In this episode, we set about finishing up our boat work in Spice Island Marina Boat Yard. Adam wraps up the installation of the Bruntons H5 Autoprop and does ...
Preparing our home for this years MASSIVE adventure across the Indian Ocean! https://www.sailingnandji.com/ In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we are fresh ...
It has been a whirlwind of a month. With my dog Sierra passing away, the Corona Virus, and the awful weather we have been busy trying to keep this boat on ...
Boat work, boat work, and more boat work. And then, the Miami Boat Show where we meet our crew! Meanwhile, back at the yard, Clarity suffers a little damage. ...
This episode is all business. Sailboat drive train business. Our boat is starting to look more like... well, a boat. We are plugging holes left and right! ...
There's a saying that if a sailor claims to have never run aground, they're either on their first sail or lying. We're certainly not on our first sail, but ...
We call out the Australian Coast Guard for the first time and get lifted out of the water to check Florence's bottom ready for sailing to Indonesia. The clock ...
It had to happen sometime... Thus far, all our haul outs had gone smoothly and easily. But this experience hauling out at PSS Shipyard in Satun, Thailand was ...
There is a fine art to planking a boat and we certainly are learning that by putting on Arabella's Garboard. This is one of the hardest planks to fit, but ...
The boat yard just got a little bit more exciting... Local news coverage of the bust: ...
Soggy Cockpit Rebuild 4/5 This week was a wild ride, s&#@ing, s&#ding, and more s&nding. Hang on as we take you through phase 2 of cockpit sole ...
We found honeycomb! Also called "nida-core," we're stoked to find synthetic structural material in middle-of-nowhere Luperon, Dominican Republic. Now we get ...
We found out the hard way, you shouldn't rip out old core like a bandaid... OUCH. Plus - one of the old steelies in the yard was chopped into bits!! For more ...
Our Catamaran Build is certainly starting to take shape, and every time something new arrives at the site, I get inspired to work out solutions to move ...
"Things fall apart, it's scientific." (gold star if you can name the song and artist) In the latest battle against entropy, the Bums discover a narrowly ...
I bet you've never seen a rudder like this before! We haven't. But we finally solved the puzzle and got it to come down, nice and eaassy. Visit our website - ...
Lola went missing & someone tried to steal our ground tackle... but that didn't stop us from reckoning with the rudder and making a monumental discovery. ...
We put off the job day after day due to unfavorable weather, finally the day came, and it happened to be the same day as her birthday 😬 Website - ...
The teak deck gets faired (aka made smooth and silky) and we put on the first few coats of paint, meanwhile the bolts that had broken the week before arrive!!! ...
With Nandji in Dire Straits of repair, with 2nm left to reach the boat yard surely nothing else could go wrong... https://www.sailingnandji.com In this ...
http://tulasendlesssummer.com/shop-tula/ Launch day is a great day, although a bit stressful pre-launch. Anyway, we launched our catamaran successfully and ...
http://tulasendlesssummer.com/shop-tula/ One of the most difficult boat jobs I think I have ever encountered was trying to hold the nuts on the inside of our ...
The fact of the matter is, with boat repairs and in life, you do the best you can, where you are, with what you have. This week: we buy a motorcycle, battle ...
We haul the boat out in Carriacou, Grenada and finally get to see the damage that we caused when we hit 'something' in the muddy waters of the lock in Port ...