Hauling out a Hurricane Damaged Sailboat | Sailing Wicked 2

Welcome back friends! We are getting the hang of this YouTube thing. Thank you for joining us on our journey to wherever we end up! Lol… In this video we begin our life on the hard and end up staying longer than expected. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves… We prepare our hurricane damaged sailboat for a long hurricane season ahead of us. Wicked’s bilge is working, she’s got her hurricane lines out and any exposed holes are sealed up. We scheduled our haul out date and made the 12 hour journey from Los Angeles to the USVIs to get Wicked hauled out and begin our sailboat refit. ********* This is what we know… Wicked is a 2009 43 Beneteau Oceanis that was chartered through the moorings and ownership was transferred to two different families before she was met by both hurricane Maria and Irma in 2017. She was salvaged and stripped of most of her electronics and working parts but left with a good motor and mast. There was quite a bit of damage on her starboard side where she was beached in St. John and the bottom part of the rudder was broken off. When salvaged she was hot patched, filled with foam, screws and plywood to stop her from taking on water then taken to a mooring where she would spend 3 years waiting for us to take her on. In those 3 years the damage done to the starboard side hadn’t been addressed. So slow leaks into the fiberglass festered, rotted and had to be dealt with. _______________________________________________ Our Plans We plan to do a full refit on Wicked and make her better than new! She lacks many of her systems including electric, plumbing, navigation and running rigging to start. While its a ton of work we get to start from scratch and make her ours before moving on board! Thank you for watching and please consider subscribing! Matty & Brit :)