We leave the dock for the first time on our own. We anchor in Lake Sylvia in Fort Lauderdale. There are so many boat issues we question whether we bought a ...
Sailing Banana Pancakes
Hello Friends, Just a friendly reminder that following your dreams isn't always palm trees in the tropics. For most of us it takes years of hard work to get ...
Sailing Triteia
In this week's episode Jay shares with us how he got into sailing and how he went from knowing nothing to activley pursuing his dream to sail around the world.
Sailing Sitka
Part 5 - Sailing Across the Caribbean Sea Here comes a BIG one... all of a sudden the cockpit is swamped and it won't drain! Waves keep crashing over the ...
Bums on a Boat
After two and a half weeks of waiting, we finally got a mooring ball in Boot Key Harbor. Now the real work (and fun) begins. We drove up to Tampa to pick up ...
Learning the Lines
Arabella has 70 frames. That's a fair amount of steaming. So, we thought it would be interesting to show what a full day of steaming looks like. Not to ...
Acorn To Arabella
We install our new Battleborn LifePo4 batteries for our electric sailboat build in this vlog. We also make progress on the battery box and galley refit. Our ...
Join us for out livestream Saturday, Sept 1st, at 7:00 pm EST! The reality of living aboard a sailboat and refitting it at the same time is that you develop a ...
We've been making a lot of progress on our electric sailboat conversion. We cut out and removed the diesel tank which was fiberglassed in place by the factory. ...
We removed our 2004 Westerbeke diesel in preparation to install an electric motor powered by marine-grade lithium batteries. Removing the diesel was a filthy ...
Ports, portholes, portlights, windows, whatever you want to call them... our boat has TEN of them. For a 32 foot boat, that's a lot of ports! Subsequently, ...
You have to first rip out all of the old in order to rebuild with the new. The first step to a total refit/restore of the interior of our boat is ripping out ...
In this vlog our sailboat gets moved under the tent and we finish up removing everything prior to painting the deck. We also remove the top skin of fiberglass ...
In this vlog we pull stanchions, pull the bow pulpit, and sand the deck in preparation for being under the cover in the boatyard. Once we're under the cover ...
In this video we visit Somniun, our old O'day 272 sailboat, and give you guys an update on what Taylor, her new owner, is doing with her. Turns out, he's ...
We motor our Endeavour 32 from St. Petersburg to Port Charlotte to be hauled out at Charlotte Harbor Boat Storage and trucked over to J & R Marine. This ...
The first part of any major renovation/refit is always demolition! This is the fun part. Tearing stuff apart! Equally as fun is putting it all back together, ...
We've been really busy with non-sailing related stuff, but Jordan found some time to do something he's always wanted to do - take the boat out for a solo sail. ...
Our good friend comes out to take some moisture reading on our bulkheads, since we determined that the boat had flooded in the past. We also install a conduit, ...
It's not all sunshine and roses when you own a sailboat. This week we do some sanding, fail at trying to remove some adhesive, and that's about it! ...
This week we sew a new bimini cover with sunbrella fabric from Sailrite, then go for a sail down to Pine Key (Beer Can Island) to get some kiteboarding in! ...
Happy New Year! This week we squeeze four people overnight into a 27 foot boat as we sail out to the mouth of the manatee river during a cold front. We catch ...
This week we finish up our Sailrite mainsail kit and get it on the boat. We then rip out some more carpet headliner. Finally we get back on the water and motor ...
This episode we continue with ongoing boat projects, including installing the CDI mainsail reefing system, ripping out our carpet headliner, and sewing our new ...