Back to Venice. New Lewmar winches 😃

[@stoerenungeheuer543]

Finally back to normal Sam drills some new holes in his boat videos. 👍

[@stevev5510]

It's not a Sam Holmes video without holes being drilled into a boat...

[@Seacracker1]

😁

[@Cookingwithfire99]

Sam Holes sailing

[@SuperMrwhippy]

Couple more videos and it will be called pickled colander

[@oceanbnd]

Thank you, Lewmar, for setting Sam up with new winches.

[@antonioarroyas7662]

Now he needs a lock company to hook him up with a better padlock.

[@bartymurns]

That feeling when you get home after a holiday and find a beer in the fridge 👑

[@christophermaddams3723]

You do look better with a nice haircut. enjoy your sailing.

[@tomandsophie]

Love how the hair gets shorter and longer and shorter again during the video. Hehehe. Great video as always, keep 'em coming!

[@timallen6025]

Those handles are great to use . Very generous indeed from Lewmar👍

[@kebeaux6546]

Dude!! Super sharp haircut. Glad to see you back with Pickled Herring. Welcome home :-)

[@russellthomson5571]

Sam, if the winch mounts are bronze the you will get galvanic corrosion with aluminium.

[@c.Royle.m]

Catchy mold song. 😂

[@lacfilms8345]

New motor mounts, new winches, and new haircut too, time to drill some holes in the boat. Our International man of mystery & boating adventures. Holmes. Sam Holmes. Welcome back. Boat projects to complete before the new season gets underway. Your motor needs those new mounts. Less vibration for the driveshaft/ coupler to your propeller. The mounting plates for those new winches- too many holes. Replace them too when you can. New electronics to sort out- new comfort in the cockpit for the journey ahead. This season should be fun. Always entertaining. Thanks for bringing us along with you Sam.

[@chenegabfree7617]

Glad you’re back at it! White Vinegar will get rid of mold.. ! Sail safe, sail on..!

[@samholmessailing]

Thanks for the tip!

[@SOLDOZER]

I just wipe it off with some Clorox all purpose cleaner or something similar.

[@mukkaar]

@@SOLDOZER It's fine for cleaning, but vinegar is good for killing bacteria. Though I would probably first clean the boat in this situation, then use some type of disinfectant afterwards. I would dilute isopropyl alcohol in spray bottle to about 70%, then add couple drops of normal dish soap like fairy/dawn. Especially in case like this I think this step would be really important. Vinegar is ok, but not nearly as good.

[@vechnyak]

The DC-DC charger generates a ton of heat and drops amperage to cool itself down. I have exactly same one 30amp model. it needs good ventilation.

[@samholmessailing]

Thanks for the tip . Good to know.

[@jonkneeland]

Nice haircut Sam!

[@samholmessailing]

Thanks

[@davidc6510]

Another great update Sam. Thanks for sharing!

[@stagman244]

Cool haircut man 👍

[@samholmessailing]

Hey, thanks!

[@Cunard13]

Have you tried a bunch of damprid buckets in your cabin when leave for the winter?? Works wonders on mine. Keep up the great work! Safe travels 🙏🏼

[@rolfpiotrowski4325]

This is Sam: No day without to drill new holes into the boat! 😜👍 Oh, and the fresh haircut looks way better than before! 😎👍

[@adamkellythorn1141]

Nice! That seating looks smart, nice pattern as well! I’ve only used two speed winches, it’s really fab stuff! 👌🏼 Fair winds.

[@spudsmith]

Absolutely adore whenever I see a new upload from you, Sam! You're such a joy to watch, it really feels like we're right there with you :D Lots of love from the UK! x

[@MrTim4Gold]

So cool to bring us with you to bring her back to life this season!

[@WillN2Go1]

Hey Sam, something I recently learned about mold. I feed sugar water to hummingbirds. After many years the feeders all started growing mold like crazy. I'd wash them out with Clorox bleach 1:3 water, and it would quickly grow back. Then I left the Clorox mix in them for a few hours. Solved the problem. No scrubbing necessary. They're now like they were before the big mold problem. The top edges where the soak doesn't reach may still have a bit of an issue. One day I'll fill a bucket and put something to hold everything under. On your boat.... maybe just keep bleach wiping down the worst areas to keep the bleach working over a few hours. The cushions will fade or the fabric will become brittle, but ... I've also been experimenting with Chlorine Dioxide. This is basically WWI poison gas. Drop tablets into a bucket of water with an aquarium aerator bubbling and then some fans to move the gas around. Leave it for several hours or over night. It's heavier than air so it wants to settle in the bilges, so point the fans up. It breaks down into completely inert salt, and because it's a gas there's no residue. I can't find any residue. I put one of my boat throw pillows next to it, smells fresher and no fading or bleach spots (unlike the clothes I was wearing when I scrubbed out my bird feeders.) Hotels, car rental/used car sellers, and real estate people use it a lot, someone smokes in a non-smoking room, someone dies and isn't found for a week.... (my friend's apartment manager just told me about that one.) It kills anything organic mold, mildew, bed bugs! Get the correct mask. 3M 6002, and several others are good. (I bought a cheap full face mask but the filters don't fit very well. I have a half mask but just dropping the tablets and leaving I could feel it in my eyes. ) I haven't tried it on my boat yet, but I've done my garage twice and can't find any negatives. I want to do more tests to see if it fades anything.You don't want it to splash onto anything. So in bucket, with a tray underneath. & No dehumidifier? That seems to solve most moisture problems. I leave mine on the galley sink, leave that thru hull open a bit. I've got plastic bins for my clothes on board. I made silnylon drybags that go around each bin, so open it up, everything is easy to find, no digging around. (the bins are frosted plastic, the bags are white.) Crossing the Pacific we had several days of fog and everything got wet and my clothes got mildew even in the middle of a dense pile inside a tight locker. (I felt really stupid because I had extra dry bags I didn't think to use. Arriving in Canada, I just wanted to find a laundry.) Cheers.

[@samholmessailing]

That’s awesome. Thanks for the tips. I will try that

[@vidguy007]

I’m learning about mold also. Bought a fairly new house in the Pacific Northwest, found a spot of most likely black mold under a piece of removed drywall. Thought I had a problem until talking to a business that deals with removing mold. Basically wear the proper mask, use the proper filter on a shop vac, and remove it, all of it, with a wire brush Treat the surface Since there’s no evidence of a leak and it’s in the center of a panel, how did it get there? Most likely the wood panel was wet when installed An issue that would cause people to panic was easily resolved by talking to the right people. It’s fairly common

[@WillN2Go1]

@@vidguy007Maybe maybe not installed wet. Water will condense on a cooler surface so if the room on the other side is cooler or it is the exterior. Center of a panel suggests to me condensation out of the air. One of the biggest problems with some earlier super insulation attempts was leaving space inside the vapor barrier. Because the vapor barrier was up against the outside wall, it was cooler most of the year. Any amount of air has moisture in it and even if it almost impossible for air movement, it would still get wet and grow mold. The more modern methods are to make it all airtight, create a gradient of insulation so the temperature gradually changes through the insulation. Matt Risinger on KZbin has a lot of good videos on this topic. (Be careful, he seems never to say anything negative about a new product. But he is knowledgeable and if I was insulating he'd be a key source of info.) (btw I'm in Los Angeles which is desert but my humidity is 40% today and usually about that year round. That's more than high enough for condensation.) I used to know two ways of dealing with mold. 1. Get most of it off, and make sure the material stayed dry. This was for archival art on paper. The idea was mold is never really gone, attack it and spores will always remain but they won't flare up so long as the thing is kept bone dry. 2. Clean it, attack it as best you can, and then paint the surface trapping it. But the 3rd was is to saturate it with high concentrations of bleach for a period of time. This of course would not work on a photograph -- it would break down the paper. (in most cases it doesn't affect the silver image. I'm an old darkroom photographer.) This is what worked on my hummingbird feeders and last week end on my bathtub and tile. I just cleaned my shower tile and tub. Guy living alone...calcium build up.... a lot of black mold along the caulking.. Found a video suggesting using toilet bowl cleaner, which is a viscous form of bleach -- it stays on the surface longer. Worked really well. So that might be another option. And of course chlorine dioxide, but ask those mold experts I'm sure they know more than I do. And do get the proper mask (pay the premium for the full face 3M mask and the right cartridges. The emphysema you never get will be your reward.

[@michaelvanwinkle7919]

Good to see you back on the boat!

[@wibblywobbly1234]

Those winches are beautiful

[@Fishnutz737]

Woo! Thanks for a great video looking forward to following your travels

[@FunsongsMusicByPeterRahill]

307th tag-along view... 0:51 - nice 'frame-worthy' portrait. 4:38 - "You had me at 'gotta drill some new holes'..." Posted LIKE 127.

[@SailingSVSojourn]

Great to see you and pickle reunited again!!

[@samholmessailing]

More to come!

[@SailingSVSojourn]

@@samholmessailing we are looking forward to getting our refitting done this spring/summer and next season getting in some sailing along the Maine coast.

[@edl617]

Wow that is an eye popping cockpit

[@Xenibalt]

epic moldy boat song my dude :3

[@BB-js9ne]

I don’t have a sailboat but love the nice new winches.

[@stoerenungeheuer543]

🤣👍 I wonder what happens to the old ones, though. Could use them in my future boat build.

[@dinkylinker]

There are similar producers of such content but yours is my favorite.

[@edl617]

I really enjoy water taxis especially when no is drunk or sick

[@karlpentin4420]

Hey Sam, not sure if you realised, but the winch needs to be aligned so the output gear (the gear that engages the ring gear on the inside of the drum) is at 90 deg to the 'lead' of the genoa sheet. So your port side winch looks like it needs rotating about 90 deg on its mounting in a counter clockwise direction. Also, dont forget to grease the winch gears and the S/S roller bearings if not already done. but DO NOT grease the springs & pawls, they need just need a drop of light oil. Grease will make them stick and stop the winch ratcheting.

[@samholmessailing]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll take another look at it

[@Ian-gf8id]

He's back ! Looking forward to watching your adventures this season.

[@RobM-e3y]

A good video & a fine humor about the mold!

[@jennyreed7134]

Loving the piano tracks sam❤

[@timwheeler527]

Love them winches!

[@dismaldunc]

yay! more Sam content

[@mikenichols619]

Haha hell ya, lets the next adventure begin 🤘🤘🐋⛵️

[@corporalclegg914]

00:35 I got lost (kinda on purpose) around there late one night, after watching the US play Germany in whatever World Cup match & year that was at an English Pub, and it was fantastic. nothing reminded me of anything & it recharged me and my wonder. I love Venice & look forward to getting back there in the next year. cheers.

[@vinceyalapoopoo2047]

It’s sailing season! Thanks for inspiring me to take dinghy lessons last year. I guess in addition to rejoining the local volunteer run sailing club in Berkeley, California I’ll have to subscribe to your Patreon again! All the best out there, I’ll be staying tuned.

[@1240enzo]

Good to see you have some nice self tailing winches. I recall when we put the new Harken self tailing winches on my boat. What a game changer, even though of course they were’t free. You will certainly appreciate the ease of using such winches.

[@josephshultz6726]

The mold song is a classic.

[@tremorist]

The winches are a huge win.

[@Bobsadventuresfl]

Awesome. Nice winches

[@mikedruce1701]

It’s a great day when you post

[@robertgold2643]

Glad to see you back on the boat. Looking forward to new adventures and occasional hole drilling 😉

[@Seafariireland]

I hope to see the Dolomites some day! Good sailing and exploring this season!

[@brianstevens7241]

I don't watch your channel often. I can't believe you are in Venice. That is awesome.

[@naughtynauticals]

hahaha thats how I enter my boat every weekend. Winter sailing in the Netherlands lol yummy yummy mold

[@samholmessailing]

Yum yum 😋

[@StudioBeast7575]

So glad you are back! I'm looking forward to all your new adventures. Stay safe!

[@peters8583]

Nice to see you back sam, looking forward to the next season 😊👍🖐

[@jamesgordon2289]

Sam, those Lewmar winches are soo beautiful . The Pickle is Awesome!

[@triggerfish999]

You're back, man!! Excellent!!

[@AmazingRando303]

New foam on the seats looks nice, but probably not too safe if it looks "slick" ;) Fair winds!

[@paulroberts5677]

Ah I cycled from Calais to Venice when I was 57 (now 70). There is a railway station there. The roads were awful, all flooded and nobody cared.

[@williambrennan8197]

Wow ! New toys ! Hey, congrats on your nice hair cut !! 😁

[@scomo532]

Lewmahs ah the best! Good going getting them. Next time you stoah Pickled Herring, in the watah you might want to consider leaving a 60W incandescent light illuminated, fixed rigidly to the cabin sole. That usually provides sufficient heat to discourage mildew growth.

[@dmmaddex]

The boat is looking good, fair skies...

[@edl617]

On my first boat I took a tuberware container and made a cutout the fit over the winch so I wouldn’t lose any parts into the water.

[@loribadgero1035]

Nice to have you back!!

[@DaveStromquist]

Geat to see you back!!! I like the new "do".

[@lindabeaman5889]

Love your boat cleanup!

[@chrisballUKtoNZ]

Thank God you got a haircut. Please lord tell me you got some new sunglasses for Christmas from Santa 🎅

[@RichardMiller-q1x]

Glad you’re back.

[@tomreid3244]

Oh those winches look awesome !!

[@emmatalmadge1473]

Nice haircut! I can’t wait to see what adventures await you.

[@bobbyrogers5052]

Just a suggestion but those winches have a specific orientation so the side force of the sheet on the drum should be at the gear so the gear holds the drum vertical and doesn’t put a lot of force on the center bearings

[@samholmessailing]

Thanks for the info. I didn’t know that

[@patrickjames1080]

Brilllllliant Sam - thanks for sharing ⛵️ 👍

[@jimbojet8728]

Great to see you back on the ‘Pickled Herring’, with new winches and some other Bits’n bobs. It’s amazing how that mould builds up, but easily cleaned up it seems. Aren’t there ‘products’ that you can apply to keep the mould at bay? I hope the engine mounts are a simple ‘install’ ? Access into the smaller spaces on boats worries me a bit, but I’m sure you’ll have them in, in double quick time. Good luck with those jobs and I hope too, that your skiing trip goes well for you? You don’t want a broken keg or arm to hinder your sailing , so no heroics on the slopes ha ha! Thank you Dam.

[@samholmessailing]

I wiped most of the surfaces down with bleach and vinegar before I left and I think it helped because the mold was much less this year.

[@Swampkrew]

Dc/dc charger is a game changer

[@babuzh]

Try some rock salt dehumidifiers. It takes a few but it prevents the mold. I have been using it on my 25ft boat and it works fine.

[@samholmessailing]

Thanks for the tip. I will try it.

[@Wv8675]

I got some catching up todo

[@TheGutlessjester]

I got myself four of those winches with West Marine's BOGO. Excited to watch you install yours so I don't mess mine up too much

[@mattz1230]

So did I; I got 8 That was an awesome sale!!

[@DaveForArt]

i really appreciate the music @9:37

[@DaveForArt]

I live on Cape cod near Bass River. You'd be a welcomed guest if you needed a place to crash when sailing through

[@QuantumStellar]

if you spray the interior with LYSOL before you leave...no mold!

[@johncavar2914]

High tech quality ..U need those gizmos ..U know what Ur doing ..Goodluck Sam 🎉

[@vinceglauser4770]

I could watch allot more boat repairs. Keep drillin'

[@tomreid3244]

Sam - you gotta try 2 things. One is sugar soap wipes. Mind you looks like that’s what you tried. To stop dampness try about 6 jars of damp rid. For me that was a miracle cure to dampness. Even the books remain free of it

[@samholmessailing]

Thanks for the tips. I will try it

[@Karma-fp7ho]

What a great boat!!

[@WJSpies]

This KZbin channel fascinates me.

[@williamtownsend3279]

Looking forward to New adventures

[@ProjectGoMad]

New Toys always good fun!

[@marcusottosson4232]

Welcome back too the boat💪👍🇸🇪🇸🇪

[@johncavar2914]

Beautiful Venice 🎉I remember the James Bond movie 🎥 filmed in Venice .? Daniel Craig .

[@hmspain52]

Love seeing a tag on your hammer! So many things to do, removing a tag is not on your radar! LOL

[@RechargeableLithium]

Sam's the Mini Pearl of sailing 🤣

[@hmspain52]

@@RechargeableLithium Dating yourself! LOL

[@snakemain]

Went down to Venice the other day, but didn't look too hard for Pickle bc I figured you had already left with the weather starting to warm up.

[@Ash-cy7yw]

Yay Sam is back 😃

[@adrianskipper-i8o]

Wow your back on the boat . Always good to get things shipshape at the start of the season.The new cleat handle looks insecure and could fall overboard. How will you Fixit ? Looking forward to your new season adventures.

[@fredmuellerphotographer4532]

nice Sam ... stripper generally goes inboard facing ... so the tail dumps into the cockpit ... ps. I sail a Cape Dory 27 ... great boats ...

[@samholmessailing]

Ive tried it both ways and I think the cockpit gets less cluttered if I have it tail outside the coamings

[@SailingSarah]

Dude, damp moldy sheets would set my skin off into an itching fit that would send me to the moon! NO WAY 😂

[@markbailey6051]

When you are ready to round the Horn I have the boat for you. A Bruce Roberts 38' all steel cutter with 6' draft. Location South Florida.

[@beardedwoodsman9692]

Look forward too your next adventures! If you’re using the WD40 for lube, you may want to consider using something else, WD40 is more of a penetrant than a lube and will actually break down/remove oils.

[@MrShabby169]

Wow Sam your hair grows fast...🙂

[@mrjlarsen]

I was just thinking you were needing a hair cut 😊

[@DavidIke07]

Wooah!! A new Amerian flag!! Finally!! 😁

[@mattbloom1511]

The moldy boat song was 🔥

[@samholmessailing]

Haha thanks

[@rickharris5485]

You found your way to the barber.👍

[@jwyzdm]

Amazing how you took a boat that appeared to be total junk when you got it and have turned it into a world cruiser. When you got to it and said "What a great boat" I realize it's only great because of all the work you put into it.

[@Steven-i7e]

Hi Sam welcome back

[@Digiphex]

Hey your hair has a good style to it. I still like the rockstar look better but this is a good look too.