How To Lose $100K In An Hour...🔥

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:01]Do you want to lose 100k in less than 1 hour? Well, you could do so today in six easy steps. Step one, start your repair in an area that once contained flammable liquids, like this diesel tank. Step two, layer reactive materials on top of each other, like wetting out with epoxy resin, then applying Spa Bond, two extremely exothermic materials. Step three, trap the heat inside with not two, not three, but four LAYERS OF GLASS.

[00:00:29]OOH, NOW IT'S getting hot. Step four, have your work area in a poorly ventilated space surrounded by other flammable materials. Step five, give yourself a pat on the back, go take a shower, and wash off the day. Step six, return to your boat after your shower if there's anything left of it. Thankfully, we didn't leave to have a shower, but we did do everything else. This has been the worst thing that's happened to us on the project so far, and we haven't even fixed it yet. We've spent a ridiculous amount of time chasing one leak that's been a major problem with this diesel tank. And now we're confident that it's dried out. It's time to fix it.

[00:01:04]>> This circle area is where we'll be glassing. But for now, prep montage.

[00:01:19]I want to dedicate it. Everybody infiltrated activate it.

[00:01:33]Everybody talk about music.

[00:01:44]Thanks to whoever left that comment about taping the Bible glass while you cut it. So much easier seeing as all the outside sanded and prepped. Now what I have to do is try and sand in this little crevice. That is the point that we have to fill from and that's what we're all going to glass over. There is never going to be a tool for this, but I've invented one. It's a big toothpick.

[00:02:02]Wait, no.

[00:02:03]>> Paddle paddle pop.

[00:02:04]>> Paddle pop stick. Yeah, I've had to eat so many ice creams to bang these up. And then it's a little baby paddle pop stick. And what I'm >> They're the ice creams that I've eaten.

[00:02:12]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And what I'm doing is I'm just taking a little wrap on 80 grit sandpaper. And it's great cuz this is perfect for the crevice. And then once you're done with that little section that you've used, you slide it up and just rip it off. And then you got another bit. It's actually not going to say it's genius cuz I don't want to gloat like that, but I'm pretty impressed.

[00:02:34]N down to the supermarket.

[00:02:43]Dig it in the fast again.

[00:02:49]>> Um, I've prepped it all. I've done my acetone wash. If you were doing the job, would you put peel ply and then do all the layup on a piece of plastic or do you like to That's the way that's the way to do it.

[00:03:01]>> We've called one of our help lines. We think we have a bit of a plan. We're tossing up whether to do individual layers of glass, but then we're nervous about not getting it in the right place or having air bubbles. And so, someone said to do it all in one big piece.

[00:03:12]Split up all four sheets and then place it on there. Now, we're mixing up some Spar Bond, our piping bag.

[00:03:23]Probably the run for this. It's not like big enough, but La.

[00:04:09]Yeah, it is a big cavity.

[00:04:10]>> All right. I wonder if we should squirt some in the syringe and then squirt the syringe in there first.

[00:04:15]>> Oh, yeah. I wonder if it'll be too thick, but we try. It's pretty thick.

[00:04:19]Good way to get the air bubbles out of this.

[00:04:27]Unfortunately, couldn't get deep enough.

[00:04:34]I think that's why a piping bag is better, >> right? Cuz it flexes into it or >> Yeah, cuz you're only limited by the diameter of the syringe. I think just go in with the piping bag, honestly.

[00:04:46]>> All right.

[00:05:10]Do you think I should like try and do anything to it or >> I don't know. Do you think I'm the person to ask? I think I think don't like touch it too much though cuz you might pull it all out.

[00:05:22]>> Yeah, I think that's pretty good.

[00:05:25]But uh >> do you reckon how do you re >> I don't know.

[00:05:29]>> I wonder if it's going to keep falling like gra if it's going to fall because of gravity.

[00:05:33]>> I don't know. It's just going to ooze out. Yeah, it is really thick.

[00:05:39]>> That's sick.

[00:05:41]>> I'm not going to have enough starting from the top down cuz it's going to fall anyway.

[00:05:48]>> I think you're better off.

[00:05:51]Oh I was close. I didn't quite have enough.

[00:05:57]We need more.

[00:05:58]>> Go mix some more up.

[00:05:59]>> Yeah.

[00:06:08]>> All right.

[00:06:12]Look, it's falling down.

[00:06:14]>> Yeah.

[00:06:32]Well, I think now we can probably get our glass layup ready cuz this is going to fall again.

[00:06:37]>> Yeah.

[00:07:02]All right.

[00:07:04]>> Hello.

[00:07:06]>> How you going?

[00:07:07]>> We're going >> getting there.

[00:07:09]>> Yeah. right in the middle of it.

[00:07:15]Some more res.

[00:07:16]>> Yeah.

[00:07:23]>> 400 or something.

[00:07:25]>> A be careful.

[00:07:43]You got a pair of scissors here on the inside.

[00:08:18]Roll it to your left, Josh.

[00:08:20]>> This is all too low. Danny, >> you just drag it up.

[00:08:28]>> That's better.

[00:08:33]All right. Drop the peel ply off. Do you reckon?

[00:08:36]>> Well, you could do and just just poke it aside and put on this >> and put it back on when you you get it rolled out.

[00:08:44]>> Usually I don't I don't do it that way.

[00:08:46]>> Definitely make it harder.

[00:08:47]>> 100%.

[00:08:50]>> Okay. Yeah. They try and do that. Try and hold that in there.

[00:08:56]>> I don't know who suggested to use that blue stuff. Well, we're not going to tell you now.

[00:09:01]>> I know who did.

[00:09:04]>> The only hard thing is you're sealing the tank from the wrong side.

[00:09:08]>> Yeah, >> it would be It's almost impossible though unless you got a big really big hole in the tank.

[00:09:14]>> Well, the shame is the idiot who built it didn't have an inspection opening in the tank.

[00:09:20]>> Yeah.

[00:09:27]Is it still dropping it guts out?

[00:09:30]>> Yeah, not not not I wouldn't say excessively.

[00:09:34]Uh but it's kind of there's a low here that I was going to try and get get more up.

[00:09:39]>> Is that air bubbles on the folds?

[00:09:43]>> Yeah. Look, there's an air bubble there.

[00:09:45]>> I'll get it out.

[00:09:48]>> Just try and move it up if you can. It's >> like trying to put a pair of pants on.

[00:09:54]>> It's dark.

[00:09:56]We just want to squeeze everything in there.

[00:10:10]>> It's almost better if that air bubble to go out that side. That's going to be the >> Yeah. Bit of moving around. Is that fast or slow the resin?

[00:10:18]>> Slow.

[00:10:19]>> Is it?

[00:10:19]>> Yeah.

[00:10:24]and and probably not even bother putting the peel ply on, Josh. Or or just put a fresh piece on on the vertical side.

[00:10:32]>> I think that's great, babe. I think you did a good job considering >> I just hope there's no air bubbles in there.

[00:10:37]>> Yeah, >> that's the thing. If there's air entrapment, the diesel will run through the the air, you know.

[00:10:43]>> Yeah. So, you got to just make sure that the glass is really wet.

[00:10:50]Oh.

[00:10:53]I think I think you pulling it like that is sucking air up into it from beneath.

[00:10:56]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:10:58]>> I probably just um try and roll it with the roll.

[00:11:02]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:11:07]>> What do you think, Fibs?

[00:11:08]>> I think that's good. I think I think it's getting worse every time you touch it. So, I really don't know if you're going to be able to get all that stuff up in there anymore.

[00:11:20]>> Yeah. All the things are >> Can you see that air bubble down the bottom left corner?

[00:11:28]>> It'll be better if Yeah.

[00:11:30]>> blowing it out and down.

[00:11:33]>> You helping, please.

[00:11:34]>> Stop while you're ahead. Yeah.

[00:11:37]>> All right.

[00:11:38]>> Okay. No peel ply.

[00:11:40]>> I I I think I'll cause more issues trying to put peel ply on.

[00:11:44]>> Yep. I agree. Y >> if you wish to have it smooth with peel ply, sand it tomorrow, put one layer of glass on it and put peel ply on it.

[00:11:51]>> Yeah, good idea.

[00:11:52]>> This is definitely the most challenging fiberglass job we've done so far.

[00:12:06]>> It's not perfectly flat, but I think I don't think there's any air bubbles in there. And I think that's as probably as good as it was ever going to be.

[00:12:13]>> Good. consider our skill set. So, >> well, let's >> I think you did a good job. We can >> leave it then.

[00:12:18]>> Yeah.

[00:12:20]>> Got to stop touching.

[00:12:21]>> No, stop. Literally, stop.

[00:12:23]>> Really?

[00:12:24]>> Yeah. Okay.

[00:12:25]>> Walk away.

[00:12:26]>> All right. We're cleaning up and we'll check it out tomorrow. We We have neither high or low hopes. We just >> We're just hopeful.

[00:12:33]>> Yeah. Hopeless.

[00:12:35]>> I >> We'll see how we go tomorrow. It's >> the best we could have done, sweetness.

[00:12:39]>> Yeah. I hope it's okay cuz it's a really it's a really important prepare >> like a big air bubble.

[00:12:53]Can you not just try and maybe roll it out from the side even or up the top cuz all the air's come to the front?

[00:13:03]>> Looks like it's just keeping on going. I don't know. I really don't know. That does make sense because the piping bag would have had air bubbles in it. So now as it's expanding or curing, all the air is coming out.

[00:13:14]>> Why don't we just try and roll the air out out of the top?

[00:13:17]>> I'll just call.

[00:13:20]>> We've done the repair. Um and we're just kind of watching it as it's kicking now and getting a big air bubble in the front and expanding a lot.

[00:13:28]>> A big air bubble.

[00:13:30]>> Yeah. Big section of foam we cut out. I put that all as um spar bond >> and then I've laid four sheets of glass over the top of it.

[00:13:38]>> Oh, before the spa b went off.

[00:13:40]>> Yeah.

[00:13:41]>> Oh, that's naughty.

[00:13:42]>> Is it?

[00:13:44]>> Yeah.

[00:13:44]>> What's going to happen?

[00:13:46]>> I don't know. It's probably There's going to be a fair bit of heat there.

[00:13:51]>> So, what do we do with this air bubble now, Darl? Do we Do we just take the glass off?

[00:13:55]>> No.

[00:13:55]>> If if it's still wet enough, just maybe take the glass off, >> you reckon?

[00:14:00]>> Okay. It's like a big bulging belly at the bottom.

[00:14:03]>> Yeah, it'll it'll be the It'll be the heat.

[00:14:06]>> The The spa bond is still wet. It's still soft.

[00:14:09]>> The spar bond takes 24 hours to go off.

[00:14:11]It stays wet there, but >> Right. But there's like a big white cast, a big white thing at the base of the bulge. So maybe it's having a reaction with the with the epoxy.

[00:14:21]>> Yeah, with the epoxy. Yeah, but but Sparbind is epoxy.

[00:14:25]>> But so it shouldn't.

[00:14:27]>> I wonder if I'm better off just taking the glass off. Is it still very wet to peel off or?

[00:14:33]>> Uh, yeah, it is pretty wet. Yeah.

[00:14:35]>> Yeah. If you can peel it off here, take it off and then just put some >> I just put some tape over the spa b to hold it all in.

[00:14:41]>> Right. Easy.

[00:14:43]>> Thanks. Thanks for >> answering. I might come for a drive tomorrow and have a sticky.

[00:14:47]>> All right, mate.

[00:14:50]Learn a lesson here.

[00:14:52]>> It makes so much sense at the spot.

[00:14:54]Yeah. Yeah. I can't believe that that's what happened.

[00:15:02]Oh, what the >> That's what That's what it was. There were big air bubbles.

[00:15:13]>> Wow.

[00:15:13]>> Like that's smoking.

[00:15:14]>> It's smoking.

[00:15:15]>> Good that we took that off. I think there's still one more layer on there.

[00:15:20]>> Oh.

[00:15:21]>> Holy It's actually smoking. It's forced the spa bomb to go off much faster than it >> right >> likes to.

[00:15:32]>> I need to take this off my hands cuz it's burning.

[00:15:35]>> You need to put a mask on.

[00:15:41]>> We could start a fire in the boat here.

[00:15:43]So, we need to be probably pretty careful.

[00:15:45]>> I'm going to go and have a shower just then.

[00:15:48]>> No, no, that's We're still not out of the woods here, I don't think. Okay, put that on. I'll get your gloves. Put that on.

[00:16:10]>> Oh sh I need a chisel. We need to get all that out.

[00:16:44]What stops you from smoking?

[00:16:48]actually pulled that back.

[00:16:56]>> All right. So, we pulled the glass off.

[00:16:58]Thank all the sparborn had gone off already and it was like hard >> and smoking.

[00:17:04]>> And smoking.

[00:17:05]>> And how did you mix mix it? Did you mix it at about like a 30% or did you go way or just guess?

[00:17:11]>> I I guess 3 to one. Maybe you might have gone a bit heavy on the hardener cuz it cuz it cuz spar bond you're supposed to go by weight, not by volume, >> right?

[00:17:24]>> It's never really got hot on me before.

[00:17:26]>> Well, I think maybe cuz we put the glass over the top of it.

[00:17:29]>> Yeah. Probably didn't like that. Yeah, that's like what made it go off, I'd say. The heat from that.

[00:17:34]>> Yeah.

[00:17:34]>> So, is the spar bomb gone rock hard? Is it?

[00:17:36]>> It's like it's like as hard as a foam panel. The thing is though, we've still got Starbond in the piping bag and that's the that's still Can you see it, Josh? That's >> And that's still nice and soft.

[00:17:46]>> Yeah. So, it must have been the epoxy.

[00:17:48]>> Yeah. Wouldn't it wouldn't >> But that's a different that's a different mix. Remember, that was a later mix.

[00:17:53]>> I just wait till it goes off and I'll come for burnout in the morning.

[00:17:57]>> All right.

[00:17:58]>> Okay.

[00:17:58]>> We'll just keep an eye on it.

[00:18:00]>> All right. Thanks, Darl.

[00:18:03]>> Brother, you can see it's smoking. It's smoking heaps.

[00:18:08]It's admirable that we're trying things and that we're willing to have a go, but it gets to a point that we're working with dangerous chemicals. Basically doing extreme chemistry and FE was talking about this the other day and the risks are really high not only on our health but like the safety of this boat.

[00:18:24]Like we don't actually know enough and kind of probably have to reel it back in at times. Like we've pulled all that off as you can see and we're just going to sit on it for now. I think the lesson learned is that if we're using a new material, finding out the how-to from start all the way to the finish. Not just the prep, not just how to apply it, but also the curing time. Like, we didn't even know how long it took to cure.

[00:18:44]>> And if we knew how long it took to cook cure, then we knew that it had to go off before we put glass on. Like chemistry is has to be respected. It warrants massive respect. And this is what I was saying to Josh. I've never really had an interest in in chemistry in high school, but I have now that we started working on a boat, especially a fiberglass boat, because you're working with chemicals so much more than you did with when you're working on a steel boat. I'm feeling grateful that we that we didn't go and have a shower just now and that we were able to catch that. It's a good lesson working with new materials, reading the safety data sheet. Yeah, we should treat all chemicals like that. It's too big of a gamble.

[00:19:15]>> The thickest part of all the spa bond over it is very hard. So that's what's what happened that all the heat that was generated in that massive hole was trapped and couldn't get out and then >> cooked it.

[00:19:32]>> Made the glass. Yeah. Yeah. Remember when Yeah. That's cooking something.

[00:19:36]Yeah. Exactly.

[00:19:37]>> So that I think that top stuff that was the second batch that we mixed >> and that was the bag that was the batch that was in that little sack bag that was still soft. So, I think the I think the epoxy in the glass did have an have an effect on it.

[00:19:51]>> Maybe this just this different epoxies made it go off.

[00:19:54]>> Yeah. And maybe two different batches, too. There's no like quality control.

[00:19:58]>> That's really hot still. I don't know if we're going to have to pull that off or >> It's not smoking.

[00:20:02]>> I don't even know if I can get it off now.

[00:20:04]>> Okay.

[00:20:18]Like that's what I'm worried about. See how there's big air bubbles in there, >> which is quite possibly exactly what's happened in that repair in there as well.

[00:20:27]>> I'm not going to lie, I feel like a massive idiot. And you're probably thinking, I look like a massive idiot.

[00:20:32]And we could exclude all of this. We could say, oh, it didn't work out.

[00:20:36]>> No, we could actually take it all off and start fresh and be like, this is how we're fixing our diesel tank. Yeah, we're not going to do that. We're going to post this and we're going to read your comments, take your advice as long as it's constructive. If you're talking smack, get out because we feel bad about ourselves as it is right now. Anyway, I just can't believe it. Anyway, >> like we've I've just I spent a whole day prepping this and >> yeah, really funny behind the scenes, too, because we've had to organize how we're going to be working and editing together in this new process of like trying to get out of here. We've only got like 36 days I think in total for us to work together before we got to get out of here. So today I was editing and we were like okay we'll work together when I finished and so I came back Josh had everything prepped. We just jumped in. Didn't even really have a huddle or anything and just jumped into the work together. So really like for jobs like this like we should be working together from start to finish. So at least there's two minds and there's two different voices of reason rather than it just being one person who's doing everything and then the other person coming in and just kind of cuz I didn't didn't have really have really any say or insight into this and I like I trusted you. Not that I shouldn't have.

[00:21:39]>> I got my hand.

[00:21:40]>> Um not that I >> not that I shouldn't have but it's too much responsibility on Josh to be doing everything on his own. Like we're so grateful to have all these people that can give us their opinions. But yeah, it's a big job. It's like really It's been really hard navigating doing this together and making videos and yeah, it's been a lot of pressure on you, babe. So, don't feel bad at all. I think you're quite literally doing your best.

[00:22:03]>> I am, but some >> That's not good enough.

[00:22:06]>> It's not.

[00:22:07]>> I know. I just have a big pile of mess down here and I feel quite defeated. But hey, I'm kind of back at square one because the way I initially wanted to do this repair is the way it's done right now. So, maybe it will be good enough.

[00:22:18]Who knows? We're just um >> It's a lesson learned though, baby. like we're going to this is our second time using this material and we may have lost an afternoon or a day.

[00:22:26]>> Why are we standing all day? But >> yeah, but the prep is still there. It's just the spa bonding and the glassing >> sand it all again cuz now everything doesn't matter. It's all good. It's it's at the end of the day as long as we get all these harsh chemicals off us. We're not hurt. The boat's not on fire. We just got to start again.

[00:22:42]>> And um we learned a lot in the process.

[00:22:45]>> Yeah, we've had a lot of these days in the past.

[00:22:47]>> A lot of them.

[00:22:48]>> Yeah. We'll just add this one to the repertoire. Get my cover photo ready.

[00:22:52]>> Yeah, this will be the cover photo. No, it needs to be like a >> You'll never believe how the new kids on the dock burn their boat. You going to sit in the side corner for a little bit?

[00:23:05]>> Yeah, I think I >> Okay, I'll give you your space.

[00:23:13]>> Get out.

[00:23:16]>> So, today we're starting again. We're going to work slower. We're going to work smarter and we're going to work with a whole lot more respect for the chemicals that we're handling because we don't want to lose $100,000 in six easy steps.

[00:23:27]>> Last week, I tried to take the shortest path, which was a little bit of a shortcut, repairing the diesel tanks leak from the outside. This was a gamble. And not only did our experience not show using the wrong materials in the wrong density, it didn't pay off. So this week we're going to do it properly because on a job this important, repairing a leak on your 930 L diesel tank, you can't take shortcuts. We're going to repair it from the inside and then we're going to repair the rest of our work from the outside. That should give us a super safe and sound thing that I'm not going to sit up at night worrying about. And with diesel prices at the moment, we'll do anything to not lose a liter of that stuff. Before we get into this though, we have to have a serious conversation about the prep, about access, because if we want to do this right, then we have to be able to access the place that we're repairing.

[00:24:10]And at the moment, the access is pretty abysmal.

[00:24:13]>> Quick recap for those of you who are new here. We put 500 L of diesel into this glassin foam sandwich cake.

[00:24:19]>> Foam sandwich cake.

[00:24:21]>> Cake. Yeah, dude. Delicious. And a week later, we found diesel in the BGE.

[00:24:26]Pumped it all out. And through a series of a lot of investigation, we found the leak. If you want to go and have a look at that, that's all in the previous episode. But we traced the leak to a penetration in the foam sandwich baffle wall right down the very bottom. So, in order for us to repair that correctly, we need to get inside the tank. I definitely can't get inside this little hole, and I can only get my arm down to the repair in this side in this hole.

[00:24:51]However, we kind of need to get our head in as well, but we're trying to avoid having to cut a bigger hole in the tank.

[00:24:56]>> One of our fiberglass guru friends said, "Just cut a big hole in it. you'll be able to get your body in as well as a light and you know to be able to see the area that you're working in. But we're also thinking that this is a really this is a thorough affair in the boat. We don't want to have to reglass it. Maybe not do the best job, especially if it's something as important as a diesel tank and down one of the hulls. So what we're thinking, we've got a few different options. We're thinking we do have a bor scope, but the borcope only really works in really close proximity to the area that you're working in. It's not doesn't really work as like a general camera.

[00:25:23]So, we're thinking that we might FaceTime each other on our phones, set one of the phones up in there, cover it in a plastic bag, and then Josh would be able to work having his arm all the way down into that hole and have the phone right there and be able to see his work piece. Otherwise, you've probably watching this and just been like, "Just cut a hole in it, mate." But we're not as good as glassing as you probably are.

[00:25:41]So, that's why we're trying to find a work around this >> because the actual repair inside the tank is tiny. It's only going to take us a really short amount of time, but the actual bit of work is the prep. And because it's already had diesel in it, we need to get rid of any contaminants in there because I've found a little bit of epoxy resin that we squirted squirted through when we're doing the repair before and it's down here. And I want to show you something crazy because I went down there, picked at it, you can peel it straight off. So, because the air is not prepped, that repair will come straight away. And if we don't do the adequate preparation in there, it's not going to work. And we're going to do all this work for nothing.

[00:26:16]>> We're also going to be out of the marina really soon. We don't have time to be reglassing things like this. So, we got to think about what's going to be the minimal amount of effort, but it's also going to be the maximum amount of >> effectiveness.

[00:26:27]>> Yeah. Yeah. Efficacy.

[00:26:29]>> Yeah. Okay. Well, we I want to peel this thing off. So, I'll get the shorts because I'd like to show >> Yeah.

[00:26:37]>> Well, it just picks off. But >> that's a really good example of how hard it's going to be, not only to do this job, but to film it as well. phone in the Snaplo bag. That's the visual that you get.

[00:26:52]>> Oh, cling wrap is really good. That's cling wrap.

[00:26:58]>> What about just a mirror?

[00:27:03]>> Yeah, that Yeah, that actually would have worked really well. Okay, let's try this.

[00:27:11]>> Oh, there you go. Oh, look at that, bro.

[00:27:14]Okay. How how do Can you go for visuals?

[00:27:18]Can you see?

[00:27:19]>> Dude, that's so good. I can see perfectly. The only thing is that it's going to be in reverse. Everything will be mirrored.

[00:27:26]>> That's That's way better than the phones.

[00:27:28]>> Yeah. Well, the worst thing about the phones is that it have a lag, too.

[00:27:32]That's the mirror and the light, but the work piece is actually there.

[00:27:36]>> I don't think we're going to be able to film this for you guys. Can't fit the camera in there. And we're not putting the camera down there.

[00:27:41]>> Why not?

[00:27:41]>> Because it's going to get dusty and stuff. I'll put my phone down there then. I've done that before.

[00:27:45]>> Oh, we can use my phone. I got the cling wrap ON IT.

[00:27:47]>> OH, PERFECT.

[00:27:49]>> NOT FOR NOTHING.

[00:27:50]>> Going in.

[00:27:52]>> Don't touch the Are you ready?

[00:28:16]Such a beautiful song.

[00:28:27]I keep looking below.

[00:28:33]Whilst Phoebe is mixing up the vinyl resin that we're going to use for this with a bit of QC cell, I'm going to show you how this has come up prepped. I don't know if you can tell, but it's late in the day. I've been pulled off so many times today. It's been a very challenging work day. Um, but we have made progress. There is all been sanded.

[00:28:50]We've actually sanded the whole PVC tube back to about 5 mil of depth. We're going to cove all around that. And then we've got our layup. So, we're going to go one layer of double bias, one layer of chop, one layer of double bias, and then another layer of chop. And I've actually got a little strand of chop that I'm going to put around where exactly I think the hole is. So, we'll have four layers of glass over that area. We're actually going to glass all the way over that PVC tube. And then we're going to cut it out at the end.

[00:29:15]We're hoping that that is going to give us just the seal that we need.

[00:29:24]And she Heat. Heat. Heat.

[00:29:35]Heat. Heat.

[00:30:12]Looks really good. Yeah, it does look like he's got a lot of air out.

[00:30:19]It's day two. Phoe's gone to the markets to do a little bit of shopping, food preparation for the week, and a little bit of crucial time apart. I'm going to crack on with his project. The repair has fully cured. Now it's time for a sand. Cut that hole up and prep for this lid to go on. Let's get into it.

[00:30:37]It's incredible how much wax is coming off onto the disc while I'm sanding just from the VE. I don't think I've experienced that before with epoxy. I don't know whether wax does come through with epoxy the same as vinylester, but luckily I've got a fresh pad here. This is against my rule book, but I'm actually borrowing a tool from Ocean Degree. Kind enough to lend it to me.

[00:30:55]never ask again because it's such a it's like a cardinal sin. You don't borrow another person's tooling like but anyway I am and I'm breaking my own rules. Um and I'm going to get back into it.

[00:31:27]When we glassed over that poly tube, we actually sealed the lowest hole in that baffle to allow fuel to come through.

[00:31:33]So, we need to cut that back out center of that poly tube. Otherwise, we're going to be cutting into the baffle wall and we're going to have another leak and major dramas. So, it's a 42 mil ID. I've gone with a 32 mil hole saw and I'm hoping that I can get in the center of it. I did have a brilliant idea to shine a light through from this side into it and mark out around on the inside of the tube. However, I've stuffed a bit of a rag in there so we didn't get dust through when we were prepping it. And I can't get my hand down this side to pull it out. So, I'm going to have to just eye it off. Um, and I'm hoping that I'm not too much of a cockeyed bastard like my uncle used to call me because when I used to cut lines for him, it just was going in all sorts of um pretty bad directions. Um, we'll see. We We got to get this right.

[00:32:24]Oh god.

[00:32:29]He's still not wrong about me. I wasn't close to being out there, but we're still just within the tolerance. Now I can get a Dremel and just clean up around the edges.

[00:32:49]I'm going to quit while I'm ahead with this Dremel because it's getting seriously close to that poly pipe and I've already gone away close I ever wanted to. I think I'm even going to have to wipe a little bit of glue where I've cut into the poly pipe down there.

[00:33:01]I'm just nervous that after all these repairs, after all this fixing, that could be the thing that makes us come unstuck. So, when I mix up the glue for this lid, I'll just wipe a little bit down there. Can you please remind me cuz I'm bound to forget. I'm really happy with this repair and considering that the whole repair has been done like this.

[00:33:19]I reckon that's pretty good.

[00:33:28]I've got two templates here. One is the foam cutout that's going to be a new lid that we're going to glue back down. and the other is going to be our border that's going to go on the underside of this floor platform that's going to provide a support for us to actually glue down to. It's a bit of a hard repair to do on a tank where you can't access the underneath of it, but this is going to allow it to be strong and watertight or fuel tight, which is everything that we want here.

[00:33:56]Got a bit of glass plate here that I actually got out of the bin. So, this is going to be really good and strong enough for exactly what we want to do.

[00:34:02]It's quite thick. It's quite solid.

[00:34:56]Heat.

[00:35:11]Heat.

[00:35:18]Heat.

[00:35:27]Heat.

[00:36:03]If this is our hole and it's only 75 mil in diameter, We're only going to be able to get a 75 mil bit down there. And therefore, that's still going to be the same dome of the hole. So, I'm going to have to cut two pieces and then put them in halves and glue them up together and get them down one by one. And that's how we're going to be able to do this repair. And just like that, add a little twist, another hole in the middle so we can actually hold the plates as we're placing them into place. It's now 5:00.

[00:36:29]I've been prepping this since 9:00 a.m.

[00:36:30]So, it's been a full 8 hours of prep today. I can't understand how this is going so slowly. I feel like I'm working as fast as I can and it's just like takes a whole day. But we're finally ready to do the work.

[00:37:12]Heat.

[00:37:15]Heat.

[00:37:49]It's a cracking day today. And that's not just because we're almost at the end of this fuel repair job. It's because we're actually going to test our repairs. Because I had a bit of a realization. If we go and patch up the outside of that tank, we're not even going to be able to see exactly where the leak was coming from. And we can't test exactly if our repairs on the inside have worked. So that means we're getting diesel in the tank. But before we do that, we need to go and check a few things. Like, have I left any crap in there?

[00:38:18]So many of the materials we've used on this repair job have actually been from the bins. All of the glass plate, all of the foam sandwich panel, not the resins and stuff, but it's pretty amazing. All the glass was left over from um the rudders.

[00:38:38]Got 160 L of diesel here in jerry cans that doesn't fit in the other tank. The other tank's full and they're 930 L per side. So, we got a lot of diesel here.

[00:38:48]But my only concern is that we're going to have enough height to get over that very bottom baffle where our actual leak is. So, we're just going to have to get all this in and see. And if not, we're going to have to see how we can get some diesel out of the port side tank into the starboard.

[00:39:08]This is the spot to be keeping an eye on. Only time is going to tell us if we've repaired this leak. So, for now, I pretty much have to walk away and just come back and monitor it every now and then. I'm bloody nervous. But anyway, let's just see how we go.