2023 was full of stress, heartbreak, amazing times and big movement forward. We accomplished a lot and realized we had a lot more to do to rebuild this ...
Wayward Life Sailing
Looks can be very deceiving, and unfortunately that is what we found with our steel sailboat. Two years after hauling out for what we thought would be some ...
The pneumatic needle gun is one of the best tools for removing rust from a boat. Not something we love to use, but it definitely does the job when we need it!
After so much time and work, tearing things apart on our sailboat, we are finally putting parts of the bow back on! We clean up the bow roller and the windlass ...
Months after taking our floor apart to get to our water tanks, we finally get to the point where it’s time to put them back together, but of course it’s not as ...
After taking our engine out to fix a few things on our sailboat, we are ready to reinstall it. But it turns out that taking an engine out can be quite a bit ...
We have been working to rebuild our steel sailboat for more than two years now. The boat restoration projects are going well, but there is still a ton to do. ...
After getting our hull painted, we move on to finally finishing re-installing the cutlass bearing into our steel sailboat. Patreon: ...
For two years now we have been working to restore and rebuild our 40 ft Van De Stadt Norman 40 steel sailboat. This was not the plan when we bought her and ...
Finally getting paint on our boat was a big deal! Check out Capter 5 E 88 for the full story!
We have been in a boat shed for two years now. How that time has even passed is beyond me, but here we are. Our steel sailboat has transformed from a swiss ...
After two years of being on land with our steel sailboat, we are finally ready to paint the outside of the hull and the deck. But we have never done this kind ...
Our steel boat restoration projects continue, and we are getting ready for a big one- paint! But can we get the paint on before the weather changes and things ...
After painting the bottom of our steel sailboat, we are finally ready for the next step in this sailboat restoration- putting the rudder back in! :D Patreon: ...
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 ...
The steel boat restoration continues- this time with more fairing and sanding, but also, and more interestingly, with two different sand blasters that we ...
Welcome to Living with the Tide, whether your a new viewer or a long time subscriber we would love to have you with us on this exciting project. Meet Morna, ...
Living With The Tide
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 ...
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- ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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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 ...