Prepping our boat for the fiberglass job took a lot of cleaning, a lot of a plastic and a lot of tape, cut mostly by my teeth! Pretty cool to see her all ...

Big news kids! I'm going to give an invaluable gift of cruising to one of my Patrons. If you all help just a little, I can give something very BIG to one of ...

Having a "floating" boat requires ways to keep unwanted water OUT and ways of storing fresh water IN... That's exactly what this week's episode is all about. ...

Two apparently! Removing these shrouds required some hefty plumbing wrenches and a few bad lawyers jokes but we finally got them off! Enjoy!

It seems the boys at the shipyard like to pick on the DIY'ers. But, we can take a few light hits. We'll probably need their help along the way when it comes ...

Complete rotten stringer repair documented in vlogs at https://havewindwilltravel.com. Here, we found out why our stringers rotted. You want to know? Mud ...

It's sad to see our mast lying lonely on her side at the shipyard. She loves to be standing tall, with lots of folks "hanging around." But I sleep soundly ...

Watch us run around like chipmunks in time-lapse mode as we pull the mast. Pretty interesting to see her become completely detached and lifted away. Also, ...

Just a few last detachments (just a few, I swear!). This mast pull prep is no effin joke. But all that's left now are the rods holding her up. Here comes ...

Yep, we are finally talking about that electric motor. We have so much to share and we are excited to share it all, from testing it, to putting it together to ...

You guys watch closely, because we're counting on you to help us put all of this crap back together. Preparing the boat to pull the mast turned into one heap ...

The only really bad thing about rod rigging is that she doesn't show her age, but we knew, at 30+ years, our original rods were getting up there. If we wanted ...

As we mentioned so many times, being in this Boatyard have its benefits. You know what they say " one man's trash is another man's treasure." We got to ...

We've got a TON of projects coming up kids, so I wanted to give you a little glimpse of what it is that motivates us when we're doing all of this scraping, ...

A rotten discovery in the bilge brings us the blues during Blue Angles weekend. Find out what tragedy just made our project list a helluva lot longer!

When we put the mast back up on Uma a while ago, we noticed that the rigging shop cut our new forestay and backstay to the wrong length, it was time to get ...

Cuba! I'm kidding (sort of). Maybe. There and 1,000 other places. I'll share our (very vague) plans but we're less than a year out and--believe me--that's ...

Being in the water has a lot of advantages. Other than being smoothly rocked to bed at night, we can officially say that we can catch our own diner ! And ...

Before we tell you where we're going, I thought it might help to know where we've been. In fact, I wrote it all down for you in my first sailing book -- SALT ...

Time to get real people. I've had a great time making entertaining videos but it seems folks want to know the REAL STORY. Well, this is it. The story of me. ...

Launching Uma was literally the beginning of this adventure. As we are creating more steps towards our dream, we are excited to share with you the next phase ...

So much had happened between summer 2014 and today. And sometimes it's good to look back at the good times. So we've decided to put together a quick recap of ...

Dan and I are both super excited to share with you the next phase of our adventure. In the meantime, we wanted to take the time to answer the main questions we ...

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