My Sikaflex Expired in 2024 (and Other Disasters) || Sailing SV Goat ep 122

Alone on our Lagoon 400 catamaran in the Morro Jable marina at 44 °C: fitting two engine-room bilge pumps and a second autopilot for full redundancy before Cape Verde. Our Lagoon 400 came without bilge pumps in the engine rooms — if they flood, you either pump from the top or open a valve and let the water into the boat. So I bought two 2,000 GPH pumps and set about drilling the hull. Alone, because the blonde is in Italy. At sunset, because in the day it's 45 degrees. With Sikaflex that, it turns out, has an expiry date — mine expired in 2024 — so the only tube left was black, on a white boat. WD-40 helped. Then the engine room, which is not bigger than the ones on my body; a Victron Orion that has no power unless the engines are running; and two new cables I really didn't want to run. The pumps are in. Then the second autopilot — identical to the first, so B&G and Furuno each have their own and the whole system is redundant (you saw why in episode 119). Four cables through a protective pipe that was too tight, at 44.2 °C and 50% humidity, with a cable router designed by someone who hates people, a can of spray grease, and nobody to hold the other end. Seventy litres of sweat later: calibration, test… it's alive. CHAPTERS 0:00 It expired in 2024 0:19 No bilge pumps on a Lagoon 400 1:17 The hole 2:05 The Sikaflex won't come out 3:55 Black Sikaflex on a white boat 5:10 The WD-40 trick 6:08 Ten out of ten 6:45 The morning after 8:42 The engine room 9:50 That's a bust 10:25 The pumps are in 11:03 A second autopilot 11:49 The pipe 12:51 44 degrees 13:58 Doing it by myself 14:56 A person helping me 15:37 Success 16:55 Unbearable 17:59 It's alive Next: getting the boat ready for Cape Verde. Follow along so you don't miss it. Filmed aboard SV Goat, a Lagoon 400 we live on full time. Vlad supervises, from the boat. #SailingLife #Liveaboard #CatamaranLife #BoatRefit #Lagoon400 #SailboatLife #BoatWork #SailingVlog #Catamaran #DIYBoat #BilgePump #Autopilot #Sikaflex #Fuerteventura