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Talk about chaining yourself to the dock! After nine months, 18 days, 10 hours and 20 minutes of our boat being immobile (thanks to the scale of the refit), we ...
With the gas disconnected and the stove out, this was the time for us to address the galley area around the Force 10 cooktop and oven. We wanted to replace ...
This is the story of how we managed to turn a simple electrical panel upgrade into another major job we never intended to do 🤯🤪 Needless-to-say, things ...
For those following our 'How To' series, here's the cockpit renovation explained. In it we go through 'How To': ✔️ Service a manual Lewmar winch ...
For those following our refit progress in real-time, here's the full story of the cockpit refit. It's essentially about how to achieve a spray-paint-like ...
A part of the boat refit we never intended to do is finally complete - we now have a new old cockpit in our 43-year-old Kelly Peterson 44! 🙌🙌🙌 This four-minute ...
Our latest real-time Vlog covers the accidental painting of our cockpit 🤪 It's accidental because it wasn't part of the original refit plan, but well, like ...
This three-minute video doesn't really do justice to the phenomenal amount of work that's gone into re-painting our cockpit. Every process you see here is ...
In the last couple of weeks we've moved onwards and upwards.... literally! Onwards because we're no longer working on that never-ending Laminex 🕺🏻💃🎆🙌🍾 Upwards ...
Hallelujah!!!! We finally glued the last piece of Laminex in place this week 🙌🙌🙌 Strictly speaking it's not the very last piece to go in (because we have a ...
Calculate the time you think something is going to take you on a boat, then double it, and add some 🤪 That's definitely been the case with this stage of our ...
I think I'm seeing woodwork in my sleep! Meanwhile Julian has learned to make patterns and laminate on autopilot. In short, we're going boat refit crazy, but ...
Never mind Tik Tok, we're all about Teak-Tok right now! Either the real deal (for a fibreglass boat we seem to have an inordinate amount of teak on board!), or ...
They say the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. This "one-step-at-a-time" philosophy definitely rings true for anyone working on a boat refit. ...
We've been taking advantage of the latest weather window to carry on chasing the leaks. This means it's been all about deck work on the good ship Brilliant II ...
Highlights of the last three weeks' boat work include: 🤪 Redefining tolerance for mess 🦶🏻Discovering Julian's toe-tapping telephone twitch 🥵 Melting in the ...
We're moving in the right direction 🙌 In the last couple of weeks, teak veneer has been re-installed on the major bulkheads, broken trims have been fixed, and ...
Another milestone moment reached in the interior reno - three coats of varnish on all the removable timber parts and some more leaks chased down in the rain.
🎶 T'was the night before Christmas and the sanding had stopped, The boat was in pieces tied up at the dock; The crew were exhausted, teak dust in their beer, ...
Things we have learned in weeks 3-4 of the interior refit: 🤪 Boat work is like pilates - you need to be some kind of contortionist 🥵 Attempting a refit at the ...
Because we really needed something else to do!! 🤯 We've been chasing leaks through the boat for years so we could get to an interior reno. It started with a ...