This week in my DIY sailboat refit project I got the chainplates and the last thru hull installed. This marks an important milestone. Athena can once again ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we leave Fort Bragg en route for Bodega Bay on our 435 catamaran SV basik. We look back at a our time in the Noyo ...

Here you have it, folks! The start to finish of the truck camper interior renovation. There will always be a love-hate relationship with DIY projects but in ...

With some help from Bob Emser @TheArtofBoatBuilding we get the breasthooks bolted into place and launch into the black locust beam shelf. Black locust is ...

This week we take you through the rebuild of our rotten quarter berths on board our 30 foot 50 year old fiberglass sailboat. KEEP US SAILING! Support us and ...

We sail up the Napa River with some busted sails but we HAD to get out there and see this girl move. Rediviva has never been propelled by the wind before and ...

Passport Yachts is known for building high-quality bluewater cruisers, and this boat is no exception! She might be starting to show her age slightly, but she's ...

Sailing in more squalls and even more squalls...I try to ride them at the best position so as not to get stalled in the lulls. We need to make it in as early ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we have a quiet passage from Eureka to Shelter Cove around the infamous Cape Mendocino and then scoot into Fort ...

With the sheer clamp bolted into place the next piece of the deck puzzle is the breasthooks. The breashooks join the clamp with the stem and stern posts and ...

This week the next phase of our DIY sailboat refit begins and it's all got to go! We remove everything from the inside of our tiny home while we heat gun, ...

Now that we finished the DIY electric boat motor conversion and most of the new wiring, it was time to install our new Tesla lithium batteries. In order to ...

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Its time for my Yanmar 3GM30 engine to get some love. We're in Sorong stocking up prior to leaving Raja Ampat and I decide its a good time to do a major ...

Welcome back to SV basik! This week's episode, we are tackling our AIS antenna after noticing our AIS tracking path was intermittent by our trusty viewers and ...

Huge Thank you to Walter Johnson, Leeann Iacino and EV YACHTING for letting us explore on our own, this Yacht is for sale: ...

We have a small weather window to escape Cartagena....usually skirted with gale force winds, Chris Parker, the weather guru, has predicted a break of a day and ...

Welcome back! This episode Steve gets the sheer clamp bolted together and fastened to the steam bent frames of Arabella. The clamp is the first piece of deck ...

Now that we finished our electric sailboat conversion, it was time to finish our DIY wiring of a Catalina 30, electric motor, and continue our electric system ...

After months of fairing and prep work, it's finally time to paint the hull of my sailboat. I'll be using International Perfection Pro. A paint that can be ...

Episode 138: Building Head Doors This week we got started on a task Ricky was not looking forward to, that being.. getting our head door complete. For the ...

Did we get it done on time, there wasn't much time left on the clock but you will just have to wait and watch the video to see our final days of DIY boat ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we make some necessary repairs to fix our steering on our 435 catamaran SV basik. We also address the issue of our ...

In this episode we varnish the white oak clamp and start working on cleaning up Victoria's hackmatack knees. The knees were likely harvested from the roots of ...