morning it's been a week since I've been on the boat welcome to SV seeker saving
vessel seeker my name is Doug and I'm your host pretty much alone during this
Corona thing but generally we get a lot of people helping us built this boat and
it's kind of been enjoyable to work alone but also I miss help today's gonna
be one of those days where you know you can't finish up all little odds and then
things there's a showerhead out here on the back deck that would be lovely to
have out here even has explain and all that stuff on that in that fancy there's
the real hype deck controls forward and we got a saltwater down there too for
washing stuff off finally that still hadn't been done but we're gonna finish
up the aft cabin I think that's next on the list and we just had a fantastic
vacation i drive junker cars from when rented one and they upgraded me to the
midlife crisis which is a Camaro Convertible and it was fantastic we were
going to Colorado in New Mexico and so I got to drive around without craning my
neck to look at the top of the mountains is beautiful and we even rented a Jeep
and took it up behind the mountains at you ray and the Betsy did all the
driving there well except for one little spot and she did a fantastic job it's a
great thing to do you know how voice wanted to do that but I've never had the
money I always been passing through there of it was always poor back then
and never had the money to do that so this time I was out there I actually had
made some money off that stock I bought I bought some stock while COBIT was you
know killing the stock market and they came back up so I thought Oh take a
vacation so we took a vacation on proceeds from ConocoPhillips and Delta
Airlines and all those others that you know everybody thought would never come
back actually the Cova thing is actually at its worst right now in Tulsa our
infection of wreckage has been on a steady increase so it's a strange thing
the little towns that we went through we're all on a decline which is
interesting but still people are just being nonsense about it I mean we went
to what was that place called it was I've been there once before as a kid and
it has turned into such a tourist attraction now Royal Gorge which is just
a bridge over a canyon you can see a lot of better canyons and you can see
bridges anywhere but this one for some reason is like shit for flies I mean it
was just jam there there was no spots in the parking lot so I drove in took a
little video and then left but there's plenty of places out there to be alone I
mean the four-wheel drive trip and the kayaking down the rivers I mean you're
you're alone so it's a great way to social distance and still be out and see
the world but boy don't go to the tourist places it's sad now maybe not
you know maybe something make us focus on life or death there's a little more
what we need to get up off our asses and off the couch out doing something a
little more dangerous and exciting anyway yeah I still haven't put the
floor back in here before I start with the bunks I gotta do the floors I'm
going to leave that floor up until I test the plumbing so let's go test the
plumbing is one last time make sure I really got all those leaks fixed so the
garden hose comes in through our sea chest which will provide seawater into
the boat that all when I come to a decision that I want a lot of fresh
water I've been looking at water makers reverse osmosis water makers I also
wanted a distiller you know boil off seawater and condense it back and we may
do that later on but since I'm not gonna have batteries that require a lot of
distilled water now we're switching we're going to kind of use the old iron
batteries that we got because they just didn't have the moves left in them
instead we're gonna use so forklift batteries and those don't use the same
you know they don't use distilled water to all you know a lot of it so
what I decided on is a really good reverse osmosis system we're gonna build
it ourselves and we're gonna build it so that we have
a lot of redundancies to put into it so we can fix it if it breaks so I have
been ordering parts for that and it's not too bad comes out I can definitely
beat the guys out there that are even selling kits boy takes a lot of looking
around we're gonna have one with four membranes that'll make about 2,000
gallons of water a day about 80 gallons an hour and we size knit so we can drive
the motor of either of our inverters or either of our generators so we'll have
four different ways of making that motor spin those are our inverters they're
both 4 kilowatt or 4000 Watts can come out of those they'll each be supplied by
their own battery and then the two generators that are out the boat right
now there's a 10k there and an 8k here so we have plenty of power and then I
figure I'll use a real cheap e pressure washer once electric ones it hardly does
anything and that would be a backup so we can have still we have force power
supply it will have an additional motor and pump not really good for saltwater
duty but it's just the you know the oh shit we need another motor okay I don't
care about that leak let's check the other places dry as a bone
yes that's good
okay back in place I guess is the day I need to take care of all my floorboards
all the pipes from the village have been installed so shoots me the last time I
have to mess with rearranging floorboards and cutting notches them
yeah it's hard to know when you want wood or metal cutting blade free pay
well and here's the other reason why I want two thousand gallons of water per
day like that so inviting all right it'll stop licking once the water levels
below that Phil yeah I took care of it and slowed down must be going right
behind that board take that apart
so I'm going to raise this handle above the floor level so what I've done is
that as a coupler nut and the damn nut that comes on top of the handle goes
underneath look the two of those together you know doable
this will bother the nut Nazis but I keep a selection of all thread and
metric and selection of nuts I don't have to hang on to all the various bolt
lengths okay right there a lot of these valves tell me these little slide locks
but I actually hate them so I cut them off
nice tight fit
get that up get this up
well I sealed up that hose good and got inside the tank and started looking
around for possibly a well that missed and he was meal water was leaking over
inside from there didn't find that but you know I found plenty of little spots
of rust inside the weld scene yeah boy the reason for that is I did not do a
stripe coat inside this tank just right because when you come along you just
paint in where the the weld seam is the roughest part and sure enough I didn't
get paint down inside those little crevices I'm just a spray coat I found
some old paint money in the whole tank a new paint job in here well the parts for
the water maker starting to show up a two horsepower motor and a cat pump made
in Japan and thought I think made a pan in a long time in the thing of beauty
well I'm running a little experiment here you know you get epoxy paint you
mix it up it's gonna go off and this paint was going off he got really sticky
I had a spot down there that was damaged and peeling up so I cleaned it up and
painted it it's one of the best things in life happened I think when you know
what people tell you you shouldn't do and you do it anyway just to see
don't mind the ring is it kind of a cooler weather
all I ever uses just carbide tip blades cheap ones for would it send us for a
surprise it
and that is why I never get behind the blade
actually going to wealth steal again today it feels kind of unusual but if
you really want to fix on steal I just got through watching burp eggs last
video they've been putting on these stabilizers for their expedition boat
and it's a fantastic resource if you're looking or thinking about building a
steel boat which you should be if you're spending all that time watching this so
check them out project brute peg damien de Geste down
there and australia doing a fantastic job on my favourites for cause back in
and i've been thinking about a shelf to go back in here to stack your in i'm
gonna think about that some more one good idea that came on facebook as a
cargo net the whole stuff also doesn't slide out to floor i think it's just
going to be like plastic totes and stuff because it'll keep stuff clean and dry
and easy to get to because we've just shuffle everything down the shelf if I
put drawers in here which is what I originally thinking about yeah it's
harder to shuffle stuff down the shelf and put something really big a like a
duffel bag a lot more of the parts is shown up for the water maker this week I
think I've got everything now I just got to figure out the fittings I need to
pull it all together and order those
there we go well that came out well I think I'll put a few boards you cross
that cuz I'm gonna use this down underneath is a storage that it's easy
to get to I mean he's gonna pick up the tile alright that's nice and yeah and
it's one of my favorite quotes - Mahatma Gandhi live as if you were to die
tomorrow learn as if you were to live forever smart man and knew how to
protest and this man that's just driving me all this protesting is really started
a quandary here in Oklahoma we have this Indian I can't remember his name of
Native American so this Indian was the last guy to surrender in the civil war
he fought for the south and he owned slickest so you know trying to deal with
history this is not the time to do it you know the time to deal with history
is when you're making it after it's done keep it as it was because we know and we
can learn and you don't try and whitewash history by tearing down things
that would have offended you if you had been there then that's retarded okay
just it is what it is okay and that's kind of the whole point of history you
can't go back and change it now what you can do is you can make your life better
today you can do something appropriate today you can do something kind and
supportive today that's where history is made yeah I'm gonna put a shelf in here
maybe use as a bench out here yeah
it acts like one Borden it's not even glued together yet
I'm going to wait to add that last board on it'd be easier to just to fit these
three and against the wall each of these is actually cut for the hole so you can
see how the hole changes its shape as it goes on back
okay board it's all put together we're just gonna put in just giving it a quick
coat of Olympic water guard cheap and easy the other thing is it doesn't
darkness the the inside of both sorry has this brushed on and there's a lot of
people that like dark interiors on boats I just built
I want more light there's no waiting for it to dry alright finish it off with a
clean up here in the corner and that is it and I just love that simple effective
and we'll put the cargo net see right into here to keep boxes on the shelf or
tote bag or whatever you might have in there something that can be cinched up
with a bungee strip and then a couple of oh four six inch mattresses here I
decided I'm just gonna leave that open down there I'd just be the dirty clothes
you know put a hamper in there and kick clothes into nice would that be and I
like where the handrails came out this makes it easy to sit down on a cushion
back in here and relax you know that you know the other thing we haven't doing
here is some thin cushions maybe to go up against the walls was and it'll be a
nice place to hang out everything in here is a recliner that's it tomorrow
let's turn on the water maker what'd you make today be sure to go out
check out brew peg to wonderful still don't get built down in Australia
they're gonna happen