Having worked in the pleasure boat industry for nearly 55 years as a builder, designer/engineer and surveyor/consultant as well as being long time ...

Leg two of my Top 10 and Bottom Three longevity expedition is complete. Back in Buren Bay, the focus now turns to Wahine 8—and helping Mitsu prepare her for ...

Mark Farnworth executes forensic rot repairs and composite fiberglass lamination on SV Mahi, transforming rotten daggerboard trunks into watertight forward ...

Sven Yrvind pauses construction on his ocean cruiser in Västervik to build Exlex X, a 4.2m experimental plywood model to test plow rudders, movable lead ...

In Västervik, Sweden, solo sailor Sven Yrvind scarfs Divinycell structural foam strakes, bonds offcuts with NM epoxy, and explains why elastic hull fairing ...

In his Västervik workshop, 87-year-old solo ocean voyager Sven Yrvind skins the hull sides of his 5.6m cruiser with four Divinycell foam sheets, demonstrating ...

Stranded in Rio Dulce, Guatemala after a catastrophic lightning strike on SV Cuba, the crew seals the cabin and hunts for fiberglass supplies to patch hull ...

Kevin Boothby pulls the Douglas fir mast of Gilmer 31 Ruth Avery for 5-year maintenance, unrigs the heavy bowsprit, and discovers rot in a spar glue joint.

Violet and the crew of Sailing UV tackle the transmission installation on their 57-foot ketch, uncovering dangerous shaft seal modifications and aligning the ...

Aboard Lagoon 410 Motherload in Bocas del Toro, Amy and MJ experience a major island earthquake, assist with boatyard fiberglass repairs, and celebrate Nautis' ...

From the ice of Svalbard to the shores of Cornwall, Drake and Monique of DrakeParagon define the modern sailing documentary with technical depth and cinematic ...

The Cruising Kiwis undertake a structural fiberglass hull repair on Javelot, executing a 12:1 scarf bevel and core restoration to ensure ocean readiness.

Repairs Starts on Crash Damaged Catamaran Our crash damaged catamaran has been hauled out of the water. Now we can get a much better look at what we are ...

What happens when you put a massive gyroscope inside a boat to stop it from rocking? 😳 Welcome back to Sailing UV! This week I'm dragging you back to work ...

Ep. 221 ~ In Part 2 of getting Oka ready for Season 4, we're still working our way through the ever-growing list of jobs before we can leave Greece and head to ...

We thought our biggest problem was a broken dinghy… until one of our engines refused to start and a massive wave came crashing through the front door of our ...

What every new Cruiser needs to understand is that a good part of cruising is not learning how to sail or navigate it is how to keep the boat working! If ...

📍 (still in) La Paz, Baja California Sur 🌊 Sea of Cortez, Mexico Fresh out of the boatyard and back in the water! After wrapping up crucial maintenance and ...

In episode 78 of Secondhand Sailors, we walk you through the process of using that expensive survey as a guide for all your boat rebuilding projects.

Sailing Our Damaged Catamaran to Trinidad We're sailing our damaged catamaran south through the Caribbean, island hoping from Guadeloupe towards Trinidad, ...

We have been sailing our Leopard catamaran for six years, crossing oceans and really putting down the miles on our boat. We spent a long time choosing this ...

Iain just solo sailed from New Zealand to Fiji - that's more than 1200 miles of open ocean with all the challenges that this brings....and this was his first ...

Welcome back to Sailing UV — the greatest sailing show on Earth! 🌎⛵ UV is our 1996 Henry Morgan 57, a 57-foot catch-rigged project boat that we're slowly ...