electric pump same one that runs the autopilot well that's working so well I think I'll just
wire it on so that the pump only comes on when you're making some Demand on the crane
control that won't be too difficult
all right and I called Andy last night and he said yes I'm ready for wire welding he's
he's done stick he's I'm convincing wire is going to be faster but check this out he's
got a lot of wire welding to do that is the bottom of the barge and I'm impressed with
how far it's come and this building it on its side thing that's crazy so if you want
more about that you got to go watch Andy's channel it's uh andrew.mcdonald dot on YouTube
all right check it out you'll love it there's the man himself what's he got yeah a cylinder
with CO2 gas and my wire welder so that's my idea of helping Andy out now I'm Gonna
Leave because it's raining it's [ __ ] Florida now Sandy it's raining but hey he's got a
new toy
[Music] yeah you're making a bead that's it I'm not standing in the rain anymore right
not bad for him pouring down rain and he'll get better everybody does it takes practice
all right let me show you what he can do with stick and I tell you what the wire will be
here pretty soon that's his stick well look at that gorgeous
there's a little fix that I'm happy with I took some uh 5200 and made a little lip an
edge underneath this piece of Steel I cut a groove back in there but it's not enough
by adding that ledge what happens is the water comes out and runs down and then drops off
here instead of going back underneath the hatch and falling into my cargo hold simple
fix
apparently they don't care if it's raining they're going to practice anyway taking her
out on a longer test run today so far that oil in the transfer case holding it fine you
just got to tweak the needles every little bit once I get it fine-tuned I'm just going
to take the handle off I think it'll be fine this is Fort Pickens just inside Pensacola
Bay been blowing stuff up since the Civil War
camera move down there with the iPad to watch it's a great way to keep track of uh oil level
yes beautiful also for charging we have sun today and engine you hear that I don't know
if I'll ever get used to that but that's a under sail no engine tell you what it gets
quiet all of a sudden we only got the four cell and the missing up we're actually moving
and hardly anyone at all this is our practice ground the idea is to you know go out feel
comfortable if it gets worse stay up to your limits and then drop the sales and then we
can motor into a storm now we know we can do that since we got a good drive system and
uh you know ease up onto it slowly anybody tells you once you build something go out
there and put it in the ocean and give it a good sea trial they're an idiot don't listen
to them they didn't build it they didn't invest their time into it and if that's what they
want to do with their boat you know more power to them I love watching those stories and
reading those books but for me one small step at a time and for you works just the same
you can do it just like I did whatever that dream of yours is one small step at a time
a little work on it every day that's where you get there you know you can heal the boat
to 20 degrees everything in the cargo hold stays fine but if you heal it to 25 degrees
it uh no it doesn't do 25 degrees so uh yeah I have to figure out a way of strapping down
the boxes for 25 degrees
all right we obviously have a bird visitor yeah oh pretty sunset and the Dolphins are
out too but I must be an osprey right hey I don't mind you being up there but you gotta
[ __ ] somewhere else you ready yeah let's see how calm his nerves are
apparently he doesn't care do it again [Music] nope nope just doesn't care well this is a
nice cry but I'm staying here all right fine I'll clean bird [ __ ] off I got water tanks
that are full anyway he's huge and he is pretty hey he'll get hungry and leave Maybe we're
going sailing tomorrow you want to come okay come on feature we're running Auto Tune on
the autopilot today it makes several s-turns oh now the Ferry's coming off the dock he's
going to be worried we're out at Fort Pickens and apparently you can take a ferry on the
weekend over there well we're back at it today but today's job is to just get the lines on
the four cell so that they're nice and flat a boater the other day came by and took some
pictures of it it was really nice to see what the sales look like from off over in the water
and I could see the main is way out but we're going to try and mess with the fossil first
to get it you know flat and then uh maybe tomorrow we'll do the main you see that third
batting up in the bottom that's way too far in I'm going to let that out and then try
and straighten the rest of it out too oh yeah that's better so what I did is I lengthened
the perel on that number two Batten and it took some of the wrinkles out of that panel
it put more of them into this bottom one so now I'm gonna loosen that perel up
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later but when I can reach that without going into the drink and then yeah that third patent
still needs to be slacked
some progress on the forward still there put a down hole in there which is a line coming
off the bottom Batten pulling down that helps flatten that bottom one out and I still got
to get uh that block right there to stop just moving on its own so let me get it down we'll
move a little line through it and tie it in somehow yeah not on the endemometer uh we
just got home at a fairly uh he did too Bubba has settled on the forward sale tonight which
is great because that's the one we worked on today and I need to work on it tomorrow
but for now enjoy another beautiful sunset out here look at that [Music]
oh yeah now this foot treadle switch down here is to control my winch with hydraulics
because there's a hydraulic motor back here on the back side solenoid to drive its direction
and even a regulator for flow control so we can check the speed on it and the winch always
turns in the same direction but if the motor on the back side changes Direction it means
it shifts from slow rotation and clockwise to fast rotation and clockwise so two pedals
down here but now that I got the DC motors running for the Hydraulics they work the autopilot
and the rudder I can use the same Motors to run the winch here the thing is I've been
turning the switch on and letting the pressure regulator just bleed off the extra fluid but
I can put a switch in here that when I push a pedal then the pump comes on and only then
well the wiring here is the same kind of issues as with the autopilot you know you got to
turn left you got to turn right but when you turn left you don't want to trigger the wire
that turns right so you put a diode in so that one doesn't feed over the other and that's
what I've done here on this foot treadle switch so if you press this one I get current up
the pink wire here and it goes back down the white wire the white wire is going to trigger
the pump to come on but it tries to go back down to the other switch but it has to pass
through a diode that's lined like that and it can't because diodes are One Direction
of flow toward that stripe so it doesn't fire the other side of the solenoid which is really
mess it up because solenoids they don't expect juice from both sides the motors either going
to turn it left or it's going to turn right rotation in this case so my new friend the
diode so let's give it a test I got probes here looking for 12 volts put this over on
a bolt for ground this is always hot this is always hot but when I press this switch
down this becomes hot Yep this wire telling the pump to come on is hot but back over here
only 0.34 volts which is not enough to open up that solenoid because that diode is not
letting that current flow back that way okay that should do it here
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hose clamps for tightening in my perils and I'll tell you what I thought they'd be temporary
but I'm starting to really like them so I think they're going to be permanent they've
been holding up just great and they're easy to allow me to adjust the length of it and
I'm afraid I'm gonna have to do this a couple more times so that's what we're doing this
morning taking up some slack in the Perils here and doing it while the wind is fairly
calm this morning so by shortening them I'm pulling the sail forward at the top we should
kick it back at the bottom and it'll get this bottom Batten or the last Batten or the boom
ah flat you know what it more like on the horizon because when I have the Sail Out to
the side it dips down too much from my liking when it swings across I wanted to be sure
and miss the monkey bars here
pulling that Batten backwards it has to be pulled backwards a little bit to be able to
get some slack in there to tighten it up it's looking good so far wrinkles all show up with
the Sun but let's see what they do when I get it all the way up and help if I took this
off too
a workout today yes the Hydraulics are working but I gotta stay in shape somehow and I don't
know I gotta pay a gym oh we got a long way to go up so now what I do is I act like it's
an autopilot thing I can turn the speed control pump on or I can turn the full out pump on
either one will actually come on until I push one of the treadles on the floor switch and
take the handle out you don't get hit in the nuts with that
somebody knows what to do to get rid of this popping let me know it's like it's not sliding
across the uh the winch drawing very well
let me know I got a down hole still tight out there I need to weld a cleat onto the
side of the Mast for the downhole because I kind of like that idea well she looks really
good without any wind in her still has a little bit of a Down rake toward the rear but let
me see if I can't adjust that perilla right there because that was definitely loose next
one up looks good the rest of them look good they're all snug today we are getting closer
I think oh I like it I can do something about that now that block that slips between Baton
three and four I promise it's got not enough friction so see it just slides along the Rope
so as it goes up gravity pulls it down and the angle isn't right it's got too much slop
on the top one so I gotta figure out a way of making it not slip down maybe just a little
stop knot and kind of sewn in that should stop it from slipping through and I'm going
to do the same thing over here on this side so I'm using one of these fancy Fizz they
come in a set of various sizes you just slide the line up and do the whole of it and that
makes it really easy for running it through the Rope here and uh that'll keep the knot
from slipping down
[Music] okay are you done well that's as good a place to end this video as any other more
sail trials and tweaking will be coming along and remember if you've been out in your shop
making your dreams come true little by little send us a picture of what you've been working
on it's inspirational to me and to others as well thanks for sharing your work take
care guys foreign
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