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

Been a little busy building boats so haven't been paying much attention to Doug but from what I understand he has again cancelled sail trials and instead announced plans to depart lake Dardanelle and head for Penascola by way of the ICW.
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Plebbit user blackspike went for a visit and took a whole bunch of pictures. Lead ingots on the forecastle have been removed but otherwise the boat is as much of a mess as in any of the videos.


Oh and there's this too.
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Haha it’s so much worse in pictures from a third party. I love the unsecured loads, gouging hazards, puzzling shower, baffling bunks and the look and feel of walking into some dude’s garden shed. Except this shed floats (for now).

What are the big nodules on the front of the boat? There’s so many odd protrusions and angles of metals on this ship. Lovecraft would have a field day describing it.
 
Absolutely nothing is secured. Not a single fucking thing is fixed in place. The second he hits real waves the ship will look like a bomb went off inside.

Also not one of his insane collection of totes is labelled.
 
What are the odds of the boat committing suicide out of shame?
 
I'm still betting on an almost immediate capsizing at full sail, which is basically a boat suicide.
 
That's 7.41km/h, a walking pace. Anyone wanting the authentic SV Seeker experience can just set their life savings on fire and walk along a riverbank.
 
I was going to say at least a Jerry can is okay for coolant. But he proceeds to use PEX and silicone sealant and rubber hose. That sealant will let go, for sure. Red automotive RTV would have been the correct product to use in this case, but the more correct answer would be getting a fit for purpose coolant tank that didn't need a sealant.
 

The taco stand jokes weren't far off the mark, Seeker is quickly turning into a roadside attraction. Soon enough the seachest foundation will be accepting bookings for birthday parties.

Oh and isn't it hilarious that the finest bit of craftsmanship on the entire boat, the octopus bronze casting mounted to the wheel Doug likes to put front and center, was made by a guy who since disavowed him over the explosion hoax?
 
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I wonder if he broke the door off of the oven by standing on it?
I could actually see Doug doing that. "I can't reach the hot sauce. I will just take a secure footing on this door CRASH!
That door must have been designed by a woman."

After seeing that clip I propose from now on we refer to Doug as "Wish.com Captain Jack Sparrow".
 
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The only reason Doug's shitheap of a boat hasn't sunk yet is he's too much of a pussy to raise sail, or go anywhere outside reach of a marina without a babysitter.
Rather than do any actual sailing with his sailing vessel, he's content being a tough guy on facebook.

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The wind picked up and Doug announces it would be a great day for sailing if he didn’t have to go dork around with his water tanks.


I love that emptying a tank adds a noticeable list to the boat. Doug also gets a little jab in at wusses that are afraid of collected rainwater off the deck of the boat being mixed in to potable water. Chunky water is good water.
 
Those pics are amazing.
You can see the cheap nylon rope is being destroyed by the sun, I suspect he will use it until it breaks than tie it back together. It should totally disintegrate by the time he is no longer close to Walmart and Home Depot. Who am I kidding?
It is never getting that far.
I don't know if that breaker box is for 12 Volts or 110 volts. Either way white for the hot wires is an interesting choice.

Things are more secured in the kitchen of my RV than in the galley of this disaster.

I think this pic sums it up fairly well
Even the ornamental crap is falling a part and being held together with duct tape.
 
I was wondering what kind of boat has 300+ gallons of freshwater on hand. Here’s a list of sailboats and the 64’ at the very end stores that much water.


In the talk about tanks they mention that it’s important to have a pipe between the tanks so you can equalize their capacity. Further, and especially for big tanks, you need baffles. Looking at Doug’s design they’re just giant steel holding pens for a ton of water. Once you roll the boat all that water is going to shift and add it’s momentum to the roll unless you get some baffles in place.

I’m learning lots about boats as I read up on the latest weird design or dangerous setup Doug shows off in his videos.
 
I just went back and reread the entire thread.
Penrowe you are not just a skilled craftsman, you are a gifted writer.
I think that is part of why I keep getting drawn back to this thread.
There is so much abject stupidity from Doug and his dick riders you really can't take it all in at one setting.

Since it is obvious Doug is leading a cult at this point I propose we call it Dougology in a nod to scientology.
If you show up in a scientologist controlled area a couple of security guys (for got LRH's silly term for them )will show up and start "bullbaiting" you. They randomly accuse you of horrible things and repeat the phase "What are your crimes?"

The Dougologist will repeat the phrase given to them by their leader "What did you make today?"
They consider this an argument ending statement and will ignore you if you post pics of an actually functioning project you have completed.

What the Dougologist fails to comprehend is that someone that comes home after work, eats dinner, has a few beers and watches TV till bedtime has actually accomplished more than someone that spent over $300,000 and 10 years on a rickety floating (for now) turd.

Much like the person who doesn't spend their time studying is better off than the person who spends hours memorizing inaccurate and incorrect information.

Not making anything is better than making a thing if the thing you made gets people injured or killed all becase you were too bullheaded to read a book or take some free advice.

Many people can make a thing badly, learn from that and then later make a better thing.
Not our cult leader.
When somthing breaks he replaces that kludge with 2 or more other Doug Goldberg kludges.
Rather than getting more reliable as he works on it the points of failure grow exponentially.
If he is lucky soon somthing will be broken often enough the boat will cease to move and or float while he is still near land and rescue services.

Granted it will be much funnier if the duct tape and bailing twine hold together at least until he is on the Mississippi River or out of sight of land on the ocean.

I suspect the Mississippi will be the big boss than ends this trage-comedy.

I confess I was part of the group that thought it would never make it in to the water, at least not under Doug's ownership.
I have been willing to admit I was wrong.

However the Mississippi finishes off boats every year that were designed and built by actual boat builders and staffed with actual crews.
I don't think Doug and his ragtag group of misfits have much of a chance.

If he ever gets done stalling we will find out.

TL;DR More care and planning has been put into the assembly of this thread than that Boat Shaped Object.
Hopefully no one gets hurt when it rolls over and sinks, sinks and rolls over, burns to the waterline and sinks or whatever finishes it off.
Except for Doug.
He can get hurt.
Fuck that guy.
 
@TheGoodNamesHaveBeenTaken you’re one of those sissy boy pantywaists raised by women. You just don’t get how freeing it is to constantly have to make repairs to something you own. Endlessly repairing, rigging, tweaking, fixing, modifying… uh, fixing because the first tweaky repairs didn’t hold.

You just don’t get it!

Here, what would you do if a throttle cable was a little loose? Probably go find some dumb nut to tighten somewhere. Pfft, no way. That’s not how a Dougist thinks.


See? Fixed forever!

Oh and Our Lord and Repairer The Doug is getting ready to head to the Gulf where he’ll winter in Pensacola. He said he’ll practice sailing once he motors to Florida. So all the naysayers in the comments noticing how little wind power this boat has used can shut up. He’s got bigger fish to fry, like repairing a throttle cable.

 
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