A change of plan in the cockpit well. Old work gets undone and new takes its place. Plus, enormous fun with the Vetus gooseneck/muffler mounting!

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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Thank you :-)

Tony

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hi i'm tony this is svitapacha
this is the
video log of the builder this boat that
you see behind me cruising sailboat of
jay benford design sailing dory and i
say this is the video record of what
it's like to
to undertake a build of this sort in
your spare time
let's have a look at what's going on
this week so up here in the cockpit and
uh my feet are in the cockpit well i
shall turn the camera around and show
you something because
i had a bit of thinking to do this week
karen and i are up here doing a bit of
brainstorming
and i'll show you what we've come up
with
there it is the uh
gearshift throttle engine control lever
um you may remember i did originally
have a
engine panel in there and i say after a
lot of thinking and looking at it
we came to the conclusion it was better
to have the gear or engine control lever
there
and so i took the
took the control panel out
and that will then fit up where i'm now
indicating look under the under the
chart plotter
shall be fitting the engine panel up
there
bit of a plava but um i think it's the
right decision in the end i'm very happy
with this
as it is there
yes
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so
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so
wow look at
all that
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so that'll be neutral there
put that in the middle of there like
that
let me go forwards
there
you're only 5 mil
oh
forwarding
okay
take that off of there
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i think i about that
all right
how's that look
is that anything going to go through
there like that
screwed
so
this
that's right that's right
that's not bad can you hold it i
tell me when you're holding it i'll let
go
got
i want more that would be good really
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like that
split that way
and that way that way we need a bit
removing from there
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that is perfect
this way oh just work
probably want to take just a little bit
more off of that
feel it
so
so
so this is the the
box
for the uh engine control lever that
i've
uh installed the v tests
um and i looked at several options and
this
seemed to be the uh the best of the
readily available ones
cost a pretty penny but um seems to be
the best of them
one of the factors one of the decisive
factors perhaps two major decisive
factors
one was that it was
metal not too much plastic on it
and the second one was was the these
control levers are designed to bulk head
mount
um but they vary in the maximum
thickness of bulkhead and a lot of them
are 12 or 13 millimeters which is no
good for me my my bulk is a 20 mil or so
this one was 16 millimeter maximum
bulkhead thickness so i've used a bit of
15 mil ply there to mount it to
um but even then when i mounted it after
you know i glassed a bit of pliers so i
added another half millimeter or
something to it
but even when i'd when i mounted it i
thought it was pretty tight so i decided
just to in in the critical areas just to
remove a bit of the plier take maybe a
millimeter off
um just to give it a little and make
sure i had clearance so it's not
doing anything that it shouldn't do
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yeah yeah that's good
man there's two thousand that's
hey
i think that'd be good
let's just try
yeah we've got plenty
that's good
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ladder top
that's going to come on there like that
goes in there like that
okay
oh it's lovely
oh yeah like that
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oh
there's the inside of that so you see
the back of the control lever there
which gives us great access from nice
and easy to route the cables around to
the cell drive and throttle from there
in a way that the cables won't be too
much in the way so just in case
anybody's wondering what's going on here
and how these things work this lever
is a combined gear shift and throttle
lever so
i shall again spin the camera around and
show you how it works so here's the
lever i should operate it with my foot
and in a way you know i've designed it
that it can be operated with the foot
so you push it down
engages forward gear and then further
than that is engaging the throttle or
giving your throttle sustaining full
gear but more throttle
back to neutral
up
engages reverse
and then throttle
beyond there
and then there's this little button
which is actually covered with a rubber
button like that but um for the good of
this i shall indicate how this works a
little button goes in the middle
and then when i press that in
and push the lever down it doesn't
engage gear it simply does the throttle
and when i bring it back that button
will pop out
like that and then
back to normal operation
so for starting you pressing the button
in the middle
um
just give it throttle to start up not
engage the gear
bring it back to the neutral position
and back down again to engage gear and
throttle
that's how they work fairly simple
business really
so i've got this exhaust system going in
this is the uh gooseneck up there
there's a water trap down there look
that i'm now pointing the camera at
um and the water trap's been in for a
long time
the gooseneck i just got in this week
and you'll see it's rather hard to film
in there
but um you'll see me feeling that
today
i'll
slide back today the the hose has just
arrived it's that coil there
45 millimeter lloyds approved exhaust
hose
um so we'll be hooking that up as soon
as possible and i've got that bronze
through hull that you can see set down
the bottom there that will be going
somewhere i think close to where that
cockpit drain goes out um
that's the plan at the
moment somewhere around there
and there that's what we're looking at
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put one of them very hair like that
looks right around here
like that
i'm going through that
this one came up here
like that okay
oh that's really good
i'm not that strong
that's supposed to hold an exhaust on in
a boat is it
fetus wake up that is
all right guys well that's it for this
week give us a thumbs up
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button
clearly that um
the festivities are looming so uh there
won't be a video next week we'll see
we'll be back in a couple of weeks
uh give us a bit of time to get
something done
uh it's it's that time of year isn't it
so whatever it is you
celebrate at this time of year have a
good one stay safe enjoy yourselves
was a merry christmas eh merry christmas
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