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Ep 371 | Sheep to the RESCUE: Broken Windlass SAVED!
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 c...
My Honeypot is Wet Ep155
sailing, shower, wind transducer, floodlight, camera, hawks, bikini, dancing Preparing to leave the Florida Keys and go sailing. Probably going north. Hope to ride the Gulf Stream. We have a new Garmin Gwind transducer which is connected to our NMEA 2000 ...
I Have a Wet Vertical Smile Ep151
Survived the tropical storm with no damage to Isabella! Hoping others who have suffered through Helene’s wrath can recover soon. Such sad stories and such a catastrophic storm. It seems like we are always doing refitting on the boat. We measured the miz...
Fingers in a Hole Ep115
Wet again and no longer on the hard, yea! After getting a new shaft, etc…, and bottom job Isabella was finally splashed. We left Ft. Lauderdale and headed straight, nonstop for the Keys. The seas were a bit choppy at first, there were scattered thunderst...
Ep 222 | A Notoriously Dangerous Passage, Timing is Everything, Sailing Whitsundays, Australia
We leave the unimpressive Shaw Island and have a wonderful sail to Chalkies Beach which is opposite the world famous Whitehaven Beach in the Whitsundays. The planning for this trip is very intense as Magnus does the maths and checks it twice to ensure tha...
Ep 24: Pulling a Knotmeter Transducer in the Water
Welcome to Episode 24 of Carpe Diem Sailing. How many of you sailors out there live in fear of pulling out a knotmeter transducer while the boat is in the water, OK maybe not fear so much as a bit of stress. No one wants to sink their boat. If you've nev...
Ep 194 | Gearbox Update, Peanut IV TLC, Kimberley Canning Tests, Sailing Nutshell
The gearbox re-assembly is finished and she gets a new coat of paint. We manhandle her onto Nutshell ready for installation. Magnus does a few canning tests on various meats, some raw, some half cooked and some fully cooked, in readiness for our trip up t...
PREPARING TO SAIL TO ALASKA VIA JAPAN – Sailing Q&A 30
We are planning to sail 7500 miles from Thailand to Alaska via Japan, and we have a whole lot of work to do! How to heat a boat. There are various options, diesel vs hot-air? Hot-air heaters are efficient and good at the job, but do they use too much pow...
Replacing a knot meter pickup / transducer while boat is in the water (SV Temptress Boat Projects)
It is fairly easy to replace a transducer on a boat while in the water. This is a cleanable, removable knot meter being replaced on a heavy-displacement sailboat (about 2.5 ft below the water line).
Ep 66 | Things are Looking Bright in Panama, Sailing Nutshell
E66 Weekly Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. Our first night on Nutshell! There is so much cleaning and sorting to do but we get into it. We find many interesting and useful things on Nutshell. Magnus makes a start of the many jobs which need ...
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