Painting the Boat – Part 14 – Antifouling

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Holly Cow! We are almost done painting. And we squeezed through a very small weather window of temperature and rain. Many thanks to Maxime and Steve for making it easy. If you’d like to support our work and see our videos as soon as they are released and without ads, all you need to do is make a donation or … Read More

Cargo Hatch Redo and Dinghy Cradle

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We did some modification to the cargo hatch and also added a cradle for the dinghy. Many thanks to Eric, Leigh, and John. This boat is awesome, because we have awesome crew.

Primary Hydraulic Pump Install

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Many thank to Leigh Stright from Murray Corner, New Brunswick, Canada. His family and wife Carolyn fishing for generations. And I could not have anyone better to help with building some boat parts. We saved well over $2000 on this one project.

Are you thinking about becoming Seeker Crew?

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When you are working on Seeker, I want you to be productive, have fun, live fully, and enjoy the adventures. This video I hope will give you an idea of what we are looking for in Seeker Crew.

Boat Heads – Part 1 – Building Them Out

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Many thanks to Joy and John showed up and gave Liam, Peter, Bart and me a hand with building and fiberglassing the heads. We used an isophthalic polyester resin (ISO), or tooling resin that has greater strength and lower shrinkage over slightly cheaper orthophthalic type polyester resins. ISO is used extensively in boat hulls and in fiberglass mold construction. The … Read More