/diy/ - Do It Yourself

props to him for making it downstream with only minor incidents. Now lets see some sailing.

Is anyone going to go visit and tour Seeker this weekend?

>>2454048
...but if you do climb aboard, dear friends, you are in fir a life changing revelation- for I have, within fifteen years past, cured upward of one hundred thousand persons, of both sexes, of every age and of every situation, of various dangerous complaints, arising from the perfidious twin evils of planning and following safe practices, and from the perils of meeting well intentioned concern and advice with anything but withering scorn and condescension!

>>2453690
>Hitting a submerged wall so hard the front end of the boat lifted 10 inches
>Minor
Okay

>>2454048
>some climbing is required
Did he break his gang plank again?

>climb onto the gangway
>walk the narrow path with nothing to hold onto because falling into water from a few feet won't harm you
>bump your head into the stupid dragon when finally stepping aboard and it only won't douse you with water if it's raining because the boat isn't level
Just the boarding process would leave many unamused

Captcha 44JYW4

>>2454098
Under 18 is minor

>>2454124
So what, he's fucking kids now?

>>2454126
If anything he couldn't hit the rock wall hard enough fuck his boat into adulthood (sinking)

>>2454130
Seeker is like 15 years old. Shes hitting the wall hard.

>using the same OP pic
Raised by a woman

The seeker is not ADA approved. We should report him for being ableist

>>2454120
>>some climbing is required
>Did he break his gang plank again?

Even better, he "designed", fabricated and installed (and subsequently re-"designed" and re- worked) his dedicated gangway/safety ladder but there's no corresponding passway through his raised bulwarks so once people are at the top of the gangway they must hoist themselves over what amounts to a pony wall.
It's not like there's no breaks or gaps in the bulwarks, the one at the bow is large enough for a cow to pass through and doesn't even have a door like a normal passageway on a vessel with bulwarks like that, so one has to assume that not putting one at that dedicated passageway point was a conscious refusal to accommodate weak people raised by women who might fear a trip hazard as they are suspended over the water and trying to make that transition to the Seekers deck, or the reverse.

If anyone with common sense suggested making an unobstructed passageway there at any point in the design/build process I'd bet money the response would be "NO. If you're afraid of crawling over the bulwark, don't come on my boat".

>>2453677

he really did get the fear when he hit the wall now he has water sensors

>>2454748
> water sensors
To detect water inside the boat?

>>2454748
any new unlisted vids?

>>2454748
Sounds like something only a coward would need

>>2454815
No time for vids, too busy shitting up the new lake

>>2454959
does this tickle any fancies?

>>2454048
I’d love to go on a tour but that lake is over 50 miles from home so it’s not worth the hassle.

>>2455426
Do you actually think that 50 miles is far?

>>2454815
Yeah but fair warning it's long and pretty dull, mostly a travelog/ infomercial hosted by Doug in his friendly/harmless junkyard Buddha persona silouetted against the inspiring sunset...that said if you know how fake that Doug is there's some good cringe.
Sadly no footage of the grounding (gotta wait for the documentary), just the jovial admission that he rammed Seether up on the rock wall so far that the keels were what stopped their forward momentum.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ezlV_KCNwU&feature=emb_title

>>2455980
not a bad video, thanks anon

>>2455980
This is the keels functioning perfectly as designed. He always said he want to be able to beach itnwhenever he wanted to make repairs.

This is just part of the shakedown cruise

So this what, like one of those celebrity threads? You started a thread to talk about some youtuber you follow? Shouldn't it be in /soc/?

>>2456116
Lofl, that's not what keels are designed for, and his collision high centered the boat- it was nothing at all like how twin keels are intended to allow beaching.
Nice attempt at cope'n'spin to defend daddy Doug, but no.

>>2455883
My truck gets 12 mpg and Seeker ain’t Graceland.

>>2456117
That’s right. See you there soon.

>>2456116
Maybe I'm drunk, maybe I'm a little fucked up here, but I've never seen beaching boats done on rock walls. Generally you want a nice sandy beach, or soft earth bank. But not a rock wall. But what the fuck do I know. Go fuck your mother.

>>2456159
Trucks are for people who can afford not to care about fuel cost, self included. Otherwise having only one vehicle and that being a fuel hog is Doug-tier brilliance.

Bookmark thread on post

>>2455426
Fortunately for all of us a someone did and took pics-

https://imgur.io/gallery/oUqgPrM

https://imgur.io/gallery/ANx3z5e

Imagine spending over ten year and hundreds of thousands of dollars building a boat with pic above as your shower and cannot travel at night, you need to shit in a bucket, and while underway you need or make rest stops. How do Dougers explain this one away?

>>2456461
Why would we explain your obvious seething jealousy to you? If you need help understanding it maybe find a psychologist?

>>2456461
>unforseen troubles
There's only the completely expected ones with that soggy outhouse.

>>2456159
>>2456225
Pretty much this, I use my truck for truck stuff and drive a different car if I don't need it. It's not our fault you can't afford to drive your car, a smart person would figure that out.

>>2456461
As seen here they try to say you're just jealous
>>2456467
And ignore the fact he could have just bought something and be cruising in a pretty nice boat right now instead of a fucked up nightmare. Or built something better. Or had something better built by someone else.

>>2456337
I love how nothing is secured. Tools are just piled on a bench with nothing to stop them from sliding off, plastic totes stacked on top of each other. Should be fun in rough water.

>>2456461
This makes no sense- 6 mph × 12 hr days is 72 miles per day, 60 if you do 10 hrs/day...
That would cover 1000 miles in just under 14 or 16 days, respectively...
The river route from Russelville to NOLA is obviously more twisty and longer than the highway route as a result, but still follows a roughly similar path...the driving distance is under 520 miles.
Even if you figure double that road distance and he did 5 mph for ten hours a day that's still under three weeks.
But realistically it's probably under 750 miles and at 60 miles/day (which he's shown he can do even with locks) that's 12.6 days.
With "minimal rest stops" why would it take twice as long as a pace thats in no way ambitious or speedy?

>>2456539
Yeah, almost every pic has some shitty/ dangerous Easter egg to discover, the head alone is stunningly stupid...the pic posted of it here doesn't even show the even more complex toilet plumbing. Also a bunch of that spaghetti is electrical routed through the shower area.
In one shot you can also see the sink uses box store angle stops which wouldn't be terrible *if* he'd bought halfway decent brass 1/4 turn ones, but instead they're the shittiest 1950s style chrome plated pot metal gate valves with the oval handles.
Can't imagine what other cheap ass cost cutting measures are buried under more layers of conduit and pex and hydraulic lines and household appliances and lead ingots.
Also love the complety random locations of the killer mermaid deck knee brackets and the weird half- ribs with more lightening holes than a 1930s racing plane...nowhere do any of them come close to lining up in any structurally sensible way.
It really is like cargo cult stuff, detailed mimicry by someone completely ignorant of what they are even mimicking or why.

>>2456539
>Should be fun in rough water.
>arkansas river
lol.

>>2456550
Can you remind us where he's heading to at the end of the river? Isn't it some kind of large body of water? Or have you just accepted that he'll never make it out of the river and won't have to worry about that?

Is that a washing machine? What the fuck? Why would you put it there?

>>2456578
The kitchen and mess hall is also in the pilot house.

You're not afraid of women are you?

>>2456578
very european

>>2456550
Have you ever seen a river or looked at any body of water for more then 10 seconds?

>>2456713
If by-
>european
- you mean
>clueless Okie diy houseboat
- then you would be correct, sir

Funny thing is that 99.999% of the time I've ever seen a cruising sail boat equipped with a washer/dryer it's been in response to an ultimatum by a wife threatening to scuttle the dream of living aboard if she has to give up that convenience. The rest of the time it's been installed in a production/spec boat in anticipation of her scuttling the sale for the same reason when her starry- eyed wannabe pirate since he was six hubby drags her to the boat show.
Men like Doug who consider doing without and taking the hard path and being uncomfortable to be character builders to be embraced simply don't prioritize household appliances and in the cruising world consider them a mark of un-seriousness and ignorance.

>>2456461
>Crew Wanted
-20 day Free Cruise!!! (non-stop)
-No sails to hoist!
-Live aboard accommodations (no toilet)
-Feed yourself
-Stunning views of Jerkwater, USA

But you guys told me that Seeker is sitting to low in the water.

>>2456752
>-20 day Free Cruise!!! (non-stop)

presumably the other ten days will be spent in some kind of southern-gothic-Into-the-the-electric-mist style out of time spiritual reckoning with Dougs all powerful psyche unleashed to test the fitness of the crew to re- enter reality forever changed...
>-No sails to hoist!
LOFL, ouch
>-Stunning views of Jerkwater, USA

He's posted a video of the open house and while he's on his best behavior and quite affable, there's a definite "great benevolent explorer meets the curious and childlike natives" vibe that's pretty weird, complete with doling out of trinkets by the captain and acceptance of gifts brought out via canoe by scantily clad corn-fed Arkansas wahines.
This introduces whole new twist; he obviously loves the adulation but will he and the crew be able to control themselves and not exploit the opportunities for abuse that being put on a pedestal creates?

I can definitely see trouble ahead should he or one of his crew disrespect or impregnate a local chieftains daughter, or if they realize that he's not the return of Quetzalcoatl on a steel chariot and rebuff him.

I'm only partially kidding, there is precedent-

"De Soto had encouraged the local natives to believe that he was a deity, specifically an "immortal Son of the Sun," as a ploy to gain their submission without conflict. Some of the natives had already become skeptical of de Soto's deity claims, so his men were anxious to conceal his death. The actual site of his burial is not known. According to one source, de Soto's men hid his corpse in blankets weighted with sand and sank it in the middle of the Mississippi River during the night"

>>2456747
Washers on a boat make no sense out on salt water, unless you have a big enough boat to have a desalinization system for it - and big enough diesels to run them. Most people just use buckets and rainwater, with occasional visits onshore to laundromats.
That's one aspect of boat living people don't understand - you make a lot of compromises, unless you're really wealthy. If you're sailing in hot climates, you just live in a bathing suit. In colder weather...well, you just stink until you can't bear it, and break out the buckets.
Doug's washing machine fits perfectly into the folly he's built - impractical, dumb, and shows a clear lack of understanding what living on a boat is. And a waste of diesel to run.

>>2456805
Davy Jonestown needs his eternal crew.

>>2456809
If anything I could see one of those super simple wash and spin machines where you just pour water in the top and it washes and spin drys the clothes so they hang dry faster, but his looks like what I have in my house.

>>2456829
Doug Jackson = D.J = Davy Jones(town)
big if true and it probably is

>>2456835
It is a household washer. Boaters usually look into compact RV washers for boats - a full sized unit intended for the house is just...dumb - probably donated or from the house, instead of buying a more appropriate unit.
And yes, the hand powered spinners and washing bags are very common, on smaller boats.
Boat living and RV living have a lot of overlap. But some things, like showers and washing machines, full sized ovens, that kind of thing? Just dumb.
Imagine being in a storm with strong swells, and you're incapacitated by your legs being broken from a washing machine breaking loose and flying across your cockpit, and dying.
With Doug, it's less IF he's going to be injured/killed, it's how.

>>2456809
>That's one aspect of boat living people don't understand - you make a lot of compromises, unless you're really wealthy.

Exactly...and even if you're wealthy there's still compromises in the form of balancing the possibility of some rare but catastrophic circumstance occurring, with a desire to take the chance that it won't happen and devoting attention and resources to unnecessary gadgets, ornamentaion and experimentation instead.
In that sense staying away from something like AC might make sense, but Doug has made the wrong choice SO many times and went for needless bullshit like dragons and floating anchor rode while dismissing basic concepts regarding equipment and general seaworthiness, while openly mocking the idea that he might learn from others mistakes.
I've said it before, he's not at all unique in that regard and the other thing non- cruisers don't get is that collecting anecdotes about these kinds of clowns is both a traditional source of amusement and wonder, and also highly educational for warning noobs who are willing to consider worst case scenarios and learn not to do the same without repeating them.
Everything about Doug and Seeker is a cautionary tale.

People who havent lived the cruising life dont get that every fucking thing this dumbass has done wrong is something other dumbasses have done too, and in many cases got themselves and their crews- or other people- hurt or killed.

>>2456804
the red should be at the waterline when he is fully laden with cargo

he's just got a bunch of rubbermaid tubs in there right now

>>2453677
kek

>>2456855
It is fully loaded. It is not a cargo ship.

>>2456843
how big are doug's water tanks anyways?

>>2456858

hes supposed to haul gear for scientists

>>2456117
svsg has been a staple of /diy/ for probably over a year now

>>2456845
That's why I've always laughed at Doug's "research vessel" follies. I've been fascinated with Cousteau's Calypso since I was a kid - that's a research boat, and they didn't half-ass anything like Doug is - a LOT of work went into that boat being blue water safe, especially in polar waters. They were on a proven WWII hull, with proven gear across the board. (For the time)
I can only recall one death on the Calypso - and it was from a helicoper accident on shore.
People DO build boats and sail around the world, and into the polar seas, but they use proven designs, like you said, developed from the accidents and mistakes of others.
Doug has this wierd thing, maybe it's autism, or OCD, or some sort of mental illness, that mistakes only count if HE does them. Or he's just a callous asshole who's gonna get someone killed because of his assholishness.

Granted, if he could get that floating can into international waters, he'll be boarded, robbed, and killed, and dumped overboard, anyway. Piracy is real, all over the globe. He can't outrun anything in the Seenker, and god knows he's not gonna arm himself.

>>2456836
>>2456829
doug will strike a deal with the devil to make his ship functional and upon death be forever doomed to sail the seas

Doug parks his boat off a small marina and gets over 100 people to come visit in one day. Meanwhile /svsg/ is arguing over his washing machine. lol. You guys are jokes.

>>2456888
Had me, nice touch with the Jan 18th 2023

>>2456888
> /svsg/ is arguing over his washing machine

Haven't seen anything like an "argument"...on the contrary, the discussion about it itt is almost universally in agreement that it's dumb, and its existence on board is a manifestation of Doug's complete cluelessness and Seeker's not being any kind of serious cruising vessel.

That's because unlike the Dongers slavishly defending their messiah, the people talking about his washing machine clearly have actual experience doing what Doug only pretends to be engaged in...

namely building, outfitting and sailing well founded vessels in actual seas and not just slapping some steel together in a twisted mass and then limping with the current down a river to the cheers of ignorant boobs such as yourself.

>>2456865
>hes supposed to haul gear for scientists

don't forget treasure hunting, which is not just gear intensive but if successful also involves taking on board that stuff from sunken ships that treasure hunters in the Caribbean look for...what's it called?
Oh yeah, cargo.

>>2456804
He repainted it twice and it's still mostly under water

>>2456804
brb gotta go get my micrometer

>>2456805

>>2456809
>a desalinization system for it - and big enough diesels to run them.
Ummm sweety, Doug built his own water maker and he has the school bus engine AND the VMAC to run it, so try to keep up.

>>2456117
Doug is the king of /diy/. He spent a fifth of his life and hundreds of thousands dollars building this thing while driving away his family and constantly shit talking anyone who offers advice. Dougn'ts will never win.

>>2457008
And a standalone 5k generator.. and a standalone 10k generator... and 2kw of solar... and a few kwh of lifepo batteries. and a few thousands watts of inverters. It's like they don't even watch the channel.

>>2457009
>hundreds of thousands dollars*
*of other people's money.

>>2457010
how can i get hundreds of thousands of dollars?
anybody want to subsidize my way of life and funnel some money my way?

>>2457020
>how can i get hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Start a youtube channel, be interesting and personable enough to gain a following, setup a patreon and 501c, take donations, profit.

Step 2 is probably going to be the hardest for the dougn'ts.

>>2457024
Doug was never interesting. It was an asmr channel for people that like fabrication noises.

>>2457035
Seeker now also serves as a kind of talisman or shrine whose existence is a seen as a source of affirmation and even protection for people who are desperate to feel like part of some great collective Happening and are willing to believe anyone who says the right things and triggers their feels. IOW the kinds of people who are susceptible to cult programming.
It's all there: the inscriptions all over the boat that must be revered, the symbolism like dragon sculptures, Doug's cheeseball philosophizing and talk of the Seeker "family", the "what did you build today?" mantra that's as much a cudgel to beat down heretics and identify those who dont follow the teachings as it is a legitimate question...
even the name "Seeker" is supposed to evoke a quasi-religious/mystical vibe and ward off detractors, as if anyone who doesn't support it is against the positive aspects of what the term traditionally represents.
The willingness of devotees to hand over money without question and devote time and work under unpleasant circumstances and rigid control by the leader (like a monk) and especially the irrational responses to any criticism by his minions are textbook cult follower behavior, as is the meek and supplicating manner in which those who dare to ask Doug questions approach him, and take their lumps without complaint when this displeases him and he cuts them down or banishes them for challenging his decisions.
That's why these people cling so desperately to any shred of positivity they can, and can't allow any dissent to go unchalleged.
It's a cult, that like many cults may have been more benign when it began but has morphed into something weird as the mastermind has grown accustomed to being in charge and seeks to protect his position.
They're the same kinds of people who will keep believing a doomsday preacher no matter how many times doomsday doesn't arrive, because to admit they were taken for a ride would destroy their entire world.

Captch: NAGGG

>>2457054
>>2454044

>>2457076
Doogies can't read I guess

>>2456904
It's just one of the contrarian trolls who waddles around these threads thinking they're clever with "Dougn't". You're safe to ignore.

>>2457111
Dougn't don't have the self control to ignore. The best they could ever do is an indirect insult which does still feed the trolls. Ex. u.

>>2457119
>Dougn't don't have the self control to ignore.
Pretty funny coming from someone who monitors multiple sites doing damage control every time someone has a harsh word for Dong and his "accomplishment".
You'd think with so much self control *and* all the "Doughn'ts BTFO" by Seekers success you wouldn't give a moments time to thinking about them.
Yet here you are obsessing over their every post.

>>2457131
All you had to do to prove me wrong was not reply. You replied. Zero self control. Also your projectionism is palpable. Thanks for being so easy and satisfying to trigger.

(ps. here are some spare quotes and apostrophes for your next wall of text. """"""""" ******)

>>2457135

>>2457140

>>2457145

>>2456337
Imgur page deleted. That was fast.

>>2457247
someone reupload on mega or gofile?

>>2457247
There was some concern expressed that Dong was exactly the kind of person who might doxx anyone who took advantage of the tour to document things he won't show and defend...maybe, maybe not but some of his followers are certainly crazy and committed enough to try to punish anyone who did so.
When the person who took those pics said he was going to do it and jokingly called it "espionage" a bunch of them flipped out about how deliberately trying to damage his boat was way out of line...when people said WTF are you on about? they insisted that the comment could only be taken to mean he was going to physically damage the boat.

It took a few minutes to realize that these moron Donger zealots didn't realize that "espionage" and "sabotage" weren't the same thing, LOL.

>>2457135
All *you* had to do to prove me wrong was not reply. You replied. Zero self control. Also your projectionism is palpable.
Thanks for being so easy and satisfying to trigger, Donger cultist.

>>2457326
>>2457328
I see you're making good use of those extra punctuation marks >>2457135 left you.

>>2456860
There's no grey water tank (documented/seen), only black water. And apparently it's really tiny.
It's currently being emptied with compressed air because he can't be bother to fix his nightmare plumbing (there's a video about it ~1month ago).
People suspect he's dumping everything straight in the water since he doesn't visit marinas and lacks a way to properly empty his black water tank. To do so, he needs to reach the tank directly with a pipe all the way through the boat and to the tank main opening. The tank is located in a very unfortunate position (very low as well).
He shits in a bucket anyway, the barely functional toilets are for guests and "crew".

>>2457344
>he doesn't visit marinas
He visited Three Forks Marina in Muskogee, Applegate Marina in Kerr Reservoir, he would've visited the Fort Smith Marina but was blocked by an inanimate object, and now he is at the the Russellville Marina.

>>2457247
Can anyone post the imgur photo of the propane and acetylene tanks in the hold?

>>2457356
Oh right the documented and charted wall that he hit right? I guess he couldn't figure out how to get by it and just left?

>>2457418
You need decent power in a boat to maneuver in tight spaces. Must've been easier to keep drifting downstream.

>>2457008
>Ummm sweety, Doug built his own water maker and he has the school bus engine AND the VMAC to run it, so try to keep up.

depserate Donger cultist lies exposed by Bwana Dong himself.
"try to keep up", indeed

>>2457119
Still not clever. But very, very assmad.

>>2457394
I still have the page open in cache so here you go

>>2457583
There's a better one with the cylinders in the full frame of the photo.

>>2457588
ah I see it now

>>2457344
Hoe long until he starts piping shit into one of his furl tanks or something

>>2457590
Are those oxygen cylinders? The label is green so it's either oxygen or argon or something right?

>>2457326

Soldered-copper fuel lines. Sure to fail any kind of safety inspection. Anyone know what that equipment is that those fuel lines are plumbed into?

>>2457583
kek so is that the one that mysteriously disappeared during inspection?

>>2457656
Oh wow I didn't realize that's what those were

>>2457656
The black cylinders are electric transfer pumps. The cream/black cylinder with a clear dome bottom and t-handle on top is a filter stack with water separator. For someone who doesn't even know what a filter or pump looks like your statement on safety inspections is sus af.

>>2457686
Low melting point materials such as solder and copper have always been forbidden to use with fuel, for obvious reasons.

>>2457702
Who said it was low melt solder? Could be silver solder.

>>2457710
>too retarded to realize these rules are for if a fire breaks out under the fuel pipes it cant melt them which would cause more fuel to go directly into a fire

>>2457710
It’s household water-supply piping materials.

>>2457711
For someone who didn't know what a fuel pump or filter looks like you're sure getting cocky. Also you don't seem to know what silver solder is or is rated for. You should probably shut up but as anon demonstrated last night, you can't help yourself.

>>2457713
Did he do a video on it or you making that up? That's horrible but believable if true.

>>2457720
https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/MSC/PRG/PRG.E1-10.2013.12.16.Fuel_Oil_Systems.pdf

>>2457656
What does the red flag/stick say?

>>2457721
?

>>2457729
Copper tubing fittings shall be drawnor forged, flared type. Flareless
fittings may be used with steel, nickel copper, copper nickel tubing.
Swagelok type fittings are acceptable within the manufacturer’s
limitations. (56.50-75(a)(3))

>>2457730
I don't think what you found applies.

>>2457619
i think it's his oxy/acetylene set

>>2457737
Is Doug a brilliant lawyer or an idiot for doing everything in the worst possible way but always having a defense ready for why it's something no one made a rule for yet?

Or is he just lucky he made a 'any other ship' in almost ever category because it's such a monstrosity from the get go?

>>2457737
I get it - it doesn't apply because SV Seeker has never sailed, not even once. That is what you meant, right?

>>2457785
Big difference between a defense and facile excuses pulled out of your ass.
Main one being a defense has to be consistent and can't just be abandoned for another explanation that is contradictory to the first.

Especially not when youve documented it all in black and white, like pic related vs the following from his blo-

>"I then fell in love with the idea of a sailboat. More specifically, a sailing ***work boat for charter***, diving, search and recovery, oceanographic research, and general sailing."

>>2457812
>"I then fell in love with the idea of a sailboat.
THE IDEA and not the actual reality it seems...

>>2457822
That's part of the grift, sell people on the grand idea and good intentions and the simps will swallow any excuse for failing to fulfill that vision, even going as far as to defend calling a boat that had never sailed and literally cannot sail a "sailing vessel".

But just to flow up on the "we're a yacht and will never sell rides thing, here's more from the associated charity page-

"You’ve heard how Seeker is to be a work boat, but you might not be aware that we plan to make her available for research purposes.

Once Seeker is in the water, ***she will be leased for about a dollar a month*** to the Sea Chest Foundation, a 501c3 not-for-profit US Corporation."

The whole reason something like that is done for a symbolic $1 fee is specifically to make it a legal lease transaction. It's just as commercial as leasing office space to a non profit charity would be, and just like that commercial lease the laws regarding the property being suitable, safe and properly equipped must be met.

His legal/ regulatory compliance planning and reasoning is just as half baked and likely to sink him as his boat.

>>2457832

>>2457839
Doogies still can't read, maybe you can take some classes at your local community college to help with that.

>>2457839
Got me to kek. Don't lump all us in with that guy. Most of us aren't seething like him.

>>2457848
t. samefagging hard to cover for the dwindling ranks of Donger cult operatives down to that one lame meme in their ammo box, but still defending their lost cause.

>>2457865
Calling samefag when you get laughed at is sad. Take the L, fix your grammar and move on.

>>2457870
>Take the L

Like this?

"Seeker" Submarine's First Surface Trial
OCT 1 2011
"This is the first surface test for our home built hybrid jet boat / ambient submarine. Not a great first test, but not horrible either."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8kiHTFACCGM

one week later-

SUBMARINE FOR SALE
OCT 8 2011
"Experimental Submarine - Ready for testing and refinement. $10,000."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cp0pAsYFg&ab_channel=SVSeeker

>>2457877
So is your point that Doug is man enough to take a loss and you can't because that's all I read from your attempted deflection? It's probably because you were raised by women.

>>2457356
He's anchored in front of them, he doesn't use/pay for any services as far as we know.

>>2457893
He and others in his crew insist that he's not discharging waste into the MKARNS system and that Seekers holding tanks have been in use and pumped out since launching, and since there's no "honeypot" mobile pumpout boats there, if he is to be believed he'd have to have done it at a marina.
Also contrary to claims by his minions, he has no watermaker and is ferrying water aboard by tender from....somewhere.
Finally, in the video of the onboard meet and greet with the Russelville natives, Doug specifically mentions the marina supplying a pontoon and driver to ferry people back and forth, and earlier had suggested that interested visitors could rent a boat there to make the trip.
inb4
>hur dur, what's the matter with that?
There's nothing wrong with marinas or making use of their facilities and services...but Doug has repeatedly ranted about how he doesn't need marinas, wouldn't use them because he's self sufficient, and uses disparaging slurs like "marina queens" to describe boats that aren't self sufficient like he claims Seeker is, and kept anchored out.
In one of his last videos he lectures people who dont use their boats as often as he deems appropriate about how boats aren't intended to live in marinas, even as he waxes poetic about how the Russelville marina has lots of people working on their boats...he acts as if this is some rare circumstance that elevates it into praiseworthy territory because he's a clueless non-sailor, and since the whole thing is a gladhanding PR effort he gives the Russleville marina his blessing because this makes *those* marina tenants "a maker family" ( barf).

0:21-
>"... or somethings broke or something like that and the marina can handle it..."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b87ADdMBDQw

Like all pathological narcissists and cult leaders he doesn't even bother trying to hide his hypocrisy, he relies on credulous morons to rationalize his contradictions and cover for him.

>>2458018

>>2458018

>>2458090
That one really stung, huh?

KEK, when the "sailing vessel" is abandoned mid- sail testing the same way that the "tender" that never tended anything was, along with the "submarine" that never submerged and was up for sale a week after its first (failed) surface test, they won't even have to change the cover photo.
Captcha: 2PP 4D

>>2457590
So do I

>>2458094

>>2458103
What I realized is, that SV Seeker is basically a metaphor for "enterprise software" ; which makes sense since Doug spent some time at Oracle.

Over-engineered in some parts, from the outside it appears to follow "best practices", but underneath the shiny layer we see poor architectural choices, poor implementation choices that have essentially doomed proper operation, from the outset.

It's basically "poor software quality" turned into a physical object. That's why I can't look away...

>>2458103
>>2458237
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>>2458283
Still not clever. I mean, if being boring and obsessed is entertaining to you...

>>2458304

Doug is already planning his next trip and Dougn'ts are sitting here seething in anger and confusion from his last trip. Do Dougn'ts ever get tired of losing? O well, what did you make today?

>>2458315

>>2458315
LOL can you post just the poster behind the dougn't? I need one for my wall.

>>2458338
>what did you make today?

kerr lake sail trial "plans"-
ABORTED
dardanelle lake sail trial "plans"- ABORTED
Complety raise mainsail ONCE-
ABORTED
Complete running rigging before leaving inland waters-
ABORTED
Complete custom DIY tender-
ABORTED
Complete Humperstink/bus motor rebuild/ redsign to full functionality with reverse-
ABORTED

>>2458355
>kerr lake sail trial "plans"-
Doug just ran out of time on Kerr. Don't worry about what he meant by that.
>dardanelle lake sail trial "plans"
It turns out that dardanelle is not that suitable for sailing. Also Doug is anchored at the south end of the lake, he will never move the boat upstream because that is like quitting, and Doug doesn't quit
>Complety raise mainsail ONCE-
There was never a suitable day. Wind is incredible strong in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
>Complete running rigging before leaving inland waters-
Just be patient. It is being worked on, and in the final design stages.
>Complete custom DIY tender-
Hot tamale is a better tender since it is made of indestructible plastic. Just ignore Doug when he talks about his superior steel boat over other plastic boats.
>Complete Humperstink/bus motor rebuild/ redesign to full functionality with reverse-
He made it to Dardanelle with zero hunderstead problems. If you knew anything about boating, you don't need reverse, especially on the river. He is only goin gone direction. besides Seeker is not a marina queen so he doesn't need to worry about parking it in a slip.

>>2458338
So Pensacola is going to be his home port? Cool. I'm going to have to sail up that way when I get back to the Gulf.

>O well, what did you make today?
About 6.5kn average and ~80nm to the NASA causeway bridge. Currently anchored south east of it waiting for the SLS launch on the 3rd. What did you make today?

>>2458353
I didn't make it. It was posted here months ago.

>>2458362
Neat shit anon.

>>2458338
>emergency tug and rescue acquired

>>2458338
25 thumbups with no other reactions is seething? Why not show the comments if they're seething?

>>2458448
If he actually follows through, deciding on buddy boating will be one of the first times he's shown any *real* progress as far as learning how to be an actual cruising boater with a chance of doing anything besides becoming a statisric.
What people who've never done it don't realize is that cruisers tend to look out for each other because there's lots of bad things that can happen even to the best prepared boats with competent crews, which is a huge part of why Doug gets advice on things like anchoring and other technical matters; its just whats expected because it really is a community. Even when someone is a blowhard/clown with a janky boat, people know that they will be the ones dealing with it when that clown gets in over his head and cant bluff hiss way out of it, so even when people don't take advice and act like ungrateful dicks, others will still help them and try to get them to see the light before tragedy strikes. Sometimes it works well enough that people like Doug have a real epiphany and begin to welcome advice and *really* learn to avoid making mistakes, and become seamen.

I doubt that's whats happened here, but it's a good sign for his passengers and crew and otherscon the water near him...makes me wonder how much the film crew/ documentary plays into the decision.
It was only a few weeks ago that he was ranting regularly that he'd singlehand the boat before doing (something sensible), then he hit a rock wall with film crew aboard, blew it off as "uneventful"...and now he's got a fixed travel itinerary and an escort vessel.
I guarantee you that film crew didn't just go "ho hum" when Sekeer high centered on that wall, even people with no experience know that the sounds and motions involved are not normal or good. And 15 minutes of trying to get the boat off using a tender and warps because the main engine's reverse doesn't work would have seemed like hours with all the grinding/screeching noises and commotion involved.

>>2458523
>the film crew/documentary plays into the decision
It's six more weeks until Seeker leaves Russellville so maybe the film crew is off filming other things.

>>2458599
???
The point is that he's not moving on without an escort boat.
Also in the video on Facebook announcing the buddy boat and itinerary he states that two film crew will be on the escort vessel.
It will no doubt be convenient for getting shots of Seeker underway from off the boat, but that could be achieved with any small boat or a drone or from shore, and doesn't require another full sized vessel traveling with them 24/7 for the entire trip to FL. Reading between the lines of that video it sounds like at least some of the film crew wanted different lodgings and/or a ready refuge that didn't rely on Seeker.

As for waiting to leave, he's got a shit ton of incomplete/ damaged systems to work on if he's to have any chance of handling the Mississipi river, and also it's hurricane season so nobody is faulting him for staying put for a few weeks.
Personally I sense a shift where he's really on his best behavior because he needs to morph from DIY builder guy to spiritual leader of bold adventures about which documentaries and TV shows are made.
That means playing ball by other people's rules and some degree of ass kissing.
So the "fuck you, I can stay or leave as I please", "fuck you, if you want safety don't come on my boat", " fuck everybody, I'll singlehand it before accomodating other peoples concerns" etc. Doug has to STFU, or at least try.
Only thing that remains to be seen is whether that was the real Doug and he'll snap under the stress, or was it all an act by a guy whose rugged Individualism and DGAF attitude will be dumped so he can be a more appealing cuck for mainstream reality media whoredom.

>>2458629
I wonder how his grandson is doing

in b4 doctoral thesis on Doug's past relationships which has nothing to do with /diy/.

>>2458978
The posting of visitor pics exposing the jankiness of what Seeker truly is for all the world to see has really thrown Doug's White Knight corps into a defensive frenzy across the various platforms where threads like this one exist...it's like Swiss Guard of schoolmarms spreading out to monitor the PR channels and firmly remind everyone to be nice and try to shame them into silence.
It's such obviously orchestrated and inorganic damage control/spin that one has to wonder if it's something the crew is expected to engage in as part of their duties, since there's obviously a major campaign underway to rehabilitate Doug's image and make people forget about the snide, arrogant, belittling bully who doesn't feel any responsibility for crew safety, shits in a bucket and declares "Fuck the Coast Guard Commandant" publicly.

>>2458978
In sorry Doug, I know it must hurt. I don't know how you keep going desu

No reply for over 20 minutes then 2 within 14 seconds of the cool down delay. Hmmmmmm.

>>2459028
Is she calculating Seeker's remaining cargo capacity?

>>2459062

>>2459062
she's calculating the odds that she will be killed and scuttled with the ship if she goes on board

>>2459090
t. Doug's White Knight in a defensive frenzy across multiple platforms

Make sure to log the time stamp for this post so you can show daddy what you made today when he asks.

>>2459103
It's a meme making fun of Doug... It even calls him princess. Do you look at posts before commenting or do you just assume it's dougest and attack because you're the only dougn't in the thread?

>>2459108
Maybe it is one of those chatbots like on twitter that are programmed to respond a certain way and the owner left the helm just like Dougie does on Seeker.

>>2459112
Bots use proper grammar and punctuation. This faggot writes like he never graduated high school. Show me a bot that writes like a retard and I'll believe you.

>>2458629
>Nobody's faulting him

Sounds like a boy raised by a woman. By Doug's standard he should be out sailing in the fucking hurricanes

>>2459108
LOL, if you have to explain it, it's a manifestly shitty meme.
If something's manifestly shitty and you're not embarrassed but proud of it instead, chances are you're a Donger, possibly Dong himself.

>>2459118
the AI is learning?

>>2459252
They didn't explain it though. Wtf are you talking about?

>>2459294
>They didn't explain it though. Wtf are you talking about?

>"It's a meme making fun of Doug... It even calls him princess..."

>>2459300
That's describing it anon. Explaining it would be saying it's a scene from the movie Spaceballs where the MC's call out the princess for making them haul around a bunch of useless shit much how like Doug has the cargo hold full of a bunch of useless shit right now. You retards make me reconsider which side I'm rooting for. If Doug can get so many mental handicap 12yo against him he's probably doing something right.

So what about the rov? I started watching him build his dumb boat only because of the rov parts of his videos. Did that component of the boat endeavor get scrapped?

>>2459312
Actually, you just described it, and it's still a manifestly shitty meme no matter how much drivel you spew or how autistically you do it.

Also, maybe apply that autism to creating a more convincing "I'm no fan of Doug, but you're making me rethink it" concern troll persona than the one you are stuck using here because mods on other sites figured you out so quickly.

>>2459330
He hasn't mentioned it in a LOOONG time but he is on his way to Antigua for a treasure hunt, so he will probably get it out then. He is leaving for Florida in October, so he is right on schedule.

>>2459333
Did he ever finish it? I stopped watching sometime after he had some issues with the pressure vessel thing he was using to test assemblies with. I was hoping to see what type of cable, reel design, and terminations he used.

>>2459335
Oh yeah I am sure its done and ready to go. If there is one thing Doug doesn't do is quit. You just have to be patient.

>>2459337
Just 2 more weeks I'm sure he wouldn't give up on one of the key premises of why he built this bus engine sailboat thing.

>>2459338
You dont get it, stated goals are just the catalyst for failure and you learn more by failure than reaching the goal with a functional product.
When you stop failing you stop learning, so the true goal is to never complete anything fully so you are perpetually learning...
Once you have enough abandoned projects and half built clusterfucks failing at once, the learning positively gushes into you like a firehouse that can't be turned off, or seawater from a stupidly plumbed marine toilet.

>>2459338

>>2459365
fake and gay

>>2459365
damn i thought it would have been tony not ann

OMFG this is great. All the Dougiest left so now the Dougn't are ripping into each other.

That bucket looks familiar.

OH NO NO NO NO NO NO!

>>2459469
>>2459470
doug breaks his oven door
<- /svsg/ be like

>>2459473
Dong breaks his oven door cleaning it (kek)
Dong be like-
>uneventful learning experience that cost more than my transmission
Donger cultists be like-
>you are so wise and inspirational Daddy, have an updoot and please pick my retarded band-aid repair suggestion!
Donger cultists also be like-
>ALERT! ALERT! must. get. ahead. of. well. deserved. ridicule. with. another. defensive. meme. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

Isn't the shower below deck?

>>2459379
>>2459312
>>2459252
>>2459103
Fuck yeah we finally going after boomer memer for his shit memes!

>>2459503
Shower is anywhere water comes out

>>2459503
Pretty sure that soap is for hand washing after shitting in the multi-purpose shit/glass bucket, or possibly first aid wound cleansing when someone has a learning experience with the open chain drive on the davit winch.
But only when Doug's not looking, since anticipating infection in your bloody finger stump is an action based in fear.

>>2459503
Is there a law?

>>2459469
Some people see the glass as half full...
some people see the glass as half empty...
Some people see a shit bucket half full of broken glass.

>>2459524
Against rinsing wastewater overboard? Yes.

>>2456809
Washers aren't that unusual even on smaller yachts, but they're usually real high efficiency combo units, and I'm not sure what this thing is. I think he's just slapped a front loader in there and is planning on line drying.

Water makers aren't that extravagant an item, they don't even take up that much space. Doug's got plenty of space, especially once he gets rid of that thing he cobbled together. His big problem is going to be power though. He's got enough for whatever, but he's just got real shitty efficiency, so he's going to be burning a ton of diesel doing it. He does have a crap ton of tankard, which will help him stretch the time between tank fills. He's such a wanler though that it's hard to root for him.

>>2459541
>Water makers aren't that extravagant an item, they don't even take up that much space.
In one of his video tours around the time of launching he shows/ mentions a watermaker but it certainly didn't look like anything commercially built.
But the other day he posted about loading water from shore and water usage on the last leg of his trip, and mentioned having a functional 300 gal tank and another the same size that "needs to be repaired".
Odd that in a discussion of fresh water usage/ capacity he never mentioned the watermaker, unless it's completly useless or not there anymore.

>>2459543
he said to me in the comments hes only going to run it in salt water he did not plan for rivers being full of suspended silt

>>2459545
>he did not plan
Well, that part certainly fits

I guess he thinks seawater in areas where boats like his operate and anchor when cruising is pristine and free from suspended solids...good luck with that.

>>2459549
Dongers will defend this

>>2459571
Its called learning. Thats why its good when things like this happen, everyone learns. Doug learned how not to clean the oven and that person learned that you cannot use plastic on an oven door.

>>2459571
Is he drunk?

How do you break an oven door while cleaning it anyway

God I love this thread so much, it's always fun coming here

>>2459640
This is what we should be asking honestly

>>2459646
thanks for joining us tonight, bill

>>2459640
I assume he used water while it was still hot and the thermal shock shattered it, my sister did that once

>>2459571
Did Doug , not being raised by a woman and thus not afraid of a little heat, try to wash off some grease while the over door was still hot? One wonders.

>>2459653
I mean it makes sense, its hot so the grease is all loosened up so it should wipe up easy with water.
Its not like he welded together a boat, how would he understand the effects of rapid temperature change on materials.

>>2459657
Wiping it with a wet cloth wouldn't crack it, he probably did some dumb shit like pour a bunch of ice cold water over it

>>2459690
Or it just slammed shut because you're not supposed to have a door like that on a boat because shit moves around

>>2459571
Wait, Doug is making sense, and not preaching about anything? Did he hit his head on a mermaid skullcracker in his sleep or something?

>>2459647
Better first question is why should anyone ever assume that Doug's assessment of how/why something broke is correct?
He's proven time and time again that his troubleshooting process is plagued by ego dreiven assumptions and disregard for protocol, and general impatience...combined with a habit of following fruitless paths that he glorifies as a superior and enlightened approach that has great learning value *specifically* because it results in failure.
It's just as likely that the glass exploding as Doug was attempting to clean it was a coincidence that he erroneously assumed was the cause of the tempered glass blowing up.
One glaring issue is the fact that that unit was never intended to be installed like that; it's a countertop appliance whose documentation states clearly must be mounted on its legs and have 4" of clearance on both sides, rear panel (where it vents) and above it.
Besides the obvious fire risk of jamming it in a wooden cabinet with zero clearance, that lack of ventilation and ability to diffuse heat is likely to cause retained heat to build up beyond specs, and try to escape though the one side of the unit that isn't boxed in, which is that glass door. In the pic, it appears he's even caulked the gap where the countertop sits directly on top of the unit, its insane.
So when you consider things like thermal shock you can't assume that the glass is within normal operating temps, it may be dangerously close to the extreme upper limit of any safety margin built in, where the tiniest temperature differential or even just a bit of normal jarring or twisting action during opening/closing it could trigger it to shatter, or with another ten minutes of on time it might do it spontaneously.
That glass in that installation no doubt gets far hotter than it ever should, and the edges very likely soak up far more of that excess heat than the center, and set up exactly the kinds of unbalanced stresses that trigger tempered glass to blow up.

Is boat in river or ocean?

>>2459784
yes

>>2459784
Neither, it’s parked in Lake Dardanelle, a major drinking-water reservoir on the Arkansas River.

>>2459503
That’s not Dove, it’s Dial. Dial is an antimicrobial so it’s worse for critters that swim or drink the water. Not surprised to see that wretched crew washing themselves into the reservoir.

>>2459780
>In the pic, it appears he's even caulked the gap where the countertop sits directly on top of the unit, its insane.
lmao I think you're right, what the FUCK was he thinking here
Does he think the caulking will hold it in place? Is it an aesthetic thing or something? Honestly bizarre

>>2460058
>Does he think the caulking will hold it in place? Is it an aesthetic thing or something?
Well, there is all that water that cascades in during a summer thunderstorm and covers all the horizontal surfaces, so maybe it's to keep it out of the stoves AC circuitry.

>>2457590
Flowmeter on the leftmost regulator makes that one inert shielding gas as is likely for the rest. Acetylene cylinders are low pressure and don't look like that style.

>>2460141
But what's the white tank on the far left

>>2460076
>there is all that water that cascades in during a summer thunderstorm and covers all the horizontal surfaces
Is this a Doug thing or are you just assuming it could happen on a boat?

>>2460217
In a recent video he left the boat unattended with deck hatches and windows left open while a thunderstorm rolled through

>>2460225
Only cowards are afraid of water out body is like 69% water it's basically just rejuvenating you

>>2460227
only cowards are afraid of electric shock our brains run on electrical impulses it's basically just recharging you

>>2459470
Is a chain guard too much to ask for?

>>2460377
yes

>>2460377
Don’t worry, it doesn’t work.

>>2460377
What are you some kind of coward

>>2456888
Being popular makes things good and seaworthy

>>2457135
The best strategy is to set up any reply to your nonsense as failure and acceptance of that nonsense

>>2457656
What do the fuel lines on YOUR boat look like? I thought so. Stop talking like you know shit because you're jealous of someone who actually creates things. I'm sorry you can't get laid but that's no reason to drag others down.

>>2457710
Fire is hot. You've engineered a fire-triggered gas dispenser.

>>2460842
Kek, I was looking at Seekers website the other day and ran across a page entirely dedicated to injuries that is basically Doug showing off (with pics) how tough and unconcerned with safety he is-

"I routinely scoff at the idiots that put the "Wear Eye Protection" stickers an everything from screw drivers to hammers. In blatant rebellion I immediately pull off the stickers and toss them in the trash along with the safety guard and any paper work containing the words "Proper Use". "

"No more feeling in this finger tip!
Don't try to clear the scarf while
the lathe is running. That's likely
in the safety instructions I threw
in the trash."

http://www.svseeker.com/workplace_injuries.htm

>>2460854
Were you raised by a woman or something?

>>2460854
Jesus I wonder if his insurance company has seen that

>>2460850
>What do the fuel lines on YOUR boat look like?
It doesn't have any because unlike anything Doug has ever built, it's an actual sailboat powered by sails.

>>2456885
He turned down the devil's offers to improve the ship in any way. He was very specific he want it to function just as he always intended, just barely hanging in and needing to be macguyvered constantly

>>2460857
This is better than any reply I could have expected

>>2460857
What kind of boat?

>>2460856
I know it's purely hypothetical and will never actually happen, but imagine being a researcher scheduled to go on an arctic expedition and you learn that that safety philosophy was documented by the amateur home builder of the (small by research vessel standards) boat you will be depending on to keep you alive.

Could someone remind me where the "raised by a woman" line came from

>>2460865
No idea but there's a guy here that sure uses it a lot.

>>2460865
It's from (at least) one of his videos where he rants about people who care about safety protocols being of weak character and slaves to fear, and then ties that to a lack of a strong male presence in their formative years.

>>2460865
Daddy doogie

>>2460873
Yeah I'm just wondering if someone has a link to the video
iirc he actually does say something like "men raised by women do this"

I remember now, it's something from a facebook post
https://archived.moe/diy/thread/2201566/#2202283
If anyone has the actual pic here I'd be grateful

>>2457650
has he given any explanation for why its listing to starboard so much?

>>2460899
Those are old pics. The listing was fixed a while ago by him adding a few tons of lead on the port side. Starboard is where the cnc mill, water maker, scuba compressor, generator, inverters, heads, and god knows what else is. Port side is all passageways. He glossed over it in one of the three forks videos.

>>2460854
Good grief. A screenshot of that page alone will almost certainly guarantee a win in court for any future passenger injured on the seeker that sues for damages.
>"Your honor, you can see in exhibit F that the ship's captain had admittedly no regard for safety rules and regulations. Our client has suffered sever lacerations to the head while sleeping in his bunk after the seeker hit a sand bar. Doug was reported to have yelled at the deck crew to quote "Stop being a bunch of pussies!" Ignoring both the navigation buoys and the pleas from his crew to stop the boat."

>>2460910
The adding lead (to an already grossly overweight boat) part is true, but it's important to acknowledge that Seeker has a permanent built-in twist along her longitudinal axis that makes it impossible for the boat to not list; even if you average it out in the exact middle at best she'll always list a little bit one way in the bow and a little the other way in the stern (aka "front" and "back" in Doug's nautical vocabulary).
Not only is this of no concern to Doug, he mocks the idea that it should be in one of the (now abandoned) tender build videos by noting that a similar twist is developing and joking "thats OK, we *like* hulls with a twist!"

>>2460887
I tried but the other archive is missing a few months of posts.

Just a reminder that about 1 year ago this general was saying it'll never launch, and that if it does it won't float

Keep moving goalposts Dougn'ts while Dabbin Doug keeps dabbing

>>2460910
So even if he center of gravity at rest (no movement) is dead even, if the weight between port and starboard is not at the same "height" from the keel, this can still cause unwanted motion and odd jerking behavior while moving through anything other than perfectly flat, calm water.

The boat at rest is in "initial stabilty" but there is overall stability, which accounts for the need to have the ship's ability to right itself even in wind and wave conditions.

The raised-by-women USCG put out a PDF for fishing vessels which explains it: https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/5p/CG-5PC/CG-CVC/CVC3/references/Stability_Reference_Guide.pdf

>>2461100
Almost no one said that Doug. Most said it would list and kill him after he got to the sea

Doug was the only one who said it was fine

>>2460858
>>2456885
Imagine dying at sea in some cruise accident and doug shows up on seeker to ferry you to the afterlife.
As if drowning wasn't already bad enough.

>>2461079
is there another /diy/ archive that saves images?

>>2461100
No retard, we've known it would float in still water for a year now.
It is true that some people didn't think it would get insured though.

>>2461206
only people who were raised by women die, anon.

>>2461233
>NooOo, you can't make Doug look bad by quoting him!

>>2461184
>>2461211
https://archived.moe/diy/thread/2225710/

Im not going to bother identifying the countless posts saying he's never going to launch it or the doubts about it floating. Because you dougn'ts will just keep moving goal posts

Some real raised by women behavior

>>2461312
Are you gonna keep ignoring the fact that nothing works and Doug is grossly incompetent too?

>he won't design it
>he won't build it
>he won't move it
>he won't launch it
>he won't sail it
[(You) are here]
>he won't sail it to the gulf
>he won't make it around Florida
>he won't actually get a research team
>he won't take a research team to the arctic
>he won't circumnavigate the planet
>he won't make it to antarctica
>he won't prove the earth is flat
#FTFADIA

>>2461312
I'm not gonna bother clicking because I was there.

>>2461317
He still hasn't sailed it. You don't get to get to count videos you haven't posted yet Doug. Did you.get a sail up?

>>2460887
kek found it

>>2461319
Continue to move goalposts like I said

Fatherless type behavior...

>>2461317
>#FTFADIA

>>2461320
That's it? That's what triggered the dougn'ts so hard they've been repeating it multiple times a day for years? Ahahahaha. Talk about living rent free.

>>2461317
>he won't sail to the Black Sea and become admiral of the Russian Navy
I'd happily be proven wrong.

The absolute state of Dougies

>>2461321
Lol, by that "logic since" I can break free of the ground under my own power and "move through the air", I can fly.

Sorry, desperate semantics boy. Only one moving goal posts is you -

33 CFR § 83.03 - General definitions (Rule 3).

(c) The term sailing vessel means any vessel under sail provided that propelling machinery, if fitted, is not being used.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/33/83.03

That has never happened once, and by his own admission Dong has no set procedure in mind for the running righing needed to make it even possible, and intends to determine what will be needed by trial and error. On a sail configuration that is thousands of years old and very simple, he plans to invent his own arrangement and can't even hoist the sails completely after 15 years of calling Seeker a "sailing vessel" in every video he does.
He left for Kerr lake declaring that completing the rigging was a top priority and now it's not, even as his minions declare everything up to speed and on track and demand people interpret the word "sailing" using the broadest possible definition of the term that includes any and all vessels that float and can move.

Hilarious cope and seethe.

>>2461418
Except I haven't been moving any goalposts. Keep seething that he dabs on you and Merriam Webster dabs on you

Im not some kike lawyer who speaks in Hebrew hopscotch like you, I speak normal english. Touch grass for actually quoting law

>>2461426
>a 100% engine propelled junker can now be called a "sailboat"
Dougies are now reaching levels of cope that shouldn't even be possibe

>>2461426
LOFL, the only definition of "sailing" that matters when it comes to operating watercraft is the legal one, sad little brownnosing Donger clown.

Go wave your definition 2 of 2 at the USCG and see how hard it "dabs" on them.

>>2461435
>>2461432
>>2461418
>When you make stupid analogies and quote single words as if that changes their meaning.
Okay Dougn'ts.

>>2461475

Holy shit, the first four minutes of this are equal parts comedy gold and cringe inducing...stick with it after that and you learn why the thing is a twisted and racked POS that truly epitomizes the "boat shaped object" label.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=28BjBr7MYPI

Make sure to visit the comments to see just how painfully clueless his fawning sycophants are

>>2461576
Keep shilling those old Youtube vids for the ad revenue Dougie. New content getting harder for you to make on the boat?

>>2461435
Post video of Doug sailing under wind power

>>2461576
>3 flux core passes on the inside
I watched it and I hope Doug gets paid.

>>2461701

>>2461720
>I hope Doug gets paid.
When you think about it, the concern trolling about minimizing clicks and attention is as ill conceived and delusional as Doug's activities.
If you think it's somehow going to hurt him if only you can convince people to boycott him, that's just sad, desperate control freak bullcrap.
When Doug makes money from page views and related ads and donations it just means that the dumb minions are getting fleeced harder, and between them and Doug they actually deserve to suffer for their stupidity for supporting him just for the feels; at least the con man gets some benefit from the con besides good feels and simping rights.
Doug and his janky project aren't really unique either for jankiness or hubris, but the cult- like uncritical support no matter how long he stalls or how many projects/plans he abandons is pretty unique in my experience. Since those same simps are the ones directly making it financially possible, why on earth would anyone want to comedy spigot to be turned off?

>>2460227
>>2460372
You jest but we'll see who has the last laugh when you're eating shit in the Doug Bossfight and Doug is regenerating from the puddle of electrified water in his pilothouse

>>2461738
>Trying to minimize the actual funding of Doug through ad revenue as concern trolling.
Holy balls you really are Doug trying to reverse uno us into supporting your shitty life habits. How's your ex, son and grandson Doug? See them in the last decade or do they still have a restraining order against you?

>>2461809
>Holy balls you really are Doug
Holy balls you really are mentally unwell.

>>2461814
I'm not the one with a restraining order baring me from being within 100 feet of my immediate family Doug. Find any suckers to crew for you yet?

>>2461817
why did his family get a restraining order against him?

>>2461826
I think Doug's an idiot, but that anon is an even bigger one and is making up complete bullshit about restraining orders that he'll never prove.

>>2461817
Desperate Donger reverse psychology fail #4873

in b4
> That's *exactly* what Doug would say!!!!

>>2460854
what a fucking retard holy shit

>>2461832
>>2461830
The TPO is public record Doug. You can't deny it. Keep trying to deflect and plug your Youtube content.

>>2461826
tldr Aden got hurt working on the boat fracturing Doug's relationship with son/ex. She tried moving out and Doug got physical.

>>2461854
LOL. That doesn't prove anything.
This is why sixth graders aren't allowed to be attorneys.

>>2461854
TIL Doug is a bigger POS then I ever thought and he's in here pretending to be a Dougn't while posting his own unlisted videos for clicks. That's straight diabolical.

>>2461854
>>2461862
>Anon posts court docket
>That doesn't prove anything.

>>2461863
t. actually Doug pulling a double reverse psychout where he pretends to be busting himself by agreeing with himself allegedly busting himself, and sneakily works a claim that the video in question is unlisted to make it seem more attractive to click on for Dougn'ts, when in fact it's been on his public upload page for ten years. Very crafty example of your massive brain's ability to adapt and conquer all, Doug.

>>2461866
>Anon posts court docket

You mean the one that merely records one scheduled hearing and doesn't record, state or disclose any determination or ruling on either party's request? That one?
The same one that is conveniently cropped so that nobody can see what happened at the Dec hearing whose event header remains?

doug really be in here like

>>2461873
We're all Doug.

>>2461896

>>2461879
>doug has a restraining order? well acktually this has been debunked, all we know is there was an APPLICATION for a restraining order, take that idiot

>>2461879
It hurts to try and imagine just how stupid you are

>>2462081
I'm sure even the smallest intellectual effort causes you great pain.

>>2461862
If they pass the bar exam they can. Just another poster raised by women

>>2461879
>The same one that is conveniently cropped so that nobody can see what happened at the Dec hearing whose event header remains?
Here you are. I think you're grasping at straws but lets see where you go with it. What does this new, nefariously cropped out bit reveal?

>>2462149

>>2462157
Wrong again, counselor, you can't even take a bar exam in the US until you are at least 18, even older in some jurisdictions-

"Pursuant to Section 520.2, an applicant for admission to the New York State Bar examination shall furnish satisfactory proof that the applicant is over 21 years of age."

Perhaps you are confused by the fact that at 18 years of age you were still in the sixth grade, and remained in the sixth grade three years later, but I assure you that it's not the same.

>>2462160
>but lets see where you go with it. What does this new, nefariously cropped out bit reveal?

That you don't know WTF you are reading, what a docket even is, or what the word "prove" means.

>>2462177
Do you have anything other than personal attacks? Like, did knowing what the Dec 1 hearing was about change the context of >>2461854 at all because I'll I'm getting out of you now is deflection.

>>2462177

>>2462181
Lol the mental gymnastics being performed by the doogies is kind of incredible

>>2462160
Why not just show documentation that a request for
>a restraining order barring (Doug) from being within 100 feet of (his) immediate family
was
A: made (no such details are shown in the " evidence" shown)
B: was actually granted (ditto)
C: remains in effect **seven years later** as originally alleged?

The claim is that it's all proven in readily accessible public documents...why don't you just post fhem?

>>2462179
It's not a personal attack to state that the docket posted doesn't prove what you say it does in any way, and never will.

>>2462184
i posted that gif, i'm just here for the ride

>>2462179
he's trolling you anon. nothing you post will ever be enough. it is the ever shifting goalposts of the dougests. they have already rationalized away him pretended to blow him self up for clicks. like anything you post could change their minds.

>>2462192
>the ever shifting goalposts

> "a court order was issued"
> got proof?
>"it's a matter of public record! Here!"
> that document literally doesn't say a court order was issued, let alone a restraining order covering Doug's immediately family...
Perplexed_retard_face.jpeg
>"nothing will ever be enough!!"
>the "it's public record!" goalpost is disappeared.

>>2462190
Tell me the exact document number you want from the case and I'll grab it off PACER tomorrow at work.

https://youtu.be/aZglqkCRNt8

>>2461911
>heeey brotheeeeeeeer

>>2461928
come on dude
this is a mega-retarded take and you know it

>>2461576
If you get beaned so hard by metal, whether a hammer or a metal pipe (Doug isn't sure what hit him in the video), that you forget what happened after, and that your head is bleeding from the skin being broken...and this happens AFTER you already had a metalworking accident (the chain letting loose and pipes falling off the shell... can you truly claim that you "learned" anything?

A simple, cheap hard hat on a job site where metal is suspended or otherwise hanging above you would be a perfectly rational response. Refusing to take safety precautions after you already had 1 incident isn't "learning".

>>2462202
>PACER

wtf does a fitness test have to do with Doug?

>>2462349
Speaking of learning, it's prediction time...
Assuming that Seeker makes it to FL and the running rigging is completed and the full set of sails raised...
when many, many months of sun/ weather exposure while wadded up with no covers leaves the tanbark dye job on the sail fabric looking like a pink and liver colored zebra with algae green accents, will Doug exclaim "I like that!" or will it be a learning experience borne of the sheer bravery it takes to improperly stow your fake salty ancient mariner meme sails free from fear?

>>2458989
>a major campaign underway to rehabilitate Doug's image

confirmed by the engagement in picrel where doug refrains from attacking and instead gently chides the questioner with questions-as-answers about his lack of faith and patience, like the proverbial wise guru on a mountaintop.
Actually more troubling in the long run than the prickly dickhead, but the acolytes wil eat it up.
Just forget that "like everything else, if there is a problem I will correct it" includes the abandoned tender that never tended and the abandoned submarine that never submerged.

>>2462452
There's no way Doug wouldn't bite that bait. He had to give up his social media to the film crew.

>>2462486
Eh, that writing style and pompousness is very Doug'esque.

>>2462506
Agreed, and the willingness and ease with which his combative "taking a stand" persona was abandoned like shedding an old skin in order to keep the grift going is perfectly in keeping with the whole malignant narcissist thing

Watch Jesus of the River go! (Local KARK TV news coverage)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIQbzFiilvg&feature=emb_title

>>2462527
Nice drone-work. It almost looked like the boat was moving.

>>2462175
Yea well you proved me right. A sixth grader that is of age can pass the bar exam keep moving the goal posts. Typical.

>>2462535
>A sixth grader that is of age can pass the bar exam

No, a sixth grader who is at or beyond the age of legal majority would meet the minimum age requirements to apply to take the bar exam in juridictions where that was the age requirement, would not where that age is 21, and would be turned down anyway based on not meeting the educational requirements that still exist even where a law degree isnt a prerequisite for taking the bar exam.

inb4 "well, a person scheduled to take the bar exam and their child who is in sixth grade might have their bodies switched the night before the test by magical fortune cookies given to them by a meddling old Chinese woman, and the sixth grader passing the bar while the parent freaked out over a pimple would be one of the zany, madcap situations that hilariously ensued.

>>2462572

>>2462335
whether the restraining order was granted or not it's pretty obvious you don't file for one unless your family has serious issues

The fact they're having any hearings on a temporary restraining order shows it was at least initially granted. They don't have a hearing on denied ex parte orders.

>>2462598
This. Normal, happy people don't hire lawyers and file restraining orders. My parents had all kinds of issues and they never had to get the court involved once they separated, they were still able to figure it out by taking to each other like adults and they are still on pretty good terms after marrying new people.

>>2462452
>have a problem
>cut it off at the root completely
>have no more problem
Technically that works, even if it doesn't normally count as actually solving it (note how he doesn't use the word).

>>2462852
Talk about moving goalposts:
> problem: item you designed/created does not and may never function for its stated purpose
>when new project appears to be on same trajectory, declare: "like everything else, if there is a problem I will correct it"
> real world examples show this declaration is demonstrably false and that despite basking in praise for your alleged tenacity, you have a record of giving up completely.
> redefine "problem" as "being the *owner* of item you designed/created that does not function for its stated purpose"
> disingenously claim that abandoning said item(s) aka "giving up completely" is "correcting the problem"
>also throw in some Clintonesque deflection that ignores the fact that in this context "solve" is synonymous with "correct".

>>2463015
I'm not sure what you're butthurt about, but cutting the losses and restarting from scratch is a viable strategy so long you do it while you can still recover and not only after completely running out of things to throw at reality repeatedly proving you wrong.

>>2463047
Nobody said it wasn't a viable action ("strategy" is giving Doug far too much credit for planning).

The point you gloss over and deflect from is that when questioned about why his "sailing vessel" cany sail after 14 years of construction and outfitting, Doug and his minions bristle at the very thought that he be asked to explain the lack of progress and perpetually postponed sail trials, and still pretend that he is a model of tenacity and problem solving whose word is gold....when in reality he's just as likely to give up- in the case of the sub, a week after its first failed test.

If he said "like everything else, if there is a problem I will correct it OR I will abandon the unfinished project for someone else to complete" then that would be entirely different and would indeed represent a "strategy" with some merit.
But he didn't do that, and instead pontificates about patience and "faith" and lies about how "everything else" has been corrected.

>>2463067
Here's some more quotes for you to throw randomly into your barely coherent ramblings.

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How is it possible that a chick-bait boat project can't sail?

>>2463159
ESL?

>>2462452
A typical time to complete a 30 to 40 foot steel sailing vessel would be 2-3 years. There's plenty of people on YouTube who have done that.

Doug's boat, essentially 4 times larger, would therefore take 8 to 12 years. But after 12 years, it should be DONE... but it isn't, with all systems unproven and of questionable overall seaworthiness...

However Doug seems to be turning it around on his questioner, as if the very fact of his incompetent building and design choices which have taken "all these years" is proof of his ability to be effective.

>>2463266
>dumbass thinks everything scale linearly.

>>2463170
>chick-bait
did he build a giant chicken coop?
was that his plan all along?

>>2463284
Dumbass doesn't understand how I was giving Doug the benefit of the doubt...?

>>2463339
>giving Doug the benefit of the doubt
>by scaling a project linearly.
lol you kids and your absolute lack of practical knowledge.

>>2463266
>A typical time to complete a 30 to 40 foot steel sailing vessel would be 2-3 years.
>Doug's boat, essentially 4 times larger, would therefore take 8 to 12 years.

Seeker is 74-75 ' (both numbers have been cited) ...thats 2.5× the size of a 30" boat and less tgan twice the size of a 40 footer, not four times larger.
As another anon also points out, the build time can't be accurately extrapolated in the simplistic linear manner you used- a 60' boat doesn't take twice as long to build as a 30 footer of the same basic type, economy of scale applies to build time as well so 1.5- 1.75 times the build time is very do-able.
Even with a small non- pro crew a boat like Seeker could easily have been completed in 5-6 years if they used common sense and standard build techniques and planning and suitable materials and equipment.

>>2463346
It's not linear; by making it linear I gave Doug the benefit of the doubt. It's less than linear as you increase in size.

When you have a sailboat (again giving Doug the benefit of the doubt that it is a sailboat since it has never sailed) that has 1 engine as as 35 foot sailboat for auxiliary power, you don't need 4x the time to install 1 engine just because the boat is 4x the volume. If anything the additional space should make it faster, not slower, to install. Same for tankage that doesn't have to be shoe-horned like it does on a smaller boat.

And this is repeated across all the systems - 1 propeller, 1 engine, 1 rudder assembly, 1 instrument panel, pumps for clean and dirty water, all pretty much the same as on a smaller boat, etc.

>>2463349
I know it is not linear, my point was, even if we give Doug a lot of leeway by saying it is linear ... it's still not done, even with the exaggerated quota of time allotted.

>>2463301
Chicken coop click bait is better.

I am kind of worried about Doug. Do you think the Dougn'ts got to him? Its been a long time since he has posted any progress on the boat. All he is doing is the weekend tours. Do you think the boat is ready to head to Florida next month and he is just taking the month off?

>>2463677
In one of those vids he says that he's going on vacation and returning Oct 15 so don't expect much of an update until then.

>>2457135
To the decerebrated, simian-like doug cultists, 66 words is a wall of text.
(no need to reply, we already know you're mad and retarded.)

>>2463695
Got a link? I've watched his recent videos and a couple of local news reports, and never heard him say this or mention it in his social media.
He's still doing Saturday tours that are very popular, perhaps a little *too* popular, lol.

>>2463956
>224x217
alrite, keep your secrets.