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This week we get out of the tent and onto the water, as we help the guys from Kentmorr to bring in a boat for demolition.  It's anchored up the Severn River, across the Chesapeake Bay, so the 4 of us load up onto Tucker's trawler to grab it. As we hear m...

Hey all! The boat restoration/refit/renovation projects continue to roll on. Today, Kirstin grabbed more power tools and got to work removing our kitchen cabinets. After starting the project, our big plans were derailed due to a refrigerator delay. That...

In this week's episode of Barefoot Sail and Dive we have a lot of fun on the boat! We borrowed a paddle board from a friend and took Fox for her first paddle. Davy installed the underwater lights on the back of the boat and we even helped some friends wi...

In this episode we have to make more damage before we can fix it. So it's time for some DEMOLITION BABY! Just like Davy did on the starboard side of the boat he cut a huge section of bad glass out. He will rebuild this section as soon as possible. Unfortu...

Step 1: Demolition! When we first bought Avocet, she checked off all the things we wanted in a boat except 1: having a shower stall. Chris assured me that we would have enough room to build our own, but once we got into it we realized that not everything w...

After having stripped Victoria of her interior, we now move on to disassembling her hull by removing her cockpit, aft deck and then her rudder. Almost all of the mahogany that is being stripped from her is being saved and we will reuse as much of it as w...

All the frames are steamed in! AND we got donated a TON of white cedar! We have been thinking about our planking material since we started and were wondering if it would be worth buying cedar or if we were better off planking in our beautiful white oak...

Before handing off SV Rossa to the next sailor, we agree to undertake the huge amount of interior work she has been needing, along with some various other structural projects. Live Updates: facebook.com/sailorama twitter.com/sailorama instagram.com/robins...

You have to first rip out all of the old in order to rebuild with the new. The first step to a total refit/restore of the interior of our boat is ripping out all of the old headliner and plywood insulation. After this is done, we set our sights on the main...

Support Tally Ho here - http://sampsonboat.co.uk/support-tally-ho I'm on a mission to restore a historic classic sailing yacht called Tally Ho. In this video I talk about why I am rebuilding this boat, when it would probably be easier to just build a new...