We’re starting the GRP repair after our recent boat fire 🔥. This is a quick look at the polythene containment tent we set up inside the boat to control dust ...
Carl and Jenny
Back into the groove and we're showing off what has and mostly hasn't been done while we've been away. We had quite a few jobs for contractors to do and its a ...
Sailing Merewether
After 6 months in Sweden giving birth to twin babies Ocean Anthony and Blue Louise Wise, Sailing Merewether finally gets back to sea with their new crew. ...
Another week in the winter and today we are venturing out to the summer house in the wrong season haha. Now in the middle of one of the coldest winters in ...
Living life with a home that consistency moves around the world has it's definite positives but when you are trying to give birth to two babies being around a ...
The Clipper round the world ocean race is a crew funded race that just happened to make port in Newcastle, Australia, where we have been enjoying our Christmas ...
After four long months on the hard rebuilding our Amel super Maramu, we take a much needed break and visit a tourist island for the day. All four of us! We ...
The biggest news of our lives, yes you read that correctly. Buying a new boat, getting engaged, gets really small if you compare it to what we want to share ...
Out with the mold, in with the new. Getting this old moldy, broken boat back on her feet involves completely replacing some of the interior that was ...
Into the thick of it with this refit and we're still yet to see any sign of a dry season, or heaven forbid temperatures under 90 degree Fahrenheit. With all ...
Getting stuck into various jobs in many locations, we're attacking on all fronts of this boat at once. First up we try to understand how to reposition the auto ...
Dear Judges of the Best Refit Category: Thank you for your consideration! We dedicated our entire lives for over a year to this overwhelming refit and created ...
David Shih
After 10 months of FIBERGLASSING (ok, i might not have been fiberglassing that whole time) we finally complete the rebuild of the main bulkheads on our Lagoon ...
Big fiberglass repairs have been one of those jobs that has just always scared us. It's not something we've had to tackle often so perhaps it was the fear of ...
Out Chasing Stars
Our Bulkheads are still broken and my wife thinks I'm just messing around down in Panama. Mary flys down to central america to take the fiberglassing into her ...
We find and grind out every single fiberglass crack and delamination on our Lagoon 450 bulkheads. We suit up ebola style and grind what feels like every ...
I power tool my way through the floors and ceilings on our Lagoon 450 Catamaran to completely expose the BROKEN BULKHEADS but then we get stumped on how to get ...
Sister ships, Wahine and Distant Dreamer, have keel work projects going on side by side. Wahine, my boat, a Gib Sea 402 is having to redo a repair I did two ...
Japan Solo
This week the immense work continues and we are almost there on the repair and preparation of the mould for Gel Coating and the fabrication of a 40 foot Foam ...
Life On The Hulls
Did we get it done on time, there wasn't much time left on the clock but you will just have to wait and watch the video to see our final days of DIY boat ...
SAILING into FREEDOM
Where does the time go? We are running out of time and the job list just keeps getting bigger and bigger and the clock is ticking on our boat repairs. I am ...
We start filling the holes on our top sides and hull with thickened epoxy. Troy fits the rocker assembly back on to our Yanmar 2GM20 and we lift and reinstall ...
Free Range Living