Sail Life

Nav lights, leaky tanks & 3D printing

Added 2025-05-03 10:55:29 +0000 UTC

Hi guys!

In this week's video, I create a piece of trash art using a 2x4 for nav lights, and we finally get our diesel tanks - but they have leaks. This video was shot from April 16th to April 22nd.

In real-time news: Good morning from the ICW. Ava and I are going to make it to Charleston, SC, today. That means we only have around 380 nautical miles to go until we reach Oriental, NC - aka the new Sail Life Global HQ ;)

I'm using this time on the ICW to prepare a little bit for the mad rush once we get back to the catamaran. I have figured out exactly how much fuel we want to carry, reached out to Garmin to see if they have a "review unit" chartplotter we can borrow in return for featuring it in a video, and started ordering the last things we need for the catamaran (for instance, raw water strainers). The reason I have reached out to Garmin is that my phone has some kind of GPS issue. AquaMap (app) is great, but my phone's GPS keeps dying. Not just cutting out like that annoying old iOS bug, but completely dying. I was planning on us just using my phone aboard the catamaran, but it needs to be reliable - particularly in the narrow channels of the ICW :)

We need to get back on the water to time our arrival in a shallow channel, so I'd better keep this short :) Have a fantastic weekend. Thank you so much for your support :)