Ep 110
We did it!! We launched Lady Africa!! Two long hard years of fiberglass, epoxy, sweat, tears and some blood every now & again! 🤣🤣 Thanks to everyone who supported our rebuild process & always had encouraging messages to give us. We app...
(EP 108)
We are back!! Happy 2020 everybody! Well besides finishing up the last project we had we can now officially tick off our engines! They are running like a dream. We installed our saloon fans as it's getting pretty toasty now that it's summer here i...
We have decided to prioritize a bit at the moment. Everything has just gotten so overwhelming between juggling our boat and other projects we have had so we have taken a step back from YouTube till January to focus on finishing our boat & getting these...
(Ep.107)
Although it's been a tough week from our rental car getting bumped & Ricky's wallet getting stolen, there was a silver lining to it all. Our name finally has been placed on the boat & man what a sweet day it was. We were over the moon &...
(Ep.105)
Ricky shows you some of the work he's been up to when he's not working on our boat & we tick two things off our list... Epoxy hull & Anti fouling. Cheerio!! So excited we are really excited to get in the water now. We bummed we couldn't w...
(Ep.103)
We had a epic week away with my family & had my cousins from the US visit us here in South Africa for my brothers wedding! We got back to the boat and it was time to install our engine gauges & connect up our engine controls. Next step wa...
We took a guided tour of the Maverick 440 Catamaran at this year's Annapolis Sailboat Show. It has been a boat we have been a fan of in the past shows and I did get a chance to get a guided tour of the factory where it is built when I was in South Africa....
(Ep.102)
The time has come.. to put in our engines. We had a few questions on how exactly were we planning on installing our two new Vetus engines and fitting them through our tiny doors...well here is the answer to your awaited question.
Once the engin...
(Ep.101)
We cut our engine beds to size & now it was time to bond and fiberglass in the babies in and cut out the whole for our new sail drive.. It was so SCARY & nerve wrecking but the sail drive fit like a glove!
Happy days!!
What's left on ...
(Ep.100)
Wow, can you believe we're on episode 100 already!! Que the celebration for when we are in the water! ;)
So this week we got all our goodies from Vetus in the previous episode we set out to start installing it which meant grinding down inside our...
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