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May 30, 2024
When your boat is up in the air, nothing is simple | Ch 5 E 54
The welding in the cockpit continues, but this time we need to figure out where to put the welder to get the work done... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/the.way...
We Weren’t Going To Use This Again, But We Have No Choice Now | Ch 5 E 55
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/the.wayward.life Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/the-wayward-life Intro drone footage: Matt @ https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingF...
The Last Cockpit Projects | Ch 5 E 56
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... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayw...
Our Last Cockpit Fix Just Lead Us to Big Issues in our Steel Boat Restoration | Ch5 E57
Excited to finish the welding in the cockpit, we get ready to move the cockpit drain and instead find some major rust issues... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/t...
Our greatest nightmare coming true | Steel Boat Restoration | Ch5 E58
After discovering rust we didn't know was there on our steel sailboat, we continue to dig and discover even more problems.... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/the...
This Project Finally Broke Me. | Ch 5 E 59
Despite the ups and downs of restoring a steel sailboat, I hadn't questioned our decision to buy a steel boat. Until now... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/the.w...
A Mountain/ Gravel Biking Adventure in the Wilderness of Vancouver Island | ch 5 E 60 |
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 :) Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.c...
Rebuilding a Boat can be HARD! | Ch 5 E 61
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. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.c...
We used TWO WELDERS for this job! Mig and Stick on the SAME Plate | C5 E62
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...
Second Time’s a Charm- Right?! Steel Boat Restoration | Ch 5 E 63
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. Patreon: https://www.p...
Hiding holes in the Hull and other small rust fixes | Ch 5 E 64
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. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com...
It’s Time to Pull the Engine! | Ch 5 E 65
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. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.c...
THIS is Why We Pulled the Engine | Ch 5 E 66
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... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.com Instagram...
Back On The Water After A Year And A Half!! | Ch 5 E 67
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! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Website:...
We’re in Trouble and Don’t Know How to Fix It | ch 5 E 68
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 ...
We Waited a Year and a Half to Cut This Open | Ch 5 E 69
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. Get your logbooks here: https://www.the-wayward-life.com/shop and don't ...
It’s Starting to Look Like a Boat Again!! | ch 5 E 70
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! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/...
SAILING On AND Off anchor! | Ch 5 E 71
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...
The HARDEST Day On The Boat | Ch 5 E 72
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...
It Took Us Three Months, but we Finally Got It Out | Ch 5 E 73
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...
Installing an Autopilot Is Harder Than It Seemed! | Ch 5 E 74
Choosing which autopilot to purchase for our steel boat was complicated, but installing it has turned into even more of a puzzle! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/waywardlifesailing Website: http://www.the-waywar...
We thought We had fixed the Skeg Problem, but We Were Wrong | Ch 5 E 75
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...
We’re At the LAST of the Welding! (Until the boat yard) | Ch 5 E 76
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! Patreon: https:...
THIS Is the Turning Point! | Ch 5 E 77
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...
How Many Steps Does it Take to Paint a Water Tank? | Ch 5 E 78
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/waywardlifesailing Website: http://www.the-wayward-life.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/the.wayward.life Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/the-wayward-life Intro drone foot...
The Race is ON! | CH 5 E 79
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 ...
We Sand, A Shark Steals our Anchor, and Bath Tubs Race | Ch 5 E 80
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! Batht...
Juggling Projects to get to the Water | Ch 5 E 81
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...
These are our tools, Man, for fairing | ch 5 E 82
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! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewaywardlife Buy us a coff...
A Steel boat WITHOUT Rust?! | ch 5 E 83
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! Check out their channel: ...
TWO MORE SAND BLASTERS! | Ch 5 E 84
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...
This will either save us $1000 OR cost us weeks of work AND money We don’t have | Ch 5 E 85
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...
