Getting Afloat with Nick Gates. Episode 10, Coastal Cruising

[@fredwonink]

too bad about the disturbing noise. I enjoy looking at your video, it brings back memories from my pilot cutter, the Mary Josephine (build as Mary Elisabeth) on witch I worked on it for 10 years to get it in good shape again. Still missing her.

[@lukedogwalker]

I love that method of locking the tiller in place between belaying pins!

[@Al-ny8dk]

Hi Nick, these shows are really great. You are particular and spirited throughout in the most watchable of ways. Shame you have to answer banal questions about sound quality and epoxy. Would love to buy you a pint when you are in Falmouth next - my house looks at lots of boats - you have made me want to learn to sail (and restore an art deco boat), but I am a furniture maker. Cheers.

[@williamwinter2638]

Really enjoying these videos. When were they originally made. They seem a bit older. And are you doing anything new?

[@fishmut]

I thought about strip planking doing a boat built but cost of timber these days just to expensive , much cheaper using ply wood , Marine grade is expensive as well and I would only use it where necessary , construction grade ply could be used in other parts of the boat and bring costs down , although depends on the type of boat one might build .

[@gordonscott6187]

A third bearing to identify position is at least as much a cross-check on thew other two as anything else. As an example, if you wrote down one number wrongly (maybe 036 instead of 063), the third bearing, when plotted on the chart, woiuld show that there is a mistake somewher and you need to try again. It shows that mistake by giving a large triange (usually known as a "cocked hat") where the lines cross. A small-ish triangle gives an idea of the accuracy of the bearings and an idea of the "area of uncertainty", i.e., your boat is "probably" somewhere in a circular area enclosing the three cross-over points. Always apply common-sense, too. Two errors could make an apparently good fix, but still be wrong. Better to be sure than hit something hard!

[@neleabels]

In the naval and ship musem in Bremerhaven, Germany, there is one experimental cement boat on exhibition which was built in 1920. When I saw it first as a child in the seventies, it was a marvel for me. Why didn't it sink? :) www.dsm.museum/paul-kossel.4192.de.html

[@seanicky]

Nele Abels, because it floated!! 😉

[@neleabels]

There is a sign asking "please do not touch the equipment" placed on the array of batteries on which you are leaning. :)

[@warci]

are you actually the boatbuilder in this series? if so, I hope you find the time te create some more content. Absolutely fantastic work!

[@kingraw2000]

Does anybody know the original airdate of this episode?

[@seanicky]

Filmed in 2002, first aired 2003.

[@kingraw2000]

@@seanicky thank you

[@lookimyu]

4 degrees west variation? Am I correct in saying that your plotter has it marked on the wrong side? (Variation west, compass best, etc.) So I think you're 8 degrees out. But in Falmouth Bay there's - probably - nothing to worry about. But am I correct?

[@seanicky]

Mike, as it was fifteen years ago, I really can't remember 😂

[@lookimyu]

Good video, thanks. (I'm just doing my day skipper theory, so I could easily be wrong!)

[@benmac7315]

Error east compass least error west compass best. So in this example the magnetic compass should be higher than the true bearing which I think it was. Though I've never seen anyone get such a perfect fix on a chart particularly with a handheld compass

[@lookimyu]

@@benmac7315 True. Everything Nick did and said is totally correct. But the Portland Plotter shows the Variation on the wrong side!

[@mange2]

Just a question, I thought you only need 2 points to identify your position on the map? Please forgive my ignorance, I'm not a sailor yet.

[@seanicky]

Hi Mange 2, three fixes makes it more accurate. Rgds Nick.

[@movieklump]

Why are the Cornish rude? Because they have a Falmouth.

[@TheTypeRmark]

Background music audio is nail scratching

[@rasheedmasthan6779]

Super

[@seandenny2412]

Love the content but you guys got static playing in the back of your of your video

[@seanicky]

If you read the introduction it's from a 15 yr old VHS.

[@sirkyoj1]

Worth the noise bro.

[@trafalgar22a8]

Good video... poor audio... (echoeeee)

[@canyonhaverfield2201]

what ever you do .. read the hardener label carefully.. one pump to one pump is not the combo

[@seanicky]

Hi Canyon, with this epoxy the combination is indeed one pump to one pump, as it has been for the last thirty years. Although the pumps shaft diameter is the same, the travel of the resin pump is more than the hardner pump, which gives the correct ratio. ;-) Rgds, Nick

[@jupitorious7925]

good work, it's not easy I'm thinking of buying a Dagmar ! do you have any advice ! www.charliehusseymaritime.com

[@andrewparry1474]

I once had a pump that was way out, and did quite a bit of work before I realised. Never again! I got myself digital scales.

[@TomStratton]

It's a shame the audio on this episode is so bad... makes it unwatchable.