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Wet again and no longer on the hard, yea! After getting a new shaft, etc…, and bottom job Isabella was finally splashed. We left Ft. Lauderdale and headed straight, nonstop for the Keys. The seas were a bit choppy at first, there were scattered thunderst...

We leave the unimpressive Shaw Island and have a wonderful sail to Chalkies Beach which is opposite the world famous Whitehaven Beach in the Whitsundays. The planning for this trip is very intense as Magnus does the maths and checks it twice to ensure tha...

Welcome to Episode 24 of Carpe Diem Sailing. How many of you sailors out there live in fear of pulling out a knotmeter transducer while the boat is in the water, OK maybe not fear so much as a bit of stress. No one wants to sink their boat. If you've nev...

The gearbox re-assembly is finished and she gets a new coat of paint. We manhandle her onto Nutshell ready for installation. Magnus does a few canning tests on various meats, some raw, some half cooked and some fully cooked, in readiness for our trip up t...

We are planning to sail 7500 miles from Thailand to Alaska via Japan, and we have a whole lot of work to do! How to heat a boat. There are various options, diesel vs hot-air? Hot-air heaters are efficient and good at the job, but do they use too much pow...

It is fairly easy to replace a transducer on a boat while in the water. This is a cleanable, removable knot meter being replaced on a heavy-displacement sailboat (about 2.5 ft below the water line).

E66 Weekly Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. Our first night on Nutshell! There is so much cleaning and sorting to do but we get into it. We find many interesting and useful things on Nutshell. Magnus makes a start of the many jobs which need ...

From our "Life Aboard" video series, Amy shows how to pull and clean an Airmar Transducer, which needs to be done periodically, or whenever the boat remains still for long enough, in order to clean out any growth. Please note that you should specifically ...