Danielle and the 'Goin Coastal' family: The Florida-based family of five who traded powerboating for a 1989 Irwin 38, currently navigating the technical ...
Volo
We replace two of our electric bilge pumps, rebuild our manual Guzzler 500 bilge pump, replace float switches, hoses, change out check valves for vented loops, ...
The Domino Effect...changing batteries turns into building a new box (or two) turns into finding rotten wood, turns into wood replacement and a fiberglass ...
Wake up...fish...sail round...throw a net...fish...hook a little shark...that about sums it up. Oh and sharing the beginnings of our channel. If you like ...
More dog + island + kid adventures in Dunedin, Clearwater and Belleair, FL jumping off the boat, fishing, dinghy ride to the island, and some dolphin ...
1 more kid and 1 more dog on the boat and day 1 of riding out storms. We needed to get used to being on the boat even when the weather isn't good, so the ...
We take the dinghy out for Mazie's 1st time scalloping in Pasco County, FL while we test out the new Suzuki 20hp 4 stroke outboard. Hey there! We are a ...
Here's our 2017 Suzuki 20hp outboard tiller we bought for our 11.5ft inflatable RIB and some basic maintenance (motor & gear oil change, oil & fuel ...
This was our 2nd 4 night boat trip from Mar. 2022. Finally got a little fishing in on our sailboat, Tiki and Kona get some island time, we dinghy in to ...
Well here's our dinghys we've gone through so far... 1 PVC inflatable, 1 hypalon inflatable, and our new to us 11.5ft West Marine double floor hypalon RIB. ...
Our first 4 night boat trip from Nov 2021 from Anclote to Clearwater Beach, Belleair Bluffs, and Dunedin. Also the first time bringing Tiki and Kona, our ...
Replacing the running rigging (ropes/sheets/blocks) and climbing the mast on our Irwin 38 MKII Sailboat. Oh there's some doggies in there too, a treasure ...
Awww, look its puppy Kona when she went to the boat for the first time. We install a new electric head for the forward cabin, a manual head in the aft, and ...
SVGC 8 – Haul Out Day at the Boat Yard and Dinghy Cruising at Ft Desoto Campground while on Vacation
We haul out the boat at the boat yard for the first time, get new thru hulls / seacocks, new antifoul bottom paint, and put in a new Airmar B150M transducer ...
Our first overnighter at Honeymoon Island in Dunedin, FL from December 2020. Beautiful sunset...beautiful sunrise...and running aground in our channel. ...
Trying to get things ready to go out on our first overnighter. Here's some of the more mechanically-related projects we delt with since we bought our Irwin ...
Ryan, Danielle, and the Kids here from SV Goin Coastal. Here are some of the first boat projects we've tackled since buying our '89 Irwin 38 MKII in 2020. ...
The first time we took the boat out, we ended up with 25mph winds while coming back in to dock the boat as a storm approached. Here was some of our learning ...
Here's our 1989 Irwin 38 MKII center cockpit sailboat we bought back in August 2020! Here's a little mini tour and some of the stuff we gotta work on/replace. ...
Our Tampa Bay Boat Search over the past two years. Wanna buy a boat? Here's a little overview of all the boats we looked at from Sarasota, Bradenton, St ...
We took a break from the standing rigging replacement this week. We started off removing our rudder, but ended up having to replace a busted thru-hull. ...
Learning the Lines
This is part 2 of a series of episodes where we will be replacing Somnium’s standing rigging. ...
We finally properly name Somnium, just in time for the mast to come down. This is part 1 of a series of episodes where we will be replacing Somnium’s standing ...