Nordhavn 40 Boat Tour - M/V Cassidy Ep. 14

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] a lot of people have been asking to see a tour of our Nord hop in 40 as we started compiling footage it started to get really long but we decided to keep it all in there for those who are interested in the details during the tour we will go through the boat section by section the episode notes include the time stamp for each section in case you want to skip forward to somewhere in the boat that's more interesting to you now let's get started in the cockpit this is our back deck or a cockpit it's the first area that you come to when you come on board the boat not a whole lot of space the upside of having less space in the cockpit is it allows us to have more interior volume inside the boat and all these on books there's trade-offs and this is one of them so having a small cockpit gives us more room in the main saloon and living space the other thing that a small cockpit does is that it allows water to ship off of the boat easier less water would actually come on board if we were in a following sea and waves were coming over the back the volume of water would be less than if this area was bigger and it would ship it would ship out through the scuppers down here on the bottom not a whole lot to show we've got a barbecue right here underneath this cover this table is a play table and we use it for a food prep cable as well back over here is a molded end seating area we've got the molding and seats on each side of the cockpit and they double its storage so on this side we've got propane tanks for the barbecue and for the galley inside there's two five gallon propane tanks and like I said it's a nice little seating area so preparing Anchorage you're underway and sit back here and kind of relax and chill this is a legislate which is a Man Overboard device if we had somebody go in the water it's something that you can throw and use to help recover them hopefully you don't ever have to use it I think this panel right here is a hot and cold water shower so you own the water to go swimming or diving or something you can rinse off with this before you go inside the boat so you don't get the water inside the boat these louvers are in tangier combustion air for the combustion and cooling air for the main engine there's one on each side and now we've got a fresh water wash down down here fishing rod racks fishing rod storage and hanger storage up here right here this is a flat line rope we can use for either tying off the trees if we need to anchor in a tight area in the northwest where probably what we'd use up or more often is a is a line for the stern anchor and it's a flat wedding instead of a traditional rope so it stores and this nice little reel side of the cockpit I've got a remote panel for a dot compressor this allows us to fill scuba tanks on our boat without having to go to a dive shop it's nice for recreational diving but more importantly for if we ever have any problems with the boat where we need to go underneath the boat either service stinks or check running here if we were to run over a fishing net out in the ocean or something and we had to go underneath the boat to to clear it we've got plenty of air on board we've got storage for for scuba tanks two whips or any gear so that we can fill the tanks we've got more fishing rod holders on this side and again the intake here for the main engine on the starboard side we've got a boarding door so you open this gate and then this door here opens to give you access either to your tender there's a ladder that goes down there if you want to go diving or to get off and on at a dock same storage is on the port side over here on the starboard side on this side we've got fishing captain's stored in here and then there's one more door like that boarding door on the transom right here then this gives you access to the swim step either to go on the water again or to get on and off of a of a dinghy the center of the cockpit deck right here there's large hatch this is the access to the lazarette which is a big storage area that goes the full beam of the boat it gives us access to the rudder post the autopilot rudder angle indicators water makers down there are inverters down there so there's a lot of equipment down there and then what we mostly have in there right now because we're living on the boat and cruising full-time it's just a whole lot of storage so we've got a whole bunch of boxes down there and this hatch opens up and we've just got a bunch of boxes and a bunch of stuff stored in here plate right here unscrews and this is access to the top of the rudder post and theoretically you could attach an emergency tiller to this rudder post to allow you to steer the boat with a tiller back here well that would actually work I have no idea we've never tried it and I hope that we'd never have to use it but if the steering was ever to completely fail we would at least be able to turn the rudder with this back up hatch one of the that was really again really well thought out on this boat they made plans for all kinds of contingencies this is the door to the main cabin and saloon it's a fully ruggedized door with a watertight seal the gasket all the way around the perimeter and it has two dogs two completely dog the door down against that seal to open this door what you do is take these dogs and rotate them 90 degrees we don't always keep the dogs tightened down but if we are running offshore we typically will keep them dog down and then once those dogs are open their just latch like a traditional house door and then this opens and it latches in place over here and this is the door to the saloon when you come into the saloon on our boat this is the door we enter through again you'll see these positive dogs to latch the door down against this gasket that's in here and that prevents any water that would board the boat with a following Steve from coming into the cabin here this is one of the features that you'll see on any of the passage maker noir Dobbins is that they all have very positive seals the windows are all kind of built the same way and then we're underway on offshore passages these four windows in the saloon right here have 3/8 inch acrylic panels that we put over them to also prevent them from getting broken out by any kind of water that would come over if we were if we were rolling in a beam seat this seating area over here is very similar to what we've got over here so that there's no table have this little Ottoman right here now this thing kind of doubles as a little cocktail table or table for eating snacks if we're sitting here watching TV storage again underneath all of these seating areas the cushions pull up and your storage underneath these panels under this one we've got a whole bunch of the tools and power tools stored we've got a hatch to the engine room on the floor right here rarely use that that's more designed for if we needed to do any kind of heavy machinery the equipment replacement there's a big panel here that we're pulling it out but we usually an enter the engine room through a door down in Cassidy's room so one of the things they did on the northen 40 versus some of the other boats that they make is to maximize space inside the saloon it's a full beam saloon so there's no walk-around on the starboard side and like on a lot of the boats the disadvantage of that is anytime you need to bring anything from the boat deck or the fore deck you have to actually walk through the living space and so you have to make sure that you're not carrying anything that's dirty or could be leaking or anything like that the advantage of the full beam saloon is that you maximize your living space the solute on the 40 is actually very large it's not any smaller than the 43 which is a bigger boat and actually maybe a little larger because of the fact that it goes to the full extent of the beam of both sides of the boat and versus stopping on the starboard side for a walk-around very comfortable living space for three people it's it does get a little crowded in here because the table doesn't move out of the way so when you get a lot of people on board it gets to be kind of crowded but for three of us living on board full time this space is actually very comfortable we can sit over here in this kind of couch space three of us together can sit here you kind of put your feet up relax our TV is on that wall over there so you can sit and watch movies we eat our meals over here on this table Cassidy does home school here so it's not only the place where we eat it also doubles as the classroom another thing I'll mention too is when when we're underway on long offshore passages and for going into ahead see especially the forward cabin is almost unlivable because of the whole slap and noise from the water and just the fact that that's where the boat pitches the most and this is actually the most steady place on the boat when we're going into ahead see here's the fact that it's apt in the boat and the pitch axis of the boat is probably you know some are forward of this area so when Jen and I are rotating on nightshift watches will typically sleep right here and it's a pretty nice place to sleep you know we'll put our heads down this way and you kind of brace your arm like that over in this corner the saloon we've got our TV TV is under articulating mount so that we can pull it out and sit over on that side and the couch area and watch TV or you can also sit right here on the side where we eat dinner if you want to watch it there so that's kind of a versatile place to store the TV another HVAC control for our reverse cycle heating and air conditioning and then on the wall over there is a control for the sbar diesel here right here is our freezer this freezer is different than a traditional freezer and there's its sliding drawers that have a swing door and what that allows us to do is if anything shifts in a Seaway when we're out in the boats rolling back and forth with the food ships when we go to open the door it's not gonna spill all over the floor so that's kind of a nice feature and then just a stereo system on this bulkhead right here these stairs right here give you access up to the pilot house where we run the boat and to the doors to get you out onto the Portuguese bridge and the boat deck and the foredeck inside this post right here is our dry stack exhaust the main engine doesn't have any sea water and it's keel cooled so it doesn't exhaust out the back of a boat with seawater like a traditional wedding sauce boat to get the exhaust from the engine up to where it exits about 30 feet above the waterline they've got to run it through the cabin and so inside this post right here is a big exhaust tube and then a bus a bunch of insulation and then it's didn't behind this wood that's attached to the galley counter right here so this is our galley kitchen on the boat you call it a galley it's on the same level as a saloon basically separated from the saloon by this piece of cabinetry right here this has our sink like you'll see everywhere else on this boat they've really maximized space so we've got a little trapdoor in the countertop right here that we use for storing larger appliances like a pressure cooker and smaller bowls and things like that to basin sink normal kind of household faucet it makes it really easy to two dishes we don't have a dishwasher on a boat this size some larger boats will have a dishwasher this one unfortunately doesn't but it's easy enough to do dishes by hand for three people so over here we've got a three burner stove and oven very similar to what you'd see in a house except that it's 24 inches wide instead of 36 and runs on propane there's a range hood over here exhaust gas from cooking these windows report lights both open so that we can get cross ventilation in here while we're cooking which is pretty nice I've got a copy machine and a SodaStream thing here on this wall over here you got a microwave more storage and trash compactor and the refrigerator trash compactor is actually really nice to have when we are out cruising for long periods of time because we can go ten days or two weeks without having to change the trash bag and we don't have a lot of space to store trash on the boat so it's kind of a nice feature to have when we first got the boat I thought it was kind of a luxury but it's actually really really useful in a on a relatively small boat like this that we're living on full time the refrigerator is very similar to the freezer over there and then it's a drawer type system that pulls out so we can access our food from the top and when food shifts under way it doesn't fall out when you open it and then just more storage all over the place so all of these hatches open up just food in here and the entire galley has storage like this so we've got food and stuff crammed into every nook and cranny on the boat on the side of the galley counter right here is a panel with a couple of cages in it and what these allow us to do is monitor the level of the freshwater tanks there's three freshwater tanks on board for a total of 250 gallons and when the water level gets to the bottom of these site gauges that means we've got 60 gallons left so we try to keep the water level on the upper half of the top tanks and that allows us to troubleshoot the water maker if we ever have any problems with the water maker we'll always know that we have a lot of water to live off of while we troubleshoot that and make repairs all right so if you follow me down these stairs I'll show you the living quarters port side is Cassidy's room there's a bunk bed in there starboard side is the head the end of the hall you'll find the owner stateroom it's really just a fancy name for our bedroom so in our bedroom we have a bed as you would expect and we have a ton of storage there's a half size clothing locker here either side actually but a full length Locker tons of storage up here and do gel's idea was to buy these bins so that we can maximize the space so each bin pulls out he's actually even more organized than I am so on his side he has them all labeled see mine's a little messy I keep my books here on this side as I mentioned there's a full length closet clothing locker Duggal slide has the same storage that they that we have on the other side more storage in here at the head of the beds and this locker is where the anchor chain is stored Cassidy comes in pretty handy when we have trouble with the anchor could slide her down into the anchor Locker and she can do some repairs for us some more storage here it serves as a nightstand or small dresser drawer this unit right here this controls the temperature we have a nesebar diesel heater and this is how we control the temperature in our room the bathroom and Cassidy's room and over here Duggal has installed a mer Tron display it'll tell us if we are dragging anchor it tells us speed you can monitor several things several systems on the boat from here in the bed under the bed it lifts up it's easy enough for me to lift up we'd start some exercise equipment up here on top and then in the back we store things that we don't use this often we have sleeping bags for guests extra blankets for the cold and under that we actually have our storm shutters that we put on if we're going out on a long passage down here we have the emergency shutoff for the bow thrusters all right this is my room I am open two minutes this is where my friends sleep and also where my adult bears let's come over and then you put this room around let it strong enough to at least told me to get up a little corny most of my stuffed animals are I'm gonna have this corner with my favorite stuffed animals I came up with my jungle theme because well this bedspread used to be like that I decided to be joking so my monkey stickers thank you stickers thank you stickers these stickers this is my book this is the washer and dryer it doubles together it's all in one pretty cool huh well there is longer you know there's not much to explain about that nice closet tada these are my charts this is the door to the engine room I don't really want to open it because we're on our way it's gonna be really loud but I'll turn the lights on so you can see you my dad will give you a tortilla to do later but I like my room it's okay couple feet this is our toilet this is our shower sink this is the shower he turns on me turns on me you turn it back this is a season each hour late when we're out at sea without falling over this is for the shower you turn it off you're gonna take a shower so this is the pilothouse this is where we run the boat from it's got all of our engine controls and electronics and it's isolated from the rest of the boat with the idea being that because we use this boat on offshore passages overnight you don't want any distractions from other things that might be going on in the boat or other lights the TV's on downstairs any of that sort of thing this pilot house is smaller than on a lot of the other nord havens so we don't have room for a full-size helm sure so instead of a helmet rear we've installed what's called a leaning post which is right here it's kind of a stool that you can sit on top of and you can lean against it I can sit up here if I'm running the boat and when we're in waters where there's a lot of logs and rocks and other boats that we might need to be aware of it's good to be sitting here at the controls so you can take action if you need to avoid somebody and if there's any kind of Seaway or heavy waves or anything like that you can kind of sit back here you can lean against this thing we've also got a handle up here and then you can hold on to one of the things that you might notice that most boats have and we don't have in this boat is a steering wheel so there used to be a large ship's wheel right here decided to take it out because it was about nine turns lock to lock so it was incredibly difficult to spin the thing and still look out of the window in the front here when you are parking the boat so instead of the steering wheel what I've done instead is install what's called a follow up lever it's this lever right here and it's dead simple all you do is if you want the rudder to turn one direction you move it that direction and the rudder follows you want the rudder centered you move this back in the rudder center so you always know where your rudder is you always know what direction you're going to turn there is no issues we do still have the steering wheel it's down mounted inside the engine room if anything ever happened and we had a failure of any of these systems and we needed to grab the steering wheel we wouldn't be able to install it in a matter of 30 seconds or so but it's a lot easier to steer and handle the boat without having the steering wheel if we're on an offshore passage where there's not a whole lot of things to watch or deal with it's more comfortable to sit back in this kind of bench seat over here and it's got a table where we can fit three people capacities sitting over here kind of looking out the window now three of us can sit here eat dinner look out the window periodically it's also a nice place just to sit and eat dinner when we're in a scenic Anchorage like we are right now in southeast Alaska sometimes if you're sitting on watching you want to read a book or something like that you can sit back like this pick up a book and read and the other thing that we've got is up here this is called watch bird so the watch berth is nice to have because it gives us a space where somebody can sleep close to the person that's on watch and then you can have two people available if there's any kind of emergency or something like that and it also gives us another space for guests this can kind of be a room where guests can sleep there's not a lot of privacy it's a pretty comfortable bed reality is when there's when there's a three of us on board kind of gets used for storage so we've got a whole lot of life jackets and other stuff up there yeah these doors are Dutch style doors so they've got dogs to keep them closed if there was anything that we needed to see outside you can open these up pretty easily it gives you a little bit better sight lines we've got a whole lot of electronics up here in the pilothouse it seems like marine electronics are always becoming obsolete but right now we've got a couple of Varuna devices that are kind of state-of-the-art the least until they come out with something new we've got two primary screens right here so all of our electronics are kind of built around these two for uno displays they're both easy touch fifteens relatively new they're a couple of years old but they're the latest devices from Freneau and everything is all integrated so we've got a radar we've got a chart on this display you can change these displays to show all kinds of different data so you can scroll through through the screens right here we can change this one to show two radars simultaneously and that's kind of nice sometimes you might have one that's set out at 12 nautical miles and this one I can turn this on and we can have this one zoomed in extremely close so if you're looking to avoid somebody that was in like kayakers or people that were in really close and then you get a big picture on the left side moving over to this display right now we've got a whole lot of gauges that are coming off of our enemy a 2000 Network a whole lot of other sensors on the boat so this is kind of a place where you can look for a whole lot of data at once so we've got wind speed speed through water speed over ground some autopilot controls fuel burn information and it's just kind of a nice place to see a whole lot of data at once when you're watching they're running the boat one of the things that we can put on this screen is a 3d fish finder 3d sonar and this is kind of useful when we're navigating through tight passages where there's rocks and other things like that that we're interested in if we're looking to make sure that the contours on the chart actually match what we're seeing underwater they can shift into this mode and this shows you what the bottom of the sea floor looks like so right now we're in 400 feet of water and you can see there's a little bit of contour to the bottom but there's not a whole lot going on we're probably over a kind of a sandy muddy bottom right now but this is kind of a useful feature to run in this mode when we are in narrow passages in shallower water also when anchoring or if we're looking for fish fish will show up in the water column right here this is the code this is kind of the water column right here this monitor right here we're running a software program called time zero and if we use this as our primary chartplotter when we are navigating and we also use it for route planning we typically have it set up in this mode where we've got a Northup view on the left side of the screen this kind of gives us a big picture and then on the right side we have heading up and on the right side right now we've also got a radar overlay going the radar overlay is interesting sometimes because it'll kind of verify that buoys are buoys and and not boats and you can see that it's overlapping the radar image on these rocks over here right now so sometimes we'll run with the radar overlay on sometimes it's just too cluttered and it makes it the screen too noisy but right now it's kind of a good way to run you can change this into a lot of different modes you can have it in a pure navigation mode where you have a single screen and you can change that from North up to heading up there's a planning mode where you have a whole lot of other data such as information about waypoints and things like that I just got a heading sensor alarm we've been having a problem with our heading sensor so it's alarming periodically in this mode you can see more granular information about various waypoints as far as latitude longitude and things like that you can read it in a pure radar mode right now you can see one of the books that we're traveling with is just off of our port quarter right here and we can see them on a is which is this little triangle as well as radar run it in navigation and radar Barea radar on one screen and a chart on the other side and back to the dual nav mode where we normally run it also has some kind of gimmicky features like you can put this into a 3d perspective we don't really ever use that but it's there as an option if you did want to use it so the autopilot can be run in a couple of different modes right now we're running in just a heading mode where we program in a heading and the boat will steer to that heading so right now we've got two hundred and eighty degrees programmed in if we want to make incremental course changes you can turn this little knob right here so I can turn it to port and it'll go to 79 to 78 if I needed to make larger rapid course changes if there was a big turn that we wanted to make or if there was a log or something else that we needed to dodge you can push these buttons right here and that will make 10 degree course changes it also can run in nav mode where if we have a pleat pre-planned route you can push the nav button and it will actually navigate along that route and it'll even make turns when you get to waypoints it gives you a warning that it's going to make the turn but the cord the autopilot computer will actually just make the turn for you and drive along that course our primary autopilot we've also got a backup autopilot this is an older unit but it still works pretty well and if we had a failure of the primary autopilot we can just throw one switch and it'll turn this autopilot computer on and then we can steer the boat with with this on a pilot computer securing this boat by hand is is not easy especially when you're offshore and there's not a lot of landmarks so we rely on the auto pilots heavily and having a redundant autopilot is kind of a key feature for while not short passages our primary engine controls are this little box right here this is the transmission this is the throttle control there's not really a lot going on there these are the controls for our bow and stern thrusters which we use in close quarters maneuvering and parking the boat there are fairly simple controls this is just a lever they're not energized right now so I can show you what they do I want to have the bow go to court you just put the lever over that way to starboard you put the lever over that way same thing with the stern and the boat will actually pivot in its own axis if you turn the bow one direction and the stern in the other direction so you would just kind of twist the lever like that and that will allow you to rotate the boat other controls that we've got on this side right here are the wiper controls or just rudimentary on/off switches kind of a pain to control sometimes when it's raining heavily because you have to park them and then turn the back on this is the horn not much to say about the horn windlass control for the anchor winch in the front this allows us to actually lower and retrieve the anchor from within the pilot house that's nice if it's raining out or it's windy or something like that and we don't want to send somebody up on deck there are controls for the wind lifts up on the deck as well but this is a nice place to control it from this lever right here is for the spotlight that we've got up on the roof of the pilot house it's a really bright spotlight it's useful to have but we rarely use it because it will just absolutely ruin your night vision if it reflects off of the white fiberglass on the bow or anywhere else on the boat but it is nice to have if we're looking out for small boats that might show up on the radar or crab pots especially when you're running offshore at night and there's an area where there might be a lot of crab pots of other things like that that you need to avoid it gives us a lot of range you can spin the spirt spotlight almost 360 degrees and you can pivot it left and right and up and down over on this panel right here we've got two VHF radios that's for redundancy and we can monitor two channels at once without scanning so right now I've got one of them in channel 16 which is the coast guard station and then one on another channel that we're using to communicate with some of the people that were traveling with right now I could put both of those in a scanning mode where they're scanning through your other channels this right here is a loudhailer that allows us to either top through the microphone through a speaker that's up on the roof of the pilot house or it also has a whole bunch of kind of canned signals - one of them is a foghorn that we use we've been using it a lot when we're up here in Alaska and there's dense fog in the morning and that will broadcast a fog signal periodically so that other boats know that we're around if we don't see us on radar we're not showing up on their AIS and then finally over here on the right this is an old ferrino sharp lighter device what we primarily use it for is radar it has an old opener a radar that's up on the roof of the pilot house it's more powerful than our solid state radar although the screen is lower resolution but it is nice just to have a redundant radar and it allows us to kind of see things farther up in our solid-state radar does and if we had a failure of any of the other electronics this has a built in GPS antenna and things like that too but we primarily run it just in this radar mode so in the upper panel here we've got a lot of kind of secondary displays starting on the left this is a standalone depth sounder it is not showing any data right now because the transducer is on the fritz and it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't it's on the list of things that we need to replace but it's kind of low priority since it's a redundant device so for now we're just kind of leaving it alone moving over to the right this is a display that we can pull a whole lot of information from the nmea 2000 bus right now it is showing fuel used to fuel burn rate and role in pitch right now we're in completely protected waters and there's no wind so there is not much roll or pitch to speak of you might see one or two degrees either way when we're out in the sea way offshore for the rolling pitch it becomes more interesting but it's it's a just kind of something that's interesting to look at it doesn't it's not really much we can do about it it will tell us how well our stabilizers are working maybe moving over to the next device this is a merit Ron device that we've recently installed and it also allows us to pull all kinds of data from the enemy a 2000 bus and from anything else that's networked on our system right now I've got to set up the show a parent wind and true wind on this display but you can cycle through a whole lot of other things this is kind of the GPS satellite constellation this is some bilge alarms we have alarms programmed to go off if there's high water in the bilge and we have another one of these things in the forward stateroom so wake us up at night if there was any kind of problems with with high water in the village one of those things that you hope you never need to have but it would it would wake us up and it would alarm us we needed to take action as far as high water here's some more fuel consumption displays this can be customized to show if you will burn from the generator from the main engine nautical miles per gallon as well as gallons per hour this back one right here this is temperature we put our temperature probe on the stuffing box which is the the shaft gland for our main engine if that's first to get outside of a prescribed range that would kind of let us know that there's too much friction in the system and it's something to be aware of and so we can customize this thing to two alarm when it's either a certain amount of degrees above sea temperature or just at a absolute number like a hundred degrees Fahrenheit or something like that and this is engine room temperature which is also something that we need to be aware of if it gets too hot it usually is a signal that there's something going on in the engine room that we need to be aware of it's got an electronic parameter that will show trends over 24 hours so that's kind of interesting to have as far as weather forecasting right now you can see there's been kind of a slow drop over the past 24 hours here right here is an analogue better indicator rudder angle indicator it's nice to know where the rudder is when you're scurrying in close quarters and parking the boat we also have this same information electronically on the nmea 2000 bus but it's kind of nice to have redundant information like this one moreover this is a a is display the a is is a transponder that will broadcast to other boats our position speed other data about our boat and it also allows us to see where other boats are over here on the far right side of the panel is our analog engine gauges this is our kilometer shows engine rpm this is our coolant temperature the coolant typically runs about 190 degrees Fahrenheit if it gets hotter than that it's usually an indication that there's something wrong that we need to check oil pressure the voltage from one of the alternators on the engine and engine hours and then this panel here is the key switch there's a couple of alarm lights and an audible alarm that would alarm if there is any faults with the engine and let us know that we need to do a little bit more detailed troubleshooting well the main displays in the pilot house we've got a couple of panels for mainly electric and electronic devices this panel is for the air conditioning systems we've got three heating and air conditioning units on the boat these are all circuit breakers for those systems and a switch to run it either off of shore power or off of the generator this is the panel for our DMR wing engine not much to say here it's just you know start/stop and gauges and down here this is the panel for our generator we've got an 8 kilowatt Northern Lights generator that allows us to have AC power when we are away from the dock a couple of other things down here bilge panel bilge pump switch this is a switch to switch between the primary and backup autopilot so this panel right here is our primary electric panel and basically it's not all that interesting there is a lot of circuit breakers here this whole entire panel right here is our DC Circuit's there's voltage of each of our batteries there's a house battery and engine battery and a generator and wing engine battery and on the panel below here this is 120 volts AC this is all of our AC electric loads and we can power the boat by either an 8 kilowatt generator that we've got in the engine room or by hooking it up to shore power when we happen to be in marinas and the AC loads are divided into inverter loads and non-inverted the inverter loads will run off of a 3000 watt inverter that we've got that takes power from the main house battery bank the non-inverted loads will only run when we're connected to shore power or to the generator because they just draw too much power and not in further loads there's not a lot of them there's a water heater the washer and dryer and the searchlight these are controls for our wing engine the wing engines a 30 horsepower Yanmar motor that is kind of a backup engine they're called a gate home engine it would allow us to theoretically get home it pushes the boat at about 3 and a half not these controls are pretty primitive the engines not on so I can cycle these controls and show you how they work the throttle control is basically just a cable and it's fairly stiff pull it out to go to make the engine increasing at the end and you push it in the funnel down the transmission is this little thing right here you push it in to go forward pull it out to go in reverse and kind of fly in the middle for neutral there at detents but it's not the most solid feeling thing so luckily we don't use this very often this panel right here is the controls for our reverse osmosis water maker it's a pretty nice water maker in that it runs off of our DC system so we can run it any time when we're underway we don't need to run the generator to make water and it makes about 6 gallons an hour below the water maker control is the control for the heating and air conditioning unit that is in the pilot house and then below that you've got a rat's nest of chargers and AC stuff this is kind of a common sight on the boat with all the stuff that we have as far as chargers and other things that need to run off of AC so our engine room is definitely not a walk-around engine room but it's more than adequate for accessing the engine on all sides the engine the main engine is a Lunger l6 68 which is a Maronite john deere engine it's inline 6 6.8 liters and it puts out 105 horsepower so it's it's really d rated for the size and that's what allows these engines to get so many hours so main engine in the center we've got fuel tanks on each side there are sight gauges right here that allow you to see instantly how much fuel is in each tank I've got fishing rods stored inside here because there's really nowhere else inside the boat to store them this is our exhaust that comes up off of the engine and wraps back over and then it goes up the stack through the galley and then up to the top of the boat over here is our wing engine so this is our wing engine it's a three cylinder Yanmar engine that puts out 30 horsepower and instead of having a traditional shaft that has a V Drive so that's what allows this thing to be stuffed into the back of the engine room here the chef comes out through the boat right here and then up into this picture right here this is hiding the V Drive and the wing engine also has its own independent fuel supply that goes through this big fuel transfer filter right here and then into an independent tank and so if there was any contamination and the main tanks the wing engine would theoretically have a clean fuel supply we've got a Northern Lights eight kilowatt generator and it is kind of stuffed into the other corner of the engine room over here on the starboard side and then I can actually walk around to the humane engine this is the hydraulic reservoir and the gyro compass and the control systems for our fin stabilizers and the filter for the hydraulic oil right here we're on this side of the engine room got some high current DC bus bars here our oil change pump is mounted below that and then on the far corner over there we've got two fresh water pumps primarily in a backup so that if our fresh water pump ever failed we'd be able or just distally switch over to the backup pump and up on top of the main engine here this is the blower fan to exhaust the hot air from the engine room and it's a squirrel cage fan with a duct right here that goes up the stack with the exhaust and I've just recently replaced this with a higher volume fan and it's been working pretty well so far a couple things up here we have an extra line whenever we're under way we always tie up the anchor to make sure if you hit a big a big bump or some rough conditions that the anchor doesn't pop off it shouldn't should be held by the anchor winch here but but we tie it on just for safety these extra lines right here it's called the bridle so it's a lot of weight this this unit is designed to pull the anchor up and down it's not really designed to hold the load of the boat we can actually hear it the Knights that we don't put the bridle on you can hear making a lot of sound right down here in the master stateroom so we put this bridle on it ties on to the anchor it distributes the load to two points we do that it's a pretty simple operation I'll show you I use the control units here these two petals here will operate the anchor it'll either pay out the anchor or it'll pull the anchor up for safety we always keep these clothes we don't want to be standing up here and every fingers or feet near this anchor chain and accidentally have it start moving on you so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna put it in the up position I'm gonna pull it up so that I can grab the bridle off say first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna close up this lid last thing I want is for that anchor to start moving while I'm on the edge messing with it so I wish there was a more graceful way to do this haven't figured it out yet so what I'm gonna do is just move wedge myself into the bowsprit here and unclip the bridle clip [Applause] the lever here it's pretty easy just flip it back line it up and off the design here it's a t-shape so slide onto one chain move it back and then it slides forward before locking it and then the reverse to take it off slide over to that groove end up where do we store all that stuff so I'm going to go into these lockers to grab the bag to store the bridle we have these two lockers up on the foredeck here I have the back for the bridle that's where I'll stow the bridle once I put it away and here we also have a jack line when we're out at sea we tied this up and we make sure all of us are clipped in with our life vests as we're wandering around the deck we have a hose in here a couple other items second Locker houses our electric cords we have backup electric cords and we have some backup lines in here so I'll just pack up the bridle and stow it away so we can be on our way it's time to pull a thang or Duggal is usually operating from inside the pilothouse and i'll be out here with this hose this is a saltwater to pull up the anchor googles usually in the pilot house there's controls for the windlass in there I'll be pulling up the anchor and I will be manning the hose usually when the anchor comes up it's completely covered in mud seaweed things like that so we want to host that off before it drops down into the anchor room it can get pretty stinky in there if we don't do that so how the freshwater hose on the side of the pilothouse I'll usually pull that up it'll just shows off the windlass here to make sure it keeps in good working condition there's a pretty simple but effective way to track how much anchor road we have out we put these zip ties on in their color-coded this is the Portuguese bridge it's an area that's kind of a safe area where you can come outside the pilothouse and walk around get a better view then from behind the glass a nice days like today it's a good place to just kind of hang out and get some fresh air the Portuguese bridge goes all the way around pilothouse both sides going this way it has steps that go up to our boat deck [Music] so this is our boat deck it's mainly got room for our tender which is a 11 foot Boston Whaler with 25 horsepower motor there's not a lot of room up here when the tenders on deck but when we launch it it opens up a fair amount of space up here just kind of another nice space to hang out outside [Music] thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe to our Channel see you next time [Music]

Channel: Cassidy's Sailing Trawler

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Id: CgUTYqZHzwQ

Length: 49min 43sec (2983 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 20 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/oldfrancis]

A perfect boat for the Salish Sea

[u/CultistHeadpiece]

The new N41 is going to be amazing.

[u/mycall]

It's a dream, so much gear.

[u/mattzees]

Why are these boats made in China?