Day 2 and 3 on the ICW in North Carolina
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A conversation with Mark the Rigger in Oriental, North Carolina. Mark replaced all of the standing rigging on our Westsail 42 Paragon. He also helped us to install a new bowsprit, step the mast, tune the rig, rebuild all our winches, and much much more b...
Every voyage begins with a dream. For us, this dream has become a reality as we begin a momentous adventure. Join us as we push off from North Carolina in the wee hours of the morning. Where will we end up? Who knows!
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A conversation with Mark the Rigger in Oriental, North Carolina. Mark replaced all of the standing rigging on our Westsail 42 Paragon. He also helped us to install a new bowsprit, step the mast, tune the rig, rebuild all our winches, and much much more b...
A tour of Paragon's Hull while in the travel lift just before launching in the water.
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A conversation with Mark the Rigger in Oriental, North Carolina. Mark replaced all of the standing rigging on our Westsail 42 Paragon. He also helped us to install a new bowsprit, step the mast, tune the rig, rebuild all our winches, and much much more b...
Installing the Bowsprit, Stepping the Mast, and Hauling Out.
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A conversation with Mark the Rigger in Oriental, North Carolina. Mark replaced all of the standing rigging on our Westsail 42 Paragon. He also helped us to install a new bowsprit, step the mast, tune the rig, rebuild all our winches, and much much more b...
Replacing the headstay wire inside the Profurl roller furler.
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A conversation with Mark the Rigger in Oriental, North Carolina. Mark replaced all of the standing rigging on our Westsail 42 Paragon. He also helped us to install a new bowsprit, step the mast, tune the rig, rebuild all our winches, and much much more b...
A conversation with Mark the Rigger in Oriental, North Carolina. Mark replaced all of the standing rigging on our Westsail 42 Paragon. He also helped us to install a new bowsprit, step the mast, tune the rig, rebuild all our winches, and much much more b...
A conversation with Mark the Rigger in Oriental, North Carolina. Mark replaced all of the standing rigging on our Westsail 42 Paragon. He also helped us to install a new bowsprit, step the mast, tune the rig, rebuild all our winches, and much much more b...
Disassembling, cleaning, and greasing sailboat rigging turnbuckles.
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In this week's episode, we finished assembling our first shroud.
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Join us during our refit of Paragon prior to pushing off from North Carolina. Today we started replacing all of the standing rigging. Every shroud and stay on Paragon has a Norseman fitting on each end. Norseman fittings are used to attach the wire to the ...
Painting the mast on a Westsail 42 full keel blue water sailboat.
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We are moving our aerial videos to a new channel called 'ParagonSkies' where we will publish aerial videos of the places we have sailed to. If you have enjoyed our aerial videos then please check our new aerial channel 'ParagonSkies', and thank you for sa...
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In the last episode of our Southern Cross boat tour series, we look at Southern Cross' autopilot, steering quadrant, emergency tiller, and SCUBA equipment. Don and D also tell about using Southern Cross as a dive boat in Bonaire, using their Hookah to scr...
Part 3 of a guided tour of the cabin of Don and D's Dickerson 41 cruising sailboat 'Southern Cross.'
We look at Southern Cross' engine room and aft cabin, and meet Joe Clay, the shipwright who has been working on Southern Cross in Oriental, North Carolin...
Part 2 of a guided tour of the cabin of Don and D's Dickerson 41 cruising sailboat 'Southern Cross.'
We look at Southern Cross' deck and cabin top construction, the remodeling of the forward head, anchor chain storage, the electrical panel, the navigatio...
Part 1 of a guided tour of the cabin of Don and D's Dickerson 41 cruising sailboat 'Southern Cross.'
We look at Southern Cross' beautiful dragon carving, the galley, massive storage lockers, structural members of the wood hull, custom salon table, sea be...
Part 3 of a guided tour of the deck of Don and D's Dickerson 41 cruising sailboat 'Southern Cross.'
We look at Southern Cross' custom bimini rain catcher, their ingenious installation of Kyocera solar panels, their multiple uses for the mizzen running ba...
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