Prepping our boat for the fiberglass job took a lot of cleaning, a lot of a plastic and a lot of tape, cut mostly by my teeth! Pretty cool to see her all ...
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Two apparently! Removing these shrouds required some hefty plumbing wrenches and a few bad lawyers jokes but we finally got them off! Enjoy!
Just a few last detachments (just a few, I swear!). This mast pull prep is no effin joke. But all that's left now are the rods holding her up. Here comes ...
You guys watch closely, because we're counting on you to help us put all of this crap back together. Preparing the boat to pull the mast turned into one heap ...
The only really bad thing about rod rigging is that she doesn't show her age, but we knew, at 30+ years, our original rods were getting up there. If we wanted ...
We've got a TON of projects coming up kids, so I wanted to give you a little glimpse of what it is that motivates us when we're doing all of this scraping, ...
Because sometimes it just does, although our takeaway here was: check your chafe points. But, we were surprised to see our mast (even with a rotten base) ...
Cuba! I'm kidding (sort of). Maybe. There and 1,000 other places. I'll share our (very vague) plans but we're less than a year out and--believe me--that's ...
Before we tell you where we're going, I thought it might help to know where we've been. In fact, I wrote it all down for you in my first sailing book -- SALT ...
Time to get real people. I've had a great time making entertaining videos but it seems folks want to know the REAL STORY. Well, this is it. The story of me. ...
Come along as our good friend and boat repair expert Brandon with http://www.perdidosailor.com comes out for a day sail to teach us a few sailing tips aboard ...
Now that you know how to rig it up, it's time for your reward: an aerial silks routine on-board. Silk at your own risk people and enjoy more boat silking ...
Want to know how to rig the silks on the boat? I'll show you! WARNING: Kids - do not try this at home (try it on your boat!). Hang at your own risk. Silk ...
Join us for a fun day-sail aboard our Broker-Turned-Boat-Buddy, Kevin's, Pearson 36 cutter, PanDragon where we share some lessons and some "YouTube crazy" good ...
Seems the first tour I did I forgot entirely we even HAD a topside. You might want to see the--you know--sails and rigging and stuff. So, here 'tis. Tour of ...
Virtual tour of our 35 foot live aboard sailboat, a Canadian-built 1985 Niagara 35 designed by Mark Ellis and built by Hinterhoeller with one stateroom, a ...
A few years ago I was a lawyer, working 10 hours a day, headed for partnership, but I quit my job because I wanted to work to live not live to work. Get ...