(Ep.63)
We temporarily fit in our head basin & galley sink with their faucets to secure our plumbing fittings & connect it up. We finish off our head shower and install all the necessary outlets. We do all the connections for our bilge pumps and wa...
(Ep.64)
We run our windlass cable as well as our gas piping. We paint our last coat of paint on the interior. Our engine gets hauled away and we get some bad news about her. On a brighter note, we install our awesome formica counter tops & install our ...
(Ep.65)
We finally got the correct legs for our table, we connect up our toilet, connect up our automatic bilge pumps, lay up our solid fiberglass panels for our backing plates for our windlass and a few other deck fittings as well as start laying up our n...
(Ep.66)
We get the correct gas line installed & get it connected. Cut out the mount for our windlass from our solid fiberglass panel and epoxy it onto our deck as well as install and connect up our new anchor windlass. We also install our fans for when...
(Ep.67)
We clean out our water tanks & give them a good bleaching. Luke from Kraken Strucutres arrives from San Diego to help us out with our rigging and prepping up our mast for the rigging and running our electrical through our mast. We also remove o...
(Ep.68)
We make our spreader tips, we finish up our swim platform now all she needs is a good paint, we add the odds and ends left on our mast & finish up our synthetic rigging. Take Luke on a mini safari & get down explaining our synthetic rigging...
(Ep.69)
This week we got to install our flooring & boy were we freaking excited! We got so tired of looking at the blotchy old flooring everyday and made it feel like no matter what we did, the boat was never going to end & just like that the floor...
(Ep.70)
The time has come......... to chance the old blue hull & make her WHITE! This was also such an extremely rewarding time of this whole boat build. Seeing her come together so beautifully. Although we have been cured of sanding for a while it fee...
(Ep.71)
We start installing all our deck fittings & putting the boat together again. We also start making our kitchen drawers which was a first for both of us. I must say our carpentry skills weren't to shabby!
Congrats to our lucky draw winner Chris!...
(Ep.72)
We start putting up our headliner which we used 3mm foamalite and wrapped it up in marine vinyl.
You can see how we did it below:
https://youtu.be/FuVK1CJI36Y - What insulation we used
https://youtu.be/LSBEp9nsdEQ- Wrapping Foamalite in Vinyl
It...
Ep.73
We finally found our engine & after a fat bill, the excitment slowly started to settle in. Ricky & Basil immediately got done to CAD drawing the modifications and getting them cut to start marinising the engine. We hoping she will give us man...
(Ep.74)
Happy Easter everyone! ❤️✝️
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Ricky & Basil connect up our...
(Ep.75)
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(Ep.76)
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(Ep.77)
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(Ep.78)
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Instead of baking me a cake for my birthday, Ricky opted to catch me fish instead... with his bare hands!
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(Ep.79)
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(Ep.80)
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(Ep.81)
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(Ep.82)
We took our old Vetus hydraulic cylinder that came with the boat and decided to restore it and make it beautiful again. Replace the seals and as long as the cylinder itself wasn't to scratched up and the movement was still there, we could just repl...
(Ep.83)
We got our toilet connected and finally working.. that pressure button was a no go for us so we decided to make it all electrical. We also started on putting our non slip (texture coat) onto the decks by first adding one coat of polyurethane two pa...
(Ep.84)
So it's that time of our boat build..... Steering! First things first... we need a mount to mount our trust hydraulic cylinder on.. & it needs to be STRONG! So that's exactly what we did by making a plug out of fiberglass. Once that was done. W...
(Ep.85)
Part 2 of our steering process.. We assembled all the necessary fittings to do so, and then mounted our hydraulic pump as well as our autopilot. We mounted our hydraulic cylinder as well and ran the hose from the pump to the cylinder.. bled out the...
(Ep.86)
**Want to know what we still have to do.. carry on reading**
So we got down to ticking off items once again.. one being the dreaded ugly cockpit floor we had with the high hatch that we kept tripping over & now she looks pretty and no one fal...
(Ep.87)
So this week we got down to buying and installing our solar panels which has been happy days for us. Now that they have been mounted.. we can hook em up to our pretty sweet victron system & go completely off grid.
What's left on our list you ...
(Ep.88)
We hook up our pretty sweet Victron system & go completely off grid. We also chat you through the system we put in & how we ran it.
What batteries we got?
https://bluenova.co.za/ (LiFePO4 batteries)
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(Ep.89)
We took the 60ft Tag yacht from St Francis to Port Elizabeth, finish up our anchor and also finish up installing our anchor windlass. We also receive a gift from Vetus in the mail!! Can you guess what it is!??
What's left on our list you may ask?...
(Ep.90)
So that time has come for us to get our mast prepped in sense of mast lights and get our synthetic rigging attached. We did that and were all prepared to get the mast hoisted... but do you think the weather played well with us? Definitely not!
W...
(Ep.91
So our mast is prepped & ready to go, so while we wait we decided to get started on lifting up the boat to get the keels inspected and prepped for some antifouling. Once that was done it was time to hoist up the mast! We have been waiting for th...
[Yacht Refit & Restoration Week 83] (Ep.92)
Were finally at the FINAL COUNTDOWN! We get our forestays measured up and replaced. What a workout that was! We test out our sails to ensure everything is running smoothly. Get some fittings installed such as...
While we wait for engine stuff we got started on doing the little tasks that still need to be completed. We start by getting our window shades me & ready to be installed (now we just have to install them) We set up our pulley systems to lift up our din...
(Ep.94)
We get 2 BIG suprises! Louis & Alta (Patreons of ours) donated a outboard motor to us for our... brand NEW spanking Dinghy from Vetus! It's the first NEW boat Ricky and I have ever owned & we were pretty chuffed! So we tested it out! Took a...
(Ep.95)
Look at our pretty neighbors and their Schooner. (Added a nostalgia around the marina this past week) We get down to tackling the condensation we have been having on the boat this past winter. Its no fun because our mattresses end up getting soaked...
(Ep.96)
We get the layout for our name sorted out. Ricky starts on our emergency tiller & Ricky shows you what works he's been up too!
What's left on our list you may ask??
1. Water-maker Installation
2.Install the engine
3.Name goes on
4.Get a lif...
(Ep.97)
WE RECEIVED SOME AMAZING NEWS!
When the cat's away the mice will play.. While I was away in Pretoria for my sister in laws bachelorette party, Ricky went out fishing with the guys. He managed to catch us lunch for a few days which was nice. Ricky ...
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