While high winds and colder temperatures may prevent tasks from being completed on deck, it’s a great time to hunker down below and work on some projects.
There’s been a nice dent made in the to-do list. Robin is psyched to find that Starlink has a ho...
While the weather’s cold, Steve works on any projects he can. The most important task? Saving the ice cream in the freezer. The Sea Frost is on, but the freezer compressor isn’t turning on due to a buildup of ice. The probe that controls the thermostat...
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Steve and Robin are eager to set sail for Newfoundland later this year. However, before they sail north on their long journey to Canada, there are a few important to-dos that need to be addressed to ensure smooth sailing—and, of course, a few creature co...
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Lots of work is finished. Stack packs, which are the sail covers, are partially installed and the mizzen boom gets...
Charting a course for the upcoming sailing season, Steve reveals the route he and Robin hope to complete that will take them to the shores of Nova Scotia and to the bases of some seriously huge and remote climbing walls shooting into the sky right out of t...
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Stack packs are a type of canvas sail cover for sailboats, offering convenience and efficiency in handling the mainsail. Paired with lazy jacks, these packs consist of a canvas cover that neatly encases the mainsail when lowered and zipped. The key benefit...
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Come along as we sail and navigate chilly waters in search of a winter haven for Arabella. We've got some stunning sailing footage for you as we set sail from Sandwich, Massachusetts, with Scott and Jack aboard to crew through the sometimes-treacherous cur...
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Night climbing the Enchanted Tower in New Mexico, a long-time goal for Steve and Robin, is just as beautiful as they thought it might be. This is last episode of our Organ Mountain rock climbing trip has yes, THAT big question... the popped question. Fitti...
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As Steve and Robin prepare for a trip to New Mexico for rock climbing, they prepare their DIY wooden sailboat for the time they'll be away. Steve ends up getting into details of Arabella's 12-volt marine electrical system as he chases some possible stray e...
It's time to head to Camden, Maine for some dockside boat repairs among the schooners in this very famous and picturesque pocket harbor. The cranse iron, or bowsprit cap, seems to have been a piece that was cast with imperfections. It did serve Victoria fo...
Hurricane while aboard a sailboat! Yes, Hurricane Lee was downgraded to a tropical storm just before it hit, but everyone here on the water prepares for what could be a longer storm rather than a stronger one. Robin and Steve ended up hiding out in Curtis ...
Why the heck get back to Granby!? When moving aboard a sailboat, one of the biggest parts of the process for living aboard fully is moving all of the stuff of life, your things, to... SOMEWHERE. In our case, that's tools and boat shed into two shipping con...
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For those of you missing some of the woodworking and boatbuilding projects, we get to some much-anticipated DIY projects while at the mooring in Portland, Maine, such as getting the cherry wood winch bases cut to size, shaped, and installed on the coamings...
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00:00 Intro: Welcome back aboard Arabella
00:29 Rigging project, departing Newburyport, Massachusetts
02:46 Lifting / stowing th...
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In this video we begin working on Morna, removing the Garboards, Fuel Tank and Cockpit. We have a long journey ahead, so join us as we take on this exciting project.
Join Matts new drinking game..... How many t...
00:00:00 Intro, Newburyport update and American Yacht Club
00:01:12 A look at the hull, repainting the waterline
00:04:59 Standing rigging with Dyneema climbing slings
00:07:22 Victoria and her electric outboard motor from ePropulsion, the challenges of a...
A week of adventure! We conclude last week's sailing passage from Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Gloucester, Massachusetts, arriving on a mooring at the end of the day. From there, Robin found a sweet intracoastal passage on the Annisquam River,...
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Transiting the Cape Cod Canal is something that many New England sailors hold as an eventual "s...
What did we get up to in Bristol, Rhode Island? A bit of electrical work, some solar panel installation, sorting out rigging details so we can get to sailing this sailboat, and making a mockup of the hard dodger. Scott, KP, and Satchel are doing all this w...
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