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I Surprised My Family With A Catamaran
It's been almost a year since we bought the boat and I promised the kids a life on the water. Except I had to abandon them for a year to fix the boat. Today I finally get to show the kids their new boat for the 1st time! Then Carlos and I fiberglass the heck out of the entire middle bulkheads...
Can THIS GUY Successfully Engineer a Solar Arch In a Foreign Country?? (CSS, Ep 172)
Get Surfshark VPN at - Enter promo code CALICO for 83% off and three extra months for free! This episode begins with the sanding down of the now-cured fiberglass blisters on Calicos' hull. Next, Bill and friends Big D and Jared work together using Total Boat fairing compound to smooth out th...
Brand $New$ Rudder, But Will it FIT??? (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 171)
This episode opens with Bill cleaning the rudder stuffing box with a wire brush in an attempt to remove years of corrosion in preparation for new packing material. Next, Bill switches gears back to our new arch project and continues to remove items from the stern of the boat to prepare for the new s...
What Does it COST to Refit a 40 Year Old Sail Boat? Ep. 170
This episode opens with a reveal of our plans to build a whole new arch system from scratch. We discuss how we ended up with our current 'franken-davits' with a brief blast from the past to our NY sailing days and first cruises on Calico Skies. We lay out our design considerations and wi...
Genius? Or Do You Have a Better Idea?? Livin’ Life on the EDGE in the Boat Yard 🤪 (CSS, Ep.169)
In this episode Bill begins work at the yard by dropping the rudder the rest of the way down, a continuation of last week's videos work. We've decided to have a whole new rudder made after discovering deep pitting on the stainless steel pipe. He needs to remove the bushing but to drop the ...
Epoxy Resin & Hair Don’t Mix, I Go Bald
We do some massive fiberglassing on the bulkheads and Carlos drops epoxy resin all over my head. I tell Colin surfing is easy until we actually have to go. The water causes the epoxy in my hair to cure quickly and then it's stuck forever. Luckily, Colin @ParlayRevival has experience in this rea...
Rudder is TOAST: The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 168)
In this episode Bill explains that the next project will be dropping the rudder because of suspect-looking pitting at the joint. Calico Skies is hauled out at Cabrales boat yard in Penasco Mexico and it's the beginning of a mini refit. For this project Bill first must first uninstall and remo...
Sail Boat (DIY furling system build)
In this episode we're putting on the finishing touches to the boat before we set off again on the next leg of our sailing adventure. We have sadly run out of sail boat upgrade funds and so we opt to DIY build a furling system for our inner forestay, using old bits we find laying around in the r...
CRACKED BULKHEAD REPAIR SERIES – PART 3
In this episode we attempt to haul out our Lagoon 450 catamaran which has severely broken bulkheads. She is badly bent, so we have to take extreme caution when hauling her out, as her structural integrity has been compromised. We come up with a method to try straighten her, which includes resting he...
HURRICANE CATAMARAN REBUILD – HOW DID SHE PERFORM? – Episode 104
The hurricane damaged Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 catamaran that have been rebuilding finally is completed and gets splashed! Salvage boat repair is a complex thing, and is difficult to budget for, so we do a cost breakdown of everything that went into this cat, including the short comings along with t...
HOW WE TRANSFORMED OUR SALVAGE BOAT TRANSOM! – Episode 103
The final week before this hurricane damaged boat goes back in the water!! Lots happening this episode as we pop the mold off the transom and start the fairing and spraying process. The engine also goes back in, so she is basically ready to hit the water again! To join us on Patreon and get a chanc...
HOW WE COMPLETELY REBUILT OUR KEELS – Episode 102
We share how we repaired our salvage catamaran keels which were crushed during hurricane dorian to their former glory in this in-depth episode shot over 4 weeks! To join us on Patreon and get a chance to come sailing with us click here! To buy Parlay Revival merchandise click here!! Follow us o...
INSTALLING BRAND NEW MAST OURSELVES, SAVING THOU$ANDS!! – Episode 101
Big episode this week as we spray gelcoat on some of the repairs with a $20 spray gun and drill it out to be suitable for gelcoat. Our brand new mast and rigging arrives and we install of the extras and then step the mast ourselves, saving thousands of dollars in labor if we had used a rigger... To...
Fibreglass Repair of an 11ft Crack – Hurricane damaged Catamaran (S2 E62 Barefoot Sail and Dive)
In this episode of Barefoot Sail and Dive we make a lot of progress. Davy gets the peeler back out and reveals two large damages. One is 11ft long on the starboard side. We have been hesitate to do these repairs until now due to having too much weight on the keel. As you saw last week we fixed that ...
Davy’s Middle Name Should be MACGYVER! (S2 E52 Barefoot Sail and Dive)
In this weeks episode of Barefoot Sail and Dive Davy becomes MacGyver. I'll leave it at that! Enjoy and thank you for watching! Thank you to everyone who has subscribed! Don't forget to leave a comment and give us a like! Thank you to all our PATRONS for all your support. If you would l...
OSMOSIS Repair Part 1: Using the Gelcoat Peeler (S2 E47 BAREFOOT Sail and Dive)
In this episode of Barefoot Sail and Dive we use the Gelcoat Peeler even more. There are definitely some tricks to using this tool and the more you use it the more you learn how to make it that much more accurate. Changing the blades and giving it a clean can help as well! Davy starts to work on ou...
Boat Life | Work Never Ends..
Episode 126 Since being stuck in Lock down since the end of March, we used the first couple of weeks to do absolutely nothing... we got so bored and fidgety we decided why not finish all the boat projects left to do now so once the travel ban is lifted we can go do the sight seeing we wanted.. so th...
Our First Gale (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 44)
In this life, we consider 'bad' things to be learning experiences. Whether its a breakage or a tough passage, every challenging situation teaches us and in doing so makes us better sailors, happier cruisers and in many cases, stronger people. In this episode we departed from North Caroli...
A Race Against TIME (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 43)
In this episode, we face late season temperatures after leaving Annapolis two months later than we planned. We begin our journey down the ICW mid December, only to find ourselves facing a haul out early January. Upon leaving, we deal with frigid temperatures but two weeks later, after arriving into ...
Honey, I BLEW Up The BOAT: Part II (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 42)
So did I kill Bill? How does this story end?? This project was so intense. It really was one of the hardest things we've gone through together. Fiberglassing our new bulkhead required planning, preparation, and precision. While living at anchor towards the end of fall, it was challenging to sa...
Honey, I BLEW Up The BOAT (Calico Skies Sailing Ep. 41)
In this episode, we tackle the hardest and very WORST thing we've ever done to the boat - And that's including numerous rough passages. We embark on the "removing our rotted starboard bulkhead and replacing it with a new one using fiberglass" project, and to our dismay discover i...
This is Bliss: Offshore Sailing at it’s Finest (Calico Skies Sailing Ep. 31)
Sailing is about the journey, not the destination and this episode is evidence of that. It begins on the fifth day of our 1,000 mile passage from North Carolina to Nova Scotia, Canada. We continue to encounter light but favorable winds and comfortable seas. As we make our way through the Atlantic we...
Offshore Sailing & The Gulf Stream: Riding the Magic Carpet North (Calico Skies Sailing Ep. 30)
In this episode we set out on our 1000 mile sailing passage to Canada. Initially we encounter steep waves and choppy seas off Beaufort NC but offshore conditions mellow out considerably. We utilize Predictwind and our Iridium Go satellite phone to optimize our routing and keep ourselves moving wel...