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My sister, Ellen, and her husband, Casey, join us in a little holiday celebration. This is the first ever lighted boat parade that Garrett and I have ever participated in and it was a ton of fun. We even got second place!
Thanks for watching everyone!
~R...
Haphazard conversion to a cruising yacht continues with building a hard dodger . To keep the spray, waves, rain and sun off and make sailing a whole lot more comfortable on deck. Aluminum construction, an overview of the building.
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In this episode we show you how we made the diamond non-skid pattern for our new transom extension on our hurricane damaged lagoon 450 catamaran. It went from being a 45 foot cat, to a 46.5 catamaran!
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The battle against the temperature continues. I have to accept the fact that the weather is getting cooler and I will have to figure out techniques to adapt to this new normal. But as Rovers, we just don't give up! To help build Mrs Rover a bungalow conta...
As if there wasn't enough going on down here on the Hulls, this week we begin a Massive new Project, a 4.5 x 4.5 meter Catamaran Hard Top Roof for our New Build 12.7 meter Catamaran. The grunt work begins today and Janet and I have some serious work ahead ...
I could stare at the ocean indefinitely. We got so lucky with the day and so lucky that one of our volunteers lives close enough to take us sailing! Michael, who has done our ratlines among other things, has a Bristol Channel Cutter 28 in Pillar Point Harb...
Season 2 of Wave Rover starts off with a Huge announcement! I'm building a new boat. Wave Rover Hull #1 is a brand new 21foot pocket cruiser. Designed by an naval architect to comfortably circumnavigate the world, and yet, be built by the average person i...
The transom is fitted and the hull is now complete from the plywood perspective. I explain the importance of learning to see with ones hands. The battle against the temperature continues.
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Life in a crawl space operating very dangerous power tools between your legs is apparently what boat building is all about. Cutting away at the bulkheads to match the New Deck is perhaps the most painstaking process to date.
Following that harrowing exper...
Excited to get another sail we jump into getting the changes on the mizzen boom and gaff done. The episode leaves us watching paint and soup dry. Can’t wait to mount the davits and absolutely can’t wait to get every sail fully rigged up!
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Gluing the hull panels together. Mrs. Rover pitches in and together we do a massive glue up on the hull. She certainly is looking like a boat now. Anybody purchasing Wave Rover Merchandise can get a discount by using the code: waveroversail
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Thanks for watching everyone!
~Ruthie
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The hull sides are scribed and fitted onto the hull. Finally Wave Rover opens her cargo hold in time for Christmas with some merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/wave-rover-cargo-hold/
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After a couple of days off following the Epic demoulding and Deck Placement day I headed into work with the full intention to take it easy. How wrong I was. Immediately thrust into a plethora of jobs that need to be tackled just to move forward. Check out ...
Another sail arrives! Our staysail is the second out of our four working sails to be completed. Thanks to M&H Bartles, Sailmakers. We keep at a few smaller projects and when the skies clear Garrett gets back to the bigger current project which is mount...
Some of the Frames are not fitting. The problem is solved and it's time to build the transom. Builders from several countries take on the challenge of building there own Wave Rover 650.
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Sorry to leave you hanging last week, but an event like this need to be taken in slowly and our Epic Catamaran Deck Demould, Flip and Placement still has my heart pounding. The whole process was a tad stressful and I hereby present it in all it's angles. H...
We get down to business in this episode. Installing our Nature’s Head, a marine toilet. The days of walking to the shorehead will be in the past!
Thanks for watching everyone!
~Ruthie
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With Mrs. Rover's help the second layer of the bottom is laminated. This is a big step forward! Also, the building plans for the WR 650 are now fully complete and they have exceeded my expectations. 23 pages of drawings complete this digital package for wh...
Not without it's dramas, this week's instalment is the demoulding of a DIY 40 Foot Foam Core Catamaran Deck. 4 months of solid work and plenty of stress has lead to this massive milestone in the build of our 12.7 Meter Catamaran.
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Our first look at the cushions inside the boat! We are half way through making all the cushions. I love the striped fabric for the dinette and the light color fabric we chose for the quarter bunks. Having two different fabrics kind of helps separate the bo...
In this episode I scarf up another big panel to cover the bottom of Wave Rover. Concerning the building plans for the 650... Andy the Naval Architect needs just a little more time to put together the final details, we are very close to releasing these. Tha...
Logistics are plenty at this point and squaring everything away before we put her lid on is the order of the day.
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We have so many to thank for helping us with materials for this project! It took, of course, longer than I thought to get the hang of it but mostly that was just finding the right head space. Not being too overcritical and being okay with it not being perf...
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