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Helping Sailing Zingaro Choose The Best Cruising Dinghy
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Helping Sailing Zingaro Choose The Best Cruising Dinghy

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 to build or buy, so we tell them about...
Installing Sta-Lok Rigging Terminals & Bleeding A Lot | Sailboat Story 85
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Installing Sta-Lok Rigging Terminals & Bleeding A Lot | Sailboat Story 85

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, my fingers are bleeding, I nearly ...
Unstepping The Mast & Hauling The Boat | Sailboat Story 84
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Unstepping The Mast & Hauling The Boat | Sailboat Story 84

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 rigging with the boat in the water. Unfortun...
DIY Sta-Lok Standing Rigging On An Old Sailboat | Sailboat Story 83
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DIY Sta-Lok Standing Rigging On An Old Sailboat | Sailboat Story 83

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 thoughts of replacing the standing ...
Selling & Sailing | A General Update | Sailboat Story 82
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Selling & Sailing | A General Update | Sailboat Story 82

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 sharing our future plans for ...
Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | The Launch #8
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Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | The Launch #8

LINK TO THE "DINGHY COST SPREADSHEET": ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Chameleon dinghy is built and ready to launch. Now it's time to finally see how she floats, motors, rows, and sails. We load everything up in the truck and head to the lak...
Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Painting Her Bottom #7
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Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Painting Her Bottom #7

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 coats. Boy, it sure does look grea...
Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Mast & Sprit #6
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Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Mast & Sprit #6

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 amount of wood chips as wel...
Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Pintles & Gudgeons #5
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Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Pintles & Gudgeons #5

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 I epoxy some stuff. Oh! I apply paint...
Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Sawing Her In Half – #4
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Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Sawing Her In Half – #4

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 139 hours into. After an hour of sawin...
Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Epoxy & Fiberglass – #3
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Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Epoxy & Fiberglass – #3

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 - with a certain amount of stylish ...
Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Stitch & Glue – #2
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Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Stitch & Glue – #2

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-water anchorages in the A...
Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Lofting Plywood – #1
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Building A Chameleon Sailing Dinghy | Lofting Plywood – #1

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 anchorages. They intrigued me. It looked...
Old Boat Gets A New Water Tank Lid | Sailboat Story 81
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Old Boat Gets A New Water Tank Lid | Sailboat Story 81

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 extra time that it took to construct the cust...
New Water Tank Lid For Our Endeavour 32 Sailboat | Sailboat Story 80
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New Water Tank Lid For Our Endeavour 32 Sailboat | Sailboat Story 80

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 tragic as it sounds. It's my inte...
Water Tank Repair On Our Endeavour Sailboat | Sailboat Story 79
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Water Tank Repair On Our Endeavour Sailboat | Sailboat Story 79

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? BwAHHahhAhahAhahAHHAAA!!!! Never. It just doesn't happen l...
SAILBOAT STORY Goes To The Annapolis Sailboat Show + Q&A | Sailboat Story 78
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SAILBOAT STORY Goes To The Annapolis Sailboat Show + Q&A | Sailboat Story 78

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 - right around the time we bought our En...
Hurricane Irma Damaged Our Standing Rigging | Sailboat Story 77
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Hurricane Irma Damaged Our Standing Rigging | Sailboat Story 77

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 the dock. The damage we sustained was a batte...
Preparing Our Boat For Hurricane IRMA | Sailboat Story 76
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Preparing Our Boat For Hurricane IRMA | Sailboat Story 76

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 the West Coast of Africa. We saw it devastat...
Questions & Answers | Part 2
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Questions & Answers | Part 2

* GET A SHIRT: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aaaaaand here's Part 2 (of 2) of the Questions & Answers videos. Tambi finally makes her appearance. *APPLAUSE! View the Question List: * You can use the list below to skip around to whatever questions you want to hear the ...
Family Of 3 Sail The Bahamas
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Family Of 3 Sail The Bahamas

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 hefty mortgage - and 1 out of every 52 w...
Questions & Answers | Part 1
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Questions & Answers | Part 1

* GET A SHIRT: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ View the Question List: * You can use the list below to skip around to whatever questions you want to hear the most - assuming, of course, that you don't want to listen to me blabber about for 40 flippin' minutes!! ** Currentl...
3 Weeks Away From Sandflea | Sailboat Story 75
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3 Weeks Away From Sandflea | Sailboat Story 75

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 seat belts to the point of maximum te...
Leaving Our Sailboat And Traveling To Georgia | Sailboat Story 74
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Leaving Our Sailboat And Traveling To Georgia | Sailboat Story 74

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. You can go ahead and leave a thumbs up ...
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