Hey Doug, just wanted to let you know I've been binge watching your boat playlist. I'm half way through. You see I'm a maker and a doer, I shared some of my projects. But, I've recently been disabled with an unknown auto immune disorder effecting my muscles and joints. I'm not able to walk to my shop anymore, But at least I'm able to make it to the couch and watch your videos. Your videos help occupy my time and give me inspiration. I just turned 41 and have 2 kids and a wife so I have to beat this and get back to what I love. What you are doing is bigger than you'll ever know. Thank you. and keep telling me to get off the couch. 😀

" A government that figures out how to get things done, is the government you want" That quote would make a great t-shirt. Or campaign slogan. Keep up the great content.

@nessuno1948

3 жыл бұрын

A very rare one........

Coast guard: Sir we need to inspect your boat. Doug: Boat, what boat? This sir is a trailer! Look here's my license plate!

@waynep343

3 жыл бұрын

i have to laugh having a run in with the CG after the captain pulled a wide turn and almost took the bows off 2 coast guard boats tied to their station dock. the entire station crew ended up on the harbor masters dock with their heads in the port holes. then the words came out of their mouths. can we go aboard and do a safety inspection. i can't repeat what i said.. but i managed to Bogart a dozen coast guards men from going aboard and doing a safety inspection. back story.. we were heading to be hauled to replank the bottom. 7, 2" pumps running more time on then off. the generator set had just overheated and died.. steam pouring out of the engine room port hole was a big tell. it was a heck of a 3 day trip.. when i got home my mom was there.. after spending 45 minutes telling her of what happened.. she looked at me and said you sure spin a good yarn. my broken nose and big lump on my forehead did not prove my case. as we were coming into the dock. i was standing on the base of the boarding ladder. there was probably 3 feet of water in the back of the boat.. the boarding ladder seemed to be higher than normal. i stood there while we drifted in closer.. i leapt off the boarding ladder.. i was so tired i fell asleep mid jump.. it was almost 4 feet of drop.. i hit the concrete dock with my toes and managed to catch myself in a push up stance but still broke my nose and got a big lump on the head. i am laying there on that nice cool concrete watching the boat drift toward the boat in front of us.. got up and ran the 40 feet to the rear line.. got it around the dock cleat. ran forward about 70 feet and tied off there. . forward to the bow lines.. back to more stern lines. and a lot more running to hook up 2 shore power lines..

The great thing about knowing people that know more than you do, is they have already failed where are you can succeed!! Love you Brother!!

Over the years I've watched this boat come together from flat steel plates to pretty much complete. It's been a joy going along for the ride. Many times we watched you fail, fail again, and one more time, but you never quite trying, and I'm fond of the quote that goes something like this: "Doug has not failed, he found 4, 5...10 ways that won't work." Many people would've given up, or not even tried. That's a shame. You taught us something very important- you can do anything if you put your heart into it, and your project doesn't have to follow the rules. If it doesn't fit/work, you figure out how to make it fit/work. I'm hoping to make the launch party. I'll move mountains if I must. Thank you for sharing such a fantastic journey with us. You've already changed lives and the best is yet to come.

I bet you can't sleep at night with all the excitement.

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

Fortunately I am sleeping like a rock.

Well Doug, I've been watching you from the very beginning and your almost near launch, You must be so excited, congrats bud.

Your dive compressor is making be very jealous! Let me know if you need a dive buddy who's good in poor viz! ;)

@daynapper7337

3 жыл бұрын

Two of my favorite boat gods!

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

Deal!

@jeremykamel9655

3 жыл бұрын

Nice Stu LOL!

Pro tip for wiring: label the wires at every point they come in and make a connection with a wiring number sticker. You then can put the numbers that you used on the wiring diagram for that box that you keep in your documentation. Sorry to say that you are going to want paper and digital wiring diagrams for each box, Doug, but for trouble shooting and making modifications, including Jerry-rigging in emergencies, those diagrams will come in handy and make the work of those that are trained to read them much faster.

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

You come on board, and that job is yours.

@KnightsWithoutATable

3 жыл бұрын

@@SVSeeker Do you have video documentation for the wiring or is every box going to need to be probed and tested to figure it out?

@KnightsWithoutATable

3 жыл бұрын

@@Brian-mp6bg Yeah, that is why you have copies of the wiring diagrams in physical form, because it is going to break down at the worst possible time, in the worst conditions, and you are not going to have time to troubleshoot a vital system without a wiring diagram while under those conditions, let alone spend the time to figure out how it works by probing or watching a video of how you put it together. Electrical systems aren't like hydraulics or pneumatics. Those systems are much simpler to understand and troubleshoot with just a working knowledge of their functions. There is also the safety issue of having a live panel open while you are probing it while the sea plays 5 year old in the bathtub with your ship.

Sir this channel has been a TRUE inspiration to life itself it’s now hitting me we are really almost there!!!! Thank you so much for the years of positive and fresh outlook, from the WALKER family thank you again RESPECT N LOVE 💪

Launch day is sweeping up on ya. It’s been one hell of a journey and it’s only about to begin fullfilling the promise. Awesome any way you slice it.

the clear piping really is a nice touch to the system

its stunning what you have managed to pull together. Wow, just wow.

Truly a miracle what you’ve accomplished. One day at a time .

19 days I can't wait to see sv seeker on its way to the port of katusa

I remember digging a hole in your back garden for the pumpkin seeds I brought and finding some of the largest worms I have ever seen! I thought they could be snakes 😬🙈🙌 amazing progress Doug!! So excited to see Seeker getting ready for water!! 🙌🙌

Love that making the VIN tag...fantastic milestone congrats! I've applied for four of them over the years with the small boats I've built from scratch and enjoyed that step.

Starting to get Real with Tags on the trailers. Good to hear that there is another State that will work with you to get the job done. Georgia issued me a tag for my Triumph TR3 and a year later when I went to renew it they had no record of my tag. It only took then a couple of days to get it sorted out.

I wish I could be there when you launch this ship but I'm definitely going to be watching it.

so close to launch, cant wait to see her sailing down the river

Wow so so close to the moving day. I’m excited, how excited must Doug be feeling.

Such a cool boat. I hope I eat my words on your Allison.

I have a gasoline-powered Coltri compressor aboard. Single loudest tool/implement/machine I have ever owned. Imagine the loudest Harbour Freight 3000W generator you ever heard, then add the compressor noise to it. Suffice to say, it gets used only when necessary, and when I am anchored fairly far away from neighbours.

This is the coolest boat build that I've watched 🔥🔥

gettin excited.

Gettin close....

I will and I have considered moving to Oklahoma👍

I hear water lapping. Seeker is getting closer everyday to the big splash. Great work people.

Man Doug I was going to and had it all planned out, but a new job building Cadillac's in Arlington, TX will keep me busy this August. Unless I build them so fast my parts will be pre-installed! 😉 #GM

Max-Air is a good company to work with I bought a Mil-surplus compressor and Alan helped me get it up and running and trouble shoot whenever I have errors . The guy knows the manual by heart. This is how companies thrive, by giving excellent customer service even if they don't stand to make huge profits from you.

Scrolled through the comments a little and didn’t see it mentioned, that breaker is a motor rated breaker. It protects from both short circuit and over current. You will want it set the dial for either the Full load amps of the motor or the FLA plus the service factor (usually what I set it at when doing a start-up).

Jacksonville, AL DMV is like that as well. They get you in and out, great people that work there and don't waste people's time.

Yuz guys is fkn AWESOME. Can't wait till you drop her in the water.

It‘s not just bureaucracy it‘s a bunch of people help with what is necessary for you to get your job done - that‘s what government is meant to be. The great phrase of this episode :)

What great job soon she be in water. God Speed.

IMPORTANT.... Regarding the sensor... I'm not picking fault with whatever brand etc.. From experience the plastic threaded part will fail.. at the point between the thread and where it looks like a washer.. it cracks .. might be because of impact or old age or undoing or overtightening etc.. causing a 2 inch hole fountain .. ...... Solution.. I like actual sea chests.. instead of loads of through hulls.. With sensors some people have made sea chests.. or... The aim of this modification is to severely reduce water if sensor pops .. Make an adapter that will clamp on to through hull and be larger in diameter than the wire sticking out of the sensor .. made so that a pipe can be jubilee clipped to it.. and the other end of the pipe has a cap also jubileed on with a hole for the wire... You said there are other sensors.. do same.. also an external guard if any are outside the line of the hull... Do you have the correct bung on strings next to each through hull? Regards Mark.

@samross8274

3 жыл бұрын

These through hulls are notorious for leaking 👎👎👎

I'm happy you got a competent elexchicken to look at your amateur attempt. +1

Yeah Oklahoma get it done 👍

OKLAHOMA 💝 for road department ingenuity 😁

CAN'T WAIT TO SEA IT IN WATER!!!

GASP efficient government??!! WOW that is pretty cool! Keep rolling along!!

I had a leaky old wood boat with a flat head 6 chrysler crown engine in it. I used to use the raw water engine water pump to get the water out of the hull.It would pump ish 300 gallons out pretty dam fast. I had one of those plastic water pumps in the bilge but it was crummy and generally ran the battery dead when I was not there.

My grandpa was an Okie And he knew how to get things done!

I work at the old Cornwall Iron mine in Lebanon, PA. Our earthworms are ferrous.

Sometimes a boat trailer is just that, a boattrailer .. nothing complicated about it!

You are lucky. In Alabama you have to take the trailer to the dmv for the person to walk out and verify that the numbers on title and trailer. No mater the size. Like would literally have to haul that baby down there

Make sure your dive tanks are current on visual and hydro inspection.

if you ever go around wooden roller coasters look out for the long bolts with 40 washers stacked on everyone has at least 10

Take the top of old scuba tank off cut 3/4 down screw some thing in the top to hang it and some thing in side to make it ring

@markayers5397

3 жыл бұрын

we have done this as ar.. and they do ring like a bell. I guess because they are

They got to try to keep people there some how. Lol 😆

hi will you be filming the boat move to the water? looking forward to seeing that

Please save those license plates. Got to decorate the deckhouse somehow.

@FrozenHaxor

3 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminshropshire2900 Trailer is gonna be cut up and scrapped.

love that speed/depth/temp sensor. never thought you may need a speedo on a boat. all clever stuff....

Hi Doug. It will be interesting to see how long your Airmar Temp, Depth and Speed log lasts. There is an issue with these where the temp fails very quickly we are now on our third one in 5 years. The fail mode is the temp sensor shows hotter and hotter temp and re calibration does not work. First one of ours failed at 9 months. Second at 18 months. Quick google will show you you need to carry a spare. Sail Safe mate. Ant, Cid & the pooch crew.

I think you need longer bolts for your license plate.

Any plans to mount a few cameras on seeker for the move?

Government that works... Crazy.

OVERALL JUST DAMN IMPRESSIVE. DONE MADE MY RESERVATIONS....

So is your boat trailer a ‘bailer’ or a ‘trout’. Lol. Great video as always.

you got to put a little fish tank up in the piolets house so when you are on the ocean if you catch a real looker you can have a friend on the ride with you

@mikeznel6048

3 жыл бұрын

Piolets? What's that?

Save Ferris!

Looks like you are practicing for repairs in the developing world where availability is 90% of the challenge when it comes to fixing/building anything.

OK GET BRUSHED UP CAPTAIN WHO ARE YOU GOING TO MARRY FIRST ON THE SV SEEKER?

I’m in NC and I can’t get pvc fittings either.

Don't forget to run the air intake for your dive compressor somewhere it can get some clean fresh air, otherwise you're going to get fumes and nasty funk in your air tanks.

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

I was just going to connect them to the black water tank vent.

@edwardnigma2216

3 жыл бұрын

@@SVSeeker Sounds like a wonderful idea for guests you never want to see again! :D

I didn't understood, when is the date of launching?

Just because I have to ask,You are going to film boat first going in water right?

The plastic transducer that you installed in the last hole in the boat will be nothing but problems in the future Doug change it out for a brass one it will break and sink your boat ask the many that it has happened to

If there is NO ARROW ---> The foils on the pully (flywheel) also indicate which way it's supposed to spin. The air is supposed to blow towards the compressor.

@mattgross2745

3 жыл бұрын

if no one switched the wiring in the motor box it would go the right way no matter the in coming power. its not a 3 phase motor. you would have to switch the start wires around 5 and 8

Hey Doug , you have built a highly complicated boat BUT if you are taken ill can anyone else understand all the systems and valves you have installed. It's a ball ache to do it but you perhaps need an SV Seeker manual outlining all of the parts and which pumps does what etc etc..

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

No I don't think so. Matt was in there today and figured out the entire DC system without a single label. If you need labels or a manual then you are not ready to operate that system. And there are plenty of books and videos to teach you how DC systems work. Get busy.

I'm sure I must have missed it, but have you procured/made a ship's bell?

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

One of my crew got us one.

Did they license it as an rv 😳

Let me know if you need pvc fittings I’d be glad to send some

Doug have you seen the channel "Dive TALK", If not it might help educate you on diving and things you didn't think of that they might need.

Hello, when you taped off for the coal tar epoxy, did you notice if the CTE 'crept' under the tape? I'm using best lumberyard tape but CTE creeps under it. I have a task that I'd like a decently crisp edge. If you didn't have any problem with 'creep', do you recall the type or brand of masking tape? Thanks.

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

We used regular painters tape and there is some creep but not enough that I care. Most of the problem is simply the roughness of the steel plate and the texture of the paint.

I used to get near foot long earthworms. Then it didn’t rain for weeks and they buggered off

where at the port will it launch? the port is big. Also how the hell did you get into the tag office without a damn appointment lol?

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, there is no admittance to the port docks to view the actual launch. And this is Oklahoma. The general feeling is that if you are not vaccinated, we don't care. Your choice, your consequences.

6:07 Hey doug, the guy from smarter everyday is called Destin not Devin. Keep up the good work

Better Every Day Doug... hmm isn't that a YT Channel too ?!

You didn't just know what wires went where? Man almost like a label might be necessary? Nah, if you don't know what you're doing just don't mess with it.

Destin* from Smarter Everyday

By the time this boat is finished global warming and rising sea levels will have brought the water to the boat.

Were is the dive compressor getting its clean air feed?

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

Just tied it into the blackwater tank.

@theessexhunter1305

3 жыл бұрын

@@SVSeeker Sounds like a plan...lol

😁

forget the calendar look at your watch,

80% of the work goes by reasonably easy, but that last 20% is an 80% effort of its own and is much harder to close out.

Yepper that's what we need to hear a government working for us not for each other praise the Lord Oklahoma Must Be Heaven

epoxy on pvc will fail in short time only pvc glue it gets brittle incorrect bond sorry ive seen it

Please no more ads

@SVSeeker

3 жыл бұрын

So I should do all the work and you should be able to watch for free? Tell me more about your fairytale world. : )

Zombie Epoxy-Lipse

I appreciate the work the went into this. Me, though... I”d have bought a smaller boat and spent the last 10 years sailing, but I'm just a navy man, not a real sailor, so what do I know?

"What Did You Make Today?" Actually, I've made a few things that I took pictures of, but have not got around to sending in yet. MY bad... a coupla things: was totally unaware that "magnetic earthworms" was a thing... WOW, that was out of LEFT FIELD... absorbing that will eat most of my day, today... More (Most) importantly, I would so dearly, dearly, dearly love to go to the launch party at Catoosa Port-- or a least to the little event in September. We had to move (landlord selling the house), which cost three arms and four legs, more than two weeks to move, and has caused more havoc than a hurricane hitting Mobile, AL (where I live). Money (and Arms, and Legs), tapped-out. Any suggestions from anyone how I can do this for a nickel? Not begging, just asking for suggestions...

Don't forget to put the plug in or you'll be seen on broncos guru's bonehead boater of the week.

I have never been to a dot that did not just want more money... Must be nice.

Oh man what a dream it would be to have a government that works for its people rather than the Vogon run 《opinion suppressed》 we have here.

You can make standard fit metric, said NASA *never* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

have a few of those pumps on-hand. Those stupid electronic float switches die all the time. I went through 3 sump pumps at my house that all had those electronic switches. EVERY one of them the pump was fine, the switch died. I could have replaced the switch...for around $90, or get a new pump, under warranty, for free. Yea, I chose the pump. The last one that died they said "Sorry, we don't carry the one with the electronic float switch anymore...we were seeing dozens a month come in so we stopped carrying them, we will swap it for a mechanical switch"....9 years and still going with that mechanical switch pump... Trailers are "easy" where I am...well, if our Secretary of State was open, but yea...we have a moron for a governor, and a bigger one as a SOS. Normally you go in, say "I need a plate for a trailer" and it's done, even if you wanted something to haul 80 Ton, except THERE you pay a onetime ~$100 heavy haul fee....so it's easy here, except you can't get into the SOS to do it...because "covid"...

yes yes, move to OK its a much nicer state for everyone, don't move to WA... its "terrible" just ask all the folks leaving here... (no really DON'T MOVE HERE)

Your earthworm refused the Covid shot. 😂

The zombie epoxylypse...