Was it worth ruining his life for?

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Was it worth ruining his life for? Anonymous Sat Sep 16 02:25:01 2023 No.2682289 [Reply] [Original]

Sailing, but at what cost?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 02:27:10 2023 No.2682292 Who? >inb4 lurk moar

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 02:34:24 2023 No.2682296 >>2682289 He ruined his life living in a cubicle till he was an old retired man. No amount of chasing youth will bring it back. >>2682292 cagie wagie has a late life crisis and builds a shanty boat with his retirement money

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 02:42:00 2023 No.2682298 >>2682296 you sound like you were raised by a woman

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 02:49:28 2023 No.2682305 >>2682298 Women tell you to go to college and get a degree, then go work in a cubile making oracle databases

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 02:50:36 2023 No.2682307 >>2682289 What even happened after he sailed? Did it sink?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 02:59:21 2023 No.2682309 >>2682307 He's played it safe and hasn't broken 5 knots. Still trying to rig the sails without tipping over

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 03:24:53 2023 No.2682319 >>2682309 I gotta give it to him, he got thag fucking deathtrap of a boat in the water and i swore up and down he would never reach that point!

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 06:45:50 2023 No.2682376 Stockton Rush - Budget brand edition.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 09:20:23 2023 No.2682404 >>2682319 Same here. Also GRRM got dance with dragons out before he died. I guess I keep underestimating these boomers.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 09:49:33 2023 No.2682409 >>2682305 I wouldn't trust a woman with an Oracle database, though you can let them deal with the licensing

Anonymous Sat Sep 16 11:49:41 2023 No.2682433

>>2682309
He just had a serious event where his janky rigging let go and because he panicked the foresail wrapped around the mast, tore the sail and broke the yard.
It was so fucked up he had to motor back to where he anchors and wait for the wind to die down just to get the sail down.
After that he motored west 50 miles because of the hurricane coming his direction and his janky drivetrain spit out all the bearings in one of his overstressed U joints, and his clusterfuck shared lube/cooling system linking his motor, transfer case and variable pitch prop had to be disabled and a clip-on fan installed to blow on the transfer case until he conjures another brilliant "solution"

Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:10:31 2023 No.2682439

>>2682296
>with his retirement money

And a shit ton of free labor and donations all collected under the guise of creating a research vessel to be made available for free to deserving researchers.
Also a tax exempt "foundation" to solicit funds to equip and operate it.

Almost two years in the water now and he's still "learning to sail" but not in anything above 15 knots of wind, and all in protected water except for one or two short trips outside of Pensacola Bay just so he could say he sailed in the Gulf.

No researchers are or will be coming, it's his retirement houseboat built and paid for by significant contributions from other people duped by his grandiose "vision".

Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:12:19 2023 No.2682441

>>2682433
>After that he motored west 50 miles because of the hurricane coming his direction and his janky drivetrain spit out all the bearings in one of his overstressed U joints, and his clusterfuck shared lube/cooling system linking his motor, transfer case and variable pitch prop had to be disabled and a clip-on fan installed to blow on the transfer case until he conjures another brilliant "solution"
This is a comedy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:24:50 2023 No.2682445 File: 41 KB, 518x309, Engineering genius.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2682441

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:27:21 2023 No.2682446 File: 42 KB, 460x500, this_thread.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2682289 oh look it's the "everyone suck dougs dick" thread or everyone hate doug thread. whatever fits your narrative.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:32:40 2023 No.2682448 >>2682445 Does he not know what knots or splicing are? What a silly question to ask.

Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:33:37 2023 No.2682450

>>2682446
Oh look, it's the sad Redditor who speaks in memes and can't get anyone to respond to him on "his" Seeker subreddit except to mock him, monitoring the internet for mentions of Doug so he can run interference for him and project about sucking his dick.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:36:14 2023 No.2682451 >>2682448 He calls splices "braiding" but won't commit to them because he knows that nothing he builds is ever right or finished.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:52:11 2023 No.2682456 >>2682451 I could understand using jubilee clips for a simple short term test rig to get the sizes right, but I presume that abomination is supposed to be permanent...

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:57:14 2023 No.2682458 >Wants to sail >Refuses to learn how to work with rope

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 13:36:09 2023 No.2682465 >>2682458 >buying into the big rope conspiracy

Anonymous Sat Sep 16 17:08:03 2023 No.2682533

>>2682439

>And a shit ton of free labor and donations all collected under the guise of creating a research vessel to be made available for free to deserving researchers.
Also a tax exempt "foundation" to solicit funds to equip and operate it.

This. A SHIT TON of free labor, free materials. Thats what build his massive fucking hideous ship. Probably 75%.
And then he did that 'epic prank' where he pretended to have died, and everyone was like fuck you Doug. And it became more so 'my boat' as opposed to 'our boat'

Anonymous Sat Sep 16 17:10:59 2023 No.2682535

>>2682446
Fair enough, but before sv seeker set out to sail there was a continuous thread on Doug and his deathtrap. Now that he's actually living in the seeker out in protected water I dont see why the threads ever stopped. We should be placing bets on how long he can survive in that metal shitboat before it sinks or catches on fire from hacky half assed literally everythingdag0a

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 17:12:55 2023 No.2682537 >>2682289 >>2682450 >>2682296 >>>/kiwifarms/ >>2682439 pills

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 17:26:21 2023 No.2682542 >>2682289 (OP) >>2682439 >>2682296 >>>/kiwifarms/ >>2682450 pills

Anonymous Sat Sep 16 17:28:02 2023 No.2682546
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>>2682535
The threads stopped because the obsessed fan boy you are talking to disrupted them with his transparent trolling and flooded them with shitty memes to drive them off the active catalog.

It's a perfectly legitimate topic, more so than most here...never let picrel be forgotten

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 17:50:39 2023 No.2682557 >>2682542 Kiwifarms is a very nice place anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 18:06:59 2023 No.2682564 >>2682557 then stay there

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 18:14:10 2023 No.2682568 >>2682535 It stopped because the mods got a little pissy. They're also really boring. We just summed up a year and half of his jijinks in a few posts. This would be awful as a daily thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 18:20:04 2023 No.2682572 >>2682557 am i missing something? kiwifarms got nuked right

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 19:06:46 2023 No.2682583 File: 473 KB, 718x969, 1677221109740653.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] @2682564 >>2682572 Nah, clearnet domain went down for about a week before it came back up under another domain. The onion link will never go down. kiwifarms.st

Anonymous Sun Sep 17 00:25:55 2023 No.2682697

>>2682572
Lol, no. It's been operating continuously on Tor and pops back up on the regular web all the time under different domain names whenever one gets siezed.
There was one point where it had no regular domain name for a few weeks and I installed Tor Browser just so I could keep up on the latest internet drama nonsense. Haven't cared about finding the latest domain name since. I think the current one is kiwifarms dot st.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 03:06:13 2023 No.2682787 >>2682546 I'm confused. Is there any body of water in Oklahoma worth getting a 74' sailboat wet in?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 03:09:20 2023 No.2682788 >>2682787 He took it down the river to mississippi

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 03:46:07 2023 No.2682811 File: 50 KB, 706x960, 1691509175214356.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bump for Doug news, updates, screenshots, and lulz

Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:16:09 2023 No.2682849

>>2682307
he's been swapping between two anchorages for the last year and his major accomplishments appear to be eating and alcoholism going off of how spherical he's become and the drunken slurring in his latest vids. He hasn't done any serious sailing and accidentally destroyed one of his sails last time he tried which means he's without a propulsion system since his rebuilt drivetrain killed itself during the trip from pensacola to alabama and back.
It's clear he's planning on staying in pensacola and manufacturing excuses for why he can't go any further until the day he dies

Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:23:56 2023 No.2682851

>>2682535
>I dont see why the threads ever stopped
They stopped because once the boat was in the water he entered the following cycle

>Find an anchorage
>Sit there doing next to nothing uploading like one video a month drunkenly rambling about something he bought on amazon and doesn't understand
>Get kicked out of the anchorage for pumping sewage overboard
>Motor to the next anchorage and destroy the drivetrain in the process
>Repeat

There hasn't been enough funny stuff to sustain a thread since he made it out of the Mississippi river

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:35:38 2023 No.2682853 >>2682433 You know what funny? I haven't followed him at all. I just made all that shit up and I was right.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 11:25:56 2023 No.2682905 >>2682853 You're not fooling anyone Doug. Go double check for an oily sheen around your boat old man!

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 13:41:20 2023 No.2682935 File: 44 KB, 483x407, retard3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >You're not fooling anyone Doug. Go double check for an oily sheen around your boat old man!

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 14:13:29 2023 No.2682946 >>2682935 You will never force this shitty image

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 14:44:07 2023 No.2682954 File: 374 KB, 512x341, hell 7.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2682535 I think most posters moved to REDDIT or Sailing Anarchy because they're better forums for this sort of slow roll content.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 16:27:37 2023 No.2682993 >>2682954 They are only better because they are better moderated against the kinds of tactics Doug's most devoted cult members use to monkeywrench Seeker threads here the moment they begin...they literally CANNOT simply ignore them; it's an obsession.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 21:25:41 2023 No.2683117 File: 368 KB, 483x407, retard3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >You will never force this shitty image

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 22:09:36 2023 No.2683150 File: 188 KB, 1170x1634, q5dlx34i9tob1[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Can't worry about the sails if you can't see them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 18 11:12:15 2023 No.2683382 >>2683150 >"A boat came by..." No it did not Doug. That boat was several miles away at a private boat party with actual sailing vessels. You tried taking old man creep shots with your drone and got caught. Fuckin sick!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 18 13:27:27 2023 No.2683412 > I dont see why the threads ever stopped Mods I assume. I miss them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 18 13:40:47 2023 No.2683417 File: 1.27 MB, 928x1488, seeker.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2682289

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 18 15:07:58 2023 No.2683459 >>2683382 Lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 18 16:57:28 2023 No.2683496 Seeker is like a street rod. The fun was in building it. Now that it is complete, it needs to be sold to someone who "shares the dream" so another entertainment project can get underway. DIY should understand this

Anonymous Mon Sep 18 17:35:15 2023 No.2683512
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>>2683496
>like a street rod

Like the "street rod" in picrel that no sane person would get into, let alone purchase as if it could be made into a functional vehicle.
Like picrel it will always be relevant as an example of monumental ignorance and pointless perserverence harnessed to waste both time and materials on an astounding scale.

Anonymous Mon Sep 18 17:43:15 2023 No.2683514

>>2683512
>as if it could be made into a functional vehicle.
But it could. Remove all ballast and re-ballast after work. Discard all non-essential weight including figurines, flourishes, false brackets, internal finishes, keepsakes, machine tools, and side bumpers. Replace all glass with polycarbonate. Discard masts, sails, and riggings. This saves additional weight. Seeker can’t sail now due to mismanagement and will never sail well as a junk with split keels. Discard adjustable propeller and install a fixed propeller. Discard all adjustable propeller support equipment. Discard bus transmission and install a marine gear with a 1.5:1 ratio. Discard transmission cooling equipment and fluids. Pressure test fuel tanks to 5 psi for one hour. A passing test is 4.5 psi or more remaining after one hour.

Anonymous Mon Sep 18 18:23:06 2023 No.2683530

>>2683514
>But it could. Remove all ballast and re-ballast after work. Discard all non-essential weight including figurines, flourishes, false brackets, internal finishes, keepsakes, machine tools, and side bumpers. Replace all glass with polycarbonate. Discard masts, sails, and riggings. This saves additional weight. Seeker can’t sail now due to mismanagement and will never sail well as a junk with split keels. Discard adjustable propeller and install a fixed propeller. Discard all adjustable propeller support equipment. Discard bus transmission and install a marine gear with a 1.5:1 ratio. Discard transmission cooling equipment and fluids. Pressure test fuel tanks to 5 psi for one hour. A passing test is 4.5 psi or more remaining after one hour.

Discard the entire ship and start over.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 18 23:57:51 2023 No.2683682 >>2682439 uh based?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:27:19 2023 No.2684023 >>2682851 >>Get kicked out of the anchorage for pumping sewage overboard Is this on the record?

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>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:04:43 2023 No.2684085 File: 345 KB, 1280x720, eurotrash.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2684030 that's a website where you can make your own headlines. like this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:05:29 2023 No.2684087 File: 150 KB, 1002x536, 1695142349854756 copy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2684030

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:11:47 2023 No.2684089 File: 202 KB, 1280x720, doug.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2684030

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:13:40 2023 No.2684298 What was the name of that one wonky house that SV Seeker sometimes gets compared to?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 14:09:31 2023 No.2684347 File: 467 B, 45x25, 1680725823401141.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2684298 Groverhaus

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 18:36:40 2023 No.2684477

Nice, my favourite thread is back

I feel for the poor fucker. In many ways, I am a Doug. He serves as a good example for people like me that you can't DIY every element of a project like this. Too much R&D need to get every piece optimal. You dont have enough years in your life to do it all.

Build from scratch a few elements that are important from you, use off the shelf stuff for the rest.

Like his drivetrain. Probably could have got the whole works from some a salvage boat for minimal price.

I can't believe he left his family for this.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 01:36:45 2023 No.2684618

>>2683514
He can't remove shit - he poured all those tons of lead into very tight spaces. I fucking TOLD him to wait, until closer to the end of the project, but he had all the facts and figures correct - right up until his simple, 1500lb backup power turned into a full-blown engine room and the weight skyrocketed. He's done that shit over and over. Just because he could weld some steel, he thought he could casually rebuild a diesel engine - which is how he destroyed his first diesel engine.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 01:53:43 2023 No.2684629 >>2684618 There are many, many lead bars above the keels that could be removed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 03:24:49 2023 No.2684649 >>2682445 This picture made me vomit. If worried why not clamp AFTER splicing? I'm so angry it's stupid.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:39:46 2023 No.2684902

>>2684629
I thought he poured all of it into the hold and the skegs, or whatever they're called. Bars or not, it had to be too far forward to do any good. There was no way to subtract weight from the rear. Last I saw, he actually had to dump the nice little shore-boat, that he built, because it was way too heavy.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 20:07:17 2023 No.2684938
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>>2684618
>>2684902
The whole point of twin keels is that you can beach your boat wherever. Lead has a melting point of only 620 deg F so he is going to drill holes in the keels and skeg, heat the steel with a blowtorch (he has one aboard), let lead drain out, then patch weld (he has a welder too).

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 20:20:24 2023 No.2684943 >>2683530 >Pressure test fuel tanks to 5 psi for one. >Discard the entire ship and start over. Do that first and the second should do itself

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:15:54 2023 No.2684974

>>2684902
He poured lead in the keels, but upon launch learned that the boat was stern heavy and had a built in list.
In an attempt to fix that he brought more lead aboard and stuffed it in places likevthe fuel tanks and in the bow, even putting some of it inside the foremast via the power/inspection hole at the base thats there because it's really a street light pole.
Even that didn't work and he's been moving gear like his generator out of his engine room to try to get the weight/trim issue solved...but he fucked up from the beginning by using heavier steel and adding crap everywhere so that the overweight/trim issues are baked into the hull, which also has a longitudinal twist in it so it will never *not* have a list.

His abandoned tender wasn't just overweight, it was also inherently unstable, wouldn't plane, and had numerous propulsion issues like overheating and poor controls due to the computerized control system being stripped off.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:19:11 2023 No.2684977 File: 32 KB, 600x399, care so little.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2682849 >>2683514 >>2684477 >>2684618 >>2684902 >>2684938 >>2684974

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:32:46 2023 No.2684983 File: 259 KB, 1001x1003, f27l6b4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2682446 >>2682542 >>2682564 >>2683417 >>2684089 >>2684977

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 00:15:30 2023 No.2685036 File: 58 KB, 870x729, projecting.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2684983 he thinks I'm mad.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 15:24:25 2023 No.2685334 >>2684943 5 psi is not a lot of pressure and is a common test pressure for tanks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 17:58:29 2023 No.2685405 >>2685334 It's enough to underinflate a bicycle tyre but this Doug we're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 18:04:08 2023 No.2685408 >>2685405 Yes but how to go about locating the fuel leaks?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 22:34:27 2023 No.2685550 >>2682404 You had me going there for a minute.

Anonymous Fri Sep 22 23:33:02 2023 No.2685580

>>2684974
I was a casual watcher, after the bullshit "fake explosion" fiasco. Too bad about the tender - I thought they got that little diesel running well. I'm still guessing the complexity of the engine room is what tipped the balance (literally). I don't think he ever expected it to be that complex.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 23 20:40:09 2023 No.2686062 >>2685580 I wonder if there was any way to anticipate that and plan for/around it? Doug is a constant source of warnings for others. The Seeker chapter of Doug's biography should be taught at engineering courses.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 23 22:07:00 2023 No.2686109 >>2683417 Kek. But also, goddammit man, you made me re-read the entirety of Preacher.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 23 22:53:28 2023 No.2686122 >>2686062 aw, you love him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 24 02:47:24 2023 No.2686224 Doug is replacing the black water / sewage tanks that are under the bunks in the front of the vessel. I wonder if the sewage was eventually seeping through the plastic in the ventilationless cabin during the hot summer. Conceptualize the aroma

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 24 03:26:49 2023 No.2686238 File: 1.12 MB, 200x360, 31056E44-8955-4D66-98E6-25D399399870.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2686224 Hypothesize the scent

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 24 10:28:58 2023 No.2686315 >>2682465 the 'Big Rope' conspiracy was about them creating and transgenderism so they sell more rope for them to kys? right? hope Dough doesn't troon out tho.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 24 13:04:21 2023 No.2686353 File: 18 KB, 211x238, 1679866678600428.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2686238 consider the odoriferous emanations

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 24 14:41:05 2023 No.2686400 File: 70 KB, 932x585, Rotten pumpkin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2686353 postulate the pungency

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 24 14:55:11 2023 No.2686409 >>2682305 >>2682296 as opposed to? start building boats instead of going to college? i don't get your point.

Anonymous Mon Sep 25 01:11:08 2023 No.2686701
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>>2686315
No joke he had a tranny shipmate. But even he had more sense than doug and got the fuck outta there. Doug probably made constant advances on him once the sun went down and the captain got proper drunk

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 02:32:53 2023 No.2686741 File: 39 KB, 620x413, hodor.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] doug doug doug doug doug, doug doug doug doug! doug doug doug doug doug? doug!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 05:19:06 2023 No.2686783 Can someone provide the link to the /diy guy who moved to the jungle and was building giant concrete house or something? I think he had a wife and maybe kid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 10:07:35 2023 No.2686822 >>2686783 https://www.youtube.com/@JMEMantzel This one?

Anonymous Mon Sep 25 14:13:01 2023 No.2686872

>>2686062
I don't really think so. If I recall right, he really planned this project out, before he began it, but he still changed things/made design mods, on-the-fly. I think that fucked with all of his numbers, including balance. I really admire him tackling such a big project and sticking to it, but there's a whole lot of "I'll learn it as I'm doing it" going on here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 14:42:49 2023 No.2686884 >>2686062 The whole project makes a lot more sense if viewed from the perspective of maximizing youtube views, and not from the perspective of rational boat building.

Anonymous Mon Sep 25 14:53:47 2023 No.2686889

>>2686872
He didn't really "plan" much beyond the hull shape (which came out wrong anyways), it was more just a vision of what he wanted. The few numbers he actually bothered to calculate were entirely abandoned and forgotten before the first bulkhead went in.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 15:02:30 2023 No.2686898 >>2682289 it's not a total loss...he'll be able to buy the shittiest possible land nobody wants, ie flood plain, and just live in the boat. and since it's a boat, when it floods he'll just float away.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 15:56:37 2023 No.2686914 >>2686898 Sadly, surface discharge of sewage is illegal, even on your own property.

Anonymous Mon Sep 25 16:08:24 2023 No.2686920

>>2686889
This. His pre-build blog had neatly categorized sections relating to the various systems and principles involved in putting together what he proposed, but in hindsight it was all just navel gazing used to make him look like he was well informed enough to be believable, like the obligatory bookcase full of legal reference books in a shitty lawyer's advertising.

Like >>2686884 says, when you look at everything as part of a staged theatrical production designed to create a moneymaking franchise, it all makes sense- his collection of technical resources and stuff like his watermaker and ROV and charity foundation that have all never functioned are just props, and the vessel is a set where he makes content that he sells.

He even tried to promote a spinoff where one of his "crewmembers" Andy went off to build his own steel barge with Doug's assistance and inspiring philosophy and help generating YT view$, but it only lasted a few weeks before Andy couldn't keep up the pace and threw in the towel on the YT part.

When you look back on Dougs earlier diy activity it's always been this way- do just enough to be able to say he "built" something so he can then use that to boost his persona/street cred with people who want to feel good by giving him money, and don't ask questions when he doesn't do what he said he was going to do, but swallow his faux philosophical platitudes that he feeds them as excuses.

Anonymous Mon Sep 25 16:21:04 2023 No.2686924

>>2686409
>as opposed to? start building boats instead of going to college?
Yes? If you have creative aspirations, you should drop out of school and pursue them immediately while your body is young and your brain is fresh. Waiting until retirement (near-death) do chase your dreams is the saddest boomer cope.

Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:18:23 2023 No.2686951

>>2686924
Or at least go to college for a subject related to your aspirations, where you can get some hands on experience (both in class and through work/study internship arrangements) and network with others who share the same or similar aspirations and can help you in the future.

You can always ignore what you want from it later, but at least you have a foundation to inform that decision.

Doug on the other hand preemptively rejects real learning and experience in the field he aspires to succeed in, and claims that learning by making dumb mistakes over and over is the key to enlightenment and innovation.

Anonymous Mon Sep 25 19:59:19 2023 No.2687018

>>2686822
Yes thanks. My wife has gotten into stuff like this, a couple from Arizona she watches is moving to Panama or something. Made me think of this guy. Why did I think he was killed by soldiers or something?

Also holy shit, so many videos. Can you suggest a good place to drop in? I don’t want to send her 15 years of videos.

Anonymous Mon Sep 25 20:16:27 2023 No.2687027

>>2683417
Way funnier with the original /pol, where it made sense.

>>2683382
Is this true? If so that’s fucking hilarious

Speaking of which, why does it seem like there is a whole weird swinging scene with those seasonal regatta people.

>>2685550
Lol what do you mean? I never thought GRRM would get adwd published, but he proved me wrong. And DNF was eventually released.

“The phantom” gaming system was another great bit of vaporware, but that never materialized.

>>2684477
> I can't believe he left his family for this.

At some level that was probably the point

>>2684974
>twisted hull
Fuck I forgot about that.

You know he managed not to kill anyone yet, and the boat isn’t at the bottom of the river. I think he succeeded as much as he will ever have to.

Good for you old boomer. He can spend the next decade just fucking around until he runs out of money, he can’t stay anywhere, or that boat kills him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 21:16:45 2023 No.2687062 >>2686822 >https://www.youtube.com/@JMEMantzel This dude is living the dream

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 15:20:15 2023 No.2687418 >>2686920 >the vessel is a set where he makes content that he sells. True enough. But the sea is an unforgiving mistress. So as well as being a shrewd salesman, he is smart to stay in the ICW.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 13:20:10 2023 No.2687996 >>2682309 5 knots is screaming for a boat that size. Thats over 10mph. Thats pretty impressive actually.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 13:28:24 2023 No.2688001 >>2687996 >over 10mph 5kn * 1.15 = 5.75 mph Dumber every day.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 14:46:36 2023 No.2688028 >>2687996 It's not impressive at all. You're dumb. Under just sail, if he was making 15 without his engine that would be acceptable. 5 is in danger of getting pushed around by the current

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 27 18:19:55 2023 No.2688160 >>2688028 >if he was making 15 Most sailboats can't break 10.

Anonymous Wed Sep 27 20:30:56 2023 No.2688218

>>2688160
Theoretical hull speed for something in Seeker's range (65' waterline length) is just shy of 11 knots, lightweight racing sailboats that size designed for speed can do 15-20 off the wind, Seeker is so heavy, undercanvassed and unstable that about 6 is as far as you can push, the mainsail has to be reefed once you get to about 15 kts of wind because it's so prone to heeling...and this is in perfect calm sea states in sheltered water.

Even a conservative mid-weight cruising vessel that size should be able to hit 8-10 kts all day long under power or sail (if there's wind) with no fear of getting knocked down or the rig coming apart.

Anonymous Thu Sep 28 00:02:49 2023 No.2688324

>>2686920
Yeah, but if he was so intent on making money, what was with that fucking fake explosion and then doubling-down and telling his viewers that they shouldn't be so interested in his life, or worried about him - if I remember right, he immediately lost about 200,000 viewers and a ton of Patreons. Even other utubers were distancing themselves from him.

Anonymous Thu Sep 28 01:04:49 2023 No.2688347
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>>2688324
Nobody said performers are smart or mentally stable; people who rely on adoring fan bases for a living do stupid shit to alienate them and nearly kill that golden goose all the time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 28 01:47:27 2023 No.2688368 >>2688347 Yes but not comparable as Mel is one of the most popular actors and directors of all time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 28 16:07:37 2023 No.2688643 >>2688218 Is it possible for a boat to sail faster than the wind speed? Because Seeker has only rigged up in a 5 knot light breeze.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 04:52:08 2023 No.2688913 >>2688643 Yes actually, if it's properly designed. It's very interesting

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 05:06:58 2023 No.2688915 >>2688368 >Mel is one of the most popular actors and directors of all time. Not really, no.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 09:44:37 2023 No.2688975 >>2688915 He waa really big for a while there. Just because he said the naughty word doesnt mean he qasnt an A lister

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 12:20:05 2023 No.2689004 >>2688975 None of matters since Passion which earned Mel a $300m payday.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 12:34:01 2023 No.2689006 >>2688347 Is that from when he was drunk and called the cop "officer sugar tits"?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 14:06:11 2023 No.2689048 >>2689006 Based

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 15:20:25 2023 No.2689077 File: 17 KB, 432x479, seekerpole.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I will never give up! #SEEKER4LYFE #NORTHPOLE2024 #DEEPRESEARCH

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 15:43:19 2023 No.2689086 >>2689048 Apparently it was a different incident. I'm thinking from a different time in 2006.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 16:01:48 2023 No.2689094 >>2689004 Thats uh... thats your evidence against him being one of the most popular directors of all time?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 16:11:30 2023 No.2689096 >>2689094 against him?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 18:12:55 2023 No.2689138 fags masterbating to doug

Anonymous Fri Sep 29 18:48:44 2023 No.2689154

>>2688643
Seeker has sailed in up to about 16 knots of wind but had to be reefed down because she's too unstable to carry full sail and Doug's a retard who never stows his shit properly.

In those winds he was heeled 25° and his hull portholes were submerged...the boat did about 5.4 mph (not knots) in those conditions.

The last time he sailed in wind in the mid teens his rigging came apart and one of the sails and its spars were wrapped around the mast and torn/ broken...and he still didn't hit 6 mph, even downwind.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 20:10:22 2023 No.2689187 How will Doug’s misadventures end? Is he just going to become another crazy old geezer on a floating garbage patch?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 29 21:08:52 2023 No.2689208 >>2682289 Advertising svseeker youtube channel? No I don't think so shill!

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 01:25:29 2023 No.2689353 >>2689154 >In those winds he was heeled 25° and his hull portholes were submerged Jesus christ how horrifying

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 01:28:28 2023 No.2689357 >>2689353 >portholes were submerged Is that uncommon?

Anonymous Sat Sep 30 02:17:52 2023 No.2689375
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>>2689357
Yes- not unheard of with fixed ports that can't open, but no sensible naval architecture or builder puts opening ones low enough in the hull that they regularly go underwater in mild wind conditions with dead flat water.
Picrel is from when he was stuck on a sandbar in the Mississippi, at about 12° of heel

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 03:08:03 2023 No.2689394 >>2689357 In those conditions? Yes its absolutely absurd. If I saw that on the water, I would assune there was an emergency.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 06:33:31 2023 No.2689463 >>2689394 imagine you offer assistance like a good boatman, only to receive hurled accusations that you were raised by a woman.

Anonymous Sat Sep 30 08:59:17 2023 No.2689492

>>2682568
I don't remember any mod activity aimed at stopping the actual discussion back in those threads. If anything, there was a certain (suspected) reddit mod who would come in screeching within hours of seeker being mentioned ANYWHERE on 4chan no matter the time of day and then flood the thread with raw garbage until it's dead. He's in this thread too.
Once Doug stopped doing anything interesting enough after reaching the gulf the threads just naturally died and everyone who still cared moved over to other places with better moderation.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 09:06:19 2023 No.2689493 >>2687027 >the phantom Was literally a gaming PC in a console case just like the original Xbox.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 15:06:56 2023 No.2689590 >>2689492 I just assumed it was a mod that removed a thread or two then whoever kept reposting the thread gave up

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 15:17:55 2023 No.2689593 >>2689590 The fact is that no one really knows.

Anonymous Sat Sep 30 15:25:07 2023 No.2689597

>>2687996
Speed is determined primarily by waterline. The longer the vessel, the faster.
A 20 ft sailboat will always be slower than a 30 when of a similar hull layout.

SV Seeker is a entertainment show and always was about the build, collaboration and community of such a project.
The vessel will be a cool looking live-aboard Air BnB in some sheltered marina somewhere.

Anyone who expected from the get go this boat to be a passage making vessel deserves to be shark food.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 17:59:18 2023 No.2689673 >>2689590 The last few threads were mostly filled with garbage and off-topic, so the last one died and nobody made a new one, the end.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 18:01:36 2023 No.2689674 So when is he taking his "research vessel" to the arctic seas as promised?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 30 23:35:49 2023 No.2689813 he built a whole boat by hand?

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 02:28:49 2023 No.2689894

>>2689463
The real story is even funnier:

He radioed the USCG that he was stuck "as a courtesy" (his words) but didn't need or request assistance, then he got mad when they asked questions about how many people were aboard and if any were kids...when they asked for the boat's registration # he said, "you're the ones who issued it, look it up in your records".

Then he spent a few hours trying to get un-stuck on his own and got mad that the USCG checked back with him every hour to see if he was making progress or needed more help....said with a straight face that they should have asked his permission before doing so.

Finally an older couple in a small recreational boat with an outboard came along and offered to help tow him off the bar and he accepted and they got him free...but he claims that he was almost off so their contribution was minimal.

When people said it was pretty shitty that he didnt even thank the nice couple when telling the story, he became indignant and said of course he had thanked them, and recounted that as a token of his appreciation he literally tossed them one of his cheap Seeker souvenir stuffed "bilge rat" toys that he hawks at his online store to help fund his transient grifter lifestyle.

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 02:43:24 2023 No.2689898

>>2689894
Forgot to add: during the roughly four hours that he was grounded ( because of stupid navigational errors), when people who were following his progress via his Garmin GPS track noticed he wasn't moving and wondered is something was wrong, his equally odious girlfriend who runs his "foundation" went online to try to hide what was happening and claimed that the crew had just pulled over and dropped anchor to have a leisurely lunch on a beautiful day.

Evidently they didn't compare notes because Doug spilled the beans later and busted her shameless gaslighting.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 1 04:10:19 2023 No.2689935 >>2682445 maybe im blind but isnt this spliced and then clamped? whats wrong with this unless it's just two ropes hose clamped together but from my end it looks like they were spliced but just not far enough

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 1 06:22:24 2023 No.2689984 >>2689187 >Is he just going to become another crazy old geezer on a floating garbage patch? >become

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 11:27:23 2023 No.2690023

>>2689898
>stupid navigational errors
Specifically nobody on board could be bothered to spend 10 minutes learning what color and shape of buoys mean in the entire time they were building the boat and preparing for the trip, so they went on the wrong side of one and ended up in shallow water, very much in typical Doug fashion who tosses user manuals into garbage bin without reading them because nobody ain't his mom and telling him what to do.

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 12:09:46 2023 No.2690037

>>2689935
>unless it's just two ropes hose clamped together

That's what it is; he specifically stated that in the video that screen grab came from.
He claims it's just temporary while he figures out the final configuration of the rig that's been on the water for two years now and was started many more years before that in Tulsa.

Also, he doesn't refer to splices as splices, he calls it "braiding", because using proper terminology is for conformists and is used by "haters" to hinder diy mavericks from doing great things that prove the experts wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 1 13:10:52 2023 No.2690050 >>2689375 To be fair, the waterline was originally supposed to be like 2+ feet lower so they weren't even going to touch water until like 30° of heel.

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 14:03:20 2023 No.2690068

>>2688643
going faster than wind isn't that hard if you know how to sail.
going on an angle off of the wind direction is the trick. you can have the same speed as the wind in that same direction , while also having speed perpendicular to the wind, the resulting speed will be faster than the wind speed alone

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 1 15:44:34 2023 No.2690113 >>2684087 All overboard discharges must be logged

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 1 16:07:06 2023 No.2690125 >>2690068 Even weirder wind shit https://youtu.be/jyQwgBAaBag?si=7mpDUrQtAkzbULuW

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 17:05:18 2023 No.2690139

>>2690068
>going faster than wind isn't that hard if you know how to sail.

...and have the right kind of vehicle, it's not easy to do in a monohull displacement keelboat and often only happens in short bursts of surfing where wave energy can contribute to boat speed. Seeker will never do it because of its terrible hull design, crappy rig, and because Doug is too scared to sail in anything more than a light chop.

Multihulls, planing dinghys and scows, hydrofoils and iceboats and landsailers can do it pretty regularly though...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_wind

Another fun paradox is that the faster you go, the more you need a smaller sail to lessen aerodynamic drag and keep accelerating...but you need a larger sail to get up to that speed range-

>"Given an ideal circumstance of a frictionless surface and an airfoil that can develop power, there is no theoretical limit to how fast a sailing craft can travel off the wind as the apparent wind angle becomes ever smaller. In reality, both sail efficiency and friction provide an upper limit. Speed is determined by the ratio of power developed by the sail over power lost through various forms of drag (e.g. surface drag and aerodynamic drag). Ideally a smaller sail is better, as speeds increase. Unfortunately, a small sail diminishes the ability for a craft—even an iceboat—to accelerate to speeds faster than the wind. The principal limit to speed in high-performance sailing craft is form drag. Efforts to overcome this limit is evident in the streamlined hulls of high-performance iceboats and the improvements in drag reduction on planing dinghies. A fast iceboat can achieve an apparent wind of 7.5° and a speed of six times the true wind speed on a course that is 135° off the wind. Bethwaite suggests this might be a practical limit for a craft powered by sails."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_sailing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_sailing

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 19:50:59 2023 No.2690250

>>2689935
Ok, for rigging and splicing natural or synthetic fiber working lines you don't use hose clamps, ever. Full stop. No clamps are effective because the fibers stretch, twist, and elongate as the line gets worked in whatever role it has on the vessel. The only rigging that gets mechanically mated are wire ropes, and they get wire rope clips (as in "never saddle a dead horse") or crimped / swaged ferrules that are the correct size for the diameter of the wire rope, and using the correctly sized tool to finish the crimp.

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 20:34:22 2023 No.2690265

>>2690250
huh. i thought you were supposed to finish a spliced rope with further lashing around it, traditionally made with finer cordage but these days just heat shrink tubing or zap straps or whatever.

we'd do it all the time in the navy for anything that is only working under light loads and doesn't have to be certified (mostly relegated to stuff used to lash things down, or heaving line... lines.) i wasn't a boatswain specifically though so take my experience with some salt, and obviously we weren't literally sailing (though i imagine any rigging for sails would have to be certified or at least not modified from how it came from the supplier)

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 1 20:38:42 2023 No.2690270 >>2684629 >>2684618 >>2683514 >lead ballast don't most boats just use sea water and pump it in/out as needed?

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 21:57:43 2023 No.2690293

>>2690265
>finish a spliced rope with further lashing around it
Yes, you're right. That's called whipping and it exists for natural and synthetic line, and wire rope too. I've seen it done with tape and hear shrink too, but on lines without a core. I'm not a bosun either, but work with both wire rope and spectra lines at sea. I'd immediately remove any line from service if I found someone rigged hose clamps on it to bolster a splice. It just shows that someone didn't know what they were doing and wanted some "reassurance" it wasn't going to fail. They'd either have to be joking or they would be putting my crewmates or me at risk, and I only have max 8,000lb lifts I do for my deck work.

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 22:03:10 2023 No.2690296

>>2690265
I've done like 6" of splice, then cut one strand, tuck the remaining two another set down, cut one, tuck the last one down one more, cut it.

I was using synthetic rope so I just burned those ends to seal them.

Held up great for 5 years until I left that job. Never very heavy or important loads hanging from them, like 15 pounds 30 ft up in the air. (Lineman, holding tool bags and hools and shit)

Anonymous Sun Oct 1 22:07:23 2023 No.2690298

>>2690293
same, i figure as soon as it had to be spliced, that's the end of it being used for anything important. but you always need random bits of rope just to tie boxes down or whatever so it's worth splicing and keeping around.

i've seen whippings done with zap straps so hose clamps look strange but not terribly nonfunctional

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 1 23:50:26 2023 No.2690323 >>2690270 Big ships yes. It's too complex and expensive for a typical sailboat.

Anonymous Mon Oct 2 00:40:10 2023 No.2690334

>>2690323
could you not do it with one of those reversable sump pumps

it would be slow but if it's only a 74 foot shanty boat with a conventional hull who gives a shit, it's not like you're constantly adjusting trim, you just have to compensate for your 900 ton wife once in a while

Anonymous Mon Oct 2 04:04:28 2023 No.2690387

>>2690334
> it's not like you're constantly adjusting trim

That's exactly what a ballast keel on a sailboat does, and to work safely and most effectively to counteract wind and wave action the ballast needs to be compact (dense) and placed as low as possible.
For the same amount of weight, water takes up over eleven times the volume...it also sloshes around, which isnt conducive to maintaining trim/stability and can actually work to upset it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_surface_effect

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 2 04:04:54 2023 No.2690388 >>2690334 There's not enough space in such a small boat and he certainly didn't design for it. The lead is heavier so it would have been a better use of space if he didn't mess up his calculations so much

Anonymous Mon Oct 2 05:20:37 2023 No.2690402

>>2690334
>could you not do it with one of those reversable sump pumps
Of course you can, just don't come crying when it breaks down in the middle of the passage because no dedicated maintenance personnel and standards and schedule and owner being a cheap bastard, rendering you unable to use sails at full capacity or at all.

>it's not like you're constantly adjusting trim
For one you'll need to rebalance every tack, and maybe even compensate for gusts depending on how much lead you still have on board, and if something goes wrong it can turtle you instead.

In any case Seeker has no space for something like that, maybe in next life when he decides to just build a second hull around the current one to fix the balance and draft/freeboard issues, the gap could then be used for ballast tanks like big boys do.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 2 05:51:58 2023 No.2690404 >>2690402 >>2690388 >For one you'll need to rebalance every tack, and a keel full of lead is so easy to pump around as needed, correct?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 2 06:21:16 2023 No.2690415 >>2690404 Canted keels, being more simple than water ballast system, are actually notorious for causing problems on sailboats.

Anonymous Mon Oct 2 08:27:36 2023 No.2690426

>>2684618
>He can't remove shit - he poured all those tons of lead into very tight spaces.

Boat can be hauled out of the water using a boat lift, it's done all the time for maintenance.
Alternatively he could even put it on the ground on purpose in low waters during high tide. During low tide you get a free drydock.

He can simply cut the keels open from the outside, remove the lead, and weld them back shut.

Anonymous Mon Oct 2 09:15:11 2023 No.2690442

>>2690426
His masts can't be easily unstepped (they're welded in) and will likely interfere with the lift
Also he will have to sail quite a distance in open waters to get to anywhere with high enough tides and Seeker can't do that without a great chance of sinking

Anonymous Mon Oct 2 10:28:20 2023 No.2690460
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>>2690426
>just cut the entire ship apart and hit it with a million blowtorches then do a total rebuild of the hull(s) its ez bro
again, why use lead ballast and not just water that is pumped in or out, as is done on almost every other boat or ship ever?

>>2690442
>he's never heard of the SYNCHRO LIFT

as is typical for 4chan, someone fails and a bunch of people who dont know shit come out of the woodwork to offer "solutions" based on 50 year old fuddlore and RTS loading screen tooltips. niggas arent careening their boats on sandbars to repaint below the waterline like it's 1500 in the caribbean anymore, and even then drydocks arent exactly a recent invention

Anonymous Mon Oct 2 11:17:32 2023 No.2690465

>>2690460
>niggas arent careening their boats on sandbars to repaint below the waterline like it's 1500 in the caribbean anymore

That's literally his plan to replace haulouts, and the reason he went with twin keels. He thinks all real marine equipment and practices are scams that he's defeated due to his superior intelligence, which is why he's got an automotive transmission and a 4x4 transfer case and exploding U-joints and home made propeller blades and ridiculously heavy sails made of upholstery cloth, and is currently replacing his repurposed plastic barrel holding tanks after only two years of use.

>drydocks arent exactly a recent invention

Neither are marine railways, the problem is that he doesn't think anything is fundamentally wrong with his boat that has to reef in anything over 15 knots of wind even in totally protected waters because of its poor design and even worse execution.

There's also the fact that even if he were convinced to haul out and pay for it, no yard anywhere near him will do so on a janky diy monstrosity like Seeker without plenty of insurance.
His original launch was delayed like seven months because he never planned for insurance and needed a combination of other people taking on the liability and the port throwing their hands up just to get him the fuck out of their hair to crate that POS into the water without the masts installed.

He won't even dock the boat to take on fuel or pump out his holding tanks, its a matter of pride. Boat yards are the same, he thinks they're for snooty yachtsmen and pussies who arent self sufficient like him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 2 12:07:36 2023 No.2690469 >>2682289 Holy shit I didn't know anything about this guy until i saw this thread. now reading through some of your comments about him, he sounds like he's flat-earther tier levels of retarded

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 2 14:08:20 2023 No.2690515 >>2690469 Made a small fortune on YouTube, now cruising, drinking beer, and ranting about the feds. Could be worse.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 2 14:18:19 2023 No.2690518 >>2690515 >cruising >implying he is going anywhere on that floating trainwreck

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 2 16:23:53 2023 No.2690559 take your doug fan club to transportation or reddit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 08:37:13 2023 No.2690907 >>2690559 >transportation But it never goes anywhere

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 09:24:06 2023 No.2690913 >>2682289 i cant sleep for more than few hours at a time, sometimes i wake up and i think im in the ocean gate, but its not a nightmare exactly, it doesnt bother me what is this even doing on the surface anymore, shouldnt it be researching the bottom?

Anonymous Tue Oct 3 09:30:30 2023 No.2690914

>>2690442
>>>2690426
>His masts can't be easily unstepped (they're welded in)

Did you hear of the magical tools called "angle grinder" and "plasma cutter"
Those masts will be loose in an afternoon.

>and will likely interfere with the lift

Yeah and the lift operator could also have to burp from his lunch which could further interfere with the lift.

>Also he will have to sail quite a distance in open waters to get to anywhere with high enough tides and Seeker can't do that without a great chance of sinking

You're obviously clueless.

Anonymous Tue Oct 3 18:36:16 2023 No.2691084

>>2690914
>magical tools called "angle grinder" and "plasma cutter"
On the boats designed by sane and competent people you just take off the boot and pull the wedges, that's it. No need to spend half a day trying to not set the boat with full wooden interior on fire.

>and the lift operator could also have to burp from his lunch
If you're an idiot just say so and I won't bother replying to you anymore.

>You're obviously clueless
I'm at least 106 on Doug scale of cluelessness. Even if he takes the icw it's way farther than his drivetrain can make without exploding

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 19:11:47 2023 No.2691100 >>2691084 Like it or not, there is nothing on the Seeker that can't be fixed with cutting, welding, and grinding.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 19:38:37 2023 No.2691111 File: 339 KB, 1280x1280, breaking-news_russian_supermodels.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2684085 Yes

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 3 20:01:29 2023 No.2691125 >>2691100 >there is nothing on the Seeker that can't be fixed Doug

Anonymous Wed Oct 4 01:11:18 2023 No.2691272

>>2691100
That doesn't make the design competent. Torch cutting (no plasma required) can make short work of the hull (bet he doesn't think lead fumes merit PPE) though melting lead out of steel cavities isn't quite like evenly heating the outside of a crucible.

The mistakes any experienced mechanic would never make like the drivetrain choice show aggressive clue-averseness. There are plenty of manual truck gearboxes if one insists on using vehicle parts, but he was so lazy and stupid he chose an autotragic and didn't even rebuild the thing. The design should have been made for effortless engine and component R&I, but it wasn't. There is no excuse for making mistakes when all the correct ways to build a boat have been tested and proven for over a century.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 08:44:20 2023 No.2691413 >/diy/ thinks it's reasonable to cut holes in the hull of a boat with a welding tool every time you want to adjust the ballast

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 14:06:54 2023 No.2691506 >>2691413 >reasonable Reasonable activities don't attract viewers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 15:36:57 2023 No.2691547 File: 108 KB, 620x439, 4d49ba1e53c4b.image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2691100 >Like it or not, there is nothing on the Seeker that can't be fixed with cutting. fify

Anonymous Wed Oct 4 15:59:11 2023 No.2691563

>>2691084
>If you're an idiot just say so and I won't bother replying to you anymore.

Elaborate on how someone who has casually and effortlessly pointed out multiple flaws in your terribly argued posts could be an idiot taking yourself as a frame of reference?

Since you seem to lack the mental faculties to deduce what kind of person I am, I'm highly intelligent and highly educated in a broad range of topics.
Most of the time, in my humble judgement, I seem to be by far the most intelligent poster on the board.

I have personal experience with engineering projects way beyond the scope of the bumblefucker's boat.
It's not great, it's easy to poke fun at, but desu compared to most clueless idiots judging doug, i've seen worse hence i'm not too phased.

Ever seen some small cargo ship run by some 6 month old cayman island corp flagged on the bahamas up close?
Yeah. Compared to that doug's creation is quite safe and luxurious.

While mankind can far exceed doug's standards of seafaring in terms of safety and comfort, I feel like most people need to be reminded of the fact that some drunk vikings made it to the 'mericas thousands of years ago in wooden boats.
Floating without sinkin ain't that complicated.

I suggest you put the phone away and crawl back into your trailer now, tyrone should be done railing your mom by now.

Anonymous Wed Oct 4 21:02:48 2023 No.2691727

Great shit. Read this thread, checked out his channel, and lurked the farms a bit. This guy is great. What a fucking idiot. I'm in Florida so when I graduate law school, have a boat again, and am back on the water, I'm going to go see this fucking thing myself and harass Doug. Shit I could probably cash in reading chat messages to him over a megaphone lmao.

Anonymous Thu Oct 5 05:11:12 2023 No.2691926

>>2691563
>effortlessly
That stupid attempt at deflection you was only able to come up with after failing to realize how seeker's masts could interfere with a boat lift structure was indeed low effort and says all about both your intelligence and qualifications.

>Ever seen some small cargo ship run by some 6 month old cayman island corp flagged on the bahamas up close?
Again you fail to realize a difference between a functional boat designed and built by competent people and only trashed by cheap fucktards through abuse and lack of maintenance, and a boat-shaped object built by someone who does his best to have no clue wtf he's doing. First one will sail through anything a boat is supposed to until it physically falls apart, the second one can kill you out of nowhere even in perfectly good condition.

>Floating without sinkin ain't that complicated
No shit, my turds float too, and are hard to sink as well, doesn't make them a good boat.

Anonymous Thu Oct 5 07:54:35 2023 No.2691969

>>2691926
>>>2691563
>>effortlessly
>That stupid attempt at deflection you was only able to come up with

The proper grammar would be "you were only able to"

>after failing to realize how seeker's masts could interfere with a boat lift structure

I didn't attempt to deflect since there is nothing to deflect from. A lot of boats have masts since a lot of boats are sail boats and they're usually not removed for lifting the boat in or out of the water.

Observe here how the boat lift is specifically designed to allow for masts sticking up into the air literally an infinite length since there is nothing on the lift that could collide with a mast.

https://youtu.be/7tp-qpX-vfY?t=741

>Again you fail to realize a difference between a functional boat designed and built by competent people and only trashed by cheap fucktards through abuse and lack of maintenance

It seems you're unfamiliar with the practice of modifying existing ships to repurpose them for different cargo leading to unstable designs. One mostly learns about those from desaster investigations. Youtube has dozens of those.
Dozens, not hundreds. Despite tens of thousands of ships. Shows you how relatively safe even these crummy areas of the industry are.

>and a boat-shaped object

Best you can do is mindlessly repeat trolls from sailinganarchy?

Anonymous Thu Oct 5 18:42:03 2023 No.2692189

>>2690415
Canting keels are absolutely not more simple than a water ballast system. The engineering to make a lightweight, robust and reliable canting keel that won't destroy itself or the keel matrix surrounding it is incredibly difficult. Adding a canting keel also requires adding dagger boards to provide lateral resistance. Water ballast needs 2 tanks and a diverter valve

Anonymous Thu Oct 5 18:50:18 2023 No.2692196

>>2691969
>Observe here how the boat lift is specifically designed to allow for masts sticking up into the air literally an infinite length since there is nothing on the lift that could collide with a mast.

>LMMFAO, blowhard moron thinks the potential issue with stepped masts interfering with a Travelift is their *height*

Seriously, thanks for the laugh, retard.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 22:13:31 2023 No.2692300 Doug is now wanting to go to Galveston

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 22:52:42 2023 No.2692312 File: 74 KB, 892x483, your both pretty.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2691969 >>2692196 you're both dougtards

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 23:10:08 2023 No.2692321 >>2692300 He'll never make it. Mark my words.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:49:29 2023 No.2692385 >>2692189 Yes they are RETARD

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 03:31:28 2023 No.2692400 >>2692189 >Adding a canting keel also requires adding dagger boards to provide lateral resistance. Absolutely not "required" at all, if you knew fuck-all about sailboat design you'd know why.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 04:08:41 2023 No.2692413 I haven't looked at these threads for two years, surprised to hear he got it in the water. I left off on him hauling it around somewhere and being told that he can't try to launch it where he wanted to.

Anonymous Fri Oct 6 05:01:27 2023 No.2692429

>>2691969
>https://youtu.be/7tp-qpX-vfY?t=741
Dude come on, seeker has 3 masts, guess where one of them would go on that lift

>desaster
Disaster

>Dozens, not hundreds. Despite tens of thousands of ships.
Exactly because proper ships have massive safety margins built in that seaniggers figured out to treat as spare capacity (and that's not exactly wrong with just some skill, care, and luck; but again those margins exist for a reason). Try doing something like that with seeker and it would flip right over.

>mindlessly repeat trolls from sailinganarchy
But that's literally what it is. Doug built something that looks like a boat but without any care for most things that make an actual boat - sometimes deliberately because he thought he knew better, sometimes out of sheer ignorance. It's a very accurate description of the disaster seeker is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 05:03:48 2023 No.2692430 >>2690023 >10 minutes There's a mnemonic. It's three words. Red Right Return.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 05:17:12 2023 No.2692433 >>2692430 there's other types of buoy out there

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 05:43:58 2023 No.2692440 File: 47 KB, 640x640, 79253e7633a7414031d084cae33d24ef453ba5e7b0a3b48414dbc13efd959621_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2692430

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 11:41:47 2023 No.2692505 >>2692440 it's really bothering me that the arrows and text arent in the same order for port and stbd

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 12:49:52 2023 No.2692520 >>2690023 Don’t you need a boats driving license to operate boat?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 12:52:44 2023 No.2692522 >>2692429 >Doug built something that looks like a boat Makes sense for a show.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 12:56:32 2023 No.2692523 >>2692520 No. All you need is a pulse.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 13:01:43 2023 No.2692525 >>2692523 That’s ridiculous, how can it be legal to operate a vessel without being qualified?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 13:43:17 2023 No.2692540 >>2692525 Who is going to stop you?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 14:11:36 2023 No.2692548 >>2692540 coast guard

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 16:24:10 2023 No.2692585 >>2692540 Sea Police?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 17:03:14 2023 No.2692614 >>2692525 >how can it be legal to operate a vessel without being qualified? you must be new to this planet. fuck off all doug posters.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 17:35:15 2023 No.2692630 >>2692525 it's not in most places

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 19:30:50 2023 No.2692682 >>2692548 The Coast Guard has visited Doug for discharge-related issues, but they have not stopped him from sailing nor impounded Seeker.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 22:38:58 2023 No.2692800 >>2692682 >they have not stopped him Doug was openly hostile and the CG didn't do shit.

Anonymous Fri Oct 6 23:34:55 2023 No.2692820

>>2692800
>Doug was openly hostile

He may have been prior to being boarded because he's a typical loudmouth keyboard warrior phony, but when the boarding party was there and afterwards he was a groveling hyper-cuck who even made a video praising the hard work and professionalism of the USCG.

He tried to get in a dis by claiming that the boarding party represented "the real Coast Guard" unlike the ones who came to visit him in Tulsa when he was building his POS, but he's such an ignoramus that he didn't realize that they're all in the same CG district operating under the same Commandant.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYj0VNTqME&t=11m10s

In the beginning of that video he makes a blanket "apology" for his oil spill but is subconsciously smirking with "dupers delight" the entire time, and his body language is an encyclopedia of tells that liars do.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 06:41:54 2023 No.2692972 >>2692902 You care enough to post your nonsense. Now either tell something funny about Doug or fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 14:23:16 2023 No.2693085 >>2692972 I don't know anything about doug except that you all like sucking his dick.

Anonymous Sat Oct 7 14:53:35 2023 No.2693087

>>2693085
Sharing and laughing at examples of what a godforsaken retard and cautionary tale he is could only be inerpreted as "sucking his dick" by someone who is pathologically fixated on the idea of sucking Doug's dick.

You might as well just apply for the position of Doug's special cabin boy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 16:00:46 2023 No.2693126 >>2692413 You missed Doug's misadventures down the Mississippi, which was the funniest part of Seeker's whole life

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 17:05:19 2023 No.2693150 >>2693126 Do tell.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 17:54:44 2023 No.2693186 >>2693126 It begins hare: https://forums.sailinganarchy.com/threads/sv-seeker.222077/page-28 Just make sure you use an adblocker or the site is awful

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 17:56:03 2023 No.2693187 >>2693186 meant for >>2693150

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 19:47:05 2023 No.2693223 >>2692430 try that in the intracoastal bud

Anonymous Sat Oct 7 22:39:37 2023 No.2693300

>>2687018
All the videos are equally shitty. Drop in anywhere, especially if you have any knowledge about whatever the title indicates it's about.
You're going to get a lot of Doug preaching how macho yet understanding he is, and the world just wants to scare you out of having confidence in being right--and you're only wrong if you doubt yourself, but if you 100% think you're right no matter what, experts in a given subject don't know shit. And then he'll show a little bit of work, or maybe none at all, but a trained eye will catch all sorts of fuckery any time he shows off the boat.

The angle grinder video is a pretty fun concentration of Doug being overly confident he's smarter than the entirety of the internet and people need to shut up because they're limp wristed pussies that never touched a tool in their lives.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 11:07:37 2023 No.2693470 >>2692430 Iirc they couldn't tell the color against the morning sunlight and didn't know what the shape means

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 14:16:02 2023 No.2694004 >>2692321 The ICW goes all the way there. He'll be fine.

Anonymous Mon Oct 9 19:18:26 2023 No.2694127

>>2690460
>as is done on almost every other boat or ship ever?

Did you see some youtube video on the topic and just buy it wholesale? Most sailboats have lead ballast. You posted a picture of a submarine, which does use water ballast, but you know that's not a sailboat right? Some freight carriers can pump water ballast too, to adjust for the massive differences in handling between loaded and unloaded... still not a sailboat.

If Doug can't even get a poured lead keel right, his water system would just be a high volume pump that would pump water into his boat until it was on the bottom of the channel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 19:46:55 2023 No.2694142 >>2694127 There's nothing wrong with lead in the keels. The whole boat is massively overweight. This could be cured without touching the keels.

Anonymous Mon Oct 9 20:21:03 2023 No.2694152

>>2694004
According to him he's not taking the ICW-

>"looking for four and five foot waves, so it’s not gonna be on the ICW. Unfortunately, in the Gulf, it’s going to have a very short interval. That seems to be a feature of the shallow water."

Should be interesting since he's in the middle of repositioning heavy equipment forward to try to fix the ass- heavy trim, and still has plastic totes full of crap stacked up below that slide all over the place whenever he sails in dead flat waters.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 12 17:25:52 2023 No.2695365 File: 992 KB, 1304x819, 67894567347.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2690465 >He won't even dock the boat to take on fuel

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 16:33:42 2023 No.2695800 File: 86 KB, 1265x807, eastbound.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2692300 >Galveston He's going the wrong way.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 18:59:50 2023 No.2695865 File: 90 KB, 498x498, 1668003213455713.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Speed suddenly drops to 2mph Something broke again

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 21:47:05 2023 No.2695923 He’s now heading to Tampa

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 23:36:01 2023 No.2695945 File: 123 KB, 798x802, 1694916102394840.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2695923 why's he going to Tampa? did he get chased outta where he was planning on staying for the rest of his gimmick?

Anonymous Sat Oct 14 00:55:03 2023 No.2695970

>>2695945
He's locked in an existential battle with "the haters" to prove that Seeker isn't just a poorly built retirement houseboat and prop for his revenue stream, and even he knows that after two years in the water he needs to do something besides sitting at anchor if he's going to keep the "future free research vessel" thing from becoming an even bigger joke.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 02:59:46 2023 No.2696014 >>2695945 Wind and current both going east, he would take forever to fight both. Tampa is also a nicer place for a houseboat. Nobody is going to sleep well on that boat lol.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 23:42:51 2023 No.2696354 >>2695970 >an existential battle with "the haters" I don’t understand this part at all. I don’t see any haters, and even if there are some, why doesn’t he let it go and enjoy cruising?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 15 11:46:01 2023 No.2696511 >>2696354 They drive people off his patreon even more than he does himself with his antics

Anonymous Sun Oct 15 15:09:34 2023 No.2696562

>>2696354
>I don’t see any haters
Hence the aspersions quotes...he and his true believer fans label legitimate critique of Doug and his POS BSO as "hate" and "trolling", and work tirelessly to control it. It's a manifestation of a personality disorder; he can't just stop it, nor does he want to- he literally sees himself as engaged in a battle for the minds and futures of kids who might be persuaded not to put themselves and others at risk by following his insanely foolish philosophy, that says prudence and common sense = cowardice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 15:15:05 2023 No.2697076 File: 297 KB, 617x445, vind.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's hard to see this as anything less than a complete vindication.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 15:47:10 2023 No.2697093 >>2695923 Oh shit that's local waters for me. I can't wait to harass Doug. Maybe we will end up with a new artificial reef.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 15:48:12 2023 No.2697095 >>2697076 its the fucking gulf dude its generally a bathtub

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 15:53:14 2023 No.2697098 >>2697095 But he didn't stay inside the ICW on this leg.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 17:34:11 2023 No.2697148 >>2697098 There isn't an ICW on this leg, one was not built. The waters are so calm here that an ICW isn't necessary for even the heaviest barges.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 17 01:52:28 2023 No.2697312 I check in from this dude from time to time, always makes me laugh. Why not just get some real plans from an actual boat builder?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 17 02:50:46 2023 No.2697335 >>2697312 It’s a little too late for that pal.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 17 03:20:03 2023 No.2697341 >>2697312 He is a walking dunning-kruger example

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 17 06:09:11 2023 No.2697386 File: 216 KB, 1280x720, 1630365726792.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2697312

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 20 03:08:41 2023 No.2698686 >>2682289 how rich do u even have to be to do a project like this? the land alone his house is on looks minty as fuck don

Anonymous Fri Oct 20 13:53:49 2023 No.2698846

>>2682289
Doug reminds me of my schitzophrenic dad. Except he used to have a job.

Always half asses everything and is so deluded he thinks it's okay.

But where my dad fucks up his house trying to frame a wall through the subfloor (literally just nailled a 2x4 into the sub flooring like a retard) doug gets on the high seas and tries to drown himself.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 20 13:55:12 2023 No.2698848 >>2697093 Or a fucking oil field remember what he did with his washer?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 20 18:41:42 2023 No.2698964 >>2697095 I'm already alerting FDEP to his presence and past transgressions

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 20 19:25:40 2023 No.2698973 >>2686409 You can literally study ship construction. I've sailed with a former school ship student who's now a ship builder.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 21 00:48:53 2023 No.2699089 >>2697386 He burns 25 gallons per hour. Boats of that size that are actual motorsailers, burn less than 4. Here is a spacious 56 footer that burns 2 gallons per hour, at 6.5 knots. https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/nordhavn-56-motorsailer-0/

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 21 01:51:41 2023 No.2699110 So far Doug has at least done better that Raw Faith and Flyin Hawaiian. No coast guard rescues and no thumbs bitten off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 21 02:07:10 2023 No.2699113 >>2696354 he's american and americans are retarded

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 21 13:35:01 2023 No.2699292 >>2699089 >He burns 25 gallons per hour. That’s ridiculous, his engine would melt.

Anonymous Sat Oct 21 19:06:59 2023 No.2699422

>>2699292
I'm an idiot, he reported his fuel mpg, he uses 1 gallon to go 2 miles; It took him 25 gallons to go 50 miles, and at a slower pace than 6.5 knots. The boat I linked would use ~14 gallons and would travel that distance faster. Even accounting for more wetted surface area etc. you can see that what Doug saved on initial cost of the engine he is paying in fuel.

Anonymous Sun Oct 22 01:35:07 2023 No.2699577
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A shocking, totally unexpected development that nobody saw coming...the junkyard 4x4 transfer case installed in lieu of a proper marine reduction gear and had gotten the Guru Doug DIY mastermind seal of approval self destructed shortly after he began his epic offshore passage to Tampa.

Who could have guessed this might happen?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 02:02:42 2023 No.2699590 >>2699577 Kek fits perfectly with the drop to 2 knots on the garmin tracker

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 02:50:07 2023 No.2699613 >>2699577 >2 mpg I would rather drive a civic and stay at the Ritz.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 03:02:07 2023 No.2699625 >>2698964 You’re doing God’s work anon. Those who pollute for views deserve the harshest punishment.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 08:05:28 2023 No.2699724 >>2699422 Great thing he's got sails so that's not an issue! Oh wait...

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 09:19:52 2023 No.2699732 >>2699577 It's almost like people were telling him he shouldn't do it for a reason

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:30:57 2023 No.2699772 So if the transfer case broke, does that mean there’s oil in the bilge again? We might get another slick.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 16:56:18 2023 No.2699885 File: 33 KB, 675x420, 135013-2401542064.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2686741 DON'T GO SAILING! DON'T GO SAILING! DONGOSA'ING! DOGOSING! DOGOING... DOUG... DOUG...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 00:48:50 2023 No.2700143 >>2689463 I feel like this is traditional sailor talk.

Anonymous Mon Oct 23 00:56:16 2023 No.2700146

>>2682289
>be me
>stumble into thread
>retarded based man makes a boat and ignores all the rules
>he's a grifter so he's evil.
>anons calling for enforcement of gay regulation.

I'm learning that this man makes Jannies and the like seethe. Hope his boat works out for him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 01:10:34 2023 No.2700155 >>2700146 the only regs he should have followed are common sense, and at least the basics from centuries of naval knowledge that preceded his existence; these are actively being enforced by the laws of physics, rather than any government.

Anonymous Mon Oct 23 02:08:27 2023 No.2700174

>>2699577
Boat with a CONCRETE hull built like 40 years ago by an amateur, young guy and his hippie friends ... sailing already and has been for decades... apparently Captain Eddie was raised by a woman but didn't let it stop him from you know, actually learning enough to build competently... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnummVJ9BFc

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 06:19:18 2023 No.2700245 Has doug been in similar water conditions to those examples?

Anonymous Mon Oct 23 15:14:01 2023 No.2700376

>>2700155
Well thats fine, the laws of Darwin cannot be escaped, I care very little if people attempt to. Personally it bothers me that people try to prevent idiots from eliminating themselves from the genepool.

If we did this less, future generations would have fewer idiots.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 18:15:31 2023 No.2700459 >>2682433 >#justboatthings Or as the boomers would say: If it flies, floats, or fucks --rent it.

Anonymous Thu Oct 26 02:39:02 2023 No.2701606

>>2700155
Last video shows him - moving a ~700lb mill in pieces, wearing either Crocs or barefoot; spending 3-4 days grinding and preparing a simple steel table to hold the mill in its new location; disabling the safety lockout on a DeWalt power tool; cutting what looks like 1/8th or 1/4 inch steel plate 2 inches from the wood on the ship; applying Xylene on several square feet of metal, in an enclosed area with little to no ventilation.

Good thing Doug doesn't need insurance - because he is providing all the evidence needed to deny any claim that might be made by anyone on board...

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 03:10:21 2023 No.2701611 >>2701606 >moving a ~700lb mill Glad he’s finally balancing cargo.

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Anonymous Fri Oct 27 22:49:00 2023 No.2702479
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holy shit I've never seen so many people upset.
>guy intends to build a boat with zero experience and no real plan
>"HOW DARE HE BUILD A BOAT WITH ZERO EXPERIENCE AND NO REAL PLAN REEEEEEE"
Are you guys so deluded with superiority you can't control your anger when you see someone doing something intentionally different?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 02:15:35 2023 No.2702562 >>2702479 Okay, Doug

Anonymous Sat Oct 28 02:25:28 2023 No.2702569
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>>2702562
You need to realize some people enjoy working through a problem step by step, facing punishment for mistakes if needed. This is the equivalent of buying Legos and throwing away the instructions before you start building. Let a guy be creative ffs.

It's fine to disagree with his approach but do you have to pretend like the entire concept is somehow evil? If people want to support someone who is going against the grain let them. Not everyone needs to be labeled as morons and enablers.

Anonymous Sat Oct 28 02:30:11 2023 No.2702573

>>2702479
It's not the doing things badly, it's the wilful ignorance, the arrogant "we'll do it this way anyways despite 5000 years of boating history saying otherwise, and by the way, THIS IS BETTER" attitude.

He spent 10 years assembling it, and now is rebuilding it piece by piece, since the original "good idea" turns out to not have been a very good idea after all. It's well within reason to point and laugh at the guy...

Anonymous Sat Oct 28 02:33:36 2023 No.2702577
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>>2702573
Dude, you are missing the forest by staring at a tree. If he didn't want to fuck up he would have done it the "right" way. Some people enjoy navigating problems creatively. This clearly isn't just about having a yacht. If he wanted a yacht from a plan he could just build one from a plan, everyone knows that. Have you ever done something creative in your life anon?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 02:59:44 2023 No.2702584 >>2702569 He won't ever admit he made a mistake, because he's a blowhard idiot. He isn't being creative, he's being a lazy know it all.

Anonymous Sat Oct 28 03:10:41 2023 No.2702586

>>2702584
>building a ship from scratch is lazy
Again, clearly you have a different system of values than he does. Nothing is "wrong" in a creative venture. I ask again; have you ever done something creative in your life? This project is obviously a creative venture.

Anonymous Sat Oct 28 04:14:11 2023 No.2702609

>>2702586
He lied to thousands of people and took their mo ey u Der false pretenses.

He didn't just buy skme.elgos and throw away the book.

He convinced someone else to buy
the legos for him, told them he'd build a thing and failed so badly at building it it's a negligent waste of their money.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 04:41:22 2023 No.2702613 File: 414 KB, 1334x2048, 377446652_10224255103548872_1367445962130220759_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2702609 ...Are you OK?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 05:33:10 2023 No.2702622 >>2702613 Suck a dick, bot. I don't need to make myself machine readable for your be efit

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 05:37:45 2023 No.2702623 >>2702586 >Nothing is wrong... You are a horse's ass and your attitude is a major problem with the world today. There is truth. Beauty is objective. You are a dumb faggot.

Anonymous Sat Oct 28 09:44:34 2023 No.2702654

>>2702586
>This project is obviously a creative venture
It's not, it's just an old dude building himself a retirement houseboat at the expense of gullible people who buy his claims of grandiose future endeavors that anyone with real world experience at the sea can tell from a glance are a big load of bullshit and are impossible to achieve within his lifetime the way he's doing things.
Nobody would mind if he just did the wrong thing and told anyone offering advice "ok but I'm doing this my way". The hate he gathers is because he would pose as an old salty dog who knows all about life and sound very convincing at it and would gladly take your money and free labor to aid his cause but the moment you spot something you know for sure is wrong and try to correct him he would belittle you and drag you through mud, inventing ridiculous excuses why his way is objectively right and superior and you on the other hand have no idea what you're talking about and even if you do it's because you're scared of your own shadow to do something just a bit more daring in your life than staying inside a cushioned room or whatever is this month's theme, and you're not his friend and should mind your own business and it's none of yours what he does.
If you still won't mind him after that then you either have zero pride in your skills or is just a gullible idiot who deserves falling for this scam.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 09:59:22 2023 No.2702656 >>2702586 >building a ship from scratch is lazy Trying to go the lazy way is still lazy even if the thing is too big for you to handle or your lazy approach ends up making you work more instead.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 15:40:12 2023 No.2702758 File: 8 KB, 168x181, 1662081648665070.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2682289 You guys are just jealous of such a big beautiful ship with the most elite capitan. Where's you huge ship?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 17:56:41 2023 No.2702825 >>2702758 Literally this. The sheer amount of cope blended with jealousy in this thread is unreal

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 17:58:38 2023 No.2702826 >>2702623 I put 'wrong' in quotation marks for a reason. Nobody, absolutely nobody, is interested in making this a philosophical argument. It's literally about what makes you happy.

Anonymous Sat Oct 28 18:03:30 2023 No.2702829
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>>2702654

>he's stealing people's money
Anyone throwing money at an open-ended project (which any moron can see it is) 100% knows there will be risk.
If this is what makes you upset, you really should look at Kickstarter. You won't get out of bed for a week after that.

>how dare he have a personality I dislike
Who the flying fuck cares about how he takes criticism. Is he your dad? Why do you care?
Are you so upset with the world you mandate everyone be a role model for your own specific needs?
This whole hate gambit is so forced. If you got over yourself you'd realize your behavior is actually empowering him, and that you might as well just drop the egomania and just discuss this jank-ass boat as you clearly want to.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 19:09:36 2023 No.2702860 >>2702829 >>2702829 Thw thread was fucking dead until you dyatted.bumping it again Doug. Fuck off already

Anonymous Sat Oct 28 19:10:36 2023 No.2702861

>>2702829
Bit of a weird stance, I just follow him as a lol cow, lol cows get lol because they are funny as fuck and retarded, defending him doing retarded shit by saying "well you didnt do it" chrischan drew his own comic and fucked his mum, neither of which I aspire to do, why don't you fuck off and defend chrischan somewhere else you contrarian kike?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 19:12:34 2023 No.2702863 >>2702829 Do you know what a gambit is?

Anonymous Sat Oct 28 23:12:14 2023 No.2702931
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>>2702861
>defending him doing retarded shit
Pretty dramatic interpretation of what I said. I said you shouldn't get so upset over people doing things you don't to the point that your interest in their activities borders on obsession. It's childish.

And it's compoundingly more stupid that you honestly think whining about what someone does is going to have any effect other than inviting more people to support him and strengthen his resolve to piss you off-- because he's apparently triggering people just by doing what he loves. Plus, you seem mentally unstable (bringing up another cult personality subject of obsession unwarranted) so I think he's gonna have the last laugh here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 23:13:35 2023 No.2702932 >>2702863 >A maneuver, stratagem, or opening remark, especially one intended to bring about a desired result. Sorry, I assumed a 6-letter word would be understood here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 23:55:12 2023 No.2702952 Haters getting owned

Anonymous Sun Oct 29 00:43:15 2023 No.2702976
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>>2702952
>>2702931
Haha, remember that time he called you believers a bunch of fucking idiots lol.

He was such a stud he didn't care what no one thought.

Then he lost like 6000 patrons because he showed everyone what a huge fucking asshole he was.

Good thing he deleted that video huh? Lol good times.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 00:45:11 2023 No.2702978 >>2702976 The fake brain injury was pretty funny, too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 00:49:08 2023 No.2702981 File: 54 KB, 600x738, Exercise_Desert_Rock_I_(Buster-Jangle_Dog)_001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2702976 I wouldn't even know this guy's name if you didn't keep screeching it mate. How is the social justice campaign going, warrior?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 00:52:49 2023 No.2702983 File: 64 KB, 1280x720, poster_f6672f098c244cab98012e05f97f8d31.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2702981 Remember when you could still see your grandson and wife? Lol Enjoy changing your tranny fluid

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 00:57:10 2023 No.2702986 >>2702983 >has screenshots of the guy's tv appearances saved So I have to ask again-- is he your dad or something? What warrants this level of obsession?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 01:34:03 2023 No.2703007 >>2702577 "Navigating problems creatively" Heres the thing, he could have done what he wanted to do without making mistakes. But he was too arrogant to even try.

Anonymous Sun Oct 29 02:00:47 2023 No.2703018

>>2703007
>Heres the thing, he could have done what he wanted to do without making mistakes.

...Have you ever in your entire life created something? Making mistakes is highly valuable. Many people enjoy it, although perhaps not as much as you enjoy whining about someone's social media 2023.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 02:02:17 2023 No.2703019 >>2703018 Theres a SLIGHT difference between fingrr painting and engineering a boat.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 02:47:14 2023 No.2703035 >>2703018 Mistakes have no value when he's too dumb and belligerent to ever learn from them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 10:23:25 2023 No.2703106 >>2686224 Why does a boat need a sewage system? Planes and trains just dump it outside. Poo and pee is not some toxic oil tank waste slop

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 13:00:07 2023 No.2703143 >>2703106 >Planes and trains just dump it outside. Not in civilized countries they don't.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 14:20:42 2023 No.2703166 >>2703143 the sea itself is a sewer and once in the water you are not in a civilized country, you are in the sea and live by sea rules

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 15:49:06 2023 No.2703200 >>2703166 It is against federal and state law to discharge untreated sewage anywhere within three miles offshore.

Anonymous Sun Oct 29 16:03:59 2023 No.2703214

>>2702829
>Anyone throwing money at an open-ended project (which any moron can see it is) 100% knows there will be risk.

He's soliciting donations as a registered 501c3 charity, under the guise of funding material support real world marine researchers and their projects, you mendacious grifter apologist mong.

>If this is what makes you upset, you really should look at Kickstarter. You won't get out of bed for a week after that.

Kickstarter is for crowdsourcing venture capital, aka investments...it's not a charity even if people who send money don't care if they ever see a return on their investment. There's no legitimate expectation of any return with a charity donation.

Lying grifter apologist mongs like you justifying fraud are precisely why exposing this asshole and his fakery are valuable, and nothing to be ashamed of, so seethe harder.

Anonymous Sun Oct 29 19:43:14 2023 No.2703317

>>2702829
>Who the flying fuck cares about how he takes criticism
You would care if you tried to help him in your area of expertise in good faith but got told that you're a clueless idiot and to fuck off instead. But I guess your only area of expertise is acting like a little faggot on the internet so you wouldn't get it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 19:54:01 2023 No.2703328 File: 199 KB, 1800x1578, 1643004310732.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2702981 Have you tried not opening seeker threads? Maybe then you wouldn't have to hear about it

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 02:20:46 2023 No.2703514 This ship blows Doug's out of the water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC1KAwup4Ng

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 10:46:01 2023 No.2703651 >>2703214 >He's soliciting donations as a registered 501c3 charity Kek, seriously?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 12:17:57 2023 No.2703682 >>2703651 He has one registered yes, but it's mostly patreon these days because turns out he can't use foundation money for anything useful to him, only for actual research, and that one is nowhere in sight

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 12:23:42 2023 No.2703687 File: 21 KB, 317x300, Hillary-Clinton-Wink.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2703682 >can't use foundation money

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 13:05:25 2023 No.2703698 >>2703687 Not legally anyways. Some suspect he's found some loophole though because he was randomly throwing thousands on overpriced professional tools he doesn't need

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