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Leaving our sailboat on the hard made us very nervous. After 5 months we returned to the boatyard to do some boat work and to launch our floating home. The amount of dirt on our decks is amazing and gross. After a lot of hard work cleaning up and a few b...

Saying goodbye to our boat... In this episode of sailing sitka, we use our last day in the yard to clean up Sitka as best as we could in order to leave her stored in the yard for 3 months! We fly home to Canada to work in order to save up some cruising cas...

It's much more difficult to do normal tasks when living on a boat, so this week we hire a driver for the day to run some errands.

Boring video for other boaters, clips of the boat getting lifted and put back in the water at the yard for new antifouling bottom paint. If you enjoy shows like "Dirty Jobs" or "How it's Made", you may like this. Or, if you don't have a boat and never seen...

We actually had fun amidst the inevitable hard work and anguish of our boat lift. If you want to know how make this fairly odious job more bearable make sure you watch this episode. It wasn't without it's challenges but we found some ways to really enjoy o...

This week we hauled our Lagoon 42, Sabado, out of the water! Join us while we prepare to leave our boat on the hard for a few months while we go visit friends and family. We’ll head back to the boatyard once the weather cools down to finish our upgrades/...

We share our experience lifting our boat in Monastir, Tunisia. The highs, the lows, all the excitement and frustrations, LOL!!! SUBSCRIBE to follow along our journey sharing our lives as we sail around with world with our pets onboard our 46' Sailboat sp...

The rudder comes out!!! We drink champagne from a 100 year old trophy and do major boat surgery! Track us on our website! http://www.sweetruca.com Join our crew on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/ruca Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! @ruc...

Sailing from NYC to Annapolis for the Sailboat Show plus hauling out for DIY boat work. Join our crew on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/ruca Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! @rucasailing http://www.facebook.com/rucasailing http://www.tw...

Moving a sailboat in a gale, is it dangerous? Jamie and Millie didn't feel safe as Esper swung around in her cradle. Sometimes life on the hard is hard! If you enjoy our videos, please help us to get noticed by COMMENTING, LIKING, SUBSCRIBING (IT'S FREE!)...

As the haul-out travel lift came lumbering towards us, it was a lesson in hope, guts and teamwork. Subscribe for more sailing videos: https://ftbyoutube.page.link/subscribe The rain and wind howled round the yard, swinging our shiny dodger from the haul-o...

We unstep the mast and haul our sailboat out of the water. The standing rigging replacement project will continue with the mast down while the boat is out of the water for the hurricane season. It was may goal to complete the replacement of the standing ...