Opening Up The Deckhouse: The Last Window Cutout - Ep. 492 Ran Sailing

[00:00:00]In last week's [music] episode, we hit a big milestone.

[00:00:05]We laminated the five pieces [music] for the roof of the deckhouse and got them in place.

[00:00:12]That was the last big lamination job [music] and we couldn't be happier.

[00:00:30]>> Pretty tight.

[00:00:35]>> After the winter we had this year, being snowed in for 3 weeks, we finally decided to get a machine that we could plow the road with.

[00:00:46]But we also wanted to use it the rest of the year, so we bought a backhoe loader straight from a factory [music] in China.

[00:00:54]And after 6 weeks at sea, it was finally here.

[00:01:00]It was a very good truck driver that could turn around on our yard with such a long trailer.

[00:01:13]We had 1 hour to empty the [music] container and then it started to cost 100 euros per extra hour.

[00:01:29]Our neighbor got the help us out >> [music] >> and we could also use his front loader to get all the things out.

[00:01:39]Many might think it's scary to buy something like this from a country so far [music] away, but we had very good communication with the factory the whole time and the [music] price was much lower compared to buying one here in Sweden, which made [music] it fit our budget.

[00:02:08]>> Now we don't have to dig by hand in the garden. We can lift heavy things and clear snow in the winter.

[00:03:14]It's clean up day again on Sunnyl Farm today.

[00:03:18]Long overdue as it always is. It goes too fast to fill the place up with uh things from the boat build that we need to get rid of.

[00:03:30]And today we also have a lot of stuff to get rid of from the place in this little house that we now turned into the welding shop. And then there's always a lot of cardboard and then vacuum vac- vacuum bagging material.

[00:03:45]So we rented a trailer for 24 hours.

[00:03:49]So we will just go back and forth the whole day today.

[00:03:52]and I hope we can get rid of everything.

[00:03:56]And then the plan for our backhoe loader that we haven't named yet.

[00:04:02]We named it Gravis, which is like a nickname for someone who digs.

[00:04:09]But we wanted to find a name that works in English a little bit better.

[00:04:14]Moby Dig.

[00:04:16]>> [laughter] >> And it's white. Moby Dig. Yeah?

[00:04:24]It'd be nice to have a whale on the farm that can dig.

[00:04:29]But the plan for the backhoe loader is to build a shed over there where Johan is so it can stand under a roof.

[00:05:12]>> Feels a bit weird spending this many hours on a piece like this for one use. We can put the roof on now.

[00:05:22]Yeah, we don't have any use for it anymore and it's too big to keep so we have to take it down.

[00:06:09]>> We haven't found any use for all the sawdust that we have.

[00:06:12]So, we took [music] some of the bags to the recycling station as well.

[00:06:19]>> [music] >> We drove five times [music] to the recycling station to get rid of everything.

[00:06:46]>> Only like uh 30 to go.

[00:06:48]>> Yeah.

[00:06:55]After two full days of cleaning and organizing, the barn [music] and stable started to look presentable.

[00:07:10]>> It feels so nice to have a tidy barn again. It makes it easier somehow to just work mentally.

[00:07:18]And uh yeah, feels nice to have a fresh start for the next phase of the build.

[00:07:25]Now that we're finished with the large lamination projects.

[00:07:30]Uh so, I can continue with more lamination, but smaller things.

[00:07:36]Uh and I'm thinking for this week, I need to tie up some loose ends.

[00:07:41]Um position the roof correctly on the deckhouse so that we can get that glued in so that we can start uh tapping that and get the laminate in place on the inside of the deckhouse walls.

[00:07:56]Um we're also missing some pieces in the cockpit and there is a lot of tapping to be done there as well. And I'm thinking maybe we'll have the time to also glue in the afterdeck so that we can do some more tapping on that. And the whole area back here in the cockpit, there's tons of tapping to be done there. It's there are so many small pieces, different angles that needs to be tied together with fiberglass.

[00:08:25]And that takes a while. Uh tapping is not a small thing in this whole project because every piece of the boat needs to be tied together with um fiberglass to get the proper strength.

[00:08:40]>> [snorts] >> So this week there won't be a lot of visual progress, uh but small, important steps to be able to take the next big step.

[00:09:46]>> My brother, Lucas, came and stayed with us for a few days and helped us out in the garden and to clean the barn.

[00:11:43]>> So, that was the last two pieces of the outside structure going in.

[00:11:49]And now we also have the after deck glued in place.

[00:11:54]And what's missing now is obviously a lot of tapping to be done.

[00:12:00]Uh Marlene has done most of the tapping on the inside of the structure and I did the last inside of these boxes.

[00:12:07]So, now we're missing a lot of tapping on the outside of these pieces, all these joints needs to be tapped together.

[00:12:16]Yeah, maybe I was lying a bit when I said those were the last two missing pieces. We're still missing the toe rail. And that will also be a part of the hull, I guess you could say, of the deck and hull.

[00:12:30]And I'm thinking that now I want to take up that last portal or window in the after bulkhead between the deck house and the cockpit.

[00:12:42]Because that's really the final feature that we're missing now to get the feel for how uh the design will look and feel when you're sitting in the cockpit and inside of the deck house, how the visibility will be through the deck house when you're back here steering and yeah, and sitting in the cockpit.

[00:13:53]>> So, I'm thinking we're going to make this window almost as big as the side windows in the deckhouse.

[00:14:00]Just to have a great visibility through the deckhouse from the cockpit.

[00:14:05]And also so when you're sitting inside of the deckhouse that you get good angles looking aft. Those are 1200 mm and I'm going to make this one 1100. And obviously making this window as big as possible will will give us the best visibility and I can't really see any downsides to that, so. And because we have the bulkhead already in place, I can't use the shaper directly to cut the hole, so I'm going to make a template now um so that we can use a normal router with the ball bearing on the router bit to cut the hole once I have made the rough cut with the jigsaw.

[00:15:59]>> The big day was here, and after cleaning until midnight the day before, we were ready to welcome [music] our patrons.

[00:16:15]Around 75 people came to see round three, us, and the farm, and it was so fun to meet all of you.

[00:16:26]We always get overwhelmed by the thought and realization [music] that there are so many people who follow us.

[00:16:33]And many have followed us since our first episode over 10 years ago.

[00:16:40]It's so touching to hear that our videos are enjoyed by people from all over the world. And that people want to travel across oceans to come and see round three.

[00:16:54]>> Round three.

[00:16:56]>> Woo.

[00:17:02]>> We had such a great day, and thank you so much to all of you for following us.

[00:17:07]It really means so much to us.

[00:17:24]>> It feels really protected under the roof. And it feels also that you're protected from the water.

[00:17:32]>> Yeah.

[00:17:33]>> You It's not in the ocean yet, but I'm, you know, imagining we are pretty far from the water from the aft and also from the sides.

[00:17:43]Uh but I don't think we'll feel that we're sitting too high.

[00:17:47]>> It's quite hard to imagine where the actual waterline is when the boat is standing like this in the barn.

[00:17:55]But it feels like we're pretty far up. I mean, I know the measurements, but >> Yeah, we've seen on the >> But it's hard >> but I think it's good.

[00:18:08]>> Yeah, I think so, too. So, what do you think about the new window opening?

[00:18:12]>> It really opened up and the space and connected the the deckhouse, the salon with the cockpit.

[00:18:20]>> Yeah.

[00:18:20]>> So, I think it's great. And then you can see all the way through out on the sides and straight forward.

[00:18:27]>> What do you think about the angles?

[00:18:28]>> It's good.

[00:18:29]>> Yeah.

[00:18:30]>> And also when you're standing behind the wheels, I mean, at least on starboard side, >> Yeah.

[00:18:35]>> um if you sit down on the combing, I see straight through the windows >> Yeah, I can >> and see up until the bow, which is going to be great.

[00:18:45]>> And I also think It looks >> That's going to be the best spot on watch.

[00:18:56]>> Definitely.

[00:18:57]>> watch.

[00:18:58]>> And the angles here are perfect. I mean, you see almost 360° from here.

[00:19:05]>> We're so happy that we are here now in the build.

[00:19:08]And we are so tired.

[00:19:10]>> Yeah.

[00:19:10]>> We need a vacation.

[00:19:12]>> Definitely time for vacation soon.

[00:19:16]>> But until then, we're going to keep on working, keep on building.

[00:19:20]>> Yeah.

[00:19:22]>> It will be interesting when we have the steps down and then we have the the hatch that can open.

[00:19:28]>> Yeah, that's also some details around that that we need to decide what's going to look.

[00:19:35]>> I need some support here.

[00:19:37]>> Yeah.

[00:19:37]>> These edges the corners here that are going to >> Yeah.

[00:19:40]>> hang in the air. Thanks for watching this episode and we hope to see you again [music] next Friday.

[00:19:46]>> Yeah.

[00:19:46]>> Take care until then.

[00:19:48]>> Bye-bye.

[00:19:48]>> Adios.