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...
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...
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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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...
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 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...
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...
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......
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...
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...
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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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 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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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 ...
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 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. ...
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, ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Just wanted to let you all know where I have been! We are safe and sound and getting ready to go sailing again very soon!!
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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...
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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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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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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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......
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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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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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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