We help Sailing Zingaro decide which cruising dinghy to get. Right now they're a bit torn on whether to buy an inflatable or to build a wooden dinghy. Maybe this little video will help them decide.
They need a new dinghy and are trying to decide which one...
In this video I'll be installing Sta-Lok rigging terminals. These are great because they are assembled with simple hand tools instead of requiring a swage press.
Replacing the standing rigging on our sailboat is tough. It's hot, mosquitos are everywhere, ...
We unstep the mast and haul our sailboat out of the water.
The standing rigging replacement project will continue with the mast down while the boat is out of the water for the hurricane season.
It was may goal to complete the replacement of the standing ...
It's time to replace the 38 year old standing rigging on our Endeavour 32 sailboat.
In this video, I replace the 4 lower shrouds. Those are the wires that run from deck-level, up to the height of the spreaders.
Ever since buying this sailboat, I've had t...
Things aren't going as easily as we had hoped concerning the sale of our house. It's not really that big of a deal, aside from the fact that it's causing us to miss out on valuable cruising time.
This video shares our current day-to-day living as well as ...
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The Chameleon dinghy is built and ready to launch. Now it's time to finally see how she floats, motors, rows, and sails...
She's particularly beautiful when flipped over... the gentle curves of her bare bottom up in the air. I approach her slowly. Then, at the height of anticipation... I slap on a coat of paint.
Yep. It's time to paint the hull of the dinghy.
I painted on 4 ...
Constructing a mast and sprit for a Chameleon sailing dinghy seems like a simple affair, but it's actually quite complex.
It takes a lot of effort to plane a 12' long 4x4 post into a 12' long 2" diameter mast. The process also creates an extraordinary amo...
In this vlog, I install the pintles and gudgeons that hold the rudder onto the transom of the chameleon sailing dinghy.
After that I talk a lot. Even more than usual, it seems. I don't know why this episode is so chock full of blabbering, but it is.
Then...
When constructing a homemade Chameleon nesting dinghy, you reach a point when you must literally saw it in half.
That time is now.
So with the help of my lovely assistant, I reluctantly take a saw to the object that I've, up to this point, invested over ...
I flip the dinghy over and cover the outside of the hull in a layer of fiberglass cloth and epoxy.
It's so cool to see how the cloth disappears as it absorbs the epoxy - this is especially apparent when the footage is sped up, which you'll certainly see -...
Part 2 of building a homemade Chameleon Sailing Dinghy from Home Depot plywood and cheap epoxy.
I've worked on the boat now for 68 hours. It's hard work, but I keep reminding myself how amazing it's going to be when we're sailing it around various clear-w...
I'm building a Chameleon sailing dinghy. It's a sprit rig pram made of plywood and epoxy that will sail, motor, row, and nest.
During our last trip to the Bahamas I saw a few rigid dinghies that had small sailing rigs that were cruising around the anchor...
Our Endeavour 32 sailboat gets a new water tank lid to replace the rotten one that was contaminating our drinking water.
This project, like all boat projects, took far longer than I thought it would.
In the end though, I think the results are worth the e...
In this vlog, I'll construct a brand new water tank lid for our Endeavour 32 sailboat. The old was tragically destroyed, by me, with a saw, while gaining access to the interior of the water tank.
The old lid was rotten anyways, so it's not really as tragi...
In this vlog, I repair the water tank aboard our Endeavour sailboat. After hurricane Irma, I noticed flakes of weird stuff are floating in our drinking water.
SOLUTION: Reseal the inside of our water tank with epoxy.
Simple, right?
BwAHHahhAhahAhahAHHAA...
In this vlog we travel to the Annapolis Sailboat Show. We walkthrough boats, talk to fans, and enjoy a relaxing day in our element.
This is actually the 2nd time we've been to this boat show. The first time was right before hurricane Mathew back in 2016 -...
Hurricane Irma damaged our Endeavour 32 sailboat. The storm blew our boat against the dock, breaking the standing rigging.
The wind was so powerful that it healed the boat over nearly 45 degrees towards the dock - so much that the shrouds were touching th...
In this vlog, we make storm preparations to our boat for the impending arrival of hurricane IRMA.
Yes, for the 10 days prior to this somewhat spontaneous trip, we watched the weather reports very closely indeed. We saw the birth of this monster storm off ...
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Aaaaaand here's Part 2 (of 2) of the Questions & Answers videos.
Tambi finally makes her appearance. *APPLAUSE!
View the Question List: http://bit.l...
Ben, Tambi, and Molly are a family of 3 that sail the Bahamas aboard their Endeavour 32 sailboat.
It hasn't always been that way though... far from it.
Before they became sailors, they were living the traditional American life. 9-5 jobs, 2 nice cars, a h...
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* You can use the list below to skip around to whatever questions you want to hear the most - assuming, of cou...
We go home, we stay 3 weeks, then we go back to Sandflea.
That's the jist.
Let's see, what else?
Oh, Tambi drives a car for the first time in over a year. It was terrifying. She did alright though. Once the gravel stopped flying, and we tightened our sea...
In this vlog, we prepare our sailboat to be alone for a while, then we travel back to GA to visit our family.
Tambi cleans the oven while wearing her alluring mermaid leggings. Always entertaining. That's probably the highlight of the video to be honest. ...
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