/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Digits and doug sinks.

Also fuck doug for not finishing the rov.

Such pretty rainbow colored water...

>>2522295
>Will Doug's hydraulic systems work properly?
If they do, will Doug know?

The latest video where the hydraulic halyard winch mod is further complicated to the point that Doug forgets what valves he's already installed "downstairs" returns to classic old school befuddled cluster-fuckery as only Doug can do it, plus there's an extra helping of post- oil spill puppies and dolphins.
Destined to be a classic, and with the discovery that the "relief valve" he confidently explains and tries adjusting is actually just a fixed plug, we can count on a sequel when he has to open it all back up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4KKsxrShRo

I still do not know why this thread is in diy

>>2522383
Because he DIY'd a future coral reef

>>2522383
Because literally everything on Doug's janky boat is DIY, even when it makes no sense to DIY it.
He's held up as a stellar example of DIY ethos and a role model to be emulated.
Why wouldn't it be on /diy/?
Because non-sycophants discussing his DIY efforts on social media free from his control makes extra work for his online damage control team?
Maybe try starting a fourth Seeker subreddit where you can cast aspersions on non- Donger cultists.

>>2522383
Because Doug is proof that as long as you don't give into fear, you can literally do anything. He built a self sufficient junk rigged sail boat in his front yard when everyone said he couldn't and he is blowing his critics out of the water asking the way.

>>2522387
>Because literally everything on Doug's janky boat is DIY
that may be but this thread has nothing to do with diy

me thinks thou doest protest too much.

>>2522464
T. Doug

Has there been any follow up or information about the coast guards interaction with him regarding the oil leak? Amy fines levied or clean up requirements? Dougers need not respond.

>>2522471
>me thinks thou doest protest too much.
Says the only one "protesting" the discussion of fhis particular diy project, who (unwittingly?) admits to it being an ongoing effort.
Don't you have some golf balls to drill?

>>2522464
All it cost his "fear" was his house, relationships, access to grandson, marriage and so forth.

Part of the idea is to learn from other people, not just your own screwups. Doug could have bought plans from someone who knew what they were doing; could have planned out a huge amount of what he is now pottering around doing. Consider the most recent video, where he is jury-rigging a holder for the winch; no reason it couldn't have been planned out long ago. The boat still has not sailed even 100 yards, still has stuff to be re-worked after so many years of building it. How is this anything to be supremely proud of?

>>2522510
>jury-rigging a holder for the winch

Exactly, and it's worse than it appears when you consider the pages of "planning" notes found on multiple websites and authoritative lecturing there and in videos on subjects like that halyard winch setup. All that is for show and in reality he just wings it, and based on that video hasn't even gotten any better at basic stuff like simple fabrication techniques and pattern making.
The aft step going to the tender is another head shaker, how the hell was a step or at least a bracket not planned until now? And even if you give a pass on that, why the hell drill through the hull to attach the step and invite ongoing corrosion issues when he's all about steel and welding?

The chefs kiss on that one is using the problematic davit winch axle as a support- thing had to be coaxed into keeping the finger chopping open chain drive system from self disassembling as it twisted and bent in use, so let's have crew stand in the middle of it.
A step bracket there could have doubled as a center bearing support for that shaft and avoided ALL of the chain shedding problems and drilling of holes in the transom, but he rejected that advice.

Those cat electric hydraulic pumps are going to be loud as fuck lol.

>>2522481
you want to suck dougs dick? that's why you're here. isn't it.

wait till you find out about wayne. you'd really like him.

>>2522295

>>2522375

doug... I

>>2522510

>>2522786

SPHINX! *snap*`

>>2522747
Assuming they ever get hooked up, gotta caulk that galley table trim first though.
Fucking hilarious that all of this winch rigamarole is because even with multiple people on board and a massive two speed winch they can't get the main fully hoisted manually.
I've never been in the "it's gonna capsize" group but seeing how dependent he is on pumps and valves and remembering what's installed just to work a halyard, I'm coming around...in a squall you might only have seconds to douse your sails before being knocked down or there being too much wind to handle and stow the sails before losing control of them.
And that's just the halyards, he still hasn't begun rigging sheets or any means of trimming them on any of his sails.

fuckin dougie fresh

Wait so the rudder hydraulic cylinder and shit run right next to two beds?

Has anyone ever slept next to a hydraulic cylinder slowly cycling?

Electric pumps clack on: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Wow thanks doug what an amazing trip what a unique opportunity to sleep next to the most obnoxious hydraulic system ever conceived.

Also wtf is he talking about cycling a rudder off the accumulator pressure does anyone have any videos of that setup? Unless he built something retarded and homemade wouldn't it just compensate the initial shock load and immediately drop pressure and kick the pumps on?

>>2522975
>Unless he built something retarded and homemade
AHHHAHahahaha
Good one!
(slaps knee, wipes tear)

>>2522747
Why even have electricity or hydraulics involved? Clive Hammon has been shitting on this rope rudder for 20 years on the high seas.

>>2523061
Hydraulic steering makes adding an autopilot relatively pain free and also isn't a bad idea for a sailing vessel of Seeker's size/weight...
but that just points out Doug's folly, rather than prioritizing a reasonable hydraulic steering system with a manual backup, he made the primary steering manual and as a result he needs a giant ass wheel that has to rotate a dozen times in each direction to hit the stops...even minor corrections on the river required constant wild spins of the helm.
Meanwhile the parts needed to make a sensible steering system are just sitting there and he's adding hydraulics to a halyard winch to overcome all the needless weight and friction built into the sails.

"...we needed sails that one person could manage.
After sailing on a bermuda rigged boat, and watching a big gaff rig go up, we got on a junk rigged boat and saw for ourselves how incredibly easy these sails are to raise, lower and especially reef. So now we love junk sails."

>>2523092
That looks like absolute shit. If by some miracle he does raise all sails and halyards are run to the pilot house, he is going to have so much line piled up he won't know what to do with it all. There is no where to stow it all even if Doug knew how to.

>>2523137
The whole premise thst a 74' sail powered "work boat" hosting researchers needs to be rigged for single handing from an enclosed pilot house is unfathomably dumb on its face.
That he established that criteria first and is beholden to the very specific needs of that kind of rig while simultaneously assembling it by seat of the pants guesstimating with virtually no sailing experience or understanding of the most basic basics of running rigging is comedy gold.
Even with a state of the art rig designed for single handing by professionals using real marine equipment you have to be on your toes and not a cavalier dumbfuck, and even then it's always a bit dicey, even on a boat half that size/displacement (or 1/4 the displacement if you factor in Seeker winding up being double its projected design displacement).

>>2522787

>>2523092
anyone post a pic of how this is supposed to look, on a boat owned/operated by a functional human being?

>>2523719
picrel shows a couple of basic elements of a smart si gleaning setup that are missing in reverend Dong's boat shaped rats nest-
-color coding of control lines led to the cockpit
-actual marine hardware like fairleads and turning blocks that aren't tied on with harbor freight ratchet straps
-mast isn't welded permanently in place and reliant on welds for weatherproofing
-boat is heeling because of wind pressure on sails while the boat is moving under sail power in open water...the angle may look like Seeker does when run aground on a sandbar, but it's different.

>>2523737
Thanks, freely admit I am just a curious outsider watching Doug's trainwreck, posts like this help make just how clear of a fuck-up he is. The comparison is as clear as the difference between night and day.

>>2523737
is this a pic of a junk rig, or something else?

>>2523747
Doug would of course claim that that pic just shows how needlessly complicated a typical bermuda rigged boat is and that junks are superior on that count alone but a) that's not a typical bermuda rig even for something intended for singlehanding and doesn't *need* that many lines led aft...and b) junk running rigging isn't necessarily simple, especially when set up for singlehanded operation.
Picrel is the boat of the guy who did more to advance singlehanded offshore sailing and junk rig adaptation to modern/western hull forms than anyone, just as an example of what a proper setup looks like.
He was a legendary yachtsman and pioneer in offshore sailing techology and junk rigging who proved his ideas with multiple blue water passages, I doubt that Doug would even recognize his name if he heard it.
Also worth noting that after that boat was proven seaworthy and safe in a number of Atlantic crossings, it sank on an Atlantic crossing-

"Jester competed in the first OSTAR Transatlantic race in 1960, which was won by Sir Francis Chichester in Gypsy Moth II . Jester came second. She competed in every single subsequent OSTAR, but in 1989 was seriously damaged under sail and lost."
http://www.collars.co.uk/uk_galaxy/info/1/masts_and_spars/6/the_famous_modified_folkboat_jester

See >>2523787
But to be clear, halyards are halyards regardless of what you hoist on them so in that respect it doesn't matter.

>>2522295
>How long will stay anchored in front of a bar in Alabama?
Wait this piece of shit is in Alabama? Where? If it's in the bay I'ma go look at that piece of shit.

>>2523864
Its anchors off the ICW south east of this bar, where he keeps his truck.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pirates+Cove/@30.3222708,-87.529293,14.67z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x1dcdb7f6075ffd07!8m2!3d30.3219107!4d-87.5338376

>>2523864
You can see it on their webcam-
http://www.piratescoveriffraff.com/phone/index.html

He decided FL was too "snooty" to liveaboards when nobody on the waterfront jumped at the chance to give him a parking space for his truck and a place to tie up his dinghy so he could bypass supporting the local waterfront economy.

>>2522383

>>2523872
>>2523873
I just skimmed the video, he's in Pirate's Cove. I know that place, had plenty of good times there, but it's a bit of a drive since I'm on the bay in Mobile. Might still drive out there to have a gander if he's going to be there a while.

>>2523938
If I do get out there I'll take some pics and report back lol.

you people are fucked

>>2523938
He will be there until they kick him out. When is does the busy season around there start?

>>2523938
He's been there like 2 months now. I'm trying think he is going anywhere soon

>>2523948
>you people are fucked
You wanna see fucked, go check out the other poor sap/scold trying to control the narrative on the Sailing Anarchy Seeker thread right now.
Captcha: WAAAH

>>2523953
Mid spring or so, just whenever it warms up. Maybe closer to summer for people coming through the great loop I think. Plenty of cheap shitholes around he could hole up in if he gets kicked out of there though.

Credit where it's due, now that Seekers not going anywhere the videos are chock full of entertainment, in the latest one non-sailor Doug shit talks the entire engineering team at B&G instruments for not anticipating how he would mount his $700 "antanometer" and when the replacement battery he gets is the wrong size he re-engineers the battery compartment with a knife heated with MAPP gas.
Also lots of screeching blocks, deadly dangerous live lifts up the mast via the anchor windlass and that fucking block on a ratchet strap, and he pwns the haterz by actually sitting in the tractor seat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguQYfrWeG8

The only reason the boat is so shitty is because Doug is in a hurry to get out to international waters before he is arrested for raping boys.

>>2522478
They're not going to care about the spill. It's gone by now.

>>2524141
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguQYfrWeG8
That fucking thumbnail.
What a self righteous prick.

>>2524141
>>2524142
>>2524267
take this shit to another board. it's not diy

>>2524270
>it's not diy

Jalopnik disagrees-

Meet The DIY Mastermind Building A 74-Foot Sailboat By Hand In His Front Yard
>"It’s the ultimate DIY project..."
>"He outsources practically nothing..."
https://jalopnik.com/meet-the-diy-mastermind-building-a-74-foot-sailboat-by-1748448126

BTW, when you report back on your mission here, ask the "DIY Mastermind" why he pretends that "trolls" have only recently begun referring to his relationship with his sycophants like that of religious devotees and a charismatic leader when almost seven years ago that article written by one of those starry eyed followers states without a hint of irony-
>"And so people from all walks of life make the pilgrimage to Tulsa to lend a hand..."
LMAO, he ate that shit up until people started pointing out how creepy and cult-like its become, especially after his purge of people with the explosion "prank"-

>"Jackson says this was, in part, a social experiment, but also a way to weed out who the true Seeker devotees were."
>" ...Jackson said..."So, why do I filter? Because I want the right people around me."
https://ktul.com/news/local/tulsa-boat-builders-extreme-prank-stirs-anger-and-support-online

That's cult leader 101 tactics.

>>2524294
this thread is not about diy, it's about RAH RAHing or shitting on some guy who DID some diy.

this thread is NOT diy.

>>2524330
Isn't that literally every /diy/ thread?

>>2524270
Shut up Doug. This is the epitome of diy, regardless of how fucked it is.
Don't you have a shitty plebbit page to run? Or some hydraulic leaks to fix?

>>2524330
> $0.25 has been deposited to your SeaChest Shill account.

>>2524348
>Or some hydraulic leaks to fix?
He's leaking patrons, that's way more important

>>2524330
Yep. We totally need more threads about "which tool brand is best" or "why I love/hate this other random e-celeb" or "halp guise I rent and I'm too afraid to ask my landlord to fix my toilet wat do???" or my personal favorite "I'm having some work done on my house, how much do you think it will cost a contractor to do it? I'm totally /diy/ing the call to the contractor!"

These threads, which are contained to a single general, discuss someone doing it themselves. Dumpster fire or not the dude built a boat from scratch.

>>2524354
The funniest part about the explosion prank was the first couple videos where he's like, the most important thing is to not care about other people and what they feel, that's why I'm such a bad ass

Then he keeps HEMORRAGING patrons, he lost like 3k over the course of a weekend, and then he just delisted all the videos except the 'apology' where he still calls everyone that cared a dumb fuck

Hey Doug if itnwas such a good idea why did you hide all the other videos? Wasn't it doing exactly what you wanted?

>>2524330
>it's about RAH RAHing or shitting on some guy who DID some diy.

What do you mean "did"?
That's the past tense of "done" and implies completion of the project.
The PRIMARY goal in this case was to diy a SAILING VESSEL to be used for MARINE RESEARCH.
That hasn't happened, and even the basic component systems that make up a functional research vessel or just a recreational sailboat have never been completed, and attempts to do so mushroom into more branches of DIY complexity as with the halyard winch project that became a hydraulic engineering and welding project that became an environmental cleanup project...and all of that was an offshoot of simply trying to raise the sails fully to determine lengths and locations for running rigging that hasn't even been designed, let alone built or finished.
Meanwhile every single block involved from the masthead to the turning blocks has been been described by Doug as "just temporary until we find out what we like" as have the types and locations of every other component involved.
And that's just to finish the single task of DIYing a SAILING VESSEL, ie a vessel capable of sailing, that has been proven by ACTUALLY SAILING.
Doug hasn't "done" that at all, a d besides that his entire DIY philosophy is about never stopping and always remaining busy, until you die, so saying that he "DID some diy" is a gross mischaracterization he would bristle at...Doug *IS* DIY personified.

All of which leads to the obvious question-
What did YOU make today?

>>2524353
I have no affiliation with or against him. stop posting non diy threads.

>>2524418
>What did YOU make today?
go be wayne somewhere else.

>>2524330
>>2524462
>>2524463

>>2524504

>>2524462
Beep boop

Haven't followed since the SVS was stuck waiting for a replacement inverter. Can I have a tl;dr to the events since that period?

>>2524504
>>2525068

>>2524081
holy shit lmao he's been at nonstop since last week

From the thread:
>Finally, I think some people have a negative attitude towards people who actually accomplish things, which is also really gross. I think Doug is getting shit from the same sortof people who throw shadeat Elon or Bezos or whoever.

>Unprompted defense of elong and bezos
Slave mentality, this retard needs someone to follow and be subservient to at all times. No surprise he's gay for doug

>>2524573

>the cheese covered meat log and raw jalapenos

i had forgotten, thank you

>>2525196

NOPE NOPE NOPE

>>2525071
He bumper boated his way down the river, then decided to motor to Pensacola. No marina would let him park his truck and dinghy they're for free so he is anchored off a small bar in Alabama where he dumped a bunch of hydraulic fluid in the water way. Now he's pretending to be working on the sailing rig until they kick him out.

>>2525177
It's the same idiot who keeps coming here and seeking (hehe) out the Seeker thread to try to control the narrative by scolding about how it's not DIY...same one who posts the really stupid memes and floods these threads to try to reach the post limit quicker.
It's utterly desperate damage control and the best part is that doing the same shit on plebbit just got him banned and another sub started that's free from Doug's control, where his predictable trolling tactics ID him on sight.
I guess he thinks shitting up the SA thread will somehow derail and dilute the honest conversation about what a POS ongoing slo-mo trainwreck Seeker is, but all its doing is showing just how completely the ranks of Dong supporters have been purged of people with any boating knowledge or common sense.
The YT and FB comments Dong controls are just absurd now, he barely hauls his baggy upholstery fabric foresail halfway up the mast with his screeching halyard blocks and leaky hydraulics when there's no wind because nothings functional or controllable and the comments are all "WOW, she's like a graceful sea bird taking flight!!!"

>>2525232

>>2525196
now shoop them into gaping vaginas

>>2525321

>>2525232

I'm calling it. Doug makes a religion with a sea org just like Scientology

In this thread
>>2522481
>>2522510
>>2522820
>>2522975
>>2523078
>>2523137
>>2523228
>>2523737
>>2523787
>>2524141
>>2524294
>>2524348
>>2524355
>>2524356
>>2524418
>>2525232
The cult of doug

>>2525496
SEA ORG pays better!!!!!!!!

>/svg/ flooded with inane posts and backseat jannies
>threads about drinking bleach and diy dentistry with a trump image for no reason
Something fishy is afoot.

>>2526006
No you're just really fucking stupid. Everything is not a conspiracy.

>>2526033
spoken like someone trying to sell a conspiracy

how bout that Arabella boat being worked on. pretty cool huh?

>>2523786
Looks like a sloop. A junk is much simpler at the mast, only having one halyard.

>>2526054
No I just don't have a double digit IQ like your dumb hick ass.

I still dont get how the boat is not commercial when its entire point of existence is to film videos for youtube which the feds have already ruled is commercial use

>>2526054

>>2526062
A junk rigged to be controlled from the cockpit has more lines than a single halyard, and the sheeting system on a modern junk is pretty complex by comparison to a standard marconi rigged main. Regardless, only dipshits use non- marine wooden cheeked pulleys with spring loaded pelican hooks tied to harbor freight ratchet straps as turning blocks as if the distance and direction from the mast to the pilothouse were some mysterious formula that might radically change so let's keep everything temporary.
If anything, the fact that the halyard and any downhauls involved with a junk are simpler than a race rigged Marconi sloop just makes it even more stupid that dedicated turning blocks and fairleads are still absent.

>>2522348
>Such pretty rainbow colored water...
that's just the effect from the tranny that's been working on the ship. it has infected the steel at an atomic level.
the ship will forever leave a trail of faggotry, until it rusts inside out from homo-residue
Doug will sink and be saved by a chinese fishing vessel.

So what happened to the subreddit? Doug got control?

>>2526223
Old mod sold out and fucked off and like with most other things Doug has little idea what to do with it because people just moved to a new sub immediately where he can't reach.

>>2526259
Details on the new one?

>>2526328
r/svseeker_free same as the old one pretty much.

>>2526102

>>2526352
LMAO, nobody has ever said that he "controls every thread" memetard.
He and Betsy and their drooling minions certainly may try, but they fail every time and even on FB and YT where Doug nukes any and all responses, he can't control people just being bored with his shtick and not engaging, which is clearly the trend. On the three plebbit subs devoted to seeker he gets nothing but pushback from all the people he's shit on for years, many of whom were supporters and even worked on the project. He even started a new sub because his original one became so toxic, and after the backroom deals with the mod of the "haters" sub it only took a couple of days for the new Doug- free sub to be nearly the same size as his new one. He doesn't dare try to "control" the sub he just wrangled moderator status over because the only engagement he gets is "haters" and at least they watch his videos to make fun of what a retard he is.
He's a professional clown now, and as a "sailor" with a "sailing vessel" serves as a master class in what not to do and why...this latter role will only amplify as he tries to "control" his meme sails and motion generated by them.
Your latest attempt at turning the very accurate CULT descriptor around on people who recognize one when they see it also serves as a master class in how to confirm that you are a triggered cult member lashing out desperately as his world crumbles around him.
JFC, you even fucked up that meme; there's supposed to be some implied struggle but choosing "Doug is a moron" and ignoring the stupid Donger cultist fever dream "gotcha" one is the easy and obvious solution, there's no struggle whatsoever.

>>2526352

>>2526103
Please start using commas. You sound like a woman.

>>2526424

>>2526562
This is the face of defeat

>>2526576

>>2526424
>He's a professional clown now
how long until he becomes a politician?
politicians seem to excel at clowning

>>2526424

>>2526424

>>2526582
Lol what a stupid loser

>>2526670

>>2526716

>>2522295
take this to /n/ where it belongs.

>>2527065
>can barely move on its own
>doesn't have any spare capacity to transport anything beyond the owner's dumb ass and a few of his clueless friends
Why would this be in /n/ of all places?

>>2527088
It's more schoolbus than boat.

>>2526033
>>2526075
>ur stoopid
Yeah, you're right, there totally aren't people trying to backseat janny and claim this general discussing a (disastrous) DIY project doesn't belong here. Nothing his happening, just go back to sleep.

>>2527115
What exactly do you think is gonna happen? The mods are suddenly gonna decide the trolls are right after years and delete the thread? You really are dumb as a rock aren't you?

>>2527156
>IP change
sus
You're getting awfully defensive about being called out. Have anything to admit? We're going to talk about this DIY project and laugh at its incompetence and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>2527173
Great, that's why I'm here retard. Sorry your crazy paranoid brain can't understand that.

>>2527173
>>2527289
different factions same cult.

>>2527321
What are you talking about dingus

>>2527321
It's cute how you keep trying the "no, YOU"RE a cult" thing and now that nobody gives a shit about your opinion on the matter just like always, you think slightly altering it to "everyone is a cult" fools people and makes you less obvious.

That donation and stuffed rat money must be really drying up now that Seeker isn't the big attraction it was in OK and AR where a 74' "sailboat" was a big deal. Now it's just another barely together diy houseboat slowly disintegrating as it's master keeps talking up all his grandiose plans and lashing out at people grounded in reality.

>>2523940
Thank you, Anon. Please do

>>2527346
it's cute how you think I have anything to do with your cult leader. that you keep trying to make it look like I'm some kind of doug shill.

>>2527719
It's pretty obvious, dude...

>>2527789
That you're retarded? Yes it is.

>>2522295
Thanks for doing these generals anon. You are how I found out about this guy.

>>2527789
oooh sick burn...dipwad

captcha WPT00H

>>2527868
Same here. I enjoy the generals. Doug and his shills trying so hard to not be obvious is meh.

>>2527893
>Doug and his shills trying so hard to not be obvious is meh.

It is as far as being interesting contribution, but the intense ramping up of that activity here and elsewhere in the last few months as Seeker is allegedly out of the build stage and operational has become its own phenomenon.
Rigging/hoisting sails is the last of the original contruction work to make a "sailing vessel" and while they like to pretend it's moving g right along, they alleged began and said they were ready for sail trials 8 months ago.
It's not going well, it's not very captivating to see an idiot move "ropes" around, and so for the Dongers the answers to the eternal question "What did you make today" have boiled down to:

"repairs to things that failed almost immediately after launch"

"another stab at guessing how a junk sail is rigged"

"boot licking apologies to the coast guard"

"an embarrassingly juvenile failed effort to silence anyone who criticizes the BSO or Doug and his die hard followers"

"barely comprehensible memes"

>>2527868
This. I just find it entertaining. He made this mess for himself. I don't want the guy to die or lead to the death of others, but I look forward to the comeuppance. I would say redemption but doesn't seem likely.

>>2527917
>intense ramping up of that activity here and elsewhere

Seven new pages of illiterate Donger defense in the last 24 hours alone on Sailing Anarchy...
hard to believe it could be real, but so is Seeker and it's various systems, not to mention Doug's abandoned tender and submarine.
Anyway, looking forward to Seekers reconfiguration as a recreational workboat research vessel TRIMARAN!

>>2527925
>redemption
In his case it's reality pulling his head out of his ass by force while he's kicking and screaming

>>2527940
>if there's too much water on deck Doug will just cut bigger drain holes
He will have to pull it up from the bottom first

>>2527940
>Doug’s version of outriggers
This is retarded in so many ways, I hope he does it for entertainment’s sake

>>2528161
I can see him just getting two more used light poles and welding 55 gal drums to the ends and the other end welded to the sides of seeker. And then bitch about other ships not giving him enough room.

>>2528038
>>2528161
>>2528302
wow so much /diy/ a bunch of idiots criticizing a bunch of idiots.

>>2528161
>>2528302
Oddly enough there's a recent post on Seeker's FB from a guy who has built an all steel 42' trimaran from an old piece of chimney pipe with smaller pipes for the amas...
He's had it on the water for a few years and actually sailed it, so he's ahead of Doug in that regard, and appears far more sensible and humble even though he tends to come to Doug's defense quickly based on having been called a nut.
But like Seeker his amateur build has been fraught with hurdles and re- re- re- configuring of issues that "haters" warned him about, and his original goal of travelii around the world in it is in limbo. The design is hydrodynamically questionable but I've seen worse and it appears reasonably well built.
It's kooky as hell but he's actually doing it (sailing) and rather than being a hostile asshole he took ownership of the criticism by naming it the SV Pipedream-

"This channel is mainly about my boat Pipedream. I built this boat out of an old cooling tower ( chimney ) some years ago and I am currently trying to complete a refit and finalise modifications so that I can do some sort of trip.

There is a lot of welding, grinding, plasma cutting and painting to do and in some ways this is an abject lesson in why it is easier to just buy a boat. But for those who like to tinker and do things themselves (and are masochistic) then building is an affliction that can not be avoided.

https://m.youtube.com/@SailingSVPipedream/videos

>>2528302
He can just repurpose both of his tenders for outriggers. And he only needs them under sail so he can still detach one and use it normally when he needs to go ashore or somewhere else.

>>2528302
>And then bitch about other ships not giving him enough room.

It would also give him another reason to lash out against marinas since a 74' trimaran has to go on an end tie and they only have a few per marina and charge up the ass for them.

It would also be amusing to hear him gnash his teeth and moan when he inevitably needs to haul out at an actual boatyard and has to use a far more expensive marine railway because his trimaran is too wide for a travel lift and being the manly steel boater he is he refused to make the amas easily detachable and welded them in solid just like his light pole masts.
Please Mr. Jesus make it happen.

HOLY SHIT
Turns out that Dong's neighbor withvthe crane who rode the pilothouse when it was lifted off of Seeker for the move to the water and almost got violently ragdolled into next week when an overlooked bolt let go had *his* own reality show that featured similar recklessness-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=239&v=eu9DzNGNOCs&feature=emb_title

>>2528412
He also likes to speed (both boats and cars), use corporeal punishment on his child, and once even sued his own company for an injury.

https://oscn.net/dockets/Results.aspx?db=all&number=&lname=nosak&fname=paul&mname=&DoBMin=&DoBMax=&partytype=&apct=&dcct=&FiledDateL=&FiledDateH=&ClosedDateL=&ClosedDateH=&iLC=&iLCType=&iYear=&iNumber=&citation=

>>2528425
>sued his own company

This is probably just an insurance thing

>>2528400
>>2528412
>>2528425
so much diy talk.

>>2528449
Cry more fayget. Doug's boat is diy lore at this point. Nobody's forcing you to stay here.

>>2528490
>Nobody's forcing you to stay here.
i am. it's his punishment for the trite and meaningless life he's leading

>>2528533
Lol

What did
Doug do on Christmas

>>2530074
lots of not sailing and also not hosting researchers, plus taking photos of the clown shoe silhouetted against the setting sun and posting them to his tightly censored social media pages with the comments turned off.
In other words, just a typical day since the launch.

>>2530195
Also, not going to Florida.

>>2530195
>tightly censored social media pages with the comments turned off
awww cannot troll your hero.

>>2530231
Thats a funny way of saying "Doug fears words".

>>2530428
>he does it anyway

New video, New revelations-
"Apparently, I want the foresail and the mizzen first, that lets me start sailing...the mainmast is kind of like an afterthought."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1011&v=pyFAGYQ5c2U&feature=emb_logo

>>2530231
Damn, just over an hour after his post! How often does Doug expect you to check the page? Do you get paid per post to defend him? Does he randomly check your browser history to confirm that you are only checking his socials pretending to be a random anonymous douggie admirer?

>>2530594
He's learning every day. Meanwhile the haters sit in their mothers basement and try to tear hin down out of jealousy.

>>2530794
The only thing he needs to learn, but never does, is to listen to other people. Could've been sailing for a few years already, and on a much better boat, if he did.

>>2530794
15 years into his project and he learns that a flat work table is better than grinding parts while laying them on top of his mechanical equipment down below, or on deck by balancing them on top of the rail.
He's like a modern day Archimedes.

>>2530794
Hey I'm on the second story!

>>2530794
Why didn't he learn all this shit years ago before the boat was actually in the water?

>>2530904
Ironically he does that thing women do where there's some issue or situation that needs a path forward and you are intimately familiar with the process and tell them how to deal with it and they blow you off for years and years and eventually get pissy and attack you when you repeat what you KNOW they need to do and/or get sick of them not doing it...
then one day they are all happy and excited and when you ask why they say, "this new girl at works' husband works on (thing they need to deal with but won't), and she asked *him* and HE says I need to (do exactly what you've been saying for YEARS) to (deal with thing).
Then they act like they figured it all out on their own by asking * the right person* and ignore the fact that you repeatedly told them exactly what an experienced professional finally did, but starting nine years ago.

The mizzen winch he talks about it this video is exactly this scenario; people have told him he needs one for years and years and he was a complete asshole to them for trying to help, and told them he knew better. Now some random guy convinces him and Doug takes credit for "surrounding himself with the right people".

tl;dr: because Doug acts like a pigheaded, petulant, irrational girl with a massive chip on her shoulder.

>>2530977
>mizzen
Why even have a mizzen mast?

>>2531128
Split rigs in general allow smaller, easier to handle sails for
any given sail area, which is why they're popular for cruising boats.
Two masted schooners tend to be less naturally balanced (lots of power generated way aft) and harder to control and three masted versions can help balance the sail area out.
Marconi ketches and yawls can be made better balanced than a sloop with a mizzen and allow more sail combinations like jib and mizzen for low power in high winds or a adding mizzen staysail for more power and in light winds.
They can also allow sail/ rig configurations that take advantage of certain loopholes in racing rules, and some yawls are basically just sloops with a mizzen added for some advantage, while ketches are usually designed and masts positioned to use all the masts in normal conditions and may not sail or bslance well without the mizzen.
It's even possible to use the mizzen sheet and a bungee cord to make a ketch or yawl self steer.
In Seekers case much of this will not apply because the mizzen is pretty small and that pilothouse and bulwarks is a massive amount of windage.

>>2530791
who's doug?
why is no one in this thread talking about anything related to diy?

>>2530977
doug FAPFAPFAP
oh doug fucked up! FAPFAPFAPFAPFAP!@
DOUGsploosh

>>2531128

>>2531507
I cannot imagine being as assblasted as you are

>>2531507
How many times does it need to be repeated?
Also, what did YOU make today?

>>2531756
What did YOU make today.

>>2531507
Go ahead and delete the thread faggot.
Oh wait, you can't and the mods won't because it's on topic. Sorry about that loser.

>>2531507
Are you stuck in one of those bunk beds with the sharp mermaid joists? Is Doug forcing you to stay aboard? If so, reply with another cringey meme and the local authorities will be notified. Please make sure to include your pronouns.

>>2531834
so much insult how will I recover?
oh wait I care not.

>>2531845
And yet you responded
Fucking loser

>>2532023
and yet so did you turd burglar.

>>2531845
Boat in the background of the image, should be the Seether.

>>2532165
Ironically, Doug's crusading minions think they're helping him but in reality do the opposite...Doug likes to compare his alleged bravery and vision with that of Henry Ford, but Ford is THE poster child for bad decisions driven by pigheaded arrogance, writ large-

"Henry Ford exhibited many of the 20 bad habits that hold back further success...

>Not listening:

Successful leaders often disregard others’ ideas and are unwilling to listen to others. It is not only disrespectful to the team members but also harmful as it was with Henry Ford.

>Telling the world how smart we are:

Successful leaders suffer from this tendency to show off. The need to show people we’re smarter than they think we are. It is unnecessary and annoying to others.

>Making destructive comments:

The needless sarcasm and cutting remarks that we think make us witty. Ford was known for such sarcastic comments and practical jokes that may be funny to him but insulted others.

>Making excuses:

The need to reposition our annoying behavior as a permanent fixture, so people excuse us for it.

>Clinging to the past:

The need to deflect blame away from ourselves and onto events and people from our past, a subset of blaming everyone else.

>Punishing the messenger:

The misguided need to attack the innocent who are usually only trying to help us. Henry Ford did it to Ernest Kanzler, who was just a messenger of the bad news.

...It is not just the arrogant leaders who fall prey to these bad leadership habits. The most humble leaders often fall prey to many of these bad habits when they constantly get positive reinforcement.

***When a leader hardly ever gets real, truthful, and unfiltered feedback that may help them stay grounded, it is easy to fall prey to one or more of these bad habits***."

If anyone has primed Doug for failure and caused his build to take far more time than necessary for poor results, it's his uncritical yes-men that try to silence all critical asessment.

QRD on this Doug guy? Since when is he building this boat?

>>2532283
the really bizarre thing about you is that you keep saying we are "doug crusaders".

fuck doug and fuck you.
all of you are vagina blood farts.

>>2531793
slava ukrayini

>>2532371

>>2532368
cлaвa pyccи

>>2532368
the really bizarre thing about you is that you think that saying you aren't taking Doug's side, don't care either way, want to stay on topic, etc, etc fools anyone in this and the other forums you try to sell that laughable premise in.
Turns out that the Donger cult knows less about psychology than they do about naval architecture and seamanship.

>>2532283
what unhinged lunacy. props to anyone that made it past the second paragraph.

>>2532413
Don't you have some "ropes" to be hose clamping to your "sails"?

>>2532283
Kek why is this autist SO obsessed?
Constantly rambling about other forums and shills. Meds now

>>2532426
oh it's suppose to be funny because he's inferring that i'm doug. wow what a burn. i'm dead.

>>2532431
>>2532434

SO much not caring either way that it can't be contained in one post.
LMAO

>>2532411
didn't read.
but whatever it said pic related.

>>2532481
bro I'm flattered. you used my OC.

thank you. now please take this to /n/

fuck you, fuck doug, fuck that stupid boat.
fuck your cult.

>>2532539

>>2532541
>/n/
What does Seeker have to do with transportation?

>>2532541
>now please take this to /n/
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
REDDITOR MOMENT

The donger's tactic right now is to shit up any place Doug can't control to discourage regular people from staying there, and he's been quite succesful so far.

>>2532791

he could of been sailing by now
instead he chose shitposting

>>2532782
If /N/ can have threads about city planning, we can have Dougposting

>>2532869
>instead he chose shitposting
we all did, anon
we all did

>>2532869
>thinks doug is here shitposting.
kek.

>>2532602
it's boat

>>2532869
is this "doug" or "seeker" in the room with you now anon?

>>2533111
It's an alleged "sailing vessel" that can't move under sail.

Sort of like Doug's "submarine" that couldn't go underwater and was abandoned, and the "tender" that couldn't function for that purpose and was abandoned.

This song seems appropriate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eKIZQ4_Gw

>>2524081
>>2525177
i know nothing about this guy save what i glean from the biweekly circlejerks here

>>2533111
>is this "doug" or "seeker" in the room with you now anon?

No, it's not even in Florida yet.

>>2533145
I know even less about doug, I remember when these threads first appeared and thought there is no way these people will talking about some boat guy for who knows how long... but here we are.

you'd thing they would want to talk about a good boat build like Acorn to Arabela, but no, this is almost as bad as the white knighting that goes on in wayne threads.

in wayne threads he claims you're his ex-landlord, and here they claim you're doug or a doug fanboy. sad.

>>2533148
Technically he is just standing in the doorway of the room. He's right on the border. Also happy new year at least I'm not a scared woman raiser boy like Doug who can't learn from others. Ironic the internet built it when he didn't let the internet guide him

>noooo stop talking about Doug!
>t. totally not the same person

>>2533186
>...thought there is no way these people will talking about some boat guy for who knows how long... but here we are.

Had Doug ever set aside his massive ego and accepted critique in the spirit in which it was intended, he would have been finished and sailing years ago. Instead he wastes his time trying to control other people and what they say, and setting up hoaxes; nobody made him do that.

>you'd thing they would want to talk about a good boat build like Acorn to Arabela
Hilarious that in order to COPE you need to pretend that it's an either/ or proposition and people who discuss Doug and his shit boat as a cautionary tale MUST only do that and can't do the other.
But since you bring them up, there's no need to discuss them here be a use those people don't go out of their way to silence all other social media either directly or by the kind of distraction and forum flooding you engage in.

This has been explained over and over and every time it was suggested that Doug just not be a complete asshole to people who didn't deserve it, he doubled down and all that's left on his side is stupid yes men and a boat that has taken a ridiculously long time to become an unfinished piece of crap.

>>2533186
>Acorn to Arabela
i remember these guys, i'm sure they have their share of terminally-online weirdos

>>2533186
>Acorn to Arabela
Dunno if you've not been watching or what but there was some big drama there, Alex left and he was replaced with an endless stream of sycophant dikes and trannies.

Also that boat is a bigger troll than Seeker. It's a horrible early design by Atkin. Think v1.0.0 when v23.5.b was released decades ago. If completed she won't have a sister ship in the world. Probably a reason no one else built those plans but it's not really about the boat. It's about the youtube views. Always was.

>>2533213
tldr

>>2533237
not really a lot of drama, Alex left it seems because he met some chick and had family issues that were taking all of his time.

the trannies are gone and the boat is expected to move to the water in about a year. only one dyke left, deck, rudder, cabin, and cockpit is on. interior fittings are 75% done. masts are made. sails being made (I think for free), engine is in the boat, prop and shaft are ready for install. all the navigation equipment, power, stoves, and refrigerator/freezer are installed. I'm sure there is more, I don't remember everything.

>It's about the youtube views. Always was.
not really sure where this came from.

also it seems nothing makes you idiots happy.

you just seem pissy. like you have sand in your vaginas.

>>2533255
>>It's about the youtube views. Always was.
>not really sure where this came from.
The channel was literally co-founded by a film major and you have no idea where it came from. Makes sense since you seem retard.

>>2533255
day one they had multiple production grade cameras, gimbles, tripods, mics, a complete website, patreon, kickstarter, music licenses, a fucking logo, pro editing software, a cameraman (besides alex), the show's format, and probably other shit i'm missing. look at the first video. it has fucking flash forwards in it as if it's a tv show. a flash forwards while alex is talking about a kickstarter to "see if they can get the project started." kek.

>>2533255
>tldr
also, posts own blog post that's tldr
yfw: what did he mean by this?

>>2533281
Yfw = you fucking woman

>>2533297
hmmmm
such a colossal wit, i'm sure you're a wonder at the local circle jerks

>>2533316
>>2533271
>>2533280
did mommy not give you enough titty when you were a baby?

did daddy not play ball with you?

>>2533186
>Acorn to Arabela
Start a thread about their ridiculous claims and failures, and then I’ll be happy to shitpost there too.

>>2533186
I enjoyed.doug before tye.head injury as ASMR, but always found acorn to arabella annoying. They only have like 8 minutes of content per episode, everything else is filler and commercials

>>2533475
Why is this dougn't is so intent on defending the obviously fake Acorn to Arabela channel? We're here on /diy/. Out of the two channels at least we know Doug is actually /diy/ing it. Acorn to Arabela's format is the same as those videos of two guys in the jungle with sticks that dig out houses and pools in a day...

Oh, I see now. He probably thinks those one day primitive jungle pool building videos are legit too.

>>2533549
Dude nobody builds such a quality boat for views. It will cost much more than production boats when fnished. They actually harvested lumber from family forest.
I follow this guy by the way.
https://www.youtube.com/@oceancapablesmallsailboat2774
There you go something else for you to hate.

>>2533628
>They actually harvested lumber from family forest.
Sure and those two guys in the forest really dig mansions out of the dirt and make concrete using termite nests and unicorn farts. Wake the fuck up.

2533653
are you just angry you've managed to do fuck all of value with your life?
just because you aren't capable of producing anything doesn't mean nobody else is.
there is a fair bit of fuckery on the primitive builder channel, but that doesn't mean everyone else is pulling the same shit.
you're such a cunt that i'm denying you your (you)

>>2533727
>are you just angry you've managed to do fuck all of value with your life?
>just because you aren't capable of producing anything doesn't mean nobody else is.

Funny, this is the EXACT same assmad illogical reaction that Doug has to any and all critique:

If someone expresses anything but approval for something you built or approve of, it MUST mean that they have never accomplished anything of value in their lives and have a flawed character and no skills.

Make of that what you will, whether you are Doug or not doesn't really matter because the assmad illogical opinions of seething juveniles don't really matter.

>>2533549
>>2533759
ok now the delusion in this thread is at epic proportions, the cope, the seethe, the mad.

who hurt you anon?

you are a sad, sad little "man" and you have my pity.

may you live to a very old age so you have to be with yourself for a LONG, long time.

HOLY SHIT!
In the unprecedented space of only 16 months after launching, the DIY Mastermind has managed to hoist one sail all the way to the top of its galvanized light pole.

DOUGNTS BTFO!!

>>2533785
nobody cares

>>2533772
You realize that you're arguing with multiple people right? Regardless the only one coping, seething and mad here is you. So mad you've started projecting. Sad really.

>>2533791
His main purpose is to try to get the thread archived by filling it up as quickly as possible with off topic concern troll nonsense and personal attacks.

>>2533806
Good thing it doesn't cost anything to make a new thread

>>2533807
Rinse and repeat a few times and nobody who could've cared would want to visit the seeker thread anymore, or the mods would even chase it off the board altogether. Mission accomplished.

>>2533842
LMAO, so you admit that it's just straight up trolling specifically intended to stop people from criticizing Doug, just as people have said from the beginning.
You also unwittingly support the "cult" label when you characterize it as a MISSION you are dedicated to, ie-
"A ministry commissioned by a religious organization to propagate its faith"

>>2533806
If that's the plan it's a bad plan. I've popped in and out of /svsg/ for over a year and this is the exact same shit it's always been. I come here to watch dougn't seethe as Doug's mere existence is triggering to them. That's an insane amount of commitment imo and have no idea how they do it. How can they care so much about something that effects them so little?

>>2533891
Lol, more insane projection and cope...you could just ignore it.

Oh wait, you literally can't.

>>2533918
Why would I ignore it? Do you not understand the arguments used against you will not work for me? I want to watch this. I just told you I come here exclusively for it. Your impotent seething gets my rocks off. Please, keep responding.

are there any more unlisted videos?
there used to be an anon who leaked them to us.

>>2533891
It potentially affects me a lot when I want to boat with my kids in the gulf and I have to worry about cocksmokers like Doug who think me raising my kids like a man is somehow a threat to his frail ego so he tries to throw his wake at me to "see if I feel fear" while he has that dumb as grin that clearly never has been faced with true adversity.

Jk his rust bucket can't throw a wake haha. I can't wait for him to come to Florida so I can teach my kids to bully the floating burn barrel

>>2532869
He could've been sailing years ago if he didn't insist on doing everything from scratch. It might be good as a cautionary tale for everyone who decides they want to build a boat.

>>2533963
>Jk his rust buck...
Oh no need to tell me you were just kidding. I knew that when you mentioned kids.

>>2532283
>jewish articles on why Ford was a heckin failure
I sleep

>>2534178
jesus dude

>>2534178
I didn't say I had pp pagina sex to get the kids. I just said they were mine after all.

>>2533869
no one posting about this thread cares one lick of shit about doug, YOU keep bringing him up. YOU keep talking about him very few of the antithisthread posts mentions your boyfriend.

you are the one obsessed with him.

>>2534249
>very few of the antithisthread posts mentions your boyfriend.

What are you, seven?

>>2534306
I was gone from here all day and this is your response?

Thing hasn't even sailed an inch: the coating on the masthead flange is peeling from the corrosion blooming up from underneath and the halyard thats too large a diameter for its (cheap ass non-marine) sheave is visibly deteriorating.
Every option for half-assery has been taken, no safety wire on shackle pin, no lock washers or stop nuts on structural bolts, cotter pin barely spread open...
its a MASTER CLASS on how to get everything wrong.

>>2534862
We don't care about your boyfriend.

>>2534916
Yes, Your Majesty

>>2534862
jesus this is how far you've sunk to get noticed by your man?

oh yeah! now THIS is /diy/!

>>2534993
>>2533209

When is the film crew coming back Dougbros?

>>2535053
AFAIK they were just there for the launch and trip down Ark/Miss.

>>2535063
Unless it's going to be about the project being an objective failure it's hard to imagine completing a documentary about a "sailing vessel" without it actually sailing.
Supposedly the filming began fairly early on at a time when there was nothing but good will and lots of public interest...makes me wonder if there was some financial deal made for exclusive rights to make a documentary. If that was the case and Dong rat fucked the goodwill part of it his heel dragging with the sailing may just be his only way to put off what's almost guaranteed to not be the complimentary puff piece he thinks he deserves.

I am proudly a Donger shill cult member.

>>2535085
If the sailing doesn't happen or there is some other bad ending, then the documentary just won't get released and Doug keeps whatever they paid him up front (if anything).

>>2535156
Are you privy to the actual deal they entered into?

Because documentaries and similar "reality based" shows get made all the time that end up showing what really happens, as opposed to the fantasy public relations booster storyline that the subject wants it to be or simply eating all the time and expense involved. It's also pretty standard that even if there is no overriding agreement setting out the terms of any collaboration with the subject, everyone who gets filmed signs a release allowing those images to be used, so the ability to force a documentary to be abandoned completely is pretty limited.

Pretty interesting though that with sailing and the documentary release being two major generators of attention for anyone whose followed to project, suddenly there's a HUGE effort being made to paint any expression of interest in the project as a bad thing...

it's no longer "don't say bad things about Doug", the mantra has evolved to "Nobody cares either way, nothing of interest to discuss period, dont speak of him or his project AT ALL".

That would certainly fit with the idea that the documentary is now being seen as a liability and all the foot dragging and trolling is designed to poison that well, because success is not an option and never has been.

>>2535179
>Are you privy to the actual deal they entered into?
No.
>the documentary is now being seen as a liability
This is what I was driving at. Producers aren't going to waste another nickel on this pig and the documentary will get abandoned. Maybe the footage could show up later as part of future show about lolcows.

>>2535179
everything is a conspiracy if you believe hard enough.

New video.
Less cringe than usual because it features someone other than Doug *and* Doug actually lets him speak.
Odd though that as he actually gets to finishing out the running rigging (or phase one since "its all temporary"), his junk sailing expert friends are nowhere to be seen and he's got a dude who sails an FRP boat he didn't diy and has a marconi rig.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e2RPQAzJQFg&feature=emb_title

Also his hard on for using rock climbing gear and techniques almost got him killed when the wrong line jammed it up and he tore it apart while aloft and under load trying to un-jam it.
Speaking of jamming, the slop in the fixed halyard blocks is a recipe for sails that have to be lowered by cutting the halyard at the masthead...unless the shared axle that uses cotter pins on both sides fails first, or maybe the whole mast head comes off since half the bolts don't even have nuts.

>>2535200
where's the boat you built?

>>2535200
What the fuck.
I see no lock washers.
No nylocs.
Corrosion setting in.
The salt spray from the wind alone will eat that rusted mast head before he ever sets sail. But trying to mitigate the damage done is the talk of somebody raised by a woman.

Cue the Doug loyalist fan-boi to explain the reasoning.

>>2535240
Damn Doug you're fast! Get off here and fix your boat!

>>2535243
What's with Doug's hardcore mommy issues? He sure is obsessed with talking about people raised by women, and making it seem like offering advice is acting like a worried mother. Seems like shit he should tell his therapist.

>>2535253
why would we care about dougs fefes lol

>>2535240
Which one?

>>2535188
More than likely evidence subpoenaed in a lawsuit or criminal case

>>2535243
Doug is a rat fuck baby. I can't wait till he gets closer to Tampa and someone sets his shit straight

>>2535188
>Producers aren't going to waste another nickel on this pig and the documentary will get abandoned. Maybe the footage could show up later as part of future show about lolcows.

I think is assumes a lot; it's never been publicly established that the doc was intended to show Doug in a favorable light. I can't imagine him cooperating if he didn't expect that, but these kinds of productions play into those kinds of expectations all the time for just that reason, when they know all along that the subject won't like the end result.
They certainly *could* decide to bail out and eat production costs, but there's nothing that requires them to and in cases where the subject strings them along and then tries to sabotage the production to gain the upper hand they usually don't just roll over and go away.
That kind of thing makes for an interesting documentary in and of itself, and it's pretty much a given that anything that isn't a slavish love song to Doug's personality and "accomplishments" will cause him to lash out bitterly at the producers, so they have nothing to lose and a fascinating look into a crazy train wreck of sociopathic hubris if they just use what they have and make the film about a lunatic who monkeywrenches a film about him before even doing the thing he's allegedly interesting for, namely building a sailing vessel.

current dougn't talking points be like
>they'll never air the doc reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>2535368
Dongers can't read, just like their leader.

>>2535253

He's a daddys boy and constantly strived for his fathers approval

https://svseeker.com/stories_about_carl_sr.htm

>>2533540
>always found acorn to arabella annoying. They only have like 8 minutes of content per episode, everything else is filler and commercials

Thats one problem. The other is that Alex was always the likeable one. Now its just the skinny weirdo and his sycophants. The weirdo was fine as part of the mix but now hes held up to be big daddy boat man its a bit too much.

>>2535253

lol https://svseeker.com/about_us.htm

>We have one son; Carl, named for my dad. When you only have one, it's a crap shoot. If my mother had only given birth to me she might be a lonely bitter old woman, but fortunately she has four and the oldest; Saint Andrew, dotes on her while being true to her fundamental religious beliefs and expectations.

someone is jealous of his brother

>>2534862
>Every option for half-assery has been taken
Lmfao!!

>>2533540
>They only have like 8 minutes of content per episode, everything else is filler and commercials
how I know you haven't watched any of their videos. their videos are just under 30 minutes long.

IDK where the commercial thing comes in. unless you mean youtube commercials. I have an ad blocker and don't see commercials.

>>2535588
>Now its just the skinny weirdo and his sycophants
weirdo? explain I've been watching since just before the keel pour and haven't seen anything about him that's weird.

sycophant? a sycophant is someone who flatters you to get something. I see people who volunteer for experience or because they want to help and people who are being paid.

I really wonder at the hate and vitriol that you strange people have for someone who actually is doing what he said he would do. who's doing a very good job at building a boat. I don't mean doug.

just this seething pissiness that I see in these pointless seeker threads.

this
>>2528533
is right on the money

what in your life is so shitty? you're like that jewish troll guy in southpark.

>>2535782
You're right. I only watched Arabella pour the keel and it was just such a shitshow they made Doug look like a well planned expert.

Then I never watched them again

>>2535782
who da fuq double spaces 4chan posts lol

>>2535973
At least 3 people

>>2535973
people have been double spacing hear since the old days.

basically most considerate people do it.

don't know why people get so butt hurt about it.

>>2535819
I guess I would have to watch other people do it to compare since I thought they did a pretty good job.

>>2535695
Even the smallest elements of his build reveal layer upon layer of stupidity when scrutinized...

Like in this latest video where he says he just has to fabricate a couple of cleats to be ready to complete one masts worth of rigging. Setting aside the wisdom of making vs buying them, if you do choose to make your own how the hell do you not in 15 YEARS just come up with a tally of how many cleats you will need and then at the very least gang up all the cutting and machining of parts to save the time and hassle of making everything from scratch on an individual basis?
With tiny bit of common sense you could fabricate and assemble every cleat needed on a boat that size in a couple of days, *especially* when you have CNC capabilities.
Instead he spends hours setting up and hacking/ beating/grinding metal for each cleat and seems to believe that his ability to cobble together a unique cleat as needed makes him smarter than someone who would do the planning to build them all to a uniform specification, like wanting to save time and have interchangeable units of superior quality is a weakness.

>>2535240
I believe it is at the bottom a lake near Antwerp, it was only 15 feet.
a paddle wheeler catamaran. The paddle wheel is placed at the narrowest point between the bodies for efficiency,,, its pedal driven on either side, like a swan boat or bicycle, but sketchier.

>>2535819
Yeah but they aren't Doug so...

>>2536341

>>2531793
>What did YOU make today.
Doug, get this through your borderline personality disorder-filled, potato-looking head: you have not successfully built anything. Not today. Not yesterday. Not the five thousand days before that. Your "skills" - like a mentally-handicapped baboon's - have built a steaming, disintegrating turd that barely bobs above the waterline, and reeks of AIDS and ebola as you bump it downriver, smearing bits of this giant turd everywhere you go. When you stand atop your unsteady turd, you notice a slick of turd oil turning the sea a magnificent brown behind you, dead fish floating to the surface. Angry locals point and gag, demanding that the UN convene a General Assembly to deal with your abomination against humanity. Parents tell their children: "Remember, don't be arrogant like Doug, or your life will be devoured by a turd of such crushing failure, suicide is the only escape!" When you drag your shit-reeking body to shore, in a vain attempt to escape the decay and flies around SV Turd, folks all exclaim, "There's Doug, accursed captain of the shittiest bowel movement ever to besmirch the waters of our planet."

>>2536592
fine you want to know what I have built, here is a list going back to 2012 and I am not doug you fawning moron.
41 Tube Radios Refurbished
4 Tube Stereos Refurbished
2 Tube Amplifiers Refurbished
1 Tube Amplifier Built from scratch
12 Transistor Radios repaired or refurbished
14 fans oiled and serviced
3 tube radios converted to hybrids AM/FM/MP3
10 motherboards recapped
4 computer power supplies recapped
2 external sata drives enclosures recapped
25 LCD monitors recapped
1 Sonicwall TZ-180 repaired/recapped
1 70's boom box Converted to 18650
1 scanner radio Converted to Boombox
10 Tube radio test Equipment repaired/refurbished
2 oscilliscopes repaired
3 bench power supplies Built from scratch
4 general power supplies Built from scratch
4 bose wave radios recapped

1 cb radio fixed
2 UPS converted to external batteries
5 small devices lipo batteries replaced
8 power tools repaired and serviced
1 1200 watt modern inverter repaired
1 900 watt 80's inverter repaired
3 70's stereo's repaired
1 80's stereo repaired
1 Heater issue diagnosed
2 heat exchanger repaired/replaced
6 stove/ovens repaired
2 small electric water heaters repaired
1 minivan fuel pump issue diagnosed
2 cordless drill converted to LIPO
1 battery charger with timer built from random parts
2 speakers from the 60's recapped and reconed
1 Trailer found in the desert completely rebuilt
1 clock converted to battery/AC
2 small generators repaired
1 fan remote converted to remote controlled outlets
6 cordless tools converted to corded
1 atsc to ntsc box repaired
1 DC generator built
1 generator charger/controller built from various components
1 solar charging system for a trailer built from various components
1 JVC Hard drive recorder repaired
1 Makita to Skil battery adapter built
1 Makita to Stout Battery adapter built

1 battery powered spot welder built from various components
1 Window air conditioner remote built from various components
2 plasma globes repaired
1 dishwasher fixed
6 lawn mowers repaired
1 intrument panel for a generator built and installed
1 hoyer lift fixed
1 surveillance system mux box built
2 battery alarms built
1 Lionel K700 rebuilt
1 VU meter kit built
1 solar powered ventilation system built and installed in my shed
1 hot line phone system installed in my shed
4 Antenna mast brackets Built from scratch
1 Windows Air Conditioner replaced Capacitor
1 electric leaf blower repaired
1 electric lawn mower repaired
1 10 amp power supply modified for 10 amps
7 switching AC adapters repaired
1 1980's alarm clock refurbished
3 Small engines Refurbished
1 hydraulic bearing press built
2 Washing machine fixed
2 water heaters replaced
1 linear ac adapter repaired
2 shaver batteries replaced
2 bench power supply kits built
1 MTH TIU repaired bad bidirectional diode
1 Mail indicator built from scratch
43 circuit boards designed
1 iron rewired
1 ball clock motor fixed
1 truck seat re-upholstered
1 worklight battery replaced
1 safe 2 combinations discovered
1 defrost board for heat pump repaired and tested
1 dryer wheel kit replaced
1 1 hp motor new bearings, new capacitor
1 spider and bearings in cooler replaced
1 1 hp motor new capacitor

>Counting battery replacements and minor solder jobs as builds


slow piece of shit...i can smoke the fuck out of this in my 1994 EG hatch with a couple of simple mods:

- 10 point cage with Parachute
- 3 piece discontinued JoJo frontend
- spec-R full drag suspension
- Fuel cell with -8 lines from tank to motor
- 1 044 bosch pump
- 1200 rc injectors
- golden eagle sleeved block
- cp 10:1 pistons
- Eagle rods
- arp headstuds
- oem h22 headgasket
- Balance shaft delete
- competition clutch twin disc
- Port and polished head
- skunk2 valve springs and retainers
- Str cam gears
- crower stage 1 cams
- aluminium radiator with slim fan
- gsr transmission with itr lsd.
- qsd h2k intake manifold adapter
- k20 rbc manifold
- qsd throttle body spacer
- blox 70mm throttle body
- 4bar omni map sensor
- 6al msd with coil and cap. 3 step launch control
- hks bov
- Garret 102mm turbocharger.
- Custom t4 front facing turbo manifold with 44mm flange
- 44mm tial wastegate
- Custom water to air intercooler set up
- aem eugo wideband w/ gauge
- tuned on chipped p28
- 13 inch volks drag rims
- 2 15 inch volks rear rims
- arp extended wheel studs
- si cluster
- 150 shots of nitrous
im making 348 horsepower to the FRONT WHEELS because thats the only place the power should ever be

>>2536950
>>2536951
>>2536953
you sound neat, anon
tell me more about refurbishing tube radios.
what's the best way to source the guts?
how do you know the parts you're getting will be good when you get them?
i have an antique Zenith model G500 that i would like to get some spare parts for

>>2536996
also, what should i clean and protect the outside with?
it's some sort of blackened cloth. can i buff linseed oil into it?

>>2536951

What stereos did you repair? I have a pioneer stereo from 79 that needs recapping. Any general tips on approaching this sort of task?

>>2536950
>I am not doug you fawning moron.

t. oblivious to how much worse this makes his wild eyed troll histrionics; at least Doug has some personal interest in trying to control the narrative surrounding his shitty meme "sailing vessel" by any means necessary.

>>2536996
most of my tubes came from either old unfixable basket cases, ebay, radio swap meets or ebay.

all the rest of the parts (capacitors and resistors) from digikey and ebay.

speakers from old equipment

any other parts came from parted out units.

>>2537006
if it's plastic? novus plastic polish, but be careful old plastics can melted by things modern plastics shrug off like rubbing alcohol.

for wood radios, furniture polish, or anything that is compatible with varnish, lacquer, or shellac.

for stuff with fake leather or other coverings any soap that was around at the time it was made. no modern detergents, or just use plain water.

>>2537020
a sears tube stereo/receiver, a tube stereo amplifier of an unknown manufacture. The 70's and 80's stuff only needed minor repairs. back lights and a good cleaning. 70's mid to high end stuff is mostly bullet proof.

when I started this list 5 or 6 years ago it was for my own information never actually meant to share it so it doesn't have details.

>>2537034
ignored, didn't read

>>2536963
>Counting battery replacements and minor solder jobs as builds
no that is not what my list is, it was just to keep track of anything I fixed. big project or little. also for the battery replacements, that wasn't just popping out old bats and installing new ones, it was building something to convert the device to another battery type, like D cells to 18650 etc.

I mean If I wanted to brag then I'd have to rack my brain for everything I worked on commercial airlines, or trade show displays and the hundreds of computers I built, but I really don't count stuff I did for my job.

when I started my list 5 or 6 years ago it was for my own information never actually meant to share it so it doesn't have details.

>>2536996
>how do you know the parts you're getting will be good when you get them?
well most tubes that were made for the most part are still good. in some cases I bought them by the basket full and sorted through them. tested them and found that 99% of them were good.

if you watch shango066 he was able to get a tv working that was covered in 2 or 3 inches of dirt, and rat shit and had bean rained on for over 30 years.

tube stuff is incredibly robust. when I parted stuff out is was because the case was badly damaged, shattered, and the chassis was badly corroded.

>>2536940
what are you trying to say anon?

>>2536940
These are sister ships. Both built as steel origami about 75' long. The top boat was done first and was the inspiration for the bottom. The top boat creates buoyant volume by having a tall rounded bow and a flat wide stern. This vessel has sailed to Europe and back using two shitty junk sails. The bottom example has limited buoyant volume due to the low deck at the bow (as shown by the red line), and a steep narrow stern.

>>2537140
>if it's plastic?
nope, it's some sort of fabric over wood

>>2537140

>>2537140
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>>2537226
>>2537227
sorry, don't mind me, just posting from australia

>>2537020
Practice on scrap and I mean until you can solder in your sleep. Then you'll have an easy time of it having built muscle memory.

>>2535973
For what precise reason to you care? Are you twelve?

LOFL, Seeker FINALLY drifted at one knot under mizzen and foresail in 4 kts of wind ("we wont say what the current is doing") and Doug is gloating like it's a major accomishment that proves his superiority.
In the pics/video the sheets are hanging limp and there's not a hint of wind noise and the water surface is barely rippled but they're claiming adequate steerage to be fully in control...no evidence of any tacking/gybing though.
How long until he overcomes his fear of the full sail area, and putting it up in actual wind?

>>2537298
>doug being this mad at strangers online

lol
lmao

>>2537227
>Zenith model G500
nice radio there is one tube in there that is very rare and if it's bad you are screwed. the 1L6 a tube only made for these radios. You can get them but very expensive.

>>2537298
guys I don't think doug getting brain damage from welding and lead fumes is a joke any more

>>2537315
fffffuuuuuuck
thanks anon, i have more information than before.
it's been years since i've plugged it in and it worked at the time, i was thinking it would be nice to have spar parts to prepare for the future.
any idea what to use to treat the exterior fabric?

>>2537334
Go start your own fucking radio thread this is not the place

>>2537162
Not that anon but I'd say don't build a boat if you don't get any of this.

>>2537334
>any idea what to use to treat the exterior fabric?
not really much other than light cleaning. If it was real leather you could use something like saddle soap or a leather conditioner.

but they are mostly a type of plastic covered paper.

>>2537420
Go to transportation /diy/ is NOT the board for seeker worship.

>>2537420
why make a thread if there is already someone here who may be willing to talk about it?
is asking about cleaning and refurbishing a radio really going to derail the autistic shrieking that is the beating heart of these threads?

>>2537614
>Go to transportation /diy/ is NOT the board for seeker worship.
How about you commit Yokosuka Ohka against the seeker and miss?!

If /n/ can have threads about city planning, we can have dough posting. Also, the seeker is 10x as DIY as most of the threads here. He might be a bumbling fool, but he is DIY as fuck

>>2537670
>but he is DIY as fuck
proof of seeker worship

>>2537670
>If /n/ can have threads about city planning

>>2536314
Phone posters, they cry and snivel about "reddit spacing" because it's too much effort to use their fat thumbs to scroll down.

>>2537614
Make me faggot, delete the thread. Oh wait you can't you fucking stupid asshole.

>>2536341
Doug's weak ass ego and narcissism insists on him reinventing the wheel for every part of his future reef environment. It's just busy work to cover up his lack of real experience and knowledge.
He made it, so it counts. Especially when it snaps off in a storm and your lightpole goes flying over the horizon with your Harbor Freight rigging.
Give Doug a wheel, he'll reinvent it. Especially if it delays actually trying to sail his future reef environment.

He's just an old asshole boomer. The only interest is watching him asshole his way through a slow, turtle's pace towards suicide at sea.

>>2537225
I know what that is. It's "leaterette" - the canvas is the structural part, then it's coated with plastic or vinyl. If the weave is showing, it's worn off. You can't really restore it, you can use black show polish to hide the wear, or replace it. Think cracked old car seats or dashboards. Putting oil on it would just have the oil sitting on the surface.
Yours is so worn that all that's left is the canvas/linen sheet the vinyl was attached to.
I have no clue what the vintage radio market is like, if replacing it impacts the value or not - but that's what it is.

>>2537759
Typo - it's leatherette".

>>2537759
thanks anon
i'm not too concerned with doing a restoration, just slowing further degradation. i was thinking linseed oil since it's a polymerizing oil and plasticizes. it's what oil cloth used to me made with.

oh shit son!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPo4d-LLyZg
pay out the believers

>>2537990
Dougn'ts on suicide watch(again)! Will they ever recover?

>>2537990
LOFL, even with slo-mo and re-using the same snippets over and over with fades to and from black in between, all he has to show is four minutes of drifting, much of it sideways as evidenced by the largest disturbances in the water coming off the lee side of the hull in pic related. The sheets aren't even taught, and in another portion of the video it appears that the predicted lee helm is going to be an issue.

>>2538039
This is a startling amount of heel for the almost non existant wind conditions and considering the main is reefed to almost nothing (if you can call the unused sail and battens laying on the deck in a pile "reefed")...
No wonder he's terrified to hoist the main and *really* sail.
I'd also bet money Seeker never tacked or gybed under sail power alone during any of this desperate PR stunt.

>>2533891

>lmao what harm is it to you that some boomer is half assing a sailboat

I am a search and rescue sailor. Doug's boat isn't just a navigational hazard, it's a hazard to anyone that has to get on board to help this dumb asshole when he gets in trouble.

>>2537990
It's so beautiful, it's like I'm watching the end credits. Is this it? Will doug sail off into sunset and never be seen again? Bravo. Bravo.

>>2538039
>>2538049
LMAO

>>2538039
>>2538049
>>2538212

you are insane.

>>2538298
But he's not wrong! There's a reason the video is so much shorter and selectively edited...

glad to see doug is starting off the day on a positive note

Tracks of doug motoring around the bay for his sailing video

>>2538330
Why can't he keep a straight line? Is there something wrong with his sails?

>>2538321
obsess much?

>>2538321
Defensiveness and deflection on an obviously selectively edited video

>>2538477

>>2538298
Did you actually have anything to say or were you just gonna moan and whine?

>>2538477
He wants SO badly to be acknowledged for having completed his alleged "goal" and proven the "haters" wrong but his entire shtick relies on nothing he does EVER being declared complete....
then when someone asks why something isn't done he can deflect endlessly and avoid having to stand behind his work.

>>2538598

A sort of flipside of "perfection paralysis". Usually it's about people being afraid to start a project because they might get it wrong. Doug's is, if it's never finished it never has to be perfect.

>>2538537
I was pretty clear.

LOFL, is Seeker the first displacement vessel whose wake starts wider than the boat and contracts the further it gets from the hull rather than spreading out... or did he deceptively edit in a < three second shot of the wake of another boat that passed him going the opposite direction and present it as evidence of traveling under sail power alone?

>>2538693
your behavior is really bizarre. this obsession with this is concerning. you must not have a job or maybe no actual problems in your life. or maybe your life is so shitty this is how you make yourself feel better. maybe it's time to pic related.

>>2538699
Says the guy who has appointed himself as an authority figure to watch over the behavior of other posters itt and respond within seconds of posts he finds "concerning"....

Haha, good one.

>>2538469
>>2538699


see >>2528497

>>2538634
That you're retarded? Yeah it's pretty clear.

>>2538699
Lmao now that they can't even come up with some kind of bullshit to spew at people they're changing gears and just personally attacking them and not even addressing actual facts and arguments. Cope, seethe, drool, etc.

Literally the first time the main has been fully raised, in zero wind and not sailing...and his janky golf ball meme rigging comes apart.
What a terrible coincidence to befall the DIY MASTERMIND as he teaches a sailing world hobbled by tradition to break free and LIVE!

>>2538714
>That you're retarded?
you have to be older than 13 to post here.

>>2538716
much like all the seek worshipers here.

>>2538761
nothing about this is diy related. mentioning "diy" does not make a post diy.

>>2538974
Just saying-
>nothing about this is diy related
-over and over and over doesn't make it true, so keep seething, I guess

Also, nothing in your wannabe forum parenting is even remotely related to diy, and you know it.

>>2538974
Hey Doug,

Would it kill you to diy a proper seaman's ladder?

>>2539024
It would probably be less likely to kill him, but he would just say that I must have been raised by women and ask what I built today.

>>2539024
You tell me doug. I'm on to you.