Sailboat restoration

Hey guys! I'm in the process of painting my entire boat inside and out. I've spent the last few days sanding the outside of the boat and applied the...

Painting Interior cabin - O'day Mariner Sailboat Restoration

After trying to come up with various ways to make the boat feel bigger and brighter (more hatches, LED lighting, mirrors) we finally decided to go ahead and break one of the biggest taboos in the sailing world - PAINT THE INTERIOR!

A former charter yacht chef share tips for organizing your boat’s galley and cooking on board. There's never enough counter space. Marine refrigeration tips. Cooking with propane. Why gimbaled stove with moveable fiddles, pressure cooker, coffee thermos, yogurt strainer and… dog bowls are essential for cooking and eating on the boat. Cruising recipe: frying pan bread.

After buying our boat, we quickly realized there are two types of boat owners: 1. The type with money who pays for any repairs or renovations they need 2. The type that cannot afford to throw endless money at a hobby and likes to get their hands dirty and DIY everything. As I'm sure you can guess, we fall into the second category.Being a designer who has never owned more than the furniture inside our apartment, I couldn't WAIT to get started on completely redecorating the cabin (the…

As time goes on, you might have to think about doing a boat renovation. Here's how we decided what to do and how we did it.

We have 6 opening port lights and 4 stationary ones. All of them are original and were in pretty good condition except for the fact that they were leaky and very dirty. This must be really old butyl tape or something waxy like that (still doing it's job though!). It is a major pain to remove, but I found the best way was to use a scrapper to remove what I could and then use paint thinner (not acetone - it does nothing) to remove the last sticky bits. The frames are aluminum and had quite a…