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In this episode I got my first coat of anti-fouling paint on and talked about the zincs on the boat. I'm no expert in chemistry, but I gave the best explanation that I could. I also look at some of the products used for this project. *the thru hull fi...

The stainless work is starting to take shape now, with a new companionway ladder being fitted. The floorboards are all up and the lads start preparing the hull for her layer of fibreglass. This is a video clip to accompany a blog post on our refit project...

Not much has really happened this week. I am still grinding, nearly finished, and I have only found three more holes. The rest of the hull seems to be quite all right. The part between the keels was not as bad as I feared and I also got some more offers fr...

This is to accompany our blog post on Esper's refit in PSS Boatyard, Satun, Thailand. In this clip Lek is preparing the hull for osmosis treatment, whilst carpenter brothers Ton and Tui remove the portlights from the cabin.

PART 2 of 2: A guide to repair and fixing fiberglass blisters on boats. This is a common problem among sailboat hulls produced in the mid-seventies. Narrated by a Camper Nicholson 31 owner completing this project himself by prepping and filling his blis...

A guide to paining the hull on a boat. Narrated by a Camper Nicholson 31 owners completing this project themselves by prepping and thinning the paint, then applying using the roll and tip method with foam rollers. An informative how-to on this topic with...

Camper Nicholson 31 owner repairs cracks and crazing in the gelcoat on the hull. This is caused by impact to the hull, manufacturer error in too thick gelcoat and bending around forward bulkheads. He uses a rotary tool to grind the crack down to the fibe...

A guide to repair and fixing fiberglass blisters on boats. This is a common problem among sailboat hulls produced in the mid-seventies. Narrated by a Camper Nicholson 31 owner completing this project himself by prepping and filling his blisters with epox...

Until it starts looking like a boat, you don't really feel like you're working on a boat. Even though we've been working toward this for six years, it finally feels like our journey has begun. -- Kay

We're building a 74 ft steel sailboat in our front yard. And we're doing it for the best reason there is to build a boat. We want to. So don't tell us "you'll never finish", "your wasting money', we've hear all of the warnings and we do not fear our dr...