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After finishing most of our aft welding from plate replacement, we decided to pull our beta marine engine to do some more work as part of our steel boat restoration. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.c...

The month of May... what a whirlwind! Now that the engine passes all tests we are back on track to leaving the dock asap. We had SO much to get done. It was so hard to share our decision to leave Swab in my sister's care. He is happy and he is loved and th...

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This one covers some preparation work for some of the next key jobs. I am saving progress on the Windlass Part 2 video and the galley work one until I can devote an entire episode to each. Meanwhile, I am exhausted after all that digging. Time for a cup of...

You definitely don’t need an engine to sail around the world. We made the decision early on to have a reliable, bullet proof engine because we believe it opens up doors to experiences that we couldn’t have otherwise. It can be hard spending time and m...

We finally get to the bottom of our engine overheating alarm by flushing the heat exchange with muriatic acid. Desiree does one last provisioning run and struggles to find a place for everything onboard. We take some final steps towards getting Atticus rea...

My friends from SV Chuffed are picking up anchor to head back to Panama City and the fun times of buddy boating are over again. There are some boat jobs that need to be done before I leave Pedro Gonzales to start my way over to Costa Rica. Some of you ha...

The engine repower fun goes on. Now that Karl is back in the water, it's time to tackle the alignment. First we need to build some extra spacers to raise the engine a bit more before we can move it slightly up and down and left and right to manage to get t...

Wow, wow, wow...finally, Big Red is realeased from custums and finds its way to Karl and into his belly. I am so glad that Maria came to give me a hand, I would not have been able to tackle this massive job without her!!! Still quite a way to go until B...

I have dropped in an extra video for March as I was so excited to actually get out of the harbour. The weather, tides and daylight all lined up and the engine sea-trial sign-off has happened. Without this, I would have voided the warranty had I used the e...