Yeah! Free water 'THEY' said...until you stare at the thing which makes free fresh water and wonder why is it not making fresh free water? What went wrong? How does one start to troubleshoot something so advanced? And how much did it cost to get 'free' wat...
Join us this week in Sicily as we pull the engine apart to prepare ourselves for the crossing surrounded by animals onboard! Not only do we go out of our way to save some street animals, apparently now they come to us!
We also crack on making our very own...
It's the middle of winter, blowing 40knots, our engine is in pieces, Ryan is making a watermaker and we have 2 dogs and 2 cats onboard... Meanwhile our Visas are expiring and we have to leave to Tunisia in Africa, just as Sicily goes into a 2 week lockdown...
The world changes around us! The pandemic looms as we continue our around-the-world journey, sailing into the British Virgin Islands. Everything is normal until it isn't.
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After almost 3 weeks in Fort Lauderdale, we’re finally ready to sail across to the Bahamas. We apologize for the long video but we had a lot crammed into the time we spent here so hopefully you enjoy it anyway (and make it all the way to the end lol)!
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There are a number of things we did to tailor our #Seawind 1600 #Catamaran to suit our needs as #liveaboards. Those creature comforts you don’t give a second thought to when living in a house on land. Maintaining a comfortable temperature inside the boat...
We build, design, and install our own DIY 50 gph watermaker (desalination system) for our sailboat. This was the hardest project we've tackled on our sailboat, but this didn't stop us from having fun with this episode. Watch until the end to see the best p...
Welcome to Sailing Sweet Ruca Tech Talks, where we give you real-world, on boat information as we sail. Today, we dive in-depth into a full service to our Watermaker and show you how to do it as well. Follow along as we do it yourself (DIY). First we chang...
Water water everywhere and it is all salt water which does not do us any good (except to float on) UNTIL NOW! We recently installed a Rainman Watermaker (aka desalination unit) aboard our boat and can now desalinate salt water!!! Here is the link to the Ra...
Kate takes you for a walk around the deck and inside of our circumnavigation sailboat, SV Sweet Ruca. Get a brief look at the layout and equipment on our year 2000 J Boats J/46 sailboat. This is our sailing version of a tiny home for the digital nomad lif...
Ryan fixes an old watermaker that came with the boat when we bought it. We do a taste test between the tap water, bottled water, and the watermaker water.
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Stage one of our installation of the new Schenker Zen 50 watermaker.. hope you enjoy!
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One of the most important things a blue water cruiser needs is good tasting drinkable water. HECK - cruisers drink a lot (and some of those liquids need to be water)! You can buy bottled water but it gets expensive, is heavy to lug around and it takes up v...
In this episode Mike and Jacquie try to determine why they cant make water. After many changes of water maker membranes we are stumped and have stumped the experts. At the date of this posting we still do not have a working water maker. If anyone out t...
It's been 6 months since we installed our Spectra Watermaker, and we'd like to share our thoughts on how we like it, maintenance, real-world data, and how often/where we use it. Also there will be a Q&A period from questions YOU sent in via comments. T...
Our water-maker fails, so Troy strips it down and troubleshoots the problem. As water-makers require periodic seal replacement, we hope this video shows others how simple it is, to field service a Katadyn Watermaker.
Along the way, we hope to share a bit ...
We've been without a working watermaker for just about a year now....so it's time to get it repaired!
Matt takes apart our HRO Seafari watermaker and replaces all the seals since we assume this is what had kept it from working just before our Atlantic c...
Once in San Carlos, after crossing the Sea of Cortez from Loreto, it was time to prepare SV Blackdragon for the hurricane season. I had to remove all halyards, sails, fresh water-flush everything, etc. I spent some time with friends from SV Passport and SV...
Previous - searching for this boat: https://youtu.be/LC8Q4oN2kjs
Previous - converting charter to cruiser: https://youtu.be/izMqIfbj3_A
This is a tour of our 2009 Leopard 46 catamaran. We bought her from Moorings and spent well over a $110K fixing her up a...
Part 2 of the conversion: https://youtu.be/gG8xnDcEh-o
Boat Search: https://youtu.be/LC8Q4oN2kjs
Boat Tour: https://youtu.be/5bgNEO-QKcc
We spent $110,500* converting a Leopard 46 bareboat chartercat into a tricked out cruiser with all the bells and whis...
This episode is a little bit different but many of you have been asking about it. Our watermaker brand is The Watermaker Man and it was installed in Australia by Brett Swann, the owner- operator of the brand.
Highly recomended to everybody thinking about l...
Watermakers turn saltwater into fresh, drinkable water! How? This video will teach you everything you want to know about the watermaker. We're installing a Spectra Ventura 150C watermaker including layout, plumbing, wiring, operation, and connecting wirele...
An introduction, 1,5 years later.. Sorry about that.:)
In this episode we tell you about us and our story. During the episode we jump in time and show some pictures from before we sailed away.
We also flew home, from Tahiti, in August 2018 for Lisas sist...
It's time to sail from the Whitsunday Islands up to Cairns. The only problem... it won't stop raining!
Grey and wet weather doesn't make for a whole lot of fun and the high winds meant we had to skip sailing out to the Great Barrier Reef. That was a bi...
Let's be honest, you can never talk too much about sailing! Boats and the cruising life are a constant topic of conversation out on the water. So I figured it was about time we shared one of those conversations with you!
I hosted my friends Carlos and L...
▶ We're in the water, and it feels GREAT!!!
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Oh yes. And since we're in the water, how about servicing our watermaker and replacing the membranes too? It's all in this wee...
▶ The dodger is finished! Now it's just a 2500 mile test sail! LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE for more HERE: https://ftbyoutube.page.link/subscribe
All the hard work is finished, now we're just waiting for the canvas to be fitted, then we're off. There a...
Starry Horizons needed a bit of TLC so we headed up to The Boat Works in Coomera for a spa day/weeks. Tops on the to-do list was a mini electrical refit to replace our AGM batteries with Lithium. This was a complicated project that was beyond our comfort...
Costa Rica has so much to offer! Nice people, pretty beaches and beautiful and diverse nature and wildlife. We have to prepare a lot of things for the long sail to Hawaii but we squeeze in a break and go inland to one of Costa Ricas rainforests. We see wil...
We finaly get our water maker and set it up... It's so easy!
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We were welcomed into Stu and Maggie’s home in Tucson, Arizona and got to sit down with Stu and hear all about Sun Pure Watermakers. It was great getting to know him and hear how he got into sailing and building watermakers for other cruisers, he showed...
Exciting news on Varuna - we finally decided to take the leap and install a watermaker - a Sun Pure DC unit, which are able to run with just our solar and battery bank, making 8-12 gallons per hour! Come check out the full installation, setup and watch us...
Things are still moving forward, although the year has shown less progress than I would have liked since the haul out. Still, as long as the progress is in the right direction, that's OK by me - and my enthusiasm for the longer term remains unabated. And ...
Over the past three years and 25,000nm, we've turned Starry Horizons, our Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 catamaran, into a true blue water sailing boat. We figured it might be helpful to do a walk-through and highlight what features are important and what optio...
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