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The boat's makeover project has been both modernizations and finishing the actual build, which never really got done in the 1990's. Today is a good example; first we create the bottom cap of the daggerboard trunk, at the very bottom of the boat. This part needs to be custom-fitted to the boat's actual board, to account for individual build differences. 30 years after her initial launch, this bo...

The F25C rehab gets new Colligo terminals spliced with Amsteel SK-75 dyneema and spectra chafe covers as her new standing rig. Investing in a set of Selma fids turned out to be a big time & fuss saver. We did not go the route of buying heat-set Dynex Dux; instead we built each cable expecting to see Amsteel's few-percent creep factor, and sure enough when we pulled VERY HARD overnight on each c...

It was a very busy winter but we've managed to get some work done on this boat. Turns out she needed a little more paint before we prepared the decks for a roll-on nonskid additive from New Zealand (Kiwi Grip). Then we installed 'new old stock' wing nets using individual lashings to create a much stronger and safer connection than the common zig-zag single line method. The separate lashings mak...

Here's the second half of F39 trimaran Ravenswing's Feb'24 trip down the Sea. We trade gybes on a windy day with F28 Ptarmigan after they found us in the San Juanico anchorage. And we climbed the volcano on Isla Coronados. Even managed to pull together a five boat multi-hull anchor out at Puerto Ballandra on Isla Carmen - great food on the beach with solid folks :)

We catch a nice light-airs break from February's winter weather, departing Puerto Penasco in northern Sonora, Mexico, bound for Guaymas about 300 miles south. There's just enough wind to fill the asymmetric spinnaker and drive the boat along a bit faster than true wind speed. Soooo much better than freezing back home :O

This time we go back to Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico to finish trimaran Ravenswing's haul out projects & repaint, get her launched for 2024 and prepared to go to sea. Ravenswing is a Farrier Marine F39

We're big fans of Alexseal's "No Tip" additive which does the bubble-popping job for you. This is a big deal for the solo painter, as no one has to come right behind your roller to do the 'tipping' by brush. We used 4" high density foam rollers to paint this whole boat, taking three full coats of finish paint (primer job was done in the prior video), with 320 grit sanding in between the coats.

It's all in the prep work! Once again, I underestimated just how much time and energy it would take to get to the final paint stage. Here's a look at everything needed to do a thorough primer & prep job for the right surface to yield a strong, good looking final finish. We've done this work with Alexseal 442 Finish Primer. Sit back and enjoy someone else doing all the drudgery of sanding, filli...

We recently visited Anne to investigate the unfinished catamaran she worked with her husband to build in the early 2000's. She's widowed now and says she won't be completing the boat. She's searching for a boat builder who will appreciate what her husband designed and built. Everything will have to be moved by the buyer, but she will be very helpful with access to her property and the extensive...

We're wrapping up all the projects to modernize rigging elements and make minor modifications after 22 years of the boat sitting in storage. Most of the work is carbon fiber composites, with a bit of fiberglass too. This video includes the details of the new trampoline net holding tubes. If we hurry, we can get the boat painted and work on re-rigging for a fall launch & winter sailing in San Fr...

A month in to the F25C trimaran renovation, we take all the good advice from other owners and sort out how to raise a rotating mast on the Farrier trailer tri. Seems it's all about getting the guy-lines pivot points lined up exactly with the mast base pivot. This week we also mold a tunnel for the boat with a concrete shaping tool. How's all that for a confusing video description?

We're in the project phase where you have ten different things going at once, as work to get everything done to the three hulls in terms of carbon fiber fabrications. Every fastener and piece of gear needs to get sorted out and placed, then removed, before we can start the final paint prep!

This week we remove the three old stainless steel chainplates and modernize this rigging by building foam core, epoxy & uni-carbon, permanently bonded-in replacements. The F25C kits were supplied with the steel plates, but some owners worked with the boat's designer Ian Farrier to utilize his F85SR model's carbon chainplates for the F25C retrofits. Today's video documents exactly how we did jus...

This week we dive in to new composite attachment tubes to hold the trampoline nets on the outer hulls. This eliminates many pounds of stainless steel and aluminum hardware, along with about 100 holes in the boat. We also remove the old stainless steel forestay chainplate during a major cleanup of the foredeck area. Trying to do everything possible to make this a fully modernized F-boat, but wit...

Why the wife doesn't want you on Craigslist: an F25Carbon trimaran ready to restore!

Sailing to Hawaii in the 2023 Transpac LA to Honolulu race.

Stuffing an Extreme40 cat back in the box (preparing a racing catamaran for container transport)

Skipper fries the engine so we have to make it right with the Suzuki DF20 engine block replacement

Farrier F22R Trimaran delivery and first sail for new owners

Making carbon fiber boat parts using basic vacuum bagging techniques

A Catamaran & a Half sails a singlehanded bash into a Sea of Cortez norther' blow

Baja HaHa in 7 minutes, multihull sailing San Francisco to Cabo San Lucas

Cruising Baja's Loreto Islands, part 2

Trimaran Cruising Baja's Loreto Islands Nat'l Park

California coastal upwind bash on a Chris White Explorer 44 trimaran

JZerro's San Francisco arrival from NY, seen from the water; Ryan Finn & his proa hit the dock

Ruby endures a windy night and fuel crisis to finish her first cruise

Can a Labrador Retriever make decent a boat dog?

Part 4 of 4, sailing trimaran Ravenswing in the Sea of Cortez from P. Penasco to P. Escondido