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After two weeks on the hard stand smashing through boat jobs, we're getting closer than ever to putting Escapade back in the water! This week we freshen up ...
Season 2 is here. We flew into Paris, spent a few days in the city, then pointed the car south and drove all the way across France to Port Leucate on the ...
Our shakedown cruise on Little Nutshell finally begins as we leave Shotley Marina and head out for our first night aboard. What starts as a simple system check ...
We take a drive to visit a couple of cruisers who are kindly accepting our post. Magnus looks forward to picking up a Raspberry Pi, which he will use to build ...
After 2 months in the water it was time to start cleaning the hull, scraping off what's grown under the waterline in the warm Caribbean waters! We completely ...
We fly back to Leros island in Greece where we left Wishful Thinking for the European winter on the hard at Moor and Dock Boatyard. We get straight into boat ...
We get ready to leave Tipperary Waters Marina and make our way around the corner to the Dinah Beach careening poles. Once the tide is out far enough Wendy ...
It's time to anti-foul the bottom of the boat, but first some sanding is required! This is the result. Next step is bottom painting
It is 4 months since we put Coppercoat on our boat and now it's time to check the hulls underwater and see if Coppercoat works or not. Will there be any ...
This episode is packed full of boat jobs, both big and small. We are now up on the careening poles at he Dinah Beach Cruising Club. As the tide heads out, we ...
It’s time to leave Tipperary Waters Marina and slowly make our way around the corner to the Dinah Beach Careening Poles. Only one little problem though, the ...
After a failed application of Coppercoat we have to start again - I think by now we are the world's most expensive antifoul on a 47' catamaran! We finish up in ...
We prepare our boat for coppercoat by stripping off all the old antifoul and get the naked hulls right back to gelcoat before adding a barrier coat of epoxy ...
Ladies and gentlemen, we are finally ready to splash! We throw a solid epoxy barrier coat onto Parlay's hull, then 2 coats of antifoul, and finish up a bunch ...
Join us for the completion of the last boat work project for the year! And what a year it's been. In 2021 we have: ✅ Stripped, sanded and re-varnished the ...
Another long episode! We have been so busy. After arriving back to Pickle we get straight on with boat work and have two weeks of annoyance, problems, hard ...
Only a coupe of months in the water after a fresh coat of bottom paint and the hull is covered in growth. To make matters worse, I applied HARD antifoul paint ...
We’re up on the hard at the Rosshaven Marine boatyard. It’s time to sort the new sails out. Magnus begins by putting the new staysail on the Reefurl furler ...
2 lifts in 1 week!? WHY? Anis' Boatyard was great, unfortunately Port de Peche consists of 1 government owned travel lift (APIP), and the 4 private boatyards ...
Can you paint a boat in the rain? Does prop antifouling work? Waiting for the weather to give us a break... 00:00 Getting the spray painting done 00:29 ...
Jamie shows how to dismantle the prop when he takes the Max-Prop off the shaft. Liz explains how to check and service seacocks. 00:00 What happens if you find ...
This week we are doing a bottom job! We used Magic Antifoul barrier and hull coating and also used their prop coating, Triton Prop, for the props, sail drives ...