Sailing Lady Africa Archive – Page 2

Episode 36 ** I know I said we would be painting our dodger in the next episode.. but i confused it with we will be finishing up the fibreglassing on our dodger... my bad. sorry :P So we had to re-glue our insulation foam as the foam that we had seemed to...

Our list is getting shorter & shorter as we go. We list all the things we still need to do on Lady Africa, before we can set sail. Let us know what you think of our windows & what window color you would choose as well as do you think we should i...

Episode 37 Follow up of our previous video: Building a bimini/dodger: https://youtu.be/KMbPnBZEVzU We carry on prepping our dodger for some paint & add some more fibreglass to ensure she is nice and sturdy. We will be adding a catchment tarp in plac...

Ricky walks you through the process of restoring your boat/yacht bilges. It's such an easy task & can make a huge difference! Thanks for watching! Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already! Lots & lots of love to you all. Thanks so much...

Episode 38 ⦁We finish fibreglassing up our cockpit decks and make them level ⦁We acetone down our dodger and give her a coat of 2 part pool coat ⦁We start working on our door, which we have now changed completely to a poly carbonate door with a wate...

Ricky walks you through to steps of getting your grimy old oxidized stainless steel looking brand spanking new again! What you need: Grinder: https://amzn.to/44oGu5M Unitized Discs: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/?Ntt=unitized+wheel Polishing Wheel: https...

Episode 39 We add our latch to our door to prevent it from swinging open at sea, & meet the Texans on their beautiful majestic cat. Ricky makes the shelves to attach to our engine/storage compartments. We decided to make our sole inspection hatches ...

We walk you through the steps of how to plug and fiberglass a hole you might want to patch up! Thanks for watching! Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and give us a big thumbs up! We love you guys! Follow our accounts: Ricky's Instagram...

Episode 40 Ricky explains our shower bilge pump and where we will be fitting it. He also does explain in great detail how we fitted our door in using Ultrabond (thickened polyester formulated for bonding polyester surfaces and doing fills ) aswell as Sika...

We talk you through all the paints we used when painting our bilges, exposed wood which we created our saloon seating area and galley etc with. As well as painting over our fiberglass. Thanks for watching! Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already ...

Episode 41 -We remove our deck fittings so that we can start repairing our rotten core deck. -We also remove our stainless steel rails. - Our bow hatches get grinded down to prep them for some pool coat. (Flo coat) -We complete the door frame building a...

This week it's Simone's turn for the how to video.. she shows you how to seal off your interior wood using epoxy. This will just help with water penetration and prevent your beautiful interior wood from rotting.. like it did ours when we bought the boat. ...

Episode 42 -Our door frame is primed with some epoxy primer -Moses & Ricky start polishing up our stainless steel -The dodger got faired & sanded and was then repainted for a smooth finish -We start repairing our rotten core bow deck with some nid...

Episode 43 - Ricky edited the intro all by himself & I'm super proud of him! Let us know what you think of it? -Our damn car broke down, it's just more costs after the other.. I guess when it rain it pours right... so we sent her to get repaired.. It ...

Episode 44 -We put our dodger back on the boat -Ricky makes the shelf for our water maker -We cut our backing plates out using the fiberglass from our old bimini -We paint the storage hatches under our aft cabin beds -We epoxy seal off our floors -Ricky cl...

Episode 45 We start planning our electrical & where are we going to add lights, fans, switches etc. We also start running our conduit for our electrical wiring. We also add in a couple of new inspection hatches. Thanks for watching! Don't forget to su...

Episode 46 We take a beautiful 62ft Perry Catamaran down to Mossel Bay with Captain Hoss (An awesome Australian who came into Port Elizabeth Harbor looking for crew) We stopped in Knysna for a good nights rest and some sight seeing as well. It was an amaz...

Episode 47 -Ricky removes our swim platform -Ricky's brother Claudio & his girlfriend Monique come visit us -We spend our 2 year wedding anniversary together -Ricky explains the wiring we ran for our electrical -We show our our electrical panel (AC &am...

We're going to the Cape Town Boat Show this weekend. Will see you guys there if you plan on going? Will most probably be roaming around so come find us 😎🤙🏻⛵ Follow our accounts: Our Website https://www.sailingladyafrica.com Ricky's Instagram...

Episode 48 Ricky got our electrical panels sorted, now we just need to seal the wood off & get hinges to mount them up. We are struggling to find 316 stainless steel hinges at the moment which is making us go a little crazy. We give you guys the run do...

Episode 49 Ricky started making our new nida-core swim platform. It was absolutely massive and the biggest one we have built yet. We didn't feel like going to work on Saturday but got the courage to get up and get going. We closed up any remaining holes le...

Since our yacht door is poly carbonate we wondered how strong Poly carbonate really is? & if it is bullet proof like they say? Well we decided to test this theory & shoot a piece of polycarb using a 9mm, .22 & a 45 ACP hand gun. Polycarbona...

Episode 50 You want to purchase one of our sweet coins go check out the link below: http://www.svseeker.com/wp/sv-seeker-2/shop/ We headed down to the Cape Town Boat Show and also made supply runs while we were down there! Guys I was so damn excited whe...

Episode 51 While on our Cape Town trip, we stopped off at Blue Nova to have a check out our new sweet Lithium batteries & got to check out all the off grid options people have. It was awesome to meet James and the rest of the team at Blue Nova & s...

(Ep.52) Ricky finishes up the foamalite layout for our headliner, now all we still got to do is wrap it up in vinyl and install. He also had to plug up some holes on the stern where we removed some fittings. Ricky installed the leg for our table, but real...

(Ep.53) We started by putting in our cabinetry doors as we finally had our hinges, unfortunately about 2-3 of our doors had warped so we have to get them re cut. Ricky & Moses cut our foamalite to make the side panels for our cabins to hide away the bo...

(Ep.54) We fill up our saloon sole with some foam. Go for burgers at Nelson Mandela Bay yacht club. Remove another set of hatch frames. Start taking down the foamilite templates and getting them covered in Vinyl. We fill in the gaps between our hull and wi...

(Ep.55) The day has finally come... where there is no more cold fronts & crappy weather..... you guys know what this means right???? WINDOW TIME! We pretty much ripped out all our 20 year old, yellow, brittle acrylic and replaced it with brand spanki...

(Ep.56) So.. a lot of people have been anticipating us building our new swim platform & what are we going to do... well the time is here people!! I present you...... Our new Swim Platform!! & our boat also got hit by a squid boat..... we weren...

(Ep.57) It's almost Christmas???? Who's excited? So this week we pretty much did a few odd jobs around the boat. Glen & Gray came to visit us from Salt Lake City, Utah for the week and helped us remove our leg/Z drive.. everything was corroded.. so wh...

(Ep.58) Hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas!! Next stop... 2019! WHOOP! This week, we attempted to remove our engine.. which ended up being a epic fail! We spent the whole day setting up this A frame.. just for it to fail on us, but that's what this w...

(Ep.59) HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! Who's excited to get this damn boat in the water this year!? I sure am! So this week, we tackled the the engine bay/compartment & grinded up a storm, fiber-glassed up a tornado & filleted up a earthquake. Getting...

(Ep.60) We sand down our outside hatch frames and prep for when we paint the deck. We get down to installing our tanning area aka our swim platform.. more like where the fish will be prepped. ha ha. & fiber glassing her in. We swap out old hatches fo...

(Ep.61) We get started restoring & making our Volvo Stern Drive look fancy schmancy again! She was definitely neglected & needed some good ol loving & now she looks brand new again! Can't wait to get her installed! We also took apart our engine...

Ep.62 This week we got started on our plumbing!! Happy days! Soon we will be able to take some nice showers on the boat & Ricky will be able to do his favorite past time... wash dishes! haha (He never does it) Thanks for watching! Appreciate all the k...

So we only realized once we watched the video it was in portrait.... we're still learning this whole LIVE shenanigans ha ha. We answer some of your questions & get down to talking about our engine problems Thanks for watching! Appreciate all the kind...