Sailing the world to see the world! We're a couple of high school sweethearts in our late 30's that have been on the move for 9 years; creating videos of the ups, the downs, our triumphs and our trials.
After circumnavigating the North Atlantic in our last boat Serendipity, (1989 Sabre Targa 34), we took on a 2 year complete refit of our new boat Elements of Life - a custom aluminum 37' monohull. After sailing her to the Arctic, we sold her in 2020 to begin our newest project of building a 42 ft catamaran.
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That interior view of the cabin really brought home to me the incredible progress you have both made.
First time I’ve been back for a while WOW she has come on so much keep up the great work Steve
Why didn't Matt install the track before glassing that area? Access there seems to be very tight now.
I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but you need to speed up your process, as you are losing your audience. So after fast forwarding these last three episodes (I always give a Thumps Up), especially both of yours "three itch"comment, I now understand what you are doing just like they do in land real estate. I call it, "Flipper's"; buy it, fix it, sell it. In this case you bought the bones of the boat, and you are finishing it on your own. You'll probably sail it for a year and then flip it for something else. How did I do? I do enjoy the detail explanations, but you all are soon reaching your 40's. I sure hope the boat is done before that happens. Life goes by too fast to waste this much time in what you are trying to achieve. I'm 78 and I always as some of my friends, "when is enough, enough". By the time you finish this project, you'll be in the "upgrading mode".🙂
Slowly but surely..gettin done. Thanks Jess and Matt.
Often taking on help means you instruct, they work. ie you, who are the most skilled, most motivated, stop being productive.
That pink foam your using around the freezer is XPS, it will absorb water over time, you would be better off using EPS, Expanded Polystyrene.
How do you decide when to paint and when to gelcoat?
You got a thumbs up just for the title of this video.
I have to say, it’s nice to see someone who cares about doing quality work! It’s not only you home, it’s a boat you’re trusting to keep you safe in some of the harshest conditions on the planet. Perfect is close enough! I hope to see you out there. I’d love to come see your boat on my way back through the Chesapeake, in the fall.
Just let us know and we can schedule a time to visit.
Holding ❤
Jessica, Take your cove scraper to the hardware store and match it's diameter up with some big pvc pipe and get a scrap 1 or 2 foot piece... Cut it with a chop saw and segment it to fit your band's grip size. It makes a great sanding or scraping tool for blended coves and it's sometimes free for the asking. You only need a piece 2.5 to 3.5 inches long to fit most hands...that
Crushing it 💪💪
Great Job!!! Thank You... :-)
Gradually all the green board is disappearing. The attention to detail will be worth it in the end. Lazy days in the catamaran you’ll be reminiscing about the time everything was covered in white dust. All the very best to you both Great video
This is way late to the party, but I wonder if you considered filling those spaces below the floor panels that are not going to hold machinery with expanding foam. I know it would be more weight, but if enough of them were filled, would it not make the boat essentially unsinkable if you ever took on water? Also, if it was filled, would it not prevent ever having water in a bilge area you can't access to pump it out?
The trapped air is more buoyant than foam. So as long as a few of the 96 enclosed areas remain airtight, the hull would remain afloat. In fact, the core of this boat alone is enough to float it. The floor also acts as a secondary hull, so if I ripped off the bottom, it would prevent water from getting into the living space and this would also float the boat.
I hope you have a way to stay cool. It's about to get hot around here!
trap door for Jessica
Looks good - keep up the good work
Hi guys been watching you before you started building your boat. I admire your dedication and commitment to do it properly and thoroughly. No shortcuts. Keep up the good work, I too had learned a lot just by watching your vlog.
Heard an interesting analogy: half the people who see what you've built won't pay the slightest attention to it; half of the remainder will admire what you built and think it's awesome and the final fourth will think you are brilliant with how you've fixed the issues you show them. That leaves the group of people who are negative ; which is you.
A jack a lit
Based on the progress im guessing another 2yrs before she is in the water there is still alot of work to do in the electrical mechanical stuff.
I like the small details you taking care off....I hope you will have a long summer and progress .....
Once the door and windows are in, this is like almost finished 😎
Ignore the "hurry up and splash" comments, very interested in seeing what is involved in a significant boat build. Be encouraged.
Customize your boat to fit your needs.That's the ultimate goal of any DIY operation.
Sooooo many details and such a process of not creating problems for your future selves. Thanks for your sharing, particularly of the bits no-one else will see when this is all white on a blue ocean.
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Hey guys great job on the boat build. And if I can, let me say that you don't know anybody any explanation for how you guys are putting together your home something that you're going to be in for years. Those of us that have been down this road can appreciate you taking your time showing your patience and doing it right from the get-go instead of trying to go back later and fix things that you skipped over. So good luck be safe have fun, and we're all looking forward to Splash day❤❤❤😊😊
Watching you and the RAN family. Wonder who will finish first? Ooh a race!
Good work and very detailed craftsmanship. I wonder how it compares the factory boats.
❤ the videos. Bit by bit it's coming together. Like your approach to building the catamaran. It will be unique. Can't wait till your sailing it.
You are doing an excellent job. Not many people can say they built a performance catamaran, much less documenting it for us to all enjoy and cheer you on. I can see how your skills have grown throughout this build and the fit and finish of the boat will benefit from that in spades. Wishing you well and thanks for sharing your journey.
Your boat will be far superior quality than those built in Vietnam
These people stressing about you guys splashing makes me laugh. Sailing yaba just splashed, and they had a TEAM of shipwrights working on their boat, and it took them 3 years, and it's still not actually done. You guys are doing just fine!
Out of all the catamaran builds on KZread , yours is the only one I worry about floating !
I hope you are trying to say you are hugely enamored by Jessica, Matt & Georgie and want nothing but the best for them. Yes, that must be it.
Delos, Nahoa, Odisea, are years long SV cruisers, with what they have seen, are building aluminum metal performance catamarans for their long term safety, for cruising speed, light air sailing, ventilation panaramic view and living space. The northern European motor yacht builders, Lurssen, Heesen, Feadship and Amel, will build yachts in aluminum or steel, and they do, for sheiks or anybody, but they prefer to build the hull in the water out of steel and the superstructure out of aluminum, joined by a part called Treclat, that is steel on the bottom fused to aluminum by an expolsion, so that the steel hull is welded to the bottom side and the aluminum superstructure is welded to the upper side. That fits with my seeing an 85 foot beautiful Whitbread, around the world racer, that had at the waterline and below Swiss cheese holes in the hull, some all the way through, that the multimillionaire owner was unable to prevent. I know you have mentioned replating about a 4x8 foot section of your bottom and several other aluminum cruisers have also done so. Since a multihull does not need to be canoe shaped as monohulls need, I have come up with a design that 25 feet of the hull are just the bottom half of a circle, for the minimum surface area for the displacment. I started with the 48 foot Mumby, because the extensive specifications are available. The widest hull width at the waterline is 3 feet 10 and 1/2 inches. There are metal tank manufactures here in Florida that will roll a 3 foot diameter tank without ends and that cut in half will be the below water line hull bottom for 25 feet of the hull. the fineness ratio is 19 to 1, width to waterline length. Knowing that the hull shape will not have to push the water 5 and a quarter inch as far on both sides of the hull and 5 and a 1/4 inch down as well, necessitates a longer waterline length to displace the weight and I know the added length will add weight, but performance cats are narrower and the longer waterline adds speed as well, noting even the ARC race from the Canarie islands to Antigua, has the longer hulled non-performance Lagoons closer to the 13 day finish than the 22 day finish. The biggest shock came when I found 4x8 x 1/8 inch steel sheet for sale here in Florida for $15.70 and 4x8 6millimeter aluminum for $550, 31 times more than steel. I am a born and raised Michigander also but I am 81 years old and running out of time, so I need someone to turn some of these ideas over to, even though they will be a back burner item. Contact me, if you wish, at [email protected] --386-247-3099, I can send drawings, and pictures. Oh, Yanmar has a 36 Hp diesel outboard for $534. Jamie from Jupiter say they only use their motors for manuvering in marinas and anchorages. No prop and shaft drag while sailing and two less hull holes with easy engine in and out for repairs.
All aluminium materials are not created equal! There's Selium and Alustar amongst other grades. Work and expedition boats are in alloy for a reason. Mixing it with steel is suicide! Even Chris White admits aluminium is excellent - it's just a case of knowing how to treat it. Most of the anti-alloy arguments are potential problems that apply equally to carbon fibre.
A 19 to 1 length to beam ratio is extreme. This could be good at 20 knots of boat speed, but will slow you down in light winds due to greater wetted area for a given displacement. A slightly fatter hull would be better for a cruiser. Mixing steel hulls with aluminum superstructure can work well if you "know how to treat it" and is not suicide. See Bering Yachts in Turkey for examples of this being done with great success. $534 for a 36 horsepower outboard seems unbelievably cheap. Is this really true? $5340?
What an awesome job ..I am constantly amazed when I remind myself you guys have built this cat from the ground up ❤ I watch a few sailing channels where they all have new boats, but their input to the actual build has been token at best so we'll done 👍👍👍
Ton of progress! Very good! Keep it up!
I don't want to be the safety police but that mask can't do it's job without a good seal, and it can't get a good deal with your beard. Please stay safe guys.
That's awesome of Matt to listen to a suggestion. 👏 👏
There are definitely people out there with more experience than us. 😉
Are you guys making any side money working in the yard on tasks for other boaters not on site ? Custodial wellness checks of pipes, batteries, bilge pumps etc ? I know you don't have much in the way of "spare time" but filming the boats around you to show their status, or offering webcams might make other owners happy to pay you for being their onsite superintendant, might even be an insurance discount for owners to have such services if the yard doesn't provide these services ?
13:34 Really great editing there, mixing the sound of the router with the backing music. Sounded like a face melting solo.
Seriously, if they carried on working 💵 making money for Fuel and moorings ⛵⛽ in the future, rather than save on Vietnamese labour, they would be in a much stronger financial position. False economising🙄 l mean this kindly, you have done a great job with the boat, you you need to splash💦
I would go back and take a look at the first three minutes of last week's episode, we address this concern. 😉
I'm sorry, is this your boat? No? Cool, worry about you, and they'll worry about their boat. 👍😁
Gosh, I have been away from your channel for such a long time, came back and you still haven't splashed. 😢
Yeah... maybe next fall? 🤷♀️
Please don’t show anymore sanding
Unfortunately, there's more to come.
@ronheidemann2063 - Dude, you do realize you're watching a video about making a fiberglass boat, right? It's 90% glue stuff together and then sand it.
I enjoy seeing these construction details explained, and then a speed sequence through the actual construction. Every Saturday I look forward to seeing what is happening with the project. It is all interesting to me!
Thank you so much for following each week! 😍
I totally agree. The explanation followed by the fast forward sequence lets us understand what you're doing with minimum tediousness but no missing details. Your production skills keep improving all the time. @earthstick's comment about the audio router solo is also great. My face is melting right now. Excellent work. See you next week.
You’re going to catch up to Rosco over on Life on the Hulls pretty quick. Nice progress! Looks awesome Matt n Jessica!😊
Just as long as we can get past this fairing and priming stage. 🤣👍
Excellent work on the modification. Looks factory and can’t wait to see it done.
Thank you! 🤩 We're very proud of it too!