Cutting Into Our SAILBOAT - Collision Damage REVEALED [Ep.87]

We start cutting into our sailboat after a discovering salt water coming in from a collision at sea. Find out the extent of the damage with us as we haul out the boat and remove the rudder.

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In This Video
0:00 Previous episode recap of our collision at sea, how we sailed to Itajai, and discussion of rudder breakage causing damage to yachts in major events such as Transpac, ARC, and Volvo Ocean Race
1:24 Hauling out our sailboat: we give our J Boats J/46 a wash before haulout, but sailing life is never easy as we have to jury rig a solution to connect our hose. Then we back into the travel lift slip, place the boat on the hard, and remove the steering quadrant for rudder removal.
3:52 Damage revealed. Inspecting the boat and determining how a collision with a UFO (underwater floating object) or a possible whale caused the damage to our sailboat
7:54 Curtis drives south to Porto Bello, Brazil to pick up a vacuum pump and supplies from Gabriel @magmayachts3536 we take a look into the boats they are building in their shop using infusion, including a 38′ racer/cruiser and a 44 foot daggerboard catamaran
10:42 Back at Itajai Marina – Curtis discusses the fiberglass repair process and plan and gets to work cutting into the boat with the grinder to remove the wet core and prepare for lamination
14:50 A tour of @catarinanautica1’s paint room where the owner Roberto showed us the possibilities of custom colors by AkzoNobel.
16:20 Conclusion and special thanks to our Patrons and all those that have helped us and continue to help us accomplish our mission and share it with you in these sailing videos!

About Us

Kate and Curtis both learn how to sail when they were young. Kate was a junior sailor in Opti’s and 420’s while Curtis went cruising in the Great Lakes with his family. We met while sailing in a Melges 24 regatta and have been sailing together ever since. The first time we went cruising together as a couple was on a friends borrowed J Boats J 105 in the North Channel of Lake Huron and Canada (part of the Great Loop). Those few weeks, and watching other channels like Gone With the Wynns, Sailing Uma, Project Atticus, Delos, Nahoa, and Sailing La Vagabonde, convinced us that the sailing life was for us.

We bought our boat, a J Boats J/46, in 2019 after spending years searching for the perfect bluewater sailboat to sail around the world. We were interested in a catamaran and monohulls, but loved the performance cruising design of the J(it is faster than most cruising catamarans). We spent six months refitting her in Rhode Island, before selling our house and cars, quitting our jobs, and leaving land life for good to become digital nomads, with the goal of sailing around the world via Cape Horn.

We have since navigated over 12,000 miles together, through storms, big waves, pandemics, and lockdowns. We sailed to Maine, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Grenada, Sint Maarten, the Azores, Canary Islands, and Brazil, on our way south to Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to sail around Cape Horn and into the Patagonia fjords.

We never intended to become influencers or start a new YouTube sailing channel, but now it is what we do. We love sharing our experience and adventures with you. We have learned to fly the drone and edit videos, trying to produce relaxing and listenable videos for you to sail away and watch at home while having coffee on Sunday mornings.