Morning/ I'm Doug welcome to sailing vessel Seeker
We have a quiet morning out. This winter solstice. Longest night of the year
wildlife is out this morning
Okay ready for another day here's what we've been doing. It takes a long time to
get the board's cut to go in between there and shit in so that's the biggest
chunk of it and then working around all little stuff but it's not as bad as some
of the other cabins but it does take a long time you know that once when you
get these stages in the boat or whatever you're doing you're gonna be doing that
for a long time like the insulation work that would work was not nearly as bad as
insulation the sandblasting and painting
work right here at the bottom of the board but it's not how far up we need to
go with that cut over here is 316th 3 Hyundai 3/16 there now they're in an
angle - that's the problem is when the board goes up it also goes over a little
bit so yeah it actually has to be wider than this and then we're just filling
with caulking if it bothers us
nice little bit over there okay so if I just was binding up be amazing if I
could do it without breaking off the end of it it's a slant and an angle the
wider take bringing the cuts is a good way to get around gobs of paint and
wells and that's where a thing pick up on the backside a little bit more on
this
hey when I'm done I kind of be the phone that's the side to the outer rim of the
portholes that way I can position it down here line it up to the porthole I
feel what I have to and it gives me a line that I can cut still have chances
to break it just challenge it's really no big deal with break it we'll just use
a glue and glue it in just a little more
beautiful okay next trick is fine to furnish trip back
in there and this little tool which is just made out of a piece of sharpened
Tigran pokes through and finds the furring strip so for example I kind of
know it's right in there I yeah that's it right there it goes all the way
through to the hull I know I've missed the furring strips so furniture is right
there it's also there it's also there so I'm getting good putting it screwed
right in that area right there on the board and when I'm close to the edge
like that I can drill a pilot hole first now make sure it doesn't split and we're
using two and a quarter inch long stainless steel screws two and a quarter
because that means that just misses the touching the hole
and that is one piece of the puzzle in place just a couple hundred more and
we'll be done in this room there we go that's one side done this is a really
hard part yeah because you got a stand on the wall here don't like part of the
boat that's really the case it's just way back up in there it's kind of
slippery up here
okay very high jet there is nothing really difficult with this job here
except transferring those shapes onto wood so you can cut the pattern and it
doesn't take a lot this is a very low-tech approach there's a couple of
boards whittled down so that they'll fit in there and literally just hold them
against another board and pinch it and you know come out of there with that and
you got a good shape there's our board he'll have nice fit that is and one of
my recent crew went down to Home Depot and came back with this little gadget
it's turned out to be pretty handy especially in these small spots you dig
it shove it up in those corners like that kind of workaround where it's
bumped against they and get it parallel hitting that little knob up on it and it
holds that corner design up there and you got to get a measurement across and
get it do the same thing in the other corner so it's a little slower but still
I've been using it and I scale on it to I don't even use the scale and my third
trick is to cut boards like this you can see it's tapered all the way down so we
wanted a straight edge out here and then we picked up all the irregularities and
all the boards coming out and to do that you take this board which is full width
at that time you put it out here bumped up against this and there's a gap
between here and here we measure the widest gap you have going down the thing
get yourself a board like that hold your pencil against one side of it they see
you use that notch put your board across that gap hold the pencil there we get to
right here pencil down that board you get a mark there where to cut cut this
board to that shape and then move it in and it fits beautifully against this one
and that's what we did up there so nice work there of course you have to notch
then around all the girls and once we got a nice straight edge out on this
side will be much easier than to keep putting these boards in same thing on
the other side and someplace in the middle here they'll start meeting and
make a V okay you know everything I know about it
I think I'm I don't know maybe four or five days in here but the ceiling is in
look at this that is the last part okay you think that just looks like a piece
of junk scrap but nope a little shot of glue into there and if I seem overly
confident it's because I've already tried it and it does fit and right there
that is the last piece of it and I really do like what came out takes a lot
more time and I thought it would but it's boatbuilding what doesn't take more
time but when you buy one you gotta buy the blade separately that you don't even
come with one crappy blade there's a picture to play on the box but no blade
in the box oh I think it's a great tool to have around yeah I don't use it a lot
but it does come in handy when I need it there's nothing like the feeling of
having one more thing checked off the list if there was a list this would be
on it yeah maybe someday we'll get to the point where we need lists right now
it's like no we don't need to list we know what's next that room up there is
next the forward cabin still plenty of cedar to put in and plenty of wall space
to soak it in probably need to order another thousand screws I used over a
thousand square is just in the back there so this is next and thank you
everybody for staying with us through all the boring work next the next video
after this would be pretty good though Bryan's in there we're working on
building that ship's wheel the octopus that Michael Teasdale made for us is
going to get built into the ship's wheel today Brian's working on that we're
gonna heat it up and bend a little bit and get the shafts in a lot of work to
be done there and Brian is the perfect guy to be doing because he is very
particular not like me I just want to get it done move on give you a teaser
here yes we're going to use a torch on it okay we're not going to show you now
you got to tune in next week okay it's like same boat channel same boat time I
don't think they meet guys are gonna get that at all suck it
up