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

New video up featuring the SV Seekers skedaddle back to Mobile Bay.

The one part I found interesting is at the time mark 1077. One of the U joints in the prop shaft started to eat itself on the way from Pensacola to Mobile. Interesting to think about what could have happened if the prop shaft had decided to fuck off in open water with the hurricane bearing down. But only men raised by woman worry about such things.


ETA: Picture of the damage:

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At 09:42, in the five hundredth video involving swapping in a second hand part on the clapped out bus engine/transmission, Doug says:
"If that gearbox was to break loose from its flexible mounts, it's basically a 150 pound sledgehammer that's being spun by a 120 horsepower engine, and that plate of steel there is only a quarter inch thick... it might tear a hole right on through it and there is ocean on the other side of the steel".
Good point Doug, one can only appreciate the capacity for hubris. For SV Seeker 2, I hope there's some reinforcing in that area.
 
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I love how he's thrashed the worst transmission Allison ever built for the 4th or 5th time and is yet again throwing parts at it expecting a different outcome.
 
The Seeker has encountered its first storm(?)

As a noob to sailing, the maintenance of the sails seemed to pop out to me, especially his confession of them staying straight “90% of the time” and leaving them crumpled up like pic
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Comfy sailing by his account

EDIT: Does anyone know if being carried by the Gulf Stream by a few miles is an actual sailing issue?
 
Were you guys aware of this? Didn’t see it posted ITT yet. I haven’t even watched it because I have no clue how hard Yeti (yes, the cooler company) tongues his balls.

 
I can't imagine doing any real research into this guy and going 'this is the dude we want in a long form ad'.

I get it, the surface of the story is a 'inspirational story'. Buuuuut, brands are so risk averse these days if they'd gotten a hint of how this dude chimps out at people online, 99% would've run.
 
Nate Higgers said:
Were you guys aware of this? Didn’t see it posted ITT yet. I haven’t even watched it because I have no clue how hard Yeti (yes, the cooler company) tongues his balls.

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yeti is a lifestyle marketing company who isn't really concerned with anything more than how it feels watching the advertisement. it looks like they run a youtube channel with short low budget documentaries of on-brand shit and they had an opportunity to get some footage of a boat getting craned out of some dude's yard and enough people saying flattering things to supercut. i skimmed through it, it just seems like run-of-the-mill boomer/millenial inspirational ego stroking. it's all indirect and indistinct and only exists in the moment to fill you with a sense of wonder. visually its all soft focus and blurry half the time, and the colors are all flat and fucked up because they only used indirect natural lighting, so it's all ~dreamy~ looking but that's how you know they didn't even expect people to focus on it.

so i mean yeah they tongue his balls pretty hard but i also dont think anybody who watches this is going to remember it in 15 minutes
 
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so i mean yeah they tongue his balls pretty hard but i also dont think anybody who watches this is going to remember it in 15 minutes
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The media team is sure gonna remember it if some dramatuber does a 'look at what Yeti's brand ambassador(*) calls people online'.

(*: I realize he's probably not actually that but it's close enough for government work)
 
Mikoyan said:
The media team is sure gonna remember it if some dramatuber does a 'look at what Yeti's brand ambassador(*) calls people online'.

(*: I realize he's probably not actually that but it's close enough for government work)
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even if all that happens the worst thing they'll do is delete the video and release a boilerplate about not being associated with him
 
Mikoyan said:
The media team is sure gonna remember it if some dramatuber does a 'look at what Yeti's brand ambassador(*) calls people online'.

(*: I realize he's probably not actually that but it's close enough for government work)
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I'm pretty sure the Yeti audience actually doesn't care about that shit. If he was a tranny yeah. But Yeti feels like it's overwhelmingly a brand for older men who do stuff outdoors. I'm sure a lot of them would be on board with Doug's retardation.
 
You can’t stop Doug and his wonder boat. He’s installing hundreds of fittings pro Ted on his 3D printer to hang tools, life rings, electric candles, a shark tooth, and anything else he can conceive of. It’s possible that he has enough 3D printed plastic strapped to his boat to improve its buoyancy.

Detractors can cry themselves to sleep, Doug is getting ready to be a chartered research boat in March.


An observation- plastic is a pretty handy material in salt water unless it is exposed to sunlight. Then you’re at the mercy of UV damage and eventually it fails by snapping or crumbling. That’s one of many reasons you still see loads of brass on boats. Metal usually fails more gracefully and will deform and bend rather than breaking.
 
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