The forward cabin in our Westsail 42 has zero ventilation. There's no dorade vents, no hatches, and no portlights - nothing. This is a big problem because the ...
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The Lofrans Tigres horizontal windlass is one of the most common electric windlasses in use on cruising sailboats. It's time-tested, reliable, and spare parts ...
Projects continue as Ben installs inspection plates on the diesel tank, repairs rotten wood in the aft cabin, and generally works towards preparing the boat ...
Before we could repair the leaking hull to deck joint on our Westsail 42, we had to remove all of the deck hardware that was mounted on top of the cap rail. ...
It's time to start making our hull to deck joint and cap rail pretty again. What that means is that we have to get it shaped right in order to paint it. ...
Tambi and I lay on 270ft of fiberglass cloth onto the bulwarks of our Westsail 42. The fiberglass we use is 25oz double biased mat. We make 3 laps around the ...
We've ripped off the old teak cap rail, cleaned out 90 ft of hull/deck joint, and now we begin to fill and fair the joint with thickened epoxy. It's HOT work ...
Work continues on our leaky hull to deck joint as we do battle with 5200, contort our bodies to remove hard-to-reach sailing hardware, and ultimately stop the ...
The hull to deck joint on our sailboat is very leaky so we are about to embark on the most in-depth boat project we've ever taken on. The teak cap rail has to ...
Ben heads back down to Green Cove Springs, FL for another round of boat work. In this video, Molly's forward cabin gets the boards put back up on the walls, ...
Just a short video showing our homemade cowling that allows a window a unit AC to be used on a boat hatch. This is a simple DIY cowling that we made to help ...
The refrigerator in our boat, even though it's essentially brand new, is in a very sad state indeed. When we opened the lid for the first time, we were shocked ...
Some days you just have to go after some of the smaller boat projects that tend to accumulate. We remove the vinyl graphic from the side of the boat, rebed a ...
In this video, we install our Maxprop propeller. Prior to this video we removed the propeller, cleaned off the old antifouling paint, degreased it, and added 2 ...
I cut open a 44 year old sailboat holding tank with a sawzall. While I'm at it, I also cut large holes in our fuel tanks to install larger inspection ports. ...
We found her. We like her. We put a deposit down to buy her. This video is a basic walkthrough tour of a Westsail 42. We haven't completed the purchase just ...
Come along as we tour a Brewer Pan Oceanic 46. It's the biggest sailboat we've ever considered buying! As you may already know, we are on the hunt for our ...
During our search for the next cruising sailboat, there have been only a few that have gotten Tambi really excited. The Kadey Krogen 38 is one of those boats. ...
Join us on a walkthrough tour of a Pearson 424 ketch sailboat. This popular cruising sailboat just returned from Grenada and is still packed to the brim with ...
The time is upon us to find our next cruising sailboat. We've got about 6 months until the next cruising season kicks off, so we need to track down the boat, ...
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