Well more things are broke on our new to use sailboat. We have to get up the mast to fix our spinnaker line. We get greeted with wiring shorts with our instruments. Top top this off, the line to our sugar scoop breaks. We also have some fixes that quickly unfix themselves. Still loving the …
Ep 3: Can I Brave Going Up The Sailboat Mast? More Things Broken Read More »
Well we looked at a lot of Sailboats and the Hunter 410 is our pick. She does need some work, but nobody ever said living on a sailboat would be easy. So follow along as our 9 year dream becomes reality as we prepare SV Agua Azul for beautiful destinations. Go To Video Tools We …
Ep 1 Sailing Into A New Life: First Week On A Sailboat! Read More »
See our adventure at the Miami International Boat Show as we stay there on a two-bedroom Yacht. We go into detail of things to come for our channel Chris Does What as we share our Big Dreams. Follow us as we meet two Big YouTube Sailing Channels Sailing Zatara and Sailing Soulianis. It was a …
LiveAboard Yacht, Sharing Our Dream At Miami International Boat Show 2020 Read More »
We think these boat cleats on our Bayliner Bowrider 175 are going to hold up! They didn’t break when I pulled against them with 230lb, and they worked great at the dock during boat testing. The black nylon isn’t going to rust like the old cleats on this Bayliner Bowrider, and they only cost $18. …
Install Of Boat Cleats EP #53 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
If you follow this boat restore project, the lake testing is probably what you have been waiting on. Does the old Bayliner Bowrider 175 cruise off into the sunset, or does it blow up and sink. In this video we get the boat Mercruiser 3.0 liter timed and ready to hit the water, testing her …
Boat Timing And Lake Testing EP #52 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Getting close to starting, have to primp the oil pump and install the distributor at top dead center number one. In this video, we show how we prime the oil pump on the cheap, and then how to find top dead center on the number one cylinder using a compression gauge and a screwdriver. With …
Priming Oil Pump And Stabbing Distributor EP #44 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
To go with our grey boat theme we opted to paint our custom speaker plates. I did like the wood grain but it just didn’t work with anything else in the boat. We used paint to seal the wood then added Kiwi Grip to add texture. All the materials used for this project were scrapes …
Custom Boat Speaker Plates Painted EP #42 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
Got our boat windows on and they look good, also as the boat driver I don’t want to get wet. LOL The weatherstrip we found on Amazon worked really and we have already used it for other projects beyond this like the speaker pods and Jeep projects. I loved working this project with my wife, …
Installed Our Window On The Boat EP #41 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
After cleaning the boat seats for the gazillionth time, we tried NeverWet from Rust-Oleum on it. Hindsight we should have got the silver NeverWet from Rust-Oleum, we may try it later. We have also left a link below for where we got ours, ordering with our link helps us grow at no added cost to …
Rust-Oleum NeverWet, Will It Work? EP #39 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
We built the latch system for our ski lover on this old Bayliner Bowrider 175. This had to be one of the easiest things we have done in this project. Now we are on to painting the floor cause it is still so ugly. Want a pretty floor that hides all the labor it took …
Custom Boat Ski Locker Finish EP #35 || Bayliner Bowrider 175 Read More »
