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That's it!! We are ready to splash our dream sailboat after 23 years on the dry!!! We’re Duca and Roberta, a Brazilian couple that have bought a 44ft steel sailboat (Dinieper Tropic 1200) that was abandoned on the hard for 22 years in Guarujá, Brazil. ...

Sometimes when you go looking for shortcuts you wind up making more work for yourself, this bottom job has been brutal and I tried something that would be faster than sanding... It did not work out well. Now the question is what will it take to fix it? ...

Horror stories abound across the interwebs about Coppercoat. We've read and watched just about all of them! If you look, there are a ton of rave reviews out there, too. Sometimes, you just need to go with your gut. Our instincts told us that if we followe...

Exactly one week from launch Parlay gets some last minute jobs done as she prepares to be splashed. We primer and antifoul her hull, re-bed some windows, shim out rudder bearings amongst many other jobs required in her final week... SV Parlay is a hurrica...

This week we got hauled out for the second time in six months for anti fouling. Sisu is getting gelcoat repairs. We used the opportunity to perform a full service on Sisu and Tippex's engines and Petro gets a change to use the Sailrite to fix our stack pac...

We’ve had a long history of trying to get our CopperCoat antifoul to work. After paying an initial fee of well over $10,000 to get our boat sanded back to the gel coat and an application of Coppercoat we discovered months later that the application did n...

Watch our full CopperCoat Antifouling Nightmare video here: https://youtu.be/jVtzBenciz0 YouTube has disabled comments on all our videos due to having our child in some of our videos. We have complained over and over again yet our words fall on deaf ears....

We had CopperCoat Antifouling applied to the hull of our Oyster 56' in 2016. Since then we've had nothing but problems. Here's a play by play on everything that's happened since the original application. For all the details, visit https://sailingbritican.c...

This is guide covering what to do when lifting your boat for antifouling and general maintenance. We cover Prop servicing, changing anodes, repairing scratches on the topsides, checking your sea-cocks and lots of other little jobs to be done when your boa...

We enjoy some cold beers as we do a bit of boat polishing in bikini. Could spring actually be here? Then it's time to apply the antifouling paint because we're going back into the water at the end of the week. We are so looking forward to this after these ...

Not only are we adding new antifouling to our bottom, but we're testing out a NEW silicone paint for our propeller! We hope you like boat work, because this episode is jam packed with it! More specifically, focusing on the bottom of our boat. The winds ...

Eco-friendly antifouling Q&A with Capt. Brian and Senor Brady. We sit down and discuss the results of our eco-friendly antifouling experiment. Brian starts off with a little recap of what we did during our haul out in Grenada, and why we made the dec...