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Our sailboat is finally outside the shed, some of the biggest pieces of the entire build have arrived and we’re getting everything ready for one of the biggest transformations of this project.
Next week, we start cutting into the hull and turning all these aluminum pieces into part of the boat. Thi...
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With only 70 days until our boat leaves for the Caribbean, we're working against the clock! This week we're tackling some of the jobs that need to be done before the boat can finally come out of the she...
After 10 years chasing this dream, everything now comes down to the next 84 days.
We’re leaving Belgium. Where the boat is going? And what happens if we don’t get it ready in time? This might be the biggest challenge we’ve ever faced.
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In this episode, you'll see the problem, our solution, and the first glimpse of the deck saloon finally coming to life.
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Sometimes fixing someone else's mistakes is much harder than building from scratch. This week we finally discovered why the roof of our aluminum sailboat has been fighting us for months... ...
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This week we tested our new windlass, chain and anchor. Another big step toward getting this boat ready for the water.
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This week, we tackle one of the most important projects on our aluminum sailboat: building the bow sprit, anchor roller system, and windlass foundation.
By the end of the episode, the bow of the boat looks completely different—and for the first time, it really starts to look like a serious offshore...
Installing the deck hatches on our aluminum expedition sailboat turned out to be WAY more complicated than we expected.
This was one of those projects that kept us awake at night for months…
We knew that as soon as we started welding large hatch frames into the deck, there was a real risk of warpi...
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This week we are gonna talk about our steering system. But before installing it, we had to face a problem: it simply didn’t f...
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When we decided to finish our aluminum sailboat ourselves, we chose to simplify everything — not by cutting corners, but by b...
Our beloved Odd, the boat that we had for over 4 years (sailing from southern Brazil all the way to the Caribbean) is now for sail after finishing her circumnavigation!
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After months of design and engineering, it's finally time to build our custom portlight frames.
Because these windows si...
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This week we finally make one of the biggest decisions in the entire build of our 43 ft aluminum exploration sailboat: the pr...
This episode was an important one for us.
For the first time, the boat truly started to feel like ours.
We removed the old markings from the hull and installed a new aluminum plate and gave "another life" to our boat.
Step by step the structure is getting closer to completion… and close...
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We are Duca and Roberta, a Brazilian couple that during a sabbatical trip in 2016 decided to follow our dream. So, we created...
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We always knew our new boat had to be a Deck Saloon. Why? Because we want to live 100% off-grid. In this video, we tackle one of the most stressful par...
This week aboard our sailboat, we were racing the clock to prep our bare mast for restepping — and winter had other ideas. With a hard deadline looming, we took on an ambitious list of mast projects, working in cold temperatures, late nights, and even falling snow.
Our goal was to get the mast full...
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After rescuing our boat from the boatyard, we discovered the roof was only lightly tack welded in place, far from complete. T...
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This episode is an emotional roller coaster. After moving forward, it feels like we're taking two steps back. Unfortunately, we found that 80% of our work now involves fixing severe structural and leveling problems from the initial welding on the aluminum deck of our boat.
We face a huge chall...
Welcome to Part 2 of our structural nightmare! 🚢
After days of attempts, we finally found the definitive solution for the uneven and crooked deck. In this episode, the welder and I take a deep dive into the correction, using relief cuts and an ingenious aluminum "shrinking" technique to r...
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