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Are we crazy for re-painting the entire boat ourselves?! Short answer is yes, of course, but it needed to be done! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we continue to sand the waterline and hull in order to prep Sitka for a fresh coat of top-part paint. It fe...

Hot mess in the yard. On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we begin our sailboat refit by sanding down the waterline and hull of Sitka. If that isn't hard enough, we are doing it in an extreme heat wave in the desert of Mexico!

Saying goodbye to our boat... In this episode of sailing sitka, we use our last day in the yard to clean up Sitka as best as we could in order to leave her stored in the yard for 3 months! We fly home to Canada to work in order to save up some cruising cas...

We found holes in our boat! In this episode, we start day 4 in the Guaymas boatyard by inspecting the blisters and bubbles we found on our keel. We figure out what need immediate attention and also figure out a game plan on how to address them. We start cl...

In this weeks episode of Barefoot Travels we FINALLY get the hardtop up onto the boat where it belongs!! Thank you to all our PATRONS for all your support. If you would like to become a patron the link is: https://www.patreon.com/Barefoottravels If patr...

Being in the boatyard no matter how long is exhausting. It's not the reason you buy a boat, it's hard work and when projects drag on it can be draining on your energy. Hope you enjoy this weeks episode, it is all part of the process! Thank you to all our ...

This weeks episode we continue on with the endless job of working on the hardtop and we get an exciting delivery!!! Thank you to all our PATRONS for all your support. If you would like to become a patron the link is: https://www.patreon.com/Barefoottravel...

This week's episode of Barefoot Travels we crack on with a job that is really important for the safety of our boat. Sail drive upgrade! We have SD20 sail drives and maintaining them is really important. We upgrade the water seals and drain out the oil! St...

In this weeks video of Barefoot travels we get hauled out of the water! I know it feel likes yesterday we were out of the water but now being here in Florida we can get more stuff done! The hardtop is one of these goals! Yes we will finally be finishing o...

In this week's episode we play catch up a little bit to get you caught up with everything we've been doing. From finishing our lithium install to moving the boat up river to our haul out area! Hope you enjoy! Thank you to all our PATRONS for all your supp...

In this episode and season finale of Barefoot Sail and Dive we finish the paint job and SPLASH the boat! It has been a long time coming. We have been on the hard for about 9 months! It has been difficult but we have come out stronger! We are super happy t...

In this episode of Barefoot Sail and Dive we finally get to install our new windows! We go back in time a little bit to show you the original plan and then how we actually did it! With the windows in, Barefoot looks like a whole new boat! So should you b...