After making it into Boca Chica Marina less than 24 hours before the lockdown happened, we make the best of our time in Key West. Though the town is dead, we ...
S/V Full Send
We leave Fort Lauderdale and make our way towards Key West for our first overnight sail with no one else onboard! The Corona Virus stipulations are changing ...
We finally start moving south towards the tropics after our 8 months of repairs and learning about how Full Send works. We motor most of the way down the coast ...
After getting all the sails back, we put the sails back up! Alan's mom visits from Tallahassee and we take a quick day sail with Alan’s mom and Bri, we were ...
Finally after 8 months on the hard trying to figure out how to fix all the problems on the boat, we splash back in the water with no leaks! We both feel ...
While waiting for our dingy to get delivered, which is our last big task before getting back in the water, we purchase our new outboard engine and get the name ...
As we wait for a few funds to get transferred before we can buy our new dingy and outboard engine, we sell the old dingy that's literally falling apart at the ...
We punctured the return line while trying to tighten a bolt after bleeding the line of air, so we purchased a brand new return line and installed it. Like and ...
After successfully getting the saildrive back in, it was time to test the engine. We put the heat exchanger back on after testing the thermostat and replacing ...
After waiting 4 weeks for saildrive parts, it turned out the dealer ordered the wrong ones. Reason being, we had a 130S top and a 120S bottom which neither ...
While we wait 4 weeks for our sail drive parts to arrive, we take care of some smaller tasks that need to be done on Full Send before we splash back into the ...
We start to tackle the biggest project of our repairs on land, the engine/saildrive⛵️. With the help of a manual and some 🖥 Youtubers who have gone before us, ...
Still not back in the water, we head to Philadelphia to see classmates and friends for the 2019 Army/Navy Game. We take the Friday before to check out some of ...
A very technical episode where we dive into the final segment of the Autopilot (Autohelm) repairs for our Raymarine (Raytheon) Type 2 Rotary Drive. We also ...
After a rough crossing from Puerto Rico to The Dominican Republic, we noticed a grinding in our wheel when the autopilot/autohelm was on. With no issues of the ...
After 💨Hurricane Dorian💨 thankfully missed hitting us, we begin work on painting the bottom of ⛵️Full Send.⛵️ A process that included washing with laundry ...
Our Autopilot (Autohelm) went out back in February when Full Send made the mona passage crossing from Puerto Rico to The Dominican Republic. Not knowing a ...
We head up to the 2019 Army/Navy Game in Philadelphia and investigate where the best Philly Cheesesteak is in the city. Sadly..... Army lost Though there are ...
In this episode we begin work on filling in and sanding blisters to prepare for painting the bottom. Hurricane Dorian had other plans and we had to prep the ...
We went down the rabbit hole of this so called Chuck E. Cheese conspiracy that they are allegedly reusing uneaten pizza. We had to put it to the test when ...
In this episode we take our Icelandic friend, Kari, to an American baseball game and play around of golf before sending him off! After dropping Kari off, we ...
Kari continues to help the crew in fairing the keel and rudder before getting on the first coat of Interprotect 2000E. This layer will help act as a barrier ...
In this episode we trouble shoot our outboard engine a little more, finally get the propane working and cook our first hot meal on board in months, and begin ...
The Full Send Boys get their refrigerator evaporator replaced and the compressor refilled before struggling to reinstall it. With the ability to have cold ...