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Is This The PERFECT Pocket Cruiser? $8,000 Mint Bayfield 25 Sailboat | Full Tour
#boatfoolssailing #sailing #pocketcruiser [[SOLD AS OF 12/23/2025!]] Is This the PERFECT Pocket Cruiser? $8,000 Mint Bayfield 25 Sailboat | Full Tour On a blustery winter day in coastal Maine, with temperatures hovering around 15°F, I took a solo ferry trip to Islesboro to inspect what may be one ...
Don’t Buy a Sailboat Until You Watch This – 5 Costly Mistakes New Sailors Make
Quiet Power: Electric and Hybrid Propulsion at Annapolis: Thinking of buying your first offshore sailboat? Before you hand over your life savings, watch this video. In it, we break down the 5 biggest mistakes new sailors make when buying their first cruising boat — and how to avoid them. From fal...
DO NOT BUY These 5 Sailboats (And 5 You SHOULD)
Preorder my book “Be The Captain”: In this video, I break down 10 real offshore sailboats — 5 that I think are smart, seaworthy buys... and 5 that raise red flags. These boats are all for sale right now, and I’ll walk you through what I look for in an offshore cruiser, what makes or breaks a good ...
What to look for in a Performance Catamaran? Simple boat ratios that anyone can use
Podcast with Plukky from Sailing into Freedom and James from Sailing Zingaro. Sail Area to displacement, displacement to length, comfort ratio, capsize screening formula and more. This will help you decide between boats. Beneteau, Bavaria, Hallberg-Rassy, Formosa, Cheoy Lee, Amel, Oyster, HH44, HH5...
How to choose the best boat – Sailing Boat Ratios Explained
Podcast with Plukky from Sailing into Freedom and James from Sailing Zingaro. Sail Area to displacement, displacement to length, comfort ratio, capsize screening formula and more. This will help you decide between boats. Beneteau, Bavaria, Hallberg-Rassy, Formosa, Cheoy Lee, Amel, Oyster, HH44, HH5...
Days Like These – Boat Life, Champagne Sailing & Island Adventures
Maybe it was all the more sweet because we'd downed tools from our boat refit for a while. Or maybe it really was one of those 'one in 10' sails that explain why we're out there in the first place. Whatever the reason, this is what a near-perfect 24 hours of boat life looks lik...
Everything AND The Kitchen Sink – How To Retro-Plumb A Boat Galley | Boat Refit Documentary Part 20
Why do projects on a boat take so long? Because to get to the thing you actually want to work on, you have to fix all of the inter-connected paraphernalia as well 🤪 It's like that song you learned about the human skeleton as a child... (how the "knee bone's connected to the thigh bone...
See the Sparkle!! How to add Corian to a Yacht Interior | Boat Refit Documentary Part 19
I guess now we can add working with Corian to our ever-growing list of boat refit skills 🤪 If you've never used it before (and we hadn't), Corian is composed of acrylic resin and natural minerals. It's harder than a lot of other materials we'd worked with (think of a cross betw...
Building an Aluminum Sailboat Pt 1 – From Plans to Plates to Assembly
Have you ever dreamed of building a custom aluminum sailboat? Follow along with the building of our custom aluminium Enksail Orion 49, Distant Shores IV. In this episode we explain the process of taking our design from plans to plates to assembly - the engineering, cutting of aluminum plates and ass...
Above Deck… Topside Boat Tour & Code Zero Sailing | Boat Refit Documentary Part 18
You've heard of Below Deck - well this is Above Deck - a topside tour of our 1978 Kelly Peterson 44 showing how we have her set up to sail. And talking of sailing, there's some Code Zero action in this video too. Our bright red balloon, built for us by Ullman Sails Whitsunday ( is hands ...
All Systems Go! How To Keep A Boat Running During A Refit | Boat Refit Documentary Part 16
Boats! If you don't use them regularly they start to break. Well, maybe the boat itself doesn't break but the onboard systems sure don't like a hiatus. This is one of the reasons (aside from the fact we'd be sailing all the time if we could) we've been using our boat regul...
Head’s Up! How To Retro-Fit A Headliner | Boat Refit Documentary Part 15
If you're interested in how to retro-fit a headliner - especially in an older style boat where there are timber beams involved, then this video is for you! Huge thanks to Mark from Elite Marine Trimming for advising us through some of the processes and helping out with gluing the foam-backed v...
How To Go Stainless In The Galley | Boat Refit Documentary Part 9
With the gas disconnected and the stove out, this was the time for us to address the galley area around the Force 10 cooktop and oven. We wanted to replace the old, dark, peeling teak veneer with something lighter, brighter and easier to keep clean. Looking at home and commercial kitchens, we got ...
Powering On! How To Turn Replacing A Switch Panel Into A Full Boat Rewire | Refit Documentary Part 8
This is the story of how we managed to turn a simple electrical panel upgrade into another major job we never intended to do 🤯🤪 Needless-to-say, things evolved (as they do on boats), in this case culminating in (almost) a complete re-wire ⚡️🔌 Our 43-year-old Peterson 44 has now undergone a transfor...
How to stay married during a boat refit | Boat Refit Documentary Part 5
Our latest real-time Vlog covers the accidental painting of our cockpit 🤪 It's accidental because it wasn't part of the original refit plan, but well, like everything else so far, we discovered parts of what we'd already worked on internally were of course connected to parts of the co...
Last of the Laminex – Kicking Boat Refit Goals!! 💃🕺🏻🍾🎆🙌🙌🙌
Hallelujah!!!! We finally glued the last piece of Laminex in place this week 🙌🙌🙌 Strictly speaking it's not the very last piece to go in (because we have a few sliding doors to rebuild and re-clad), but it's the last of the re-cladding of integral furniture and bulkheads. We started this...
Teak-Tok – The boat refit continues…
Never mind Tik Tok, we're all about Teak-Tok right now! Either the real deal (for a fibreglass boat we seem to have an inordinate amount of teak on board!), or the imitation teak Laminex Julian is painstakingly re-cladding all the interior cabinetry with. This is only a fraction of what's...
How to survive an Australian summer of boat work ⛵️🥵
Welcome to Part 3 of our interior boat refit documentary series, which sees us sweat through the hottest part of the Australian summer heat 🥵 It's also where we install our first pieces of laminex, make DIY non-skid for our timberwork, and keep chasing down those deck leaks, with a whole lot of...
Deck Work
We've been taking advantage of the latest weather window to carry on chasing the leaks. This means it's been all about deck work on the good ship Brilliant II in the last 2 weeks. But while the interior may have stalled, the work topsides will be well worth it in the end. Like all boat wo...
Organised Chaos in Boat Refit World
Highlights of the last three weeks' boat work include: 🤪 Redefining tolerance for mess 🦶🏻Discovering Julian's toe-tapping telephone twitch 🥵 Melting in the heat 💦 Drowning in the downpours 🦶🏻🦶🏻Perfecting the art of traditional non-skid application (silica sand instead of store-bought tape...
Keep Calm and Varnish On!
Another milestone moment reached in the interior reno - three coats of varnish on all the removable timber parts and some more leaks chased down in the rain.
How to pull apart the interior of a 43-year-old boat ⛵️🤯 (Boat Refit Documentary – Part 1)
Over the past few months, a couple of people have asked us exactly what we're doing on our interior refit, and (more importantly) how we're doing it. As a result, I've cut together the time-lapse videos we've posted to date with segments shot in real time, giving an explanation ...
Swimming in a sea of sawdust!
As well as work 💻, Christmas 🎄, New Year 🍾, and a lightning trip to Cairns, the last four weeks have been about literally swimming in a sea of sawdust. We decided to include the cabin sole ( 'floor' for landlubbers) in our interior renovation, and boy, were there days I regretted that dec...