One of the biggest mistakes sailboat buyers make is focusing on the interior. A beautiful interior can blind you to soft decks, leaking fittings, UV damage, ...

Some kids grow up in neighborhoods… ours are growing up chasing sunsets, turquoise water, and moments like this. 🌴☀️ Lily spotted the rope swing and didn’t ...

Most people look at a sailboat emotionally. You need to break it down system by system — engines, rigging, plumbing, batteries, electronics, and everything ...

🌊 Join Our Sailing Family Adventure! We’re the Fothergills – a family of six living full-time aboard our catamaran, Happy Days. From tropical islands to ...

🌊 Join Our Sailing Family Adventure! We’re the Fothergills – a family of six living full-time aboard our catamaran, Happy Days. From tropical islands to ...

If all the lines are green, the boat has been sitting outside for years. Fresh paint can disguise neglect, but mold and moss don’t lie. This is one of the ...

🌊 Join Our Sailing Family Adventure! We’re the Fothergills – a family of six living full-time aboard our catamaran, Happy Days. From tropical islands to ...

We finally leave Blankenberg after staying for quite a while waiting for a good weather window to head north. The North Sea isn’t that kind and we are unable ...

🌊 Join Our Sailing Family Adventure! We’re the Fothergills – a family of six living full-time aboard our catamaran, Happy Days. From tropical islands to ...

Episode 477 : Building A New Rudder Part 1 Hello Friends, On this episode we start the massage project of building a new rudder for Triteia to replace its ...

Our WORST Day Passage! I Gear failure & Heart break Three quarters of the way sailing around the world, and one of our toughest day passages happens in ...

We took a break from full-time boat life to explore South Africa in a completely different way — chasing waves, meeting incredible people, and stepping into ...

🌊 Join Our Sailing Family Adventure! We’re the Fothergills – a family of six living full-time aboard our catamaran, Happy Days. From tropical islands to ...

Ferrocement boats might look solid, but they fail from the inside out. Once cracks form, seawater corrodes the internal structure until the boat essentially ...

🌊 Join Our Sailing Family Adventure! We’re the Fothergills – a family of six living full-time aboard our catamaran, Happy Days. From tropical islands to ...

Welcome back to Finding Our Isla. In this episode, we continue settling into life in Le Marin while waiting out strong winds and tackling a long list of boat ...

Two people struggling vs. one person operating effortlessly. $1,285 in scrap metal and tools changed everything. Full DIY dinghy davit build in Ep. 56 We are ...

No name on the boat is already a warning—but it gets worse. This DIY hard dodger made from vehicle windshields isn’t just ugly, it’s unsafe and not built for ...

A fresh paint job and custom cockpit can hide serious issues. Old screwed-down teak decks often leak, and the real story is inside - water damage to hulls and ...

Welcome back to Sailing UV ⛵🐾 The greatest sailing show on Earth… according to Violet anyway 😅 If you’re new here — I’m Jonathan, and alongside my giant dog ...

We needed a dinghy davit on the Mystic. New ones cost thousands of dollars. So Tim did what Tim does — he dug through our scrap metal pile and built one ...

Hurricane-damaged boats can become financial black holes. The cost of materials like teak is driven by shipping and taxes—so repairs are often far cheaper in ...

The boat finally goes back in the water after months of being on the hard. I also talk about why I haven't been uploading content recently and where things ...

A boat listing with no real photos is never a good sign. This 1971 Little Harbor looks more like a project someone gave up on than a vessel ready to sail. ...