Episodul #117 Gandaci!

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1. Hey guys…may be a little late on this, but was the brush you used to clean the keel bolts made of stainless steel? If not, there may be a new source of rust if the bolts weren't completely cleaned before painting. Any idea what caused those small craters on the shoreline of your "nice quiet marina"?

2. Okay! A few words about fiberglass and blistering. This is complicated and I'm still oversimplifying a lot, but here goes anyway.

   There's a couple of different kinds of fiberglass resins. Mostly, there's epoxy resin fiberglass and polyester resin fiberglass. They each have roles. Polyester is what hulls is made out of mostly because a) it's cheaper b) you can keep it from curing fully by keeping it cool c) it's like a third the cost of epoxy and d) it's makes far less noxious fuming than epoxy. You can see the desirability of a and c in a great big thing like a hull pretty easily. The b part comes in that if you're building a boat, you might not get the whole thing out of a single mold. It's challenging to work with a 45' mold section; they get kinda heavy. So you can kind of build stuff up in smaller sections in a room kept cool until it's partly set, join up the sections with more resin and glass fabric, and then turn up the heat, at which point the polyester "wakes up" and finishes the curing. And you end up with a hull that's nearly as strong as if it were made a single piece.

   Epoxy doesn't let you do that. It's sticky so it's great for adhesion (even to cured polyester – the reverse isn't nearly as true). It cures under more conditions too. Warm is still better, but even in the cold, if you come back eight hours later, you're sticking fresh epoxy on cured epoxy, and you're not getting the "cured together" strength that you do with polyester. Polyester's lack of adhesion is also why you can't easily and well patch with it. It doesn't "stick" to cured versions of itself.

   The problem is that polyester is the stuff that dissolves a bit in water and makes an acidic byproduct that eats into more polyester. So if you get water trapped in it it just slowly eats away at itself and the water can't escape either, so it keeps going. And that's hull blistering. On hulls, you can paint the stuff to keep water away from it or you can gelcoat it (which is a little more flexible and a lot tougher, but also has to be done before the polyester cures (see the patching issue above). And both options work fine as long as nothing breaks their seal. (That's also why surveyors get so frowny about seeing cracks in gelcoat. If they go all the way through the gelcoat, there's your ingress point for water whenever the hull flexes with the swell and that's where blisters START.)

   Epoxy resin doesn't have THAT problem. It's intrinsically waterproof and water doesn't dissolve it at all. But it's a much bigger pain to work with on large chunks. A water tank isn't necessarily too large though, and on that scale, the cost difference isn't quite as savage on the wallet. So a water tank made from epoxy fiberglass is an entirely reasonable thing to see, even on a polyester fiberglass boat, and not even terribly hard to build your own once you've had a little practice.

3. Vin, How is it you have 64 followers on Instagram and not one pic? Your listed under sailingnervous1
   Do it! 😄

4. You really should be out of the water on the hard so that you can put a little bit of pressure on the keel so that way you can tighten the bolts!!!! My guess is they probably haven't been tightened in a very log time, looking at the condition. The last thing that you need is for them to be loose and off shore in some heavy conditions, because they could go south real fast, and turn you over in the blink of an eye!!!! Sorry but it should be a major concern of yours do to the age, and condition of the boat when you got her. They should be checked annually to proper torque, along with corrosion maintenance/replacement. I would have that taken a look at by a pro, I really don't like the look of it at all, I have replaced them in far better shape especially the plate! Best of luck to you both.

5. Use a flip flop. That advent stuff works great in my house. Gotta do it once every month or so depending on the season.

6. Hey Vin, check out this table leg, Mads from sail life seem to like it? https://youtu.be/lOZsFMOU8Pg

7. Hilarious! Aimee the nurse! Got a jar of piss? No problem. A bug? OMG!
   Should have put in some "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" music while cleaning the bilge. 😊
   You guys are fun to watch from the start because people are learning from all your mistakes. Thanks for the efforts!

8. Hi Both, great video as usual but whilst seeing you do all this stuff is interesting you really need to reward yourselves by actually putting those sails up, switching off the engine and listening to the water swishing and gurgling along your boat…no better sound… promise! ..yes its a bit scary, as skipper, for the first time, but in no time you will be using the engine as little as possible 🙂

9. folks they fly keep screen in place set out a raid bomb come back in 2 hours bugs gone

10. +1 for replacing those keel fasteners pronto, they are really ugly. I've seen less badly corroded nuts and backing plates fail without warning. Is your keel iron or lead? There are a variety of keel fastening techniques used by builders; stainless nuts on 'J' studs cast into the keel (lead keels), galvanised nuts on threaded rods tapped into the keel (iron keels), galvanised bolts tapped directly into the keel (iron keels). Looks like yours fall into the first or second category. In either case they are in need of some serious attention. Surprised they weren't flagged during the pre-purchase survey?

11. It always amazes me that women can rip the hair from their bodies by the roots, but totally freak out when it comes to a bug. 😊 AWESOME videos.

12. Lololol that is so funny lololol. and the background music makes it even better!

13. What are you replacing your old hot water heater with?

14. I was wondering when that was gonna happen. Here is a trick : cardboard boxes are called cardboard hotel for a reason. do not get any cardboard boxes on your boat. that includes why you do not board cans with paper labels where roach lay eggs. labels where roaches lay eggs… that is why you do not drink from pop cans . That is why you see 'the stupid fancy aluminum paper over Pellegrino water cans. How dumb does it look now? NEVER accept a Pellegrino can that does not have the "bug protection' aluminum cover.
    You are entering Caribbean water!

15. You need to watch the movie Joe's apartment very funny movie about roaches

16. I'm with her its NOT OK I hate Frickin Coachroaches you need to toss a fog bomb in there and close it up for at least four hours

17. haha thats not okay =)

18. Yikes! I want to thank both of you for your marine survey videos. My wife and I have signed a purchase agreement for an Endeavor 32 contingent upon a survey by Ken Henry. After watching your videos it was clear he was the person to use. We're keeping our fingers crossed that Ken gives her a clean bill of health. Best of luck in your continuing adventures! I love watching the videos.

19. Loved the great Roach hunt and Amy. Hope to see you again when you get back to Charleston.

20. I LAUGHED OUT LOUD!!!! Another excellent vide……

21. I forgot to mentioned, we call cardboard boxes roach-hotels, we never brought a cardboard box from a store on the boat, also you can tear the labels off the cans etc especially when the labels are not completely glued to the cans, roaches put their eggs in the little spaces under the labels, do that on the dock.
    In salt water it is much less of a problem, the salt dust get everywhere and if you have roaches they will die walking on the salty surfaces.

22. Be careful with Deet. It's a solvent and will melt plastic.

23. Borax blended w glycerine dabbed in corners is one solution. Also if inclined read up on HMS Rattlesnake which surveyed the Queensland coast back when. They actually sank the boat twice to get rid of cockroaches!

24. Next time you're cleaning rust consider using evaporust… (liquid which you could have poured on the top of the rusty bilge)

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