventually

and started cutting them to size

and uh i had a couple of cushions that

come from an old sofa city it's a

reasonable quality foam they're 10

centimeters thick and the other cushions

i had turned out to be 12 centimetres

see all foam pieces i had 12 centimetres

thick and i didn't like that and the 12

centimeter thick stuff also turned out

to be really soft and the the satisf a

better quality

so then i bought

some good quality upholstery foam 10

centimeters thick and i've cut that in

now to this one that i'm sat on it's

beautiful

and it's even better than the stuff from

the cities

so now

i've bought enough to do the entire

cities in here of the good quality new

stuff

and my saving of these cushions for

years on end has been essentially a

waste of time and space

it's life i suppose

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well of course the other big thing this

week has been to

progress with this keel timber

um

needed a good clean up after all the

dribblers of epoxy and set off

so give it a good stand up with the belt

sander and a plane with the old school

planer and then one of the important

things was to make sure this tapered

section here at the aft end was

symmetrical even both sides um i'd only

rough these woods and pieces of wood out

with a skill saw and my skill saw

as a better play in the bearings is not

the most accurate beastie so obviously i

cut you know a bit generously

and then squared some lines across and

cloned them up to a nice symmetrical

shape flat even taper

rounded off the aft end

and we're ready to think about drilling

some teal bolt holes

ah

get your hands up

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but the trick with the kill bolts as i

said is to is to clamp a level in

position

and use that as your guide and just keep

stand back get a good eye on on that

you're parallel to that level

in all directions

and they've come out very well they've

come out almost perfect in fact they've

come out extremely well one is a little

bit out i've tried to fiddle that a bit

um it doesn't matter if you make the

hole a bit bigger or a bit oval because

in the end of the day when the kill

bolts are in position

i'll be pouring a load of epoxy down the

holes

to fill them and seal them properly

completely

and they'll be filled with wet epoxy so

they'll be good and solid

and after a lot of thinking about keel

bolts

an awful lot of thinking about kill

volts

i have um as you may have seen i've

bought

some bronze uh bar which i'll be

threading each end

and i've decided now to embed the lower

end in the lead

i think

either in a j form or i'll thread them

and put a plate on the bottom of them

bottom of them to spread the load

you know in the lid

and then they'll be coming up and say

fixed in the lid up through the timbers

obviously and pouring as i've just said

pouring epoxy around them to seal

everything completely i'll put thickened

epoxy on the top of the lead so it comes

up and it's all completely sealed

waterproof

watertight

should be good we hope the final thing

was to spread some filler on to fill up

any imperfections or whatever and where

the board joints so

what the corners are broken as my mate

george would call it so a little bit

there needed so filled it and it's ready

for a final sand now

so

hello

and that's it for this week thanks for

watching give us a thumbs up leave a

comment hit that subscribe button all

that youtube stuff

we'll be back

see you next time bye

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