Things don't always got to plan - SAILING YACHT REFIT [S2-E61]

I'm Andy, I'm Melissa and I'm Jack and together we've spent the last year restoring our steel sailing yacht. Over the last year we've done most of the big metal work and welding, most of the painting and over this winter we're working on whatever jobs we can fit around the terrible weather here in North Wales. Once she's ready to float we'll be setting off to sail around the world as a family. Come along with us on this epic journey. So what I'm up to today is prepping the steel behind these panels and both on the ceilings, the walls and on the deckhead in preparation for painting. There's still some welding to do as you know putting the chain plates in but that has to wait until a nicer day. Today it's absolutely freezing outside blowing a gale so we can't work anything outside but there's plenty to do indoors. So I'm not going to remove all of this pink insulation in one go because then I'd forget where it all goes and I wouldn't be able to put it back. But the way that we're doing this is, as I've said before, we're using the pink insulation slabs which are put up simply just wedged in place. When we've finished everything I'm going to be using a spray foam which is a closed cell spray foam to adhere these in place to stop moisture getting in behind them and to stop vibration and what have you. But for now let's take this panel out and start prepping the steel behind it. I've barricaded myself into Jack's aft cabin to start prepping the steel and just brighten it out in here so we can see what we're doing and just tackle the little... oh I'm slowing down into the bilge... to tackle the little bits of rust. They're very, I'll just show you, they're very sort of little, if you can see, little specks, not corrosion, it's just obviously if it got left like that then it would get worse but it's they're just little bits. As you can see here there's all the old cork tiles which were the original insulation. I'm not removing them all because they've done a really good job, they've done well for 40 years, they don't match up well to modern insulation but they have protected the steel and everywhere that we've removed the cork tiles we've found that the steel behind them has been in perfect condition so we don't actually feel that removing them is beneficial. So I'm not going to be removing these, I'm only going to be taking off the bits that that aren't adhered. If it comes off easily I'm removing it, if it's stuck fast I'm leaving it. So we've come to the boat today with an idea that we thought would work. It's freezing cold and it's windy so we thought that's okay we'll do work inside the boat so we've gone down our list of jobs. Melissa's been working in the aft cabin and I've just been having a little go with the grinder in there and I've been here in the saloon removing old bits of cork and sicker and prepping panels and the net result is we're finding that this type of work kicks up an awful lot of dust. We've tried pinning up tarpaulins and we've tried protecting areas of the boat and it's just not working. So what we actually have found out today is that what we thought was a good indoor job for a rainy blustery windy day is actually not suitable for a rainy blustery windy day and needs to be done on a warm day with no wind when we can open all the hatches and open all the doors and get the boat nicely aired and then we can kick up as much dust as we like and it'll settle and then we can sweep it all up. So we're having a coffee and having a rethink a little bit dejected because we thought we'd got a good plan for the day and we've got some good work that we could crack on with and it turns out that our idea for today is not suitable and to be left until a still warm windless rainless day. So we're up here in the forepeak preparing to put up the insulation and the ceiling panels and what have you and we just removed some more of the wall panels and it really has got me annoyed because this is a water filler pipe for one of the water tanks and this is a water filler pipe for the other and behind it there's a vent for the water tank and behind that there's a vent which is a fantastic idea and it's all quality stuff but he's put these wall panels on and then bonded them on with some really decent quality marine grade Sikaflex or glue of some sort but it's just so lacking in forward thinking because there is no way to service these pipes at all to get to the jubilee clips or a split pipe or anything without physically ripping the panel off the wall and destroying the lovely teak panelling in the process just so annoying. I want to talk a little bit about insulation so the boat was originally insulated in cork tiles and what we've discovered is they're incredible they've done a fantastic job of protecting the steel and everywhere we've pulled the cork tiles off we've discovered that the the metalwork underneath has been fantastic so now we're kind of leaving them on unless we see something really obvious what we're going for is a kind of mixed insulation method this is a closed cell slab foam which is fantastic because you can cut it with a knife and you can fit it around panels and cover a lot of square footage very quickly and spray foam generally out of a can for stuff you buy aerosol is not closed cell and it's not suitable for a boat but i've found this product which is called geocell great stuff and it is a closed cell foam now because it's in aerosol form it wouldn't be cost effective to do the whole boat in it because this stuff comes in at about 10 pounds per can 60 quid for six cans or something like that plus the cleaner we can't afford to have the whole boat done by a professional company for a start we'd have to remove all the furniture all the the bulkheads and the walls and all the furniture and we'd have to get a guy to come in and spray it with a professional system we don't have the money and we also we don't want to strip the boat out to that extent so what we're doing is we're using the slab foam on the walls which has been bought for us by tim and he's bought enough for us to do the whole boat we're fantastically grateful and then we're spraying around each panel with the spray foam to bond to adhere the the slab foam in place and to seal it stop condensation getting behind it and it means that if we ever need to get the panel out we just slice around with a stanley blade and pull the piece out to do some repairs and this isn't bonded all over to the hull it might be a rubbish idea but i think it's going to work quite well so i've been insulating the pilot the four peak as you can see and i'm just going to start by spray foaming around the panels in the ceiling let's see how we get on you're probably wondering why i'm not going to do this panel this panel or the two at the front the other side and it's because i've got some more welding to do in the anchor locker so i'm not going to bond these ones in until i finish the welding in the anchor locker so this is what the four peak looks like now we've got the pink foam up we've got the spray foam in i'm just letting that harden off so i can trim it down to put the paneling up the pieces at the front there i haven't foamed i haven't adhered in with the spray foam because i'm going to take them out again when i come to do the last little bits of welding in the chain locker when the weather improves and then there's a couple of bits down here which i haven't done yet because i don't want to open another can of spray foam because once you open it you've got to use the whole lot and i can that's fine for now when next time i do some spray foaming somewhere else i'll spray foam that one in as well when so i can use up a whole can rather than use half a can on what's left over and then throw half a can away so that's that bit for now melissa has been out at the hardware store buying some timber and we've got some panelling and stuff to do now so i'm just cutting down the foam where it's kind of expanded outwards so that we can put the panelling up i'm not doing it everywhere some places it just doesn't need doing but it's just fantastic for creating a nice seal between the pink polystyrene the pink insulation and the frameworks so it's just expanded beautifully but the stuff that i've used by the way is very low expansion so it's not a high expanding foam and when you cut into it it doesn't end up with lots of cavities like an aero bar it's just nice solid foam just like this expansion yeah it's 50 percent so um yeah fantastic stuff i'm really really pleased i missed a bit there as i'm cutting away i'm finding little bits i've missed so it's not a bad job to do we've got a ceiling in the forepeak there'll be um plenty of trim strips to hold this up afterwards yeah so the ceiling is panelled the walls uh the sorry so the deck head is panelled the ceilings are panelled um there's going to be cupboards built here and the same on the other side so um there's some more work to do there and uh the lights in the deck head go on and off with a simple little switch in the deck head there and we've also got these goosenecks which we're going to fit more of tomorrow or over the next couple of days but this is now uh insulated out nicely um and uh we can go to bed so uh good night for now so andy's had to go off um today um so i am carrying on with the forepeak my first job is to template and make the window surrounds so here um is starboard window i think i'm going to start on um i need to template this the panels that we removed from here disintegrated and broke when we took them down so i haven't got templates so i was really lucky in the pilot house all the um all the window surrounds that came down were intact enough for me to draw around them so this is the first time i've ever made a template to go around the window so i've got um a piece of cardboard um the insulation box cardboard which is handy um it's about the same size as my piece of wood so i'm going to measure it and draw it on there on here first because i don't want to cut the wood um before i've made sure a template fits because i don't trust my measurements that well so moment of truth will it fit first time around i'm betting no for perfection the king of prussia liked the taste of angostura so we're in fine company through the port lights the blue ocean rolls it fits it fits that side it's a bit wobbly around the window but it's gonna have some trim on it anyway well it's in um it's not perfect but i'm hoping that the beading that we'll put on um on the joins which we're going to put on anyway will cover my little wobbly bits there it is um i'm just going to paint them to seal them for now um and then that'll be it for um for this project for the time being because i've run out of vinyl i need to get some more um and obviously window trim and stuff which isn't important but we needed to get the insulation in there you go white for now um obviously it needs the vinyl on it when i get some um but that looks a bit better as you can see a little error there but there's going to be some trim along there anyway so that's the end of another episode guys you saw us last week putting the beginnings of this border and we've got this kind of system now where we've got uh essential desirable uh sorry essential important desirable so red is essential um amber is important and green is desirable um so this episode we've mostly been working in the forepeak as you've noticed so we're going to start taking stuff off the forepeak column over there and putting them over here in the either doing or done list so what have we done what's item number one on there uh treat rust around port lights right that's actually a really should be a red one but done that's done next one insulate the deck head insulate the deck head that should have been red that should have been red but it's done insulate the walls and ceiling yeah that's okay okay that's done uh deckhead plywood and vinyl deckhead plywood and vinyl is that done or doing done yes it is actually yeah that's done led down lights led down lights done the gooseneck lights are doing so we've not finished fitting them so they go in doing here oh that's the forepeak actually isn't it what else have we got um and then i think the last one is the plywood and vinyl around the windows i've done the plywood yeah so the plywood's done but need to do the vinyl need to do the vinyl a bit that's fantastic yeah so that's one two three four five six seven jobs done in just over a day and what's left one two 15 jobs left to do in the fall um just want to say um thank you to all our new subscribers and everyone that has watched the last couple of videos they've um they've done really well so we're kind of overwhelmed with with the response so thank you for that yeah and uh if we've not managed to reply to you in the comments do bear with us there's been so many comments that we just haven't been able to reply to everyone but we will we love reading them and we will reply to you all as we possibly can yeah so i guess that's it i guess that's it see you all next week on sailing melody bye for now bye thanks so much for watching remember you can follow our instagram and facebook pages for news and updates you can support us on patreon and ko-fi and you can get our new sailing melody shirts and merch dies by clicking the pictures under the video or clicking the link in the video description and of course don't forget to subscribe to our channel click the notification bell and give the video a thumbs up we will see you very soon andy melissa and captain jack