ELECTRONICS INSTALL START Ep.181 Building my steel sailing yacht

[@radicalradiotech4944]

Hell I'm watching things twice!!!! I fitted $20,000 NZD of RayMarine shit to my 38 footer back in the day so much fun!!

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Ha! thanks 🙂👍🏻

[@SpiralDiving]

Make sure you have a few coils of transducer cable next to the transducer so you can pull it out without stressing the cable

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks for your good comment, appreciated and yes, a good point 🙂👍🏻

[@mp6756]

She's looking good! From my armchair perspective, you're moving along nicel, checking the items off the list, but I imagine you are ready to set sail!

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks very much Mike, appreciated and there is much work yet to be done before the sailing,.. 🙂⛵👍🏻

[@DWAJarrett]

Love your attention to detail Bruce. You say the boats a mess but it seems to be the cleanest mess on a boat I've seen. She's look'n grand👍

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Hey thanks very much for your good comments Damon, appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@johnrichardson9125]

Hi Bruce loved the video and the extra few minutes of your work, another job well done, keep it up.

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Hi John and thanks very much for your good comments mate, appreciated and glad that you appreciated the longer ep. 🙂👍🏻

[@nick.caffrey]

huw, how, kew 😅 so funny for an Irishman who pronounces the l's and r's in English. Even funnier that you have the good humour and awareness to put in the captions! I've been watching since the beginning, Bruce. The transducer is so well thought out. I'm beginning to feel the excitement as splash approaches! Good on you, mate! On quality of workmanship and thoughtfulness alone, this boat is one in a million!

[@BuildingSYMistress]

😆Good on you Nick and yes, understood, I did spot these when editing! Thanks for your good and encouraging comments and for following Mistress' journeys, appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@piercet]

I started watching your channel just to see what you were going to do to cover those side deck house to under deck inner linings, and now I can see what you are going to do there. Yay!

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks for your good comment and for following Tim, appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@DarianCabot]

It's very satisfying to see you not cutting corners on the install with machined mounting blocks and flex conduit. I'm sure all the effort will pay off in reliability for years to come :)

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Hey good on you and thanks very much for your good comments Darian, appreciated mate! And yes, one of my primary reasons for putting in all of the effort over the years is to avoid, as much as possible, things coming back to 'haunt' in the future, requiring even more work and problems to fix! Also jfyi, I did think of you when putting this ep. together, knowing how knowledgeable and clever you are with electronics,... it would be good to hear some of your thoughts on the install,... 🙂👍🏻

[@graham6229]

Great job. You will get comments which tell you what you already know and that is about the heel of the vessel altering the lateral perpendicular and the trim and pitching of her altering the fore and aft pependicular. Not a problem when reading depths down to percentages of a metre beneath the keel. Thats right, NOT beneath the transducer.

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks for your comment Graham, appreciated and yes, I will be setting the transducer to the bottom of keel! 🙂👍🏻

[@randy5411]

You are a boat builder and a half! Excellent work.

[@rijmenammerart1100]

more 🙂

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Hey thanks very much Randy, much appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@BuildingSYMistress]

@@rijmenammerart1100 Thanks very much, appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@Andre-yu3qs]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing.

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Good on you Andre, thanks very much, appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@SquidoftheD]

I feel your short term pain, once you enjoying the gifts of the ocean and islands you will forget all about it

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Hey thanks, appreciated and Ha! yes, there are YEARS of 'short term' pain indeed, but the rewards when they come WILL be very sweet,.... 🙂👍🏻⛵

[@kevinmartin3859]

Nice one Bruce well done another job of the degreasing list

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks Kevin, appreciated and yes, crossing them off,.. 🙂👍🏻

[@michaelmogensen728]

Hej Bruce Det er godt at se du kommer til at få det hele til at virke 😊 Hilsen fra Danmark og Michael ❤

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Hej og tak for your good comments Michael, appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@president2]

Love it so much keep it up as always 💘

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Good on you Chuck, thanks, appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@bdphourde]

I am used to seeing the transducers (at least the speed paddle) being located to the side of the keel attachment point so the lifting straps would never be in contact with, and damage, the paddlewheel. Since yours will be forward of the keel then it is fair game for the lifting crew to snag it, or cover it with the strap and damage it. I guess this means that the transducer will have to be removed before pulling the boat out of the water. But your leveling rings can still be damaged unless you can ensure the straps don't scrape across it or cover it when lifting.

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks very much for your good comments Brian, appreciated and yes understood re. location of transducer. I followed Raymarines advice with this but YES, I WILL need to be careful every and any time slings and lifting are going to be used and done and plan on being careful with position, rather than removing the transducer, however that is an option 🙂👍🏻

[@4englishlies875]

Bruce, nice job with the wiring of the depth sounder. Don't you wish you knew all the things that you needed to do so that you would not have to do all the replacements of stuff you have all ready done? What that saying hind sight is 20/20.... that is the story of my life...lol can't wait till you launch you have been doing a heck of a food job!!

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Good on you Jeff and thanks very much for your good comments and OOOWWWW YES indeed do I wish that I could have foreseen A LOT of things!! 😬👍🏻

[@Coyotehello]

08:33... SCARY! 12:36... Rewards! Yeah. Nicely done! Here is a little bit of "fun" information. on our VdS 34 we have an older transducer and just like you did I thought I will swap it for a newer DST transducer. Easy enough right? But no. At some point in time they changed the diameter of the transducer so the new one would not fit in the current hole. So I just put that project aside for another day... Cheers, a.

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Good on you and thanks very much Alain, clearly you too have these 'project' experiences! 😬 Boats and marine suppliers hey?! Part of the reasons why, as I say, there is no 'perfect' and EVERYTHING is a compromise! All the best ahead 🙂👍🏻

[@JosephTabone-j4p]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks Joseph appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@Davidcallard]

Good work Bruce. Ì have two questions about the work to come. Re the transducer I hope RayMarine provide some easy way to guarantee the correct orientation of the instrument otherwise I can foresee a nightmare ahead for you! It's going to be too late after Mistress is in the water! The second question is about how you are going to go about covering the gap below the windows of the cabin and the area of the insulation foam above the bench seat below. I noticed in video that you have placed, I expect expirementally, a couple of planks over the area in question. In my opinion, I don't think that approach is going to work aesthetically. I'm afraid I think you are going to have to cut out of ply or whatever other material you decide upon, single piece panels for that area. I imagine that this problem has been a challenging one for you as well as your viewers? How about the plastic material that they use inside aircraft interiors? Probably impractical for many reasons including supply! I hope this feedback has been of some small degree of help to you. That's all for now folks! I'm sure Mistress will be a stunner moored àt the dockside!

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks for your good comments and questions David, appreciated and re. transducer orientation, yes, there is a very clear directional arrow on the housing for this and re. the cabin lining, you are correct that it was a big thing to problem solve, however I guess that you will just need to stay tuned as to how this turns out,... 🙂👍🏻

[@chasemixon6327]

Bruce, I'm sure that is the proper way to do it, It looks great, but man that was a lot of work!!! could you not have just run the wire from the bilge back to the nav area, then just come up in the Nav area instead of all those holes? :) Usually the bilge is pretty open?

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks for your good comments Chase, appreciated and yeahhh, like everything with boats, it was a lot of work! I can understand your bilge option idea, however X5 holes through plywood was a lot better and easier work than X10 holes + the painting through steel hull floors, which is what would have been required! 🙂👍🏻

[@chasemixon6327]

@@BuildingSYMistress oh ok yeah for sure!!! most of the bilges I've looked at were pretty open, meaning no holes would have needed to be drilled! :)

[@richardayres2949]

I’m not convinced by Raymarines views on the transducer, the boat is always moving in the body of water and the balance of the boat changes depending on fuel, water and provisions on board, let alone sea state and wind and crew location. With a depth gauge you always want to allow a margin for error anyway.

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks for your good comments Richard, understood and my thoughts are that on the balance of all movement typical for a monohull sailing yacht, is to have the "middle" position of the transducer at the boats normal 'at rest' position and as mentioned, this transducer shoots a beam of 40°, which gives a lot of room for getting soundings with boat movement and yes, as you say in shallow waters being cautious is always sensible 🙂👍🏻

[@frankd2301]

The person who invents a speedo without a paddle wheel will be a millionaire

[@jaygee5693]

Too late. Boat pitometer tubes measure speed through water by calculating the water pressure differential between a forward facing tube and another at right angles to it. The higher the boat speed, the greater the pressure in the forward facing tube. They work on the same principle as aircraft pitot tubes, using water pressure instead of air pressure. Edit: It was invented by French engineer, Henri Pitot, in the early 18th century, and developed to its modern form in the mid-19th century by another French scientist, Henry Darcy.

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks for your comment Frank, GPS?! 😁👍🏻

[@BuildingSYMistress]

@@jaygee5693 Thanks very much for the good info., appreciated 🙂👍🏻

[@jonathanbrett1919]

Bruce ha ha ah cough. Just found your channel. Wow. I have a steel 40 Van de Stadt launched 2006. Am berthed at East Coast Marina. Have had very similar issues. Contact me if you wish. Jonathan

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Hey thanks for your good comments and for being in touch Jonathan, appreciated and great to hear that you also have a Caribbean and in Bris.! It would be good to hear more about you and your yacht, if you like feel free to email me on the gmail address above in the description, all the best 🙂👍🏻

[@mikeskelly2356]

No matter how much insulation you install, a steel boat will have condensation problems in the Tropics. If you find your mattresses and cushions are getting wet underneath, you can try Dri-Dek, lots of boaters swear by it and it's relatively cheap! 🤙🛥 🏝

[@BuildingSYMistress]

Thanks for your good comments Mike, appreciated, I hadn't heard of 'Dri-Dek' however have had plans for something like that for storage areas 🙂👍🏻