How I Bought a Sailing Catamaran for $1 | SHE SAILS SOLO | Wooden Boat Restoration
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- Hello and welcome! My name is Regan and this is all about my sailing journey and how I purchased a sailing catamaran for $1. It's taken years of sailing classes, nights spent reading cruisers forum and saving up to buy a sailboat to get to this point. Although I'm already staying aboard a few nights a week, there is still a long way I can go before cruising around the world full time. Join me for my restoration and adventure aboard 40-year-old wooden catamaran, KIKAPU.
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This adventure will prepare you to deal with problems on the go on a very deep level than if you have bought it new.
I hope this channel grows a lot.
That's why I didn't shy away from this project. I wanted to make sure I knew everything I needed to for repairs and maintenance BEFORE sailing.
I just bought a smaller fiberglass cat and look forward to your progress! My goal is to commute on the water between NC and Louisiana.
When I was twenty years old I enthusiastically built Wharam Tiki 31. Unfortunately, the woman I married hates that boat, life and vacations that way, she forbade financing the maintenance of that boat. I didn't manage to sell it and now it's rotting in a rockery somewhere by the sea. I made a mistake with my choice of wife but... Now I am building a Polynesian proa, 8m, (26ft) two berths, 250 l of water, and the sails that I have left are like new, well preserved. I wish you to find a soul mate, who not only sees you as a yacht owner, but also understands your love for freedom and sailing offered by the sea.
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I helped build a Wharram Tangaro in my 20s, I know how much work you've just let yourself in for!
The birds nest with eggs made me laugh. Well it's a big project but a good one is how it seems.
That looks like an enormous amount of work. Best of luck to you.
You can do it!
good story .. fix the sound level issues ..
awesome! a wharram! i am following Kiana and 'Women & the Wind' and now i look forward to following your journey, too!
See sailing wildings channel for wharram rebuild
hek ye! Good luck with the refit!
there's the engine... and eggs! lol.
The forbidden breakfast
You've already done so much! It's awesome! 😁
Good Luck, will be watching over your shoulder 😎
Congratulations! Hope it all goes well for you. Fair winds
that´s a LOT of work.
Keep them villages dry, start cleaning one side at a time staying focused is where you will be able to manage this task ahead good luck and happy sailing.
Fair sailing!
Seasons greetings! Good for you & I just discovered you. I too @73 now, want to do that salt-life on a (semi-project) catamaran sailboat. Found one in Florida & looking into it. A Catalac12M! (Love those Catalacs!) I'll be checking you out time to time & learn from your (LOL) mistakes. But, I do really wish you the best of luck fixing 'er up. Fair winds.... 🌅⛵🌊
We be following you. Good winds and we hope to meet up somewhere 😊
Thank you! Hopefully I'll see you on the seas soon.
Congrats…I love the wharrams !…i’m both happy and nervous for you…I’ve done major refit and it’s very exciting, especially if you love and feel passion about your boat as I did…
It is certainly a challenge even with a solid fiberglass boat with good bones …i hope you have very carefully checked out the plywood core hulls…decks…etc….
I’m pretty sure you have …Let’s hood for few surprises …
I subscribed!…
Maybe Wildling Sailing will be jealous.
His is _IMMACULATE_ compared to that hulk!
Scary looking
Hold on to that love you have for the boat! Love conquers all, but not getting distracted from it is the trick! This will cost you blood, sweat and tears but it will be sooooo worth it in the end. Its great to see another woman take on a job like this! The times, they are a changin', for the better.
Thank you for your kind comment! Focus is key as well as keeping things simple. There's definitely extra challenges as a woman, but I hope to inspire many more
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Excited to follow your journey! What model/length is this Wharram? I love these boats
It's a 40ft Narai
Love wharrams,and. you seem nice BUT,please sort the sound out,having to play with the volume all the time sucks.good luck with her.kiana is a legend in my eyes and wharrams are really good seaboats.looking forward to the journey ahead.
I came to see the boat. It was a trap. I think I`m in love. KKKK
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You shoulda kept the couch it was super cool. Sorry to be that person. Im partial to nice furniture and nice boats.
congratulations! you have got yourself a great project! I have recently completed a similar restoration (now sailing) so will be watching keenly to see how you go!
What, big picture, needs to be fixed on the boat? are you just making it nice or does it have structural problems?
The question remains how did you get to $1?
Short answer: That was my offer, and it was accepted.
I suspect the survey revealed a lot of stuff that would be expensive to fix. so that the boat was effectively an economic write off. In addition there were probably outstanding yard bills. So the owner could rid himself of a liability.
Your story is interesting but van CZcams Plessers reportage With beter volume level
Hahahahaha!
Yes, and some knowledgeable people would say at $1, you spent too much. Plywood boats are generally considered to be continuous repair and maintenance projects that you occasionally get to use recreationally when you're not stripping, cropping out, rebuilding, or repainting them. Most reasonably intelligent people moved on from wooden boat ownership about 50 years ago when fiberglass construction displaced it entirely. The only diehard wooden boat advocates you find these days are either masochists or museum curators at heart. Yes, yes, yes....but it only cost ONE DOLLAR! And how much is years of your life worth??????? Unless of course, you consider scraping, sanding, filling, cutting, painting, and gluing wood together to be "fun" activities that everyone should get the chance to enjoy on a regular basis...
Who cries publicly over a couch lady I don't think you need a boat !!!!! And that's being nice 👍
I do, sir. It was an emotional moment to get rid of all my belongings at once and do something that I've been told by many a rich yachty that I shouldn't do. Kindly, your opinion is trash and my boat project is going very well despite what some people who see tiny clips on the internet may think.
@@shesailssolo I just did the same and got rid of all my land stuff in UK and moved onto my boat in a yard in south od France. It was an emotional thing to do. Self doubt, fear of the unknown and so on. Now the work to refit plumbing, electrics and fuel systems. All very scary if I stop to think about it. One step at a time.
Good luck to you and keep going.
Those boat's are the most ugliest cats I ever seen
👍👌👏 Same here. Like stone age catamarans. But a lot of people simply love them and their simplicity. I nevertheless wouldn't want a cat with no living space between the hulls. Ot course that's only my opinion respectively my personal kind of taste.
Best regards, luck and health in particular.