(Ep.75)
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(Ep.74)
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Ricky & Basil connect up our...
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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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...
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...
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...
(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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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...
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