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Rebuilding a wooden sailboat: 140 weeks later — Sailing Yabá
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 140 In this episode of our boat restoration, we build our own gimbal for our electric stove and oven. Ben had it all planned out in his head and tested his freshly learned skills by mixing carpentry and welding ...
After a 2.5 years rebuild, is our wooden boat still rotten? — Sailing Yabá 139
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 139 In this episode of our boat restoration, we find loads of humidity in our stem and we have to decide if we replace it or fix it. Besides that, we get our hull ready for painting, make the stern tube and add ...
Defining the WATERLINE of our once SINKING BOAT without any equipment — Sailing Yabá 138
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 138 In this episode of our boat restoration, we try to draw our waterline! Seems like no big deal, but it was a huge one! As you probably know, Yabá was first built in a beach in Bahia in the most handmade and ...
Boat restoration: Installing our 2300W anchor windlass (+The Ocean Race) — Sailing Yabá 137
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 137 In this episode of our boat restoration, we install our windlass into place, a very big step forward to being able to anchor in paradisiac places. This episode was not to teach how to install a windlass or ...
Reviving a Wreck: Professionally Unbending a Prop-Shaft & Purple Wood Handrails — Sailing Yabá 136
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 136 In this episode of our boat restoration, we spend a lot of time at the lathe workshop working on our propeller and shaft system. Our shaft was quite bent and ugly but we found the right guy to fix it for us ...
Salvaged sailboat rebuild: we admit we made a big mistake — Sailing Yabá 135
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 135 In this episode of our boat restoration, we address a big mistake we made regarding the roof of our superstructure. We wanted to keep it bare wood, but unfortunately, it wasn't enough and we started having l...
From SALVAGED WRECK to LIVEABOARD (ambient lighting & odd furniture piece) — Sailing Yabá 134
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 134 In this episode of our boat restoration, we are working hard to prepare our hull for the final paint coat. Besides that, we decided to drop our interior plans and follow our hearts instead, which will result...
Preparing for mooring and paradise anchorages on our wooden salvaged sailboat — Sailing Yabá 133
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 133 In this episode of our boat restoration, we finally install the cooling system of our engine as well as new pulleys. Besides that, we work on mooring cleats, our bow locker and our anchor windlass. We hope y...
Liveaboard sailboat rebuild | Hoisting and installing its huge wooden rudder — Sailing Yabá 132
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 132 In this episode of our boat restoration, we finally install our huge wooden rudder in place and besides that, we also work loads on our engine cooling system! We hope you enjoy it! 👉 SUBSCRIBE to not mi...
Turning this once WRECKED SHIP into an all new liveaboard sailboat! — Sailing Yabá #131
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 131 In this episode of our boat restoration, we close up the walls of our boat under the coaming board with some nicely routered wedges; we build the most unique handles for our drawers; we install the last wind...
Getting our RESTORED wooden sailing BOAT ready for living on! — Sailing Yabá 130
Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 130 In this episode of our boat restoration, we finish applying the primer layers on the hull; we build our first drawers and we visit a boat graveyard, an adventure with quite a plot twist! We hope you enjoy it...