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While we regularly inspect our rigging looking for any developing problems, hopefully before they happen, we decided to pay for a professional rig check before embarking on our next adventure. Follow along as Darrin, “The Yacht Rigger” explains the ent...

Quarantine/isolation on a sailboat, another unexpected marina stay for a rigging inspection and forestay replacement, building a paddle board rack!

The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/sailingmerewether02221 #113 We have a very technical video this week with the changing of the "standing rigging". "What is standing rigging" you ask? Well...

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Sit back, relax, and enjoy that this is not your boat project ;) All is well aboard Rediviva yet when you’re ready to go full speed ahead but your planning and supplies are not… well, it takes longer. We still press forward, with our humor in tact and ...

We put our boat back together!!! We are almost ready to go sailing. It is November and we need to get south. Will we get back in the water and put the sails on in time to get to the Bahamas? Track us on our website! http://www.sweetruca.com Join our cre...

2008 Beneteau Oceanis 46 From the day we bought Sunday a shroud was showing signs of corrosion that we paid close attention too, along with damaging our forestay crossing the Aegean Sea and our insurance not covering anything to do with the mast/rigging (...

It's a nail-biting day with a nasty surprise waiting for us on the mast, and a large rock in an anchorage...what next?!? If you enjoyed this video, then give it a thumbs up, make a comment, share it, or support this documentary on Patreon or via Paypal wit...

In this episode, we settle back into cruising life! Returning to the first place we made landfall in California at Forney’s Cove on Santa Cruz Island, we find some new friends to go exploring with, Scott and Laurie from Off the Starboard Hull (Check out...

Finally!!! Our time in the boatyard is nearing it’s end! With work on the bowsprit nearly wrapped up, we just have a few more days left before getting back out on the water sailing again! But first, we need to get Varuna ready to sail again… cleaning...

Who needs a forestay anyways?! Well, maybe if you want to do some sailing… but before we do any more of that, it’s time to do a partial de-rigging and remove our forestay so the boatyard can get to work on fixing our bowsprit and anchor pulpit. We’...

in this video I am building and mounting a new furling headstay on my old Albin ballad 30 classic GRP sailboat from 1976. Link to the manual: http://www.plastimo.com/media/catalog/product/files/5/8/58224_notice_enr_t.pdf