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This is the final few days of the lightning damage refit in Costa Rica, as we get ready topsail 2500 miles north to the top end of Mexico, before sailing across the pacific ocean to New Zealand. SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which...

We'd already started noticing some corrosion with our bronze thru hulls, so in our mission to eliminate potential points of failure, it's time to upgrade! All of our old thru hulls get removed and massively upgraded with Marelon thru hulls, Marelon scoops...

Description Nutshell gets hauled out of the water and is given a good clean. It’s time to dig deep to find our painting supplies in the starboard aft cabin, ‘the shed’. Magnus goes about checking the through hull and finds that the one in the gall...

All of our sailboat repair and maintenance blogs are now hosted on our dedicated maintenance channel, MOTHERSHIP MAINTENANCE Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipmaintenance An edited version of this video is now hosted here: https://you...

We replaced every Thru Hull and Seacock on Sunday with TruDesign. This is a simple step-by-step guide on how we did it.

The pre-launch maintenance and upgrade projects aboard Talisman continue, with install of all new head/toilet piping, Oceanaire SkyScreens, sea-cocks and through-hull fitting swaps, and the installation of our new clothes washing machine.

Your sailboat thru hull fittings are super important for not sinking. So we decided to install a new bronze thru hull fitting instead of our plastic one. And by changing our ball valves from the old gate valves we gave ourselves a bit more work. Luckily th...

In this video we show you exactly how we replaced all of our 26-year-old seacocks. (A.K.A. thru-hull fittings) This is a 'Boat Work' video and is intended to be informative, rather than entertaining... SUBSCRIBE! ➜ http://bit.ly/SBYouTube⛵ 📖 Be the...

Slightly longer video than usual. But I wanted to try and get the whole thing into one episode. I needed to remove two redundant thru-hulls, both either on or under the waterline, and then fill the resulting holes. So important to get it right. I tried fo...

The welder will come next week and I used the time for some other projects on the endless to do list. I widened the through-hull for my new depth sounder and went on a hunt for more corrosion from the inside. And I used my oven for the first time: with fre...