1910: A Space Odyssey

hi my name's Leo and I'm a boat builder and a sailor a few years ago I bought a very old and quite famous wooden sailing Yacht for the price of one dollar and since then I've been rebuilding that boat from the keel up with the help of a lot of amazing people now this video is about a lot of different projects which are going on right now mostly to do with the engine room and the systems that are getting installed there but we're also going to be taking a look at the fairing of the deck which is very satisfying as Zeal is going to send off the black seam compound and reveal the beauty of the deck tanks underneath the first job we're going to look at though is the installation of the heater and we'll talk a little bit more about that but the first thing that needs to happen is Nick is going to drill a pretty large hole in the transom of the boat [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so having some kind of heating on board a Sailing Boat is really nice especially if you're spending time in a cold or wet climates in all my previous boats I've just had a small wood burner which kind of sounds like it might be sketchy in a wooden boat but actually if you're careful it can be pretty safe and wood burners give a really nice dry heat and atmosphere but they're not always practical if for instance you're at sea or in an area where you can't find wood for this boat I really want to be able to go on Long adventures in inhospitable areas I love High latitude sailing and I'd like to be able to spend long periods of time in cold areas where there may be no firewood so after looking at a lot of different options and doing a lot of research we decided to go for a hydronic diesel heater the word hydronic just means that heat is transported through the space from the small diesel furnace by using circulating hot water the actual heater that we're using is really cool unit and it comes from a company called ITR we're going to talk more about that later but first of all we need to install the exhaust itself the heater itself will be installed in the end room so we have to run the exhaust from there through the lazaret bulkhead towards the transom we have to do a gooseneck Loop to stop water going back up it and then it'll come through transom itself so Joe fabricated all the exhaust the stainless exhaust and I machine one coupling while he was fitting it all up and I just tacked it in place and Joe's going to bring it to me in the shop and I'll weld it out a little bit tight in the Lazar right there no I'd sleep in there for sure it's gonna be the warmest driest place in the boat oh yeah but what are you up to in there Jay well I'm just uh finishing up the fit up for the exhaust for the heater yeah I fit it all in here Nick put the through Haul on the transom and Dylan just came in and tacked all the pieces together using a TIG welder and I'm gonna pull it all apart and put it on Dylan's bench and he can weld it out and then we'll reassemble it for a final assembly we have it coming through the bulkhead it kind of an odd angle but that worked out better with the installation of the heater and then also space in the lazarette so tallyho's engine room is going to get really quite crowded we're trying to put a lot of stuff in there before I start the cockpit is going to go in the boat soon and that's going to take away a lot of the space we've also got the engine in already of course we've got inverters we're going to be putting the heater in a water maker or the fuel Plumbing Systems and a bunch of other stuff too to make best use of the space George has made some big plywood panels which mount to the inboard faces of the diesel tanks and that means we can easily fasten things like Plumbing cables filters housings to the tanks via the plywood panels now I mentioned putting a water maker into the engine room and if you're not familiar that is a device which takes seawater from the ocean and it puts it through a series of pumps and membranes and filters and it gives you fresh clean drinking water as well as a waste brine which will go back overboard water makers do consume power of course but the particular type of water maker we're using uses an energy recovery pump which uses a lot less power than a low lot of other water makers now having a water maker is a really nice luxury but not Essential by any means it's quite possible to make long offshore passages without it and just carry enough drinking water but having one especially if you're living on the boat for long periods of time is nice because it means you can shower and so on and you don't have to be so reliant on picking up water in marinas in Harbors especially if you're in places where you might not be so sure about the water quality it can also let you stay offshore for much longer periods of time as long as the water maker is functioning but of course anytime you go offshore as well as your water maker you're going to be carrying enough drinking water so that you can always complete your Voyage if the water maker breaks or stops working now I've worked on a lot of boats with water makers I've never owned one myself but on Tallyho we have the power we need we don't have huge water tanks and we have the space in the engine room just I think so we decided to go for it George has been given the task of making the bracket that's going to hold hold the main parts of the water maker to the hull [Music] foreign [Music] done on the inverters before the cockpit goes in because my life is going to get a lot more difficult when I can't stand up in here just trying to get as many of the connections connected before that happens which might be within a week or so thank you [Applause] thank you so in previous episodes you will have seen Clifton building up the cockpit footwell which is a sort of One Piece box that is going to go in the deck and it's going to be where you put your feet when you're in the cockpit steering in a boat operating the winches and so on now this piece has been ready to go in the boat for a while but we've been holding off to allow more work to happen in the engine room but it has to go in soon because we need to lay the deck over the top of it so it's going to go in very soon now but before we actually put it in Zeal has started sanding the deck now he's using a big sander to sand off the TDS the teeth decking systems corking compound which we put in the seams on top of the cotton and while he's doing that he's also going to be fairing the decks bearing the deck planks making them more smooth and even the deck of course is made of Alaskan yellow cedar for the main deck streaks and teak for the king planks and covering boards and once it's sanded and we can see those nice sharp lines of the seams it should make a really nice contrast between the black seams the darker teak and the lighter yellow cedar the deck is not going to be treated as is traditional on wooden decks it's going to be left raw to gray out with time there's a lot of reasons for that it's generally considered to be the easiest to maintain and the most comfortable to use and to walk around on because it's not at all slippery with a raw deck it's just very important to make sure that it always gets salt water on it especially after rain the salt water keeps the deck tight but it also stops any rot whereas fresh water left on the deck will inevitably cause problems in the long run [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] so the cockpit is in the boat and it looks really good we're going to take a much closer look at it above and below inside the engine room very shortly but first we're going to check in with Nick who's about to install the tridusa now that is a small sensor which goes on the outside of the hull and it measures the depth of the water the speed of the water passing the boat and the temperature of the water the transducer needs to face vertically down to measure the depth accurately and it's got to be mounted on the hull which is at a very steep angle so it needs to sit on a fairing block which needs to be modified to match the shape of the hull foreign [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning [Music] foreign [Music] so over the last couple of weeks I've been establishing some major wire runes and one of them is going to the engine room for the engine room lights yeah it's good timing because the cockpit's in and the rest of the deck is going on and it's getting darker in the engine room so Joe's gonna have some light to work with you want to switch it on for us yeah we have red lights oh and we have white lights brighter the better when you're in an emergency situation you don't want to be fumbling around in the dark and for maintenance too I mean just being able to see if there's water or oil or anything happening that shouldn't be happening or when you drop something yeah which happens all the time in the engine room cool looks great Erica thanks thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] stuff that's been happening in the end room in the last couple of months yeah you bet well it's kind of a big push because we knew the cockpit had to go in at some point and it was a lot easier to work in there with the cockpit out as far as moving big components in and out of the engine room so kind of focused on getting big stuff in and mounted and taking care of some of the electrical and plumbing runs that we're going to get difficult with the cockpit in place we put in the heater a big part of the heater installation was the exhaust system for it it's very important that it doesn't have back pressure not too many bins in it so it wants to be as direct as possible can't catch anything on fire and it goes through a storage space so it has to be strong and yeah well thought out bracketing for the heater another big one George did a lovely job making some very custom fit uh brackets put it on water maker went in same thing trying to utilize all the the real estate well and very nice bracket from George and bring an electrical in and uh yeah electrical to the inverters they're all completely wired up from the shore power all the way through to the batteries so that's exciting we'll be uh turning stuff on here pretty soon not quite ready I'm working on the last of the data connections so I've been working underneath the companion way on the victron stuff getting the servo GX hooked up with all the different data inputs to it it's kind of the brains of that system so I'm sitting here in the engine room and we've got a lot of our equipment in here now there's not a lot more to go in here apart from plumbing and wiring cockpit is above my head of course and depending on your perspective and what you're used to this is either a very small tight cramped space or a huge expanse with amazing access to the machinery and to me it's more the latter really because I'm used to working in boats with very limited Machinery space and very bad access so it's pretty amazing to me that I can sit up in here and have access to all this different equipment around me there's even going to be another sitting spot over there with a lot more parts and tool storage so we've got the main engine down here of course with its hybrid Motors attached and behind it and above it are the main inverters there is a lot more stuff to do in here for instance it's going to be a sort of heat shield and work surface above the engine to prevent the inverters getting too hot as well as a lot of forced air ventilation through the engine room the water maker system is all in this area and it did take up more space than I had realized but it's gone in and it's a really sturdy unit that produces a lot of water and is very reliable over here we've got elcis which are to do with the AC Shore power and then behind me we have the heater and the heater control unit here now the heater is from a company called ITR International thermal research it's called the hurricane Zephyr pretty cool name and it's a very compact uh rugged well-made unit I'm really pleased with it so it burns diesel in here but it can also run off electricity when you're plugged into Shore power and heats up water for two purposes one is for space heating so that water is a closed circuit that is pumped around the boat it can be optionally pumped through the engine if we decide to set that part of the system up and then there'll be small radiators or fan heaters in the different cabins there's different temperature control zones the other function of this heater is to heat up the domestic water for showering for drinking whatever so that will feed hot water to all the basins the faucets the Taps the sinks I'm running my eyes because I caught myself saying faucets well I should be saying Taps but anyway this little guy puts out 33 000 BTUs which is a lot of heat and it doesn't use much diesel so very cool behind me we've got the fuel supply and return systems so we've got these little manifolds which let you decide where the fuel is coming from in terms of which tank and where it's going to in terms of the engine or the heater and the same in terms of the return lines we've got dual fuel filters for the main engine and a filter for the diesel heater as well this filter is oversized we've made the system so if we want to add a fuel transfer and polishing system later it would be easy to do but I don't think we're going to do that initially up above we've got some galvanic isolators for the shore power inlets over here we've got the cooling system for the hybrid Motors we've looked a little bit at that previously so yeah that is about what we've got in here at the moment really pleased with the space pleasantly surprised with the amount of Headroom and uh you know I know this stuff isn't traditional for about of this vintage and era but I've always said this but it's not going to be a museum piece it's going to be a world cruising uh working sailing vessel with hopefully some cool adventures and missions and this stuff is fun and exciting to learn about and to install and hopefully it's going to make those Sandy Adventures more pleasant safe fun sustainable practical in the long term tell us a little bit more about the the ventilation system yeah it's a lot it's a small space and a lot of Machinery so we uh thought about it a lot it's already in a sailboat because we want to keep the boat sealed up so that the ocean doesn't get in but at the same time we need to get air into the boat so a lot of thinking about that so we have fans that are pulling heat extracting heat from the top of the engine room and we're gonna have a fan blowing air into the engine room and also air moving through the battery storage compartment it's not a super elaborate system but they'll turn on off with temperature sensors and also manual override I think that everything's going real nice and yeah it's always the real estate is such a commodity in all boats and especially the quality of the build the Tallyho we're not allowed to just slam things in so really trying to retain pain serviceability access and get all the stuff in that we're committed to having in the boat so yeah it's a fun fun little puzzle so I'm sitting here in tally house cockpit for pretty much the first time and it's a pretty amazing feeling Clifton did a really great job building the cockpit footwell and great to see it go in the boat and a major Milestone really Clifton's next jobs in this area will be to lay the deck inside the cockpit and to build the Copic combing cap rail inside the boat the systems work is going so well really exciting to see the space in the engine room and seal that Machinery in there another systems project which we weren't able to cover in detail in this video was the fuel tank vents Joe made these up out of copper they're really beautiful and clever design they have a ball in this part which will block the vent if it's ever flooded Patrick mounted these on the little seat blocks and they'll go green in time but I think they look really beautiful as well as functional the deck also looks fantastic now it's sanded it's so nice to see all those clean seams we've got it all covered up now of course to protect it between now and launch but there's so much support work to do before we can even think about launching some of the next jobs include putting the deck prisms in mounting the winches designing and making the tiller continuing the work on the cap rails and then there's all the interior joinery and of course huge amounts of work to do on the rig and that's just the first few things off the top of my head but there is a light at the end of the tunnel Mount and that's really exciting really good for morale so big thanks to the team here thank you for watching and a massive massive thank you to everyone who has donated or otherwise supported this project it does make a huge difference it means we're able to keep on doing this work and we're able to keep on making and editing these videos so I really really appreciate it and I'll see you next time cheers [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Sampson Boat Co

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Length: 23min 54sec (1434 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 08 2023

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I wonder how much Tally Ho is ultimately going to cost in terms of man hours and material.