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Spring refit and boat work on Leros island, Greece – New solar, bilge alarm and fridge (Ep 12)
We fly back to Leros island in Greece where we left Wishful Thinking for the European winter on the hard at Moor and Dock Boatyard. We get straight into boat work to prepare to launch her for our second sailing season. Below the waterline we remove rust on...
Will We Ever Escape the Boatyard? – Episode 99
Want to help support our video productions? Join our One Life Crew here: https://www.patreon.com/SailingOneLife Big thanks to TotalBoat for all their amazing support! Here are the TotalBoat products we used in this video: TotalBilge Paint: https://www.to...
Loose Mast Shroud Ep107
Still waiting for the Cummins mechanic and trying to keep in shape by going to the gym. Steve did do some diagnostics and found the it was a fuel delivery problem. Even though we had our fuel polished and tank cleaned a month ago there still seems to be so...
Re-Rigging our BENETEAU with NO EXPERIENCE
The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/sailingmerewether02221 #113 We have a very technical video this week with the changing of the "standing rigging". "What is standing rigging" you ask? Well...
THIS is going to take LONGER than we THOUGHT | 118 | Beau and Brandy Sailing
We are looking to leave St Thomas and sail to St Croix soon, but before that we have several projects that we need to get done in order to do so. And we FINALLY got in the one piece of our boat that has been holding us here, not allowing us to sail. The ...
WE FOUND ANOTHER CRACK | 116 | Beau and Brandy Sailing
We found another crack!. Oh the joys of owning a boat. We pull off the forestay chainplate to take measurements to send out to a couple of shops to get quotes on how much and how fast we can get a new one made. We do NOT want to be in the USVIs for the hur...
Bullet Proofing Our Rig to Sail Across The Pacific Ocean⛵ | S04E16
We’re diving deep into all of those rigging projects that have been nagging us in the back of our minds during heavy weather passages to ensure that our 57 year old, 30 foot sailboat is ready to sail across the Pacific Ocean. This week, we install dynee...
Broken chainplate repair
First project on the new sailboat
Safety Gear Q&A (Sailing SV Sarean) Ep. 17
On location at beautiful Bait Reef on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, we sit down and answer your questions about setting off our old Life Raft, the Chainplate saga, our Ground Tackle and Grab Bag - along with some questions About Us! THANK YOU SO MUCH FO...
Atticus Update 75: Chainplates Polished
One of the last steps before installing the chainplates is polishing. It is a tedious and time consuming job but it is a worth while long term investment to prevent corrosion on the rig's most vulnerable members.
Atticus Update 67: Modifying gussets for new chainplates
Before installing our new chainplates we decided to modify the existing gussets to a stronger design that would allow for easier inspection of the chainplates, a necessity when sailing long term in the tropics. Watch to see how we did it.
Atticus Update 62: Back from California polishing chainplates
After getting back from California Jordan is taking on the tedious and time consuming project of polishing our new chainplates. We made these chainplates from scratch with 316L stainless steel which is very corrosion resistant. Polishing is an effective m...
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