SVgoinCoastal

20/05/2025

Day 7: Wrapping up a week out. Woke up to a manatee poking around the boat, saw a fast turtle, couple sharks, looked for some shells, and visited a tiki hut on the water. I guess this is until next time!

19/05/2025

Long day, some dinghy exploration, visited the Mangrove Shell Tree at the old Dunedin Pass that closed in the 80s.

18/05/2025

Day 5. Painting, sleeping, lots of helicopters, sailing the intercoastal (on a Saturday with tons of boat traffic)...and I broke my toe last night

17/05/2025

Day 4 was pretty eventful. Fun with friends, a boat bucket list: Fire on an Island, 2 mile walk to the store, paddleboarding, and Kayla may have caught a pigeon bare handed.

16/05/2025

#3...a few from today. Just some moving around slowly)

15/05/2025

Day 2. Took the dinghy out. Outboard is working! Little exploring and swimming today, moving tomorrow.

14/05/2025

New year, new trip. It's been a while. Last year was a fail due to the dinghy outboard. Let's see if we can't rectify that. Here's day #1.

22/02/2025

Sorry It's been a bit, gotta get back in the groove. Here's some boat work...

In todays video we re-wired half of our boat, put new batteries in, as well as clean up a ton of unsafe, crappy old wiring. Hope you enjoy and sorry it took...

06/07/2024

Episode 22 is up, from when we put in the new inverter charger and wired up all the outlets in the boat...

Installing our new 4000 watt Sungoldpower Inverter/Charger/Solar Controller combination unit in our 1989 Irwin 38 MKII Sailboat and wiring it to all the outl...

22/04/2024

Alright, its been 3 months... Here's a video from when we won our inverter/charger and got to meet up with a channel that inspired us to buy our sailboat, Sailboat Story in Green Cove Springs, FL. We took a little road trip, drove on the beach on the east coast and through St Augustine, and had plenty of nice scenery on the way. Hope you enjoy!

Our trip to Green Cove Springs, FL where we got to meet our favorite sailing channel, hang out for a bit, try to lend a hand on a small boat project, visit a...

21/01/2024

Episode 20 is up! Just a little video about replacing the electric bilge pumps and rebuilding the manual pump...

We replace two of our electric bilge pumps, rebuild our manual Guzzler 500 bilge pump, replace float switches, hoses, change out check valves for vented loop...

24/12/2023

Here's the start to a few boat projects. Rotten wood, fiberglassing, and a new battery box.

The Domino Effect...changing batteries turns into building a new box (or two) turns into finding rotten wood, turns into wood replacement and a fiberglass jo...