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Great to see you in Charlotte Harbor

Are you an ex preacher? Sure do a lot of preaching 😎

Christ on a bike mate, I’ve just twigged who the troll is. Noice.

There is no promise of tomorrow --so really there''s not "always another day". We can't prolong our life.

Ive spent many years on the ocean. The time and effort in this build is amazing. What doug accomplished is amazing. But why reinvent the wheel? Why not a serious marine powerplant? I understand cost but come on you got it Doug. I dont think seeker will ever be fit for serious open water. I think bays and rivers is where she will spend her days and thats ok. Thats where me and my 45' sailboat will retire

That sewing machine is a beauty. In the 1970s I sewed a 20- sleeping bag, a poncho that adjusted to fit over a pack and a tent sold in kit form by holubar, on a sears branded singer machine.

Heat treatment post welding perhaps to avoid the same embrittlement caused by the previous weld?

Thank you for going over the toilet. I just bought a small trailerable houseboat and it has that same model.

Brilliant

The great thing about make everything is You know how t fix it yourself.

Terrific Doug.

Try using end grain wood to cut gourmets into.

Can dolphins breathe through their mouths?

the Mermaid looks sort of like a Tranymaid.

ALWAYS do what the woman wants! 😜 Always learning, right? That’s part of the enjoyment, learning new things. Can’t wait to see Seeker in REALLY nice waters, in the Caribbean.

What was your mast from water line height? I'm thinking of going from Galveston to morrilton but not sure if I trust navionics on the height. Thanks brother great video

If its nice out leaVe it out.

If I was interested in coming aboard for a day to help with things around the boat, is that something you let people do and what is the preferred method of communication? I have welding, carpentry and general mechanical knowledge.

Don't want to be picky but when a piece of metal is loaded so that when released it does not return to it's original shape it's "yield strength" has been exceeded, not it's "tensile strength" If it's tensile strength has been exceeded, it breaks. A materials "endurance limit" is the stress than can be applied a certain number of times before the part breaks in fatigue mode. It is possible to find an endurance limit for ferris metals where infinite cycles can be applied and it will not break. Not true for aluminum. So the part must be designed so that the stress will be low enough for the part to last as many cycles as the design requires. Note that aircraft are made mostly from aluminum and the airframes will tolerate only so many cycles before failure is ensured.

Was sad when we came through big lagoon this weekend you were gone. wish you fair winds and following seas!

I wonder if fiberglass tube would be better. It would be lighter and more flexible.

I play around with sailboats a lot and I have an idea for you if you haven't already thought of it. This might take some experimentation, but if you could rig up a large bungee on your preventer to take some of the shock out and maybe save the spars to give you time to release. Just an idea.

Why not use some fiber glass pipe ? Good ole oil field trash...

Wouldn’t it be possible to have somehow an flex-tolerant inner tube with a matching telescopic diameter taking a bit more load so that one can correct course and get the sails back in a meant to be position?

Great video

Next time on SV Seeker, Removing safety features to make work easier.

She’s got a closet full of clothes and shoes worn once meanwhile you got lures that get used many times a day/week/month/year that cost a fraction of one pair of shoes and she will be bitter. A man’s peace is priceless…

Words of wisdom keep them coming. My mantra too stay clam and fix it if it breaks no good just looking at it. My wife said why do you keep all that crap in those drawers well last week I was fitting a new hot water tank and could not get one of the joints to solder??? so I went through my drawers of crap and found the perfect fitting for the job must have had it for years 10 mins later job sorted. She now understands. The mother of invention is necessity.

Wonderful episode Doug! So amazing to see Seeker out on the water and under power of sail. And the colour of that water!! Wow.

It warms my heart, knowin' Doug's out there doin' whatever the F* he wants. Thanks for making videos!

Bros, We need to save him. He got captured by a legendary Muscle Granny.

You should use proper sails and batons

Great job

Your spool gun welds look so much better than mine. Are you using 4043 or 5356 wire?

well, done, sir!!!!

Doug, have you tried some decent preheat before welding the crack and then tempering back at least 6" on each side to normalize it all? Bending is always better than cracking in half.

3:00 3:31 Doug’s comments here and here make me laugh.

Windsurf masts use a ferrule to join the tubes together. Wonder if enough carbon tubes were joined together for the length. They will bend tremendously but not break.

Doug, the trees do tend to cause the filament to get chewed up and stop feeding properly. You should be able to turn off retraction is the support though, it will tend to produce whispy material in the supports when you do but the filament wont get chewed up.

I would have thought with the mount of times you have broken the boom now, that you would think of a redesign or permanent fix to stop it happening again 😊 great job as always 😊❤

Recently used it on a broken Microwave door handle, worked very well! Impressed and saved a lot!

Doug, try wax. @9:02 I have a jar of bees wax just for porting cylinder heads.

Don't put Knots use small loop Bowlins, they Never tighten On roap , Yet so strong knot The roap break before the knot.

Welcome to welding naked with Doug. Proof ya don't need all that fancy welding clothing. Good job Doug.

a bar of hand soap works well for keeping aluminium tooling from clogging

Fun that Dillon is a moving plant now! Let it ride!!

Elastic deformation is when it returns to shape. Plastic deformation is when you go past elastic and will have permanent deformation when allowed to spring back. If you keeping breaking those in the same spot you could consider splitting a pipe section in half and sleeving that location to give it a little more cross-section.

Checked my valve first after watching this. Worked like a charm. Thanks!

Doug, you ought to tie a bowline or water bowline on your knots. I have never not been able to untie a not.

compaired to when you first strarted welding, yourve come a long way. Almost to pro standards. :)