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This is part 4 of our Catamaran transom extension series on our Lagoon 450. Things get difficult as we have to take a mold of our friends catamaran which he had already sold! The danger of doing this is that if it goes wrong, gel coat can get stuck to the ...
The sugar scoop extension continues as we finish all of the fiberglass work, and start the fairing process on our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran. This is a huge upgrade for the L450, as they are built with a very small bottom step, so loading and u...
We make huge progress this week as we make a mold for the transom extension and glass the new sugar scoops in place. This was done with a mixture of polyester and epoxy resins, with 600g biaxial fiberglass. We used a honeycomb core for the extension and bu...
After repairing our bulkheads inside, we start the next project which is to extend the boat by 1.5 feet. The Lagoon 450 has a very small bottom step, so we decide to extend the sugar scoop to create a nice swim platform. We also do it in a way that extends...
Unfortunately we all caught covid, and had to quarantine in Panama City, to get away from the marina, but while there, Dave finds a huge surprise!!!!
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After weeks of hard work and pressure on Lagoon to do the right thing, Colin receives a phone call from the director of Lagoon, saying that they will cover the expenses of the bulkhead repair for eligible boats. As in boats that are not hurricane damaged, ...
In this episode we finally get to assemble the cabins after rebuilding the primary bulkheads of our Lagoon 450 catamaran. The cabins could not be taken apart without being destroyed in some areas, so it was a difficult task getting it to go back together. ...
The lagoon bulkhead issue is no longer in question as to whether it is a design flaw or not. 63 lagoon 450's have reported damaged bulkheads, anywhere from bending, to completely snapped. This video shows the behind the scenes footage between Colin and Lag...
In this episode we finish the last little bit of fiberglass work to be done on our Lagoon 450 catamaran. We use epoxy to reinforce every single bulkhead in the boat, and end up with the strongest Lagoon 450 in the world! But, rebuilding the cabins may not ...
In this episode we get almost all of the tabbing done inside the boat, which connects the bulkheads to the hull. It is a huge accomplishment, and we have so much confidence in our repairs, as we plan to take this boat around the world!
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Colin finally gives his opinion on the Lagoon 450 design flaw involving the weak bulkhead. Too many Lagoon 450's have contacted him with exactly the same failure, for him to rule out there being a design flaw anymore, as the count is over 20 boats, and cou...
In this episode we show you how we built new bulkheads using 18mm marine plywood, which we then sealed with epoxy, and are going to glass completely using Wests systems epoxy and 600g Biaxial fiberglass...
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Grinding fiberglass inside the boat is the hardest work we have ever done. Hands down. The Panamanian heat making it all that much more difficult as well. But after 4 long days we eventually get through all of the grinding we have to do, so that we can sta...
We have finally dismantled enough of the cabins to start grinding the bulkheads. This is by far the worst job we have done on a boat. The whole inside of the boat gets covered in fiberglass dust, as we take out kilos of fiberglass and rotten plywood. Hence...
As if things couldn't get any worse, we pull off the plywood trim to discovery that the bulkheads were actually completely rotten from being wet, on both sides. After tracing the water we make a crazy discovery as to where the water had been coming from......
After finding cracked bulkheads on my Lagoon 450 catamaran, right when we were about to sail across the pacific, we had to turn around, come back through the Panama Canal, and haul out in Linton Bay Marina, to try straighten the boat, before commencing wit...
In this episode we attempt to haul out our Lagoon 450 catamaran which has severely broken bulkheads. She is badly bent, so we have to take extreme caution when hauling her out, as her structural integrity has been compromised. We come up with a method to t...
In order to access the bulkheads even further, we have to rip out more walls in the cabins of our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran. We find more and more damage as we tear the boat apart one cabin at a time. We also do all of our last minute prep wor...
In this episode we make a discovery which shows the real extent of the damage to our bulkheads. We receive some extremely helpful assistance from the manufacturer, on how to repair our Lagoon 450 catamaran. She has had catastrophic failures to both sides o...
Unfortunately my relationship with Martina came to an end a couple of months ago, and I explain what happened in this episode. I then finally make it back to Parlay in Panama, and we start to get serious about repairing her cracked bulkheads...
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Sailing Dauntless (on YouTube) is a 2017 Lagoon 450 which was hurricane damaged in Tortola, at exactly the same time as Parlay, which is also a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450. Ty, Kim and Syd describe what it was like to rebuild her, and also undertake proba...
The hurricane damaged Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 catamaran that have been rebuilding finally is completed and gets splashed! Salvage boat repair is a complex thing, and is difficult to budget for, so we do a cost breakdown of everything that went into this c...
The final week before this hurricane damaged boat goes back in the water!! Lots happening this episode as we pop the mold off the transom and start the fairing and spraying process. The engine also goes back in, so she is basically ready to hit the water a...
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