The keel is prepped for paint, gets levitated and thoroughly sealed with high-zinc epoxy primer. Tapatya gets a wash and a pair of Victron Energy solar charge controllers. And Hazel's boat upgrades continue with the bow roller setup, the disappearing through hulls and a new instrument panel.

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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absolutely useless
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[Music]
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[Music]
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hi i'm tony and this is the story of the
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build of this 31 foot eight inch jay
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benford designed cruising sailboat from
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the lofting of the lines to her emerging
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from the boat sheds to receiver keele
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marston all the other paraphernalia that
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make up a cruising vessel
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join us on this adventure as we
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build topacha and hopefully set off to
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test her out as a liveaboard cruising
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vessel
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[Music]
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hey i'm tony
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as you probably know the last few weeks
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i've been uh building the ballast kill
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it's a steel box filled with lead
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basically with the
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bolts the kill bolts all integrated into
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it
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and that was finished last week
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and this week has been mainly about um
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clean cleaning that up getting some
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epoxies some zinc rich epoxy sealer on
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it
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and preparing it to fit to the boat
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really
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one of the first jobs well the first job
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actually was to uh see that this kill
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timber
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that i'm leaning on here
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the kill timber fitted onto the bolts
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you know as i built the ballast kill i
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was fairly careful i had a template that
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i kept trying to check the bolts were in
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line
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um but when we come to lower on it was a
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bit tight so uh took us a couple of goes
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two three goes actually
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and lifted off drilled the holes out a
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little bit bigger in places where
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necessary
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um
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mainly from the bottom but for some
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reason the bit of video of me working
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from the bottom hasn't come out but
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worked him up from that from the top
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mainly from the bottom as i say until it
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went down happily onto there
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and then i was able to to use the kill
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timber
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to jack it up
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and
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get around
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the ballast kill which you can just
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about see in the bottom of the picture
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here i think
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it's starting to look pretty good
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doesn't it
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ready
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there we go
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this one i don't think it'd be the
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bottom so it's tight i'm not the top
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um
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and just go down fairly straight
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uh
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okay
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absolutely useless
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had to clean the ballast keel up now i
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told you last week that i had a a
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sandblaster and in fact i didn't i gave
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that a go but
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it didn't touch the mill scale on the
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still if
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maybe if i'd have persevered for a very
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very long time possibly
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but it didn't seem to be very effective
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so
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back up plan plan b
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the trusty old flappy wheel on the
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grinder
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and spent several hours going around the
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whole box cleaning up back to shiny
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metal
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and then as soon as i finished as soon
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as i was finished with that straight
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away on with that with the zinc epoxy
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primer
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zinc epoxy primer on there right now
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there will be one more
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to go on there and then i'll get some
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regular epoxy sealer primer on there
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a few coats of that
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then a coat of vinyl
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vinyl is a bonding agent between the
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epoxy and the anti-felt and then uh but
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and then the antifoal on top of that so
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there'll be no lack of paint i've got
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this zinc rich epoxy on there now i'll
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get a bit of my normal epoxy sealer
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primer on there after that and then i'll
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stand the keel to one side the ballast
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kill to one side
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and work on the timber and the timber
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needs to be sealed
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last
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shaped up at the front end at the
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leading edge
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so that'll be coming up next
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well the weather has been lovely for the
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last couple of weeks or so today sadly a
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bit less so but uh
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grab the opportunity to get up there in
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the beautiful sunshine and and wash the
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winter's grime off the boat and now
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she's looking
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shiny
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one thing that's been going on that's
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rather
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difficult to film is i'm installing a
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couple of solar charge controllers
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um
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as you may remember the plan is or i
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have four solar panels to fit
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and i'm going to split those into two
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banks of two run them through two charge
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controllers to
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to minimize the effects of shadow
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minimize or to reduce the effects of
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shadow
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so i've now mounted the two controllers
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and running wires through
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the back of my electrics bay here
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through into that cupboard in the heads
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and up
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through a deck fitting
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um on the deck
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and up to the panels that would be on
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top of the bimini perhaps as we can get
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in there and just uh have a look at
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those controllers
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two veteran controllers
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and i've chosen the controllers that
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have the uh they have a bluetooth signal
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that they they give out so you can see
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on your phone you get an app it's in
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your
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phone that the settings and what sort of
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uh you know what sort of output the
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panels are producing and that sort of
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thing
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interesting i think
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also we've been going up every weekend
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every sunday we've been going up to
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hazel's boat because it's that time of
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year when
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she's getting ready to get back in the
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water got a couple of small projects or
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lots of small projects that she wants
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done upgrades getting ready for a next
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sailing adventure
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so we're up there and making progress
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so i saw you crawling up in the forepeak
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there hazel what's going on there yeah
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uh well
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we were just putting a backing plate on
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the bow roller yeah the barrel yeah okay
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that's all gone well
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yeah it has now it was a bit tricky yeah
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this is your new bell roller setup isn't
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it this is the anchor we're going to
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have a look at that in a minute
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good what else we've been doing
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okay uh so
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we glass all the through holes um
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the the ones that we took out earlier
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like a few weeks ago
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and we put in the depth sounder uh the
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transducer and run the wire
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through the boat and into the
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reader yeah
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the display the display this year
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uh
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yeah exactly into the whole like room in
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a instrument panel yeah few
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yeah nice
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some time ago
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let's have a look shall we yes here's
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the instrument panel and it's very
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simple it's got the autopilot control
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unit there the raymarine one and the one
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below it the grey one is the the depth
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reader
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and the little vintage grille because it
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actually
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is all fitted in where the vent for the
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heads used to be and
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we still get some ventilation there
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looking good right nice
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these are through holes for the
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disappearing rapidly now we put six
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six layers of fiberglass and epoxy on
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there filled from the inside there's a
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light filler over the outside there just
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fearing compound over the outside
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yeah the bow ender yeah come on point
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upwards
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there it is so we've got the stem fit in
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there stainless stem fitting that you
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saw hazel making a while back
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and there's our roller mounted
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just need to get an anchor in it
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that's it for this week thank you for
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watching
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give us thumbs up leave a comment even
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better hit that subscribe button
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and uh next week there won't be a video
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i've got a road trip to make off to
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england for the week or most of the week
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um but uh we'll be back the week after
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next pushing on
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see you then bye
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my
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open ocean
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