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S1E57. We Found GAS Where It Should NEVER Be! 😳 | Dangerous Boat Repair
Welcome back to Sailing UV — the greatest sailing show on earth! 🌊 This week we're getting dragged back to work, and things get a little more serious than your average boat project. We start with a boat that came in with an electrical problem — an engine that was randomly losing voltage and s...
DIY Lithium Battery Upgrade Under $600 | Sailboat Power System Overhaul
In episode 72 of Secondhand Sailors, we upgrade our 37 foot sailboat's battery bank from lead acid to lithium. See how we safely perform a lithium battery conversion on Daisy Mae.This guide covers the full process of removing old lead acid banks and installing a modern lithium battery setup on...
S1E53. I Work on Boats All Day… Then Fix My Own | Shore Power MELTDOWN & $7,000 Transmission!
Some people clock out after work... I spend all day repairing other people's boats... then come home and work on my own until dark. In this episode of Sailing UV, you'll come along for another week of life balancing a full-time job in a professional boatyard while slowly bringing our neg...
Four days inside a battery box
Every day on this refit is a test of patience, focus, and commitment. This project is not just about building a battery box, it is about building the discipline to take a boat around the world without stopping. ⛵ Join the Crew + Follow Along: 🌐 All My Links 📍 Live Tracker – Where’s Phoenix Now? ...
I Drilled Straight Through My Boat
Installing an isolation transformer on the boat sounded simple. It wasn’t. Like every refit project lessons were learned while preparing this boat for a non-stop circumnavigation. ⛵ Join the Crew + Follow Along: 🌐 All My Links 📍 Live Tracker – Where’s Phoenix Now? 👕 Official Merch 📸 Instagra...
Master Electrician Attempts a Battery Upgrade ⚡️
Relocating a battery charger and installing new AGM batteries on a sailboat I am refitting to sail around the world non-stop. ⛵ Join the Crew + Follow Along: 🌐 All My Links 📍 Live Tracker – Where’s Phoenix Now? 👕 Official Merch 📸 Instagram 🎵 TikTok 📘 Facebook #solosailing #circumnaviga...
ELECTRICAL GRAVEYARD//Tearing Out All The Wire-Episode 120
This week we are pulling all of the wire out of Dauntless and are left with a mountain of cable. Comment below how much you think it weighs. Follow Josh with Crowned In Style YouTube: @jnjentinc Instagram: TikTok: Want to support us? Here's a couple ways you can: 🛍DAUNTLESS GEAR: Like, ...
Welcome to OUR BOAT YARD! | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 119
What’s the best thing about having a trailerable boat so far? Working on it in OUR OWN YARD. Having access to all our tools, being able to make a mess in the boat and not worry about cleaning it up before dinner or going to bed, letting Renata run amok — it’s THE BEST. We’re itching to launch, but...
International Shore Power for Cruising Boats
Setting up your boat to plug into shore power when cruising outside of your home country can pose a big challenge. And it all comes down to how you handle the difference in electrical frequency. In this video, we'll break down the various shore power set up options and talk the pros and cons ...
How To: Boat Power Audit
It can be hard to know for sure just how much power a boat needs to run all the systems you want. Completing an electrical power audit can help you determine just how much power your boat will need to run the systems you want, or can help you discover exactly which equipment is draining your batter...
Marine Electrical Systems 101
Modern boats are a complex mix of marine power systems. It can be daunting trying to figure out what everything means and if you will have enough power to run all the equipment you have aboard. We're going to start a new Marine Electrical Systems 101 series that will start with the basics and...
How To Go Sailing In The Middle Of A Boat Refit | Boat Tour & Refit Documentary Part 10
Talk about chaining yourself to the dock! After nine months, 18 days, 10 hours and 20 minutes of our boat being immobile (thanks to the scale of the refit), we finally managed to take her sailing. It was a massive push to get her out and in a condition that was temporarily liveable, without throwin...
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...
Electrical Upgrade on Liveaboard: shore power, inverter/charger, solar and more!
I helped my good friends install shore power, an inverter/charger, solar, and clean up some of their existing electrics onboard their Canoe Cove from 1961. I've created 2 more separate videos for explaining how the system was set up and one for showing the process of installing the solar panels...
Enough Boat Work, WE’RE GOING SAILING! | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 39
RAISE THE SAILS!! Woot woot, we’re going SAILING!! After installing two of our six solar panels, we fire up the engine to make sure Mr. Beke still runs, and we’re off the dock. We cross Mobile Bay chauffeured by a pod of dolphins, and enter the GICW (Gulf Intracoastal Waterway) which takes us to LuL...
Glad THAT’S Over | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 38
This one is bittersweet. On one hand, the battery upgrade is a smashing success. Kirk completes the installation of our new battery bank, and we now we have all the juice we need. On the other, our arch project is a complete and utter disaster. We can’t tell you how glad we are to be done editing th...
Why You Should Do Your Own Boat Work | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 37
We planned to complete TWO big projects while in Mobile, AL: 1) upgrading our battery bank & 2) fabricating a solar arch with dinghy davits. After much deliberation, we decided to DIY the batteries and hire out the arch fabrication. The battery bank and electrical system upgrade was nothing to ...
DIY or Hire a Pro? A Tale of Two Boat Projects | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 36
Our boat wasn’t ready for full-time cruising when we bought her. This was perfectly fine; we’d rather add necessary items ourselves and learn them inside and out through the process, than pay for systems already in place that may not be exactly what we want, or are old and need to replacing anyway. ...