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What To Do If Your Boat Sinks… SWIM!
Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get 60% OFF your subscription during their Black Friday sale ➡Here: https://bit.ly/3G7gTTT This is day 13 of our Pacific crossing and we enter the convergent zone! It was dead calm for a while s...
We LAUNCH A $567k Yacht Into The Ocean
Splashing and Launching a Yacht is no easy feat, it's one of the most exciting and stressful times for a boat owner. Tons of things can go wrong, and we do everything to make sure nothing does. I trek down to Panama to help my friend @ParlayRevival splash ...
Finally Splashing our Sailboat! Does this mean the end of BOATWORKS? – Ep. 160
Splashing Zephyr once again...this time at Kentmorr marina.....but if you thought we were done.....this isn't the end of BOATWORKS.....watch till the end of the video where we show you what our next big upgrade for Zephyr is! This is going to change our l...
Applying TOTALBOAT multiseason ANTIFOULING on a SAILBOAT…DO IT YOURSELF BOATWORKS – Ep. 159
It's time to get this sailboat back in the water. But, before we do there's one last thing to do and that is to slap some primer and antifouling on her hull. So, its time to get suited and booted and ready to paint.....we seriously couldn't be any happier ...
I Bought a Boat with NEGATIVE -$4000 in my bank account | ep.2
This week we take you through the boat search. After sailing back from the Bahamas, Raf and Ben decided to sell the Catamaran and Raf went on the search for his next boat. After Sascha got The Far Side home, she drove down to the Key West and worked as a ...
DIY or PAY a PROFESSIONAL?…Polish & Wax a 43′ SAILBOAT – Ep. 158
Welcome back! This week is packed full of repairs and we get through a ton of jobs on the list. We are back at Kentmorr Marina...after an eventful few days at TOTALBOAT´S headquarters. With the countertops done it's time to start ticking off other jobs f...
The OCEAN got into our SAILBOAT…on Purpose | Sailing Zephyr – Ep. 157
We bring the ocean into our sailboat by creating the most epic surf break with epoxy. These total boat epoxy countertops is what I had always envisioned and now finally I get to make them from scratch. The team at total boat are the absolute best,.....givi...
The MAKEOVER of our SAILBOAT COUNTERTOPS | Sailing Zephyr – Ep. 156
OUT with the OLD in with the NEW! This episode follows the process of our countertop build in our sailboat. We make our own countertops from scratch....tracing the old ones, cutting and adding the fiddles (handrails). We are under huge pressure to get it d...
How to SAVE MONEY recovering a Sailboat HELM | Sailing Zephyr – Ep. 155
So many jobs and so little time..coats of varnish just keep happening, morning, afternoon and night. This just becomes the norm for me. In between coats, there's no slacking,.....time to get another job started AND that is to cover the helm wheels. How? We...
We RIP OUT our TEAK and FIBREGLASS for the first time | Sailing Zephyr – Ep. 154
Boat works are fully underway on our sailboat, Zephyr at the moment. James since finished the hull is now able to start other projects and I am able to start varnishing everything I see! There's a couple of projects we get started on and finished in thi...
We Put New FLOORS in a 43´ SAILBOAT | Sailing Zephyr – Ep.153
This is a huge episode as Natalie installs new flooring throughout our entire 43´SAILBOAT. It's an epic job that transforms the look of the interior. James finally completes his huge project of sanding the entire hull of a 43´Sailboat. There is also ma...
We Found a HOLE in the RUDDER…NOT GOOD | Sailing Zephyr – Ep.152
Nat continues her epic sanding job of all the Teak on our sailboat. She's sanding doors, stairs and anything that is Teak. The size of the job is becoming huge, but Nat is absolutely determined to get it done. And if that wasn't enough work, she begins to...
SANDING Everything on a SAILBOAT…Why? | Sailing Zephyr – Ep.151
The sailboat projects continue on. We are both full blast on the sanders with Natalie sanding all the Teak our sailboat has to offer and James continues the dirty job of sanding the hull. The size of the jobs is starting to stress us out, so we take the o...
This BOAT Project just got WORSE | Sailing Zephyr – Ep.150
This week we receive a huge shipment from totalboat which is like an early xmas present. They literally stock us up with antifoul, primer, gel coat, fiberglass, paint, dewaxer, wax, epoxy, you name it, it’s in there! They are just such legends and now th...