The new and high quality foam for the saloon settee cushions arrives and gets cut to size, forming a delightful settee on which to conduct an interview with Hazel about her solo sailing adventures, sailing licenses and her brand new music EP. The keel timber gets a sand up before I delve into the engine insulation issue that reared its ugly head a while back.

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.

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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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oh it's perfect under there look at that

hi i'm tony this is sv tapatio and we're

down below

in this cruising sailboat that we're

building and

now i've got the foam the new foam in

cut to size it's very comfy to sit here

on there in the ceiling isn't it yeah

and as you may notice hazel's here

hello

um way back in mid-june we sailed

hazel's boat

through the keel canal from the german

north sea coast through to baltic sea

and then hazel went off sailing after

that

you've been back once or twice for a few

days here and there and yeah but you've

been fairly busy since then really

mid-june yeah yeah i came back to get my

second vaccine for sure yeah

end of november now basically

and uh so

you set off from the baltic coast

single-handed you know yeah

yeah what did you do i just

fell around thrown around well uh okay

so

denmark

is

basically

like the mainland and then the two big

islands so i sailed around the well once

around the first big island which is

called finn

and then the next big island just called

ciulanton

in english yeah

oh yeah and then after that well i came

home in between townses

vaccine yeah i stopped at fearman

in germany yeah

and uh then i went back to denmark

uh

with uh my sister and a friend they were

with me then for two weeks for one week

uh and then i carried on to sweden up to

good lunch good no good about could you

book about sweden yeah

and then i come back home yeah okay and

that was

what time did you get back to germany at

the end of all that uh

start of october

october so it was july august september

and bit of june of course yeah so june

july august september and a bit of so

basically four months yeah definitely

that's give or take so yeah all right

really good and how was it single-handed

it was fun uh yeah i mean

my boat isn't the trickiest thing ever

you've got two sails yeah yeah

yeah but like it's junk rig so it's

relatively easy i can do most things

from the cockpit

so

i'm currently selling out of this

fjord off the west coast

on the west coast of lowland

um

pretty early start this morning because

i have a long trip ahead of me

um

i want to

well try

i'm pretty sure i will succeed actually

i'm going to get to the

german coast today it's just a question

of

how far along

i will get there really the goal

the ultimate goal

is neustadt or lyric

but that's 80 miles from here

um which

well

you do four knots average which is

well pretty generous sometimes

um that's gonna take about 20 hours

um

so a pretty long day

i wanted to

set off at four o'clock this morning but

uh it was still too dark

um i couldn't see anything so i decided

to wait a little bit

instead of quarter to five which is

exactly one hour before sunrise

um

and

well i'm glad that i set off later

because even at quarter to five

the start was still quite tricky like

finding all the boys and things now you

can see them very well but um it's like

six now i think

uh

yeah just getting out of this fjord

and then we will head south

should be quite interesting

um

i do look forward to this day and even

if i don't make it

all the way too nice that one second

i'll just turn around even if i don't

make it all the way to

nordstrom or lubeck

i think it's gonna be a good day i've

got a couple of places picked out where

i could go

yeah some good some bad days of course

sometimes the wind wasn't there

sometimes there was too much wind

um i went through a thunderstorm once

which was kind of scary yeah um

that's not not a good feeling has it

been at sea with a thunder underneath

the highest thing around yeah even

though it's very rare for about to get

structured so yeah as you saw here the

highest thing around it's a bit

disconcerting isn't

but it no i enjoyed it very much okay

well you said you you finished that in

well it was towards the middle of

october in fact wasn't it and then here

we are now end of november almost so

what have you been doing since then

i went to england for three weeks

uh so

my sister lives now um so i visited her

and

general relatives

um

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i went on the coastal skipper oh so i

had done my theory like a year ago

yeah yeah and uh so i just did the

practical course the rya coastal skipper

has two parts there's a theory part yeah

and a practical part and you do them

separately yeah so how did the theory

you did online didn't you yeah yeah that

was very difficult i thought at least

i'm not like the most

dedicated per i don't know

yeah

so it was very hard for me but the

practical was a lot of fun yeah and did

some good trips yeah you started you'd

sew in the solenoid yeah but you didn't

stay only in the soda no no we went all

the way to pool and then we went around

the bottom of the isle of wight which

was quite fun channel side of the white

house yeah

yeah and passed it obviously yes so now

you've got your rya coastal skipper

license yes i know yeah yeah and i i'm

right in saying i think that the theory

for the coastal skipper is the same

theory for the next one which is off

shore no you're not coastal you're

master coastal so same thing so you only

have to do another practical course to

get the yacht master coastal i believe

so yes believe so

yeah yeah yeah all right cool

um

and i guess while you're here there's

one more thing to mention isn't that yes

yeah

you got it oh yeah i released a second

ep

a couple days ago

yeah music ep how many tricks six tracks

although like the first and the last one

a bit shorter so sort of an intro now

yeah yeah yeah

yeah yeah

okay is that what's it called stay a

little longer

by hazel brown yes that's for me and

where can people find it uh anyway

really spotify uh itunes amazon music

all good digital sources exactly

yeah

cool alrighty let's get them

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so i'm here in the engine room

it's probably going to sound a bit

hollow there's a couple of things going

on in here in fact there's a few things

quite a few things to do in here

one you may remember from a while back

uh that this engine i'll get my leg out

of the way and try to show you this

that this engine on the aft end here

this plate here where the cell drive

mounts and the big hole in the back

there

that is supposed to be electrically

insulated from the main everything

that's forward of it basically speaking

and if you look carefully you'll see

it's got some very thin plastic washes

in there which is the way the

insulation is achieved and there's

insulation weather where the splined

shaft goes into join the crankshaft of

the engine

um and as you may well remember i told

you a while back i'd noticed that

we didn't actually have an insulated

connection there was there was an

electrical connection between these two

sections between this plate here and the

engine block

which i say is not supposed to be for

the

sake of the aluminium cell drive leg and

corrosion and whatever

so it was time to attack it i've been

thinking about it for a long time and i

woke up the other morning with a clear

idea in my head that was to to remove

the bolts that bolt that plate on

one of the time and measure the

insulation

measure the continuity

because

as i say these bolts all have insulating

washers on them and then there's this

insulating gasket between the two

and clearly

one of those things is not working

properly so i thought by removing the

bolts one at a time i might find the

culprit

and if not then it would be the actual

whole gasket that was the problem

as you might remember some time ago

it transpired that we had continuity

between the

bell housing and the engine which we're

not supposed to have

and we still have no resistance there

so what i'm doing is

dropping out the bolts one at a time

if we see these bolts they have a

little thin insulating washer

on them

and i'm assuming that one of those isn't

working properly if not it's this

insulating gasket

that's between the two

all right

drop the bolts out one at a time and see

if continuity disappears

uh and if that's the case then we'll

know it's which washer is at fault

but as yet

oh

oh

i've got it i think haven't i

no continuity oh

oh that is interesting

so that one ah it's got a little bit of

damage there

i wonder if yeah

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that could be the issue couldn't it

let's put this one back in

let's see what happens

if that's the case it is a very very

easy repair

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someone back in

try our luck

this is looking very hopeful

pop that one back here

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it was from there yeah it was from there

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and see what is going on

um

let's see what we've got there we go you

might even see that one

here we have

no continuously look at that

down there on the earth strap

nothing so we felt the problem

that little thing well that was not a

major issue was it

all right let's pop this one back in and

see what happens

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so far so good

tighten it up see what happens

that's solved the problem

holy mackerel that was easy

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okay

what i am

um

brush rounder

well as you see just fitting some

catches to stop doors flying open in the

seaway

one little bit of trim that was missing

just sort of take the sharp corner off

of that corner and that's it for this

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