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The Lofrans Tigres horizontal windlass is one of the most common electric windlasses in use on cruising sailboats. It's time-tested, reliable, and spare parts are typically easy to come by so it seems like a great fit for our Westsail 42 sailboat. The inst...

Before we could repair the leaking hull to deck joint on our Westsail 42, we had to remove all of the deck hardware that was mounted on top of the cap rail. Now that this boat project is complete, it's time to put all of the sailing hardware back onto the ...

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Tambi and I lay on 270ft of fiberglass cloth onto the bulwarks of our Westsail 42. The fiberglass we use is 25oz double biased mat. We make 3 laps around the boat with my job being to wet out and lay the fiberglass strips into place and her job being to mi...

Some days you just have to go after some of the smaller boat projects that tend to accumulate. We remove the vinyl graphic from the side of the boat, rebed a leaky deck prism, remove an engraved belay pin board thingy, and work on our busted up cap rail. T...

We bought a Westsail 42 sailboat and we'd like to show you some of the projects we'll be working on through the Summer to get her ready for longterm cruising. She's a super-solid old girl with a whole lot going for her, but in order for her to be safe and...

The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/drakeparagon0322 Have you ever imagined having a wood burning stove on your sailboat? Every winter for the past 10 years we’ve heated our boat with the Li...

We've met some wonderful people in Vestmanna and had some fantastic adventures, but now it's time to move on. And what better place to be than the capital during a national holiday!? Ólavsøka, called St. Olav's Day or just National Day, is a holiday in ...

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This is something they don't show you with the tour boats. The west side of Faroe erupts out of the sea with cliffs that soar vertically for thousands of feet. It's a refuge and breeding ground for millions of birds each year, and has some of the most stun...

One thing people in the Faroe Islands take seriously is rowing. A tradition that originates with the Vikings, we get a chance to see some fantastic young athletes compete in boats that haven't changed in hundreds of years. Then we're off with a new frien...