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Setting Sail SOUTH! | Sailing Avocet
We finally bid farewell to Morro Bay and set sail south for Ventura, where we eagerly retrieved our brand new Precision main sail 🤩 After a long sail, a quick stay at Ventura Isle Marina and a little provisioning we were ready to continue south to Cat...
Fixing Avocet | Rebuilding our Mast
Through every refit we have become more familiar with Avocet’s design and layup, touching nearly every inch of the boat in the process, but there was one final piece that was left mostly untouched by us - the mast. We had already done a bit of rig work p...
Sailing Avocet | Sea Castle Sails SOUTH!
If you follow us on other social media, you may have noticed that Chris and I jumped right back into boat projects; this time headfirst into a full interior refit. While we focus our time and energy on sanding, fiber glassing, and varnishing, Avocet has be...
Installing a PYI PSS Dripless Shaft Seal on a Vintage Sailboat
SEASON 6 / The Haul Out : Episode #131 : Wrestlin' the PSS Shaft Seal into place On this episode we enter the MAD DASH phase of the haul out! What we don't mention in the video is that we were racing the clock to get the prop shaft and PSS installed befor...
Installing a New Bronze Stern Tube on an Alberg 30 at The Ventura Harbor Boat Yard
SEASON 6 / The Haul Out : Episode #130 : Flying the Engine and Installing the Tube Hello Friends! On this weeks episode we start out by thanking out Patrons for their continuing support! THANK YOU! We also thank our Super Chat contributors from the live...
Having Difficulty Removing the Prop Shaft and Almost Sinking on LAND
SEASON 6 / The Haul Out : Episode #122 : Getting the shaft.... out Hello Friends, On this weeks episode we hire the Ventura Harbor Boat Yard to help us pull out our prop shaft so we can change the cutlass bearing and remove my archnemesis THE PACKING N...
Pulling the Damaged Propeller and Learning about Electrolytic Corrosion on a Sailboat
SEASON 6 / The Haul Out : Episode #121 : MAD PROPS (and Expensive Props) Hello Friends, On this weeks episode we pull the prop off of our 1965 Alberg 30 Sailboat. It was a complete loss due to electrolytic corrosion. For any of you who are just tuning i...
Custom G10 bases for Groco Triflange Seacocks and Enlarging Cockpit Drains on a Sailboat
SEASON 6 / The Haul Out : Episode #120 : Bottom Paint, Cockpit Drains and Seacock Bases Hello Friends, On this episode I show you an easy way to enlarge holes on the bottom for your boat. We needed to do this to oversize the cockpit drains from 1.25 to ...
Preparing the bottom of SV Triteia and Drunken Interviews in the shower
SEASON 6 / The Haul Out : Episode #119 : Bottom Preparations On this episode we get into the fun and brutal task of sanding the bottom. We had wanted to water blast the bottom down to gel coat or fiberglass but that is something that has to be done by th...