HOW SAILING CATAMARANS ARE MADE
May 03, 2020 by Gone with the Wynns | Language: EN Play Time: 00:13:52 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
We live and travel about the world on a South African built catamaran. So, we couldn’t come to South Africa and not see where our boat was born!
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We give our vessels (rolling or floating) names and personalities. They become prominent characters in the story of our lives and for the unsedentary few, it’s also the place we call home.
We’ve lived aboard Curiosity for four years now and she’s taken us almost halfway around the world. In that time, we’ve gotten to know each other intimately. Ohhh, if these hulls could talk…the expletives she could spew!
And, like any hard-earned relationship, we love her more with each passing nautical mile. But we know her as the sailboat she is now…our fifteen-year-old catamaran with more than a few nicks in her fiberglass (that we still need to patch up, sorry about that ol’ girl).
So naturally, when we had the opportunity to see where she was born, we didn’t even blink!
Not only do we stand in the exact spot Curiosity was made, we get a “hands-on” look at how Robertson and Caine builds Leopard catamarans today.
00:00 Intro to Cape Town & South African Catamaran Building
00:45 Our Robertson & Caine Leopard Factory Guides
00:58 Design Office aka The Fish Bowl
01:24 This is where CURIOSITY was built, our 2005 Leopard Sailing Catamaran
02:40 How Catamarans are Built – Leopard 50 Sailing & 53 Power Cat Factory Tour
03:48 The Leopard Front Door
04:35 The end of the line & Quality Check
05:51 The Leopard 45 factory
06:10 How the Hulls of a Catamaran are Made & Flying Hulls
07:13 Interview: From Cleaner to the Man-in-Charge he’s now “Part of the Furniture”
08:19 Recycling and Environmental Impact (It’s a Start)
08:55 Nikki Paints Gelcoat on someone’s $700,000 boat!
09:29 The Assembly Shop where it starts to look more like a Catamaran
10:14 Flipped Catamaran
11:08 SPLASH! The last stop on the Factory Line
13:01 A South African Serenade, What a beautiful song
We had a blast seeing where CURIOSITY was built, but we couldn’t have done it without a little help. Thanks to Marcel and the Robertson & Caine crew for spending soo many hours with us at the factories. Thanks to Leopard for hosting us and Rob at nautique.tv for letting us borrow the factory time-lapse of the Leopard 40 flipping. And a special shout out to all the factory workers that graced us with a smile, a wave or a song…you give the factory and the boats life!
WHO ARE WE?
We’re Jason and Nikki Wynn. We been living off the grid and exploring the world for almost a decade.
Our first six years of travel were an epic road trip around North America.
Now we’re on a sailing voyage about the world. Did we have any previous sailing experience, of course not!
Neither of us is overly talented, smart, rich, lucky, or retired. But that doesn’t stop us from reaching far-flung destinations, having wild adventures, and managing everything that makes living aboard a moving vessel possible.
We’re two ordinary people that just so happen to live an extraordinary life.
Life is an adventure. Extraordinary moments out there for anyone willing, and wanting, to go after it. Ya know life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
And this is why we publish our lives on the world wide web. We share in hopes of inspiring you to find your adventure.
Shared with LOVE 💕
– Jason & Nikki
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Hello. We’re Jason and Nikki Wynn, a couple of explorers, modern-day documentarians, and cultivators of curiosity. We believe Curiosity is the key to unlocking life. It’s what pushes us outside our comfort zone, softens our assumptions and helps us embrace the great unknown. The future is a sea of uncertainty and each of us has a choice: to focus on problems or possibilities. Our goal is to cultivate a sense of curiosity about what is possible. “Every explorer I have met has been driven—not coincidentally but quintessentially—by curiosity, by a single-minded, insatiable, and even jubilant need to know.” ― Jacques-Yves Cousteau You can learn a lot more about us on our website: https://gonewiththewynns.com
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