Why Folded Steel Sailboats Make Sense

Old farmer bordering north coast wilderness has a farm. He also has advice.

Pacific North West wild coast bottomed out on twin keels steel sailboat. Morning reflection. Close Call.

One hour of low tide and evening light across a quiet harbor on Vancouver Island. The tide ebbs with a natural cadence. Sea birds pass. An oystercatcher calls in the distance. No narration. No music. Just water, sky, and the slow settling of dusk. A place to pause.

This is Part 1 of a three-part conversation with boat designer Brent Swain. In this episode, Brent discusses his early life, his boxing years on the Saskatchewan prairies, and how those experiences shaped his philosophy of simplicity, durability, and folded steel sailboat design. We talk about: • Why steel makes sense offshore • The logic behind origami-style construction • Real-world durability versus theory • Lessons learned the hard way Part 2 and Part 3 continue the conversation, diving deeper into shipwrecks, offshore passages, and what truly matters at sea.

Harbour, mountains, rainforest coast, Vancouver Island coastal beauty at nightfall. Headphones and your music. ASMR

Wilderness Island hides a bloody past.

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High on the spine of Vancouver Island, water flows directly from the mountain. No pipes. No concrete. Stone, ferns, and clear water moving as it has for a very long time. Below, people live quietly. Many live long lives. This is a place to pause. To listen. To let the land speak for itself. Still waters. Old forests.

Filmed from a small steel sailboat and the surrounding rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, this channel offers natural soundscapes, slow moments, and reflective talks drawn from a life lived close to weather, water, and woodsmoke. A massive tide lifted decades trapped rainforest logs and everything else below the new tideline nature in a few hours altered forever.

0800 01/12 Steel Sail Boat DarMi got rammed so hard knocked me out of mid ship birth. Assuming the worse being a ship of some large mass collision could see nothing except a massive old growth log skidding aft. Folded steel hull is designed for surviving all most anything. There was barely a paint smudge. Thinking back to my first sailboat Alberg 30 fibreglass was unthinkable.

All boat hulls with any metal are vulnerable to attack via electrolysis. Sacrificial anodes well known for ocean going vessels as protection. 100% protection not possible. Not wire brushing scrubbing of chalky oxidation reduces effectiveness of anodes. Nothing new here. Except reminders.

Every boat has the same problem: smoke, smells, and moisture from cooking. Most people put up with it. I don't. Every smoky meal leaves a little ghost behind. The fix isn't fancy. Just a simple seamanship thing to protect your boat.

Full time liveaboard coastal wilderness explorations. Comfort time. #shorts

Christmas Day

Steel sailboat voyage to fresh water rain coast lake to photo rare Dragon Fly eating plant. @gotherefindout is full version

1579 Sir Francis Drake heads out to pillage Spanish West Coast (Mexico). The problem was getting back across the fierce Pacific Ocean. His ship the Golden Hinde was burdened with gold bullion tonnage plundered from the Spanish. Drake must stash some of this treasure some on the British Columbia island studded coast to make room for tonnage of water and wood. Where is Drake's stash?

Pacific NorthWest Ocean Graveyard of Ships for past 5 centuries. No Beeps Here follows the trail of adventurer's and their stashed treasures in wilderness rugged North West. Adventures by sail amid the coast of whales and grizzly bears, gold prospectors and forests.

Metal Detect Ship's GraveYard the Pacific North West Ocean wilderness on the trail of 5 centuries of ship wreck, pirate and gold rushes. What has been left behind? Whales, grizzly bears largest un-interrupted coastal wilderness on the planet.

Secret Voyage (rumored) of Drake as early as 1579 have proven to be true in recent times. His ship entered North Pacific waters burdened with plundered Spanish gold and silver. To transit the North West Passage some of this cargo was left behind as well as a quantity of gold/silver coins traded for supplies to 1st Nations. Drake never returned. Re-tracing the believed stop overs ... seek the evidence.