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Returning from our California trip we had a DIY project waiting for us. The Dometic reverse cycle air conditioner unit that was ordered came in early while we were away and was ready for pick up. Getting it from dock to deck to cockpit and finally salon was no easy feat. It is always nerve racking m...
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We are currently refitting our Leopard catamaran that has carried us halfway around the world to New Zealand. We have been working on replacing our fixed 3-blade propellers with new...
It's time to switch out our propellers and this is an upgrade we have been longing to make for a few years now. We've been dragging our old fixed props behind our boat for more than 25,000 nautical miles and they cause some serious drag, slowing us down and making our passages way less eff...
Propellors on sailboats are doubly important. You need your prop to give you the maximum efficient thrust, both forward and reverse. But you also need it to not compromise your sailing ability by inflicting too much drag.
So should you pick a standard fixed propellor, a folding propellor or a feathe...
Greek Food, dancing, propeller, exhaust, huge crane, exercise, Karen in the engine room, retsina, saganaki, dolmas, Orion, dophins
Thanks to suggestions from our wonderful viewers, we got a little more aggressive with polishing the propeller. It turns out it is bronze and now it looks really nice.
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This episode is Part 13 of our Propulsion Series which you can find on our youtube channel page in the Playlist section together with the other existing videos.
In this video we face a challenge when we start putting the pieces of the motor lifting mechanism together.
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A fish tale, Greek dancing, lights, exercise, propeller, comments and more. Come on aboard and join us!
This time on Sailing Intermission, our aft reverse cycle unit stopped producing warm air. No fun as the temperatures are beginning to drop. Low and behold, for the aft unit, it was a fish that h...
Friends, Screwing Around, Propeller, Double Wall, Reverse Cycle Air Conditioner and More
Hello everyone and big hugs and kisses to our subscribers. Many of you have been with us for a very long time and all of you help to keep our boat afloat. Viewers, we’re so thrilled you watched our latest video...
We take a drive to visit a couple of cruisers who are kindly accepting our post. Magnus looks forward to picking up a Raspberry Pi, which he will use to build an autopilot for Nutshell.
We do a fuel run with the jerries in the car, using a wonderful app called Petrol Spy to find the cheapest fuel a...
This episode is Part 5 of a series of videos about Building our Unique Drive System. This week we have to prepare the fibreglass ring and to make it ready for attaching it into the hull. Before that happens, we have to reshape the cutouts in the hulls, de-core the balsa and rebuild the hole surround...
In this episode Axel is trying to cut the fiberglass tube to shape and he is also trying to get it to the correct size to fit into the aluminium cylinder. Then, we work on building the strong bond between the two surfaces - the cylinder and the tube.
Wilda is a Schionning Wilderness 1340 sailing c...
If you’ve been following Building Wilda project for a while now, you probably know that our plan is to make Wilda a fully electric sailing catamaran. In this episode we start the long and exciting journey of the propulsion system installation - first, the mechanical bits.
To remind you a little bit...
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We have begun a liveaboard adventure on our Bavaria 36, Salty Lass. It is our ongoing mission to explore strange new ports, to seek out new to us cuisines and ...
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Bringing Yabá from wreck to dreamy! Episode 147
In this episode of our boat restoration, we install our propeller sys...
Today is the most nerve-wracking day for us as we watch our home lifted aboard a yacht transport ship by a huge crane. Our home, Gargoyle, a Beneteau Oceanis 50, is off on a 14,000 nautical mile journey from Auckland New Zealand to Cork Ireland aboard Sevenstar Yacht Transport Happy Dynamic. This we...
We have so many projects on the boat going among some pretty big life changes- check it out to hear more. And please like, comment, and/or subscribe if you enjoy. Thanks for watching! Also thanks for everyone who lent us tools this past week to help with the thru hulls and propeller including Brent,...
Preparing to sail 700 nautical miles to Thailand, Yosh went to check the prop.... IT"S BROKEN!!!
In this episode, our folding Autoprop is broken, again! Anchored in a protected bay, Yosh was going over the boat and preparing for the journey ahead when he discovered the Autoprop had a loose bl...
We add a hydrofoil and new prop to the 15 hp Mercury we have on out TrueKit Discovery. Hopefully to solve the cavitation problem and get the dinghy up on plane faster.
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This episode is packed full of boat jobs, both big and small.
We are now up on the careening poles at he Dinah Beach Cruising Club. As the tide heads out, we work and as it comes back in we down tools on the outside of Nutshell and do inside jobs instead.
The first task is to fit the new water mak...
It’s time to leave Tipperary Waters Marina and slowly make our way around the corner to the Dinah Beach Careening Poles. Only one little problem though, the shaft has not arrived for the engine, so we have no power. We are escorted to the poles by a flotilla of helpful tenders.
Our first night on t...
We have the boat pulled out to check our saildrive bearings and we get a couple of other jobs done as well
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Finally, splash day is only two days away! This time on Sailing Intermission we do final prep with anticipation of Isabella going in the water next week. Karen lubed the Max Prop with Lubriplate No. 130-AA multi-purpose calcium type grease. Props like winches need lubing. As we like to say, “Older s...
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Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Cutting for Propeller / Boring for Prop-Tube (EP80)
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Cutting the Prop aperture and boring out the hole for the stern-tube are intimidating jobs - you only get one chance to get it right. But it’s easier to tackle th...
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