HAUL OUT of OPEN 66 RACE YACHT in REMOTE BORNEO | S2 Ep31

Welcome back to sailing NV, where we’re about to haul out our Open 66 which we’ve been sailing around the world on as a family for the last 2 years, after a giant 2 year refit in Fiji converting her into a fast family cruiser. But now thanks to an unexpected gearbox failure, we need to haul the boat out of the water to replace the sail drive… not an easy task when cruising in remote parts of Asia with a 4.2metre keel. After finally finding a potential yard in the north of Borneo, we travelled 1500nm through pirate territory and reefy areas to meet the yard owner to discuss our options in person. With a bit of persuasion it sounded like he was willing to let us try and agreed to let us to dig a pit in the yard to put our keel in so that we wouldn’t be sat so high out of the water. There’s a lot of logistics involved in hauling out a boat like ours, not only finding a yard with the right depth for our extreme keel, and a big enough travel lift with straps the right length to get us above ground level, but we also have to plan carefully how to sit the boat safely so high out of the water and in this case we really wanted to dig a pit. There's been a lot or preparation for this lift so cross your fingers with us that it goes well! 00:00 - Last minute worries 01:01 - Anchors aweigh 02:37 - Solution to problems 05:23 - Manoeuvring into the haul out basin 06:42 - Preparing to dive 07:23 - Getting ready 12:26 - Going up... 16:13 Outro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you'd like to support us on Patreon, our website https://www.patreon.com/SailingNV or with a one-off donation via https://ko-fi.com/sailingnv or paypal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sailingnv or if you'd like to help us buy something we need, you can check out our amazon wish list https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1G2NJ0EGJLKR0?ref_=wl_share THANK YOU!!! #sailing #yachtlife #sailingadventures