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Happy Sunday Crew! In this weeks video we find "blisters" in our bottom job, realize we have missing parts on the standing rigging, and try to decide what size anchor we should buy. ⛵️Buy Your MIAMI BOAT SHOW TICKETS Here: https://www.eventspass.com/e...

Dave and Patricia finally find a solution for their storage woes aboard their Jeanneau SO 440 CAVU... the Milwaukee Pack Out system. This storage system is light weight and water proof. The Milwaukee Pack Out System is usually used by construction works bu...

Need to drill a big hole?... BORING! That's right, we are final to the point of boring out the stern post for our prop shaft. We were very much looking forward to this set up and seeing how this works. We put together a setup that included a long boring ...

Now that we have all the floors fabricated and the majority installed, there are 4 more very important ones to focus on. The ones that tie the ballast keel to the keel timber. These four floors in the middle of the vessel will hold the bolts that capture...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – From Lofting to Re-Framing / Removing Planks. Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; http://www.patreon.com/sampsonboatco ----- This episode, I get some more help to remove a lot of Tally H...

It’s our FIRST OVERNIGHT PASSAGE! We set sail across Lake Michigan, leaving in the middle of the night to ride the fading winds of a storm. Kirk’s dad arrives just before midnight to join us for the trip. The sail starts out with 15+ knts on the nose,...

Products in this video: Tea Kettle - https://sailingsoulianis.com/products-we-love/bodum-electric-tea-kettle Manual Food Processor - https://sailingsoulianis.com/products-we-love/zyliss-manual-food-processor We bought the boat, daysailed the boat, and hav...

Until now, family and friends have always sailed with us on our Tartan 37, but this time we sail her by ourselves, up to Milwaukee and back. Leaving the dock at our marina in Racine is tricky. The dock is on the Root River (which frequently floods and dra...

The Tartan 37 is ours, and it’s time to celebrate! With the 4th of July arriving just days after we close on the boat, we decide it’s rather fitting to pop some bubbly and celebrate our own new-found freedom… from land! The hardest part of moving ab...

WE FINALLY BUY A SAILBOAT. It feels like we’ve been searching for a boat forever! In this episode we finally buy a boat, a beautiful Tartan 37. Before we find the Tartan, we look at two other options in the Milwaukee area: a Pearson 38 and a Southerly 3...

Our offer was accepted on a Morgan 382! The boat is in fabulous condition, but still needs a bit of work. Fortunately she doesn’t need repairs, just finishing. Kirk and I do kind of like the idea of finishing out the systems ourselves. The woodworking, o...

There are literally thousands upon thousands of boats on the west coast, and we can’t find one to fit the bill? Up until this point, we had limited our boat search to catamarans, with a price tag of $50,000 or less. Yes, we admit, we probably could find ...