In this week's episode we are taking a much-needed break from boatwork. We had to travel out of Australia as our visas were getting close to expiring, we ...
Hi everyone! As we promised last week, in this episode of Building Wilda we are back in the sanding paradise! Yes, there is a lot of that coming up! And ...
Hi everyone! Last week on Building Wilda we finally gave her a beautiful coat of grey primer! We had a few mishaps and so, in this episode we are sharing the ...
Last week we promised we would be painting Wilda with the FIRST INTERIOR coat of PRIMER! And we hope we sparked your curiosity to see her new SEXY look! ...
In this episode we are taking everything out, emptying the hulls in preparation of a serious round of cleaning and washing, to remove all the dust…. followed ...
Hi everyone! Last week on Building Wilda we redesigned the size of our salon forward hatches, we then reinforced the cutouts with fiberglass and filler and we ...
Hi there! After last week’s fairing inside the salon on Wilda, after lots of measuring and debating in regards to potentially cutting the whole front of the ...
Hello & welcome back to Building Wilda! In this episode we are moving on and continuing the fun with some sanding and fairing inside the salon. This video ...
Well it happened again, we found more rust while working on our steel boat restoration- go figure. We thought we were done, or almost done with it in this ...
It’s time for a break from our fairing and sanding paradise and, for a short while, let’s enjoy some painting instead! This time we got some help from Chris, ...
Hello and welcome to our sanding and fairing paradise on Building Wilda! Last week we started fairing the decks and, as you can imagine, now it’s time for ...
After being away from Wilda for nearly two years, due to covid pandemic, we are back in Australia to continue her refit! Not long ago, we took down the ...
Through every refit we have become more familiar with Avocet’s design and layup, touching nearly every inch of the boat in the process, but there was one final ...
(English below 😉🇬🇧) Après quelques jours à Richards Bay, Il est temps de commencer le refit de Sagar Rani comme on vous en avait parlé la semaine dernière! ...
(English below)🇫🇷 Après réparations et safari à Tanga, au nord de la Tanzanie, on part pour la populaire île de Zanzibar. Courants et vents contre nous nous ...
(English below)🇫🇷Nos premiers jours en Afrique, en Tanzanie, nous émerveillent. Mais on doit aussi réparer ce problème moteur qui nous enquiquine depuis 2 ...
A tour of the interior of our Australian-made Clansman 30 yacht. We take you for a look inside our 52 year old sailboat after her extensive refit (rebuild!) in ...
To see our track from Tasmania to Fremantle provided by our friend Rob Martin at ClientSAT follow this link: ...
This week we tighten our Dyneema rigging and explain some of the unique features of our sails and rig while under weigh to our next destination. KEEP US ...
Join us this week as we complete the first major leg of our passage home to Western Australia. KEEP US SAILING! Support us and gain early access to videos ...
We start our race against the time and the weather to use the last of the easterlies of summer to sail to Western Australia. Join us in this episode for part ...
We finish our final jobs, depart the marina and attempt to sail out of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel although the weather had other plans for us! KEEP US ...
(English below)🇫🇷Après avoir essuyé la tempête tropicale, on profite du vent d’ouest établi pour remonter vers Malé. Le bateau se cabre dans les vagues ...
This week we take you through the fabrication, installation and testing of our news sails and rig aboard our 30 foot fibreglass sailboat so that we are ready ...