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Our Year Long Refit in 4 Mins – How We Saved $100k Rebuilding It Ourselves
Dear Judges of the Best Refit Category: Thank you for your consideration! We dedicated our entire lives for over a year to this overwhelming refit and created a YouTube channel to share all of our blood, sweat (a ton of it,) and tears with the world. Bel...
I SPLASHED My Boat After A Year On The Hard
Get an exclusive @Surfshark deal! Enter promo code "DAVIDSHIH" for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/davidshih When we arrived in Panama I was certain it would take 3 weeks to fix our boat....turned out I needed 44. But our boat is fixed a...
200 hrs of Yacht Transformation In 20min
This is the last 200 hours of frantic boat work we did just before splashing our boat back into the water. It's the most boat work we've ever done in 1 episode. Thanks to @ParlayRevival for teaching us how to do all these repairs! We did things we never im...
I SURVIVED 10 Months of Rebuilding My Boat
After 10 months of FIBERGLASSING (ok, i might not have been fiberglassing that whole time) we finally complete the rebuild of the main bulkheads on our Lagoon 450 Catamaran. I become homeless because the boat I've been staying on @ParlayRevival left the ma...
I CRAM 1100lb of Boat Gear In a TINY Car
escaping the hot marina and hiding out in a city hotel for a night was my favorite pastime when I was in Panama. But this time I had a good reason to do it! I figured out how to ship a massive 4' x 4' x 4' pallet from the US all the way down to Panama. Tha...
I Fixed My Bent Catamaran In 7 Easy Steps
Here are the 7 Easy Steps I followed to fix the Broken Bulkheads on our bent Catamaran. We're finally back to the boat work! Thanks James @thelastpirate for letting us film the intro on Zingaro. We recap everything we've done to this boat so far and also...
Wife Sees Boat After 8 Months & Is Put To Work
Our Bulkheads are still broken and my wife thinks I'm just messing around down in Panama. Mary flys down to central america to take the fiberglassing into her own hands! I give her a step by step breakdown on exactly how to glass a structural beam. We ge...
You’ll NEVER Believe What I did to the INSIDE of My Boat
Back to Panama to fix and WASH out the INSIDE of the boat. Then we can fix these broken #bulkheads on our Lagoon 450 #Catamaran! The sadness of leaving my family AGAIN really hits me this time. All good, bury myself in WORK asap. I hunt down a small ...
Yacht Work | Yacht Life | Caribbean Life
EP 176: Yacht Work ,Yacht Life, What Its ALL About! As our friends on SV Victoria get ready to go home, we spent our weekend exploring Grenada with them. Our last stop with them was Fort Fredericks. The scenery had a 360 degree view of Grenada. It was re...
3D Printed router template fixed my woodworking FAIL!!
One of the tools that I am finding more and more uses for all the time is my Creality Ender 3 PRO 3D printer! Here I used the 3D Printer to print a Router Jig for making perfect corners on my cabinet door openings! Previously I had cut the opening with my ...
Installing a shower on my sailboat: Fiberglass Waterproofing & Shower Sump
The 1966 Spencer 42' Sloop was not built with a shower, so we're converting the head to a wet head by fiber-glassing the walls with West Systems Epoxy and Fiberglass. In order to be able to shower in the head it is necessary to waterproof the entire comp...
I made a mistake stripping the bottom of my boat!
Sometimes when you go looking for shortcuts you wind up making more work for yourself, this bottom job has been brutal and I tried something that would be faster than sanding... It did not work out well. Now the question is what will it take to fix it? ...
All about through hulls, and getting rid of holes in my boat!
In the last 2 years my boat tried to sink twice! No one wants a sinking boat! In this video we tackle what is the most common cause of a sailboat sinking, through hull fittings! What can we do to repair our through hulls, what can be done to replace or eve...
Sanding the bottom & reviewing my Bosch Sanding and dust collection equipment! PT-1
Sometimes people do dumb things to boats, that is the case here as I find out in this video a previous owner tried some DIY home brew copper coat that has caused massive issues on my bottom. Follow along as I sand and strip the hull back down to the gel-...