After finishing most of our aft welding from plate replacement, we decided to pull our beta marine engine to do some more work as part of our steel boat ...
Wayward Life Sailing
After replacing the aft end of our hull, we continue working on this steel boat restoration by replacing more small bits of rust, all of which, of course, are ...
After replacing one aft hull plate on our Van De Stadt Norman 40, we continue our steel boat restoration by cutting out our second, and hopefully last hull ...
Deep into our steel boat restoration, we got to a point where we needed to have the welder in two places at once, so we brought out a second welder... Welding ...
After cutting another giant hole in our boat, we continue on with our boat restoration, this time putting a new plate in… but this one doesn’t wanna go into ...
Despite the ups and downs of restoring a steel sailboat, I hadn't questioned our decision to buy a steel boat. Until now... Patreon: ...
After discovering rust we didn't know was there on our steel sailboat, we continue to dig and discover even more problems.... Patreon: ...
Excited to finish the welding in the cockpit, we get ready to move the cockpit drain and instead find some major rust issues... Patreon: ...
We find more rust during our sailboat restoration and think that we may be in for some really annoying problem solving, but things aren't always as bad as they ...
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The welding in the cockpit continues, but this time we need to figure out where to put the welder to get the work done... Patreon: ...
After finding even more rust during our boat restoration, we tore apart the steering pedestal and decided to redesign some things before putting it back ...
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After finding some pretty big issues in our deck, we start the process of tearing apart the interior so we can start the process of replacing and repairing our ...
After finalizing our chain locker redesign, we get to work on designing the plate our windlass is going to sit on. Due to material shortages we have to get a ...
After cruising with her for 6 months and doing some short- term repairs, we decided it was time to do some big changes to the chain locker on our Van De Stadt ...
After digging into our bulwarks for a bit we get back to finishing the chain locker projects, starting with rebuilding the rotted out deck beams. Patreon: ...
After cutting out our second hull plate, we get it fitted and we finally finish the welding on both plates, allowing us to move onto the next big project! ...
After cutting off the port side of the chain locker, we make some new ribs and get the plate ready to be welded back into the boat! Patreon: ...
As the steel boat projects continue, we build an overhead crane to lift some equipment onto the boat so we can finally start welding and cutting some of the ...
We get all of the metal we need to do our work on the boat and start on cutting some metal! We use the plasma cutter to get rid of the mystery pipe in the ...
Rebuilding parts of a steel boat sounds great until we started to wonder how on earth we were going to get our heavy equipment to the boat yard... but we can ...