🐮 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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This is exactly why prototyping is so important when you're inventing. I'm curious as to how blisters would make the hull act considering the weird keels. I think it would add an aspect of unpredictability to rolling, and maybe even make the keels less effective, the blisters would probably end up roughly inline with the keels I'm thinking.

2 more iterations and it's going to have catamaran outriggers and a giant helium balloon to pull the rear up.

Oh yeah! It's important to remember the boat is 10ft longer than intended so he's already more buoyant than he planned to be.
 
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This is exactly why prototyping is so important when you're inventing. I'm curious as to how blisters would make the hull act considering the weird keels. I think it would add an aspect of unpredictability to rolling, and maybe even make the keels less effective, the blisters would probably end up roughly inline with the keels I'm thinking.

2 more iterations and it's going to have catamaran outriggers and a giant helium balloon to pull the rear up.

Oh yeah! It's important to remember the boat is 10ft longer than intended so he's already more buoyant than he planned to be.
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It's already prone to roll, even in calm water. They mentioned it in passing with the stability tests.

And yeah, it's 10ft longer, but if I remember right, he cut out some of the volume, so he lost some of the buoyancy he gained.
 
If anyone still cares:

He's still at the marina working out issues with his transmission. Sails aren't fully up yet and he got a different boat to hang off the back.

He is also spending time in Antigua on someone else's boat and trying to overcome his seasickness.
 
TurdFondler said:
If anyone still cares:

He's still at the marina working out issues with his transmission. Sails aren't fully up yet and he got a different boat to hang off the back.

He is also spending time in Antigua on someone else's boat and trying to overcome his seasickness.
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I was perusing the chan thread the other day and was going to update when I could make head or tail of what's up.

He seems to have floated it downstream a ways to a different place but that's what I needed to figure out.

He's -also- having some pretty funny problems with registration because he was trying to register it as a pleasure craft (because that is relatively cheap and easy) and that is mutually incompatible with his crowing to everyone that it's a RESEARCH VESSEL.
 
Is whatever registering agency giving him trouble or is it his own ego?

I'm still flabbergasted at his insistence to run that Allison transmission. He's trying to take the torque converter out now, instead of just getting a marine gearbox.

Looks like we're a months away from anything resembling a maiden voyage.
 
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Is whatever registering agency giving him trouble or is it his own ego?

I'm still flabbergasted at his insistence to run that Allison transmission. He's trying to take the torque converter out now, instead of just getting a marine gearbox.

Looks like we're a months away from anything resembling a maiden voyage.
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It's supposedly he's getting pushback from the USCG but ground truth is hard with this shit because Doug lies all the time and the alogs are pretty virulent on the other side.

Did you notice the tranny working on the tranny? That's a fun new thing too.
 
Everyone around him so so grotesque looking I missed the troon. Do you have a screengrab? In the transmission vids there are like 3 or 4 fat autistic weirdos milling about and I always put his shit on 1.75x because it's almost unbearable otherwise.
 
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Everyone around him so so grotesque looking I missed the troon. Do you have a screengrab? In the transmission vids there are like 3 or 4 fat autistic weirdos milling about and I always put his shit on 1.75x because it's almost unbearable otherwise.
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From the chan zone:
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If they aren't, they are awful unfortunate anyway.
 

New video. First interesting thing is 20 seconds in, when he steps aboard. Portholes are awfully close to the water, and his stepping aboard causes noticeable roll. You'd think it wouldn't be as much for a boat that size.

They raised the masthead and put the tractor seat on. Then they realized the mast is about 10 degrees off in rotation. It's apparently not welded in, but they've been climbing it.

And more fiddling with the engine. And prop pitch. There's also a song from a bilge rat that blames flooding on the river for them not going anywhere.
 
The best time to overhaul a motor is not when you have it on a stand in the shop, it's when you finally installed it in your dream boat.

The amount of oil leaks and bad seals he's finding is worrying.
 
TurdFondler said:
The best time to overhaul a motor is not when you have it on a stand in the shop, it's when you finally installed it in your dream boat.

The amount of oil leaks and bad seals he's finding is worrying.
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For the amount of work he has put into everything he could have taken a weekend and torn down the motor. Better yet buy a motor actually rated for water exposure.
 
We're not even getting to saltwater failures yet! This mongoloid didn't even swap the belts and pulleys when he pulled it out of a clapped out school bus. The pulleys usually come as a kit, because they're a wear component. He is going to find out the hard way why there's a premium on marine motors and why you run non saline coolant in regular engines.

PLUS he just replaced the fluid in what is essentially the prop transmission with motor oil. There's a reason they ran ATF in it. Enjoy your burnt oil and slippage, I guess. He didn't even use gear oil, from what I can tell.
 
TurdFondler said:
We're not even getting to saltwater failures yet! This mongoloid didn't even swap the belts and pulleys when he pulled it out of a clapped out school bus. The pulleys usually come as a kit, because they're a wear component. He is going to find out the hard way why there's a premium on marine motors and why you run non saline coolant in regular engines.

PLUS he just replaced the fluid in what is essentially the prop transmission with motor oil. There's a reason they ran ATF in it. Enjoy your burnt oil and slippage, I guess. He didn't even use gear oil, from what I can tell.
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Wait what??? He is aware of you know fluid properties and that motor oil is no where near atf in viscosity at room temp let alone the temps a transmission runs at. As an added bonus the primary features for both are vastly different. Motor oil has to be stable at high temps but fairly low pressures. ATF needs to work at lower temps then an engine but much higher pressures.
 
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