This abounded Catamaran project, working on a deadline set by limited funds, has been the hardest thing we have done with our lives. This weeks episode shows the raw and real challenges mentally and physically we have constantly faced. With less than two days to splash you’d think we would be wrapping up the works and finishing the little bits and pieces, right? We wish. It’s all systems go to finish the hydraulic steering system under the guidance of a professional, Nick from Marine Control Systems. We have some extra hands on the job as we go for the final fitment of our rudders…but it’s not good news. This episode - it’s all stacking against us as we work into the night. _____________________________________________________________________________ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646 _____________________________________________________________________________ We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and seas which we work, play and live on: the Kombumerri peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️ _____________________________________________________________________________

After buying a 57ft abandoned Kelsall catamaran at auction, we committed to a full DIY catamaran rebuild…learning as we go and racing a VERY thin deadline. Now we have less than five days left in the boatyard before this sailing catamaran goes back in the water. Rudders to fit. Antifoul to roll. Steering system to finalise. The final stretch of this abandoned boat restoration is here! We’ve got a working bee of new friends on the job, some good tunes to get us through and a sealift date we have to honour. Will we finish in time? Or are we about to find out the hard way? _____________________________________________________________________________ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646 _____________________________________________________________________________ We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and seas which we work, play and live on: the Kombumerri peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️

After 73 days in the boatyard…the rudder saga finally ends. We designed them. Second-guessed them. Stressed about foam compression. Ripped off Coosa board. Glassed them. Sanded until our arms stopped working. And then realised the boat wasn’t even high enough to fit them. Classic. In this episode we’re finally finishing our DIY catamaran rudders on our 57ft abandoned catamaran - testing our bearings, setting our 6mm hull gap, bogging, fairing and doing everything we can to make sure these blades are ready for launch in 7 days. This is the last major job standing between us and the water. We’ve lived on a steel Adams 35 for five years, steel fabrication we understand. Fibreglass rudders with coosa board and H115 foam cores ? That’s been a STEEP learning curve. Huge thanks to Riley, Callum, Dayne and the team at Ocean Degree at The Boat Works for helping us through the glassing phase - and to our mates who continue to lend tools, time and moral support as this deadline looms. Seven days. Very little energy left. But these rudders are going on - one way or another!! _____________________________________________________________________________ For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646 _____________________________________________________________________________ We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and seas which we work, play and live on: the Kombumerri peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️

With just 12 days left before launch, we’re installing what might be the most important system on the entire boat - the wet exhaust! We paid $80K for this boat at auction and banked on our two Yanmar D2-75 motors to work. After some servicing and repairing, that gamble paid off. But the next step to keeping these brand-new-decade-old engines in prime condition is a wet exhaust system that's fail proof. There’s just one small problem…we’ve never done this before. In this episode, we’re cutting into the hull of our 57ft abandoned catamaran, learning fibreglass work on the fly, and hoping our measurements, bogging, glassing are good enough to trust once we’re back in the water. This system has to work because there’s no shortcut, no redo and very little time to correct the mistakes. This is what “figuring it out” actually looks like - thanks for being here and backing us through the messy middle 🤍 LET'S GO!!! For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646 _____________________________________________________________________________ We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and seas which we work, play and live on: the Kombumerri peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️

A milestone for us in this project - floating our 57ft Abandoned Catamaran for the first time in 7 years!! We FINALLY get to test fit our rudders and check our waterline length with less than 2 weeks before we officially launch. We've still got a boatload of jobs remaining, but with good tunes and liberation from the hardstand we think we just might get there! WOOO! For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646 _____________________________________________________________________________ We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and seas which we work, play and live on: the Kombumerri peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️

7 days until we launch our 56ft Abandoned Catamaran after nearly 2 months of a daily hard grind. This episode we're painting the hull and finalising our helm station - learning how to do it literally AS we do it 😅 We're tired, we're excited, and we're hangin' in there! For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646 _____________________________________________________________________________ We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and seas which we work, play and live on: the Kombumerri peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️

The only reason we've been able to get this far is from the support we've received from strangers (now friends) and all of the positivity online...but mostly because we're in a loving relationship - doing this together. However, this project has proven to be one of the biggest challenges for our relationship, with Josh often chipping away alone, and Phoebe in the saloon above editing the videos. With 8 days remaining until splash day, we're (tiredly) ticking off some of the last remaining jobs on the engines...together! For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646 _____________________________________________________________________________ We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and seas which we work, play and live on: the Kombumerri peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️

No one ever said this was going to be easy! A project of this size can take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars - and we’ve set the ambitious goal to do it in just two months. We’re in debt and have minimal cash to get floating, but what we lack in finance we make up for in passion. If this episode seems a bit chaotic, lacks structure with an extra dash of madness… but that’s because it is! Crikey this is a wild one, but are we glad to be in it together! Cheers! _____________________________________________________________________________ For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

We're kicking the end of the year off with the satisfying resolution to the ultimate question "What the heck was growing on our abandoned boat?!". This massive job took 2 whole days, and although this clean was purely for aesthetics...we feel like it's given us the boost of morale that we needed to power through the last 2 weeks of the build. We hope you feel great satisfaction watching this, as much as we felt doing it! Happy holidays everyone 💙 We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and seas which we work, play and live on: the Kombumerri peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Always was, always will be 🖤💛❤️ _____________________________________________________________________________ For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

This video doesn't need a description...you asked, we delivered! With less than 2 weeks until float day we can finally justify spending the time giving this 56ft Abandoned Cat the pressure wash of her/your/our dreams! Let's find out what lies beneath nearly a decade of dirt 🥴 For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

It's coming to the pointy end of the boatyard arrow...and we're pointing it directly to all of the final jobs that have been hanging overhead. This week, Phoebe is away, so Josh rally's his mates to help him bog, fair and paint the hull, calculate the volumes of our onboard tanks, Brett returns to put the cherry on top of our port engines and we tick enough jobs off the list so we can justify the time to...wait for it...CLEAN THE HULL!!! It's go time! _____________________________________________________________________________ INNERBLOOM FOR SALE: https://yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/adams-35-innerbloom/335935 For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

INNERBLOOM NOW FOR SALE: https://yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/adams-35-innerbloom/335935 5 years ago, Josh and I bought this steel, sloop rigged mono hull from Mooloolaba, QLD. The second time we'd set foot on a sailboat was the passage taking her home after purchase. 2 years living in a trawler harbour, then 3 years of cruising 6000nm up and down Australias East Coast...and now 2 melancholy but satisfied sailors. Our chapter with Innerbloom, our Joe Adams design 35ft mopno, is now coming to an end. We hope that we can find the right owner for her that will keep her doing what she's made for - SAILING and ADVENTURING! Every system aboard Innerbloom has been maintained, upgraded or replaced - she is a true turn-key cruiser ready to sail tomorrow. She's humble, but she's capable! Ultra-modern and powerful electrical system, luxe new carpets and upholstery, raw water washdown, bluetooth windlass system, outdoor bbq set up...the list could go on! Spearfishing, trolling, diving surfing - Innerbloom's made that happen for us. These 5 years have been the time of our lives and we can confidently say that we have experienced the transformation of a total Innerbloom 💜 We love this boat so much, and we hope to share this dream with the new owner one day soon... _____________________________________________________________________________ For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

We're smashing it out this episode: sanding, glassing, painting...and skating? After the regrets from last episode - starting to completely sand off the layer of mysterious black paint - we realise that all we can do is simply learn from our mistakes and commit to the bit. We're taking it back to bare hull, removing the unknowns and familiarising ourselves with this new world of fibreglass! Jump on Evolve's Black Friday sale here https://www.rideevolve.com.au/ and save $50 off when you use NEWKIDS50OFF at checkout! For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

Look, we’re good at lots of things, but sanding our foam sandwich KSS 56?? Not so much. Our Adams35 Innerbloom was steel - we know how to handle it, we know how to fix it. Uncharted until just a month ago, Fibreglass was an entire different world to what we’ve known. This episode, we’re stripping back the layers of unknown: a black material hardened on the hull after a decade on the hard. We don’t know what it is and we don’t have a contact for the previous owner, so we’re taking it all off and starting from scratch. This is a risky move so soon until float day in less than a month, and with our substandard skills of sanding glass hulls, we may have just opened a huge can of worms… For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

FINALLY! What a relief to have both of our Volvo Penta D275 engines working after 15years idle and forgotten. This episode is another nitty gritty dive into the inner workings of our portside inboard. It feels surreal to tick such a massive milestone off the list, and it wouldn't have been possible without Brett's help! For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

It all comes down to this! Learning firsthand from Brett makes our attempts at the engines a couple of weeks ago seem like childsplay. This is the episode we FINALLY find out if our 80k gamble was worth it. We want to extend our deepest gratitude to Brett from Brett's Marine Maintenance who has taken an unbelievable weight of our shoulders to give us some professional help with these motors. Less than 30 days until splash...LET'S GOOOO! For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

Last week we started the work on our rudder tangs - shaping and gluing Coosa board as per the advice from fellow yachtsman. But when you're working with new-age tech with mm accuracy like the CNC machine, our novice handywork just simply won't cut it (pun very much intended). This week, we're undoing all of the hard yakka on our tangs and trying our hand at new techniques that will not only make it easier for the boys at Ocean Degree to scan them, but also hopefully lessen the furrow in your brow! Having lived on a steel boat for 5 years, glassing is unfamiliar to us. But this week, we're diving head first into new trades and skills as we finalise the build on our two rudders for this Dereck Kelsall Catamaran! For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

Rudders have been our number one priority on this abandoned catamaran rebuild - and since we were quoted $50,000 to have them made, we’ve decided to take the risk and build them ourselves. We’ve roped in a few great minds to help bring them to life, which means there’s no shortage of ideas… or opinions. Something tells us this DIY might take a little longer than we expect... For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

Today, we dive into uncovering the truth of our Kelsall 57 inboard motors. Installed brand new, never run and a gamble we're not yet sure was worth taking. There's an entire protocol required to get both of these motors running again - but today we're starting with the cosmetics, and jobs that we have a basic understanding of. Before our diesel mechanic mate comes to give us a hand with the resuscitation, we're trying our hand at the diesel work and getting to know our new (old) motors as best we can. For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646

This week, everything came together - a cracking downwind sail, fishing along the reef and mangroves and creating the kind of memories that stay with you forever. We’re sailing to Goldsmith Island, part of the Sir James Smith Island group, a place that reminded us exactly why we fell in love with this life at sea along the East Coast of QLD Australia. Right now, we’re deep in our new catamaran build, but looking back on days like this from last year’s adventures keeps us grounded and excited for what’s ahead on the Cat! Join us as Phoebe catches the fishing bug, and Josh celebrates the end of his solo-fishing days 😝 We’re a little behind on our videos - we’re just having too much fun! So to connect with us in real time, you can find us on our new FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551024568844 For ad-free and early release episodes, behind the scenes content and live updates, check out our Patreon! Your support allows us to continue to create videos and maintain our home, Innerbloom - keeping the adventure alive. Thank you! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheNewKidsOnTheDock PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KNLJDGDXPAYAU WISHLIST: https://www.myregistry.com/wishlist/josh-and-phoebe-coomera-queensland/5046646