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Clever Plumbing Hacks for a Sailboat | Step 465
▸ Finding clever hacks to consider for our sailboat. ▸ Full story in today’s episode ↓ Trying to solve the fresh water plumbing issues for our boat by finding clever, smart, and minimalist solutions. AMAZON LINK to Dan's pocket screwdriver: ▸ JOIN THE UMA NATION: The Uma Nation is what mak...
From Production Catamaran to Dream Boat: Refit Projects That Will Change Everything
We’ve been hauled out in New Zealand for a while now, working hard on upgrades that will give us more freedom, comfort, and confidence once we’re back out cruising. In this video, we share the latest progress on several major refit projects: ⚓️ Rigging Issue & Fix: What we discovered and how we...
Episode 274 – Renovating Our Catamaran, Ready to Sail the World!
Lots happening this weeks guys! As well as starting to prep and repaint our Sillette Mk 2 Sonic Drive Leg, (which also needs servicing), we are tackling some major wiring... Nicky spends quite a few hours inside sweltering lockers, upside down at all angles, try to feed all new wiring for our windla...
Securing and Plumbing our New Watertanks | Step 464
▸Going to therapy is a sign of strength, not weakness. Our paid partner BetterHelp makes therapy simple, with 10% off your first month to help you get started: ▸ Full story in today’s episode ↓ It's time to finalise the plumbing system for our watertanks and secure them to the boat. ▸ JOIN ...
Episode 273 – Major Boat Work & Copper Coating! – Hour Special!
It's a hour long special this week guys, we tackle so many boat jobs it would be impossible to list them here, but our major job was epoxying the hulls then Copper Coating, so if you've ever considered any kind of boat work or Copper Coat instead of ordinary anti-foal this is the episode f...
Solving The Problem With Our New Batteries (BUSES – Part 3) | Step 463
▸ Building the Ultimate Sailboat Electrical System (BUSES) Part3: Victron NG 48V 100Ah Batteries final install. ▸ Full story in today’s episode ↓ After scratching our heads against the wall to find a solution for our fuses. We finally got it: clean, simple, practical, printable! Download Fuse Ho...
We’re FINALLY Doing It⛵️Catamaran Workshop Conversion
We’re FINALLY doing it! After years of dreaming and months of planning, we’re starting the process of converting our port forward cabin into a functional onboard workshop so we can tackle all the future projects boat life will throw at us. In this episode, we start the demolition and rebuild proces...
Building The Ultimate All-electric Sailboat System (Part 2: Batteries) | Step 462
▸ This is the start of building The Ultimate All-electric Sailboat System ▸ Full story in today’s episode ↓ Now that the major build phase is complete, it's finally time to start installing systems and equipment, starting with The core of it all our Batteries. In this episode we explain why w...
Episode 4: After Hitting the Reef, I’m Alone and Trying to Bring Calico Skies Back
This is my new channel where I will continue the story aboard Calico Skies, but with a fresh perspective, new adventures, and the same passion for sailing, discovery, and storytelling that has always been at the heart of my journey. Please Subscribe and continue with the journey of Calico Skies! Ov...
Making DIY Carbon Fiber Tables for Our Catamaran!
In this video, we’re taking on a whole new boat project, as we start to build custom carbon fiber tables for our catamaran. Since our old rear cockpit table was another warranty fail, and the upstairs one is less than impressive, we decided to do some boat DIY and make new tables. Instead of teak o...
2 Weeks Until We SAIL AWAY⛵️ Ep. 9
We’re down to the wire. Splash day is in 3 days and our catamaran Zola is still on the hard with a mountain of projects left — from rudder repairs to saildrives, bottom paint, and a surprise invoice that nearly broke us. This week in the boatyard has been one of the most stressful and expensive week...
Episode 271 – New Doggy Life Vest! And We’re Polishing the Gel-Coat!
After months of research and contemplation, I finally found and ordered the perfect new life vest for Buddy, they aren't cheap so you need to make sure you get the right one for your dog, and this one seems perfect! Life Jackets are one thing we do not scrimp on and only get the best for the fa...
Finishing a 7 year old Project | Step 461
▸ Going to therapy is a sign of strength, not weakness. My paid partner BetterHelp makes therapy simple, with 10% off your first month to help you get started: ▸ Full story in today’s episode ↓ While Dan continues working on the battery box in cockpit locker, I tackle a project that we started 7 y...
Addressing a Serious Safety Issue During Our Catamaran Refit
We’re back on the hard this week, making major progress on our refit and addressing one of the biggest safety concerns for catamarans: escape hatches. In this video, we dive into what makes them so risky, vent a little (okay, a lot 😅), and show the changes we’re making to keep our boat safe. While ...
Making Space For More Batteries | Step 460
▸ Time to prep our boat and make space for 50kW of Batteries ▸ Full story in today’s episode ↓ We are getting ready to start installing systems. But before we get our batteries in the boat, we need to build a box. ▸ JOIN THE UMA NATION: The Uma Nation is what makes this YT channel possible. Join f...
BIG CHANGES AHEAD: Refitting our Catamaran in New Zealand
We’ve officially hauled Sabado out of the water at Port Whangarei Marine Center in New Zealand, and the refit has begun! In this video, we take you through a day in our new routine: starting the morning at our rental house, commuting to the boatyard, and diving into our first big boat projects. We ...
We barely recognized our own boat | Step 459
▸ If You’ve Been Following Our Refit, You’ll Want to See This. ▸ Full story in today’s episode ↓ It's surreal to look back and imagine how much our little boat has changed with this refit. In this episode we apply the very last finish coat of paint on the interior and find out in VR just how ...
Episode 268 – Fitting All New Through Hulls and Sea Cocks so we don’t Sink!
Still here in Almerimar doing boat-jobs, thankfully it feels like we're getting to the end of the list now and I'm counting down the weeks before we're in the water again! This weeks jobs are super important as we are fitting all new through hulls and seacocks with new pipe work, so w...
We Sprayed Cork All Over Our Ceiling | Step 458
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Episode 266 – Bear’s Gone Sailing… Alone!
Bear is absolutely over the moon, after months on the hard doing school work and boat work Bear is finally at Sailing school making friends and getting to sail all the different sailing boats, and he LOVEs it! While Bears out having fun Chris and I are working hard, sorting out top deck and starting...![Is this our NEW BOAT?? [RED SEAS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/ku5Wpacfll4/mqdefault.webp)
Is this our NEW BOAT?? [RED SEAS]
This is an EXTRA episode this week! Make sure you've also seen our full episode as we arrive into Samoa from our three day passage from Niue and get straight into some other boat jobs and repairs: As an extra video this week, join us as we get our outboard motor repaired in Apia, Samoa. We ha...
Our New Water Tanks Don’t Fit !| Step 457
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Episode 265 – Gel-Coating Our Entire Catamaran in a Sweltering Boat Yard!
What a week guys! Bear and I go exploring Almerimar, and we may just have sneaky giant Ice creams! 😜 Some pervert thinks I'm 50 and Im devastated! 😂 We are finally Gel-Coating the top deck and it feels great to be getting somewhere, lets hope we can keep this pace up and get completed soon so w...