Idee inovatoare BALLAST pentru BARCA noastră cu vele salvată din lemn! — Sailing Yabá #95

32 thoughts on “Idee inovatoare BALLAST pentru BARCA noastră cu vele salvată din lemn! — Sailing Yabá #95”

1. Hey guys! We are getting many comments teaching us that those "wave-breakers" in the tanks are called baffles. Thanks a lot for teaching us a new word but… CAN WE ALL AGREE THAT "WAVE-BREAKER" SOUNDS A LOT COOLER THAN BAFFLE??? 😂

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WMNmSvoJkB4 Just some fun facts about us Vikings! 😉

3. Hmm, I think you might regret that ballast idea in future. One day you will want to sell Yaba, and buyers will reject it, or your price will drop like a ballast stone.

4. I have heard about granulated steel expand and damage stuff. I would suggest mixing it with linseed oil (in a cement mixer maybe) and fill the coated granulate into the pvc pipes…

5. 26:11 next up a kilt and an admission to the highland games…. oh yes laddy !

6. Wow, that is some very serious weight!!! Good job.

7. ✝🙏

8. I agree with these people! Pay a naval architect for advice. Our steel boat rusted from the inside because cement was used to contain the lead ballast which then caused corrosion.
   It's too awful if you get it wrong! ( ps – you are super people and doing so well)!

9. P.p.s. we only found out hull was rusted when tapping the outside of the hull with a chipping hammer when on the hard.
   The hammer went through the hull!

10. For heavens sake, will you please build a proper safe boarding stair before someone gets seriously injured. That rickety old hand made ladder is not safe especially for your dog.

11. Happy Birthday M P have a great day!!!

12. Baffles

13. you might be kajiggerd in the coco, steel and led and concrete sinks, if you use water and fuel for ballast, your boat will still float if you hit something

14. Hi MP &Ben I think that the community has some sound objections to the ballast method that you are thinking of ( breakage and leaking will create an awful mess ) concrete is a tried and true method . I don’t know if adding the metal shavings to the concrete would give you much added weight but ?
    I have been fascinated with your channel after watching your first trip to the yard you have continued to make good decisions as you feel your way towards the new Yaba . Yes you are continuing to create new seagoing terminology as you proceed keep going and I wish all good things for you .

15. Why you didnt use cement instead oil? I think is a better idea because you have a block that wont spread in case the plastic PVC breaks.

16. Happy belated birthday wishes MP!🥳🎂. Hope you had a nice day. We both celebrated our birthday last week. Xx

17. Why not concrete for ballast, cheap and easy to pour, fills voids well, will not rust… ect

18. Hi guys. Bit worried about your ballast. If water gets into them they will rust and swell drastically. And please make sure they are well secured to the deck, because they are round they will be rolling with the swell. And your cg will he drastically effected.

19. In the med the pipes are probably ok. I know here in the pacific the wave action will split them pretty quickly. Even just mild wave activity will chaff through water bags here. Strap them down tight👍

20. That rudder, lovely piece of wood, isn't it? And the size, you could almost use it as a dinghy.

21. Well since I'm not the only one, add my voice to those skeptical of the wisdom of your approach to ballast. Oil embrittles PVC over time, and the DWV (drain/waste/vent vs. pressurized) schedule PVC you have chosen doesn't have a lot of extra strength to begin with. The swelling of iron/steel as it corrodes is no joke either. If you stick with this, you need to be prepared to deal with the mess of oil/steel/rust sludge in your bilges. I'm not sure of the tannin levels in the local wood species you have chosen, but if any are like oak, it will react poorly to the presence of iron or iron laden water.

    I really hate that I am adding a negative comment, and would not do so if I didn't honestly feel that you are making a big mistake.

22. I used 25kilo bags of sand in my boat for ballast. Double bagged with thick builder bags. It's surprising how many you can get under the deck. They mould into shape and they wont shift or break in heavy seas. Cheap as well. I don't like the idea of plastic pipes filled with steel.

23. ….☝❤✌👍💪😁🇵🇭

24. Amazing…make sure you have good ventilation around the ballast…safe sailing.

25. There are tons of people in this comment section saying why this a bad idea so I won't bother. However, all I wish to add is make sure your ballast is secured, and I mean over kill levels of secured. You essentially made a number of battering rams that in a storm could knock a hole in your brand new boat.

26. Bags of quick creet buy the 80 lb bags soak them down with a hose let them set tell they dry and you have 80 lb chunks of concrete the size and shape of a bag of concrete

27. I don't know about all that weight in round tubes that will roll back and forth as the boat rocks and the more violent the sea gets the more they will rock and if you get to
    Literally tons of weight rolling even a little it will tear your boat apart if they move Long enough over the years it could open the seams in your haul

28. In English we would call them baffles , the are in tanks for the same reason

29. If you still have the boom on the mast you can hook a block and tackle on it or use a winch and lift the weight up like a small crane

30. Hey I've been watching you do this from the very beginning and I'm just curious how do you know it's waterproof? Like how will you know until you actually put it in the water that those seams between the planks are actually waterproof. Like is there any way to test it before you put the boat in the water? Or do you put the boat in the water and then just sort of deal with it as it happens? Like do you put the boat in the water and then find the leaks and then pull it back out of the water and fix the leaks? Curious nomadic minds want to know Lol!

31. When metal gets wet and start to rust, the rust create heat and it can start to burn. Make sure that it will be watertight !

32. You are building a bomb you need to calculate heat expansion and contraction

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