After we've installed the sailing rig. Keel cooling is simpler and less maintenance and the additional draft doesn't matter under engine.

Can you explain to my why a proper lettering is so important? We're a work in progress project so naturally you can't do everything at once. Of course she will do a proper lettering once the bulwark is painted. But for now we are legally required to have a name on the boat and tape is the solution for that.

@ Of course proper lettering is not important, please don’t be offended, just thought such a lovely ship needs an equally lovely font and lettering. In future I understand this will be done though. Good luck and merry Christmas to you both. 🎄

@@dar4171 Merry Christmas and I'm not offended at all. I hope people know by now that we're doing things the proper way even if it takes a little bit longer to get a result. We've already bought a name in golden letters just waiting to be applied to the bow. It proved to be very challenging to prepare the bulwark so we can put it on. In the shipyard it's too high up and in most harbors we're not allowed to grind the rust away. But now we found a solution and just need to wait for the right temperatures for painting.

Thank you very much! Merry Christmas 🎄

Thank you very much and Merry Christmas!

Well you should watch the video again. The waterline is now about 20cm lower at the bow.

That's the big takeaway from this shipyard time. Two years ago we fixed the damaged and we hoped that we've removed the reason for the corrosion. But only the haul out brought us certainty that we've succeeded. From now on we can build up and we know that the hull is fine.

We hope we can accelerate the progress now. It took some time to adjust to the scale of the project and we needed to grow into it. But from now on we're building up!

Many thanks! I think we've to hardest stage of the project behind us. But there's still a lot of work ahead of us.

Far from it and lot's of videos to come. It always takes some time to make and edit the videos. During the shipyard time we made so much progress that we can't put it in one or two videos.

I know the product but as long as we're moored in fresh water not really necessary.

We're registered as a pleasure craft and not one of our official documents mentions the waterline length. Anyway, we're simply changing the hight of the antifouling so that doesn't change the official waterline. we're not required to have a stability book and for our registration the only thing that matters in the LOA excluding removable spars. Yes we're by removing equipment the boat gets lighter but everything we've removed is above the center of gravity so stability should improve even though we float about 10cm higher. More at the bow, less at the stern. What you're saying might be true for commercial crafts or in countries were the load line length is taken as a measurement for registration.

The boat next to us was one of our neighbors for the past 2 years. Speaking about volume and displacement Flying Coney is by far the biggest boat on KZbin. I don't know if you watch other refit channels but although Yaba is currently a few feet longer over spars we're three times heavier. Sarinda from Ship happens is about half of our displacement and we're about four times the size of Tally Ho. I'm just saying this because the size brings some challenges and it's just a different kind of project. Bigger doesn't mean better but for what we want to do with the boat, sailing with up to 15 people, you need a sailing ship that size.

@FlyingConey i can only imagine the amount of work this brings. Only when you see her next to another big boat you have a sense of her real size as a viewer

Yes we will do once it's warm enough for painting again.

Das Dschunken- Rig ist recht modern und hat natürlich einige Vorteile. Es ist recht günstig und lässt sich mit kleiner Mannschaft bedienen. Also perfekt für SV Seeker. Wir wollen aber erstens Menschen beibringen wie man ein traditionelles Segelschiff sicher bewegt und auch längere Reisen machen. Dafür ist das von uns angedachten Brigantin- Rig nahezu perfekt geeignet weil es sowohl Rahsegel als auch Geffelsegel hat und sich alles mit Muskelkraft und Teamwork handeln lässt.

​@@FlyingConey Danke für die Antwort und gutes Gelingen bei diesem Vorhaben!

Good eyes. Not really missed it but shortened the painting intervals too much.