🐮 Lolcow Doug Jackson / SV Seeker - Boomer hubris personified, an incompetent lunatic's dreams slowly crumbling to dust because of his own poor decisions.

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Doug posted this picture this morning, so the SV Seeker is still floating.

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Another angle, showing just how low the stern is sitting.
 
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It's loosely inspired by a tri masted junk so of course it needs chop suey font and Doug is for sure going to do the squinty eye thing at the helm.

My name Doug
Me build junk
Sail it once
And now it sunk
 
Doug discovered he gets seasick.


His plan now is to have other people sail the boat across open water, and he'll just fly out to wherever they are to sail in local waters...
 
DarthMower said:
Doug discovered he gets seasick.

His plan now is to have other people sail the boat across open water, and he'll just fly out to wherever they are to sail in local waters...
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Wait, let me get this straight: All this time and Captain Doug never found out until now that he gets easily seasick?

Also, not being aboard during offshore passages: not going down with the ship, are ya Dougie?
 
Doug is just setting the stage for his copium cop out. He mentions his seasickness got worse to the point it's unbearable, not that it's completely new.

Deep down he's got to know the Seeker is fucked. It's completely unseaworthy. There's 0 excitement for the moment he's been building up to for over a decade. He just needs this lie so his ego doesn't take a hit when he scraps his stupid origami hull boat.
 
TurdFondler said:
sickness got worse to the point it's unbearable, not that it's completely new.

Deep down he's got to know the Seeker is fucked. It's completely unseaworthy. There's 0 excitement for the moment he's been building up to for over a decade. He just needs this lie so his ego doesn't take a hit when he scraps his stupid origami hull boat.
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Worse yet, he'll infect some young idealist that he'll gift the boat to, they'll sail off into the sunset never to be seen or heard from again, because the hull folded in half because the welds failed.

I don't remember. Did anyone ever check the watertightness of the hull? It'd suck if the only thing keeping the water out was the paint...
 
TurdFondler said:
Doug is just setting the stage for his copium cop out. He mentions his seasickness got worse to the point it's unbearable, not that it's completely new.

Deep down he's got to know the Seeker is fucked. It's completely unseaworthy. There's 0 excitement for the moment he's been building up to for over a decade. He just needs this lie so his ego doesn't take a hit when he scraps his stupid origami hull boat.
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I'm inclined to agree. He's got a bunch of patreon shit lined up this weekend and many of the boomers in his FB group are beside themselves with excitement. Seems like he's going to try to maximize the griftbux for the next few weeks - or as long as he can.
 
DarthMower said:
Doug discovered he gets seasick.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XRa-KqbDfsg
His plan now is to have other people sail the boat across open water, and he'll just fly out to wherever they are to sail in local waters...
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Now hang on just a minute, this is the dude's disaster boat he's traveling on in that video? Out unassisted in the water?

Allegedly this guy's boat wouldn't even hit completion, then it wasn't going to float, then it wasn't going to make it out of port, then it would be immediately torn apart by the waves...a lot of goal post movement there, seems a little like the insane old man is winning.
Of course that's probably the worst option because now the detractors don't get to see a spectacular failure to laugh at, and he doesn't want to use the boat because it's a piece of rickety shit and after finally seeing his 15 year dream come to fruition he's realized, ya know, sailing isn't all that fun.

My guess is he's going to putter around with it until people get tired of it then leave it sit somewhere to rot until he eventually scraps the thing. Story concluded, the world sucks, everyone leaves dissatisfied and more depressed than they started.
 
Uberpenguin said:
Now hang on just a minute, this is the dude's disaster boat he's traveling on in that video? Out unassisted in the water?

Allegedly this guy's boat wouldn't even hit completion, then it wasn't going to float, then it wasn't going to make it out of port, then it would be immediately torn apart by the waves...a lot of goal post movement there, seems a little like the insane old man is winning.
Of course that's probably the worst option because now the detractors don't get to see a spectacular failure to laugh at, and he doesn't want to use the boat because it's a piece of rickety shit and after finally seeing his 15 year dream come to fruition he's realized, ya know, sailing isn't all that fun.

My guess is he's going to putter around with it until people get tired of it then leave it sit somewhere to rot until he eventually scraps the thing. Story concluded, the world sucks, everyone leaves dissatisfied and more depressed than they started.
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You're getting ahead of yourself here, fren.

That's not the SV Seeker in that video, he is on a friend's (real) boat. The Seeker is is indeed in the water but it hasn't left port yet and I'm not entirely convinced it won't capsize once the ropes holding it to the dock are removed.
 
@Uberpenguin

Your optimism is enviable. Short of actual divine intervention or possibly time travel, the Seeker is never making a complete journey across open water.

One of the main benefits of a keel and frame design is symmetry. A frameless origami hull would have to be designed around a massive jig or frame to make both sides symmetrical. I have a feeling the Seeker lists because the hull isn't quite symmetrical and is less buoyant on one side. I don't think this theory is too much of a stretch seeing as he overshot his initial measurements by 10ft, our boy Doug isn't a wiz at precision.
 
LOL at 16 minutes in the boat makes concerning creaking noises while it's still on the trailer. The harbor staff look mildly concerned.

22:00 minutes in we have doug coping "we knew it would sag in the rear" but he doesn't look happy about it

29:20 we learn that even with a 1000lbs of ballast she lists

30:44 we find out the motor that pulls the anchor up is undersized

32:16 my suspicion is confirmed, the masts are repurposed utility poles. I have severe doubts about their integrity but I'm not a marine engineer.

I can't wait for the balance tests, I'm hyped for summer 2022 now.

My favorite comments on the video:
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Well, he's got it moving now, at least with the motor. Hopefully he will put up videos on youtube soon. There are a few on the SV Seeker FB group, as well as a heaping amount of boomer gloating, as I'm sure you can imagine. It also looks like Doug has a documentary crew along for the ride so any potential disaster is likely to yield high-quality footage.

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Shucky Ducky said:
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So they're using a full-size aluminum fishing boat as a lifeboat? Does a boat of that size really need a lifeboat, or would vests suffice? I donno, maybe it's some law somewhere, but I imagine something inflatable would be more practical.

And is that a gangplank just kinda dangling off the side there?

I really don't know anything about building boats, but yeah, it just looks so awkward.
 
TurdFondler said:
32:16 my suspicion is confirmed, the masts are repurposed utility poles. I have severe doubts about their integrity but I'm not a marine engineer.
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Utility poles are built to withstand wind forces from the pole itself and the wires. The amount of force generated by a full rig of sails is going to be a whole lot greater then that. I won’t pretend to know what the forces the pole is rated to withstand but it will be fun to see how the sail rig goes.
 
I've also noticed utility poles are built to be kind of flexible towards the top, they sway in the wind. Not sure if that's what I want in a mast.

I think the big stairs and the fishing boat are part of his salvage larp. It's not so much a lifeboat as it is a skiff. Not sure it would be my first pick for open water salvage operations.
 
Least Concern said:
So they're using a full-size aluminum fishing boat as a lifeboat? Does a boat of that size really need a lifeboat, or would vests suffice? I donno, maybe it's some law somewhere, but I imagine something inflatable would be more practical.
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it's intended more as a tender than a life boat, but I guess it would also serve that purpose.
 
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