We were lucky enough to accidentally visit the northern discovery islands this summer for a couple of months, and this is our review of each anchorage we visited!
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0:32 Thurston Bay
1:54 Hand Field Bay
2:45 Chameleon Bay
3:19 No Name Lagoon
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Two boats, two houses and 1,000 nm travelled on the water. 2021 was one full of big changes and big adventures.
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We leave Campbell River and start our journey to Princess Louisa with a few stops along the way!
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1:45 Savary Island
11:25 Cortes Bay
15:46 Pender Harbour
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We start our last adventure of 2021 sailing up Princess Louisa Inlet! Jervis Inlet blew us away with its amazing beauty on this incredibly sunny September day.
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If you live and cruise in the Pacific Northwest, you've probably heard of Princess Louisa Inlet. This place is somewhat of a pilgrimage and right of passage for cruisers in the PNW, and there is a good reason why!
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I decided to create a little montage video from our drone footage from (mostly) this summer! Shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro, these shots were taken between Victoria, BC and Port McNeill, BC, as well as a bit on the NW coast of Vancouver Island, and almost all o...
As our amazing time in Princess Louisa Inlet continues, we decide to hike to famous trapper's cabin trail and then further up the mountain into the beginning of the alpine- all from our sailboat!
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0:59 The hike!
6:59 the cabin!
10:30 the lookou...
After an amazing few days in Princess Louisa Inlet, we head back to Nanaimo, but things don't go exactly as planned with engine problems and inflow winds slowing us down.
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3:19 overall feeling about the summer?
5:05 favourite part and least favourite part
10:03 comments on this boat and our decision to buy her
11:58 why we chose our locations
13:46 best places for the dog
16:48 biggest surprise and scariest moment...
0:00 Intro
0:23 Leaving Nanaimo
4:23 Sailing Blue Jersey
11:39 Tod Inlet
15:34 Butchart Gardens
18:11 Heading Home
For our last adventure before hauling out for a major refit, we sail south from Nanaimo to Cowichan Bay and then to Tod Inlet. We explore B...
This year we spent 6 months cruising and sailing on our sailboat in British Columbia, Canada. We broke down our monthly costs for you to give you a better idea of what it might cost you to cruise and sail in this area of the world!
The math isn't exact b...
After six months of amazing cruising, we haul out and begin some big boat projects, starting with decommissioning the v-berth so we don't light her on fire with the metal work!
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Rebuilding parts of a steel boat sounds great until we started to wonder how on earth we were going to get our heavy equipment to the boat yard... but we can up with a creative solution for moving our compressor and welder back and forth!
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After finally getting our compressor to the boat, we are able to dig into some projects and we discover that things are worse than we had hoped....
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After deciding our best course of action is to move the boat, we deal with the craziest weather we have ever seen, along with some other problems that we honestly couldn't have invented if we tried. This was a seriously wild ride!
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After numerous setbacks and complications, we FINALLY get a crane into the yard to remove the mast. Logan also builds a pretty sweet mast cart so we can move the mast around with just the two of us.
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2:05 Dropping the Mast
4:43 Building a Ma...
After a month of attempting to schedule a move, we were FINALLY able to move our 40ft sailboat half an hour inland so we could properly complete some really big boat projects. It was both a really cool and an extremely stressful experience!
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After finally getting the boat moved we are able to start digging into our big projects, which means we have some big decisions to make because nothing is ever straight forward on a boat!
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We get all of the metal we need to do our work on the boat and start on cutting some metal! We use the plasma cutter to get rid of the mystery pipe in the chain locker and subsequently end up with some flames inside in the process....
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After finally deciding what our first major steps should be with our steel chain locker rebuild, we cut out one side of the locker, ribs, stringers and all!
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As the steel boat projects continue, we build an overhead crane to lift some equipment onto the boat so we can finally start welding and cutting some of the harder to get to areas!
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After cutting off the port side of the chain locker, we make some new ribs and get the plate ready to be welded back into the boat!
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After tacking in the first hull plate, we actually weld it in and then cut out the second one, and work on getting ready to put the new one in! Eeee! Much excite!
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After cutting out our second hull plate, we get it fitted and we finally finish the welding on both plates, allowing us to move onto the next big project!
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Before starting on our bulwarks projects we visit the family on SY Zouterik so Logan can help them fix their engine so they can continue their around the world journey! And then we get to work on the bulkwarks :)
0:00 To Zouterik!
11:12 Bulwarks!
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We will be back to regular vids on Friday- After a few complaints about the lack of Max in our current project videos (it's not our fault! He has better things to do!) we decided to take a walk with him in the forest along the river and film it for all of ...
Before we can finish the chain locker we have to get into bulwarks, and we find some surprises that have us wondering if we should change plans...
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After digging into our bulwarks for a bit we get back to finishing the chain locker projects, starting with rebuilding the rotted out deck beams.
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After cruising with her for 6 months and doing some short- term repairs, we decided it was time to do some big changes to the chain locker on our Van De Stadt Norman 40. This has included redesigning where our windlass sits, how our chain flakes, and wher...
After finalizing our chain locker redesign, we get to work on designing the plate our windlass is going to sit on. Due to material shortages we have to get a bit creative! Steel sailboats are quite the thing.
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We continue to rebuild and redesign the chain locker on our steel Van De Stadt Norman 40, this time focusing on creating a solution to our inability to find the proper materials for a spurling pipe.
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After redesigning our chain locker and deciding to change the placement of our door, we get the new frame into place along with a few other small projects finished!
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In order to save money, but definitely not time, we decided to make our own dustless sand blaster, taking a page from what Project Brupeg has done to prep much of their boat :)
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After building ourselves a Project Brupeg inspired wet sand blaster we put it to good use blasting our chain locker, but it wasn't a straight forward process and it involved us building some extra tools in order to get the job done!
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