Months after taking our floor apart to get to our water tanks, we finally get to the point where it’s time to put them back together, but of course it’s not as simple as just putting a couple of lids back on…. Welcome to a steel boat restoration 😂...
After taking our engine out to fix a few things on our sailboat, we are ready to reinstall it. But it turns out that taking an engine out can be quite a bit different than putting it back in...
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We have been working to rebuild our steel sailboat for more than two years now. The boat restoration projects are going well, but there is still a ton to do. In this video we explain to you what the biggest projects are that we have left and show you wha...
After getting our hull painted, we move on to finally finishing re-installing the cutlass bearing into our steel sailboat.
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For two years now we have been working to restore and rebuild our 40 ft Van De Stadt Norman 40 steel sailboat. This was not the plan when we bought her and very little has gone to plan since then, but after two years of cutting, welding and painting, we a...
We have been in a boat shed for two years now. How that time has even passed is beyond me, but here we are. Our steel sailboat has transformed from a swiss cheese pile of steel to a painted hull with an interior still in pieces... and you have had some q...
After two years of being on land with our steel sailboat, we are finally ready to paint the outside of the hull and the deck. But we have never done this kind of painting and we aren't sure we have the right equipment... plus the weather has taken a turn f...
Our steel boat restoration projects continue, and we are getting ready for a big one- paint! But can we get the paint on before the weather changes and things become a lot more difficult?
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After painting the bottom of our steel sailboat, we are finally ready for the next step in this sailboat restoration- putting the rudder back in! :D
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The sanding and fairing is still happening, but so will be the painting- well, the bottom painting. But it isn't as simple as just throwing paint on. All our paint is expired, but we are gonna try to put it on anyway... This steel sailboat restoration is a...
The steel boat restoration continues- this time with more fairing and sanding, but also, and more interestingly, with two different sand blasters that we haven't used before! That brings the total to four different blasters used on this project, plus the b...
I head out on the water to go see a rare sight- a steel boat without any rust- well, almost anyway. Join me as I get the run- down on the beautiful Sappho from @sapphoatsea and spend some time on this beautiful steel sailboat!
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We are still fairing and sanding (both in video time and in real time) and in order to get things done we have had to use a surprising number of fairing tools- some of which we made ourselves!
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Our sanding and fairing continues on our steel sailboat as we work to finish this boat restoration. But in the midst of that we have quite a few other projects to get finished too... like replacing the cutlass bearing, which isn't going to be as straight f...
We gave up and bought a power boat- JUST KIDDING! We took a friend's boat out with them to go watch some weird races in bathtubs? Nanaimo is a crazy city. And, also, did some more sanding on the hull of our steel sailboat in prep for more fairing!
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After putting the first couple of coats of paint on, it's time to try and get fairing on this steel boat project of ours. The only catch is that if we don't get it done within a short timeframe, we are going to end up doubling our workload... This steel ...
After sooo many months of work and debating what to do, we are finally ready to get our steel boat sand blasted. We hired a dry sand blaster (the only job we aren't doing ourselves) to come and blast all of the bare steel for us so we could properly adher...
Well, it's been a year and a half but we are finally at the stage where we can say we are finishing the welding on the deck. This steel boat restoration/ refit/ rebuild is getting close to almost finished and we couldn't be more excited!
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After discovering that our skeg had moved during all the plate replacements on our steel sailboat, we thought we had things straightened out, but we soon discovered that we were wrong. This steel boat restoration is never short of surprises and complicati...
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