Ahoy,
When you are in a boatyard, all what counts is that you can check off things off your list to get the heck out of there... We had to stay longer anyway to dry the hull so we added quite a few projects to our list.
In this episode we're going to check them off. Many projects took a long time, some needed other projects to finish first to get done and some were just a quick task. (but only some!) Let us show you what and how we did to ZERO..

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so i'm working here all day in face just

lying in the sun

yeah lying in the sun enjoying the

nature

where's my pina colada i ordered

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we knew we would spend many more months

in the yard and started some

improvements we were considering for a

long time already

it's now our leather

we might have been carried away a little

about the projects we started

but xero's arctic had a massive design

failure the position of the hatch didn't

make any sense

so we ripped it out

build a new hatch with an acrylic window

and relocated it to the center of the

cabin

we were thinking about that for so long

and we were actually pretty surprised

how quick we finished it compared to the

years of

thinking and rethinking the pros and

cons

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once the tag was in runes anyway we

reinforced the deck with three layers of

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fiberglass

you're crazy

fat and sand the hell out of it and

applied a few coats of shiny white paint

and even more

varnish all around it

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now we have a huge area to launch on a

new cozy cushion

the acrylic window in the hatchlings a

ton of sunlight in the aft kevin

and the ventilation of the whole boat

improved a lot

the dodger the cushions and all the

shiny paint

actually makes you think you're on one

of those super yachts

and we love to hang out there during the

days and even at night

to watch the stars

so really are there aliens here is there

a

fire hazard outbreak i heard of a kind

of a

marshmallow alien running around here in

the boat yard i don't know what it is i

haven't seen

it it's called the ghostbusters

we're spraying the final code uh

for the dax table for the new dex cable

which looks awesome by the way

we're spraying the two final coats

with a tray gun you did that before

well yeah but it's a long time ago

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we build a slide-out decks table which

stores in the house

underneath the hot dodger

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it's a huge table for long relaxing

breakfasts

and even longer barbecue nights but it's

easily out of the way when not needed

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so

we also added lazy bags for main and

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and a new cover for the stay sale

the black sunbrella looks way better and

because we custom designed them

on the boat they fit perfectly and look

rather slim and elegant

than the bulky ones we've seen so many

times before

in addition we changed all the winches

to self-tailing winches

so hoisting the mainsail is even easy

for me now

evp no power needed

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oscar did a great job suing them and now

it's a

piece of cake to work for sale

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we also replaced the solar panels with a

new technology

we more than doubled the voltage and

divided the four panels into

standalone systems the new panels are

bigger than the old ones

and the old mounts didn't fit but thanks

to our friend richard

that problem got quickly resolved

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adding a few pieces new mounts for the

solar panels here

i'm going to put one more on here

another wire

this is another piece i added for

mounting the surfboards here like these

two with two new

struts in

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so this is the new solar setup before i

had 660 watts of solar so i was running

just with one

charge controller it's a 60 amp charge

controller

now we are going to put

1400 watts solar on this system on the

boat

so it will be two separate systems 700

watts on this one and seven watts on

this one they're connected by a meter

hub

goes to the external

digital

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remote

hey everyone we ripped apart the

complete forward hat

and i mean everything it looked like a

huge

mess for a long time

we took care of the anchor locker as

well and made more room so the anchor

chain can fall down without stacking up

and blocking the windlass all the time

the old head had almost no storage space

so many times we ended up on the forward

head with a cold drink in our hands to

plan and think about different solutions

finally decided we now have a beautiful

forward head with lots of

usable storage

the counter as well as the toilet and

shower seed

are made out of local wood cold perota

known for its typical grain it's used

often for kitchen counters

and many coats of epoxy and varnish

later

the wood looks absolutely amazing

to warm outside

the old freezer and the salon never

worked and we

used it as an ordinary storage

compartment

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rebuilding it with new insulation

cooling plates and compressor

would have cost a fortune

so we decided to put in two portable

fridge freezer units

from winter they are pretty much the

same as the well-known angle freezer

only a bit cheaper

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you inspecting it yeah is it okay

christian grabbed deep and working back

and the outcome looks

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fantastic

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it's a long list of projects and we are

extremely proud to say we checked off

most of it zero changed to its best and

we feel

way more comfortable in our floating

home now

you can imagine the last nine months

were extremely exhausting and in

addition we fought with a brutal mexican

nature

the summer knocked on our door and we

were still trapped in the dirt yard

most of our friends already left and in

exchange

mosquitoes scorpions and deadly

poisonous spiders moved in

we needed a solution now

but more about that next week on sailing

zero

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so

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oh

it's just me and my boat

it's just me