Mission accomplished. Very well done despite a hornet rudely interrupting! Looking good1 Thank you.

Good progress 👏

Is it just me who enjoys the time lapse bits. Well done David

Boat and engine are wonderful ! I sometimes wonder if a diesel cabin heater directed onto an engine block for half an hour prior to starting may help in cold weather. Apart from taking the chill off the engine / engine oil, warm intake air must also help.

Hi David, I think you did well looks fantastic for an apprentice fibre glasses keep up the good work I’ll always enjoy your videos Cliff from Logan city, Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺 i’m on the big island 🏝️

how do your knees stick it ?

I wonder if you could use uPVC sheets (sort of thing they use for window sills) instead of plywood? definitely would not rot in the future!

...There is only so much sanding we can watch... even at `dble speed`...

Agreed: Davids headlines are sometimes the best bit of the podcast.. Always watchable, but some are more watchable than others!

Just sand down to the glass and lay new glass to cover the whole atea . Then fair it with filler .

In North America the giant Asian hornet has been termed a murder hornet. The size of a small bird.

Brilliant, always love your videos, keep “ em” coming !

Hi David. Applying resin and fibreglass sheets for the first time is not for the faint hearted. You mad3 an excellent effort and your methodical approach is being amply rewarded. Good luck with the rest of this interesting and enjoyable series. 👏👏👍😀

What cheese do you prefer in your sandwiches, and what brand? All these decisions - I don't know how you sleep at night!

Loving this series. Good work. My thoughts on those side slits would be just grind it to a V shape with wide part on outside, then fill with mix of fine chopped strand mat (ie cut 2-5mm bits yourself) and resin. The water will try to force the V repair into the hull when in the water, so sure this would be fine. Final glass skin and resin over whole corner when you finish the back of the boat. I'm sure whatever you do will work fine.

Just curious about what looks to be a black almost arrow shape in the middlle almost on the keel? But you covered that with the big stripa fibreglass. Twigstars comin together. Keep up the good work bloke, stay vertical. Hows ya knees?

Love the whole sculptures against dependance on fossil fuels… and yet the vast majority who view it are straight of a vast vessel which guzzles heavy fuel oil which is catastrophically polluting. Just a boat full of effluent, waste, pollution, sound pollution, cell like rooms and poor quality food all while desperately being sold “extras” for profit and more profit. Madness. Iona is Liquified natural gas ran so not as bad but still awful. Glad you enjoyed it though 😅, good video quality.

Well done

"Stirring frantically " according to the subtitles . I don't need subtitles , don't know why they were switched on . That made me giggle for the first time ,in a week , where my dearest friend passed away suddenly . Thank you as aways for sharing

I think your idea of covering the whole transom, including "around the corner" for that corner cut, in one go is a good idea. It will a bit more work, but will become one solid, integrated transom from port to starboard. Thanks for your content! Keep up the great work.

Very good David . Like you i'm worried about that back corner , if you hit a lock or something right on the corner if it's not repaired right it with crack again and leak water into the boat so maybe you will have to strengthen the inside too . I'm no expert but you have to think "what if" . Because it's a gap where you cut it's going to want to move in when it gets hit , fiberglass is strong but not very flexible so i think it will crack . Sorry for the long negative comment :-)

What an amazing boat! Great job!

If a jobs with doing, it’s worth doing well. Great job!!

I agree with @AEHazz, except just grind out the whoopsie cut into a v-shape and fill it. (This is what they do to fine cracks caused by lightning in aircraft skin.). Then fill it. Then simply wrap outer fibreglass sheet from the transom repair right round the corner. That will use the remaining post and corer as a form, strengthen it and hey presto, job done. Time for a cuppa.

Is Terry still at sirius marina.

Commenting part-way through, so I don't know yet what you decided to do - but I would have left that starboard rear corner as is, give it a good sanding to ensure a good key, then wrapped all the way around, as that corner is rather battle-scarred anyway. Same on the port side, if that is equally battered. - -- I see that others have said pretty much the same thing!

Twiggy already looks better off than before you started. Well done David!

And my favorite sandwich is cheese and tomato….. lol

I love your utube channel……. Thank you…..

At a regatta I have seen Finn sailors with old wooden masts use resin on a ratio of 4 to one or less and sail 30 minutes later. Not recommended

Saw a Utube video about getting rid of yellow coat wasps. They dislike normal petrol. May work for a hornet.

Now I want a cheese sandwich.. 😂

Good on ya! Fibreglassing for the first time is a bit daunting, but once you get used to it, it's not rocket science.

You have a very understanding boatyard and neighbours. We are NOT allowed to do any sanding without a vaccum in our boat yards. Must be a Northern hemisphere thing, I have done quite a bit of glass matt over the years but I have never done gunging with it

Ok. I understand. Then it's one pig piece. The less joins the less likely it leaks.

Davids headliners are quick witted so is David...Its oming along David..Nice job nice vlog...😁😊

No need to take out that section, V out the cut, fill that with epoxy glue and wrap the glass right over the top and around the side. Not sure why you put filler over those hole repairs but it was unnecessary, it could happily have stayed rippled. Not sure why yo are glassing over the inner skin either, I would have just bonded the new transom to what was already there.

I would work on feathering down the outside of the corners before putting the outer transom fiberglass on. Sand down the outside, making the boat narrower as you go aft. It doesn't make much difference if you make the boat a few mm longer by adding plies and fairing compound to the flat of the transom so dont worry about feathering back to the fiberglass on the transom flat too much. The fiberglass on the flat of the transom then wraps around the sides and blends into the side. Don't forget you can build up layers on the inside without making them pretty. In a perfect world you would want to apply each layer before the layer underneath is fully cured in order for the polymeric chains to link together through all the plies, making it stronger. But you have to time it right because the chemical reaction generates heat. I've seen boats start smoking and ignite from large repairs done in one go....and one Chevy Corvette.

A job Weldone David I wouldn’t worry about making mistakes it’s how us humans learn from our mistakes

Looks great to me. Hard work and well worth it. 👌

Lovely work David! And i learned something 😊

Hello David if you can do this repair to your boat anyone can all you need is to have confidence and be brave and you learn something new each day can’t wait to see the boat back on the water

I think you should double down on your mistake of that corner and take the whole thing out. It would at worse be a mistake you learn from and more entertainment for the channel. But I would advise you do some test runs in the water to make sure things are great before you put money into it, with house batteries or anything else special and costly.

It's looking great, David! Very satisfying to see.

Itchy hands after that sanding bit?

338 thousand views. Isn't that about 6 grand?

152 thousand views and you can't afford a steel narrow boat?

well dun that man

Top Job chap 🤘

If you have cut all the way through the hull on the corners your ratio should be 10:1 . Overlap vs thickness. Otherwise you have lost structural integrity.