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We talk you through all the paints we used when painting our bilges, exposed wood which we created our saloon seating area and galley etc with. As well as painting over our fiberglass.
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Episode 39
We add our latch to our door to prevent it from swinging open at sea, & meet the Texans on their beautiful majestic cat.
Ricky makes the shelves to attach to our engine/storage compartments.
We decided to make our sole inspection hatches ...
Episode 38
⦁We finish fibreglassing up our cockpit decks and make them level
⦁We acetone down our dodger and give her a coat of 2 part pool coat
⦁We start working on our door, which we have now changed completely to a poly carbonate door with a wate...
Ports, portholes, portlights, windows, whatever you want to call them... our boat has TEN of them. For a 32 foot boat, that's a lot of ports! Subsequently, it's a big job to replace them all and this is our vlog of the process.
We're super happy with the...
Episode 37
Follow up of our previous video: Building a bimini/dodger:
https://youtu.be/KMbPnBZEVzU
We carry on prepping our dodger for some paint & add some more fibreglass to ensure she is nice and sturdy.
We will be adding a catchment tarp in plac...
In this vlog we remove our head and holding tank, replace our main bulkhead, and start dry fitting the big ABI bronze portlights in the main salon of Freebie.
Livestream will be Sunday, August 5th, at 2pm EST. See you there!
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Episode 35
We show you how the boat is looking after a full on paint. We will be applying the last coat at a later stage.
Ricky & Moses start adding some insulation to our roof & we show you the temperature differences once insulation has been ad...
You have to first rip out all of the old in order to rebuild with the new. The first step to a total refit/restore of the interior of our boat is ripping out all of the old headliner and plywood insulation. After this is done, we set our sights on the main...
Episode 34
This week Ricky fits in some more hatches. We fit in the trims so we can start adding some acoustic & insulation foam for our headliner. We sand a bit more and epoxy prime our window frames & any nooks and crannies that we previously mig...
Episode 30
- We add our access hatch to our basin cabinetry to prevent any flexing while we epoxy her in.
-We drew up our window frames on Solid Worx and got them cnc routered. We fit them in to make sure they were the correct sizes, we did not epoxy the...
Episode 27
We say goodbye to Cape Town & embark back home to Port Elizabeth. Ricky makes our removable galley counter top trims & we get our cabinetry trimmings CNC cut, routered and sanded to fit in. Ricky also decides to make his own routing tab...
Episode 24
Ricky found a stranded baby penguin. Faired our hull & did some odds and ends around the boat as we had run out of epoxy, micro balloons and peel ply such as sand down and router our brackets to make our saloon table into a bed, we made a st...
A decision to build a 40 foot Catamaran should not be taken lightly. Join Ross Boardman in a series of videos that shows the ups and downs, logistics and blood sweat, swearing and tears involved in the building of a fibreglass composite catamaran.
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We have sold up our goodies, and are refitting our 1991 36.5ft Dean Catamaran. Follow our journey as we get her ready for the big blue where we plan on completing a circum-navigation.
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Episode 22
We build our shower using composite panels as well as our basin to make it nice and light weight. We fit in our toilet as well as build our shower floor using composite panels as well.
This was a extremely lengthy project as laminating and fib...
Episode 8
So we finally took down the mast! Another thing for us to get started on. We plan on doing the standing rigging asap. We gutted her out some more & started planning for the interior layout! Did we mention!!? We got two nice sanders! Ricky wa...
EPISODE 6
Since it's new years & all. We decided to let you guys in on our tips of buying a yacht for less than $30000. Keep watching if you'd like to know all the ins and outs of how we did it. We will also be at the Algoa Bay Yacht Club in Port Eliz...
Episode 5
We get down & start to do the dirty work. Organizing the things on the boat, taking off the cuboards and ripping out the cabinets. We still got tons of work to do but at least we finally were able to start on her. Since it's Christmas time we...
OK, so not on my list of things to do soon at all. But a cheap, brand new sprayhood appeared on ebay. Forget that it wasn't made for my boat, was not the right colour, and may not fit - a bargain is a bargain. This is part one...there isn't a part two y...
Following on from the first film that we did about White Magic we thought we would upload some more clips showing you a little more of the detail.
Today... the beginning.... from the day we bought her up to the point at which she was lifted back into the ...
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