Our biggest project yet! Our old bottom paint was failing and our thru hulls were corroding! We hauled out at Bert Jabin Yacht Yard to take care of both problems at once. Doing most of the work ourselves, we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into! Incredibly hot weather and back breaking labor, after 4 days the thru hulls were complete and we finished prepping to start the paint. Thankfully we didn’t sand the bottom paint ourselves. Instead we wanted to start fresh and got the bottom professionally blasted down to bare gel coat. After days prepping the bottom of the boat we toiled for two MORE days to apply four coats of Interlux 2000 barrier paint followed by two coats of Trinidad Pro. We thought this was going to be easy peasy, right? I’ve painted the entire inside of my house, how hard could it be to paint a boat? We were so wrong… Constant crouching on our knees then standing back up - lather, rinse, repeat… The Trinidad Pro has so much copper in it, holding that heavy roller full of paint above our head for hours was brutal! On the bright side, we both got a full body workout two days in a row 🤣 We finished up the last coat of paint around 9pm and it wasn’t until the next morning that we could appreciate the fruits of our labor, it was so worth it. 💙 Will I ever volunteer to paint the bottom of another boat…? Oh, heck no! If you’re wondering how much money projects like this cost, check it👇🏼👇🏼 Thru hulls = $800 Barrier paint = $1000 Anti-fouling paint = $1050 Bottom blasting = $2000 Yard fees = $1650 Misc parts, supplies, & consumables = $300 TOTAL without labor = $6800 Cost of therapy = TBD…… 😵‍💫 #boatwork #sailingcouple #beneteau411 #sailboat #boatproject #diy #shorts

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Eine außergewöhnliche Kombireise Segeln und Trekken. Viertägige Trekkingtour im marokkonischen Rifgebirge. Hier: Abstieg zum Oued Kannar. Info und Details unter https://sailorama-segelreisen.at/de/segeln-spanien-marokko-oued-trekking.html und https://sailorama-segelreisen.at/de/segeln-spanien-marokko-weitwandern-im-rif-gebirge.html

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This video is just a small intro when we returned from a much too long winter work in cold Germany back to our boat, that was stored safely on land and when we started to give it a refit before relaunch. please subscribe and like here on Youtube so you won´t miss future videos about sailing and liveaboard. Visit our blog on www.velanautica.org and get a free crewmembership by registration on our site. Become part of future crew competitins where you my win a free week on an ocean going 54 ft sailingyacht. Here on our channel you are possible to experience how it is to live permanently on a sailingyacht. See what is the ups and downs of living on board all year and travel with the boat. Beside that you experience also what maintenance it takes to keep the boat up. I will show you also technical stuff to learn the deep insights about AMEL ships. Visit many countrys with us see the locals from a diffrent perspective than the usual 2 weeks holidays and follow us around the world.

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