Anchor Winch and Wreck Recovery

Life is messy and never works as planned so find your perseverance. And don't panic.

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"Trickin Pickin" performed by Doug Waterman

[WreckedumRacing]

I work at a worm gear manufacturer (cone drive) and have 2 comments. 1. Make sure the oil is yellow metal friendly, some oil salesmen claim their oil is and we get a lot of returns for burned up gearboxes that had the wrong oil. 2. Polish all the bronze off the worm before running. Bronze that has been deposited on the worm will wear your new gear quickly. Bronze likes to run on steel, it does not like to rub on bronze.

[radicalradiotech]

Hey Doug Dont you Just Love .. On the water you see the weather the natural world!! its MAGIC!! good on ya mate!!

[richardbeese]

Great stuff Sir, give my best wishes to you n the Mrs.

[rudywoodcraft]

Your casting videos for the winch was where I first came into the project I think, got hooked, and went back and started watching from the beginning

[lostonlongisland]

that sunk boat will have researchers on it before dougs

[patchvonbraun]

We installed some worm-gear (NEMA 42) "prefix" gearboxes at the observatory to drive the main gearboxes. I made sure to confirm with the manufacturer that they were pre-filled at the factory with the required synthetic oil (ISO VG 320 as I recall). The instructions say to replace that oil after 500 continuous hours of operation, and every 3000 hours afterwards. It will be, ahem, rather a long time before we have to do that. The input worm is hardened steel, the output wheel is bronze alloy. We run the gearboxes at their rated MAX speed only for a few minutes at a time during slewing, and then very very slowly during tracking. The worm gearboxes get barely warm during slewing... I do hope that your rebuild goes swimmingly well, Doug.

[curtisroberts]

I ruined the rearend gear on a kawasaki once. I took the swing arm off and had to do some repairs to the bevel gears at the trans and other work. It was apart for a couple months. When I got it all back together, for whatever reason I forgot to refil the rear gear and took itfor a ride. I feel your pain on the winch motor.

[jakobrebeki]

What a disaster with the Anchor winch. So glad you have found a place to replace the worm and wheel componants. That recovered boat was a mess, glad that's out of the way. Thanks for posting....

[epsilonsilver]

"Doug and the Seekers" is an excellent video.

[mhoover]

I was very proud of myself for building an 18 foot pontoon boat from scratch but when i saw you horsing around those big steel plates
... I tell you I was humbled😮

[rcmadness]

The bit at 11:00 about persistence, failure and panic is on point.

[manfredschmalbach]

I still tryna live to this day to Capt'n Doug's little posy: "We keep trying it until we run out of wrong ways to do it and thus succeed!" which I learnt following the sometimes agonizing watch of the propellor-blades cast. I had thought I had a good deal of perseverance in my personal tries until I followed this part of the build of Seeker. Thank You Capt'n Doug for that schooling! Thanks for sharing.

[JamesBond-xqtw]

Doug & the seekers, wow great concept, really professional.

[Daniel_cheems]

WoW! I'm glad you caught that winch in time Cpt Doug! :)

[BWTIII]

"Doug and the seekers" !!! Just watched it and it was great. It made my eyes leak a little... Hope to see you again sooner than later.

[johnbredehoeft]

Doug and the seekers was great. I watched it.

[ryanowen]

Thanks Doug. Needed that pep talk today

[CallsignMiller]

Love the advice on not panicking Doug!! Its my no 1 thought when i go out solo sailling on my 23ft sailboat or when i'm driving the double decker coach for work. 95% of the accidents and damages in both areas are because people panick or try to do things too quickly/hastily

[damham]

My parents neighbour owned a ship salvage and recovery business that mostly worked US inner waterways like the Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois and Ohio rivers. He had once told me about how they used what looked like large ping pong balls to raise boats and barges. They'd pump them into the hull through a hose until the vessel rose enough to float it away.

[Pracedru]

A transfer case is cool, no doubt about it. Propeller blades with smaller radius is also cool.