Hurricane season is the busiest time of year for shipyards across the Caribbean, and Trinidad is no different! At Peake Yacht Services the yard has been a hive ...
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Back to boat work! This time, we're tackling some fiberglass work to fix up the bulkhead aboard our sailboat that's already had two warranty repair attempts. ...
As part of readying our sailboat for a hurricane season of storage in the Trinidad shipyard post haul-out, Tynan went up the mast to bring down the wind ...
Now that our Leopard 45 Catamaran is out of the water and things are more settled, work is well and truly underway. We have lots of boat jobs planned for this ...
Having a medical emergency aboard is something no liveaboard cruiser wants happening on their boat, so when it impacted our catamaran we were lucky to be in ...
The hurricane season is a time where many liveaboard cruisers in the Caribbean region choose to lift their boats out, storing them safely on land. Given the ...
The first time we arrived in Trinidad we thought it would be for 3 months... 21 months and more warranty repairs and mistakes than we ever could have imagined, ...
As the Caribbean hurricane season approaches it's time to start heading south! The episode begins with a surprise storm slamming the St Martin anchorage; ...
In a previous video I promised to show the repairs of the crossbeam so here they are. For those of you who have watched before, it not only shows how the ...
A former Robertson & Caine employee shares his experiences of working in the factories. This video and his opinions speak for themselves. Robertson & Caine ...
Crossbeam Cracking, Broken Dry Glass – What Forced Us to the Shipyard | NEW LEOPARD CATAMARAN REVIEW
It's not clickbait, the crossbeam of our Leopard 45 catamaran was cracking out of the hull... WATCH THE REBUILD PROCESS HERE: https://youtu.be/ct0kAWI7h44 We ...
This week I share a warranty issue found down in the port bilge - a crack in the hull above the keel. What's unique about this one? Well it was addressed at ...
This week I round up 5 more warranty issues discovered on our Leopard Catamaran that were worked on during our time in the shipyard in Trinidad. It is all part ...
As part of our 600+ day warranty haul out, all of of the windows on our 45ft Leopard Catamaran were pulled out, the frames repaired and the windows rebed. Many ...
Cracks, Voids, Dry Fiberglass & Damaged Hull Sections – Yes That Bad! | NEW Leopard Catamaran Review
In the next part of our review of buying a new boat from Leopard Catamarans, I address the vertical hull cracks that were present on our bows and transoms. I ...
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After 2 months in the water it was time to start cleaning the hull, scraping off what's grown under the waterline in the warm Caribbean waters! We completely ...
Unfortunately Trent and the other side couldn't come to a reasonable agreement in a reasonable time frame. Apparently a partial refund isn't worth their time ...
This week's been short trips off the boat to try and cling to our sanity mixed with days of checking, working and testing. The chain and anchor are the sort of ...
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In order to get our sailboat home ready to explore the Caribbean Sea it was time to reinstall the genoa sail! Nicknamed "the dummy sail" on our boat, it's the ...
Haven't seen PART ONE? Watch it now at https://youtu.be/lFYhvsAiP9c After over 2 years of issues with the mast on our Leopard 45 Catamaran, the new ZSpars ...
Over the next two episodes we're going to take you through a play by play of what it was like getting a whole new mast on our sailboat, from stripping down the ...
As the end of the hurricane season looms our crew and the Leopard Catamarans / Robertson & Caine redemption warranty team work together to get our Leopard 45 ...