AIS & VHF Radio Maintenance | Preparing to Cast Off 1 | Sailing Ep 288
February 06, 2022 by followtheboat | Language: EN Play Time: 00:13:54 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
Every cruiser has niggling boat maintenance jobs which you can live with, but when you’re about to make 1,000 nautical mile passage you need to attend to. Yes, you heard correctly, the countdown has begun towards our next destination…
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00:00 Boat Maintenance – can you help?
00:21 Our AIS and VHF split antenna
01:50 Up the mizzen mast
02:13 Replacing the AIS antenna
02:43 Why isn’t the VHF radio working?
04:32 Soldering upside down
06:13 Bilges full of water
07:22 Flexible coupling failure
09:15 Galley re-model
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