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We are ready for bluewater sailing in the South Pacific Islands, but after our long and challenging upwind adventure, rounding Cape Horn and sailing the Beagle Channel, Straight of Magellan, and the fjords and canals of Patagonia, we needed to do some boat...

Storing our sailboat in the Mexican heat is hard. The to do list seems to get bigger and bigger. We have to remove solar panels, water heaters, check chain plates, rigging. You get the idea. Life in a boatyard is dirty, hot, and sweaty. Did we mention h...

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In this episode we are working on the trampoline, catwalk and forward beam area which we could probably also call the “nightmare” area. And that is because there are so many little fiddly bits and pieces that require sanding and spot filling, it’s te...

We're back! We have had to be away with work from our boat for several months, with no chance to come back for even a weekend and we are finally back! We have a whole week now to purely dedicate to Rummy. As we continue to strip her back, we knew we may fi...

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We are a couple months away from leaving to sail offshore. Our last big job (and all of our life savings) was to get a rerig, for peace of mind. And thank goodness we did! Our chainplate had a big crack in it and our deck was rotten around the chainplate h...

We work on putting the final floor into The Hull Fame, and reinforce the area around our chainplates - which will then allow us to adhere all the bulkheads to the hull sides. This week's episode has us putting the new floor in for what will be our sail lo...

How to fix a leaky chainplate on a Tayana 55 CC Blue Water Sailboat! Chainplates and Turnbuckles. In this episode we go in depth on cleaning and servicing the chainplates and turnbuckles. It is very time consuming to do all of the maintenance on the riggin...

Our only surprise was how quick our prop's zinc disappeared. It's been a year and a half since our last haul out but it seems like it's still too soon to have burned through that donut zinc. This most likely means we'll be adding a grounding plate of some ...

Runaway Chain!! And a beautiful day with my wife. In this episode we take a look at some boat projects. We went to Annapolis to pick up new anchor chain. Getting it from the car down to the boat was a challenge. We replaced the old chain with the new- had ...