Join Colin and his team on their boat repair journey as they work tirelessly to fix major damage to their vessel. Learn the skills needed to repair a weakened ...
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In this episode we continue to grind fiberglass inside the forepeak of the boat where the deck tore away from the hull, which is NEVER fun... SV Parlay is a ...
The final week was packed with so many jobs that we had to split this one up in two! But we are STOKED to have the new crew arrive, and make huge progress as ...
The weather finally allows us to get our sugar scoop extensions sprayed, and they look awesome! We also finally assemble the hard top and get a bunch more jobs ...
We set ourselves a deadline to be back in the water before xmas, so we scramble to get all of the jobs ticked off in order to splash parlay, after a grueling ...
After repairing our bulkheads inside, we start the next project which is to extend the boat by 1.5 feet. The Lagoon 450 has a very small bottom step, so we ...
After weeks of hard work and pressure on Lagoon to do the right thing, Colin receives a phone call from the director of Lagoon, saying that they will cover the ...
In a major move this week on Life On The Hulls, I set about making a Catamaran Bulkhead Alteration to allow the integration of the main Saloon Suite Module. ...
In this episode we finally get to assemble the cabins after rebuilding the primary bulkheads of our Lagoon 450 catamaran. The cabins could not be taken apart ...
Just back from a great holiday, it can hit you in the face, the task at hand is Huge and it is so important to get working. The "Momentum is Critical" as I ...
The lagoon bulkhead issue is no longer in question as to whether it is a design flaw or not. 63 lagoon 450's have reported damaged bulkheads, anywhere from ...
The mass of foam core in a Catamaran Deck takes a lot of working out to reach the desired outcome of strength, stiffness and structure and this week the deck ...
In this episode we get almost all of the tabbing done inside the boat, which connects the bulkheads to the hull. It is a huge accomplishment, and we have so ...
After finding cracked bulkheads on my Lagoon 450 catamaran, right when we were about to sail across the pacific, we had to turn around, come back through the ...
In order to access the bulkheads even further, we have to rip out more walls in the cabins of our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran. We find more and more ...
The final week before this hurricane damaged boat goes back in the water!! Lots happening this episode as we pop the mold off the transom and start the fairing ...
In this episode we show you how we made this huge mold on from a donor Fountain Pajot Helia 44, to fix a hurricane damaged sister ship. She was baldy damaged ...
In part one you saw us realize that we had a serious issue, as we completely lost rig tension. Well, this episode reveals the actual cause of this, how we ...
In this episode you get an in depth look at the issues we have been facing with our hurricane damaged catamaran (2012 Lagoon 450). What appears to be fairly ...