We are Gavin and James from Yorkshire! Join us on our journey as we experience the ups and downs of life as liveaboards on our Etap 28i. We'll share our experiences, tips, and adventures as we navigate through the winds of change. Get ready to set sail with us and discover the beauty of living life on the water!
This year we are working hard to restore our little Etap, with some fairly big projects coming up!
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LOL.. are you trolling us with the chart listing a million steps, as you sound like it is a simple easy process? Total joke. I will never, not EVER, buy any sailboat with such a crazy hassle of a drive system. Simply a joke. I particularly like how Yanmar states that you must do all that ever time you haul your boat out of the water. So stupid. Only fools would get this.
The pricing for these boat specific parts is crazy, I need to do the same job this winter so better start saving. Where did you get the parts from? Really useful video, appreciate you putting it together. The 30 has a slightly different setup but I think the process will be the same
We got the rudder bearings from David Morris who is the UK Etap parts specialist (davidmorrisboats.co.uk/spare-parts) and the saildrive kit was direct from Volvo. I know some people who have had rudder bearings manufactured at a fraction of the price, but you never know how good they will fit so I preferred to pay for the proper ones. Hopefully I will never have to do it again. Thanks for watching and glad you found it useful.
Access to the top of the engine is a bit tight but that back access is a good design. Just noticed you do RU-vid as well, we will check out your videos. Nice to see another Etap! 🙂
Thanks guys!! And Hi James, thanks for all your help and advice during our time at RQ. We now have Spellbound up at Amble. If you're both ever up here in Takaza give us a shout and we will stick the kettle on!! Great to meet you. Love the channel. Blessings. M&S
Thanks so much and so glad you have managed to get up to Amble. We will definitely be calling up there this summer so will give you a shout! Sorry for the delay in replying, we have been away quite a bit in the last couple of week. Is everything going ok with Spellbound now?
@@gavin_and_james_sailing Hey!! Sorry I missed the notification. Looking forward to more of your channel. It's a relief to get the engine sorted but there's always something to do. Just installing a diesle heater now, then we need to refurb our sprayhood somehow. Loving your channel!!
Have you had your Etap long, what projects are you doing? We got a lot more to come...next video will be out within the next week showing step by step how to replace the bearings.
@@gavin_and_james_sailing Not very long, buy it in 2021, after that i planned a lot and do nothing ;-) Just today it is in my barn and i start today with rudder removal and Saildrive renovation. then comes the painting of the hull
They are great boats! Ours had previously been used for racing so had had a hard life and needed quite a bit of attention. We have some sail drive videos coming out soon which will show the process of removing and re-hauling it. Where about are you located?
All gone good thanks, we got everything done in the yard we wanted, but now the on water jobs start…and there’s loads! 😂 Hope you guys are doing good and enjoying yourselves!
Thank you James. My 28i doesn't have that hatch in the aft cabin, but I can see it is useful. I had the sail drive gator replaced as well as work on the rudder by the marina workshop at Gillingham, so interesting to see what actually happens :)
Hi David, I wonder if our aft cabin hatch was put in by one of the previous owners. I'm doing part 2 of the rudder bearing video next week and then we move onto the saildrive videos. I worked with James from Tyler marine on all the projects and feel like I've learnt loads and filmed as much as I can too. I feel really lucky as some contractors wouldn't have liked me working with them. Thanks for watching and hope you are managing to get out sailing!
Thanks Steve! We are back in the water now and moved back onboard. Now the on water jobs start! Got plenty more boatyard videos coming of all the work we have been doing! Hope you are both keeping well! x
@gavin_and_james_sailing glad you're both back on board. Looking forward to seeing more of the videos. The work you do fascinates me! We're both good thanks xx
Glad you are both doing ok & keeping out of mischief 😉, boat will look awesome once you get it done & good to know Gav will be working hard too eh James 🤣🤣😉xx
Good to hear from you Anne and hope you are doing ok. Thank you, we are back in the water now and just moved back aboard...now the on water jobs start! We have loads of videos coming of what we got up to in the boat yard. Hope you are staying out of trouble! 🤣🤣 xx
@@gavin_and_james_sailing glad to hear all is going well & will soon be ready to set sail again. Me? Trouble? Do this 2 words go together?….Hell Yeah-taking no prisoners 😉🤣🤣👍xx
a boat in the water deos,nt take long before needing work, its a harsh environment for it ,atleast yous are keeping on top of things ,if things get left too long it becomes a big refurb nothing worse than a good boat neglected until its repairs out weigh the value of boat
Exactly...we didn't have much money to spend on the boat last year, as it was our first year living abaord, so it was just bare minimum. This year we are going crazy and getting everything done. 15 years of it been a race boat had taken its toll, but we are getting there now! 😁
Thanks for watching Mike and yes it was so good to have lots of crew around! Would love to hear more about your Atlantic journey as we have a similar sized yacht to you. Do you have a blog or on socials?
Nice looking boat! But, can you please put American subtitles on this video as we can't understand most of what you are saying. At times it sounds American but then it sounds french or something?? Are you speaking two different languages in this video?
Hi Coleen, thanks for watching. We are all speaking English but there's a few different strong regional accents going on. I've got a Yorkshire accent and Colin the Skipper has a Geordie accent. (North East of England). When we arrived in the NE I struggled to understand the Geordies too.
Thanks so much for this comment, its lovely to hear comments like this. We are working on our next video now which will hopefully be out in the next week or so.
Thanks for oyster inspiration. I'm now going to explore my own region this Winter and hopefully enjoy a weekend of oyster gourmanding in Limfjorden, Denmark ✌️⚓️
Thank you, we were lucky to see this. We just happened to be in the right place at the right time. This is the guys who look after the Oysters in the North East of England. Wild-Oysters.org
Hi Katrine from Denmark! Thanks for watching and glad you are enjoying the videos and find them useful. Where about are you in Denmark and do you have a boat at the moment?
Great trip, night watch is great out of the light pollution I live on Marine Parade Saltburn and get the full force of the storms, its great some times
What an experience! Glad you enjoyed it! That chessboard was a great idea! I love on these videos how you're both educational too, about where you are as well as what you're doing and how you're doing it. It's fantastic to see and hear that you're both having the time of your lives. Couldn't happen to two nicer gentlemen! x
Guess they didn't use percentages for cloud cover back in great granddad's olden days. It's just eighths of the heavenly, or was it celestial, skydome above you...except when I was an apprentice I'm sure we used sixteenths because you can't look up and see eighths. Then from that guessed coverage halved it for the oktas. We did use zero too btw, but only when we got south of the humber.
