Thanks to Paige for the welding and the SV Seeker Facebook group for the design help. The old Harken 70 winch is ready for it’s new life.

Our thanks to Mike at TulsaChain.com. We are ready to roll! …but there is still much other work to be completed. And thanks to Brandon Philips for slinging chain and showing how it’s done on his river boat.

We try out: JB Weld – Plastic Bonder, JB Weld – Plastic Weld, and Permatex Plastic Weld. The results are better than I expected. …but it ain’t welding. 🙂

Thanks to Rory, Richard, and Paige for building the engine room sink. Don’t put off adding a welder to your collection of tools. If you have a skill saw and a jig saw and a grinder, then you have everything you need once you add a spool gun to your welder.

Our Spool Gun Add-On

Richard’s Welding Kits: WeldItYourselfKits.com

Many thanks to Rory Cunningham for all of the welding. We are now ready to haul the pilothouse to the Tulsa Port of Catoosa. Don’t get too excited, we are only ticking some of the big things off the list. There is much left to do. We still need to build out the pilothouse. –Doug

Many thanks to Chris Fellows and Patrick McDonnell for building the boxes. And a very fine job they did too.

Many thanks to Paul Nosak of Nosak Disaster Services, Alex Rodriquez of Alex’s Escort Service, and Pete Halas or Halas Heavy Haul for lending their expertise. And to Chris Fellows and Patrick McDonnell for the sweat and blood.

Chris Fellows was back again and this time he went home is lovely welding tan.

We get a start on building the fifth wheel hitch for the bow of the boat, and explain many of the details of what we are doing to move the boat from my front yard the the Tulsa Port of Catoosa.

Yes! No Labels on anything obvious. I believe that if you can not look at a system with pumps, pipes, and valves and understand how it works, then you need to spend more time learning about pumps, pipes and valves. It’s right up there with knowing how to change a flat and check the oil level. Labels or written instructions are only going to give you enough false confidence to screw it up. Don’t! Just walk away and let someone how has played with pumps, pipes, and valves work it. And trust me. If you build it, you will know who to use it. So then comes the really bizarre manifestation of fear in the form of the hypothetical. “But what if you are the only one that knows how to use it and you are incapacitated?” Ok, so in this hypothetical hallucination you; the master water-maker operator, have been seriously injured on deck from snapped tow line. You have a compound fracture are arterial bleeding. Your not so crack crew, …by their own admission they can”t figure out two pumps some pipe and valves. …they are in a state of panic. To calm their nerves they decide on a cup of tea. But wait! The last gallon of fresh water just got poured out on deck in an effort to wash off the blood. No tea. You will most certainly die. And seven days later if there is no rain, so will they. Somehow that seems fitting.