When everything just breaks seemingly at one time, you can lose your mind a little bit. After all the work to convert Ixion to an electric sailboat, this set ...

Sailing from NYC to Annapolis for the Sailboat Show plus hauling out for DIY boat work. Join our crew on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/ruca Follow us on ...

It's time to get back to our abandoned sailboat and make it a proper exploration vessel for the future travels! Project boat full gear! 📺 THIS IS DAWN ...

We make the official call that the salon needs to come out, completely. Luckily we've had plenty of practice with Beneteau interior design and get it out quick

We take little break from the grind (literally) to talk through the damage thus far and our feelings about it.

The grinding saga continues! Our leaking Beneteau 49 has serious structural damage and we're almost done removing all the gelcoat and interior pieces...

After all of the work, we decided it was time to finally enjoy ourselves starting by Sailing New England. Our first destination is Mattapoisett. We have spent ...

We are grinding maniacs in this episode. We grind gel coat, and then grind gel coat some more and in between we talk about how it's going grinding gel coat.

And so the repairs begin. One day we'll sail our beautiful yacht to romantic tropical beaches, but today is not that day.

We finally made it to our first sail of the year in our electric sailboat, which just happens to be Labor Day weekend. But in Ixion fashion, we still have work ...

We left the road - and took a break to enjoy the 5* hotel life of Tui Blue. We were invite to stay 3 days so we treated ourselves well - a massage, manicure, a ...

As promised! Here is a short video explaining what happened and what needs to happen with our boat. At least as far as we can tell at this point.

As we put together more of the story with this boat we learn that this boat was initially damaged several years ago. It seems it was repaired and damaged again.

We know our Beneteau 49 has a damaged grid. But we don't know how extensive that damage is, yet. This week we DIY our way to removing the interior furniture...

We leave the protection of the marina and sea-walled bay and head to a more hospitable yard! This is our first time handling this large of a boat (Beneteau 49).

We have a lot of repairs to do on our salvaged Beneteau 49 - but the yard the boat is at doesn't allow DIY repairs......or our dogs.

Battered, Beaten, Bashed and Broken....Bought. We bought our dream boat, broken and wrecked from an insurance salvage auction.

We decided to trade the rat race for a life of adventure. In a COVID world, you never know what life is going to look like, so why not build one you want to ...

We made the jump and built our tiny home on wheels in the body of a short bus! It was INSANE and a ton of fun. If we can do it, you can do it.