What construction/material is this one? Need to replace our main and jib on our Looping 48.

awesome fabrication

This is probably a dumb question but ....I'm assuming creating 2 molds, glassing around them, then inserting and glueing it in makes better strength/continuity than wrapping glass over the edge of the hole and tabbing onto the bulkhead.. but I am wondering why? Thanks for any info if you have time. Love the boat and the channel :0)

Wizardry stuff mate 🙌

You covered the plugs with some kind of release film right? Was this baking-paper of some kind? How much draft did you have on the plug? 5 degrees should work fine?

so kewl

Could you accomplish acceptable reinforcement with fiberglass sheets like g10? Cut a hole, epoxy in g10, and then drill your cable hole in the middle of the g10.

In the casting world in the US the angle for removal is called draft. Nice work!

🙋 Слава Рукастым!!✊

Awesome video thanks mate

Firstly, thanks for sharing. Great content, explained well, good to hear the boys chiming in. Won’t mention Lagoon, oh, just did! 😂 They are clearly a volume built, & built for max volume. I was shocked to see just how they did it, and how under engineered they are, in my opinion. Of course the bulkheads are hidden, so, no one will ever know……for a while at least. 😂🇦🇺

The joys of owning your own 3D printer 😊

Great video and explanation! Also helps me to know what to be aware of in bulkheads as we search for our boat. 🙏

Absolute great content Shane, every video i learn a lot. Absolutely unique.

Great, informative content as usual. Love those carbon door frames! Do you think the factory molded wood door frames have any stuctural advantage? Or just decorative?

An RYA examiner friend admitted that for island hopping the med and Caribbean with a family, you really can't beat those mass-produced Cats. However, it appears many of the problems owners are finding are down to quality control rather than original design

I have only scratched the surface of the refit of my catamaran, and yes, I have gapping holes for wires, etc, thru the bulkheads. Thanks for the idea. I shall make a plan. Happy New Year.

So glad you are back posting. Your channel is unique. :)

One of the big problems with the lagoon bulkheads was that they didn't even seal the plywood after cutting huge holes.

Too much talking but I see the next video has some practical examples. So there is hope to learn something more.

Best sailing channel EVER, thank you Shane, Anna and young lads. Happy New Year by the way.

Great to see the boys getting more involved.

My yacht is going to get a much needed refit this year, the yacht has a plywood fit out, a lot of plywood will be replaced with foam. You have just removed so much worry regarding the repositioning of the door into my v-berth. Many thanks, I love your expert content and detailed approach to what you see as simple, and I see as the unknown.

Appreciate your thoughtful and informative content.

I tell people that my boat (FP) is perfect for what it was designed for. Anchoring.

yay, more gud content!

Super helpful tips! Thanks so much for the insights on rig tension especially.

to the absolute master of fibreglass , Young Shane ...... QUESTION TIME .......# Q1 with the Hobie Adventure Island Tandem ...... made of Rotomoulded Polyethelene (Plastic in my language ) Q is .... would it work without burning the surface when applying Epoxy to the bottom half if one was to use Kevlar for more protection from dings and deep gouges ( less Maintenance ) plus I thing it would give it a good look . # Q2 how many layers would you suggest and what cloth eg , biaxle ect thanks in advance Champ And if it is alright to do ... Q #3 would I need to or would it be recommended to Vacuum Pack it

Does vinylester resin behave the same way as polyester when vac bagging?

Another great video guys, many thanks once again!

Thanks for the technical videos. I'm your neighbor in the marina (a Neel 51 near the office).

The best sailing channel on youtube by far. I always finish the video knowing more than when I started. Excellent

Very cool, good work and great explanations as usual! I noticed that you aren’t sweeping the foam with thickened resin before your laminating? Nor did you mention how much resin you add to compensate for what’s going into the pores of the foam. I sometimes get lazy and don’t do it as well but the pieces I sweep first end up using less resin and so being liter. Always figured the thickened resin is stronger than the foam so no structural detriment? Also surprised you didn’t do filets to avoid those 90deg corners in the T? I’m sure however that same as the thickened resin sweep I recon you have a good reason for skipping it and looking forward to learning something new 😜

Brilliant explanation of the whole vacuum bagging process, from cutting the cloth to techniques on getting the bag into the corners. Thank you and well done.

Thank you for these informative videos!

Love your honesty, Ive always got a kick out of all these Imocas saving the plants blah blah blah. Learned some Great info here, Im currently rebuilding/recoring my J-29 and Im also just getting into vacuum bagging. So learned alot here, I just crushed my first parts getting a little over zealous building some carbon aero shaped stantions.

I watched an SLV video this morning for the 1st time in a long time. I suppose it wasn't a complete waste of time, the lesson from SLV was, your time is better spent watching a Young Barnacle vid

Thanks for the education, muchos gracias. Why didn't I think of pulling a thread. I'm assuming the vacuum reduction for poly ester due to VOCs doesn't apply to vinyl ester resin, is that correct? Thanks again

Great technical stuff mate, totally agree with the vacuum reduction with the VOCs, good technique. Ross

are you on SeaPeople?

Thank you for sharing these very technical videos, I feel that they really are in a unique niche in "sailing youtube" and extremely educational. A question on the super wide Teflon film if you don't mind; is it a product that is available on the general market or is it only available to pros? Thanks!

woah! third episode in a month? you're spoiling us! =D fully agree on that green ecycling thing, seems like most of the world has been taken for a ride

Does it have a rotating wing mast? Cool looking bitO kit though

dont capsize this one

What if the two winches were right next to each other centered? Wouldn't that solve the problem?

It’s funny to hear you describe a 2008 boat as an “old girl.” I guess in the performance circuit of boats everything is old sfter a few years! 😊

what a beast of a boat.. I love the space and the performance. What puts me off, as if I could afford it...., is it would be hard to really relax because I'd be so scared of scratching the table or putting a hot pot down somewhere or swiping something with a bit of metal on my harness etc.

3 mill USD, that's quite a pile of scratch, she is AWFUL PERDY though. I love a cat who's bows are so light. E glass, epoxy and carbon, that hull will last 1000 years provided it doesn't run into something with trees on it. The barnacles should work a deal for YT promotion to keep it. Gonna need some more subs though. Me, I love your channel, more peeps need to watch it.