First Test Drive Of My Italian Yacht After It Sank - WILL IT WORK?

hey what's up everybody welcome back to

another episode of B is for boat we're

out here working on my boat why you may

ask because about a month ago I got a

phone call on my birthday saying your

boat has sank and it did it sank so we

called a dive team we got it refloated

we pumped all the water out cleaned it

up and the first step we did was get the

engines just running again after we got

the engines running we dried everything

out we reworked a lot of the electronics

and we checked everything that was

broken on the boat we gave you guys a a

detailed report in the last episode of

everything that didn't make it through

the sinkage in today's episode we're all

about fixing all that stuff replacing

everything that we can that was in stock

and that we could order we're going to

replace all of those things then we're

going to tune the engines and take the

boat out for the first time since

sinking the goal is to get this thing

out on the water for the first time

since it sank just basically verifying

that it can still boat around and do

boat stuff that's what's in store for

today's episode let's get to it all

right guys to get started we're actually

going to jump you right back into some

work we just did at the shop all right

we're back back at the shop now uh right

behind me you'll see our new purchase

you're going to be this is a long story

why we're even going down this road but

it'll all make sense eventually so I

just uh Oscar and I just picked this up

off of Facebook Marketplace this is like

a virtually brand new 7 horsepower what

is the brand on this thing you might

think it's a Yamaha but it's a

hangai yep anyways it's a specimen it

looks great and this is a 7 horsepower

motor and it costs only $250 $50 and

then what I had in my storage at the old

shop a dingy this thing did float the

last time I tried it out uh as you can

maybe kind of see by the amount of sand

on it that was in the ocean so why are

we building a second boat you might ask

okay so we need to tune our engines we

need to get them tuned up and running

perfectly good cannot tune the engines

inside the marina because if something

goes wrong and the engines run rich

it'll spit a little bit of gas part

particles and stuff in the exhaust it

spits it out the exhaust and then it

makes the marina look really bad if

there's gas on the water it's like a

it's an absolute no-go it's something we

can't risk so we need to move the boat

out into the river um and we could tune

it out there just a lot less um

liability ton less liability so I

figured you know we could hire somebody

to tow us out there or we could try a 7

horsepower output motor and a dinghy to

tow a 26,000 lb 44 foot long yacht what

could go wrong all right we're going to

test inflate the dinghy and test Mount

the motor

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mingy now this didn't actually come with

the boat I got this in a in a business

deal uh I don't know like second year B

for build or something anyways uh we we

filled it up and we've got some got some

leakage around the valv and I think it's

caused by the sand so we're going to

have to uh unfill it it's similar to

sinking about actually it's just get

some soy watero yeah soy watero yeah

miss you Chris viix can't wait to see

you oh by the way I'm going to visit

Chris and tarish when I'm out uh there

I'm driving in the freedom 500 I guess I

haven't made that announcement on the

YouTube channel I did on Instagram I'm

driving in the freedom 500 over at the

freedom Factory first place gets a

helicopter so I'm I'm taking it very

seriously I've practiced driving left a

lot um and uh I'm really I'm really

excited so I'll give you guys more

information tickets already sold out but

you can live stream it and I'll give you

more information as we get a little bit

closer to that uh but it's going to be

really really fun so uh but I am going

to go see Chris fix and tar so let me

know if there's anything you guys want

me to maybe film for the the second

Channel or anything else like that oh

and while I mentioned in the second

Channel I'll put a link right here down

in the description to our second channel

it's just kind of behind the scenes

stuff and a lot of people had asked me

to get more in depth on the insurance

and what happened with the boat how much

money we expecting to get from the

insurance company and why I feel like I

kind of got scammed and all that good

stuff so we will be talking about that

uh and there's an episode right now on

the second Channel and so now we deflate

the

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boat dude this thing is going to rip I'm

excited so it says on the back here uh

the the uh the official documentation

board uh it wants Max of four horsepower

so we're almost doubling that which is

straight up the Beast for build alley uh

I'm so excited about this like this is a

great Facebook Marketplace find this

thing's pretty much brand new uh what

was the story didn't the guy say he

bought it for his boat and it just

couldn't get his boat going quite fast

enough said he had like a big section in

between the boat the motor and where he

sat so he just couldn't reach it oh yeah

oh just got rid of it yeah I mean it's

pretty much brand new uh we're going to

go ahead and Fire up for you uh it's

looking like as far as it's height like

going into the water I think we're

that's I don't know enough about boating

and boats and stuff but um I'm going to

learn uh but uh that that looks pretty

good to me uh we figured out some stuff

with the forwards and the reverse and

the gearing and everything like that um

Oscar's going to go ahead and give it a

start unless it's is it too high up or

uh I'll try yeah so let there's a primer

right yep one two

three look out grard coming grindhard

coming cry hard Plumbing here we come

you ready yeah

sure nice a weak hole too yeah this is a

fourstroke uh motor so it's nice and

it's quiet um so are we in gear right

there no it's a neutral it's a neutral

just it okay so let's give it this

forward there we go that's neutral and

that's uh

reverse oh man I'm so excited for this

thing SS nice yeah you want to give us

some

revs

nice sounds like a lawn mower it's a

good lawn mower 7 horsepower lawn mower

you kill it right here yeah

cool dude this this is awesome all right

so we're going to leave this for the

rest of the day and make sure it doesn't

deflate on us before we take it to the

water tomorrow

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already knew about my catalytic

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right here we can see our battery

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episode let's get back to it guys we

made it down to the boat we put the boat

on the boat uh we forgot to bring enough

life jackets to be able to go test the

boat but we will we will definitely do

that shortly we got a ton of new stuff

and another hair brand idea to start off

this day we're going to start working on

the fuel system fuel water system so the

idea is now we're going to build an

inline fuel puller outer of the tank

Runner through the filters and drop it

back in the tank system a loop a

filtration loop system so I bought fuel

pumps I bought filters I got hoses let's

see what we can construct

all right guys sorry I apologize by the

time I got done doing this it got a

little dark but here's what we got going

on this is a small feed line from our

fuel cell that's a return line from our

to our fuel cell um that is the 300g

fuel cell that may have water in it

we're not really sure uh it runs from

the feed line up into an inline fuel

pump into a uh fuel filter and water

separator and another fuel filter water

separator then back down and then into

the tank what I hold right here is a

little switch that runs the uh runs all

the way back to our batteries back there

that will turn this on Oscar's work

working on wiring up that battery and

then I'm going to hit this switch and

I'm really going to hope that this fuel

pump can prime that far cuz it's uh

that's a challenging run to do that's

like 4et vertical uh but it' be great if

it could cuz I don't want to have to

prime it myself you might also be able

to hear there's a little bit of a pump

running we are doing another oil change

on the engines I think we're going to be

on our last oil change that was like

three or four oil changes total to get

all the water circulated out of the

engines this one is a lot better but

that one had a little little too much

oil in it for our liking too much water

oh yeah yeah oil's good water's not uh

so we good Oscar yeah all right I'm

going to flip this all right let's

see it's making sounds there we

go that's interesting and then we're

over

here and I guess we're now going back

into the tank um what's gas and what's

water who

knows all right guys it's the next day

and uh I learned something we drained a

little bit of this out of here and uh as

you can see it doesn't look very

gasoline and you would be right it's

water it's like pretty much 100% water

it is definitely not even

flammable um it's water so that means

that you know the these are going to go

down to the bottom of the tank Gas and

Water separate so you're going to see

that the gas is always going to be

floating above the water gas is going to

stay up here water's going to be down

there so this is going to be pulling

from the bottom of the tank it's going

to be pulling up the water that's in the

tank it's a lot more than I thought it

was going to be so rather than trying to

separate it a cup at a time we're just

going to start pumping the gas out of

the tank into some buckets well sorry I

we're not pumping gas out into buckets

we're actually pumping the water out

into the buckets um and then uh if we

start getting into pure gas or what

looks like pure gas then we can start

running it through these gas water

separators and uh have a shot at getting

it really really clean but for now we

got a probably got a lot of water in

there so got to do our best to get it

all out let's go a shot I don't know why

we got the lighter so close to the uh

gas water mixture it's because honestly

off film I tried to light it on fire

last night and uh it doesn't so this is

just all water um you I wish you could

smell it on the camera but it's uh it

literally smells smells like nothing it

just smells like a little kind of skunky

water and um well we'll let you know how

much we get out of here I estimated when

I when I popped the cap off of the fuel

cell it looked like it was at about half

which is where we thought we left it as

far as gas goes so you know we could

have I don't think we have 100 gallons

of water in there definitely not but we

could have 20 30 40 I'd be surprised if

it was over 50 but let's see all right

that's five gallons of water down all

right that's 10 gallons of water we

brought five of these total so let's

hope we don't fill them all these all

have to go to the recycling center and

it is such a pain so imagine after we

fill these all up we have to take a huge

break put these all in the cars and

trucks and drive them to recycling

center and drive all the way back it

takes a long time well forgot to record

the next one but that's 15 great weather

day we got today nice windy rainy if

it's high winds like this we're not

going to be able to use the dinghy idea

cuz the winds will overpower the dinghy

for sure uh anyways we filled up uh five

5 G buckets so we got to take those to

the recycling center do another round

before it's too dark starting off this

day a little bit differently in the most

dangerous parking garage in the world

which is always going to be a Hospital

parking garage because let's just say

there's a lot of people that aren't very

good at driving in these things anyways

those of you that have been watching the

channel for a long time know that uh I

had cancer cancer diagnosis about 2 and

a half well about 3 years ago uh did

surgery did treatment

did blah blah blah but I'm still in a

phase where I have to uh continue uh

with monitoring which is just like you

know keep looking at my body doing scans

and hoping I don't have any uh any like

reoccurrences or the cancer doesn't uh

didn't spread too far cuz I had a very

very dangerous um very intrusive uh

cancer that spread to my lymph nodes

anywh who very happy to tell you guys

all that um I I just went in I got scans

I got my skin all checked over I got

everything and the results have came

back and they're all perfect so that is

wonderful um 2 and 1/2 years of cancer

free for this guy we should hear right

before SEMA is my Benchmark for year

three so looking forward to that I'm

very this getting those results back is

always such a big booster to my life and

just my mental and everything so it's so

awesome and I'm so excited to um link up

with the guys and get back to it so

there have been good things going on

with

gas I'll go show you all right back of

the boat and you can see that our gas

water separators look a lot more gas and

a lot less water by that I mean 100% gas

so here's the story of what the guys

accomplished while I was at the hospital

what happened was we pumped all of the

water out of the system just from this

uh this feed line right there pumped it

all out got into our buckets got it out

of there so it started coming out gas

but then once in a while the boat would

have a Little Rock to it and a little

bit of water would start to show up in

our water gas separators and that is

because there's something down here it's

very hard to see but the hole of the

boat is shaped like a V and the fuel

cell follows the hole of the boat so the

bottom of the fuel cell is actually a v

the gas in the water the gas sits very

well on top of the water so what

happened is we pumped from wherever that

feed line is we pumped out to there and

got all that water gone but once it got

right down there if the boat went this

way the water's going to go that side

the boat would go this way and we'd

start picking up water again so that was

no good we had to get further down into

that fuel cell so we knew we had to come

up with an idea that could get us to the

bottom of the fuel tank so that was

copper we went down to the hardware

store and got some copper tubing put it

through the fuel uh level sending area

and then ran it down straight to the

bottom where we got another 3 to four

gallons of water out of there before it

became pure gas now we've been running

it through here to check and we're pure

gas so I'm happy with this um the

research that I've done and everything

that I've seen shows that very much gas

and water don't really stay mix so I

think if we got the water out of this

gas this gas is going to run well so

right now what we're going to do is

we're actually going to go off of our

auxiliary fuel cell we're going to

detach that we're going to reattach our

whole standard fuel um flow and the the

way that it has always worked and we're

going to start running these engines off

of the fuel

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tank

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while Oscar is working on plumbing and

I'm helping look I'm holding this uh I

wanted to tell you guys about another

thing that we did a little bit off

camera which was we added ballast to the

back of the boat so we removed some

really really heavyweight AGM batteries

two from that side and two from that

side we replaced them with a lot lighter

batteries and we might replace even more

with even more lightweight lithium ion

batteries so we needed to add some more

balance cuz the boat was getting a

little too front heavy looking and I was

worried that it was going to affect the

flow of the exhaust so we used a laser

level and we actually checked our height

to the world from the uh the exhaust

manifold and going out we have plenty of

height on these engines they're still

flowing downhill that's all great but I

still wanted to even out the boat so we

just started packing bags of concrete

back here this is a trick that somebody

told me about that had also had one of

these boats and did a did a gas engine

swap on them and uh so the hope is that

these bags of concrete will soak up

moisture and stuff from the air and in

different areas and there's actually

kind of honestly it's organ there's

plenty of rain around and they'll turn

into big rocks and basically help be

permanent ballast in the back of the

boat so they're packed in there we've

got 14 bags of concrete back there and

uh let me jump outside the boat and I'll

show you how well it works so don't mind

Peter there he's pressure washing he's

one of the guys that helped us get the

boat out of the water but when we look

at our the amount that we're out of the

water from the front to the back we're

almost perfectly even which means we're

much better than when we uh than where

we were when we actually originally did

the engine swap so that that little bit

of ballast really did help get us a lot

lot closer to level and it's so much so

much better than how we were like 2 days

ago all right guys we are all the way

plumbed up as far as our original fuel

tank with the original gas that did sink

is plum back up into the engines this

going to be quite interesting but I

think it'll be just fine I want to show

you something that is going to impact

our day quite a bit there it's a little

bit hard to see but uh you kind of see

that there's like a little bit of

Rippling off of this post and uh off of

this buoy there is so much water flowing

this way the Marina's got a crazy amount

of flow to it right now that is pushing

everything this way we definitely cannot

tow with the dinghy when there is this

much current I've never even seen this

much current in the river um happening

so we're not going to be able to uh to

use the dinghy uh to pull this out but

um we do have another idea which we're

going to execute right now okay we have

two problems that we're approaching here

is we're trying to tun tun these engines

when they run rich we're getting gas

coming out the exhaust the other problem

that we have and I don't know if we

mentioned this is we put brand new O2

sensors on each engine and we blew them

both nearly immediately that means we

have too much water in our exhaust for

whatever reason and uh well it just

happened we don't really know why and we

need to work around it since the time

that we built these little extender

doohickeys we've never blown an O2

sensor so it was very weird my thoughts

is maybe we didn't clear enough of the

water out of the exhaust system before

we plugged them in and ran them so um

there's kind of a solution for both of

these things and it is to build in a

switch into our raw water pump so we can

turn them on and turn them off the raw

water pumps pump uh the water from

outside in the marina up through that

heat exchanger and it comes back out the

exhaust so the other thing that that's

going to do is stop us from shooting any

excess gas out the exhaust because the

water was really the delivery mechanism

that was pushing it out into the marina

so we can definitely start tuning these

things and running them and we're going

to have less likelihood of blowing our

O2 sensors and we'll have virtually no

likelihood of spitting any gas into the

marina so it's kind of a win-win the

only downside is we can't run them for a

super long time or you'll heat up these

rubber hoses past their um acceptable

temperature so we're going to go ahead

and do that we're going to put an inline

switch into the raw water pumps so we

can turn them on when we want and turn

them off when we want and then we can

start plugging in the computer and uh

getting a little tuning going so if you

guys want to see what's going on here a

lot of what I'm looking at the engine is

running great now these are a lot of the

parameters uh learning status is that

it's it's making some changes and you

can see the learn amount is 3% which is

not much Clos Loop that means it it's

making its own changes on the Fly that's

percentage is 2% so it's really close

this is a target air fuel ratio and then

that's what it's actually reading so

we're right there in the Target the fuel

table shouldn't look like this this is

really brutal cuz I was working on just

this section so what you do later is you

call smoothing it out and you make it

kind of have a linear a flow to it so

you don't have these big drop offs these

big large changes but also the system if

you drive the boat enough will actually

just figure it all out for you too but

what we got going on now is now that

we're running as doy metric so we're not

shooting gas out the exhaust we're not

doing anything bad to the marina which

is great we've got the water pump

re-engaged and uh so that's keeping the

engine temperature good manifold there

cooling temperature yeah it's at 179

that's perfect so all this stuff is

really really good and we're very very

happy that is yeah that's enough for me

to be really happy with this left engine

um being 100% back so now we're going to

go ahead and work on the other guy while

working on that um Coast Guard radio I

really want to go out today so this is

our this is our uh radio that can call