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Our sailboat is finally outside the shed, some of the biggest pieces of the entire build have arrived and we’re getting everything ready for one of the biggest transformations of this project.
Next week, we start cutting into the hull and turning all these aluminum pieces into part of the boat. Thi...
In this episode we fly to Taiwan to meet with the owner of Ocean Group Asia, who insists that Taiwan is a great place to build our 62ft Aluminum catamaran! So we fly there to see this with our own eyes.
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We need to install the keels and rudders on our boat, but first we need to raise the entire boat about 1 meter to have enough space to w...
**On a boat like this, even installing a LIGHT SWITCH can turn into an all-day project. 😂**
After four weeks of working on the boat, we’ve learned a few things — including some lessons about painting that we definitely wish we’d learned sooner!
I’ve been spending most of my time outside in the bla...
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With only 70 days until our boat leaves for the Caribbean, we're working against the clock! This week we're tackling some of the jobs that need to be done before the boat can finally come out of the she...
After 10 years chasing this dream, everything now comes down to the next 84 days.
We’re leaving Belgium. Where the boat is going? And what happens if we don’t get it ready in time? This might be the biggest challenge we’ve ever faced.
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In this episode, you'll see the problem, our solution, and the first glimpse of the deck saloon finally coming to life.
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In this episode we continue with our diesel tank dilemma, as we pull out our starboard fuel tank seeing the condition of our port tank. We had a severe case of diesel bug, which corroded the bottom of the tank, but there was also corrosion on the outside of the tank from the wooden frame. Hope starb...
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We've been a little quiet over the past month, but it's been one of those stretches where we've had a dozen different projects happening at once—lots of progress behind the scenes, even if nothing has quite reached the finish line yet.
Some of what's been keepin...
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In this episode we get a brand new Highfield dinghy, but it is too heavy for our davits so we have to make a winch system, which a member of the lagoon catamaran group designed. We make a few modifications, and it ...
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Sometimes fixing someone else's mistakes is much harder than building from scratch. This week we finally discovered why the roof of our aluminum sailboat has been fighting us for months... ...
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This week we tested our new windlass, chain and anchor. Another big step toward getting this boat ready for the water.
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For the past several months, many of you have been asking about our yacht build and wondering why we suddenly stoppe...
This week, we tackle one of the most important projects on our aluminum sailboat: building the bow sprit, anchor roller system, and windlass foundation.
By the end of the episode, the bow of the boat looks completely different—and for the first time, it really starts to look like a serious offshore...
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We hope you're having a great second half of May!! It looks like we missed all of our April Showers here on Kent Island, and they were saved up for the past week. So...we didn't get as far as we wanted to in some projects, but here is what we have bee...
Installing the deck hatches on our aluminum expedition sailboat turned out to be WAY more complicated than we expected.
This was one of those projects that kept us awake at night for months…
We knew that as soon as we started welding large hatch frames into the deck, there was a real risk of warpi...
This week we’re giving you a full walkthrough of our homebuilt catamaran to show just how much progress has happened lately. When you work on a project every single day, it’s hard to notice the small changes — but once we started walking through each space, even we were surprised by how far things h...
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This week we are gonna talk about our steering system. But before installing it, we had to face a problem: it simply didn’t f...
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When we decided to finish our aluminum sailboat ourselves, we chose to simplify everything — not by cutting corners, but by b...
Our beloved Odd, the boat that we had for over 4 years (sailing from southern Brazil all the way to the Caribbean) is now for sail after finishing her circumnavigation!
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This one cabinet will eventually power our entire catamaran.
Last episode we installed our two Victron MultiPlus II units, officially kicking off the installation of our electrical system. Now we’re moving on to the cabinet where all of our breakers will live — the place that will ultimately distri...
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After months of design and engineering, it's finally time to build our custom portlight frames.
Because these windows si...
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