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Refitting the huge rudder on a Hans Christian is a massive challenge. It requires pin point accuracy to position massive oversized bronze fittings precisely in line and them literally beat them with a hammer!
We also have the whole drive train to rebuild with a new Bruntons prop with blades that sw...
After nearly a year of planning and waiting, we finally begin building out the heart of our onboard electrical system ⚡⛵
In this episode, we tackle a major refit milestone by designing and installing the core power infrastructure for our catamaran. We’re building a native 24V and 48V electrical sys...
Sitka is becoming a sailboat again. In this episode of sailing sitka, we start putting together some essentials to make our boat operational again. This includes testing our tides marine track to see how it holds our mainsail!! Please make sure to subscribe if you already haven't and have a ver...
Did we just waste thousands of dollars on this? In this episode of sailing sitka, we come upon some sad news. After doing some regular maintenance to our wooden masts, we try out our new piece of equitment that will change the sailing game for Sitka... only to find out it does not fit.
Hot mess in the yard. On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we begin our sailboat refit by sanding down the waterline and hull of Sitka. If that isn't hard enough, we are doing it in an extreme heat wave in the desert of Mexico!
In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we return to our boat after 4 months away and after she survived a sandstorm up to 90 knot winds. We organize and clean the exterior and interior of Sitka to get her in a more liveable shape as well as get adjusted to a major extreme heat wave. Its good to be back i...
Saying goodbye to our boat... In this episode of sailing sitka, we use our last day in the yard to clean up Sitka as best as we could in order to leave her stored in the yard for 3 months! We fly home to Canada to work in order to save up some cruising cash for next season... the boatyard blues are ...
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This Tartan 3500 Sailboat Is For Sale. BoatFools #2, Josh, takes us on a boat tour of a beautiful 1999 Tartan 3500 (hull #92) that is currently "on the hard" and for sale in Charlotte, Vermont. She was listed at $85,000 bu...
We found holes in our boat! In this episode, we start day 4 in the Guaymas boatyard by inspecting the blisters and bubbles we found on our keel. We figure out what need immediate attention and also figure out a game plan on how to address them. We start cleaning and prepping the boat as we are one d...
Sanding the bottom of our Cheoylee Offshore 41 sailboat. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we continue sanding below the waterline on the portside, to ready her for fresh bottom paint when we fly back to Mexico next season. We found a couple problem areas and explain what to look out for when sandin...
Hauling a$$ on the hard. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we are off to a rough start with day 1 in the Guaymas boatyard. This video contains boat projects that we need to get done within a span of 6 days before relocating our boat. Hot, blind and sick but still getting it done... Check it ou...
Hauling out our cheoylee offshore 41 sailboat in Mexico. The time has come! We are officially taking Sitka out of the water in Guaymas, Mexico. The process was not as smooth as we would have liked being a sailboat with 2 masts in a small slip with an exceptionally small lift... but we made it work! ...
Follow along as we head back to our hometown one last time before finally getting to sail off into the sunset (or something like that.). We've got to make a quick trip to South Carolina to move our camper, take a car to the junkyard, leave our Chevy suburban, get a lawn mower running, try to cr...
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 his Lagoon 450 catamaran. And it is ner...
Episode #238 : Season 8 : The Hawaiian Adventures
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THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME!!!! We are hauling out to fix Triteia's rudder once and for all! On this episode I untie from Ala Wai Harbor and make my way over to the Keehi Marine Center for my 8am haul out time.
They workers were ...
Alright so you guys have asked we have gone to visit La Vita one last time to give an update. She only just recently moved to Ocean World Marina where she was hauled out. She has SO much damage from the re-floating and sinking on the dock in Puerto Plata.
How much do you think it would cost to fix...
We actually had fun amidst the inevitable hard work and anguish of our boat lift. If you want to know how make this fairly odious job more bearable make sure you watch this episode.
It wasn't without it's challenges but we found some ways to really enjoy our week on the hard!
GATORS Rope ...
It's time to get back to our abandoned sailboat and make it a proper exploration vessel for the future travels! Project boat full gear!
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A grand tour of our sailboat's condition after 1 year of storage on the hard. We share what worked, what didn’t & a few things we never considered! 😱
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SEASON 6 / The Haul Out : Episode #131 : Wrestlin' the PSS Shaft Seal into place
On this episode we enter the MAD DASH phase of the haul out! What we don't mention in the video is that we were racing the clock to get the prop shaft and PSS installed before 1pm so we could splash before th...
SEASON 6 / The Haul Out : Episode #124 : Seacocks o' Plenty
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On this weeks episode we get the pipe fittings installed on all of our new Groco Seacocks for Triteia and Camille seals them to their new custom G10 bases with Sikaflex. We then get to work installing them onto the b...
SEASON 6 / The Haul Out : Episode #119 : Bottom Preparations
On this episode we get into the fun and brutal task of sanding the bottom. We had wanted to water blast the bottom down to gel coat or fiberglass but that is something that has to be done by the yard for environmental reasons and we had ...
FINALLY we returned to the sailboat!!!
She looks okay... just like we left her... except for a few crazy curve balls...!
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Lola went missing & someone tried to steal our ground tackle... but that didn't stop us from reckoning with the rudder and making a monumental discovery.
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