It's been almost a year since we bought the boat and I promised the kids a life on the water. Except I had to abandon them for a year to fix the boat. Today I ...
David Shih
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Calico Skies Sailing
This episode opens with Bill cleaning the rudder stuffing box with a wire brush in an attempt to remove years of corrosion in preparation for new packing ...
This episode opens with a reveal of our plans to build a whole new arch system from scratch. We discuss how we ended up with our current 'franken-davits' with ...
In this episode Bill begins work at the yard by dropping the rudder the rest of the way down, a continuation of last week's videos work. We've decided to have ...
We do some massive fiberglassing on the bulkheads and Carlos drops epoxy resin all over my head. I tell Colin surfing is easy until we actually have to go. The ...
In this episode Bill explains that the next project will be dropping the rudder because of suspect-looking pitting at the joint. Calico Skies is hauled out at ...
In this episode we're putting on the finishing touches to the boat before we set off again on the next leg of our sailing adventure. We have sadly run out of ...
Sailing Cadoha
In this episode we attempt to haul out our Lagoon 450 catamaran which has severely broken bulkheads. She is badly bent, so we have to take extreme caution when ...
Sailing Parlay Revival
The hurricane damaged Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 catamaran that have been rebuilding finally is completed and gets splashed! Salvage boat repair is a complex ...
The final week before this hurricane damaged boat goes back in the water!! Lots happening this episode as we pop the mold off the transom and start the fairing ...
We share how we repaired our salvage catamaran keels which were crushed during hurricane dorian to their former glory in this in-depth episode shot over 4 ...
Big episode this week as we spray gelcoat on some of the repairs with a $20 spray gun and drill it out to be suitable for gelcoat. Our brand new mast and ...
In this episode of Barefoot Sail and Dive we make a lot of progress. Davy gets the peeler back out and reveals two large damages. One is 11ft long on the ...
Barefoot Travels
In this weeks episode of Barefoot Sail and Dive Davy becomes MacGyver. I'll leave it at that! Enjoy and thank you for watching! Thank you to everyone who has ...
In this episode of Barefoot Sail and Dive we use the Gelcoat Peeler even more. There are definitely some tricks to using this tool and the more you use it the ...
Episode 126 Since being stuck in Lock down since the end of March, we used the first couple of weeks to do absolutely nothing... we got so bored and fidgety we ...
Sailing Lady Africa
In this life, we consider 'bad' things to be learning experiences. Whether its a breakage or a tough passage, every challenging situation teaches us and in ...
In this episode, we face late season temperatures after leaving Annapolis two months later than we planned. We begin our journey down the ICW mid December, ...
So did I kill Bill? How does this story end?? This project was so intense. It really was one of the hardest things we've gone through together. Fiberglassing ...
In this episode, we tackle the hardest and very WORST thing we've ever done to the boat - And that's including numerous rough passages. We embark on the ...
Sailing is about the journey, not the destination and this episode is evidence of that. It begins on the fifth day of our 1,000 mile passage from North ...
In this episode we set out on our 1000 mile sailing passage to Canada. Initially we encounter steep waves and choppy seas off Beaufort NC but offshore ...
Temperatures are soaring here in Beaufort, North Carolina, but that does little to slow us down. In this Episode, we do some more provisioning, and Bill ...