Installing Titanium Chainplates that Will Out-Live Our Boat!

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[@Tulasendlesssummer]

"316 stainless and titanium are very similar on the Galvanic scale. So there is very little risk, even in the face of an electrolyte like salt water. See the voltage difference here and compare it to Aluminum and Stainless which we all see on boats. structx.com/Material_Properties_001.html" -John Franta, Colligo Marine

[@brianheffernan8982]

I love the fact that you guy's pick up litter. Great video.

[@bmitch3020]

Sad seeing all that litter, but inspiring seeing you picking it up. Thank you so much for your part in cleaning up that mess.

[@secondstartotheright]

Thank you guys for doing more than your part and helping our environment you guys rock!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@danielhoyle3546]

Thank You for picking up the plastic and being environmentally conscientious. Very well done explaining the chain plate refit.

[@capnstevoanythinggoes]

Nice touch on dealing with waste plastic.

[@WRMannIII]

Love everything about your vids. Natural, honest, clever, good workmanship, Jeti. Not over-produced or glossing over the realities of boat life. Keep them coming!!

[@tommygunz8692]

The new plates look good....Good job to you both.......

[@j.w.stevenson8510]

Keep the beach clean Great job !

[@robertadamsmetaldetecting6324]

Thanks for cleaning up along your way! Love the energy. Keep it real guys!

[@jimgeiger2468]

Good info here. Sharing the need to reheat Titanium after changing it's configuration, should save viewers time AND $$$. Nice job staying after it!

[@julestiernan7056]

WOW!!!! At last a sailing channel that doesn't rely on scantily clad women in their thumbnails to get views, and idiotic and false accounts of how it is to live at sea. An honest, respectable channel that shows us how REAL travelers live, BRAVO!! Just found you guys, love your content and thank you for keeping it honest and doing your part to help control the amount of waste in our Oceans. Continued success to you, much respect, subbed and looking forward to more.

[@Tulasendlesssummer]

Oh man thank you so much Jules! This means a ton and we are glad you enjoy our videos. We try our very best to portray how we experience our travels (and work) from our boat. Thank you thank you!!

[@julestiernan7056]

@@Tulasendlesssummer You guys are AWESOME!!!!!

[@williamchesser895]

Outstanding video. Love you guys and jetty

[@wilber504]

Thanks for helping clean the waters. Every bit helps.

[@suziq5293]

I am so happy with my bamboo cutlery! Thank you so much

[@gmartgo]

Great video guys. It looks like the sun is getting stronger already. Looking forward to summer. Have fun and stay safe.

[@scottstephenson119]

Tula's treasures is a keeper.

[@lonestarcj8132]

The cutlery set looks great. Ima try it.

[@deanfulford69]

You three are living the dream down there👍

[@The_action_is_the_juice]

I don't know anything about boats, but enjoy watching you two working on one!

[@garyadams2822]

Good work you two!

[@brucewayne2984]

Nice install guys!

[@ernestdougherty3162]

Once again great video yell keep up the good work and be safe

[@ralphholiman7401]

Thanks for the dating at the start of the video. I think you will be glad you are doing that years from now! Enjoyed your video.

[@Aqu181]

good work guys

[@pamearly6800]

Hey guys thanks for giving us awesome videos!!!... So I have a great idea for the remainder of the sail fabric thats just kinda to small for anything else. Make lanyards yes lanyards would be so awesome! (but made with quality ID holders) We can have a little bit of Tula with us all day long when we work, thinking of the sun and water and my hopefully soon sail boat. Love and Hugs, Pam

[@pamearly6800]

Forgot to mention I have one of Tula's bag's and I'm LOVING it!.... Well made.

[@quindevanny7219]

You guys always post great videos! KEEP IT UP!!

[@danasims6074]

Stay safe...awesome video❤️❤️❤️

[@stevecrombie5357]

"What ya do'in"? She's looking beautiful Bobby that's what she's doing. With 11 lbs difference in that one chain plate there is even more room for the generator. Glad things are moving along, it's almost time to go.

[@ronaldwarren5220]

Tula's greatest treasure is its three crew!

[@scottpetrone6284]

Great content as per usual! I like titanium as well. I have a total of 30 rods and screws in various places throughout my body. Thanks, Saddam.....I don't inspect them enough however! Anchors aweigh!

[@MrHAPPYHAWAIIAN]

The bummer part is we went in to overthrow a dictator on false pretenses. You where a pawn. Iraq will fall just like Afghanistan .🤯

[@scottpetrone6284]

I signed up for it, I went when I was told ,I did what I was trained to do and I made it home. Many didn't.

[@MrHAPPYHAWAIIAN]

Scott Petrone Your right about that. You signed up for it and anything can happen. I’m not going to thank you for your service because I think it is demeaning to you. You did what you signed up for. No more and no less.🦄

[@stanthology]

Motorcyclist?

[@tomwilliams8675]

Nice job Billy, you are one hard worker. Sierra you're getting prettier every day. When do you think you might get back under sail? You're a wonderful couple. Thanks for a great channel.

[@Ralphinsc]

They are in the Bahamas right now. Check their instagram

[@tomwilliams8675]

@@Ralphinsc thanks for the update. I don't have Instagram. I don't even have Facebook 😁 Guess I'm too old for those things.

[@oceanrcr1]

Good job guys. And good advertisement for cleaning the oceans of plastic.

[@mikeanderson1330]

Great! Actually was wondering where you guys went!

[@rfdinesen4027]

Thanks so much for the trash pickup! Imagine what could happen if we all did that. On a different subject, is there any issue with dissimilar metals with the titanium chain plates with stainless bolts?

[@billberry557]

Thank you for the video. Aloha

[@stephencoleman0]

Cool stuff 😎👍

[@randallwhiteman4682]

Great vid

[@DoubleUp9999]

You should git a metal detector and deep dive gear to go treasure diving especially after hurricane Dorian.

[@bobstienke178]

Like what you’re doing! Good job!

[@jimnasium1957]

Saving weight for that generator. ;)

[@snapstring3134]

Looking good. 👍

[@babyboy6179]

great job

[@jackbadias1192]

Yes on the generator

[@zzzxxzzz4797]

Take the plastic to a recycling center or bin for pickup ! Promote recycling everything ! The oceans will be cleaner ! The scrap metal is money in your pocket at the recycling center ! Thanks for sharing 😎

[@mrdave22]

a jetty vlog and a tula vlog, same day, cool

[@bradfordlunt1468]

Great chainplate upgrade. I have used titanium shims in the internals of salt water ball valves for 40 yrs and the valve bodies will disappear before the Ti even gets pitted.

[@brianhubbard6423]

It's a shame when people don't dispose their trash properly. If you bring it you take it. Keep mother earth healthy.

[@toordog1753]

Earth has zero to worry about....

[@reloadncharge9907]

good video, thanks. Hope you are enjoying the Berry's! Will catch up soon, but my cat might not be as quick as I have stainless chainplates, and the weight will drag me down!! Good job with the changeout! Thanks, Andrew

[@VeranoDulce]

Great video, well done guys!👍🎉✨🏝️🌍😘

[@cbooc]

Waste not... Want not... Nice vid guy... God bless

[@1Ocqueoc]

If you guys are still in SoFlo .... the Lady K is heading to Miami .... would be GREAT to see the 4 of you get together!

[@beeamerica5024]

I kept the Bell but this is the first video I've seen in awhile I had to go watch Finding Avalon

[@tigersharkzh]

I love Titanium for boat parts. Where ever possible I use Titanium parts when I am replacing stuff. I'll never have to polish it etc... eye pads, hose clamps, shackles, stantions to name a few.

[@rickdelfosse5396]

Hey there, great videos! I didn't see a large cotter pin on the forestay turnbuckle under the furling drum... really important there as furler could back off the turnbuckle!

[@Tulasendlesssummer]

Idk what you call them but there are “blocks” that insert into the fueling system which prevents the turnbuckle from spinning.

[@RenegadeADV]

Thos titanium chain plates look like a damn good idea, I have inverted "T" style plates glassed into my deck, and there is no way to pull or inspect them without carving out the glass they are bedded in. I am thinking if I make the same thing out of Titanium that I would never have to worry about them again because no bolts!

[@jamesihle7915]

u guys are the best..from c. grove

[@GSC727]

A metal detector to find sunken (on the beach) treasures. Yeah, that's what you need. Ok, maybe not treasures, but I bet you'd be surprised by what you do find.

[@ibjeterhere]

Tula’s Endless Workshop :)

[@0PsychosisMedia0]

Do you use urea grease on your bolts to prevent corrosion in the future. I use oem Honda urea grease for my car to help with corrosion especially since I am in MD where the roads are salted.

[@joat-man9778]

Boss vid

[@MegaTriumph1]

Aye Captain Billy. Its been one of those things that makes me lose sleep at night. I think you can come up with a better plan then what you have now with your bird striker set up. You want a "torsion bar" all the way across. Inside or on top you pick it would be more balanced action then the one way bird striker set up either way its more work but a better more reliable set up imho.

[@pvdneste]

long chainplates are usually facilitating lowering of the mast to go under a bridge. And then there would be a pivot point at bottom your mast; but I do not see that. Perhaps a previous owner was planning on it but never got to it.

[@mfhairstream6812]

Clever

[@KarlKarsnark]

Creeping up on 100k subs!!!!

[@daneschuck6242]

Really cute bathing suit

[@tomjones3729]

Hey you need to change those bolts as well you'll get electrolysis through disassembler metal just a thought I'm not a smart boat mechanic or anything like that

[@SailingBrickHouse-RVLife]

When we installed grade 5 titanium chain plates I wanted to go with stainless or a lesser grade Ti bolt because of the cost but the supplier, Allied Titanium, insisted we use the same Ti5 grade bolts. Ti next to 304 stainless is not that much of a problem, similar to bronze next to stainless but why take chances with such an important part of a boat. A couple dinners out, an airplane ticket home, all cost more.

[@markrussellfilaroski5035]

Lots of nuts in the episode! Jetty's nuts, boat nuts, too many nut close-ups. LOL

[@Tulasendlesssummer]

Jetty is a girl. You need to take anatomy again.

[@markrussellfilaroski5035]

haha! Touche!

[@homertownship3441]

I suggest u examine electralysis problems. I'm not suggesting there is such but dissimilar metals frequently clash in strange ways.

[@1Ocqueoc]

aka ...galvanic corrosion.

[@tim_bbq1008]

I understand that titanium may be a better choice for a new installation, but why swap out the serviceable 316 stainless?

[@CDNRower99]

+1 for 'Tula's Treasures'

[@tomlawton67]

One possibility for the length of the original chainplate: Is your mast deck-stepped? Does it have the option of inserting a pivot pin to let it hinge aft? Did the pivot point of the turnbuckle end up level with the base of the mast? If so, that allows you to lower the mast using a tackle on the forestay without the shrouds going slack as the mast lowers...

[@damonsmith7297]

" too many plastic silverware" 😂

[@micr0eye]

Wish everybody would do this plastic "Treasure hunt" at the sea..

[@SailingBrickHouse-RVLife]

Did Colego give you a choice of grade of Titanium to use? There are a lot of grades which have quite different strength characteristics. Which grade did you use? There is a very good article in Practical Sailor, which can be accessed online about the use of titanium in the leisure boating world.

[@jonathancrownover6500]

Boardwalk Pipeline. I used to work for them.

[@paulpetraitis2130]

How come you didn't polish the new chain plates out? Titanium polishes beautiful, prevents surface corrosion ,just looks great. Oh, good job on the trash removal, when you get to Central America make sure to bring a trash truck with ya cause their beaches are lined with plastic, especially the Pacific side!

[@masdbo]

No drinking straws? The ban must be working! LOL

[@GRADE8BOLT]

Do you do all work in shallow water .....in case wrenches ect goes over

[@MrMacman71]

I think the yellow things are fuel additive.

[@lppools]

Is the dissimilar metals a problem with corrosion

[@seanrhone5306]

I've thought about replacing chainplates with titanium as well. Wondered if anyone had done it. Did you use titanium bolts, nuts, and washers as well?

[@roderickmchardy3650]

cool video , would have liked a bit more detail /film of fitting and sealing th throo deck chain plates......... oh my , such disgusting mess on the beaches

[@peterkacandes5905]

Pardon my ignorance if this is a silly question, but since the titanium chain plates and stainless steel bolts are somewhat dissimilar metals, are there any concerns about electrolytic or galvanic corrosion between the two over the long term, or are they close enough on the scale that it shouldn’t matter?

[@billhooker3006]

I think what Sierra was saying was that it was nap time. :-)

[@cujoemblakka1041]

The thing you called a sea bean, is an ass eye, it grows on a tree, we used to rub it against concrete or wooden surfaces and put it against our friends skin and watch ass the scamper away in pain from the intense heat.

[@petermyers479]

Book idea for Captain Billy. Zen and The Art of Sailboat Maintenance.

[@MsRob1977]

So who won the discussion about the generator? Is it going or not.

[@steventanner1428]

Do you need to put anti-seize compound on the bolts to stop electrolysis?

[@steventanner1428]

The answer is no. The term I should have used is galvanic corrosion. I looked at a couple of web sites. One that pertains specifically to salt water sailing.

[@joesutube1]

smart ending to ur video.

[@fredacevedo2871]

Though titanium does not corrode in normal atmospheric conditions, it is still subject to fatigue. Fatigue is the reason most chainplates fail. Insurance companies consider the life of rigging hardware to be about 10 years.

[@cescfy4208]

Are you sure the new shorter plates are secured on a strong part of the hull just as the old ones? I looked into the galvanic effect of using both metals but there seems to be no much electrolysis with these two.

[@Tulasendlesssummer]

Yes. They are installed in the same spot as the old ones which are on a structural beam.

[@secondstartotheright]

The bolts with corrosion lower aft look like staonless thats been contaminated by mild steel or galvanized steel

[@jcf6597]

Do you have to take any special precautions to prevent Galvanic corrosion because of the stainless bolts being in contact with the titanium plates?

[@livesincanoe9034]

Inspection, titanium is immune to galvanic corrosion, crevice corrosion and pretty much all types of corrosion, but the stainless bolts are not. Inspect the bolts at least once per year and preferably every six months.

[@3269888]

Hey, what size are those sandals.!??

[@frankrice5364]

Thank you for bring this problem up folks take your trash home if we do not start loving our land we will lose it

[@chrismcgann8448]

You should add chop sticks to your utensil bag.

[@agm6095]

So much plastic trash ends up in the oceans. Thanks for picking some of it.

[@ChrisBogle]

How did you lengthen the standing rigging to match the much shorter chain plates? Did you also have to get new rigging?

[@Tulasendlesssummer]

Yes, we are replacing our rigging anyway with Colligo dux

[@jacksmith8002]

I'm really surprised to bed all you deck hardware you didn't use Butyl Caulking Tape vs caulk