This week we take you guys on a tour of our abandoned sailboat.She has been on the hard for 20 years. Are you curious? Come with us and let's go back in time 20 years!!
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When you buy a boat that has been siting on the hard for over 20 years the first step isn't a refit. In order to be able to start a refit the first step is to dig deep inside all the cabinets, lookers and any hole you find. That's how we got to know our bo...
It's about time to organize how the refit of our abandoned sailboat is going to be. After all our boat have been sitting on the hard for over 22 years, so she need some love.
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We had no option other than taking the mast of our abandoned sailboat (22 years on the hard). Well, as we always say: "sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do". Want to understand why? Check out this week's episode!!
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How much did our abandoned boat cost? Well, that is the most asked question everyone have been asking since we posted a tour video of our "new" sailboat. So, we decided to answer that on this week's episode. But we won't talk only about that. We also answe...
Time to clean the exterior of our sailboat and to start taking things off the deck to prepare the boat to be painted.
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We found some holes on our steel sailboat!! 😱
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This week we're gonna start the real transformation of our SAILBOAT! Time to sand out the painting and to finish all the welds! Duca took some TIG welding classes!!
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On this episode we installed new batteries in the boat, we show how our electrical system works, how we get energy to our boat and we also talk about which equipments we have, which ones are working and which ones are not.
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Are you curious to know how our lifting rudder works? This week we took the rudder of our sailboat off so we cold give maintenance to the system, and as we did that we took the time to explain how does the lifting system works.
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Time for a up dated tour of our sailboat refit. Oh! And we had help from one of our patrons.
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After fixing all the holes on the deck of our abandoned sailboat, it's time to assemble our ceiling back together!!
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Time to transform the appearance of our sailboat that was abandoned on the hard for the past 22 years. She is looking like a brand new boat now! 😍
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It's finally time for us to show you the new color of our sailboat.
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This week we opened the diesel tank of our sailboat that was full for over 22 years. We spent a week cleaning it and it was a loooot of work. Guess how many liters of diesel our tank supports!
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This week we finished the painting of our abandoned sailboat, it doesn't look like it was abandoned for 22 years anymore. hehe. Now, the only paint we need is the non-skid on the deck, and the bottom paint, but that's for another week.
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We got to a point that we don't know what to do on this step of refitting our abandoned sailboat.We don't really know how to solve this problem.
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After 4 months refitting our sailboat that was abandoned for the past 22 years it's time to answer some of the questions we have been receiving.
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This week we started the transformation of our sailboat's deck! It was exposed to the weather for 22 years and we had a long way until we got to this point: a fresh painted deck, even with a non-skid on the top of it.
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We have been waiting for this moment for a looong time!! It's time to know if our engine works after a few years off. Did it work? I guess you need to watch this episode to find...
In order to sell our mast we needed to take all the winches off of it and we decided to give maintenance to all our winches. But we did it WRONG!!
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Giving some love to our mast. This week we decided to tackle the mast of our sailboat after 22 years exposed to the weather. We also took some time to grease properly our winches, as we did a mistake last week greasing our winches.
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It was time to do some task by ourselves. Time to install all the portlights in place! What a scary moment! We we...
After having the engine working properly it was about time to handle with some things related to the engine room. The jobs we have done this week were not the cleanest ones, actually one of the jobs were the stinkiest ones so far on the refitting of our sa...
We started the long journey of the restoration of the hatches of our sailboat!!
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We did some random tasks on our boat this week and now we are getting closer and closer to go to the water!!
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Happy New Year!! It’s so cool to look back and see all we have done during the whole year!
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Time to install the acrylic on the hatches of our sailboat. For that we used 3M double-sided tape, structural silicone and Sikaflex. It was a lot of work, but we are really proud of the result we got.
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Yeahhh!!! We finally finished installing our hatches and the deck is already looking sooo beautiful!!
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Time to solve an important problem on our abandoned sailboat. After spending some months deciding what to do, how to solve the problem we finally came up with a plan; and that's what we talk about this week.
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Everything was going well with the installation of our rudder, until...
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We are so excited!! Are you ready for this announcement?
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We finally found out a solution to treat our diesel tank!
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This week we are gonna show you the stainless steel projects for our sailboat that we have been working for a long time. We hope you enjoy them!
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Yey!!! We have a new mast for our sailboat!!! Are you curious to know a little bit more about it? Check today's video out!
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What a week!! We decided to take a week off the boat yard and fly to the United States to visit the Miami Boat Show. We didn't know exact what to expect from the trip. What we knew was that somehow we needed to come back with 13 rope clutches so we could p...
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