Inside Our Homebuilt Catamaran (Full Walkthrough) - (MJ Sailing - Episode 376)
This week we’re giving you a full walkthrough of our homebuilt catamaran to show just how much progress has happened lately. When you work on a project every single day, it’s hard to notice the small changes — but once we started walking through each space, even we were surprised by how far things have come.
Along the way, we’ll show some of the projects we completed over the winter that never made it into an episode, including repainting all of the cabinets (because apparently I couldn’t leave them alone 😅), updates to the engine rooms, and some of the systems now being prepared for hoses, pumps, and plumbing. We also talk about a few areas currently on hold while we wait for materials and supplies to arrive.
Before the walkthrough, I start tackling one of the biggest exterior jobs yet: prepping the cabin top for paint. Since we decided to move away from gelcoat and paint the boat instead, we now need to sand away the glossy surface and identify any low spots before primer can begin.
Thankfully, the first test sections went much better than expected. After using a guide coat to check fairness, we found far fewer low spots than we were bracing ourselves for — which hopefully means a lot less sanding when we move on to the hull sides next spring.
Every step gets us a little closer to launch day.
We hope you enjoy the episode!
Jessica & Matt
MJ Sailing
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This week we’re giving you a full walkthrough of our homebuilt catamaran to show just how much progress has happened lately. When you work on a project every single day, it’s hard to notice the small changes — but once we started walking through each space, even we were surprised by how far things have come.
Along the way, we’ll show some of the projects we completed over the winter that never made it into an episode, including repainting all of the cabinets (because apparently I couldn’t leave them alone 😅), updates to the engine rooms, and some of the systems now being prepared for hoses, pumps, and plumbing. We also talk about a few areas currently on hold while we wait for materials and supplies to arrive.
Before the walkthrough, I start tackling one of the biggest exterior jobs yet: prepping the cabin top for paint. Since we decided to move away from gelcoat and paint the boat instead, we now need to sand away the glossy surface and identify any low spots before primer can begin.
Thankfully, the first test sections went much better than expected. After using a guide coat to check fairness, we found far fewer low spots than we were bracing ourselves for — which hopefully means a lot less sanding when we move on to the hull sides next spring.
Every step gets us a little closer to launch day.
We hope you enjoy the episode!
Jessica & Matt
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