EP. 12 BOAT LIFE | How We Try to BALANCE WORK & PLAY 

Hey, John! Thanks so much!

Thank you ❤️

Thank you!! Yes really...WTH am I waiting for?? haha Katy sure is an amazing partner ❤️ Yes we are so happy with how Seawind turned out. Reaping the rewards of our labor is the best feeling ever! We sure hope to reach as many people with our story as possible 😊

It was very special! We were glad to have been there by car one other time because comparing how it felt then to now was really interesting! Very grateful!

Love you Mom ❤️

Love you too 😄

Love you guys!! 😊

Glad you're enjoying the videos! We met up with them in Annapolis and got to know them! We've been chatting on social media for years about our Seawind's. Their new Pacific Seacraft 40 is beautiful!!

@@SailingSeawind I figured there was a good chance you knew them, or at least knew OF them. That hard dodger looked pretty familiar (lol). You’re off to a great start.

Yes their hard dodger did spark my interest in building one! Them and Free Range Sailing, another of my favorite RU-vid channels! Thank you :)

@@SailingSeawind Yes! Free Range Sailing had a nicely-detailed hard dodger fabrication episode. I'm planning to model mine after Troy's. Speaking of Troy, I live at the end of the Erie Canal in Troy, NY and I enjoyed watching your passage through it, idyllic. I'm refitting my 1976 34' Bristol centerboard sloop just south of Albany on the Hudson, and hopefully will be following in your wake later this year. Loving the vids and looking forward to catching up to your present.

Hey Gary! I am going to be making a video about building the dodger sometime in the near future. I'm really excited to share the process with everyone! As for your question, the inward facing flange is the first thing I built. I used heavy duty packing tape as a mold release, laying strips of tape on the cabin top in the general shape I wanted the dodger to be. I laid up strips of fiberglass on the tape over the packing tape. This method allowed me to register all of the cabin top features very accurately. After that cured I built the 5 windshield pieces out of foam, gluing them to the fiberglass flange on the deck. After I had built a structure strong enough to hold its own shape with bracing, I popped the dodger off of the packing tape. It worked very well!

@@SailingSeawind thanks for the info. I did wonder if that is how you did it. My problem is my hatch slides right forward through where I want my Dodger. Thinking of some how packing off the hatch then making the Frame so when it pops off there will be a gap for the hatch say 5mm. Happy sailing

We sure love to eat and cooking is a big passion of ours!