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NOT Sailing Northern Ireland – In the yard – Rudder – Saildrive – Keel – Ep. 396
If you like our videos, you can always drop a tip in our coffee jar ABOUT US 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 cultures, to boldly go where the wind takes us and like i...
We Fixed One Major Problem On Our Sailboat… And Immediately Found Another | Ep 78
📍 (still in) La Paz, Baja California Sur 🌊 Sea of Cortez, Mexico Fresh out of the boatyard and back in the water! After wrapping up crucial maintenance and servicing our saildrive we were ready for some chill time on anchor in La Paz, but boat life had other plans. Within 24 hours of splashing, a ...
This Hidden Part Keeps Your Sailboat From Sinking
Protecting Against Boatyard Fire: Your sailboat has a hidden hole below the waterline, and the stuffing box, shaft seal, or saildrive is what keeps that hole from becoming a serious leak. In this Practical Sailor episode, we explain everything sailors need to know about sailboat stuffing boxes, pa...
Episode 274 – Renovating Our Catamaran, Ready to Sail the World!
Lots happening this weeks guys! As well as starting to prep and repaint our Sillette Mk 2 Sonic Drive Leg, (which also needs servicing), we are tackling some major wiring... Nicky spends quite a few hours inside sweltering lockers, upside down at all angles, try to feed all new wiring for our windla...
Accident After Accident — Our Toughest Week Yet!
It’s been an incredibly challenging and frustrating week for the crew of Big Lost. After all the excitement and anticipation of finally closing on our brand-new Vision 444 ES, we were ready to set sail on the adventure of a lifetime. But instead, we’ve been hit with one unfortunate event after anoth...
Our TOP 3 Boat Projects to Return to in 2025 – S03 E41| Building Wilda
In this episode we’re sort of finishing the bathroom floor (at least glassing it) and then we're doing a short recap of the exciting projects that are waiting for us in Australia. Wilda is a Schionning Wilderness 1340 sailing catamaran. She is being finished in a shed outside Melbourne. Wilda ...
2 UPGRADES TO STOP YOUR BOAT FROM SINKING!! 👀 (EPISODE 273)
Learn about the crucial upgrades needed to ensure your boat stays afloat during challenging conditions: replacing bronze through-hulls with durable composites and securing the Escape hatch effectively to avoid water ingress and potential sinking.
I’M SERIOUSLY ABOUT TO THROW THIS SAILDRIVE IN THE TRASH!
Join this sailing crew on their adventure as they tackle New Zealand's coastline during a worldwide voyage while dealing with engine troubles and mechanical issues.
Making FIBERGLASS reinforcement RING frames – S03E20 – Building Wilda | Unique Propulsion Part 4
In this video, we continue the series about our catamaran's propulsion system. This is Part 4 and we show the making of the 2 fiberglass ring frames that will support the aluminium cylinders in which the electric motors will sit. We also do some shed cleaning & tidying up! You can always s...
Rescuing a stray kitten and saving a cat – Sailing Malaysia
Rescuing a stray kitten and saving a cat - Sailing Malaysia This week we save two cats in the space of one week. After spending two weeks sailing down the south west coast of Thailand with our crew of sailing teenagers we now find ourselves and our live aboard cruising catamaran back at Rebak Isla...
Cracked Saildrive Flange Could Have Sunk The Boat – Shipyard period part 1 (Episode 211)
We haul out in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where we get hit with blow after blow of shocking discoveries, including a possible crack in the hull, and a cracked saildrive flange which stops us from going back in the water as planned. The last thing we needed when preparing to sail across the Pacific Oce...
Why Is Everything Breaking? | Sailing with Six | S2 E26
In this episode we find everything is breaking. The cone clutch on our starboard engine is slipping. Our port side engine has an oil leak. Our generator exhaust elbow has a hole and the house batteries completely die! If you have Yanmar SD50 engines you will learn plenty from this episode! So as w...
Sailing UK – Liverpool – Bluepoint – Boatyard – Ep. 246
We have the boat pulled out to check our saildrive bearings and we get a couple of other jobs done as well ---- If you like our videos, you can always drop a tip in our coffee jar ---- Affiliate Links ---- Mr D Cookware - ----- About us ----- We have begun a liveaboard adventure on our Ba...
Uh Oh! Are we taking on water? Yanmar Sail-Drive Seal Warning Lamp!
Last week we had this alarm coming on intermittently, it was pretty alarming at first as it warns of water breaching the outer seal on the sail-drive. We walk you through how we trouble shoot and find the issue! Cheers for now, stay tuned for episode 2 onboard Coral's Reef
SDA16 Emergency Prop Seals Leaking!
Regular oil checks exposed milky oil in our port Volvo sail drive. Just Catamarans were able to haul us out last minute to replace our prop seals and service our sail drives. Excellent service and great advice. Please like, subscribe and share. It's free for you and it really helps our channel...
Episode 58 – Lift Out and Boat Work! Osmosis, Anti Foul, Windows and So Much More!
Another long episode! We have been so busy. After arriving back to Pickle we get straight on with boat work and have two weeks of annoyance, problems, hard work and finally a relaunch to set sail for distant shores! Join us as we treat osmosis, service our drive leg, anti-foul, refit windows and do ...
Sail Life – Saildrive seals, manual bilge pump & washer/dryer area – DIY boat project
Yet more DIY boat project fun! This week I replaced the two seals in my sailboats S130 saildrive. Installed a manual bilge pump to empty out the bilge and build supports for the washer and the dryer in the forward cabin. 00:00 Intro 00:54 Manual bilge pump 02:50 Washer/dryer supports 07:00 Saildri...
Ep. 37 – Saga of the Saildrive Part 2 (Volvo Penta 120S lower 130S upper)
After waiting 4 weeks for saildrive parts, it turned out the dealer ordered the wrong ones. Reason being, we had a 130S top and a 120S bottom which neither they nor we noticed. The dealer did set us up with a used, but in good condition, lower saildrive for the same prices as the repair. With a litt...
Ep. 35 – Saga of the Saildrive Part 1 (Volvo Penta 120S lower / 130S upper)
We start to tackle the biggest project of our repairs on land, the engine/saildrive⛵️. With the help of a manual and some 🖥 Youtubers who have gone before us, we are able to get the sail drive out in a day. But as we are cleaning everything to prep for a change of seals, we run into a big issue. Big...
SAILDRIVE UPGRADE KIT fixes more than one problem! – Episode 48
In this episode we show how we upgraded our SD50 sail drives on our Lagoon 450 to alleviate the problem of the slipping cone clutch, which is an extremely common issue with these saildrives. Also, on our way into Rio Dulce, Guatemala, the sail drive developed a loud, disconcerting ticking noise, whi...
Out of the water – Fixing the rudder play and more boatwork tasks – EP 72 Sailing Seatramp
Unfortunately it is time to lift our Trampi again after 4 months. We have water in the transmission oil, which must be urgently repaired. Besides Mario repairs our damage at the rudder blade, sticks generally the rudder bearing again and decides to renew the just 4 months old Antifouling... Nina p...![Saildrive Diaphragm Replacement | ⛵ Sailing Britaly ⛵ [Boat Work]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/o_Bv7_tAOY4/mqdefault.webp)
Saildrive Diaphragm Replacement | ⛵ Sailing Britaly ⛵ [Boat Work]
SUBSCRIBE ➜ Informative Sailing Videos! In this "Boat Work" video I replace the 26-year-old saildrive diaphragm seal on our boat. I disconnect the saildrive from the engine, move the engine forward, then remove the saildrive assembly from the boat. I then split the saildrive leg from the ...
Sail Life – Diaphragm replacement 130S saildrive (D2-40) & engine back in it’s place
In this video, I replace the diaphragm on my 130S saildrive and I finally get both the saildrive and the engine back in the engine compartment. *** Links *** Sail Life Shop: (Items are shipped from the US!) Sail Life on Patreon: Sail Life on Instagram: Sail Life on Facebook: Sail Life on Tw...