Sitting on dry dock for more than six weeks is like living in a sailboat tree house. After our Atlantic Crossing, we needed to give attention to our battle-w...

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I took a three weeks across the Atlantic

go twice that time to get the boat back

to shape and we're still not there yet

living on dry dock for six weeks feels

like living in a tree house and with the

long list of repairs and upgrades for

our battle-worn ship we are hoping to

get back in the water soon it's so maybe

to never get it snow in the waters it

gets difficult where the man

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you

it took us 20 days to cross the Atlantic

from Cape Verde Africa to cabidela

Brazil South America but our battleship

was worn out and in need of massive

repairs and upgrades before we can set

sail again for our journey on the Amazon

River our long list includes repairs

upgrades and unexpected catastrophes but

a few items were simple fixes it was

Mike's turn to make the Cline of the

mast to the crow's nest as we installed

our custom-made lazy bag in addition to

looking sharp this is a safety feature

and will help us bring down the mainsail

quickly in threatening weather it's

basically a little bag that goes

underneath the boom that catches the

sail I comes down so we don't really

need to yeah I'm for sale on the movie

for today okay that's gonna be centuries

the whole yard

we took care of sanding and oiling the

wood in the package

but the rest on the steel underneath

still awaits our attention

in cape verde we scraped the barnacles

from our hole but due to the scrubbing

several old layers of sea Pacha's orange

paint began to peel badly first we had

to take the boat out of the water which

wasn't easy in this marina this project

is still ongoing as you can see we all

have done with taking down paint so very

soon we can start standing the surface

and applying a primer several layers of

primer the paint job is still ongoing we

had to put sea palca back on the crane

and move her to a different spot this

gave us a chance to reposition her to

remove the stress that her weight put on

the structure seems the painting and

antifouling continues my thought about

changing sea falcons bright orange color

but i wouldn't let him it's part of sea

focused character she was meant to be

orange

we had to devise a creative way to get

Captain Jack and Scout out of our new

treehouse

Mike engineered a puppy crane using

their life vests safety straps and the

mizzen boom Mike demonstrated his

engineering skills as well as his

seamanship so often with sailboats one

repair leads to another this one was a

surprise once we got the layers of paint

scraped and sanded we noticed a leak in

the fuel tank that resides in the stern

keel okay not until yesterday we

understood what was really happening

here it's a self-inflicted damage caused

by negligence it could happen to anyone

as stupid as we are so I'm going to go a

little too detail here just be warned

when Z Falcor was put in the heart as

usually we used timber to support the

keel but we didn't pay attention it was

put where the bull Kendal's the internal

frame enforcing the structure of the

boat I marked them for you in red these

drawings the bull cats are designed to

absorb the loads of the boat they are

like reinforced grips this photo was

taken after we moved the timber to the

correct spot the yellow arrow marks the

spot the timber was before as you can

see this is about 30 centimeters one

foot after the bulkhead as a result the

full world seems correct under the boats

own load the one underneath the keel

marked with a dotted red line holding

two keel bottom plates together the one

on each side of the keel between the

keel bottom plates and the keel sides

and one inside between the wall that

separates the fuel tank and Sternberg

and a Kia bottom plate marked with a

dotted blue line and as a result fuel

was leaking out of the fuel tank into a

stone bilge and from there out it was it

had to do is once lose the boat and move

the board over here to the frame so that

we reduce the stress on the structure

and secondly we need to weld this

rebuild this we weld this and weld that

internal wall that's down here that has

a correct along the welding seam on the

bottom where it hits the floor this

compartment over here meanwhile after

our Atlantic crossing we knew we needed

to upgrade our solar power the solar

panels have been ordered and we have a

3d drawing of the design which also

includes dinghy davits I found some

necessary supplies for the davits in

Alabama and the structure is being built

off-site we should be able to install it

see

thanks to a brief stop at fernando de

naranja on our Atlantic crossing we also

need a new anchor and anchor chain it

finally arrived and we began the process

of marking the chain and installing it

on the bail spread and we have what 50

metres a time all right and we're

painting every 10 meters orange and

every 5 meters white about a ver code

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one nightstand Taemin's 20 very nice

blurting employment supporting it easy

so this is not precision painting it's

really just a marker we're trying to

make sure that they bring the chain I

bow down bring the anchor over Dale we

can tell how much how deep it is okay up

there is the anchor well it was all bend

forward

we lost our anchor and locals too high

so what we're gonna do is we're gonna

wean forcing would bend it back already

we're gonna reinforce it and then you

see how the new anchor sits in it and we

may need to do some make like some minor

adjustment to make it fit for the new

anchor the new anchor is like five

kilograms heavier than the old anchor

and has a little bit different shape so

you know we're gonna fix this

we haven't had much time to explore

Brazil we attended carnival in Orlando

and spent time with a lot of sailors who

came in and out of Marina Jacare Mike

made a quick trip to Germany and I spent

a couple of weeks with family and

friends in Alabama but we sure do hope

to get out there and explore this

amazing country soon

now we are both back to work and

patiently working on completing a long

list of ongoing projects

and while we are stuck here in drydock

for at least a few more waves we

continue to live in our sailboat

treehouse in the next episode we hope to

show you all the completed work as we

make preparations to sail the Amazon on

our way to Devil's Island in French

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