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(Ep.107)
Although it's been a tough week from our rental car getting bumped & Ricky's wallet getting stolen, there was a silver lining to it all. Our name finally has been placed on the boat & man what a sweet day it was. We were over the moon &...
(Ep.103)
We had a epic week away with my family & had my cousins from the US visit us here in South Africa for my brothers wedding! We got back to the boat and it was time to install our engine gauges & connect up our engine controls. Next step wa...
(Ep.74)
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Ricky & Basil connect up our...
(Ep.70)
The time has come......... to chance the old blue hull & make her WHITE! This was also such an extremely rewarding time of this whole boat build. Seeing her come together so beautifully. Although we have been cured of sanding for a while it fee...
(Ep.63)
We temporarily fit in our head basin & galley sink with their faucets to secure our plumbing fittings & connect it up. We finish off our head shower and install all the necessary outlets. We do all the connections for our bilge pumps and wa...
So we only realized once we watched the video it was in portrait.... we're still learning this whole LIVE shenanigans ha ha.
We answer some of your questions & get down to talking about our engine problems
Thanks for watching! Appreciate all the kind...
(Ep.54)
We fill up our saloon sole with some foam. Go for burgers at Nelson Mandela Bay yacht club. Remove another set of hatch frames. Start taking down the foamilite templates and getting them covered in Vinyl. We fill in the gaps between our hull and wi...
(Ep.52)
Ricky finishes up the foamalite layout for our headliner, now all we still got to do is wrap it up in vinyl and install. He also had to plug up some holes on the stern where we removed some fittings. Ricky installed the leg for our table, but real...
Episode 51
While on our Cape Town trip, we stopped off at Blue Nova to have a check out our new sweet Lithium batteries & got to check out all the off grid options people have. It was awesome to meet James and the rest of the team at Blue Nova & s...
Episode 50
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We headed down to the Cape Town Boat Show and also made supply runs while we were down there! Guys I was so damn excited whe...
Episode 49
Ricky started making our new nida-core swim platform. It was absolutely massive and the biggest one we have built yet. We didn't feel like going to work on Saturday but got the courage to get up and get going. We closed up any remaining holes le...
Episode 48
Ricky got our electrical panels sorted, now we just need to seal the wood off & get hinges to mount them up. We are struggling to find 316 stainless steel hinges at the moment which is making us go a little crazy. We give you guys the run do...
Episode 47
-Ricky removes our swim platform
-Ricky's brother Claudio & his girlfriend Monique come visit us
-We spend our 2 year wedding anniversary together
-Ricky explains the wiring we ran for our electrical
-We show our our electrical panel (AC &am...
Episode 45
We start planning our electrical & where are we going to add lights, fans, switches etc. We also start running our conduit for our electrical wiring. We also add in a couple of new inspection hatches.
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Episode 42
-Our door frame is primed with some epoxy primer
-Moses & Ricky start polishing up our stainless steel
-The dodger got faired & sanded and was then repainted for a smooth finish
-We start repairing our rotten core bow deck with some nid...
This week it's Simone's turn for the how to video.. she shows you how to seal off your interior wood using epoxy. This will just help with water penetration and prevent your beautiful interior wood from rotting.. like it did ours when we bought the boat.
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Episode 39
We add our latch to our door to prevent it from swinging open at sea, & meet the Texans on their beautiful majestic cat.
Ricky makes the shelves to attach to our engine/storage compartments.
We decided to make our sole inspection hatches ...
Episode 38
⦁We finish fibreglassing up our cockpit decks and make them level
⦁We acetone down our dodger and give her a coat of 2 part pool coat
⦁We start working on our door, which we have now changed completely to a poly carbonate door with a wate...
Ricky walks you through the process of restoring your boat/yacht bilges. It's such an easy task & can make a huge difference!
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Thanks so much...
Episode 37
Follow up of our previous video: Building a bimini/dodger:
https://youtu.be/KMbPnBZEVzU
We carry on prepping our dodger for some paint & add some more fibreglass to ensure she is nice and sturdy.
We will be adding a catchment tarp in plac...
Our list is getting shorter & shorter as we go.
We list all the things we still need to do on Lady Africa, before we can set sail.
Let us know what you think of our windows & what window color you would choose as well as do you think we should i...
Episode 36
** I know I said we would be painting our dodger in the next episode.. but i confused it with we will be finishing up the fibreglassing on our dodger... my bad. sorry :P
So we had to re-glue our insulation foam as the foam that we had seemed to...
Episode 35
We show you how the boat is looking after a full on paint. We will be applying the last coat at a later stage.
Ricky & Moses start adding some insulation to our roof & we show you the temperature differences once insulation has been ad...
Episode 33
Ricky & I go check out the inner city enduro competition as Ricky was pretty keen to go watch it as he use to ride enduro before he met me. (Had to many broken bones and injuries at this time ha ha)
We started painting once more (this is a...
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