Extra time in Avila was well spent. Beach time, family time, sailing, and beers and tacos! Our weather window finally presents its self but before we go we ...

This is living! Rediviva pulls into her homeport for the first time. After a few sea trials in the San Francisco Bay we headed out to do some practical tests ...

Warning: I may get a little excited about dolphins… I can’t help it! It feels so good to be out on the ocean again. We have missed this for so long. 100nm to ...

4 out of 4 and we give Mike a 10 out of 10! Our 4 working sails are here and are being fitted to the boat. We will have other light wind and storm sails but ...

Bending a sail: to secure a sail to a spar before hoisting. Bend On ~ To tie onto or fasten. Garrett completes the last of the changes and additions to the ...

Getting Victoria early in the project was one of the best decisions we have made. There was so much good material packed in that little vessel, and it seems ...

Happy 6th anniversary. March 2015 started this build and 2021 brings us not only our main gaff and mizzen boom and gaff but also our sails! In this episode we ...

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In this vid we share our passage from New Zealand to Tubuai, Austral Islands. We chose to take the southern route in the higher latitudes where we picked up ...

Got to love boat terminology. Catheads, baggy wrinkles, and gollywobbler are some of my favorites. Today we not only work on the rudder cheeks so we can have a ...

Rigger, Electrician, Painter, or Plumber sometimes all 4 at once. We complete almost everything on the list for the mizzen mast until we get a late-season ...

Keeping to our salty vision we turn up our dead eyes. We are a gaff rig ketch so we couldn't very well have turnbuckles, we NEED dead eyes. This video spans ...

"I got a plan, I have a plan," said Charlie, and 24 years later he proved it. For obvious reasons, we love hearing from those who have actually built a boat ...

-Yup! Days 3 and 4 were much quicker. We managed to also take a day off and enjoy a sundowner dinghy ride. A few discoveries of what you can find in the Napa ...

Two major things before the main mast goes up: build the mast collar for the stays and make the shrouds. When we step the mast we'll need some temporary lines ...

Join us Live as we chat a little about our adventure so far, let you in on our plans for the future and give you guys the chance to ask anything you want! :) ...

The mast project took just about 2 weeks to complete. We wanted to move quickly as renting the space was adding up daily. We get the mast rounded and add the ...

We are launching into planking soon but before we get into all that, we really wanted to do a little house cleaning video. We get so many questions about the ...

Last episode we laminated up a new main mast. We continue shaping the mast to fit the mast step and getting it closer to round. Long but great days working ...

Video tour, and discussions with Captain Blackie aboard his yacht LOVE. Blackie created LOVE from mostly scrap metal over a period of 8 years, and he has ...

We've finished up with the port side bulwark planking and now to turn our attention to Rediviva's masts... Unfortunately with all the distraction of building ...

Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht – An update on the replica Pilot Cutter Pellew. Support; http://www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support Become a Patron; ...

I've received lots of questions about handling a gaff rig, enough to make a separate video on the subject. This video turned out to be much harder to make ...