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We take a drive to visit a couple of cruisers who are kindly accepting our post. Magnus looks forward to picking up a Raspberry Pi, which he will use to build an autopilot for Nutshell.
We do a fuel run with the jerries in the car, using a wonderful app c...
We fly back to Leros island in Greece where we left Wishful Thinking for the European winter on the hard at Moor and Dock Boatyard. We get straight into boat work to prepare to launch her for our second sailing season. Below the waterline we remove rust on...
We get ready to leave Tipperary Waters Marina and make our way around the corner to the Dinah Beach careening poles.
Once the tide is out far enough Wendy begins the task of cleaning and scrubbing Nutshell’s hull to get her ready for antifoul paint.
Sh...
This episode is packed full of boat jobs, both big and small.
We are now up on the careening poles at he Dinah Beach Cruising Club. As the tide heads out, we work and as it comes back in we down tools on the outside of Nutshell and do inside jobs instead....
It’s time to leave Tipperary Waters Marina and slowly make our way around the corner to the Dinah Beach Careening Poles. Only one little problem though, the shaft has not arrived for the engine, so we have no power. We are escorted to the poles by a flot...
Ladies and gentlemen, we are finally ready to splash! We throw a solid epoxy barrier coat onto Parlay's hull, then 2 coats of antifoul, and finish up a bunch of last minute jobs before she is finally ready to be launched after 10 months in the shipyard, an...
Another long episode! We have been so busy. After arriving back to Pickle we get straight on with boat work and have two weeks of annoyance, problems, hard work and finally a relaunch to set sail for distant shores! Join us as we treat osmosis, service our...
Only a coupe of months in the water after a fresh coat of bottom paint and the hull is covered in growth. To make matters worse, I applied HARD antifoul paint and its very soft and has in places already disappeared. Three years ago I applied the same brand...
We’re up on the hard at the Rosshaven Marine boatyard. It’s time to sort the new sails out.
Magnus begins by putting the new staysail on the Reefurl furler which we installed quite some time ago in 35 knot winds!
Meanwhile Wendy is busy painting the ...
2 lifts in 1 week!? WHY?
Anis' Boatyard was great, unfortunately Port de Peche consists of 1 government owned travel lift (APIP), and the 4 private boatyards who unfortunately have to bribe the travel lift operator to lift their boats (even though it's th...
Can you paint a boat in the rain? Does prop antifouling work? Waiting for the weather to give us a break...
00:00 Getting the spray painting done
00:29 Painting antifoul and topsides in the rain
01:36 On the hard during lockdown
02:00 Police boat with a ...
Jamie shows how to dismantle the prop when he takes the Max-Prop off the shaft. Liz explains how to check and service seacocks.
00:00 What happens if you find osmosis?
02:14 Status report on removing bottom paint
03:06 To replace our dripless shaft seal w...
This week we are doing a bottom job! We used Magic Antifoul barrier and hull coating and also used their prop coating, Triton Prop, for the props, sail drives and underwater lights. We made our own mounts for the underwater lights out of fiberglass and use...
Checking your boat hull is the first thing to do when you haul out. That includes examining the state of the anti-foul, inspecting the prop, cutlass bearing and anodes and checking the rudder. If it is a fibreglass hull, look for signs of osmosis. And befo...
How do you prepare for haul out? What specific haul-out preparation should be done? We list the jobs to do before you lift your sailboat in the first episode of our new sailing boat maintenance series...
00:00 Jamie's rant in the car
01:10 How do you prep...
Whenever you go to do a job on a boat, it always turns into more jobs.
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Another week on the hard sees us really over all the dirt, mosquitos, sun and boiling days, without that beautiful water to jump in off the back of our amazing home. We tackle the priming, painting and sea cocks to get Merewether ready to splash back in th...
This week we pull Merewether out of the water for a much needed antifouling and general maintenance, with little to no experience we tackel the jobs ahead all by ourselves and safe to say we learn a lot throughout. With very long days, many mosquitos and t...
You can live this lifestyle too! BlueWater Cruising will show you how: https://www.bluewatercruisingplan.com/ Grab a barf bag and join us as we adventure through the Lau Group in Fiji, discuss the upcoming election, and round it out with an update on the ...
Our final CopperCoat update. Has our CopperCoat antifoul nightmare finally ended? Watch the video to find out. Since 2016 we’ve had CopperCoat problems. With two failed CopperCoat antifoul applications and two touch-up jobs, we thought there was no hope....
Living on a boat OUT OF THE WATER is just no fun! After we make it back to the mainland, we get hauled out to finish the job that was started before the lockdown happened.
Our show is always family-friendly and chock full of the outrageous adventures of r...
Time to fix the hole in our boat! We get hauled out in Noumea and spend 48 hours on the hardstand to replace two ball valves and throw another coat of antifoul on.
It’s a whirlwind but worth it to replace the ball valves which both had snapped stems wi...
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