Stew: Hi everyone!
And it’s our pleasure to bring you Part 2 of the Luckyfish Boat Tour.
Now, some of you might remember this bucket from our Atlantic Crossing.
Now, who would have thought a bucket could become such a topic of conversation.
Zaya: Yeah.
Stew: We’ve been really amused by a lot of the comments.
Some of you have suggested that this bucket go into museum in Mongolia.
One or two of you have been wondering what happened to Tuya.
We read one very humorous suggestion that she was last seen in Home Depot, shopping
for a new bucket.
And someone else suggested that they are willing to fly us a new bucket.
Anyway guys, it really does make our day when we hear stuff like that but we really want
to mention George.
George offered to buy the bucket.
Now, let me tell you a little bit about George.
George is a patron of something like, 18 sailing channels.
George, we think you’re awesome.
You support Luckyfish.
You support the big ones.
You support the small ones.
Mate, I can see you really enjoy sailing channels like we all do.
So George, the very least we can do…
Zaya: Yeah.
Thank you George.
Stew: The very least we can do mate is send you this bucket free of charge.
We’re going to get a lovely plaque engraved.
We’re going to sign it.
It’s going to be our gift to you, and our sincerest thanks mate for supporting the media
and the creators out there who are bringing the entertainment for all of us.
In the meantime, if any of you people would like to become patrons of Luckyfish channel,
please don’t hesitate.
We’ve got links in the description below.
We’ve got our links at the end of the video.
So go ahead and support us.
And, you might get a bucket one day too!
Alright guys, back to the boat tour.
Thanks everyone!
One of the first things people say when they step on board Luckyfish is how much room there
is on the deck.
It’s something that contrast these boats against the Bridge House Catamarans you see
more often, and she really has got a lot of space, more space than we know what to do
with.
One of the things that attracted us to the boat was this big swim ladder through comes
the swim platform, and also a Dinghy hatch we're able to put the Takacat up that
ramp and just stow it laterally along this aft deck area.
With the Dinghy ramp raised, it’s another area to walk around on.
It’s quite secure.
It just pulls up and down on that rope purchase system there and then there’s a couple of stainless
steel plates that rotate and engage with the aluminum frame to give you a good secure deck.
So there’s a little like base here for the post for the barbeque.
We just bring the guests out here, mount the Barbie, and it’s a really good area for
cooking up the very rare fish that we catch.
Right at the back of the boat—this back beam is not structural.
It’s actually, what Wharram calls a netting beam.
Normally, this would be an area enclosed by a fishing net or something similar, trampoline.
The builder of this boat went for a semi-solid deck, which has obviously added a bit
of weight to the back of the boat but nothing too bad.
It seems to float on your marks alright.
He's kept it light, see tiller steering on your twin rudders linked together with a tiller bar.
Now, we’ve got to remove a little steering line, which goes down through two turning
blocks there and then forward under the deck and then up through the steering pedestal
area and around a drum.
Luckyfish has got some strong mooring cleats, both bow and stern with big backing plates—one
of the things I really like about the boat.
It’s certainly strongly engineered in the areas that really matter.
Rope lifelines which are just 8mm braid.
There’s our vane steering unit on the starboard hull. That one is Romeo, without the vane attached.
You can see more of Romeo in another video dedicated to the vane steering system.
Behind the wheel.
Simple matter to unscrew that.
Take the wheel off.
With the electric drill
Just buzz out these screws.
Lift the panel off and then, we’ve got access to the SimNet backbone in here with the
radar hooked up to chart plotter—depth, wind, log—all that’s connected on the
SimNet.
12V cigarette lighter attachment which we use for charging phones, running our little
12 valve bush shower, which is a beauty, got a decent Rule pump for that, which
is submersible, goes straight into one of the 20 liter Jerry’s, and a little waterproof
ON/OFF switch, and a shower rose.
So it’s almost civilized.
The Nav gear is pretty standard—12 inch touch screen chart plotter, Triton gauge
showing wind, depth and hull speed through the water, a windlass control switch.
And this is the ignition panel for the twin outboards
throttle and gear levers,
tilt switches,
jib sheet, winches.
This is a bilge pump.
A couple of useful open-pocket lockers for just about everything,
a water-tight locker
where everything else goes.
We’ve got what a bright torch in there, binoculars, and at the back of that is our
AIS transponder in a nice dry spot and it’s where the power comes in from the starboard
battery bank.
We have a little pocket to the side here, sun creams and goodness knows what.
At the aft into the cockpit is a handy little table propped up by stainless leg.
There are two winches that are for the spinnaker sheets and guys.
The pod has a handy seating area across the back with built in lockers.
The storage for fishing rods under the Bimini
and the gas locker is located under the port seat.
Under this cockpit seat we just, we’re tying it with a shock cord here attached to
the winch.
We keep the vane steering on top, of course, so it’s easy access, but underneath there
we’ve got instrument covers, barbecue, snorkeling gear, fishing gear.
Yeah.
That’s about it.
And under the starboard cockpit seat is just one hatch, which accesses the full length of the seat,
and we use this one, this is the work shop, pretty much all the tools,
spare parts and everything goes in there.
On top of the Bimini, we have 270 watts of solar power, GPS antenna.
The dome for the 4G broadband radar.
These are the throat and peak halyards for the mainsail.
There are really handy hand holds here.
These are indispensable for moving around the boat, going up and down companion ways
or moving about the deck day or night when the boat is pitching and rolling.
The Bimini also doubles as a rain catcher.
One thing we really appreciate in the tropics is the open bridge deck design, allowing unobstructed
airflow over the cockpit.
A cockpit pod designed like this depends on a storm enclosure.
Ours is pretty flexible.
It has a lots of zips and clear windows and we can adjust it to whatever the weather.
It uses rubber bungees and hooks to hold it down and only takes the two of us a couple
of minutes to fully enclose or open the pod.
As the boat only weighs 5 tons fully laden, the sails are relatively small and easily
managed by hand.
The gaff schooner design keeps the center of effort low down, helping earn these boats
in unequaled safety record.
The foresail and main are soft wing sails, minimizing drag from the masts.
There’s a bit of a trick to hoisting a gaff sail.
You’ve got to keep the throat halyard tight and the head or the throat of the sail or
the leading edge of the sail considerably higher than the gaff when you’re hoisting
and lowering and otherwise the gaff binds on the mast.
It's only once you’ve got the luff of the sail fully tensioned that you then tension the gaff
and the hoist there to its full hoist.
That is the trick.
At the base of the main mast, there’s a solid piece of wood, which forms the mast
foot and it sits on another solid piece of wood atop that beam there, that intermediate
beam, a solid pad eye with six to one mainsheet system coming off that.
It’s a dual mainsheet system.
This is for the foresail and that’s the other side there so we can, this is centrally
sheeted and this one is variable so this also attaches to the clew of the foresail but we
can attach one end of it down to that pad eye there or outboard to the pad eye right out there.
Obviously, for different sheeting positions.
Quite a good system.
You can play with it.
That’s one of the things about the Wharram rig.
You can do a lot of adjustments and playing around.
There’s really no right way.
There’s a lot of scope for individuals to play and try to get the most out of their
boat.
This is the forestay bridle attached to the bows and joined in the middle at the chain
plate at the base of the roller furler.
The furler is a Plastimo, quite a small unit as the jib isn’t large.
This is the foresail fully lowered but raised above the foremast truss so we can see inside.
So all the sail controls for raising and lowering the foresail are here.
The centrally located winch, which is quite handy, does a number of jobs.
Hoist the jib halyard, which is a once only sort of thing given that it’s a furler.
And also hoists the throat and gaff halyards for the foresail and can be used for staysail
sheeting, also use it now for the hydro generator to raise and lower when we’re underway.
I dare say we use for other things as well, which I’ve forgotten but having everything in
the center of the boat like that or the winch there and blocks on the outboard
ends of this beam.
It means that if we are playing around with sheeting positions on the foresail or on a staysail,
then we can lead the sheet straight into this winch.
The Tiki 38 has lovely wide side decks, set inboard for added safety.
Let’s have a look at the engine area.
Under this locker here, we have spare fuel can at 24 liters.
Under here is the access to the starboard engine, with its fuel container attached.
The engines and the fuel tanks are sensibly located in the middle of the boat to reduce
hobby horsing.
First step is to release the uphaul line. It just lowers down to its retaining strops there.
at the correct height.
The engines are fully retractable, eliminating drag under sail.
And raising it is just the opposite.
Hoist away.
And you can just see the Watt & Sea, hydrogenerator there.
We’re doing a video, a separate video on the installation and performance of that unit, which
is coming up shortly.
But in the meantime, I will show you quickly how we raise and lower it.
One of things that is pretty neat about the Wharram is the
use of rope for hinges even on the rudder gudgeons.
This is a deck hatch in mid cockpit area, which is used for everything, taking a leak
at sea in pretty secure conditions in the middle of the boat to gutting fish, getting
rid of anything you like down there.
I really like it.
I think it’s neat to have a view of the sea straight under your boat.
And these neat little rope hinges, which don’t rust, don’t require any maintenance.
If the rope ever dies, it’s just a matter of replacing it.
So we stayed with the rope idea when we installed the hydro generator and made another little
deck hatch here so we could get to the uphaul and downhaul lines for it,
that one just opens up like that
To lower the generator
I’m un-cleating the uphaul line, which is this white one.
I’ll just pull it out of the cam cleat there, bang and then let go.
and our batteries were chock-a-block, day and night
yeah, hydrogenerator, way to go.
Port side engine, same as the starboard.
This locker is a little different on the starboard side it was used for the spare fuel locker.
On this side, it’s the battery for starting the engines and the windlass.
In there is a solar controller to charge this battery from
the panels. And heres the windlass relay
And the remote, to compliment the one in the steering station.
Thats that.
Our primary anchor is a 20kg Rocna
which is buried in the sand, somewhere out there
we have two solid anchoring cleats here for the secondary anchor, which is a
5kg Fortress
and for the Storm anchor, which is a 15kg Fortress.
This is the bridle, made from stretchy nylon anchorplait.
A solid alloy bow roller fitting leads back to a horizontal windlass.
as we only have a shallow chain locker.
The mast box, which is a truss, between the two forward beams,
contains all the primary anchor rode and chain on one side,
and deck brushes, boat hook and fishing gaff along with the secondary anchor rode on the port side
A unique feature of the Wharrams are the rope lashings which bind the hulls to the beams
We just re-lashed the boat in Grenada
using the technique we learned from Hokulea
and we will share the process and the results in a future video
suffice to say here, that the boat is now really stiff
with a really noticeable increase in performance
Alright
Yeah,
Zaya : Well, we hope you guys enjoyed our boat tour
as much as we did enjoy bringing it to you.
Stew: We hope we didnt forget anything but if we did
please drop us a line in the comments section below
or find us on our website, send us an email
or look for us on Facebook
We are always happy to talk things Wharram
In the meantime, from Luckyfish
Until the next episode, bye everyone
Stew: Galley
Zaya: OK
At the back end of this Galley is the ca.....
Oh shit. [LAUGHS]
Cabin! [LAUGHS]
Stew: At the back end of this cabin is the gall.... come back here, get out of the bloody shot come back here
Right, now ready
Zaya: At the back end of this cabin is the galley
Galleyyyyyy, stupid word !
At the back end of this cabin is the kitchen
Alright, and this is the pot! [LAUGHS]
Stew: OK guys, we hope you enjoyed that boat tour of Luckyfitch
[LAUGHS]
Serious face.
Zaya: We hope you enjoyed our video
as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you
[LAUGHS]
Stew: I don't even know what my line is.
My line is, errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
forgotten. Its all scripted.