Coveralls are our uniform while we keep at this refit. Most all of the prep-work is complete and we are finally painting! That means we are nearing a date to ...

Sometimes chasing tour dreams can take you a long way from everything else. A rock climbers dream summer trip is in the making as Steve and Robin close in on ...

Arabella is free of her long winter stay in Corner Brook and things are back on the move again. After some shuffling back and forth Robin and Steve start to ...

The rudder hardware gets reinstalled and all the fairing gets completed on deck. Join us in some of the final days of our haul-out portion of this refit. ...

A long overdue repair, the mahogany from the original Victoria has just not held up to the rough and tumble life in Steve's tender. So just before setting sail ...

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Let the fairing begin. Now that the fiberglassing is done it is on to fairing leading up to painting. Garrett has begun priming the hull now that he's finished ...

After eight months tied to the dock in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Arabella is finally getting ready to move again. This week, Steve removes the winter cover, ...

Webster and Oxford don't know every word ;) This is both a momentous and monumental moment in this refit when I finish fiberglassing and Garrett finishes ...

This week we tested our new windlass, chain and anchor. Another big step toward getting this boat ready for the water. For more information about the products ...

This week we get some primer on the keel and run out of screws but also get a lot of fiberglassing done. Relaunch will happen! It's only a matter of time ;) ...

Spring may have arrived on the calendar, but Newfoundland hasn't gotten the memo. With cold rain, wind, and freezing temperatures delaying the bigger ...

Don't worry it's not burn-out just relentless exhaustion ;) Please leave us a comment! We want to know how you recharge even in the smallest of ways. Thanks ...

This week, we tackle one of the most important projects on our aluminum sailboat: building the bow sprit, anchor roller system, and windlass foundation. By ...

A shop needs two things: somewhere to put your tools, and somewhere to use them. This week we turn an antique chest into a toolbox and finish a massive ...

Wrapping up bigger canvas projects means a lot of leftover material, so Steve takes a couple of hours to knock out a quick, practical upgrade for Arabella’s ...

Getting the work done is hard but what follows is going to make ALL of it worthwhile 😆 Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can ...

Before Arabella heads south for another season of exploration, Steve returns to where the journey first began—the woods and stumps where the oak trees for the ...

On-deck and below the waterline get a lot of attention in this episode. Garrett and I help each other out but mainly focus on our own areas. Splitting up the ...

Installing the deck hatches on our aluminum expedition sailboat turned out to be WAY more complicated than we expected. This was one of those projects that ...

Fiberglass and Screws! This is the beginning of our separate, never-ending, tasks left on the boat before relaunching. I get back to fiberglassing, working my ...

A messy deck offshore is more than annoying—it can become genuinely dangerous in rough weather. So Steve designed and sewed a completely custom ...

Winter still has Newfoundland in its grip, but while the harbor freezes over again outside, work aboard Arabella continues. This week, Steve tackles one of ...

Fixated on the pilot house roof ;) Here's the link for SV Panope on YouTube. Thanks for the inspiration! https://www.youtube.com/@Panope/ Thanks for watching! ...