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Right as we finalize pre-departure checks for our major Sea of Cortez passage on Noeta, our 57 foot Nordhavn, the notoriously problematic sea chest raw water intake throws an unexpected wrench in our plans! This essential boat system runs multiple critical components—so we cannot leave until it is f...
The haul-out continues, and it's time to make serious progress on Into the Mystic! In this episode of Sailing into the Mystic, we work through injuries in the boat yard as we install all new ball valves and two brand-new transducers. These upgrades are essential to keeping our sailboat seaworth...
Boat projects continue as we tackle a busy weekend of maintenance aboard Into the Mystic! In this episode of Sailing into the Mystic, Tim and Jess work together to install new thru-hull fittings, clean the propeller, and begin replacing the shaft seal. With every completed task, we get one step clos...
In this episode of Sailing into the Mystic, we haul out our sailboat and dive into a major boat project—removing all the thru-hull fittings and ball valves. What we thought would be a routine job quickly turns into a critical repair as we discover heavy corrosion that makes the work long overdue. Wi...
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.
This is the final few days of the lightning damage refit in Costa Rica, as we get ready topsail 2500 miles north to the top end of Mexico, before sailing across the pacific ocean to New Zealand.
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has started ...
We'd already started noticing some corrosion with our bronze thru hulls, so in our mission to eliminate potential points of failure, it's time to upgrade! All of our old thru hulls get removed and massively upgraded with Marelon thru hulls, Marelon scoops, Marlon seacocks and fiberglass b...
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Nutshell gets hauled out of the water and is given a good clean.
It’s time to dig deep to find our painting supplies in the starboard aft cabin, ‘the shed’.
Magnus goes about checking the through hull and finds that the one in the gallery has corroded away and is only begin attached t...
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How do you swap out through-hull fittings with different diameter transducer housings without any in...
The pre-launch maintenance and upgrade projects aboard Talisman continue, with install of all new head/toilet piping, Oceanaire SkyScreens, sea-cocks and through-hull fitting swaps, and the installation of our new clothes washing machine.
Your sailboat thru hull fittings are super important for not sinking. So we decided to install a new bronze thru hull fitting instead of our plastic one. And by changing our ball valves from the old gate valves we gave ourselves a bit more work.
Luckily the weather warms up a little for the work to ...
In this video we show you exactly how we replaced all of our 26-year-old seacocks. (A.K.A. thru-hull fittings) This is a 'Boat Work' video and is intended to be informative, rather than entertaining... SUBSCRIBE! ➜
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Slightly longer video than usual. But I wanted to try and get the whole thing into one episode. I needed to remove two redundant thru-hulls, both either on or under the waterline, and then fill the resulting holes. So important to get it right. I tried following the instructions on the EpoxyWorks w...
The welder will come next week and I used the time for some other projects on the endless to do list. I widened the through-hull for my new depth sounder and went on a hunt for more corrosion from the inside. And I used my oven for the first time: with fresh caribbean spiny lobsters that a friend ha...
This is part 4 of a 4 part series on replacing the thru hulls on a Lagoon 38 catamaran.
In Part 4 of the seacock replacement series I show the final installation of the seacock and fittings. In Part 1 I removed the old thru hulls. In part 2 I glassed in some holes left from over from thru hulls ...
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This is part 3 of a 4 part series on replacing the thru hulls on a Lagoon 38 catamaran.
In Part 3 of the seacock replacement series I show what I did to prepare to install all the new parts including making fibergla...
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