CarterKraft
Red Skull Member
Did y'all watch the video?
Pretty well addresses all the trim/ballast issues.
Pretty well addresses all the trim/ballast issues.
link to videoDid y'all watch the video?
Pretty well addresses all the trim/ballast issues.
if it is an unlisted youtube video you can just link it for usHave to be a supporter to see it early.
I send him $12/year well worth it too me.
austinNow look at that below the water line and also understand that it isn't built for a sail as well.
Yeah yeah, big tall sides etc.
As much as I would love to do that I think that would violate the spirit of Doug allowing any price donation to achieve Patreon status.if it is an unlisted youtube video you can just link it for us
No one cares enough to feed the drama queen more money. Let us know if that bitch sinks..As much as I would love to do that I think that would violate the spirit of Doug allowing any price donation to achieve Patreon status.
Similar to the fireball vise thread, buy the plans for $5 and Panzer will build the parts.
Which is why I send him $12 directly, not through Patreon.or just being opposed to throwing money at patreon's political views
I kind of skipped
did I see him struggle to pull the anchor with that winch?
if so that is going to be a problem![]()
He's so fucking hard headed he probably had 10 people tell him how to size that motor but he didn't listen... Or he never put oil in the winch, been there done that...I think he was running only on the VMAC. The main engine has a bigger pump that should be sized for the windlass.
Edit: Derp. Hadn't made it to the end of the vid yet. Seems like it's an undersized motor on it.
If it was at the beginning, he had a valve open or closed that wasnt supposed to be and wasn't building pressure properly.I kind of skipped
did I see him struggle to pull the anchor with that winch?
if so that is going to be a problem![]()
That was why the deck crane didn't work, of course he can't/won't label ANY valves because someone on the internet told him he needed to.If it was at the beginning, he had a valve open or closed that wasnt supposed to be and wasn't building pressure properly.
Aaron Z
I see that now.That was why the deck crane didn't work, of course he can't/won't label ANY valves because someone on the internet told him he needed to.
It's a fools errand to say some of the shit he does.I see that now.
Why would you want to label valves, it couldn't be important to know what valves do in the dark when you're half asleep because you're 36 hours into a storm with 2 hours of sleep and things are broken...
He should really have every line (air, hydraulic, water, etc) tagged with what it contains, flow direction, pressure (for hydraulics at least, whether it's high pressure or return to tank) and where it comes from / goes to.
Aaron Z
Floats and moves, niceFrom FB. Apparently they're already headed down river and passing through the locks:
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Exactly, it seems like he's gone about doing many things in whatever way he thinks is good without paying attention to why you don't normally do things that way on a boat.It's a fools errand to say some of the shit he does.
I am a supporter for what it's worth but some of the shit is just dumb.
Watch him flip 50A in-feed breakers across from each other on the electric load center.
A simple tie bar interlock he could make in 5 minutes might keep him from destroying several thousand $ worth of equipment but he takes this position that competent men don't need it.
It will be interesting to see if some of his positions have changed after actually going sailing, getting his ass kicked and finding out he gets sea sick really easily.
He's so fucking hard headed he probably had 10 people tell him how to size that motor but he didn't listen... Or he never put oil in the winch, been there done that...
I mean Tusla winch is in Tulsa... How could you not size it to pull a 200 lb load?
Every hydraulic winch truck I have been around or involved in building had a motor about 4 times that size.
Exactly, it seems like he's gone about doing many things in whatever way he thinks is good without paying attention to why you don't normally do things that way on a boat.
The anchor hoist is a great example, it shouldn't be overly difficult to figure out what the weight of the anchor is going to be and how much force it will take to lift it up when the drum is full to the outside, multiply that by 2 to account for friction or being stuck on the seabed and use that to size your hydraulic motor.
From what I understand it's supposed to be some kind of boat where you can rent time to do scientific research at sea (although given that he is running a YouTube channel, perhaps part of the experiment is how much people will pay to watch people do stupid things at sea?)? Not sure I'd want to entrust any kind of expensive equipment to that boat.
Aaron Z
It's a fools errand to say some of the shit he does.
I am a supporter for what it's worth but some of the shit is just dumb.
Watch him flip 50A in-feed breakers across from each other on the electric load center.
A simple tie bar interlock he could make in 5 minutes might keep him from destroying several thousand $ worth of equipment but he takes this position that competent men don't need it.
It will be interesting to see if some of his positions have changed after actually going sailing, getting his ass kicked and finding out he gets sea sick really easily.
Everyone on this sit should know that "normal" includes a hell of a lot of baked in assumptions about labor costs, regulatory compliance, materials cost and other things that don't apply in the slightest when you're building a 1-off from fairly fluid plans using free labor and whatever material is cheap/available in the minute.Exactly, it seems like he's gone about doing many things in whatever way he thinks is good without paying attention to why you don't normally do things that way on a boat.
Man you aren't wrong. The comments on those videos are from some real winners.To be fair, the internet is full of experts that don't know shit about fuck. Just look at the comments on every one of his videos or FB posts (or anything about anything posted on the 'net). Hell, just look as the Askey Macballgargle threads on PBB and how many experts in life there were.
If the worst thing you have to deal with after 13 years of building a boat is a simple hydraulic motor swap, I wouldn't call that too bad.