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In this episode we finish the last little bit of fiberglass work to be done on our Lagoon 450 catamaran. We use epoxy to reinforce every single bulkhead in the boat, and end up with the strongest Lagoon 450 in the world! But, rebuilding the cabins may not ...
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In this episode we get almost all of the tabbing done inside the boat, which connects the bulkheads to the hull. It is a huge accomplishment, and we have so much confidence in our repairs, as we plan to take this boat around the world!
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Covid is playing chess with us and we are pinned. Is it checkmate for the entrepid duo? We stretch our supplies further waiting for the world to become normal again.
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Colin finally gives his opinion on the Lagoon 450 design flaw involving the weak bulkhead. Too many Lagoon 450's have contacted him with exactly the same failure, for him to rule out there being a design flaw anymore, as the count is over 20 boats, and cou...
Our new Cuban friends invite us along to go fishing. We stake out all of his local spots and Margarida comes home all smiles catching alot of fish.
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In this episode we show you how we built new bulkheads using 18mm marine plywood, which we then sealed with epoxy, and are going to glass completely using Wests systems epoxy and 600g Biaxial fiberglass...
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We hit the jackpot with this place. It's called Cayo Algodon Grande and it's an awesome island. Just watch the episode....words cannot express the colors and clear water of this deserted island. And we have a beach bbq of shrimps and lobster....what a plac...
Grinding fiberglass inside the boat is the hardest work we have ever done. Hands down. The Panamanian heat making it all that much more difficult as well. But after 4 long days we eventually get through all of the grinding we have to do, so that we can sta...
We have finally dismantled enough of the cabins to start grinding the bulkheads. This is by far the worst job we have done on a boat. The whole inside of the boat gets covered in fiberglass dust, as we take out kilos of fiberglass and rotten plywood. Hence...
We leave the Jardines and head to Cayo Cuervo in southern Cuba. I am hoping to trade with a shrimp trawler, get some prawns from them in exchange for some rum. We find out that the trawlers are on another cay, so that will just have to wait. But we find a ...
As if things couldn't get any worse, we pull off the plywood trim to discovery that the bulkheads were actually completely rotten from being wet, on both sides. After tracing the water we make a crazy discovery as to where the water had been coming from......
We visit a wreck on a nearby reef. It is sad to see another boat washed up on a reef, damaged and stripped beyond repair. We take some time to explore the crystal clear waters and coral reef but return back to home base, Cayo Alcatraz to spear some dinner....
After finding cracked bulkheads on my Lagoon 450 catamaran, right when we were about to sail across the pacific, we had to turn around, come back through the Panama Canal, and haul out in Linton Bay Marina, to try straighten the boat, before commencing wit...
We go exploring around Cayo Alcatraz but it's not what we expected. It really is a lonely harsh place and I love it. I visit a hurricane devastated beach and search for crocodiles but there are non around. News of the Covid virus comes through on the Garmi...
In this episode we attempt to haul out our Lagoon 450 catamaran which has severely broken bulkheads. She is badly bent, so we have to take extreme caution when hauling her out, as her structural integrity has been compromised. We come up with a method to t...
We officially check out of Cuba and leave Cien Fuegos as early as we can in the morning. Its a long day sail but we fall back on a backup plan when the wind gets on the nose. Eventually we arrive to an excellent snorkeling spot in a place called the Jardin...
In order to access the bulkheads even further, we have to rip out more walls in the cabins of our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran. We find more and more damage as we tear the boat apart one cabin at a time. We also do all of our last minute prep wor...
Margarida is excited. We arrive to Cien Fuegos where she can finally get some culture. We also explore Trinidad, a nearby city where we find the world's biggest and heaviest hat. This really is a picturesque town but don't read this, watch the video!
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In this episode we make a discovery which shows the real extent of the damage to our bulkheads. We receive some extremely helpful assistance from the manufacturer, on how to repair our Lagoon 450 catamaran. She has had catastrophic failures to both sides o...
We leave the western part of the Cays of the Gods and head to the lighthouse at the end of the chain. We are hoping to climb and take pictures from the top but the Cuban Military are there and chase us off. Oh well, it would have been nice but I don't want...
Unfortunately my relationship with Martina came to an end a couple of months ago, and I explain what happened in this episode. I then finally make it back to Parlay in Panama, and we start to get serious about repairing her cracked bulkheads...
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Margarida is back and we sail for the Cays of the Gods, sounds dreamy doesn't, well there aren't too many trees there but it's a stop along the way to Cien Fuegos, Cuba.
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Sailing Dauntless (on YouTube) is a 2017 Lagoon 450 which was hurricane damaged in Tortola, at exactly the same time as Parlay, which is also a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450. Ty, Kim and Syd describe what it was like to rebuild her, and also undertake proba...
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