With the bitter winter weather looming, I knew I had to get Tiare hauled out and complete the long list of essential maintenance tasks before it was too late. But just as I was about to make my way to the boat yard, a last-minute emergency boat repair delayed my plans.
As the days turned into weeks, I watched in growing nervousness as winter proper approached, knowing that time was quickly running out. The thought of not being able to complete the necessary repairs weighed heavily on my mind.
Finally, the boat yard released the other vessel and I was able to access the boat ramps with Tiare. But as soon as she was safely up, the weather turned against me. The low temperatures and bitterly cold winds made progress on the repairs a constant struggle.
But finally, the repairs were complete, and Tiare was ready to slip back in. Despite the challenges I had managed to complete the work that needed to be done. And as I looked out at the stormy winter skies, I knew that Tiare was set for another year.
Cover art by MidJourney. For those interested the prompt was based off a screen grab from the video. drawn in a Ukiyo-e style a salt and pepper short haired well muscled, handsome mature white male with sun and sea tanned laughter lines around his sky blue eyes. He is installing a new under-counter fridge in his sailing catamaran’ galley. Outside it is a storm tossed sea with the late afternoon sun shining on the white sand beach. –aspect 7:4 –v 5 –s 750
This weeks video I install two Engel fridge/freezer units into our new galley onboard our 55 foot Wharram sailing catamaran. Has been many, many years since we have had reliable refrigeration onboard.
Previously we relied on buying very large blocks of ice and storing them in two cool boxes on deck, but as we started cruising more remote places, finding ice sellers became more and more problematic, both with the availability and the distance from where we were anchored or tied up.
So with the new galley upgrade it was finally time to install some decent refrigeration, cold drinks and ice-creams.
I chose Engel as it was the only choice available in Japan that was both affordable and could fit the limited space available.
Plus Engel have a great reputation on reliability and low power consumption. A winning combination for me.
New sails! We bend on a new Genoa! Plus add small jib to our new inner stay. Special day for Tiare as she gets two new sails. A new Genoa and a never used inner jib.
Being Tan bark they look amazing But before that, I need to make some room by bending on her stay-sail so we can hoist that up out of the way .
Imagine my excitement when I received quotes for ready-made trampolines for our 55-foot Wharram catamaran! Wow was she going to look smart!! But my heart sank when I saw the sky-high price tags. Thousands of dollars? No way could I afford that.
But being the budget guy that I am, I decided to use the trusty method of 5mm double braid line and thread my own.
With seemingly endless threading Under and over, under and over, until… shit! over then under! Easy mistake and had to undo the last hour of work.
But you know what? The satisfaction of threading my own trampoline and the money I saved made it all worth it.
Tiare and Sea Japan is getting closer to casting off
Get ready for an adventure as we prepare for our journey aboard “Tiare,” a Wharram Islander 55 sailing catamaran. We’ll be following in the path of the old sea captains who sailed and traded their way around Japan during the medieval period.
It is going to be a journey filled with excitement, discovery, and an opportunity to explore one of the most diverse, fascinating, and challenging cruising destinations on the planet.
Join us as we share our adventure with you and discover the rich history, culture, and beauty of Japan.
Has been a while since I last uploaded a video.
In this video we
1/ Travel to Sado Island in Niigata to an open day for a Miyadaiku trade school
2/ Enjoy a local Shrine festival
3/ Hang the rudders back on Tiare
Video gets me close to current times.
Next video will be up to real-time
Part of the delay is that I have been trying to find a direction and purpose to the videos, other than as a personal diary.
So this episode I swap over from Go Sea Camping to Sea Japan, although the adventures of SV Tiare will continue.
I really hope to show Japan as the absolutely fantastic cruising destination it is.
But more on the direction of this channel over the next few episodes.
Hope to have Tiare up and sailing towards the end of August,
Next episode will cover the exhausting, yet somewhat successful, drama of getting Tiare back into the water., along with problems and solution to my aft mast issues.
Music from Artlist.io
Artists:
1: Spring in Barcelona by Ian Post
2: Burdens by Derek Gust
3: Vietnam Theme by Hanjo Gabler
4: Burnin down the house by Saint-anyway
5 Brown Eyed Girl, written by Van Morrison and performed by Sam, Tom, Taiga and Micheal live at Okappa cafe
Well, I have finally done it. I’ve gone and painted my topsides.
And prepped my hull for a new generation of anti-foul.
This is a major milestone for me. Tiare has needed a hull repaint for a number of years, slowly becoming a little more drab with each small knock the tender makes on the side, and with the passing of time wearing thin the top-paint.
Now that she is on the hard, and I have access to some high quality and affordable paints, along with the time to spend on doing the preparation work. It feels good to take my time to do it right.
This was my first repaint and a steep learning curve, I definitely acquired some new skills. Paint scraping is an art, sanding and painting is a trade.
Doing it right means I take all the old anti-fouling off, scrape and sand back to the hull’s base coat, and then apply several layers of super smooth epoxy coating before a final coat of a modern super slippery, long lasting anti-foul.
I have not yet decided on the final anti-fouling system, there are a few options available but I will make that decision closer to when I re-slip Tiare.
Took longer then I had anticipated, as my hands seized up daily after four to five hours due to Carpal tunnel syndrome.
If you’re my age, and a tradie, you’ll know what I mean. If you’re reading this and you’re young, look after your hands!! Waking up every night at 2am, with your arms and hands on fire gets tiring real quick.
So although one hull side would take around 18 – 20 hours total to scrape clean, it would actually take around 5 days. And there are four sides!
Fortunately, we have an onsen/spa (hot baths) close by, a soak after a day of scraping felt really good and made the CTS manageable.
I didn’t do a roll and tip, as that really only works well with paints that are thinned out. Thinning out a paint reduces its gloss and you need to put more coats on to make up the thickness.
What I did was a coach or carriage style as it allowed me to put on just four thick un-thinned coats of top paint.
I wasn’t going for a mirror finish, as that takes considerably more effort in sanding and preparation, I think my hands would have failed if I had tried, and then there is the stress over the final application of the top coats.
What I wanted was multiple coats of solid un-thinned top paint of at least 3 coats (I ended up with four coats).
I am very happy with the results.
Marine Paints from CMP
For the epoxy primers and the top-sides finish coat, I have used CMP (Chugoku Marine Paints) here from Japan.
One of the deciding factors on using CMP was that they make their paint AND catalysers here in Japan.
When I order the paint it usually takes a week or so as they make it to order, it arrives very fresh 🙂 All 4kgs or 18kgs of it.
It is also inexpensive, e.g. 4kg of white is 6000¥ ~ 60 USD for a quality two-part urethane, with the top end Fluorex Finish at twice the price at around 12,000¥ ~ 110USD.
18Kg of epoxy primer, Bannoh 1500, was 12,000¥ ~ 110USD. 18 kg did four coats below the water line.
With the starboard side rudder wood dried out. Both rudders are ready for sanding, glassing and filling ready for epoxy undercoats.
The starboard back stern repairs are all done and we go through a couple of typhoons. Nothing major and I enjoy the peace of mind that comes with being on the hard in a very sheltered area.
Next video it’s all about scraping 12 years of old antifoul and getting the hulls ready for an epoxy primer and new top coat.
This episode I discover some unwanted guests in my SB stern post.
Find out that a scraper is my best friend, and I visit Yuge island’s summer festival.
Woodworm, every old sailing boat novel I read as a kid mentions the dreaded woodworm.
So what appeared to be a small crack in the paint, turned into a “worst case” scenario of woodworm boring through my sternpost, a real stomach dropping moment.
But although was bad, the epoxy glue lines seemed to have stopped it from spreading further.
So was a matter of taking the plunge and cutting a large chunk out of the sternpost, took a bit of nerve to make the first cut.
After that was a relatively simple job of carving a replacement part, fortunately I had been carrying some very hard wood onboard since Malyasia some 5? years earlier.
The wood, locally known as Chengal, a traditional boat building timber is very hard, glues well is rot resistant and also easy to work.
Wikipedia link here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neobalanocarpus
The rudders are off, the port side needs a simple scrape before fairing and new anti-foul.
Without a vacuum system electric tools are no good, plus I find that a simple scraper is the most effective tool for removing old anti-foul.
Yuge Island had its annual summer festival, the weather holds up and it was a fantastic afternoon.
Next video I repair the starboard rudder, which was damaged when we dragged in a typhoon 4 years ago.
The summer heat is ongoing and slows progress down. Fortunately, I am working under the boat and in the shade but still, the humidity and heat takes the energy out of you.
Replacing our metal thru hulls and valves with Trudesign Composites. http://www.trudesign.nz/marine.
Learn how to remove extremely well stuck thru hulls and drill holes for replacement thru hulls, along with a quick look at some thru hulls that had been eaten from the inside out.
Now Tiare is out of the water, I take down our Sillette Sonic Drives to replace the anodes, bellows, shaft seals and clean and fill the corrosion pitting on the lower legs, then give acid washing a go before acid etching and a repaint.
Last winter I discovered that the SB side leg had water getting into the shaft so hoping it was just the shaft seals that needed replacing.
The PS leg pins were getting sloppy in their brackets, the answer was to fit some steel sleeves into them. Along with adding some high wear aluminum epoxy, to replace what the corrosion had eaten away around the pins.
And finally, time to grind off the 5 year old bitumen I had put on in Malaysia, and give the legs a good clean and fill up the bad pitting. Replacing grungy black/brown with a nice bright white.
Well it has been a few months since the last video.
Quite a few things have happened. Winter has gone, Spring has been and gone and we are now into the rainy season.
Sam our eldest son is now in living in Japan, Tom has gone up to Hokkaido for six months as an IT intern. And Tiare our 55 foot Wharram sailing catamaran was hauled (dragged) out and ready for a 12 month maintenance and makeover.
There is a very long list of jobs.
Would have liked to take more video of Tiare as she was hauled out but totally forgot about the video until she was out. Shame.
Plus I take a quick look at the Bali 4.0 and the Lagoon 42 catamarans.
These are the plastic fantastics and floating apartments that talk about in the
“Cat or Mono” video I posted .
They may not be good upwind or heavy weather sailboats but the designers have got it right for practical design and looks onboard for those that don’t want to stray too far.
But the biggest factor that makes taking kids cruising and the level of success is you.
Its how you approach the issues of safety, health, education.
And it’s your OWN expectations that are going to influence your life afloat.
In my mind, there is no doubt that taking your kids for an extended cruise is beneficial on so many levels.
Kids will accept things readily and adapt. It’s your own values and actions that often bring the conflict, especially as kids get older.
If you are the type that is constantly stressed, has a “my way or the highway” attitude or find it difficult to adapt, then cruising with older kids is going to be challenging.
Especially when it comes to what you consider to be the right way. As you know better, cos you’re an adult.
YOU’RE THE ADULT SO YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO DEAL WITH IT.
We have seen a number of cruisers with teenagers that have given up simply because they couldn’t deal with the kids “attitude”.
From where we were it was more a parent inability to just let it go. Laugh it off.
And I know it’s not always easy to be so relaxed. There is so much for you to worry about their imagined future.
What I have learnt is that cruising kids have a pretty good grasp on what life is really like.
After all they are traveling the world by sailboat, they learn that most people are poor, by our standards, that most people don’t have the opportunities they have, that most people have to work very very hard just to get by and that the world is a really big place and to succeed takes an effort. All this while they mumble, yell and say life’s unfair and sucks. Of course not all teens are like this 🙂
Safety
Safety is a biggy. For us the biggest concern is falling overboard while underway. Setting an example is key,
If they need to wear a lifejacket outside of the cockpit at all times, so should you.
If they need a lifeline attached, so should you.
No exceptions.
Other than falling overboard, learning to swim and gaining confidence in the water is a must.
Being able to climb back onto the boat unaided
Swimming around with a fitted life-jacket is a great way to build that up, along with a knotted rope over the side.
Most other safety issues are obvious. you’re surrounded by water and often in a strange country, where language and customs are not like back home.
We have found that most places are “more” relaxed about children and they are more openly accepting of kids.
Being able to read the sea state, understanding waves, rips etc on beaches is also important as a lot of time will be spent hanging out at these places.
The “look” don’t touch Rule, which is not only good for their health but also good for the environment. Lots of pretty looking animals have parts that break off inside you, should you pick them up.
We found an essential piece of equipment was a good pair of jewellers tweezers and a freezing spray. Digging out see spines is difficult and painful without these.
Can use an ice pack but takes longer. Stainless Steel flat head and sharp nose tweezers. A sense of humour.
Health
Get yourselves immunised. Lots of weird diseases.
Fortunately being on a yacht you can anchor off far enough that the worse of the mosquitos.
Although we did learn that an on-shore breeze bought the mozzies out as they knew they had an easier* time to get back to land.
So the usual cuts, grazes, sprains and broken bones.
Taking a first aid course is a good idea. Along with books that show you what to do. Have them available for the kids to look at the pictures or read.
The biggest health issue for us was infections from scrapes and ear-ache. Making our own ear drops for after swimming, a solution of alcohol, vinegar and water.
Things we have dealt with
Cuts n Grazes
Fevers
Dengue
Mozzies
Heat rash
Infections
Broken arm
Deep splinters
Food poisoning
Learn first aid. Let the kids be a part of it. Don’t make a drama about it and be prepared. And a sense of Humour
Education
This is again more about the parents than the kid
Any of the established systems, like GSCE, Calvert for younger and the various Govt’ school systems will do well, it’s up to you.
We found that our kids did well, got through the work with high grades. Sometimes a day at school would take three hours, others 8, totally depends on where we were.
Friends and the beach, snorkelling close by and school would be done in dusted in 3 hours, other days it would be getting close to “ Dinner not ready until you finished your school work” 🙂
When we started out there was not the choice of internet-based schools we have now, also the internet was not as well developed.
We used Calvert, which we found to be fantastic, truly impressed with the material that arrived and the feedback from the onshore teachers.
When they out-grew that we moved on to Wolsey Hall and the English based GSCE system.
Did they miss out on areas, possibly, chemistry labs?
But that was made up for being in places where they could see geography, physics, history, biology, maths, reading etc had direct practical experience.
Obviously, everyone has different abilities and skills. Our middle son never wrote anything down, no notes nothing. But he always did well, passed with high grades, even today he still doesn’t write notes!
Balance
Cruising is as much about the community of cruisers as the places you visit.
With kids onboard, you meet others and friendships amongst the are made instantly.
And not just within their own age group, everyone helps everyone. It was great to see my own kids look after and play with younger and also get on and be part of a much older group as well, no peer pressure.
Also, they learn to talk and work with other adults, Helping cruisers with tasks and being treated as equals is great for their personal growth.
And as you cruise you meet so many different people with totally different lifestyles, from “freedom fighters” to owners of large global companies and everyone in between.
The old saying “that it’s as much about what you know as who you know” is very true, and you do get to know a lot of interesting people.
Cruising kids seem to turn out as well balanced, rounded kids with a good sense of what’s right.
Future
You have a unique opportunity, no bubbles of peer pressure, allowing them to explore different ways to think. Listen to others.
Cruisers come in many many different shades, often shades that you would not normally have the chance to associate or hang with
How can I afford to go sailing, to stay out there?
Well, that is a very good question.
So if you are interested in how you can afford to sail once you have cast off the ropes that bind you to land-based living read on.
These are just my own observations on having to find a way to do just that, with a family to feed and kids to put through education without any land-based funds to fall back on.
So this Episode is not really geared towards the live-aboard in one place or area sailer, but for those who want to actively cruise away to “other “countries.
Visit remote corners and stay until their visa runs out.
And not an easy one to answer as it depends on so much.
But one of the biggest “depends on” is your comfort level in facing down the unknown.
And
What it is you do, or at least what skills you have that you can take with you.
You will learn new ones out there. But any skill takes time to develop, even more so if you need others to pay for them.
Not everyone is an artistic genius or a budding wordsmith, nor does everyone make or want to earn living off their computer/internet.
Trades are very good example of this, Artistic and Shakespearean individuals aside.
So this is not intended to be a Downer but hopefully will prepare you for a little of the realities out there and be prepared to make the most of every opportunity that comes by.
BE POSITIVE
Food and enough money to look after the immediate needs of your boat. Also things like visa and permit costs, fuel, entertainment, repairs, insurance, fun off the boat, flights back home?
End of cruising life Planning??
Which of this stuff can you reduce or cross off? Obviously, food and bureaucratic stuff plus immediate boat needs have to stay, fuel??
The rest is up to you and your comfort levels.
A good example is an air-con on board. Incredibly nice to have but very expensive in term of maintenance and running costs. In my mind, better off to put money into a few more fans and some wind scoops, Or in our case some decent shade cloth. Same with toilets, simple marine or computing or high tech “domestic” style?
The longer you cruise the less important many things seem.
And the less stuff you have, the less you have to earn for breakages and running costs. Because “everything” breaks and waiting around for warranty replacements adds up in costs, internet, taxis, marina fees AND shore side temptations.

So let’s start off with where we have found what other people have their money come from.
This is once you cast-off and a regular or commutable job not possible.
Broad brush strokes here
1/ Took an early retirement from the military or armed forces. We met many cruisers who had taken this option.
2/ On a pension, the silver seas crowd, a floating caravan of RVs. Often find that the pension goes further on a boat.
3/ On Sabbatical – a year or so off to sail
4/ Independent land income – all sorts here, basically either invented something, created something, or have a house/business ashore or have a large stash of money somewhere.
5/ Worked really hard, saved and now enjoying life afloat, also mixed with 2 and 4
6/ Sail a bit then leave the boat on the hard, fly out to work for a while for savings. All sort here trades, nurses, teachers,
7/ The “she’ll be right” will work things out. Also, al sort here, although tend to be younger, I wonder why 😉
Numbers 1 – 5 are people who have got their shit together.
Number 6 at least they are on their boat out there.
Number 7 is for those who dream and can’t wait for 1 – 5
Cast off and Off we go!
I think we have enough savings for a year or so but I’m sure we’ll work something out after that.
So soon enough your balance is getting low and you’re starting to think “DANG” gotta do something soon.
If you are in a country that allows you to work then maybe not so hard, all sorts of options open up, what you did before or something new.
But most places you visit will not be like this, language problems, not knowing anyone, transient nature of being a cruiser and the big one – illegal working.
So what to do?
Well if you have a skill you can sell to other more well-off cruisers, refrigeration, rigging, sail or mechanical, maybe a bit, but most cruisers are pretty good at this stuff anyway.
Finding boats in need, to fund your cruising lifestyle is rare. Totally different mindset once you hit a Marina. In a marina, the mindset changes and wallets will open up.
So
Marinas cost money. —> so you need to work to pay for the marina —> to pay for the work possibility..
And the locals whose food you are taking off their table may not appreciate you, so expect a visit from immigration, or worse!
I know a lot of unpleasant stories of being caught doing work where you shouldn’t.

The good news is there are opportunities
Internet-based incomes are possible,
Youtube (Paetron) for the very, very select few,
Writing and photography for those with the right skills and contacts.
Online sales of things that you can make e.g. jewellery
Useable skills, Electrical, refrigeration mechanical and rigging are obvious, not a regular income unless you hang out in a Marina or crowded anchorage
Opening up your boat to AirBnB or the like.
Paying crew, (not charter work). I say not charter work, or at least not illegal, that’s a fast way to lose your boat or minimum pay a hefty “fine.
Finding a niche somewhere, thinking outside the box, tapping the unique advantage of your location and being on a boat, looking at the local economy and seeing how you can fit in and help. A win-win situation.

Discover the internet (again)!!
Ahh the answer to all our problems,.
Something you can make then sells online. Jewellery, writing, photo/video are possible, but you need this stuff sorted before you go, and not everywhere has good reliable internet or postage. And it’s really competitive.
Being cruisers without a satellite comms budget we have spent many hours of frustration sorting out how and where to find an internet connection AND keep the thing connected as you cruise to different destinations. Signal boosters, extra cables. Always within sight of a cell phone tower 🙂
And this was just for the Kids education where a few days or a week or so delay wasn’t too bad. Trying to run a business like this sounds like a stress factory. Unless you have someone onshore who can look after the daily chores that every business has.
The biggest limit is how much you think you need, it might not be as much as you think.
Take food:
Many places are cash poor but have food to give.
Remote places have things that need fixing, electronics, generators, welding jobs.
Giving your time to help freely opens up the community.
As a cruiser, you really do have Time.
Things that can help:
Taking cheap reading glasses, this really helps
Gifts of pencils and paper., Crayons, Chalk
Fish hooks
Cruising with kids, children just about always open the doors to a community, but obviously not a long-term solution,
but man it’s amazing how many cultures will “open”’ up once they see kids onboard.
For us, it was perhaps more a #7 An “she’ll be right” or “something will turn up” or “deal with it at the time” attitude.
Possibly not the most responsible way of dealing with the issue of cruising and earning an income, especially with three boys needing food and an education.
For us we had sold everything up and bought Tiare, we had what we thought were a 2 -3 years funds to see us through before the “oh shit” moment arrived.
Our oldest son was determined to go to University, Early. So that took out the savings.
When looking for a boat I knew we were going to run out of money and we bought Tiare with this in mind as she was already set up for the budget end chartering, and I knew that this was what we were going to have to do eventually, plus if I could build a business around this it would make Tiare potentially more attractive when it was time to sell her.
But that was for a longer-term plan.
More immediately was putting food on the table and making sure our boys got a good education.
So another plan was called for, after looking at all the options (#6) decide the only thing to do was fall back on my trade as an electrician. Which I had not done for 20+ years.
Managed to find work a few jobs in a marina we were staying at, but again, tied to the dock and illegal work was always a niggle in the back of my mind.
So I flew out for a few months, which was hard. But came back with enough to cruise again. Did this for a few years, FIFO or fly in fly out work, this was good money and allowed us to put the boys through school (GSCE online) and help our oldest with the university. However, it was not a long-term solution.
Not long term because the good pay, short contracts, tends to be in the more “difficult or hostile” locations and being away from the family was difficult.
So what have we done after the money has gone?
Ashore – Worked off Tiare in a marina
Ashore – Fly In Fly Out
Ashore – Phoned up various wineries to see if they needed a cooper. One in Thailand did!
Internet- Build up the Robship brand online
Onboard – Opened up Tiare to Airbnb
Onboard – Slowly building up an inexpensive charter model Ashore – Yacht repairs and maintenance at local marinas
One other … but that’s launching later this year <— excited about this
And very slowly growing this channel, don’t expect to make a cent but is a very good way to create a log of what has been happening and a way to develop skills.
No such thing as easy money.
Everything takes time

But what about you?
Where do you put yourself
Cast off with an open mind, a smile and sail off into the unknown. Just being out there opens new possibilities, choices you couldn’t have imagined previously.
Like all leaps, it’s not easy and nearly always scary, but that is life, you arrive into an unknown future and a path that is uncharted. A future that only makes sense as you begin to understand the choices made.
BE POSITIVE AND STAY FOCUSED ON WHY YOU WENT SAILING IN THE FIRST PLACE
This week I go over some of the myths and questions about Catamaran compared to Monohull sailboats. Based on my own experiences living and sailing on both.
Questions asked
1 • COST more $$$
2 • NEW KID on the block?
3 • Cant SAIL upwind
4 • Can’t handle the WEIGHT
5 • In marinas = $$$
6 • Maintenance are 2 X $$$
7 • CAPZISE!
8 • Motion … BAD
9 • Downright UGLY!
10• ARE more Comfortable
Episode 13
Cat or Mono
Are Catamarans faster?
Are Monohulls more traditional and romantic?
Are Catamarans more expensive to buy and maintain?
Are Cats nothing but a modern floating apartment block or the safest way to cross an ocean?
Can a Catamaran out sail a monohull upwind?
Self-righting, sinking or floating?
Opinions are based experience cruising/living on both a monohull when I was younger and on a catamaran with my family, as well as working on both as a tradie doing repairs for others.
I’m not talking high performance or racing boats but cruising, safe passage-making, live-aboard i.e. Cruising boats for everyday folk.
Nor am I talking about the big sparkly new ones either, although a lot of what I say covers them.
Obviously not all mono or cats(multihulls) are the same, different markets, price ranges, performance and comfort levels, and underwater profiles. But am happy to over simplify and make broad a generalisation to prove my point.
Why give away everything that we had built, for something as unstable as a sailboat? With no job and no real plan on what to do once the initial savings were exhausted.
The question why?
Is still something I think about.
At times it seems obvious, the shared experiences, stories with other cruisers, of seeing the kids mature, and in our own personal growth. But these are just the results of our decision. Not the reason why.
Even today I am still trying to understand the why?
What follows is unscripted & unintelligible.
Just like life.
As usual with a Wharram catamaran this is not complicated.
With a few basic tools, a simple homemade (boatmade) tripod and one of the mainsail blocks, plus plenty of humour, it makes for an enjoyable day, well at least for me !
Taiga helps me pull out the motor and the Beast add his muscle to get the motor onto the cockpit table so I can work on her over the next month.
Main reason to pull the motors out is to install better sound insulation in the engine bays, redo the electrical cables on and around the motor and also move the instruments to a new location.
Engine is a Kubota 3 cylinder 24 Hp, marinized by Diecon and weighs around 120kg or 264lb. Enough to make it a three person job.
Also SV Freelancer drop by on their way out of Japan. Nick and Rika spent a few days here in Yuge and we introduced them to Yuge Island and of course the sun shined 🙂
Next weeks video will be a “Introduction” or “About us” type of video, not decided.
This years winter projects and beaching a power catamaran.
I go over what I hope to achieve over the next four or five months aboard Tiare as I get her ready for another season in Japan.
Australian cruising friend Graham visits Yuge Island and beaches his Malcolm Tennant power catamaran for a prop clean.
Beautiful clear day with light winds along with a good tide window make it a great opportunity.
Trying to find my “style” in video. Pushing myself for weekly uploads to force myself to learn the video, editing and organisational skills needed to make this work.
I’m still treating this as a diary for myself and my kids to look back on. yes its edited, so not “real” but it is as real as it’s going to get given the public nature of it, still, I hope to show a little of who I am.
explore – relax – recharge
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