welcome to sailing vessel seeker i'm doug and seeker is not here she's out at the tulsa porter
katusa we had a fantastic party last night uh and i got a public service announcement to start this
off i'm going to show you uh a tour of the boat as she sits out at the port and photos from the
party last night but special announcement is somebody walked off with one of our gift
crates with all this stuff in it and it wasn't your crate that's cool keep everything in it
but there's a set of keys in the crate okay if you pick those up and return them to the
security gate at the tulsa porter katusa or write me svsecretyml.com let me know where
you can leave them hotel room or whatever that's cool we'll pick them up and give them back to the
owner he'd like to drive back to colorado today so thank you for that here's the video welcome
to sailing vessel seeker that both the internet built from scratch right here in tulsa oklahoma
she is a 74 foot long 60 ton three masted twin keeled chinese junk rigged motor sailor
yeah it's a mouthful one of the things i love about seeker is the artistic details that she
has in here we tried to go back and build something that's you know functional but
with some beauty as well so the brass coupler up there and the propeller blades which we cast
because buying these things is expensive so you know you get to learn a lot as you go along
she has a fishtail rudder on her that'll hopefully give us a little bit better turning radius than
a barn door rudder would so we've improved upon what the chinese were doing and this the skegfen
is actually our radiator too the engine cool that comes back there's 100 gallons of it in there
and it's pumped forward to keep the engine cool engine rooms just forward of this and there's
where the exhaust comes out and runs down the side and there's laulani that dragon was made by lolani
and she's working on some more dragons for us because we're going to have
signal guns that look like dragons the davits are now back on we've actually tested that and they
lift the tinder beautifully and when i started working on boats i was a little terrified of
being off the ground on tall ladders but i've gotten used to it so our gangway is really
nothing more than a ladder here and here we are aboard our deck crane is now mounted in place
and the cargo hold hatch is open for us this morning this is the companionway that goes
down into the cargo hold and the cargo hatch is also where we put our dinghy on these bunks here
and this is where researchers will store their equipment they can drop it in there
pull it out with the deck crane put it over the side do whatever work it needs bring it back in
and this floor actually can take water down there it has big bilge pumps in each of the corners
right now we're storing a little sale equipment in there and this is matthew he's helped us out with
our lithium iron phosphate batteries we live off donations and love that and this the companion way
to the forward cabin that's where crew will be crane will be a workhorse for us lifting
experiments and projects out of the cargo hole and putting them over the side into the water
and i'm really happy with our dragons of course we built them early on and loved having them up
here on the boat and i'd love the mixture of you know technology and art together
and the pilot house this will be where crew gathers for meals and entertainment
to plan out the next day's work defreezer and food storage countertops for cooking
sink convection oven induction cooktop seating area around the table with lots more storage
behind that and the most beautiful thing in here is the octopus steering wheel
that is gorgeous you know the wood here on this was made by a friend of mine hugh hood
and it's uh sad that he passed on but it's i just love having something to remember him
by and the other crew members that have been on this boat this is also where we'll do the
sailing from so the lines will come in from the sails forward and some of them come in through
the side here and it all comes in through pulleys or sheaves and goes down through sheet clutches
and we can control them one at a time with that big hearken winch there and when i get
too old to use it as a crank it's got a part that we can put a hydraulic motor onto it
moving back to the aft deck you actually cross over the emergency escape hatch from the cabin
below and that is acrylic you're seeing through to the bed down below there out here on the aft deck
are two dabbits they reach out and they hold up our tinder and a winch system that can lift that
tinder up using an elevator motor and geared box from somebody's house the dragons up front
have pipes inside of them too that collect rain water from the roof
we do it back here as well and it all goes forward and into storage tanks in the front of the boat
another feature of the pilot house we have a porthole that looks down into the engine room
below so we drop down to the forward cabin there are four bunks in here for crew and researchers
shower and head all done up and fiberglass so you can just throw whatever you want a dc panel
pardon the dual exit science we're trying to make the coast guard happy here
and uh water collection system for rain water that will probably eventually turn into a dry locker so
when you come to that companionway you have some place to put your wet things these are wily ports
they work really nice see they have wedges in them so they can be wedged closed or open and i
imagine we'll get some mosquito screen over those at some point so that won't be an issue for us
the watertight doors are one of the first things that we made because they're just expensive if you
have to buy them even off an auction we enter the cargo hold area and our main cargo hatch
is partly open there you can see where it'd be easy to bring equipment in set it on this floor
this is the deck that water will pass through there are pumps in each of the
four corners of this deck we've got our portholes of an auction that you're in a bar in boston
after they're taken out ships and we cast our own dead lights for them out of aluminum
this is darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that the rest of the quote
by martin luther king is hatred cannot drive out hatred only love can do that each of them
has something unique cast into them this one is i have no fear of great depths only great fear
of shallow living and all of our dectiles down here have quotes carved into them this one is
the miracle is this the more we share the more we have live long and prosper leonard nimoy and
the frames here coming down the wall pass into the keels and down below us are the twin keels
fuel tanks battery storage tanks and water tanks the main mast comes right down through there
and back into the engine room it's got another watertight bulkhead and door tool storage a race
floor again so we can access the plumbing and hydraulics below all of the pad eyes that we
need to clip in and move heavy equipment because there's the main engine there and there'll be a
generator on top of it and another generator on top where this red board is we're just loaded
light right now so we can be lifted into the water without adding any additional weight all
the fuel system for polishing and filtering the fuel dc system water maker over here
cnc router plasma table 3d printer our big mill will go there it's a cnc mill and lathe
small welding table electric panel control panel for the scuba compressor another watertight door
going into the aft cabin a sink eventually a countertop will be built in above the two engines
here once they're permanently installed the fuel manifold so we can direct fuel into any of the six
fuel tanks out underneath the cargo hole floor and the fuel intake box and the day tank which
is where fuel is recycled through the engines uh during the day and that has a side glass on it
so you can actually see the level of fuel and this big tank beside here is a hydraulic
accumulator so that makes it easier for the pumps to not have to cycle on and off so much
overhead cable trays and a chain and cable system coming down from the pilot house above
that comes down as a shaft onto the sprockets drives these cables cables turn into
pipes that run across the ceiling here back to the rudder quadrant and they'll
hydraulic cylinders back here we're currently using for lifting and lowering the boat
so all the hydraulic hoses are pulled off while we use our hydraulic rams that steer the boat
for something else but the manual system is the primary way that we'll steer this boat
let's go okay that's it edited the video that you'll see tonight if you don't want
to go up the campaign your way onto the boat hope you enjoy the tour thank you
get up
anymore
is behind me
thank you
keep it
quiet of space
dark and foggy lighthouse single by
another boat another crew has finished the so-called race
standing here so empty what happened to you come the members we call the
don't make a crew
take advantage
nevertheless you'll always be here when i go to
outer sleep
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