Ahoy,

this episode is all about dirt and dust. We are probably in the dirtiest Boatyard on the Planet and even thought it was meant to be a quick stopover (haha).. we got stuck there. Many month have passed until we were finally able to dress ZERO with new paint.
This is part 1 of a short series about our time in the boatyard. As you still know from earlier videos, boatwork videos don't particular follow a certain timeline but more a certain job, task or project. So don't get confused, in this video we cover work from 9 month.. ZERO changed a lot during that period and we'll talk about the other projects in the coming episodes..
Enjoy the show and don't forget to wear your respirator.. it could get dusty!!


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it's dry

dirty dusty and unbelievably hot

it's mid of september and it seems that

the work

never ends sanding grinding

hammering ripping wood apart and playing

with a lot of epoxies our daily routine

the nightmare of every sailor began zero

is stuck in the boatyard

for a long time

the destiny was on our side you want to

live on a boat

take a look it's all your kingdom now

we met the most amazing creature in the

world in the lumber store on christmas

eve

and she jumped right into our hearts

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and not to forget we had a lot of fun as

well

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we met a lot of old and new friends who

made the hard work

even easier for us we had a lot of fun

with you guys

just haul out give zero new bottom and

hull paint and be back in the water

maximum six weeks later we said in the

beginning

we started to send down the old bottom

pane to check out what's

underneath unfortunately we discovered a

few blisters in xero's bottom

because we had to do it anyway we

decided to do a proper job

which in our case means to let the boat

dry in the hot mexican summer

can you hear that the two people

grinding on the hull on the outside it

sounds so horrible inside here

once the job was done we were happy to

splash around with water to get rid of

the fiberglass

from here on we could only wait to let

it dry as long as possible

we'll tell more about the bottom later

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afterwards we started to take care of

the hull

first sanding down what's left of the

old paint then

multiple times fairing and sanding to

get a smooth hull

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you want to hmm down

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to finally apply a strong and protective

barrier coat at least

one foot above the waterline

we decided to use west system epoxy with

a barrier coat added a 4-2-2

in the area where the most water

splashes against the hull

especially on the bow

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again followed by a process of sanding

and patching to smoothen the hull

primer primer primer

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afterwards we started with a primer that

was a huge milestone for us zero looked

like a patched up

never-ending project for a few months

but after we rolled the first coat of

white primer on the hull we had a good

looking yard again

now with a white and shiny hull we were

able to see the last tiny imperfections

i think at that point we developed a

passion to get rid of

all of them which means of course more

fairing and sanding

now we decided to spend the summer here

in weymouth

or at least leaves a boat here over the

summer we are moving to another spot

which is a little more

sheltered for the sun and the dust and

the dirt so

picking up zero one more time and drop

it in a new spot

someone's getting really excited

the tires are already so flat

that's spookier patch

today's the day we are going to paint

the boat

everything is prepared i hope as good as

i can

we are mixing paint we are using uh

interlux brightside paint to do that and

i hope it comes out good we choose the

color gray instead of white before it's

just a light gray

and we try to make some red um

parts so it's red and gray and black

that's a new color of zero

yeah it's it sometimes it looks like

actually we're not really meant to do

that

because we wanted to do that for weeks

but then

some piles some paint was missing and

we didn't get the compressor and people

bailed out and all the stuff so

yeah now today's the day and everything

will be good

face watering the surroundings here so

there's no too much

dust coming up i hope the wind stays

calm

wish us luck fingers crossed

cleaning the last time the power with

sinner

we decided to do the job ourselves this

time

and it turned out to be the right

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decision

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after an exhausting day we had our shiny

and

good looking baby bag

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a huge thanks to moyes's our helping

hand

he worked like a beast sending the hull

day after day in the brutal heat

without complaining it was a long

process to finish the job

and it would have definitely taken

longer without him

and we talk about nine months of work

before we could even paint the boat just

to give you an idea how long this

process was in real time for us

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we are still taking down the masking

tape

but some parts are looking really good

already

that's the proof one of us walked over

fresh paint

okay you're out come on

show me your feet yeah give a [ __ ]

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we got her

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the day after we finished the hull we

took a day off and just relaxed for a

while

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but more about boring boat work next

week on sailing zero

be part of how we deal with the bottom

remodel the aft deck and tell you more

about boat projects

how zero phase is a hurricane it's

almost 10 am now

got stuck away up to 60 knots already

watch the full story of how we met patch

hmm

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on the ocean far away from home

it's just me and my boat

it's just