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[Rasputin22]

15 years of construction of a sailing vessel, and just getting around to installing working hardware to hoist the mainsail. Feel the fear.

 

[Rasputin22]

 

[fukupananvil]

A song for the Captain:

 

[sculpin]

working hardware? For how long? Those look like regular steel bearings in those pulleys, not sure how well they will last if that hulk gets near salt water.

 

[chester]

Just watched this latest bit of jackassery and it is growing clearer each time Dugg posts a video he is an utter douche! This is the guy who has spent 10+ years welding a steel boat together, often with volunteer help from experienced welders and despite his hayseed drawling verbal nonsense diarrhea, the douche in Dugg has yet to: a) master welding and b) develope an attention span greater than a worms.

imma gunna withhold comment 'till i see more research on the attention span of worms

 

[Sail4beer]

“…a little filler rod here”

Wow

And, after welding the new part, he realized he was off by 90 degrees.

 

[fukupananvil]

working hardware? For how long? Those look like regular steel bearings in those pulleys, not sure how well they will last if that hulk gets near salt water.

True, dat.

 

[fukupananvil]

“…a little filler rod here”

Wow

And, after welding the new part, he realized he was off by 90 degrees.

Should have left it. Better angle for the knockdown orientation of the pilothouse.

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

working hardware? For how long? Those look like regular steel bearings in those pulleys, not sure how well they will last if that hulk gets near salt water.

Well, to be fair (or whatever), the bearings in ProFurl furlers, at least some of them, are regular bearings that are used on truck axles. (I rebuilt mine, so learned that! A bit of a shocker but an experienced rigger told me that apparently the French owner of ProFurl owns a truck and/or helicopter business, so uses bearings from those industries in the furler...)

 

[epoxypete]

“…a little filler rod here”

Wow

And, after welding the new part, he realized he was off by 90 degrees.

Dugg is more like 180 degrees off in about nearly everything he utters, but his "new part", yeah 90 degrees.

Dugg appears to now be living alone on his BSO and it is noticable that whatever work he has undertaken since his crew abandoned him, he fucks it up. Is he just biding time on the grift mill or is he really that fucking dense after over a decade of doing nothing but screwing around on this hunk-o-scrap?

 

[epoxypete]

Beginning at the 2:43 mark, Dugg lets loose with more hayseed nonsense about shit he knows little(nothing) about.

 

[167149]

aware that plain common sense is as always absent here I would have drilled out the swivel hole to 16mm and made a braced bracket to loose bolt it to so it always self aligns but that's just me I guess

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Beginning at the 2:43 mark, Dugg lets loose with more hayseed nonsense about shit he knows little(nothing) about.

This is just getting sad. I have more offshore miles in a SUNFISH than the BSO has or likely ever will have.
All that mess of cloth and metal he keeps hoisting up and down is just going to make a marginal powerboat dangerous.

 

[Zonker]

I love how his sail sheet blocks are welded in position so they will chafe unless the sheet is at specific angles.

He's lowering them so the sheets don't get caught. But I think they will still chafe.

 

[Bagheera]

His welding skills also gave me a gross headache. Might be a good thing that the boat does not have a lot of righting moment, otherwise the sheet tension might be a bit too much.

 

[167149]

I love how his sail sheet blocks are welded in position so they will chafe unless the sheet is at specific angles.

He's lowering them so the sheets don't get caught. But I think they will still chafe.

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that was my thought re leaving the swivel action in and shackelling to a BRACED attachment point

 

[Zonker]

Anybody sailed a boat with a fixed mainsheet lower block with no shackle/swivel/tilt of any sort?

 

[Fah Kiew Tu]

I've said all along I couldn't see how his rigging was going to work.

Now I know - first, there wasn't any and now, it's a kludged together mess.

FFS there are 2 main ways of doing running rigging for junk sails, the 'simple' way where the sheetlets come off of the aft ends of the battens a la Hasler type rigs and the more complex but IMO better controlled method of double sets of sheetlets and 2 sheets from the euphroes as per the Colvin rigs. Both work. All Doug had to do was copy one.

Oh well it's sort of entertaining but I really can't bring myself to watch the smug vids.

FKT

 

[epoxypete]

Anybody sailed a boat with a fixed mainsheet lower block with no shackle/swivel/tilt of any sort?

Nope.Never.Not even once!

 

[Sail4beer]

You sir, are correct!