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Fiberglass Repair | There’s a Hole in Our Boat
We've been waiting for the hulls to dry out enough for the fibreglass repairs to begin. It's a little like watching paint dry. But finally the wait is over and it'a time to start putting Javelot, our floating home..
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About 100 miles off Kona, pounding waves broke my catamaran’s rear main beam, leaving the starboard hull hanging from the deck. Keeping the boat together meant repeated trips into the black water beneath it, using rope and winches to lash a broken home back together.
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Repairs Starts on Crash Damaged Catamaran
Our crash damaged catamaran has been hauled out of the water. Now we can get a much better look at what we are dealing with.
The starboard bow took the main impact. And despite us sealing the damage with epoxy putty to keep the worst of the water out, seawa...
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Boat shows are notorious for pushing shiny new solutions to problems we didn't know we had, but hidden among the gimmicks are a few pieces of tech that genuinely move the needle for shorthanded cruisers. This year at the C...
Releasing Gallons of Trapped Sea Water from our Crash Damaged Boat | Rough Sail to Trinidad to Haul Out
After winding our way through the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, we've finally arrived in Grenada for the final schlep of our journey to Trinidad, where our crash damaged catamaran, and ...
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Recent conversations across the cruising community have put keel safety, hull construction, and structural integrity under the microscope. Between high-profile incidents like the Oyster 825 keel loss and aggressive marketing campaigns claiming modern fi...
ROUGH seas BROKEN eggs DAMAGED boat
There's no use crying over broken eggs while rough seas batter our damaged catamaran as we continue sailing south through the Caribbean Sea towards Trinidad.
Until now, we've been able to take our time, pausing to enjoy the islands, wildlife and most im...
Moving the engines aft creates more interior space, but it also places the rudders ahead of the propellers. I would test low-speed maneuvering on each engine separately because two engines are not true redundancy if one failure leaves the boat circling.
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For decades, cruisers gathered in Grenada because it sat just below the hurricane box that shaped many marine insurance policies. In July 2024, Hurricane Beryl flattened Carriacou and turned Tyrell Bay into a boat graveyard, shattering the industry's faith in that safe zone.
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The ONLY CARIBBEAN ISLAND that still eats this!?
We sailed our damaged catamaran to the beautiful Grenadine island of Bequia, where we're waiting for a weather to continue island hopping to Trinidad for boat work.
While enjoying some island time, Rob continues his passion, to eat like a local...
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This week we're getting dragged back to work, and things get a little more serious than your average boat project.
We start with a boat that came in with an electrical problem — an engine that was randomly losing voltage and s...
A ship's hull behaves like one enormous beam, bending through hogging and sagging as wave crests and troughs support different sections. Push that steel beyond what it can bear and the hull can fracture, a failure that overwhelmingly strikes long, heavily loaded tankers and freighters.
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Finished in an Italian warship yard in 1927, this 282-foot yacht began as "Flying Cloud". She then passed from an English duke, to a Guinness heir, and Aristotle Onassis before Windjammer finally made her its flagship in 1969.
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A hurricane does not steer itself; larger wind patterns high above it, called steering currents, carry it like a cork in a river. When those currents weaken, the storm can stall or wander, making its path dangerously unpredictable.
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PLANS CHANGE. THINGS GO WRONG
Sometimes you put a hole in your boat, races don't go your way, and whole course of life changes.This isn't an episode about a disaster; it's about how a family responds when things doesn't go to plan.
This week we continue our Caribbean sailing ad...
In October of 1998, a 282-foot four-masted schooner called the Fantome sailed into the western Caribbean with 31 crew members aboard and a hurricane building over the horizon. She was a 71-year-old, riveted steel ship with an incredibly gifted 32-year-old captain, Guyan March.
When Hurricane Mitch—...
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Sailing Our Damaged Catamaran to Trinidad
We're sailing our damaged catamaran south through the Caribbean, island hoping from Guadeloupe towards Trinidad, where we plan to haul out and repair the hull after our recent grounding.
With hurricane season underway, Trinidad is our destination for r...
Two things have really changed the way we live at anchor this season.
The first is our custom anchor alarm, which means we can both sleep easier at night. The second is the new shade over the bow. Together, they give us more comfort and peace of mind while living at anchor.
When we arrived at the ...
This time on Distant Shores we make a 2-week passage across the Atlantic Ocean, a first-time experience for our crew members, Noel and Tracey. Along the way we show how we deal with squalls and handle meal preparation as the yacht rolls in large seas on this challenging east to west transatlantic cr...
This 60 year old Sparkman & Stephens yacht has an incredible pedigree, a valuable mast, and a recently reduced asking price. The aluminum hull could still be viable or require a $200,000 replating job, making a complete hull-thickness survey essential before buying it.
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Cooper sailboats can be good performers, but their large acrylic windows were not always engineered with enough frame overlap. Once the adhesive begins to fail, water can quickly enter the boat and damage the surrounding interior. It does not necessarily make the boat a bad purchase, but it creates ...
Have We Made a Huge Mistake?
Last week we wept as Declan and Ivan sailed off to Mexico to join a sailing cargo ship bound for the northern Atlantic and ultimately Hamburg. Their first contact with us when they reached the boat on Cozumel, left us wondering if we had made a huge mistake.
Meanwhile R...
This Robert Harris design was built by Ta Yang in Taiwan and earned a reputation as a stout bluewater cruiser. Unfortunately, the original teak decks also earned these boats the nickname “Leaky Tikis.” This example has lost its teak deck and received several interior repairs, but a buyer still needs...
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