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Fuel spill watching is serious business, indeed.

​@@saraisabelsbstad4569 Hence the AC/DC top and Sunglasses 😎😉🧙🏻‍♂️🇬🇧

Yes! A winning team, right..? ;-)

Hi Allen. Thanks for your kind feedback. Just an ordinary guy here ;-)

@@hsobstad Ordinary is different in my eyes. I tend to prefer extraordinary.

Agree! Then the pilothouse really comes handy ;-)

Thanks! Quite enjoying myself with it :)

Thanks. Now I hopefully remember the word, next time I comment on the "Gutter". (That is also the Norwegian word for "boys"). :-)

​@@hsobstad Here in Canada we call them eavestroughs

@@robertpettigrew9042 ...and in Norway they´re called "takrenne". 🙂

Oh. Can that be used? Thanks for the tips! :-)

Hi Robert! Yes, your drawings is coming handy now. Thanks again! Yes the Rhea should be up every 2nd year and not every 3rd. Takes too much toll on the sacrificial anode for the propeller (there was none left). The firm that supplied the new propeller for the Fisher told me to only degrease it with Acetone to prevent growth (does not work - so maybe Propspeed next time). "Tell Sara to get a little more sleep to but keep dancing" Done! :-)

I can understand the need for max strength in the aviation industry. Kevlar mat...WOW! Have never used, less touched. Surely what the high performance trimarans are made of...(I guess). :-)

Thanks, still a way to go though... :-) Greetings from Norway (is this up over...if you are down under...? ;-D)

Haha! Nice one! I can how ever assure you there is no situation where Sara will beg for the car keys. ;-D

Great song reference

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Thanks Chris. I think I´ve got it now. Gutter and guttering :-)

Hi Chris! Thanks for your input. Best of luck with your "new" Fisher 25. Amazing little ship. :-)

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Hi Duncan! Haha, have you googled the Norwegian word for gutter ("takrenne")? :-D "Klatt" is also correct for a small amount of something like concrete or silicon sealant. No I have not used silicone for that. I very much prefer the concrete to do this job. It is a more natural product also I think :-) Thanks again for the SuperThanks :-)

@@hsobstad It's always a pleasure. Yes, concrete is best-especially at the top, where you have been using it. For "dry-stacked" stone walls, silicon just prevents things from shifting during winter and freeze-thaw cycles. It's not meant to be structural. Yes, I just ask the Oracle (Google 😉) for translation. Ha!

Thanks for your motivating feedback. Sounds like plenty work, owning a 1940s wooden boat. Do you still have it? Norway is expensive on food and things. But not so much on nature and those kind of experiences. One can camp or anchor for free almost anywhere as long as it is not in peoples garden or harbours. Less espensive nowadays as the currency is favorable for both Euros and Dollars. :-)

@@hsobstad I planned to ship it to the UK but discovered it was ridiculously expensive to operate/moor etc'etc in the UK,around 10 times more expensive than Sweden e.g. around £450 p.a.marina membership(all inc.) whereas it was around the same per month in the UK not inc.lift-out,shore-power,winter storage etc. so I sold it reluctantly,it was around 10m L,3m beam,,5 tons,5 berth motor sailor. As an aside I do remember paying equiv. of £11 for a pint of lager in a Bergen seafront bar in 2000,is my memory playing tricks ? anyway I've started to 'binge-watch your past vids in order starting at ep.30,so far I've got no complaints,keep up the good work.

@@busking6292 Sad that it had to go. We are lucky having reasonable low mooring prices, as low as £170 per year (a little outside city centre) or £430 in city centre where the Fisher is stored on land. Beer price on town is how ever another story. 1 pint varies between £4.2 (cheapest place) and £11 (mot expensive place). There are web-pages that lists the prices on different places in town... ;-D

Will do! :-)

I think you are spot on. The blade is really worn :-)

Yes, I know, Alan. Not making for a great example to others here.... I think actually the weather is quite similar yes.... :-)

But of course ;-)

Thanks (again) Allen. Yes I have always loved the lines of the Rhea 900, since I discovered them 25 years ago (or so). Only produced about 50 ever. I finally found her 12 years ago and have no plans to sell as I will probably never find another if I regred (not in Norway anyway). :-)

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@@oldkokitsum4022 :-D = 😀 = Good one!

Haha! I need a hair-cut...! :-D

Many thanks, Duncan! :-) :-)

@@hsobstad My pleasure. Thanks for sharing your video! 🙂

One single bed in front. Then shower and head on port side and a small galley on the starboard side. Thanks, I think the way I do the combination of epoxy and polyester is ok. But there are some people telling me it is wrong putting polyester on epoxy (which I dont do). :-)

I did say "summer house". I should have said "cabin" (up in the mountains). Yes I did say 3 meters of snow, which is the expected amount, during winter. If it is wet then it is really heavy... :-)

Thanks for clarifying this for me. I have always thought English was such a rich (many words meaning about the same) language, and is compared to Norwegian :-)

Interesting. I have never seen exploding concrete :-o The epoxy amine blush might also occur if the epoxy has been exposed to moisture during the first part of the curing process. :-)

@@hsobstad The exploding concrete highways in Kansas ( Think ' Dorothy "Wizard of Oz) leave craters everywhere sometimes a meter deep and large enough to swallow a VW, almost resembles a minefield or a really good carpet 8om8ing. It is legend that Epoxy resin under polyester filler; Hoods and fenders usually bubble up like boiling and blistering and some cracking. Oddly enough you won't use anything emitting combustion gases to heat cure the epoxy like a heater or torch because it weakens the strength and bond. You should use a cure lamp instead. Anyway, the reactivation of plasticizers, gassing or amine blush continues up through 160°f but diminishes nicely between 120-140°f.

I have not yet thickened polyester resin; I use thickened epoxy when such is needed. But you may (..!..) do it, but then change the order of things. With epoxy you add the components first and then thicken with the silica. That won´t work with polyester as you have very short working time once hardener is added. So start by adding silica to the polyester and then add the hardner. But remember, the hardening process is very swift (also the chemical reaction produce heat which in itself will speed up things) and you will only have a few minutes to complete the entire process, including adding the substance where it is supposed to be. So not very optimal. If you cool the polyester a bit (not to much as it might attract moisture) and also add less hardner (not less then 1% though) you might extend the working time by some minutes. :-)

Thanks for telling me. I have seen no logical reason why this would not work.

@@hsobstad hehehe, logic is lacking from many commenting. It's not hard to see that most are repeating what they herd elsewhere, no real experience at all. Just ask them what they do to prevent or reduce the fiberglass itch from grinding. I'll bet most don't know even about baby powder. powder up, then cold shower after gradually warming it up. Cold water closes the pores while the glass washes off, then the warm water opens them up to release anything left behind One of the oldest glass handling tricks around. It's what most did before cheap tyvec suits

Hi Simon. Yes a lot going on. We are happy to supply our part of "sanity" and normality with just being our selves. I know you would like my satellite disc hat. ;-)

Yes, that bulkhead sure was quite a handful to remove as the poly/glassfiber was still sticking well after 48 years. :-)

@@hsobstad yup and would have lasted another 30 or 40 years. there are lots of poly boats our from the 60s and 70s still workin good

I have mounted a new sacrificial zinc anode on the tip of the propellers "nose". The old one was completely gone after 3 years on the sea. For preventing marine growth I use the "Jotun Nonstop Supreme". :-)

Hei Jørgen! Takk for fin tilbakemelding :-)

I have not tested - yet. My guess is Yes! :-)

Rain Gutter it is. (trying to save this word to the brains storage disc. Thanks Captain!

Hei George. Jeg er litt usikker på oversettelsen av spolplatta, men antar du spør om kaien under båten er godkjent for slik spyling. Svaret er ja og denne båtforeningen var den første i Norge med godkjent renseanlegg som samler opp etterlatenskaper fra spylingen. Jeg bruker Jotun Nonstop Supreme - Rød. :-)

Hi Joe! Exciting refit with such a hugh boat. Quite a bit more than my 30ft Fisher. I did tear out ALL of the old interior due to rot in the bulkheads (and other places). Also my Fisher was fitted with 6 berths. 2 in the bow, 2 in the aft cabin and 2 in the mid-section (folding table down). That meant that all bed were small-ish. The head was VERY cramp. Not very much floor space in the pilot house either. So I am redoing all of the interior to fit my needs as a single hand sailer. My son actually did lay out the interior in a computer software, but it was some free stuff (possibly a game). So not very complicated, but you will find a video about it (ep. 29). Have followed the layout of what was set up in that video, except that I dont do the aft cabin. Instead I have a completely open solution. Yes it is radical, but I believe it will be ok. Of course a CAD program would be far better than what my son used, but I have no significant experience with CAD programmes. I think it is a very good idea to use a software program for the layout. And use time to consider your ideas, as they will develop and possibly change over time. I also built a full size dummy of the interior, using very basic techniques, to get a feel of how the interior actually would "feel" and the actual space of eg. the head. Best of luck with your progress :-)

Mange takk, Aleksander. Ja, jeg flyttet støttebena etter et par timer og bunnsmurte der også. :-)

That sounds very interesting to me. The preamp is a Wavac PR-T1 and it uses 4 of the 12AU7 and it will respond well to top picks. So still interested ;-)

Thanks! Got it now :-)

No, definatly not a morning person. She was just keeping me company :-)