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OUR BOAT IS PULLING APART (what’s causing it?)
Episode 191 | OUR BOAT IS PULLING APART (what's causing it?) After a full day of deep cleaning the boat I find SEVERAL things that are very concerning. With each discovery it got a little worse. Shelves pulling away from the hull. Cracks in our bulkheads...
The end of a chapter
Episode 190 The day has finally come when we take Benji, our foster dog, to Florida and to a new home. This is the first time we’ve been back to the states together since we left over 3 years ago. Welcome to the whirlwind of what it is like to travel ba...
Major Issue FIXED – F-27 Trimaran Structural Repairs DONE | Learning the Lines
I'm so glad we're done with the bulk of the hull repairs on the main hull of our F-27 "Desperado," but there's still a TON of work to do. We've got a BIG update for you guys soon. Stay tuned. What do you think? Leave a comment below. -------------------...
Tesla electric sailboat ? Sailing
Tesla electric sailboat ? Sailing Join patreon https://www.patreon.com/chasinglatitudes?fan_landing=true for awesome perks and access to the members area ASA members discount https://members.asa.com/?promo=HOW2SAILING Become a producer on chasing latitud...
WE HIT A WHALE !?! (what happened to our centerboard)
Episode 188: WE HIT A WHALE ?! We finally reach the Virgin Islands and catch some dinner. But once we get to anchor we discover our centerboard was broken. We believe we know when it happened during the sail, as we were tacking our way away from Curacao. ...
a Horrible, No Good, Awful START to an UNFORGETTABLE SAIL
Episode 186 To get your set of Kamikoto knives go to: https://www.kamikoto.com/beauandbrandy FINALLY we are leaving Curacao. After months of great adventures, wonderful friends and a spruced up boat we are ready to head to the next anchorage over 400 na...
this was a DISASTER waiting to happen
Episode 185 : Let’s not get DEMASTED Last week we sailed back to Spanish waters from Klein Curacao in one of our best sails EVER, but NOW we are getting back to work. We plan on leaving for a long sail from Curacao all the way up to US virgin islands VE...
We said we WERE NOT doing this. WE LIED.
We said we WERE NOT going to do this, WE LIED | Episode 183 Finally! We’re getting splashed after 6 weeks of hard work and being out of the water. While we have been here, we’ve been up to something. We said that we WERE NOT going to do this, but here...
Sanding or Stripping Antifouling – What’s Better? | Learning the Lines
I hate standard bottom paint! In this video I removed the bottom paint on our 1991 Corsair F27 Trimaran and used two methods. I strictly sanded the main hull, and I used a chemical stripper on the amas. What did I think was the better method? Well, it's c...
ONLY 72 HOURS LEFT to Transform our Boat | Beau and Brandy Sailing
ONLY 72 HOURS LEFT to Transform our boat | Episode 181 72 hours to transform our boat. It’s the final countdown! We weren’t expecting to be out of the water this long but some unforeseen challenges bubbled up. We had to extend our stay out on the har...
LITHIUM BATTERY DAMAGE on our electric sailboat (how to stop it from happening)
LITHIUM BATTERY DAMAGE on our electric sailboat (how to stop it from happening) | Episode 181 Sailing takes a toll on equipment, especially if it’s exposed to the salty air and the inevitable splash of ocean water. I’ve been wanting to build a battery...
Is the CENTERBOARD on our Sailboat a PROBLEM?
Is the Centerboard on our sailboat a PROBLEM? | Episode 180 When we first bought Saoirse, we had no idea why there was a large pulley sitting on the counter. Low and behold we found out it was for our centerboard. We did a little bit of maintenance to it...
CLOSING UP THE HOLES IN OUR BOAT (our biggest boat project ever)
Closing up the holes in our boat | Episode 179 Recently we sailed to the boatyard to get hauled out here in Curacao. It’s been 2 years since we had Saoirse out of the water, so we got to work right away looking into things that needed to be fixed. But o...
BIG HOLES IN OUR SAILBOAT (water damage in our keel)
Last week we hauled out our boat for what we were hoping to be a simple paint job and a dash of maintenance thrown in. Saoirse is a 1971 pearson 35 with a drop centerboard, and one of the things we had on the list to fix was the leak coming from our cente...