Boat Tour time. So many viewer have asked question about my pride and joy that I decided it was time to just show the whole thing. Turns out I talked too muc...

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by far the most asked question on the

YouTube and Instagram is what sort of

both this is where did I get it how did

I get it where was it built etc so this

is going to be a boat tour okay there's

going to be part one of the boat tour

I'm going to only show the inside of the

boat this time tell about its

construction its systems the other

important stuff as well so let's get

into it

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surely on is thirty seven foot long and

was built in 2005 and launched in 2006

she was designed by John SIA a QA guy

who's quite famous for building offshore

race boats he specialized in the

Melbourne to Osaka Melbourne Australia

Osaka Japan

it's a short-handed or single-handed

race that yeah it travels offshore over

quite a long distance and he owns quite

a few titles records and whatnot it's

built quite a few boats and all of them

owners who have them love them and I

fall into that category now after two

years and I hope it will continue that

way john smyth a dentist surgeon from

brisbane commissioned this boat and

helped build it and it was built in

brisbane and all yacht spas

she's 37 foot long she weighed four

point eight five tonnes at launch

probably a bit more now Shaylee on is a

laminate boat

she has western red cedar strip planking

and fiberglass inside and out and then

kevlar reinforcing around the keel join

and around all slamming areas the wood

planking was a decision that john smyth

took it cost about 300 kilos in extra

weight yeah John Sayer specializes also

in

and said it's well worth it for the

extra strength and rigidity of the hull

the boat is five tonne but two and a

half ton is in the keel the bulb is two

and a half ton so the ballast ratio on

this boat is 50% so I can carry a lot

more sail from the top of the mast the

waterline is seventeen seventeen and a

half meters and can carry quite a lot of

sail and sail quite upright which means

you'd point higher the fin is doing its

job better yeah it is definitely a

performance boat and but at the same

time very strong I feel very safe in it

I think I am the weakest link in this

team and if the weather gets really

rough and if things get out of control I

will just close all the hatches and

they'll come down here and huddle in a

corner and let you alien take over as

long as the water stays on the outside I

think we're all good John Smith gave me

a very very big reduction in price I

just didn't have any more money to spend

on it and I really wanted it and he came

down to what I could pay basically and

the funny thing is it called story is

I've been sending him pictures and links

to my videos and things like that and he

jokingly said to me write back to me one

day if I'd done you were gonna use the

boat for this sort of thing already

giving it to you for free because I

think you know he built the boat himself

with the help of Johnson say yeah he

sailed it to New Zealand he sailed to

Fiji he sailed it all around the Pacific

erased it all around Australia and

Brisbane and and things like that and it

was just his age that made him sell it

and I think he was very scared that

someone was going to buy this boat and

leave it in a marina like like most

other boats in marinas they don't really

go anywhere very often and they just

slowly slowly rot away the Sun eats them

and so for him to see that I'm using it

and exploring new places and going fast

and you know really using the boat how

it was meant to be used he's very very

happy about that um and I'm stoked I'm

really proud to own this boat

I didn't imagine I would actually own a

boat like this I was my budget range was

for older boats 70s 80s design very slow

very heavy okay so let's go and take a

look we'll start up the bell working my

way back here we go so this is the V

booth this is where I normally sleep

apart from when I'm on passage then I

will sleep on one of the quarter berths

or in the cockpit if it's good weather

as you can see it's very big

plenty of room two and a half meters

long here poor man's air conditioning

right here a big hatch and when you're

at anchor the boat follows the wind

obviously so the wind is always coming

in from the front and there was just a

great breeze coming through here

sometimes it's so nice to go to bed

after a hot day and just be you know

it's just this breeze coming down over

you it's really really good and when the

breeze isn't blowing then I have my

trusty fan here which you can move

around wherever you want under here I

might open up but there is a hatch with

my storm sails and my asymmetric

spinnaker up here this this box this is

one of the reasons that I like this boat

the design thought process was so good

so that is the anchor winch in here in

this box it's inside the bedroom which

might seem a bit weird but actually

whenever I'm pulling anchor 8 I'm not

sleeping the good thing is it's here in

this environment most boats their anchor

winch is in the in the chain Locker

outside and when you pull up the chain

it's full of full of full of algae and

seaweed and mud and and if you're lucky

just saltwater but you've got your

anchor winch the electric motor it's in

that environment and it stays in that

environment and when it rains and

whatever it's outside so many many

people have problems with the anchor

winches that's the reason it's in a

saltwater environment here is my one

inside nice and dry nice and clean fresh

air in front of this this bulkhead here

this is a watertight bulkhead by the way

chain lockers on the other side

so my anchor winch the chain just goes

into the chain Locker and the anchor

winters on the inside very very

important detail over here I've just got

some normal closet space

hanging locker the next to the bathroom

this is a weight room quite a decent

size as you can see yeah everything you

need basically just the toilet

this is a shower as well and have a

shower in here sometimes but mostly I

just jump in the water to be honest I

guess when I sailed too cold with places

I'll use this more often

here we have the mass coming down down

to the floor and the good thing with

this is what it always comes down the

mast I don't have any leaks around the

boot but there are heavier is going up

there there are there are fittings at

the top and when it rains or when the

winds blowing spray around water comes

down and being in this room it's a wet

Locker this room is a wet room it

doesn't matter

it goes down this hole and this is

another smart thing on this boat I don't

have a bilge there's no build you on

this boat I'll show you the floor

shortly but the water from the bathroom

goes into this box which is a little

float level

pump and from there it gets pumped back

into the bathroom and this and down the

drain and out into the sea so quite a

smart little just to recycle the water

out of there because most boats have a

bilge the water will go down into the

bilge and then get pumped out and you

have a smelly bilge and this is just a

very closed cycle also down here we have

the local speed speed in the depth

sounder okay it's right back into the

galley

Deli is quite small but it has

everything I need and the good thing in

the galley here when it's rough I can

brace myself against this bulkhead and

do things and you need that because

apart from if you're on a catamaran

where everything stays flat and you

don't go in the real ocean sorry you

kept guys you probably hate that but uh

yeah often I'm healed over in crashing

around and I need to be braced in here

stove is on a gimbal got it

oven with the chicken rotisserie even

gas cutoff switch here we have our

single sink but a very deep one very big

salt water electric salt water and here

flip the pump for the freshwater no more

things up here down below some storage

pots and pans and whatnot cleaning gear

I don't spend too much time in the

kitchen just what I need although I do

like cooking on this boat it's very nice

I will stand here cooking looking out

the hatch at the beautiful surroundings

opposite the galley here we have the

fridge and freezer very lucky to have a

freezer

there's a little fridge here we have the

freezer this whole system is very well

thought out this is a 12-volt eutectic

system so the system is is quite well

thought out when the fridge is getting

too warm the thermostat will turn the

fans on one will suck the warm air out

into the freezer and the other one will

blow cold air from the freezer into the

fridge and then it'll turn it off so it

works works really good and it runs

easily off my solar power I would say it

turns on every two hours or so but I

haven't retimed it my batteries it

weighs four by twelve o'clock here we

have the switchboard lights navigation

cabin lights refrigeration instrument

stereo all these sorts of things VHF

radio standard stuff

GPS battery monitor pretty much full

inverter on and off switch and iOS

transmitted if I'm in a piracy known

area or I just don't want to have people

see where I am I just turn that one off

but most I'll leave it on and as you can

see inside the wiring has been done to a

very high standard everything is well

labeled and I installed the iOS system

myself when I bought the boat but

everything else was pretty much done

here under the floorboards

so as you can see it is a very flat

bottomed boat which makes it fast which

is great these are kill bolts there's 10

of them for here four in front and two

behind

150 litres of diesel fits inside the

keel

not in the bulb just in the fin and no

electric pump will pump it out of there

and into my day tank as you can see it's

all very clean this is Kevlar reinforced

this whole area that holds the qiam onto

the bottom of the boat via no real space

down there for storage and things like

that it is very much not much room under

the floor as you can see right here I

have the invitation for the boat launch

pretty

cool to see it without a yeah without a

top or a keel or anything on it and

pretty cool now this is the basic

mock-up for the all yacht spars for

they're putting their rigging on yeah

you can see the mast 7.17 point six

meters high

main sail area forty three point two

square meters quite a bit of Roche in it

thirty five point seven jib that's

fractional rig and non-overlapping so

the the rigging goes to the very outside

of the hull which I'll show in the next

video and makes it very easy to to

control the jib on tacks or jobs it's

not wrapping around the rigging or

wrapping around the mast it's just

flicking straight across as I've shown

you in other videos you can see the Bob

keel flat bottomed boat and yeah here

you see the profiles from the from the

bow to the stern as you can see as it

gets back to the keel area it's getting

quite flat and then it flattens out the

boat bottom of the boat flattens out

doesn't get much narrower either from

the widest point it pretty much stays

the same quite wedge-shaped this boat

only being well twelve years old now and

only having one owner who was the guy

who built it it was a big difference

than my last boat my last boat was built

in 74 same age as me 45 years old now

and probably had four generations of

everything on it you know like it's been

people would added things to it and just

run wires and it had all sorts of

cabling I ripped a lot of it out but it

was just impossible to know what was

original and there was probably not much

original left on it but on this boat

it's so nice to have the plans and the

drawings and the specs for the whole

thing everything's still original

everything was the highest quality

materials were used in this boat the

wiring and everything so it's all still

original it's not me it's still quite

new and the things I'm adding to it I'm

trying to do in the same I'm trying not

to degrade the workmanship to be honest

I'm trying to keep everything at a high

standard and I'm I'm continuing with the

documentation and having folders all

this thing

so it's pretty pretty cool and yeah it

really felt like I'm getting given up an

awesome piece of equipment and they feel

proud to keep trying to keep her at the

same standard next up is navigation this

is a rammer ncat my iOS comes up on this

it's pretty old unit I think it was

already a few years old when it got put

in I mean it was brand new but this the

technology was a few years old and this

will probably be the next thing I

replace hopefully the last a couple more

years though this is my icon HF radio

this is just the front unit here is the

actual radio itself and then back down

here we have the digital tuner for it

for the aerial from being totally honest

I haven't got the first clue about HF

radio I did a license to get my Chief

radio license but it didn't teach you

how to use the radio just told you what

enough to do basically I had to do that

in order to get my AIS number mmsi

number so yeah I don't know how to use

this radio I've turned it on a few times

it all works flawlessly but I wouldn't

know how to pick someone up on it and

quite honestly I'm thinking about taking

it out and selling it it would be a good

backup for my iridium GO satellite phone

but it's only a good backup if you know

how to use it there's no point in me

having it turning it on and not being

able to use it so over here I've got

some books and stuff here we have a

inverter out in the shore power in here

we have my little ladies on my boat

she's the nice one on that side and

we've got their slightly sneaky evil

wench on this side but I love them both

and I'm very stoked at my friend lisa

from zurich came on board and painted

them on there for me personalized the

boat quite a lot she's quite a plane

without that quite cool when John was

building this boat his next-door

neighbor it was maybe a 13 or 14 year

old girl she had just got into wood

carving and so she asked if she could do

some carving on the boat

and he said yeah so she she carved this

motive here is some sort of a sea snake

I guess and same on the other side

pretty cool she also did these little

inlays here with PowerShell on the draw

fire extinguisher one two three only two

of them are actually showing in the

green I need to swap one of them out

that'll be next time I go to a decent

sized town here's the ePub GPS driven

epub and also in this cupboard here I

have a personal location device plv

a small one which I put in my um grab

bag when I'm out at sea I'll put it in

there and have a double a backup for

people to find me a good pair of

binoculars on a boat is a must my

brother

Fraser and his wife Monique bought this

for my 40th birthday before I bought

this boat bushnell their waterproof they

have a compass in them very cool they're

still going good and I use them every

day practically and I think investing

some money and some good binoculars is

worth it I see some people with

binoculars that you can barely see

through they're all just mold growing

inside and I'm like now look through

these things and I feel pretty happy

thanks bro and sis awesome still using

them so I've only got a small table here

it's plenty big enough for one and just

big enough for two if you get cozy but

to be honest don't eat down here very

often most leading up in the cockpit so

back here we have a bit corner berths

there's one on each side is the other

one so decent sized bed in there these

are the parts of the boat that I changed

when I bought the boat this whole zone

and the other side would just bear to

the hull and there's where he kept all

12 different racing sails and I figured

I would need a bit more storage for

stuff and also the possibility to have

friends come on the boat and have a

decent bed to sleep or not just

nesting down on some old sales so I sold

the sales and build all this stuff in so

there's a lot of storage in there

there's you know actually haven't filled

it up there's still a lot of extra space

here is a starter battery hoe called

crank here is uh mr. throttle forward

and reverse the Raymarine one up here is

auto pilot over on this side it's the

same thing I just have my stand up

pedals down here when I'm at sea here a

bilge pump manual pump from down here

and up there is another bilge pump

that's operated from the cockpit down

under the steps here under the

companionway

this is the engine she's a little Yin

Mar 3 cylinder 27 horsepower and sail

drive very compact very small very light

it's still only done 1500 hours this is

a 30 liter day tank so that gets pumped

up turning this handle and electric pump

this little electric pump down here

pumps it out of the keel and up into

this day tank it's another one of these

good details about this boat they've

thought things through hey it's good to

have the weight in the keel be it keeps

the fuel cooler the main reason people

have with a fuel and fuel bargain

blocked filters and all those things

basically what happens is that as the

level of fuel in your tank gets down

there's more room for air in there and

that causes condensation especially when

it's very hot outside so the

condensation will drip down from the

ceiling of the tank into the fuel so

that's a water and your fuel which you

don't want but also this little bacteria

grows in the water particles and it

turns into this black sludge so probably

what will happen is this the sludge

that's sitting on the bottom of your

tank just when you need your engine to

go into a marina or over a bar crossing

or get off a leash or maybe and your

boats getting slammed up and down in the

waves this sludge will come around

through your fuel system go into your

fuel filter and block it instantly

and you're a general turnoff and you

know that when you need the engine the

most that's probably what will happen so

basically you need to keep your fill

tanks as full as possible and as and as

cool as possible don't change the

temperature so having the fuel and the

kill it's staying at the ocean

temperature all the time and you're only

bringing 30 litres up into your day tank

at a time so it also keeps the level of

the chance that you're bringing sludge

into your day tank down so it's quite a

quite a good system so is some of the

tankage on the boat I have a hundred and

fifty liters in the keel 30 litres in

the day tank 180 and then I carry I

think three jerry cans with 25 each so

that's plenty for this boat it's only a

30 27 horsepower engine and it's a very

light boat so I'd normally run at around

2,000 revs sometimes lower if I'm

sailing as well from motor sailing that

gets me along at five five and a half

knots and I can push it harder than that

but there's no real need most of the

time water I have on the specs when I

bought the boat it said 300 litres 150

on each side here in the sea at ease I

lifted water tanks empty last season

when I came back I ordered 300 litres of

water filled it in and there were only

2/3 full so I put another hundred litres

in and they still won't fall so I think

I probably have around 450 litres and

then I carry another 50 litres in

canisters as a backup these are the

water tank they have twin openings so I

can get in there and clean them if you

think about it having water tanks along

the sides here that's actually like a

double hull sort of where that water

tank is if I would hit something there

under the waterline or on the water line

water wouldn't come into the boat I

would just lose my freshwater tank so

that's also something to think about and

then up the front of the water tanks

here I have big battery packs so that's

250 MPs and I have the same on the other

side these batteries I replaced when I

bought the boat

I upgraded the solar and the solar

charger

I just basically renewed the energy

system so there's five hundred amp hours

of batteries and I think I have three

hundred and sixty watts of solar and

this boat being so efficient and

everything being so small

that's ample I even gone so far as to

buy an electric kettle now you know I

just have excess electricity and why use

gas to heat water for coffees and

noodles and and cooking and things like

that when I can just use the power which

which fills up again the next day in the

Sun so that's actually probably saved me

thirty percent of of gas usage this year

this year alone just using the electric

kettle so it's pretty cool when I got

the boat I changed to all LED lighting

these days you'd have to change the

whole the whole light fitting these are

these are the original light fittings I

just got a converter and put an LED lamp

inside them and it's quite cheap and I

mean they gonna last years and they use

a fraction of the fraction of the power

can leave lights on on 24 hours a day

wouldn't make any difference they

basically don't register on on the meter

I also changed the all the navigation

lights and outs outdoor lights to LED as

well yeah I've got my fruit bag very

important it's pretty free to swing

around and doesn't damage the fruit and

veg too much some things like these big

avocados that weren't quite right so

don't when I put them in the fridge they

were they were open better out here and

potatoes and onions and things like that

need to stay dry and it's better than

having them in the pantry locked away so

these things work really good so that's

about it for inside the boat I probably

made a really long-winded description of

a tiny little home but it is my home and

I love living here as you see I don't

have a lot of clutter I haven't got a

collection of shelves and whatnot

everything I own has a home and it gets

put away and when I'm sailing everything

is just in its place it's not going to

explode

gets thrown around I really think about

things when I put them on the boat if I

don't use it for a certain amount of

months or a whole season I'll give it

away or sell it I'm not very good cog in

this consumeristic world I don't buy

much stuff I make do with what I've got

I try and fix it before I throw it away

if it breaks I think as I get guests

coming on board who are artistic or

locals I'm gonna get more of these sorts

of things put in the boat so that that's

going to be quite cool the boat will

just become more personalized as I go

along and hopefully you guys will see

that as I go along the boat will slowly

get its own little vibe going so I'm

actually roasting down here now it is uh

maybe two o'clock in the afternoon

beautiful sunny day and I have

definitely been down here long enough so

I hope you enjoyed this video please

leave some comments in there below of

what you think of my boat the next video

will be on the outside and their working

environment how everything works on the

boat the actual sailing part of it I'll

try and give you a good overview of that

I'll show you under the under the boat

as well the Hollander keel and now it's

time to go and enjoy here you know I'm

here in Missoula and Western Papua

Indonesia and it's probably a goal of

most sailors to come here one day I only

arrived yesterday and I haven't seen

much of it yet so now I'm gonna go and

dive beneath the waves and don't ever

look and now I show you some of this so

here goes he goes the coral that's right

behind my boat see you later thank you

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