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A Step By Step Guide to Replacing All Your Rigging!! – (Episode 222)
Watch part 1/3 of the rigging episodes here! https://youtu.be/wNhv9QRU98k This is a special, longer episode where the owner of Selden masts, Jonas Berg, continues to take us through the step by step guide to replacing all of our standing rigging on our h...
Changing All Our Rigging A Week Before We Cross the Pacific!! – (Episode 221)
We have an extended episode this week as Jonas Berg, one of the owners of Selden Masts flies down to Mexico to help us re-rig our lagoon 450 catamaran. The knowledge that this man shares is invaluable, and there is so much to learn from him, hence the long...
Rigging 101 (part 2)
We go through more of the actual re-rig in this video. Changing out the wires, fitting a new furler for the yankee and replacing the stay in the old staysail furler. Lots of good tips from Jade and a step by step guide to STA-LOK fittings. There is inform...
Replacing the Gas Spring in a Selden Rodkicker Rigid Vang
After eleven years and 25,000 nautical miles of hard use, our Selden Rodkicker Rigid Vang experienced its first failure on our 1,200nm passage from Fiji to New Zealand, requiring replacement. Five days into the nine-day passage, we noticed an unusual clank...
Ep77 | Everything you wanted to know about the Annapolis boat show (and more!)
The Annapolis sailboat show has more boats in the water than any other. It cleverly splits the motorboat show (happens the week before) with the sailboat show so the vendors stay but the boats all change over. It means there's plenty to see and actually th...
This may have SAVED us! – Selden E40i (Electric Winch Installation)
The story of our chance encounter with Selden, which led to the installation of their new E40i electric winch, which very well may just have saved our bacon after highlighting a huge critical failure point in Cadohas systems after someone clearly made a h...
Sail Life – Selden France factory tour & Selden Rodkicker install
We drive down to the Selden factory in France to get a tour and pick up a new Selden Rodkicker type 20 and an E40i electric winch. Back aboard the boat, I replace our old rigid boom vang with the spiffy new Rodkicker. Links: Rodkicker pdf: https://suppor...
⛵️Living the YES THEORY!! #222
Another Odd week in our lives. We were invited to go to the USA to shoot a TV commercial and we took advantage of the trip to visit some friends along the way. We also had the opportunity to visit the amazing Selden Mast in USA. Friends on this episode: @...
BREAKING OUT OF ROUTINES – SwT 85 – LIFE IS MORE THAN SCHEDULES
Breaking out of routines is doing something thats not in your schedule. Even as a sailor, life can easily become routine with a constant feeling of something you need to do. I sometimes need a bit changes in scenery and experience. Happy to have Kylie back...
CRUISING INTO THE NEW YEAR – SwT 84 – IS IT OK TO JUST ENJOY LIFE?
Is it okay to just enjoy life? It's so easy to forget to relax because it's always something I can do. I will try to be better at doing nothing. At least this was something I was thinking about when I felt like cruising into a New Year even without a NYE p...
TROPICAL X-MAS – SwT 83 Going to the beach at Christmas
Tropical x-mas is still exotic to me even after my forth Christmas in the Caribbean. I'm sharing my Christmas with you and wish you a happy new year! Going to the beach is something I should do more often, but so easy to take for granted after so long time...