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Hi guys!

What do you think about the first side of the new settee? I'm very pleased with it! I think the round corners look amazing. Seeing the grain of the wood wrap around them almost makes me want to vanish the settee rather than painting it. In the end, I think I'll stick with paint for ease of maintenance :) 

This coming week there is a slim chance I might be able to finish all the fiberglass work on the structural members before heading to LA to spend two weeks with Ava. I leave on Sunday so it'll be a tall order, but if I can get my hands on some more 1000g UD (fiberglass), then I should be able to do it. It would be awesome to come back to Denmark, knowing that I don't have any more marathon fiberglass sessions. 

I've been mulling it over, and I've decided to fill the bottom half of the bilge with foam and glass over that. Having an almost 5ft (1.5 meters) deep bilge is not practical. Moreover, there is no need. I think something like a 2 ft deep bilge would be much nicer. Still pretty deep but not so deep that it can't be thoroughly cleaned AND I'll be able to retrieve any treasures I accidentally drop down there. I'll bring back two 4000 gph (15000 liters per hour) from LA. Those will be our emergency bilge pumps. With those in hand, I should be able to figure out the plumbing in the bilge area :) Oh and keep in mind that the combined capacity of the two pumps (8000 gallons per hour) gets cut to something like 5000 gallons per hour (19000 liters per hour) when you add any kind of head :) 

Last but not least. In the PUBLIC youtube version of next weekends video, there is going to be an ad for Aduible. I've been a happy customer for around five years, so I don't mind doing a paid spot for them, but it won't be in the Patreon version of the video.


I better get busy packing. I've got a flight to catch in 6 days, 12 hours and 37 minutes. I'm so excited to see Ava again! :D I hope all of you have had a fantastic weekend :) Thank you so much for your support! :)

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Sail Life - New settee and more fiberglass - DIY sailboat refit

I build the first side of the new settee aboard Athena and reinforce yet another structural member. Why am I doing this? Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mgcsIb3ais *** Links *** Sail Life Shop: (Items are shipped from the US!) https://saillifeshop.com/ Sail Life on Patreon: http://bit.ly/SailLifeOnPatreon Sail Life on Instagram: http://instagram.com/madsdahlke Sail Life on Facebook: http://bit.ly/SailLifeOnFacebook Sail Life on Twitter: http://bit.ly/SailLifeOnTwitter Donations for the sandpaper fund: https://www.paypal.me/saillife

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Sailing Santa ~ WK4T

Scissors!? Sacrilege. WHAT have you done with the holy box cutter of all things new and pretty? That knife has its own YouTube channel, I’m sure.

Linda Knapp

In my boat (which was built up from bare hull by my father) there used to be a similar deep deep bilge. After a few years sailing the boat my dad decided he needed a little more ballast aft in the boat and one thing he did was fill up the excess bilge with lead ingots and then fiberglass them in place. He filled around them with something but unfortunately I am not sure about details. You might consider doing something similar. Especially the bit where you splash the boat and see if she needs some trim done....