After 3.5 years sailing, our dream to sail up the United States of America 🇺🇸 finally becomes a reality.
Sit back and relax as we clear into Fort Lauderdale and begin this new chapter in our sailing journey!
After settling into our anchorage and do...
Another week, another sail! This time it’s a double overnighter. All the way from Fort Lauderdale to the beautiful St. Augustine. We get great sailing conditions and we get to celebrate James’ birthday aboard whilst on passage.
Upon our arrival into ...
And we are off again! No rest for the wicked and less so for Zephyr and crew. Time to leave the oldest city in America and head to st. Mary’s, Georgia.
After the quickest stop yet, it’s back to Some amazing days out sailing as we continue further up ...
This episode packs it all in. We continue our sail towards Charleston and the start of the ICW (Inter-coastal Waterway). Along the way we race a big squall that threatens to give us a good dusting and play chicken with a cargo ship in the entrance to Charl...
This week we get it all on the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). Alligators, horse flies, dolphins! We couldn’t be happier cruising up this waterway! No wind normally equals no moving but with the ICW right here and so much to see along it we would be silly n...
This week we actually get to sail along the ICW! We couldn’t be happier….no swell and perfect conditions means a beautiful sail along certain areas of the Intracoastal Waterway! This is definitely an amazing way to travel up the East Coast of the Unite...
Crazy, bonkers, losing the plot! Whatever you want to call it, that is what motoring along the icw is doing to us! It’s very long days ahead for us starting at 6 am and ending about 6pm when we get to our anchorage! It’s starting to show! 😆
We make...
AGAIN we get to put our sails up in the ICW and it’s such a relief to be able to do this and not spend the money on diesel! We couldn’t be happier! We also make it past cape Hatteras, which means we are insured again! Win!
We get to Chesapeake city, ...
We leave Chesapeake City and complete the remaining miles of the ICW as we arrive into Norfolk, VA and our anchorage just North in Hampton. We spend some time exploring an incredible fort before we leave the ICW and head out into the Chesapeake Bay.
It's ...
We finally arrive to our destination….Annapolis! We’ve had some highs and lows on this journey along the east coast of the United States but man has it been a blast! We really enjoyed every little town we saw along the way and really wish we had seen m...
We are in Annapolis and ready for Zephyr, our sailboat to get hauled out over the summer and for the boatworks to begin. There is a lot to do in very little time....but then isn't that always the case. We head over to Kentmorr Marina, where the Marina and ...
It's time to get to work....ALL HANDS ON DECK...Zephyr is about to be transformed. We have limited time to get our sailboat looking brand new again. There is a HUGE to do list, repairs, upgrades, new installments....we are beyond excited and to say Zephyr ...
This week we receive a huge shipment from totalboat which is like an early xmas present.
They literally stock us up with antifoul, primer, gel coat, fiberglass, paint, dewaxer, wax, epoxy, you name it, it’s in there! They are just such legends and now th...
The sailboat projects continue on. We are both full blast on the sanders with Natalie sanding all the Teak our sailboat has to offer and James continues the dirty job of sanding the hull.
The size of the jobs is starting to stress us out, so we take the o...
Nat continues her epic sanding job of all the Teak on our sailboat. She's sanding doors, stairs and anything that is Teak. The size of the job is becoming huge, but Nat is absolutely determined to get it done.
And if that wasn't enough work, she begins to...
This is a huge episode as Natalie installs new flooring throughout our entire 43´SAILBOAT. It's an epic job that transforms the look of the interior.
James finally completes his huge project of sanding the entire hull of a 43´Sailboat. There is also ma...
Boat works are fully underway on our sailboat, Zephyr at the moment. James since finished the hull is now able to start other projects and I am able to start varnishing everything I see!
There's a couple of projects we get started on and finished in thi...
So many jobs and so little time..coats of varnish just keep happening, morning, afternoon and night. This just becomes the norm for me. In between coats, there's no slacking,.....time to get another job started AND that is to cover the helm wheels. How? We...
OUT with the OLD in with the NEW! This episode follows the process of our countertop build in our sailboat. We make our own countertops from scratch....tracing the old ones, cutting and adding the fiddles (handrails). We are under huge pressure to get it d...
We bring the ocean into our sailboat by creating the most epic surf break with epoxy. These total boat epoxy countertops is what I had always envisioned and now finally I get to make them from scratch. The team at total boat are the absolute best,.....givi...
Welcome back! This week is packed full of repairs and we get through a ton of jobs on the list.
We are back at Kentmorr Marina...after an eventful few days at TOTALBOAT´S headquarters. With the countertops done it's time to start ticking off other jobs f...
It's time to get this sailboat back in the water. But, before we do there's one last thing to do and that is to slap some primer and antifouling on her hull. So, its time to get suited and booted and ready to paint.....we seriously couldn't be any happier ...
Splashing Zephyr once again...this time at Kentmorr marina.....but if you thought we were done.....this isn't the end of BOATWORKS.....watch till the end of the video where we show you what our next big upgrade for Zephyr is! This is going to change our l...
LEAKING Hatch, Rotten ENGINE Insulation...SAILBOAT PROBLEMS Galore is our latest episode that is packed full of so many jobs that just need to get done.
We kick off with a leaking hatch, followed up by replacing our rotten engine insulation and then crack...
Ahhh the never ending boat project list! This week, James tackles some electrical issues we have been having in both heads….Again! This time he decides enough is enough and he comes up with something quite ingenious to solve our bilge pump problems!
I ...
We have spent the last 2 years searching for a way to renew our cockpit floor. After years of hard sailing, foul weather and 1000´s of hours spent walking around the cockpit, it was time to find a way to make it new and improved.
Finally we found what we...
Welcome back to this weeks episode of Sailing Zephyr.
James is back from Spain with an even bigger drive to get the last few repairs and upgrades done before we head off. The big job on the list today is getting rid of our old rusty chain and changing it ...
BIGGEST UPGRADE EVER!
Power on Zephyr has been a critical issue since the day we bought the boat. Buying cheap lead acid batteries to just get by, cooking in the dark to save power and always having to run the engine to make more power.
Now we finally ta...
Solar power and Fibreglassing…we take you through a recent upgrade and our most ambitious project so far.
We put our fibreglassing skills to the test and continue the epic build of our new fold down transom.
Hope you enjoy the video!
Dakota Lithiu...
THE TRANSOM BUILD CONTINUES with epic amounts of sanding, fairing and more sanding. This part of the process is so important as this will determine the quality of the look once we paint.
We take you through the pain staking work of perfecting the edges an...
THE TRANSOM BUILD CONTINUES with even more sanding and fairing. We also de-core areas that we are going to place our hardware to support the transom. This part of the process is so important as this will determine the quality of the look once we paint.
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THE final episode of our transom build is finally here. We move on to that all important step of primer and paint. This stage is where who much can go wrong and the quality of your work from earlier stages will shine through.
We also discover that buying ...
Ever wanted to buy new sails, but you felt intimated by the process and that it all felt like it was just too much? Well sit back and relax as we take you through the entire process as we sit down with the guys from Precision Sails to work through a new ...
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