Passer au playerPasser au contenu principalPasser au pied de page
  • avant-hier
ALMA Class Globe 580 / 2025 - L'un des meilleurs ALMA Globe 580 BOAT TOUR construit à la maison Josh Kali #157 Skookum USA

Catégorie

🥇
Sport
Transcription
00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:14Ok, Josh, Fiji !
00:17Yes !
00:18Good job mate !
00:19This is a very belated boat tour.
00:21So we're here at Vuda Marina in Fiji.
00:24This is the actual 580 Secret Cove Dock.
00:27You can see all the boats across here.
00:29We've got, well, a lot of them.
00:31Different stages of getting the rigs looked at,
00:34and doing some repairs,
00:36and also babysitting the boats
00:38because some of the crews have taken off that bucket off on holiday.
00:40You still working on your boat or what ?
00:42No, she's good to go.
00:44You don't have to, right ?
00:45I tried to keep her clean all this time.
00:46You've been telling me we're going to do a tour,
00:48so I've kept her clean for you.
00:50She absolutely looks fantastic.
00:52So I'm going to pinch the camera from Jane
00:55so we can look at the bits and pieces.
00:57First of all, the first thing that hits me with your boat
01:00is that it still looks like it's just out of the showroom.
01:04And it makes me wonder about the paint system,
01:06because some of the other boats are not looking as slick as yours.
01:09What's the paint ?
01:11So I used Alex Seal brand paint,
01:14and it was just a product that I was familiar with
01:16from my professional experience.
01:17I had done a lot of work with it.
01:18Yeah.
01:19I know it's kind of like Allgrip's direct competitor.
01:22Yeah.
01:23But I was happy with the Alex Seal product,
01:25because it can be repaired.
01:26Yeah.
01:27Whereas Allgrip's a little bit easier.
01:28Has it got a clear cut on top or something ?
01:29No, it's not.
01:30This is straight out of the gun.
01:31I've never even buffed it.
01:32Sheeps.
01:33Bloody hell.
01:34So yeah, it's just...
01:35I painted all the inside parts first.
01:38Yeah.
01:39And that's how I got practice with the gun.
01:40And then it was just a lot.
01:42So it's seven coats.
01:43It's got three coats of...
01:45Seven coats.
01:46Yeah, it's got two coats of high build primer,
01:48two coats of finish primer,
01:49and three coats of top coat.
01:50Yeah.
01:51Okay.
01:52Well, she looks really smart.
01:53You know, it always has and continues to look that way.
01:55So let's just go top to tail.
01:57So building the boat.
01:58Did you enjoy it first?
01:59Oh, yeah.
02:00It was great.
02:01Cool.
02:02Okay.
02:03We'll talk more about that when we're inside.
02:04Yeah.
02:05So anything special we're looking at at the bow?
02:06It's pretty straightforward.
02:07You've got a big rigging screw on a soft bobstay.
02:08Yeah.
02:09Yeah.
02:10I just...
02:11I went with the Dyneema,
02:12because it's easily replaceable.
02:13I can make a new one pretty much any old time,
02:14but I wanted to be able to tension it up.
02:16Yeah.
02:17And what's the brand of the reefing gear?
02:18Harkin.
02:19Harkin.
02:20Yeah.
02:21I can't say enough good things about that.
02:22That thing...
02:23Yeah.
02:24It's always works.
02:25Yep.
02:26And the hatches?
02:27The hatches are all Lumars.
02:28Lumars.
02:29Yep.
02:30Okay.
02:31And then you've got...
02:32What's the gear?
02:33That's all...
02:34Everything's Harkin.
02:35Harkin.
02:36Everything's Harkin.
02:37With the exception of the clutches,
02:38the clutches are spin locks.
02:39Yep.
02:40That's cool.
02:41But otherwise it's 100% Harkin.
02:42Everything.
02:43Yep.
02:44Everything's there.
02:45You've got big, big vent, big solar vent there.
02:47How's that going?
02:48Hadn't water through it yet?
02:49Yeah.
02:50If they take a wave over the boat,
02:51it gets water inside, but it closes up from the inside.
02:53Yeah.
02:54So you plug it.
02:55Yeah.
02:56If I hear water dripping on the stove,
02:57I'm like, oh gosh, get up there and close it real quick.
02:58That's cool.
02:59It's pretty minimal though.
03:00Yeah.
03:01And only in extreme conditions.
03:02I can't believe how good it looks.
03:03You've gone to the fine detail.
03:04I should have it.
03:05Because we haven't...
03:06We actually haven't told people that part of your background,
03:09your...
03:10How would you describe your marine experience in profession?
03:13So I was a marine technician.
03:14Yeah.
03:15I worked on for a company that imported Ocean Alexander motor yachts
03:18from Taiwan into the US.
03:19Yeah.
03:20We were the west coast importer.
03:21Yeah.
03:22We had a lot of commissioning on new boats,
03:24but we also just worked on anybody's boats.
03:26We did refitting and electrical installations,
03:28everything from the keel to the hardtop.
03:30Yeah.
03:31So how many years were you at that?
03:32Four years.
03:33Four years.
03:34Okay.
03:35So that shows through.
03:36So virtually as you're building a boat,
03:37you're getting all the experience on other people's boats
03:38Exactly.
03:39To make the mistakes there.
03:40Exactly.
03:41And your boat is perfect.
03:42Exactly.
03:43Because geez, the detail on the windows.
03:44That's pretty much how that went.
03:45It's just off the planet.
03:46Yeah.
03:47You know, like I...
03:48Anyway, that's pretty impressive.
03:49Yeah.
03:50You sealed them in and then Sikaflex sells this special tape.
03:53Yeah.
03:54That you put on.
03:55That's UV protective.
03:56So it basically protects the sealant from getting sun exposure.
03:58So that's how they last longer.
03:59So where did the tape go?
04:00On the outside?
04:01It's on the outside.
04:02Oh yeah.
04:03Just the way that I trimmed it and cut it.
04:04You know, you can't really...
04:05I didn't even realize that.
04:06You can't really tell.
04:07But yeah, that's a Sikaflex special product.
04:10Yeah.
04:11In their window installation guidelines.
04:12That's one of the things they suggest to use.
04:14Look at this bloody paint.
04:15It's unbelievable.
04:16Yeah.
04:17Even your stainlesses.
04:18Who did your stainless work?
04:19These are Peters.
04:20They're Peters?
04:21Yeah.
04:22Okay.
04:23Well, they look pretty good.
04:24A couple of the others don't look as well polished or whatever it is.
04:25I don't know.
04:26Yeah.
04:27So that's pretty cool.
04:28You went with the...
04:29I don't know whether it was cost or simplicity or whatever it is.
04:31We've got straightforward hatch for the companionway.
04:34No Dodger.
04:35Yeah.
04:36Are you living with that?
04:37Would you prefer a Dodger now?
04:38No.
04:39Not at all.
04:40I love it.
04:41You're right.
04:42It was just simplicity and cost was the idea behind that.
04:46I went with the biggest one I could get in between the frame.
04:50Yeah.
04:51The framing.
04:52Yeah, yeah.
04:53And I get very little water down below, you know?
04:55Yeah.
04:56Even when it's raining, just a little bit comes in and just gets on the step kind of inside
04:59the hatch there.
05:00Yeah.
05:01So I just close it up.
05:02I don't even have to close it all the way.
05:03I can just, you know, shut it without actually dogging it shut.
05:05Yeah.
05:06And keep 98% of the water out.
05:08Yeah.
05:09It's just if you've got waves breaking over the boat, sometimes you'll get some splash
05:12inside.
05:13Yeah.
05:14And it depends on which tack you're on.
05:15Yeah.
05:16If you're on, you know, starboard tack and you're getting waves splashing this way, they're
05:18more likely to come in.
05:19But on the...
05:20Coming over the other side, you can just close the hatch halfway and it'll kind of deflect a
05:23lot of that.
05:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:25It's water getting in.
05:26Okay.
05:27You know, knock on touch wood and all that.
05:28And you're happy with the cockpit layout, like the big bang sheet bridge going across
05:30and that stuff?
05:31Yeah.
05:32Absolutely.
05:33I mean, it breaks it up a little bit, but at the same time, I use it a lot.
05:36Yeah.
05:37You know, the other guys, theirs is a lot simpler.
05:40And it's obviously a lot more useful upwind than downwind, I feel.
05:43Yeah.
05:44I move it back and forth more when I'm tacking, but...
05:46That's cool.
05:47Yeah, it works really good.
05:48That should.
05:49So you've got the watertight bulkhead there.
05:50Yeah.
05:51So I put the beam right over the frame.
05:53Yeah.
05:54It would just kind of tie everything together, give the cockpit a bit more stiffness.
05:57Yeah.
05:58And so you've got the cockpit locker lids there.
06:00Yep.
06:01So have they caused any issues, any problems?
06:02No, no.
06:03Which brand are they?
06:04They're Bomars.
06:05Bomars.
06:06Oh, they've got quite a good latticework underneath the lid.
06:08Yeah, yeah, exactly.
06:09Yeah, they're strong.
06:10And, you know, maybe a little bit of water gets in, but nothing notable really.
06:15It does the job.
06:16Yeah, exactly.
06:17If anything, it's too sealed up and you open it up, it's all sweaty inside.
06:20Yeah.
06:21Because it's got...
06:22Okay.
06:23And you've got a, it looks like a pretty much close to a regulation man overboard ladder.
06:26You can climb up there.
06:27Yeah.
06:28Yeah, that was the one Peter provided.
06:29So, and then I added the grab bar to the top according to the regulations.
06:32Yep.
06:33Yep.
06:34So that's just a bit of any hardware.
06:36And you've got the South Atlantic.
06:37What's the story there?
06:38Um, yeah, I'm happy with it so far.
06:41I mean, it's, I worry a little bit about it taking a big breaking wave or something like
06:45that, you know, but up until now it steers the boat great.
06:48Yeah.
06:49You know, it needs very little.
06:50Once I, it took me a little while to get used to it.
06:52I wasn't, I didn't have the hang of it in leg one.
06:54That's the key.
06:55And the boat was all over the place.
06:56And I kept back winning the sails and jiving and all this.
06:58And then, uh, but once I really got the hang of it, how to dial it in and how to, to basically
07:02trim the boat.
07:03Yeah.
07:04I just balanced the boat to the point where I'm really not having much input on the tiller.
07:08Yeah.
07:09And then I let the wind vane take over, you know, so the boat's kind of steering itself
07:12almost.
07:13And then we just kind of corrects it one way or the other, but.
07:15You know, my attitude on that, you know, I think the South Atlantic's fine.
07:17Yeah.
07:18Value for money is unbelievable.
07:19It's right.
07:20It works.
07:21It is a common design of a survey pendulum system.
07:25So all the castings and all that sort of stuff are plenty strong enough.
07:28Yeah.
07:29You just got to look after it.
07:30Yeah.
07:31Keep on the nuts and bolts and bits and pieces and learn how to fly it.
07:32Exactly.
07:33That's the big thing.
07:34Yeah.
07:35And it'll do the job.
07:36And a pendulum one is, you know, either way, you know, whether it's a survey pendulum
07:38or the hydrovane, uh, you know, auxiliary rudder system, it'll steer the boat.
07:42Um, you just got to sail to it.
07:44So.
07:45Yeah.
07:46It seems to like a lot of wind.
07:47The more wind I have, the better it works.
07:48Yeah.
07:49Yeah.
07:50And dagger boards.
07:51And you've got the, um, got the, uh, cheapest, I've forgotten the name of the app board.
07:56It's a Torquedo.
07:57Torquedo.
07:58Yeah.
07:59It's the newest, uh, generation.
08:00Yeah.
08:01I was going to say, cause it's a different, different battery shape.
08:02Yep.
08:03What's, what's different about that new one?
08:04Um, oh, it's all redesigned.
08:05So it's got a totally different, it, uh, it's got a color LCD screen.
08:09Yeah.
08:10Everything's sealed up better.
08:11The battery is 1150 watt hours.
08:13So it's bigger.
08:14It's got a huge battery.
08:15Yeah.
08:16Used to only be 850.
08:17Right.
08:18Yeah.
08:19You can get a small motor, a medium motor and a large motor.
08:22So is that still a thousand watt or?
08:23Uh, yeah.
08:24It's three horsepower.
08:25Yeah.
08:26Three horsepower.
08:27Yeah.
08:28Yeah.
08:29A thousand kilowatts.
08:30Yeah.
08:31Um, but it just, it seems to last great.
08:32You know, like, uh, I motored, motor sailed pretty much all the way here from the reef,
08:34which is like 14 miles.
08:35Yeah.
08:36Yeah.
08:37And I still had.
08:38That's the big thing.
08:39So you, obviously you take it off the boat and put it down below.
08:40Always.
08:41Cause some of them aren't.
08:42Yeah.
08:43It's crazy.
08:44After the first night, basically the first night, depending when I left Tonga, the seas
08:47were so big, I took it off.
08:48As soon as I cleared the land, it was, it came off and went inside.
08:51Yep.
08:52Take as good a care of it as I can.
08:53Yeah.
08:54Yeah.
08:55Uh, it's critical.
08:56That was my plan.
08:57I'd take mine off before the start gun.
08:58Yeah.
08:59Exactly.
09:00You can put it down below in its case.
09:01Yep.
09:02So that's pretty cool.
09:03The rest of it.
09:04Now what do you, what, uh, I'd say your, your solar panels are set at that height, but
09:06you can still pivot them around.
09:07They're set at that height, but they still pivot.
09:08Yep.
09:09And they, they turn like this.
09:10Yeah.
09:11Perfect.
09:12It's like a seesaw right now.
09:13Yeah.
09:14You can articulate them all the way around.
09:15I just came up with that.
09:16That's perfect.
09:17Pretty rigid.
09:18Yeah.
09:19Take the rigid panel, but still spin all around.
09:20So I just use Bimini hardware.
09:21It's got a sort of like a bearing down the bottom and a bearing up the top.
09:24Yeah.
09:25Turn around.
09:26Yeah.
09:27That's cool.
09:28That's pretty simple.
09:29Yeah.
09:30It's real simple and it's, it's plenty strong.
09:31Yeah.
09:32Yeah.
09:33Yeah.
09:34Yeah.
09:35I thought that was a pretty neat thing.
09:36The only thing is you can't fit between them and sit on the back rail.
09:37No.
09:38That was my favorite position.
09:39Yeah.
09:40Yeah.
09:41It's pretty, you know, anyway.
09:42Right.
09:43Um, and, uh, we'd talk about that in other ways as well.
09:44The dumping position, you know, not off the back, off the sides.
09:45Right.
09:46Yeah.
09:47Yeah.
09:48Yeah.
09:49Yeah.
09:50Yeah.
09:51No worries.
09:52Um, okay.
09:53So you've got all the gear.
09:54You've got the Ekimax over there.
09:55Yep.
09:56What's this one?
09:57That's your, uh, that's for the, uh, iridium.
09:58That's the sea going.
09:59External antenna.
10:00External.
10:01Yep.
10:02And you got a light there.
10:03Is that a light?
10:04Yeah.
10:05Yeah.
10:06It's a flood light.
10:07Yeah.
10:08Good idea.
10:09I had a big flood light.
10:10Flood the, I know.
10:11I took that idea.
10:12What's the OGM?
10:13Uh, that's my stern light.
10:14Oh, stern light.
10:15Yeah.
10:16It's really durable.
10:17It's really bright.
10:18Oh, Jaz's back.
10:19You heard about the chili con carne.
10:20To be honest, that looks really shit compared to what I heard.
10:23Oh, right.
10:24She said that looks really shit compared to what she could.
10:26Okay.
10:27All right.
10:28We can talk about that later.
10:29We're just doing the bike tour for Josh.
10:31It's all good.
10:32It's so bright.
10:33Yeah, exactly.
10:34The stern light is so bright.
10:35It'll bounce off.
10:36It'll bounce off.
10:37I'll have to cover it.
10:38Yeah.
10:39With my hand just so that I can like get my night vision back.
10:41Yeah.
10:42Yeah.
10:43That's true.
10:44I usually just run the mast head light.
10:45Yeah.
10:46And then if somebody shows up on the AIS, I'll put the dank lights on just for extra visibility.
10:49And there's your ensign.
10:50We won't talk about that.
10:52That's the American ensign in its correct format.
10:55That's right.
10:56Okay.
10:57Jump aboard.
10:58Let's have a squeeze.
10:59All right.
11:00So.
11:01Yep.
11:02Vroom, vroom.
11:03You want to go straight down?
11:04No.
11:05I'll just have a look here first.
11:06Yeah.
11:07See how it goes.
11:08You've got an inflatable lifebuoy.
11:09I had that.
11:10Yeah.
11:11But I got it wiped out about three.
11:12No.
11:13Got it wiped out twice.
11:14Yeah.
11:15On the other thing.
11:16Wave comes through.
11:17Yeah.
11:18I just pulled it off.
11:19But I got them back.
11:20Yeah.
11:21I tried to secure it on there as best I could.
11:23Yeah.
11:24Yeah.
11:25No, that's cool.
11:26You haven't filled out your bread.
11:27I haven't.
11:28I know.
11:29I'm going to bring this up just so all the other builders know what's going on.
11:30This thing here, this is a backing plate for the gudgeon pin tool sets and stuff.
11:33And there's a space there for commissioning.
11:35Yeah.
11:36That's doing grave.
11:37You know, the name of the boat when it was launched and stuff like that.
11:39Yeah.
11:40Anyway.
11:41I was in such a hurry to get to the start.
11:42Yeah, exactly.
11:43I'm not complaining.
11:44Because most people don't.
11:45Dreams happen.
11:46Yeah.
11:47I think about that a lot.
11:48Yeah.
11:49I read that man.
11:50As it's happening.
11:51I'm like, he doesn't lie.
11:52It's true.
11:53It's funny, eh?
11:54When we put it on there, I did it as a, oh, you know, because we do engraving.
11:57I don't know.
11:58Let's put that there.
11:59But as I'm sailing across in tracker, I'm looking at it all the time thinking, oh shit,
12:03you know.
12:04Anyway.
12:05Yeah.
12:06That's another story.
12:07Yeah.
12:08Okay.
12:09So this is a little Garmin.
12:10Yeah.
12:11It shows like, normally the way I have it set up will be like, velocity made good to the
12:16next checkpoint.
12:17Yeah.
12:18You know, GPS speed.
12:19Yeah.
12:20And then heading to the next waypoint and compass heading or GPS heading.
12:23Yeah.
12:24Cool.
12:25Yeah.
12:26Yeah.
12:27Pull it out.
12:28Yeah.
12:29It's got the big picture plotters inside.
12:30You can just pull it out.
12:31So I usually like, I'm looking at both.
12:33Yeah.
12:34Yeah.
12:35Yeah.
12:36No, very good.
12:37Okay.
12:38Let's jump down below.
12:39Here we go.
12:40Geez.
12:41I haven't been below in a 580 for a long time.
12:42I'm going to go wide.
12:43Oh, we're already on wide angle.
12:44That's already on wide.
12:45So that's easy.
12:46Okay.
12:47I'll see if I get this right for Josh's boat.
12:50Ba dum, ba dum, ba dum, ba dum.
12:53Okay.
12:54Here we are.
12:56Chapers.
12:57Bloody hell.
12:58That's very nice.
13:00Okay.
13:01Down here a bit.
13:02So, I'm sitting on the starboard quarter berth now.
13:06Um, settee berth.
13:08Uh, this looks really good.
13:09I'm just scanning around first impressions because I haven't really been inside.
13:13I've stuck my head through the hatch a few times.
13:14Yeah.
13:15Yeah.
13:16So not since the safety inspection.
13:17But it's very cool.
13:18It's got a nice feel.
13:19Yeah.
13:20Very organised.
13:21Yeah.
13:22I wanted to make it comfortable.
13:23Yeah.
13:24Because I know I'm going to spend a lot of time in here.
13:25Yeah.
13:26So I try to focus on having everything be soft and comfortable for the eyes and the hands
13:31and the feet.
13:32Yeah.
13:33Absolutely.
13:34Yeah.
13:35Um, my first impression is you don't have a cabin sole, which is a good thing.
13:36I do not.
13:37I don't have a cabin sole.
13:38I wanted the extra headroom.
13:39Yeah.
13:40And then when you walk to the other entrance, they all get water stuck, trapped under there.
13:43Yeah.
13:44You know?
13:45And Jacob says, Oh, cause I was like, Oh, you can store canned goods and stuff under there
13:47if you wanted to.
13:48He's like, Yeah, but they get all rusty.
13:49Yeah.
13:50And it seems like it's almost more trouble than it's worth.
13:51It is.
13:52It is more comfortable with the floor.
13:53I'm not going to lie, but like I'm happy the way it is.
13:56Yeah.
13:57Well, it's funny.
13:58The cabin sole from the bolts forward because I'd be on my knees all the time.
14:02I'd jump down here and I'd, you know, I'd sit here on the seat, you know, and then I'd
14:05just lunge, sort of lunge forward and on my knees there.
14:08And I had foam mats there.
14:09Right.
14:10So I could work galley or chart table or whatever it is.
14:12Yeah.
14:13But back here, obviously let it, let it, let it go.
14:15You know, let it simple.
14:16So, um, okay, we'll go through it all in detail after, but life raft down here.
14:20Um, what else you got?
14:21Where's your panic bag go?
14:23Oh, panic bag right there.
14:24Right there.
14:25Oh yeah.
14:26That's cool.
14:27Yeah.
14:28Yeah.
14:29So have you drowned these bunks yet?
14:30No.
14:31That's cool.
14:32Yeah.
14:33Yeah.
14:34Um, you don't have spray curtains.
14:35I had spray curtains.
14:36I do.
14:37I do.
14:38I just have them put them up, but yeah, they're here.
14:39I have one for each side.
14:40Yeah.
14:41That's perfect.
14:42They snap into these snaps here.
14:43Yup.
14:44And then it covers the sides.
14:45Yeah.
14:46I've got to keep out of the sun.
14:47Yeah.
14:48That's perfect.
14:49So the idea of the spray curtains, they're either side.
14:50You come down with your wet weather gear and sit on this seat here and then you get your
14:51gear off and any water doesn't go onto your bunk.
14:52So that's pretty cool.
14:53Yeah.
14:54They work good.
14:55Okay.
14:56And so you've got an origi stove, a method stove as well.
14:58I do have it.
14:59It's out on the galley table right now because we've been using it as our secondary burner.
15:03But yeah, the origo goes right here.
15:05Yup.
15:06And I use that every night.
15:07I mean, I've got a Jetboil as well.
15:08Yeah.
15:09The Jetboil gimbal.
15:10Oh, that's what we did.
15:11Same thing.
15:12I know.
15:13I copied you on that too because only steam can go out the door.
15:15I mean, I watched your videos like over and over again, you know, to try to get the idea
15:20how to do it.
15:21But I've only used the Jetboil twice.
15:22Yeah.
15:23Honestly, even when it comes to boiling water for a cup of tea, I just use the origo.
15:25It's just so easy.
15:26Yeah.
15:27Exactly.
15:28Light it up and off you go.
15:29It takes a little bit longer, but it's really no problem.
15:31Okay.
15:32Yeah.
15:33The solar vent is here.
15:34It comes out here.
15:35Oh yeah.
15:36Can you turn that off as well?
15:37Yeah.
15:38Yeah.
15:39So it's got a little fan inside.
15:40Yeah.
15:41I really only run it when it's stuck shut right now.
15:43Yeah.
15:44But I really only run it when I'm cooking.
15:45Yeah.
15:46Basically to kind of vent the steam and the fumes and stuff from the alcohol.
15:50Okay.
15:51And you've got a similar thing that we had, just a hose stuck in your containers there.
15:54Yeah.
15:55Copied you on that too.
15:56Perfect.
15:57Yeah.
15:58The little sink is handy, eh?
15:59The little sink is great.
16:00Although it's more for import when it comes to actually using it as a sink.
16:02Yeah.
16:03Because normally you're so healed over that it wouldn't drain.
16:04Yeah.
16:05Because I always, I didn't have to use it because I never got any water down below.
16:09But I had a big juicy sponges.
16:10Mm-hm.
16:11And if you, you know, it's like a bucket and then you're sponging it out.
16:14Yep.
16:15And you can tip it in the sink before having to open the hatch if it's really bad.
16:18Yep.
16:19And I've got a salt water tap.
16:20Salt as well.
16:21Jeepers.
16:22And fresh water.
16:23Okay.
16:24You're one up on me.
16:25I didn't do a salt one.
16:26Yeah.
16:27So that's for washing dishes and stuff like that.
16:28Or you can, you know, if you do like a little bit of salt water.
16:30Yep.
16:31You can cook pasta if you add some fresh water to it.
16:33Yep.
16:34And save water that way.
16:35Yeah.
16:36Yeah.
16:37That's cool.
16:38Well, it looks nice and tidy.
16:39Sheesh.
16:40You sure you've got enough bolts on the window?
16:41Yeah.
16:42That's what everybody says.
16:43They're like, well, I know they're not coming out.
16:44Exactly.
16:45Oops.
16:46But the beauty of that is it supports the bloody, is that acrylic or polycarve?
16:49It's acrylic.
16:50Acrylic.
16:51Yeah.
16:52Yeah.
16:53That's fine.
16:54Okay.
16:55And you've got the fire extinguisher up there.
16:56You've got the loop there.
16:57Opening port lights.
16:58Some guys don't have those.
16:59I love those.
17:00Yeah.
17:01Yeah.
17:02Only in calm sea when you're offshore, but.
17:04Makes a big difference.
17:05Oh, yeah.
17:06It really does.
17:07I'm with you.
17:08Same way.
17:09Okay.
17:10So, as simple as they are, there's your cheapest big screen chart plotter.
17:12Yeah.
17:13That's cool.
17:14Yeah.
17:15And they're your emergency nav lights.
17:16Yep.
17:17Perfect.
17:18Little tiny ones.
17:19Yeah, those work great.
17:20They're cool.
17:21I always had those on my last sailboat and they always worked great.
17:22A couple of handhelds.
17:23Yep.
17:24Yep.
17:25VHF, you've got your big one up there.
17:26Which is your AIS?
17:27Is it in there?
17:28The AIS is down right there.
17:30Oh, yeah.
17:31Oh, it's a transponder.
17:32Yeah, it's a transponder.
17:33It's a Garmin 800.
17:34Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:35I can see it in the caddy pack there.
17:36In the 2000.
17:37Oh, you don't have a floor in your caddy hole.
17:39No, I just have net.
17:40Oh, that makes it bigger.
17:41That's better.
17:42Yeah.
17:43That's cool.
17:44And I just put soft stuff in there.
17:45Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:46So it doesn't have a floor in this stuffed caddy.
17:47It's got a net bottom, so you stuff things in there and it just hangs down.
17:52That's cool.
17:53Yeah, it looks pretty good.
17:54Yep.
17:55Okay.
17:56So that's cool.
17:57And there's your big electric bilge pump.
17:58Yep.
17:59Yep.
18:00Down here.
18:01And that's your manual one down there.
18:03You've got bungs over your keel bolts.
18:05Yeah, yeah.
18:06I had my best friend, he's a machinist.
18:08You made them up?
18:09Yeah, I had a big chunk of two inch starboard.
18:11He just turned them down on the lathe for me and then I just stuck them on with Sikaflex.
18:15Perfect.
18:16Yeah, they work great.
18:17Everybody's jealous of them.
18:18Everybody who sees them is just like, oh man.
18:19They look like, I thought they were the builder's ones, you know, the ones they put on rebar.
18:23Yeah, right, yeah.
18:24The concrete ones to stop people skewing themselves.
18:26Yeah, yeah.
18:27Well, that's pretty cool.
18:28Yeah, they work great and they're nice and soft.
18:30Yep, okay.
18:31Yeah.
18:32And so up here in the Foxtel Jeepers, have you got a lot of gear off the boat at the moment?
18:37No.
18:38No?
18:39That answers the question.
18:40Yeah.
18:41I was going to say you don't have anywhere near the amount of stuff that others have.
18:44It's not about what you need, it's about what you don't need.
18:46This is your mountain climbing one.
18:47That's right.
18:48Keep the boxes on all the safety gear and all the bits that you need.
18:51Yeah.
18:52And that's it.
18:53And so yeah, up forward there's six storage compartments under the floor.
18:55Yeah.
18:56So like on the starboard side I've got like my tools, like my hacksaw.
18:58Yeah.
18:59And I mean, I keep the bolt cutters handy, they're always close by.
19:02Yeah.
19:03And just other, you know, random stuff, I've got a heat gun and stuff.
19:05And then in the centre one is where my little rubber inflatable boat is.
19:08Yeah.
19:09Oh, so it's in there.
19:10You've got one of those thingy ones.
19:11Yeah, it's just like...
19:12The lightweight backpacker one.
19:13Yeah, it's like, well no, it's a two-man rubber boat.
19:16It's the sort of thing that you would like float down the river in, you know.
19:18Oh yeah.
19:19But it's got oars and everything.
19:20It works great.
19:21I'm really pleased with it.
19:22I got it off Amazon.
19:23Yeah.
19:24Yeah.
19:25And so then, and then in that compartment just behind the hatch there is the batteries.
19:27That's the batteries.
19:28Two of the same batteries are in there and it's got a watertight, it's pretty much all
19:31watertight so it keeps anything out.
19:33So you love lithium because you're an electrician.
19:35Yeah.
19:36Yeah.
19:37Okay.
19:38And so this looks very impressive.
19:39Tell us about your electrics.
19:41They look pretty close to waterproof.
19:42They are.
19:43Yeah.
19:44I designed all the electrics to be as waterproof as they could be.
19:47Yeah.
19:48You know, just in case, you know, we get some serious flooding or something, you know,
19:51it'll stay on for as long as possible.
19:53Yeah.
19:54Like as a job when you get out of here.
19:55Yeah.
19:56You should produce those and you could sell one to everybody.
19:58Yeah.
19:59Yeah.
20:00Just custom.
20:01Just custom choose your loads.
20:02Just walk us through.
20:03The two, like one's a switchboard and the other one's all your control bits.
20:06Yeah.
20:07It's got the two battery monitors on the side.
20:08It's got the little LCD screen, which is just an additional battery monitor, you know.
20:12I don't use it as often as I thought I would.
20:14Yeah.
20:15And then it's got the switch for the tricolor light, you know, tricolor anchor strobe so
20:19you can control what it's doing.
20:20And then it's got the echo max and the two breakers are for the solar MPPTs.
20:23Yeah.
20:24And everything's all accessible.
20:25I helped Eric put an MPPT in his boat this morning and we had to take half the bulkhead
20:30apart to get to it.
20:31Yeah.
20:32And so those you can just open up the boxes.
20:33I really like that.
20:34Right inside, you know.
20:35I would buy that if I was building a boat.
20:38Right.
20:39I would absolutely just say, Josh, make me both of those boxes.
20:42Yep.
20:43Leave, you know, 60 centimeters of cable coming out of everything.
20:46Yep.
20:47Label the cables.
20:48Yep.
20:49I would copy all the gear that's on this boat and I would just bolt it on, run the wires,
20:55fit the fittings and connect them up.
20:57Yeah.
20:58So I've got a 110 volt outlet.
20:59I've got shore power.
21:00I've got a shore power connection in the cockpit that's watertight.
21:02Shore power.
21:03So you can plug into shore power if you've got, I haven't been able to use it since we
21:06left Antigua because it hasn't been 110 but, or I guess in Panama too, but yeah.
21:10So then you can plug stuff in in here if you want to, you know, chargers and whatnot.
21:13So you obviously did all your electrical and everything.
21:14You've hidden all the cables pretty well.
21:16Yeah.
21:17They run, they run in a, uh, the tube underneath there and then they go through the wire chase.
21:20Yep.
21:21Yep.
21:22On the left side.
21:23Yeah.
21:24That did what we did on, on, on Trekker.
21:25Yeah.
21:26You know, having this backrest, I reckon it's really good because not only do you get, mine
21:29was actually a little bit thicker than that.
21:31Right.
21:32To decrease the width of this.
21:33The bunks are a bit too wide.
21:34Absolutely.
21:35You know, you tend to end up sliding back and forth.
21:36Yeah, absolutely.
21:37You know, if any, any 580 builders are watching this, you've got to do this backrest.
21:40Yeah.
21:41It takes nothing.
21:42It adds a little bit of strength and it just makes it, so you're not sitting right up against
21:45the hull, your little legs dragging.
21:46Yep.
21:47And you get those storage right alongside the bloody, uh, right alongside where you want
21:51it.
21:52It's great.
21:53I divide, where the, the stringer is.
21:54Yeah.
21:55Behind there, I put a floor in, so it's got, you know.
21:56Yeah, same thing.
21:57Yeah, so.
21:58That shelf is really good.
21:59I had zigzag shock cord there, up on a hook so you could drop it down and just drop them
22:02in.
22:03Yep.
22:04So that looks pretty good.
22:05Yeah.
22:06One thing that is notable is that I've still got my bar here.
22:08Yeah.
22:09Everybody else, I think maybe Pilar has one, but she might be the only other one.
22:12Yeah.
22:13In the B&B video.
22:14Yep.
22:15Uh, that 3D model.
22:16Yep.
22:17You know, everybody's watched a thousand times.
22:18Um, they say to cut it out.
22:19Yeah.
22:20There's a certain point when you can cut it out, but I, and I was like, well, I'm going
22:22to leave mine in cause I can cut it out anytime, but I can't put it back.
22:25Yep.
22:26And so I love it.
22:27Absolutely.
22:28I am constantly holding onto this thing.
22:29You know, cause everybody else just did fore and aft handles in some different variation.
22:32Yep.
22:33They did ropes or they did a dowel rods or whatever, but like every time I'm climbing into
22:37somebody else's boat, I'm always grabbing for this thing cause it's never there.
22:40I'm just like, ah, how do you even do this?
22:42So yeah, I absolutely love this.
22:43I constantly, I'm just sitting right here and holding onto this.
22:46Yeah.
22:47I know what you mean.
22:48Yeah.
22:49These posts are indispensable.
22:50Yep.
22:51Those too.
22:52Cause you're grabbing onto them all the time.
22:53All the time.
22:54And when I, I forget when I first saw this, it could have been on your boat and I thought
22:57that's a cool idea because it is, you're swinging down, you know, often you come in and grab
23:01it and slide down and stuff.
23:02And it gives a little bit of stiffness to the deck too, I think.
23:05Yep.
23:06Yep.
23:07Yep.
23:08Absolutely.
23:09What's your favorite part about living on the boat?
23:11Like in terms of the way it's fitted out, you know, like.
23:13The stove.
23:14The stove.
23:15For sure.
23:16Yeah.
23:17If you're considering getting one or if you're not, you know, that's my favorite part is
23:20making dinner and to using the stove to cook.
23:23Yeah.
23:24It makes real meals and it's really good for morale, you know.
23:26Yeah.
23:27They're really good.
23:28And apparently they're back on the market now.
23:29Yeah.
23:30I bought mine.
23:31I bought my stove.
23:33I think maybe even the before of or the day I bought the plans.
23:36Yeah.
23:37It was the very first thing I purchased.
23:38You're lucky to get one.
23:39I know.
23:40There was one up on eBay and I was just like, oh, that's it.
23:42I'm getting it right now.
23:43And I ended up finding the gimbal kit for it too.
23:45Yeah.
23:46So that was the very first thing that I bought as a matter of fact.
23:49Yeah.
23:50And I still love it.
23:51So I think it's highly worth it.
23:52I bought mine on American eBay as well.
23:54Yeah.
23:55I like to ship it across.
23:56Cost a fortune.
23:57Yeah.
23:58And then Christian's like, you can just buy them in the shop.
23:59And I was like, can you?
24:00I didn't think you could.
24:01Well, that was the stove I used in the BOC back in 1990.
24:04Yeah.
24:05The two burner.
24:06Fantastic.
24:07Just perfect.
24:08Works great.
24:09So anyway, that's cool.
24:10And obviously there's a lot of work.
24:12How much, if you had to step into a boat, it's got no electrical system on it.
24:16Right.
24:17You can start from scratch, you know, run the wires.
24:20Let's assume all the hardware's fitted, but you've got to run the wires, connect it up,
24:23make those boxes and everything.
24:25How many, how many weeks do you reckon it'll take you?
24:27Um, six.
24:28Six weeks.
24:29Yeah.
24:30Yeah.
24:31I'd say it took me two weeks to build the boxes.
24:32Yeah.
24:33And, uh, for three to four weeks to do the installation.
24:36Yeah.
24:37Yeah.
24:38To do, to connect everything.
24:39Yeah.
24:40Basically run all the wires, put all the glands.
24:41Yeah.
24:42Um, okay.
24:43Well, anyway, I can, I can assure you every builder that's watching this will look at the
24:47of those and they'll just dribble, you know, it's just perfect.
24:50Yeah.
24:51This is the other thing you can't live without.
24:52Oh yeah.
24:5312 volt fan.
24:54Yeah.
24:55That thing is absolutely critical.
24:56It's a USB one.
24:57Yeah.
24:58It's USB.
24:59Yeah.
25:00Got that in Panama and I, along with the stove that I would have to say is my second favorite
25:03part.
25:04And the paper towel roll.
25:05Yeah.
25:06Yeah.
25:07I can't live without that either.
25:08Yeah, exactly.
25:09No, all very good.
25:11Okay.
25:12So, uh, do you, um, how challenging, being sort of like involved in the industry and,
25:18you know, sort of, uh, commissioning boats and doing, you know, refits and things like
25:22that.
25:23You then get into building the boat, right?
25:25How difficult would you say it is for someone to build?
25:28You know, like, how's your take on that?
25:30Um, and just, I'm assuming you were pretty hands on before.
25:33Yeah.
25:34Yeah.
25:35That's why I excelled at what it was that I did, but it, it's not terribly difficult.
25:39It's just, you, it, you have to stick with it.
25:41You know, it can be discouraging at times when something you try or haven't tried before,
25:46maybe doesn't work out, you know, uh, and to keep going to, to, to always be working
25:51towards the next step, you know, that it's critical to not look at it as like, oh my gosh,
25:55this boat's never going to be finished because you're thinking about a finished boat, but just to look
25:58at what is right in front of you, you know?
26:00So if you're, if you're putting up the frames, you know, you just focus on one frame at a time,
26:03or if you're doing the fiberglass, you just focus on getting that done well.
26:06And then you worry about the fairing and then the, the painting and everything.
26:09And if you just take it one step at a time, uh, it kind of breaks it up into more manageable parts.
26:14Keep it going.
26:15Did you log your times?
26:16Um, no, but I would say all tooled, it was probably about 3000 hours.
26:21Yeah.
26:22Yeah.
26:23Okay.
26:24How'd you find, what'd you do about your keel?
26:25Did you get someone to fabricate the steel?
26:27Yeah.
26:28The keel is an interesting story.
26:29Like businesses all over Seattle basically helped that thing come together.
26:32I had, I was looking around for a steel manufacturer that would cut it for me and kind of everything
26:37there.
26:38Cause it's a shipping town.
26:39They all do big jobs for ships and stuff like that.
26:41And that was kind of two small potatoes.
26:42They didn't want to take it on, but I found a place, um, that was willing.
26:46They had a small job shop.
26:47And so they cut the, they CNC lasered the parts for me and put pre, uh, put the bevel in
26:53the top plate.
26:54And then I had it welded at another place.
26:57Um, Ballard, Ballard Marine fabrication.
27:00So I took it down there and I talked to those guys and they were worked with me.
27:02They're really good.
27:03Cause obviously there's high standards for the welding.
27:05Uh, and they were willing to, to accommodate that.
27:07And so that was cool.
27:09And then my best friend is, uh, the same one who made these, uh, caps for me for the,
27:15for the kill bolts.
27:16He runs a shop, Lacey machine works out of his house and he's got a bunch of machine tools.
27:20So he did all the bevels for me, put the bevels on the plates.
27:22He beveled the keel plate and everything like that.
27:25And, uh, drilled all the holes and everything that needed to be done.
27:28And then, uh, I just, uh, fared it and painted it.
27:31What about the bulb?
27:32Oh yeah, the bulb.
27:33So I got, um, I got lead leftover, uh, from work.
27:37And then I, um, took it to a place that did the molds for me.
27:43So they did green sand molds.
27:44And so I had the molds made at one place called, uh, Gil's aluminum foundry down in, uh,
27:49Soto in Seattle.
27:50Yeah.
27:51And then I took it over to another place called non ferrous metals and they actually poured
27:54the lead for me.
27:55Yeah.
27:56And then they took them back to Gil's and he cleaned them up and gave them to me.
27:58So that's cool.
27:59Yeah.
28:00It was a, uh, a big process that involved businesses all over the Seattle area.
28:03But, uh, I mean, building the keel was almost just an individual project in itself.
28:07Yeah.
28:08And I took it really seriously because it's obviously the most important thing.
28:10You can lose the rig and survive.
28:12You can lose the rudder and survive, but if you lose the keel, it's all over.
28:16So I took that really seriously.
28:18Yeah.
28:19It is as well made as the boat, um, in its own right.
28:22Yeah.
28:23Did you keep, did you log the total build time?
28:25Like, no, as in not time we did that, um, budget.
28:28Did you log your budget?
28:29I don't know if you want to talk about it.
28:30I didn't.
28:31But I would say, um, all, all up probably 60,000 us.
28:35Yeah.
28:36Yeah.
28:37Cause I didn't spare any expense.
28:38You know, I got all, I got all Harkin hardware, all Victron electrics, you know, all
28:42I did the Alex seal paint, which was, you know, not cheap paint.
28:45Um, and then, uh, you know, the teak finish and stuff like that.
28:48But I also had the benefit of industry, uh, pro pricing.
28:51Yeah.
28:52So, um, I had, uh, I was getting stuff for just above cost from the chandlery.
28:56So were you telling them, Hey, this is for my little boat.
28:58I'm going to sail around the world.
28:59Yeah.
29:00Yeah.
29:01They give you a cut.
29:02Yeah.
29:03Yeah.
29:04Well, they charge you doubles and you're an idiot.
29:05No, we were all really cool.
29:06So, yeah.
29:07So they helped me out there.
29:08Yeah.
29:09Fishery supply in Seattle there.
29:10Oh yeah.
29:11We used to buy stuff off them all the time.
29:12Best chandlery in the world.
29:13If you ask me.
29:14Yeah.
29:15They, every, every time, cause we'd done lots of silly things with boats, all sorts
29:17of tight and ships and stuff.
29:18And if you could never find it, you could get onto fishery supply and it was there.
29:21Yeah.
29:22I used to, we used to actually, we used to be agents for some of the West Marine stuff,
29:25but all the tricky stuff, uh, fishery supply, it always bloody have it.
29:28Yeah.
29:29They can't find it for you.
29:30It doesn't exist.
29:31Yeah, exactly.
29:32Yeah.
29:33Yeah.
29:34Um, anyway, that's another story.
29:35Um, cause we were a bit, that's where I went Jane, you know, when we were building
29:37this big steel motor sailor and we used to ship stuff into China all the time.
29:41Anyway, I digress.
29:42So, uh, what's your favorite gadget on the boat?
29:44You know what I mean?
29:45Excited, besides the fan.
29:46Chart plotter.
29:47Chart plotter.
29:48Oh man.
29:49I look at that thing all the time.
29:50It's like a bit of juice cause it's a big one.
29:51No.
29:52It is a big one, but no, all up.
29:53Like my, with the chart plotter running the AIS on.
29:56Yeah.
29:57I'm going to lay back here in the bunk.
29:58Nav lights on, charging my cell phone.
29:59Yeah.
30:00Um, it, uh, it, it, it's, uh.
30:03It's a big screen.
30:04I went for a five inch screen on purpose.
30:06That's a monster.
30:07And it's, it's not a touch screen.
30:09It's all manual control.
30:10Yeah.
30:11I wanted that because, uh, the touch screens, uh, tend to be less reliable.
30:14Yes.
30:15We've got a big touch screen on our adventure boat and it just died.
30:18Yep.
30:19And if your hands are wet, you know, the screen gets wet, all of a sudden you can't touch on
30:22it.
30:23So I went with the full manual control one and everything's Garmin.
30:25Yeah.
30:26Cool.
30:27Yeah.
30:28So Garmin AIS, Garmin VHF, Garmin chart plotter.
30:31Yeah.
30:32I see you've got the, the telltale compass there.
30:34Where do you, where do you hang that or you just leave it there?
30:36I just leave it there until I'm doing a hand bearing.
30:38I've got the, uh.
30:39Can you see it from your bunk?
30:40Oh, you can see that one there.
30:41Yeah.
30:42I've got the two sided, uh, contest compass.
30:43The numbers never make a difference, but you always remember you just pick a number.
30:46This would, I'd be laying here and I'd pick a number and then just as long as it
30:49doesn't move off that number, we know we're going the right direction.
30:51Yeah, exactly.
30:52Yeah.
30:53Yeah.
30:54So.
30:55I guess all the time.
30:56Yeah.
30:57I'd just turn it on and just look at the course and the speed and that would tell
31:00me everything about the boat.
31:01Yeah.
31:02So all up, uh, it's like three and a half amps, four amps a draw.
31:06Oh, that's not cheap.
31:07No.
31:08You got a hundred.
31:09Right.
31:10Oh no, you got 200.
31:11You got 200.
31:12Yeah.
31:13You got 200.
31:14You can use a hundred of it.
31:15I use a hundred of it and I'll go down to 75% overnight.
31:17Yeah.
31:18And then with the solar, it'll be back up to a hundred by noon.
31:20That's cool.
31:21You know, usually if it's a sunny day.
31:22Yeah.
31:23So it works.
31:24It's really efficient.
31:25I'm not running the star link.
31:26So that's the other, I mean, a star link will be that much more on top.
31:29You don't have star link.
31:30I haven't.
31:31No.
31:32Would you like one if you had the budget?
31:33Um, sure.
31:34Yeah.
31:35I wouldn't say no to that, but I just got the Iridium go, you know, it works good enough.
31:39It does WhatsApp and it gets me the forecast.
31:41Yeah.
31:42That's cool.
31:43Yeah.
31:44Very good.
31:45Yep.
31:46So, um, how much, so obviously, hopefully you're enjoying yourself.
31:48We discussed this the other day with the MGA, uh, cause you invested time, money,
31:52effort, all that passion and things like that.
31:54Um, but yeah, and we talk about this often just to give people a bit of a backgrounder
31:58who are watching the boat tour for the first time.
32:00You were more or less an accomplished mountain climber, which has lots of different disciplines.
32:05Uh, and then you've rolled over to sailing.
32:07Mm-hmm.
32:08But can I go, I'd never ask you the question.
32:10Had you ever sailed before?
32:11Was there ever sailing in the family and everything before the mountains?
32:14Um, no.
32:15So we-
32:16Nothing at all?
32:17Well, we were, we did boating.
32:18Yeah.
32:19So yeah, I had been boating my whole life.
32:20Yeah.
32:21From fishing on the Great Lakes to, uh, you know, bass fishing in Nevada.
32:24Yeah.
32:25And we, and I had worked, um, when I was younger on a tuna boat out of Hawaii.
32:30So anywhere from 40 to 400 miles offshore, we would go, we would go out for a week.
32:34Yep.
32:35And then fish and then a week back.
32:36Yep.
32:37So we'd be a week offshore, you know, and, and so I have plenty of offshore experience,
32:39but never on a sailboat.
32:40Yeah.
32:41Yeah.
32:42So I knew how to navigate.
32:43I knew how to dock a boat.
32:44I knew how to drive a boat and everything.
32:45Okay.
32:46But I just didn't know how to sail a boat.
32:47And so, um, yeah, one day, uh, I decided I was going to learn and I looked into sailing
32:53lessons to see how much they were.
32:54And I thought, oh, wow, those are expensive.
32:55I can just buy a boat for that price.
32:57So what'd you get?
32:58So I got a CNC 24, which is a little-
33:00Oh yeah.
33:01That's right.
33:02Great Lakes racer.
33:03Yeah.
33:04It was a 76.
33:05It was classic plastic.
33:06I like to say, but they made them really well back then, thick hulls and strong decks and good
33:10rigs.
33:11Yeah, absolutely.
33:12And it was a speedy little boat, man.
33:13Every time I went out, like nobody could catch me.
33:15So I felt like, uh, it was, it was a lot of fun.
33:19So yeah, I, I just taught myself basically.
33:21Uh, I didn't ever, the very first time I ever sailed my boat, I was single handed.
33:25Yeah.
33:26Yeah.
33:27First time I ever went sailing in my life, I was single handed.
33:28Yep.
33:29Okay.
33:30And so I just kind of went from there.
33:31And you've got a profound, uh, feeling for all the issues associated with safety and celestial
33:36navigation and so on.
33:38And I'll never forget when you turned up in Antigua, I had no idea.
33:41I'd seen your big struggles, you know, to drive the boat across and getting the boat
33:44built and you hadn't sailed it, you know, from the time you motor out the thing.
33:48Yeah.
33:49And I'm saying to James, I don't know about this guy, you know, he just, you know, anyway,
33:53um, and even to the point where we meet you, you know, and you've got the outboard
33:56there and you come in and stuff like that.
33:58It was like a day, first of all, I thought, geez, the boat's good.
34:01Yeah.
34:02He's got all the gear.
34:03Yeah.
34:04And then the next one, when we do the safety, cause it was happening straight away, you
34:06only just arrived.
34:07Yeah.
34:08You were so well organized.
34:09Yeah.
34:10So obviously, you know, and, uh, you know, there's a roll over there.
34:13If you're climbing on a mountain, you've got to get your kit right.
34:15Yep.
34:16You've got to plan, you've got to prepare, you've got strong self-discipline.
34:19Yep.
34:20It's shining on this, you know, like it's way out there.
34:22So, um, I'm not sure whether this is a question or a statement, but, uh, I can put it to you
34:27as a question.
34:28So obviously your mountain climbing experience has rolled over to the MGR because there are
34:33risks.
34:34Yes.
34:35This is a seriously risky circumnavigation.
34:36Yeah.
34:37You're all making it look too good.
34:38It's my biggest piss off at the moment.
34:39People just think it's a walk in the park and it's not.
34:42It's not.
34:43Can you quantify that a bit?
34:44Yeah.
34:45The, the, what I took from the years in the mountains was, um, uh, priority on self-reliance,
34:52you know, because in a lot of those places that we went, nobody was coming for you.
34:55You know, if something were to go wrong, you were a hundred percent on your own.
34:58So you always have to be thinking through, um, you know, what, what would I do if it went
35:03wrong?
35:04You know, even as you, as you're, you're watching your lead climber climb up and you're on belay
35:07or whatever, and you're halfway up the mountain face, you're thinking, okay, if you fell right
35:10now, what would I do?
35:11You know, I'd have to do this.
35:12I'd have to rig that.
35:13And so you're constantly kind of going through those steps in your mind and it kind of just
35:16prepares you mentally, uh, for, for any scenario, you know?
35:20So you're just always kind of thinking ahead and, and planning ahead for, you know, plan
35:25for the, uh, worst and hope for the best.
35:27Right.
35:28Yeah.
35:29Yeah.
35:30And so that, and then you're, like you said, being organized, knowing where everything is,
35:32you know, you have your backpacks, everything's perfectly packed, you know, exactly.
35:35If I have to reach in there and grab it, you know, right where it is, your hand can find
35:38it in the dark and that kind of thing.
35:40So yeah, it all really carries over.
35:41It all translates, you know, and we, we, like you say, we have made it look easy, but I
35:45promise it's not easy.
35:46Absolutely.
35:47You spend many nights laying awake, wondering, what the hell am I here doing this for?
35:51Am I doing it right?
35:52Basically.
35:53Yeah, exactly.
35:56Anyway, that's all very cool.
35:58It's a real credit to you.
35:59It's a credit.
36:00It's an amazing thing.
36:01You've got another interesting connection with B and B yachts, you know, who did the whole
36:04kit thing.
36:05And I didn't realize that connection until I see one of your posts and they're on the
36:09boat sailing.
36:10That's the first one they'd sort of seen.
36:11Yeah.
36:12Sailing.
36:13So that's pretty cool.
36:14You're probably watching this as well.
36:15Yeah.
36:16Where I launched it in North Carolina was Oriental.
36:17This is B and B. Just to, just to be clear, B and B did the 3D modeling, did all the kit,
36:23sort of CNC cutting file, all the graphics that people watch, you know.
36:27They're the North American kit supplier.
36:28Yeah.
36:29So if you're buying a kit in North America, it's going to come from them.
36:31And yeah, I launched it 15 miles from where they have their, their warehouse or their factory.
36:36Yeah.
36:37So I built the boat 4,000 miles away and I brought it to 15 miles away from where it was originally
36:42created.
36:43Yeah.
36:44And so yeah, they all came down and I got to take Graham out.
36:47Graham is the founder, one of the founders.
36:49Yeah.
36:50So he got to come out sailing and he's looking at the rig and he's telling me all the, he's
36:54like a, you know, he's got more sailing experience than probably five of us put together.
36:57Absolutely.
36:58Yeah.
36:59It was really, really a unique opportunity.
37:01And I was really honored to be able to do that.
37:03Yeah.
37:04They're a cool group of guys.
37:05Yeah, absolutely.
37:06And I really think they've had a, they've well and truly had an impact on the success of the
37:11class because I remember, you know, he said, okay, I did some research.
37:14I had a few different companies I could use to do the modeling.
37:17And then I thought, no, these guys look cool.
37:19Cause I liked their other boats as well.
37:21And, uh, so we started a relationship with some internet lover pair.
37:24Again, you know, you'd never really meet them, but you, you, you talk about things.
37:27They did it.
37:28And I, you know, we talked about what they would deliver and things like that, but geez,
37:33when they started doing all the video computer graphics and then the whole one hour tutorial,
37:38you know, Jane and I were watching all this and she said, geez, I want to build one.
37:41Exactly.
37:42I watched that tutorial probably a thousand times.
37:44I always had like 90,000 or nearly 90,000 views.
37:46And I've talked to Dan, Dan watched it hundreds of times.
37:49Oh yeah.
37:50Really they guided us through the whole thing.
37:51Just amazing.
37:52So, I mean, I'm not saying they did, they did it, but I, what I will say to everyone is that they
37:57had a big impact on the success of the whole thing.
38:00People trusted the build, you know, so when they see all that, it's all okay.
38:03Yeah.
38:04That looks easy.
38:05Yeah.
38:06It kind of, it kind of, like I said, it kind of breaks it down into its individual components
38:08and kind of lets you see step by step how it comes together.
38:11And you think, oh yeah, that is possible.
38:13Yeah.
38:14Yeah.
38:15Yeah.
38:16So thanks to BNB.
38:17Anyway, that's all cool.
38:18All right.
38:19I think we covered it.
38:20Anything else you watch?
38:21What's your, um, what do you think was the most, um, fun part about building the boat?
38:24Forget about sailing it.
38:25The fun part building it right up until launch sort of thing.
38:28So I would have to say probably either when I, uh, you know, put the, the whiskey plank
38:35on or whatever you want to call it, you know, and then you can see this boat, you know, it's
38:38a boat.
38:39It's a boat.
38:40Oh my gosh.
38:41You know, cause you put the frames up and you kind of get the shape of it and then you
38:42put the stringers in and you kind of get the, you know, it kind of takes shape step
38:45by step.
38:46And then you put the planking on and then you do the fiberglassing, which is horrible.
38:49Lots of sanding and fairing, but then you flip the boat over and you can actually climb
38:53inside of it for the first time and sit inside of it and look around.
38:56Yeah.
38:57It's a really cool moment for sure.
38:59Yeah.
39:00And then it kind of, uh, inspires you to keep going, you know, cause you think I've made
39:02it this far.
39:03Yeah.
39:04What do you think you'll do with the boat after it's all over?
39:06Um, well, we're not going to talk about that while it can hear me, but.
39:09Good idea.
39:10Yeah.
39:11Good idea.
39:12Forget that.
39:13Delete that section.
39:14I will probably, I'll probably have to put it up for sale if I can keep it together.
39:17Yeah.
39:18Absolutely.
39:19Just to try to recoup some costs from the whole thing, but it takes such good care of
39:22me.
39:23I don't want it to know that.
39:24That's funny.
39:25Cause we've had already had the scenario because I think of the, I think the, uh, the
39:28first transat, there was five of us.
39:29And I think all of us sold the boats after that, the first transat.
39:33Yeah.
39:34Because you build it for a purpose.
39:35That's it.
39:36You can afford to keep it.
39:37Right.
39:38You can't just let it sit there cause it's not good for the boat.
39:40Right.
39:41Exactly.
39:42Um, so it's not even a case of.
39:43Yeah.
39:44I mean, if I could, so all things considered, if I was dreaming and I was able to do it,
39:46I would want to do the R2 AK, which is a big race up in Seattle.
39:49Oh yeah.
39:50Just like that.
39:51Human powered only.
39:52You know, I reckon we could talk a few people into that.
39:54It would be a really cool boat for that race.
39:56Absolutely.
39:57Yeah.
39:58Yeah.
39:59Absolutely.
40:00It's light and it doesn't take a whole lot of wind to get it going, you know?
40:01Yeah.
40:02And it's, it's strong.
40:03So you won't get the bag of cash and ring the bell and stuff.
40:05Probably not.
40:06What the heck.
40:07Doesn't matter.
40:08It would be a fun boat to do that into.
40:09Absolutely.
40:10You know, if you could find another person as crazy as you are to stay up for days on
40:12end, you know, that kind of thing.
40:13Yeah.
40:14No, we, we thought about that at one stage.
40:15Yeah.
40:16Long time ago.
40:17Eventually I'm going to have to get a bigger boat so I can take the missus.
40:19Yeah.
40:20So I think she would insist on that.
40:23Yep.
40:24Absolutely.
40:25And she's coming here, right?
40:26Yeah.
40:27She'll be here in 10 days.
40:2810 days.
40:29Cool.
40:30Yeah.
40:31Okay.
40:32Thanks, Josh.
40:33It's really an inspiration for lots of different reasons.
40:36Yeah.
40:37And it's good to have a, you know, we say this with respect.
40:39It's good to have a yank in the race.
40:40Try to represent.
40:41I'm an Aussie.
40:42You know, full of ponds and yanks and buddy.
40:45Yeah.
40:46Anyway, here we go.
40:47All right.
40:48Fantastic.
40:49Spin this around here and we will say goodbye.
40:52So that's Skookum.
40:54A really nice boat.
40:56Um, and even though he's a mountain climber, he's a pretty good sailor too.
40:58So it's not bad.
40:59See ya.
41:00There we go.
41:01I'll see ya.

Recommandations