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This week's episode captures us building our new hard dodger out of PVC foam and fiberglass.
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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...
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This week we install our chain plates, mast step and bow piece ready for our new ...
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...
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Last week you saw us remove our stainless U-Bolt chain plates. As part of our on-going quest to keep as much metal r...
This week we remove the remaining fittings off deck, continue restoration of the mast and install new deck mounts for our galley hatch and bow piece.
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We are finally settled in at Linton Bay Marina in Panama, and can start working on the cracked bulkheads of our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran. We also got struck by lightning recently so start the troubleshooting process for seeing what exactly ha...
Winter weather has left us so we can finally haul out Mirrool and address some long-standing issues on deck.
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*Whoops! Please ignore the intro where Travis references a raw water pump - He meant to say FRESH water pump!
As cruisers on a budget, we're always looking to DIY as much as we can. Here's how we changed the FRESH water pump on our Yanmar 4JHTE Diesel ...
The mast was in need of some serious attention and our rigging was at least 10 years old. This week we engage the help of Peter Greig to fit out all new Dyneema rigging for Mirrool.
If you'd like to read the brief Q & A with Peter Greig and Wichard P...
Being a full time live aboard sailor is often a life full of surprises. Some people don't like surprises, but I do. And in this episode I get a lot of them. Some good, some not so good. For the most part I can say, "WOW! What a nice surprise!"
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Troy fits some new mechanical gauges to replace our old instrument panel and we install and trial some foam insulation to stop the dreaded condensation in our lockers.
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Ahoy! In this video, we continue smooth sailing down the incredible Corsican coastline. We race up a hill to get to the post office, do some beach yoga, sail down to Ajaccio with the spinnaker up, pick up our friend Dev who comes to visit and explore the u...
After discovering cracks in the bulkhead of our hurricane damaged cat, we have to come back through the Panama Canal for the 2nd time in 3 months, back into the Caribbean, to repair the boat in Linton Bay marina, Panama.
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged ...
As part of our ongoing quest to make more space in our tiny floating home we decide to convert our saloon table into something a bit different.
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In episode 80, we attempt to make it back to Anacortes from Friday Harbor with our boat still leaking. While cruising the San Juan Islands on a charter boat (a Meridian 411 yacht), we finally find the source of the leak. The charter company installed a ne...
In Tasmania, spring is the gale season which brings lots of wind and rain. So in order to rebuild our dodger we needed to fast track our companionway hatch renovation. A lot of the timber work on Mirrool wasn't very well preserved and there was a lot of dr...
This week we focus on trying to avoid throwing things onto the scrap heap if we can possibly avoid it which we think makes our little sailboat beautiful in ways that go beyond skin deep.
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Captain William lost his best friend of boating so after finding the new owner for his project boat Durbeck Trawler we decided to do a tribute series while boat refit. Let's see if we can turn this used boat into a sea worthy vessel! If you guys have famil...
After 4 years of saying it needed to be done, we finally replace and rewire our hideous electrical switchboard in our sailboat!
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Stuck in Newlyn Harbour doing boat repairs in preparation for our passage around Lands End. The head is broken and the main sail reefing lines aren't working right. At least it's beautiful here!
We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in N...
During our survey we found a lot of potential repairs to be done to our boat and we are finally done! Join us as we talk about how much it cost to repair our catamaran to complete the list we developed from the survey. If you haven't watched our survey or ...
In our sailboat refit series this week we reveal the almost finished port side of our main cabin. We take you through the innovative storage solutions and decorative touches that we came up with in order to transform this previously ugly space into somethi...
This week we reveal our brand new galley and the work that we have been carrying out to complete it over the last 3 months.
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