🐮 Lolcow Doug Jackson / SV Seeker - Boomer hubris personified, an incompetent lunatic's dreams slowly crumbling to dust because of his own poor decisions.

Another nice night in a protected bay. The SV Seeker continues to shine as a research, charter, and educational vessel.

The ocean? Oh uhhh hang on, the hundesvelt needs a new spline and the transmission needs a quick overhaul and I’m just gonna run on in to Lowe’s in my skiff to get some parts and maybe hit up a bar and oh shoot the whole day is gone again. Don’t worry, I’m putting out to sea real soon now, just gotta finish a few more of these projects first.

Sarcasm aside, I’m kind of jealous of him being retired and dicnjng around on his project boat all day. There’s definitely worse ways to spend your time.
 
The milk is flowing, friends. He's testing out the TURD and it was a fucking comedy of errors, and this is just what he's choosing to show.
  • Hooks up electronics to control flow and volumetric sampling. Doesn't seal the underwater container, flooding it and ruining the electronics
  • Gets the hydraulic hoses backwards, sucks the delicate 300 micron mesh into the rotating fan blade
  • Thinks that the front door flapper on the device isn't working, thinks it needs new parts to make it work. Surprise, it was the backwards lines again.
  • He can't keep the controls for his hydraulic rats nest straight. "We're definitely going to need a checklist"
  • Has to use his power steering pump as the hydraulic pressure supply
  • His girlfriend makes a Dutch Baby

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https://muse.ai/v/x4eAQc8-260313-NURD-Part-12-ITs-ALIVE


Someone please archive this video here. It's 1.5GB and my shitty connection is stopping me from uploading it.
Just click this button on the muse player to download it: 1773803777449.png
 
I'm honestly shocked I am just learning if this guy. I was working at a marina (I did engine room work in the navy for a couple of years prior) while I was college for engineering.

I would run into boomers like this all the time. To be fair, that is pretty much the only generation that can afford a boat at this point it seems like.

I never got anyone that tried to build their own boat with shit from temu and harbor freight but plenty that tried to jury rig repairs themselves, doing way more damage than any good, and then acting like they have no idea why their boat is all fucked up and they expected the marina should fix it for nothing.

I really don't get boomers and their aversion to safety gear and best practices. It's like the lead from gasoline all those years has finally hit their brain.

Fantastic read and I am definitely following this thread and this guy.
 
JustStopDude said:
I'm honestly shocked I am just learning if this guy. I was working at a marina (I did engine room work in the navy for a couple of years prior) while I was college for engineering.

I would run into boomers like this all the time. To be fair, that is pretty much the only generation that can afford a boat at this point it seems like.

I never got anyone that tried to build their own boat with shit from temu and harbor freight but plenty that tried to jury rig repairs themselves, doing way more damage than any good, and then acting like they have no idea why their boat is all fucked up and they expected the marina should fix it for nothing.

I really don't get boomers and their aversion to safety gear and best practices. It's like the lead from gasoline all those years has finally hit their brain.

Fantastic read and I am definitely following this thread and this guy.
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Welcome aboard, sailor
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myhairisonfire said:
Doug unable to sail due to... wind?
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Something tells me he may have thought he could outsmart customs with his rickety shithole.

Either that or to own the people who said he's a Quay Queen who stays out of the real waters, he tried to prove them wrong, got hit with a good zephyr that was clipping along at the wrong angle of his uneven abomination, and the Coast Guard had to save something that was clearly in distress.

Seriously, the boat itself likely came close to capsizing due to that malformed hull just due to a good clip, likely made worse by the elements of a current.
 
I love Doug so much. Smartest idiot on the planet, probably. REAL MEN don't color code their lines or wiring, they don't take notes and they routinely ruin thousands in brand new equipment. It's actually fascinating to see someone learning by experience without actually learning.
 
I’m so glad Doug had the foresight to get an unreliable piece of equipment like the Hundestadt for his boat.

He’s not some weakling that just needs things to work. He’s a man’s man who shows us how you deal with adversity. If he’d spent a bunch of money on a marine transmission and engine setup we would never have all these learning experiences.

Thanks Doug!
 
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