Everything We Own, Hanging in the Air || Sailing SV Goat ep 111

Four days out of the water in Motril, and then the bit every boat owner quietly dreads: watching everything you own hang in the air on two straps. Before that could happen there was a list. Seventy metres of anchor chain dragged out onto the hardstanding, measured and colour-banded every ten metres by hand — a full day's work in Spanish sun, and almost none of it done by me. New antifouling with cayenne pepper mixed into it, because the previous owners swore that's what people do in South Africa, and after a year mostly sitting still our hull came out very nearly clean. Both engines fully serviced: sail drive oil, motor oil, every filter, every separator. And then her name went back on the hull, which is the moment she stopped being a project again. We splashed on a windless morning. The difference a clean bottom makes is measurable: 6.1 knots at 1700rpm, against 5.5 knots at 2000rpm with a dirty one. Then we finally left the boatyard, sailed down the coast with dolphins alongside — which mostly means no orcas — and put in at Benalmádena for the night. Next week we leave the Mediterranean after two years. CHAPTERS 0:00 "There is no plan B" 0:37 70 metres of chain, marked by hand 3:24 Cayenne pepper in the antifouling 4:43 The new bottom paint 5:03 She gets her name back 5:30 Splash day 6:03 Both engines serviced 7:03 Into the slings 7:17 The moment sailors are afraid of 7:55 Back in the water 8:54 Leaving the boatyard 9:19 The gear delivery 9:44 Obsessing with a brand 10:09 Leaving Motril 10:52 Clean hull vs dirty hull 11:32 Under sail again 12:24 Vlad 12:39 Dolphins mean no orcas 13:07 Benalmádena Filmed aboard SV Goat, a Lagoon 400 we live on full time. Vlad supervises. #SailingLife #Liveaboard #CatamaranLife #BoatRefit #Lagoon400 #SailboatLife #BoatWork #SailingVlog #Catamaran #DIYBoat #Antifouling #AnchorChain #BoatYard #Motril