Choosing which autopilot to purchase for our steel boat was complicated, but installing it has turned into even more of a puzzle!
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Three months ago we started the project of altering one of our cockpit drains, but instead of doing that job we ended up replacing two large hull plates at the aft end of the boat. Steel boat refits are nothing short of full of surprises... but luckily th...
After opening up our integral water tanks and finding some corrosion, we decide to do some spot and pad welding to solve the problem inside of our instead of replacing another plate. Sounds simple enough, but of course it's never that easy when you're sho...
We head down island to Victoria, BC to jump onboard a Westerly Discus with our friend Trevor and head out for an overnight sail. We somehow manage to get lucky enough to be able to sail (almost) the whole time and just barely need an engine, despite comin...
After so many months of taking things apart during this steel boat refit, we are FINALLY putting things back together a bit with visible progress happening and it feels so great!
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Our steel sailboat restoration is moving along, and it's time to get into the water tank...but we have no idea what we might find in there, or even how we are going to get into it.
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What should have been a very simple and straight forward job in this steel sailboat restoration quickly turns into a frustrating gong show when we go to put the rudder back into the boat. We aren't sure what happened or how to fix it, but figuring it out ...
After a full year a half on sailboat restoration work, we were finally able to get back on the water and out sailing, even if it wasn't on our own boat. Come journey with us into Desolation Sound!
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In yet more steel boat restoration fun, we move on to pulling out our cutlass bearing, which, of course, could not go as smoothly as we would have liked...
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After finishing most of our aft welding from plate replacement, we decided to pull our beta marine engine to do some more work as part of our steel boat restoration.
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After replacing the aft end of our hull, we continue working on this steel boat restoration by replacing more small bits of rust, all of which, of course, are in difficult to access spaces that are uncomfortable as heck.
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After replacing one aft hull plate on our Van De Stadt Norman 40, we continue our steel boat restoration by cutting out our second, and hopefully last hull plate and weld in a new one! And we use some new tools to get the job done.
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Deep into our steel boat restoration, we got to a point where we needed to have the welder in two places at once, so we brought out a second welder... Welding in the new aft hull plate was a bit of a process, but after some creative problem solving we figu...
After cutting another giant hole in our boat, we continue on with our boat restoration, this time putting a new plate in… but this one doesn’t wanna go into place.
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After some pretty stressful weeks on the boat, we decided to head out into the wilderness for a 50km bike ride on our Sunday off :)
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Despite the ups and downs of restoring a steel sailboat, I hadn't questioned our decision to buy a steel boat. Until now...
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After discovering rust we didn't know was there on our steel sailboat, we continue to dig and discover even more problems....
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Excited to finish the welding in the cockpit, we get ready to move the cockpit drain and instead find some major rust issues...
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We find more rust during our sailboat restoration and think that we may be in for some really annoying problem solving, but things aren't always as bad as they initially seem...
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The welding in the cockpit continues, but this time we need to figure out where to put the welder to get the work done...
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After finding even more rust during our boat restoration, we tore apart the steering pedestal and decided to redesign some things before putting it back together. This is that process :)
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Well it happened again, we found more rust while working on our steel boat restoration- go figure. We thought we were done, or almost done with it in this steel boat restoration, but, of course, we found more...
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After over a year of tearing stuff apart, we get to a point where we are ready to put some pieces back together, and we couldn't be more excited about it! Restoring a steel boat isn't easy, but moments like this really show us the light at the end of the t...
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