As we bounce around the San Blas islands, Panama, Colin decides to give some lessons to the new crew, from anchoring, to flying a spinnaker! We also meet up with Plucky from Sailing into Freedom, where he smokes a huge grouper for the crew!
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We get challenged to a race by our friend on a Nautitech 46, as well as an Outremer 51, Lagoon 380, Leopard 44, and a Halberg Rassey also comes along for the race against our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450! Well, it is actually a Jamie 465 now, as we extende...
We continue to sail around the San Blas islands in Panama on our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, exploring a few of the anchorages, where we meet up with one of our patreons who lets us use his E-foil, an electric foiling paddle board!
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We continue to sail around the San Blas Islands, where Tom develops an uncomfortable boil between his butt cheeks! We move to Cambombia island to celebrate New Years, where the big man Jamie himself arrives just in time for the celebrations!
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We are sailing around the incredible San Blas islands in Panama, and the boys want to go for a spear fish, but we accidentally put 20 liters of water in the the fuel tank instead of gasoline!!
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which C...
In this episode we finally leave the marina after a 10 month refit, and sail to Playa Blanca! After an amazing time there, we get set to leave for the infamous San Blas Islands, but we lose our water maker the day we are set to leave, so we are not sure if...
In this episode we get a professional rigger and surveyor to guide us through the process of tensioning our rig after repairing the broken bulkheads on our Lagoon 450 catamaran. He advises us that the worst possible thing to do on a catamaran is to over te...
We did it! 4 years after buying Parlay, a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450, who went through 3 separate rebuilds, due to hurricane Irma, finding cracked bulkheads, and getting struck by lightning! But she is now hands down the strongest Lagoon 450 on the plane...
Ladies and gentlemen, we are finally ready to splash! We throw a solid epoxy barrier coat onto Parlay's hull, then 2 coats of antifoul, and finish up a bunch of last minute jobs before she is finally ready to be launched after 10 months in the shipyard, an...
The final week was packed with so many jobs that we had to split this one up in two! But we are STOKED to have the new crew arrive, and make huge progress as we get one huge step closer to splashing after an amorous 10 month refit.
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The weather finally allows us to get our sugar scoop extensions sprayed, and they look awesome! We also finally assemble the hard top and get a bunch more jobs done as we are wanting to splash in 2 weeks!!!
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We set ourselves a deadline to be back in the water before xmas, so we scramble to get all of the jobs ticked off in order to splash parlay, after a grueling 10 month refit!
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We continue with the sugar scoop extensions on our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, as we glue down the non-skid pattern we made on both extensions.
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In this episode we show you how we made the diamond non-skid pattern for our new transom extension on our hurricane damaged lagoon 450 catamaran. It went from being a 45 foot cat, to a 46.5 catamaran!
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In this episode we explain that in order for us to take on the Pacific Ocean, we still need to do some more repairs and upgrades in order to do it comfortably. We also have to get emergency surgery for our puppy, and the vets say that it could be cancer......
We wrap up the Annapolis boat show with 30 other sailing channels having an absolute blast! We then go to Fort Lauderdale Florida, where we hang out with Spear It Animal, and he shows me the boats he bought in 30 minutes, one which is slowly sinking!!
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It was an absolutely crazy few days in Annapolis where we had a small taste of what it would be like to be famous. People were queuing up for a signed hat, and we couldn't walk 5m down the road without being stopped. And we were among 30 other sailing chan...
I have been getting challenged for months by my friend Patty to a dinghy race with my brand new Highfield 380 with a 2-stroke yamaha 25Hp on the back, against his 25Hp Johnson, which he claimed was the fastest dinghy in Linton bay. We also had a competitor...
In this weeks episode, Duca and Roberta from "Odd Life Crafting" come to stay with us before we all head to the Annapolis boat show! They are a Brazilian sailing channel, and we have a lot in common as we have all spent about 2 years in various shipyards f...
We start this weeks episode by fiberglassing a mount for our underwater lights, while we are still hauled out in the shipyard at Linton Bay in Panama. But we cant help ourselves and launch our new to us Highfield dinghy even before we are in the water.
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We desperately needed to replace our tiny little Bimini on the fly bridge on our Lagoon 450 catamaran, so when we started designing our new hard top, we decided that we would try get as many solar panels as we could up there. But instead of building the ha...
This week we replace our old stainless steel steering cables with new dyneema line, which means having to do quite a bit of splicing! As we replace the cable and start to tension it, we find that the hull is actually cracked where the steering cable sheave...
This week we welcome new crew member Thomas Hudson, who is a musician from New Zealand, and the boys waste no time recording a song for you all! Tom will help Parlay splash and hopefully be recording many more songs in the future!
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After finishing a busy charter season on a super yacht, I fly to France to get a personal tour of the Lagoon catamaran factory in Bordeaux, by the director Thomas Gailly. This was a nerve wracking encounter as there was a bit of tension between us as a res...
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