Well said. I second this. Keep going Stu.

That’s a good idea. Parts of the job certainly feel hard and lonely but it does help having you guys supporting me. :)

I sit here every week waiting for the next instalment. If you don’t put something up every week I get really annoyed and sulk about until you do....😂😂 You are doing what my lifetime dream has been. Hopefully you will motivate me to try at very least a small part of what you have achieved. Proud to say I watch your journey. 👍😁

who needs Netflix ?

Same exact thoughts here. It was that bold question that attracted me to this channel in the first place. "Is it a smart idea to buy an old steel boat?" I'd very much like to hear Stu's opinion when it's all said and done. I know my answer to the question, "Do you like welding?"

Same here, its that question which took me here and got me hooked ever since... and loving every moment of it... Cheers Stu👍🍻

Stu, that was an excellent original question to ask and definitely for me that is an ABSOLUTE NO. I purchased an old Sparkman and Steven's 38 footer,built from Australian Jarrah and a beautiful looking yacht, but the work never ended and the drain on the purse was constant. I am sad she has gone in some aspects but I do not have to worry about BOAT. Bring On Another Thousand. Never a more apt definition ever Uttered. You are a Good Man Sir.

Yep, I’ll definitely do a bookend video to go with that first one.

Thanks Jay.

Thanks mate. I really felt that way too. I feel it is just a matter of when now rather than how.

@@DangarMarine My thoughts exactly, just about got it cracked.

@@DangarMarine Yip you're now in, "The same Parish " as that Axial Alignment seems very close almost sorted, plus as you have tacked up the Brackets with the Jacking Screws once you have locked them up you will be even able to correct sidewards alignments by releasing half turns on one side while jacking slightly on the other side, Just remember that there needs to be a good Even bite taken up on all four corners allowing the weight spread on the Jacking nuts on those pads, as you can get rocking of the engine if one isn't taking it's fair share of the load... Down that home straight.... Great Work...

Indeed. Metal where it shouldn't be? Crack out the grinder!

It is quite the squeeze!

Thanks Sam. I’m glad I don’t know what it would take when I started as I probably wouldn’t have begun!

It’s so far to the hardware store from here that I always buy every size might possibly need. :)

MJW you’re allowed to suggest inanimate white objects with out being racist mate, all your doing is showing us all insecurities around your own race

@@MangoVisionn I think it was a comment about how ridiculous modern PC culture is more so then his personal insecurities, Projecting much?

Brett Young he’s literally partaking in PC culture even if it is being facetious, think about it

@@MangoVisionn I don't think partaking in a culture or ideology for the purpose of mocking it is necessarily a bad thing.

Brett Young - I made the assumption that someone who brings race into a discussion about bloody awnings on boats, hasn’t exactly grasped the concept enough to mock the subject/culture. That may not be a fair assumption but it’s one I made.

Thanks mate.

Thanks mate. I feel like I’m over the hurdle now. The fine alignment should be pretty easy.

@Aluminium workboat project It's the Hawkesbury River, which is an estuary.

I hate when that happens. 👍👍👍 :)

Thanks mate. Got there in the end! :)

I’m looking forward to getting up to the reef. I hope the bleaching isn’t too bad.

Thanks Bruce. I’m sure all the effort will feel worthwhile as I’m cruising up the coast. :)

Interesting, thanks for sharing your tip!

Thanks mate. Fortunately when I Got the opposite foot adjusted it’s sat down quite nicely I’ll definitely do a final check on everything though

Thanks mate.

Thanks mate. :)

Yes, I do think being able to keep an eye on the trim will make the boat safer at sea.

Thanks Lee.

Thanks mate.

Yes, they've certainly made it much easier to make fine adjustments.

Thanks mate.

Good luck with your project, they sound like interesting boats.

Thanks Steve!

Thanks mate!

I may get a guy in ti do that super fine alignment once it is running. I didn’t feel I could really contract anyone until I had given him or her a good way of doing their job which I feel I have now with all the screw adjustment.

Thanks Fred. Slowly getting there!

Not long now Phil!

Thanks mate.

Thanks Gavin. :)

Getting close now. :)

Thanks mate. Very close now.

I think you are right Tony, a little bit of progress often is a great way to tackle these projects.

It is a valid concern, but I also think the gasses tend to rise up being hot.

I’m looking forward to getting the rest of the bolts in and seeing how easily they start.

Big ups for the "Honor Harrington" handle. Nike's bridge was hazed with thin smoke, eddying towards the holed bulkheads and the bottomless hunger of vacuum beyond. Electrical fires blazed unchecked, Astrogation was so much blasted wreckage, and bodies littered the deck. Edward Saganami's face was streaked with blood as he faced the pickup, and more blood coated his vac suit's right side as it pulsed from a deep wound in his shoulder. The tactical display was still up behind him. Its icons and damage sidebars and the lurid damage codes on the damage control schematic flickered and wavered as its power fluctuated. But they were still there, still showed the other battlecruiser maneuvering for the final, fatal shot Nike could no longer avoid. "We're done, James," Saganami said. His voice was hoarse, harsh with pain and the exhaustion of blood loss, yet his expression was almost calm. "Tell the Queen. Tell her what my people did. And tell her I'm sor-" The simulator went black. There was utter silence in the lightless auditorium. And then, slowly, one final image appeared. It was the golden cross and starburst of the Parliamentary Medal of Valor on its blue, white, and red ribbon. The same colors gleamed among the ribbons on Dame Honor's chest, but this Medal of Valor was different. It was the very first PMV ever awarded, and it hung before them for perhaps twenty seconds. And then the lights came up once more, and Lady Dame Honor Harrington, Commanding Officer of the newly reactivated Eighth Fleet, Manticoran Alliance, looked out over the Royal Manticoran Naval Academy's four hundred and eleventh senior class. They looked back at her, and she inhaled deeply. "Ladies and Gentlemen," she said, her soprano voice ringing out clear and strong, "the tradition lives!"

@@MargaretLeber It gets a nod or a wink every now and then from those who know but it's such an ordinary name that it never inspires interest in those who don't recognise it. Kinda wanted to guide others to read the books. Military SciFi is such a small readership.

certainly better watching him slowly go crazy than experiencing it myself

Thanks mate. :)

Thanks mate.

Outboards are easy like that.

Thanks Barry, getting there now!

Thanks Gary. :)

Thanks mate.

Thanks mate. I definitely think I’m part the worst of it now.

Hey Glenn, sorry to be in such a rush when I saw you, was already running late!

Too easy mate, not a problem. Cheers, Glenno