Canvas Repairs & Fog [Adventure

[@budawang77]

Love the way you guys are bouncing back after all the challenges of the last year. You're obviously resilient and resourceful people.

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Thanks, definitely had to work for it, but we’re looking forward to getting back to the good life! :)

[@HammerRocks]

Great work. Well done! 👍 I know you guys don't like it, but I've always found boat repair videos interesting to watch. Maybe it's because it's not me doing the work 😂

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Haha, always more fun to be on the "watching" end - or looking back once the work is already done ;)

[@edwinwilson629]

Great to see you both on the water....missed you both

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

We missed the water too!

[@andytaylor97]

Great job with the dodger - there is a money making opportunity for the future... 👏🏻

[@carolfreeland2531]

This is where we live, so fog is always our challenge!

[@gvn71]

As a temporary fix for your dodger, use A high quality seam sealer for use on tents! The stuff is amazing and I’ve used it to repair all kinds of fabric tears!

[@gvn71]

Clearly I should have watched the entire video before commenting!

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Definitely woulda loved a quick fix like this, but I think this required a bit more

[@donjvalley]

Glad to see you downsized to the right size!!! Look forward to seeing your Mexico ventures, again. Relocated back to USA from Thailand. Spent 10-yrs there caring for my wife's dad who passed away last Aug. Got her another Green Card and loving Vermont. I had emergency colon cancer surgery 06 Apr, plis a Colostomy bag. Started Level 2 Chemo for my remaining liver cancer. Maybe I can get an Alberg 30 next year...Happy sailing...

[@danieloliver20]

If you can sew a dodger, you can sew ANYTHING! Great job, you saved a "boat buck"!

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Thank you! I was definitely nervous about tackling this one and glad its done and over!

[@danieloliver20]

@@AdventureAdriftSailing a friend did a dodger from scratch and when fininished said, "No Mas"!

[@mykldean]

Great job on the dodger! I wouldn't have been so bold about the tight fit and would wind up with it flapping around... Though it might be a good rain catcher that way...

[@joeltatham5673]

Awesome boat and fantastic job on the dodger!

[@dennisbreckner337]

Great job Hillary.

[@howarddove3615]

Love your content. We have been on our passport 40 for 4yrs. Chesapeake bay to Thailand and now heading back into the Pacific from Indonesia. Our hard dodger is great.

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

That's awesome - we would love to sail Indonesia one day! Definitely thinking of hard dodger designs for the future. Would love to see pictures if you have them posted somewhere!

[@howarddove3615]

@@AdventureAdriftSailing semi hard dodger. The piece you just sewed is hard on ours with solar panels on it.

[@briantrausch3637]

Good to see you back👍

[@barb9124]

Great job on the dodger.

[@MrA1582000]

Wow, so impressed with the new dodger. You are a great seamstress. Said it before, but will repeat, just love your new boat.

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Thank you, we love it too! 💛

[@tvonzweck]

Glad to have found you guys again. Love your new boat! I also have a Silica Dune dodger to replace as one of my next sewing projects. Like yours... my existing dodger top is super tight and detoriated. I just finished a stackpack as my first ever sewing project (oh my)and hope that I have what it takes to replicate the dodger top. We might have been the only two boats in San Diego with Silica Dune. Good job on yours!

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Awesome job on the stack pack! I bet that was a project - the large things are always so tough to wrestle with all the fabric. We really do love the silica dune color - looks nice and you don't really notice wear/fading!

[@svbarryduckworth628]

Our dodger is pretty darn tight too. It was made otit of a fabric called Stamoid Open which is sort of like vinyl but it has extremely strong fibers embedded into it. It is stronger, more waterproof, and UV-resistant, and makes the price of Sunbrella seem "economy" in comparison. Also, it is only sold wholesale to professional canvas shops and can't be purchased by us common people. There is a lesser grade of Stamoid that is available to the public but it is thinner and not as super. It still is extremely expensive though. No worries. The boat canvas business is a bit of a racket IMHO. Most of their customers are extremely well-heeled and money is really no object to that class of boaters, so the costs follow that trend. I'm sure you have also run into this phenomenon in the US. We may have to go with sunbrella if we re-make it someday, or do a midnight heist on the stamoid warehouse if they won't sell it to us :D

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Oh great tip - we’ll definitely look into that fabric, sounds pretty cool! Agreed that the boat canvas industry is definitely in a lucrative business!! If they do good work, good on ‘em, but certainly not in our budget to be able to regularly spend that much! Next time around, we’ll have a plan for a hard dodger.

[@matthewfensterwald1853]

Live just north at vandenberg, the marine layer is something else, looks like you guys are having a nice time in SB

[@frankrice5364]

Great job...Good morning

[@glassman51]

Hey guys, the boat is home safe and sound in Ventura, at long last! Now the real fun begins :-). I like the new boat a lot, it was high on my list, sadly I was about 80 K short:-(. Looking forward to following your new adventures, cheers from Ventura

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Nice, congrats on getting the boat home! Hope you are enjoying her :)

[@jamieblack9349]

If you put a clew strap on your mainsail it will preform better and take the load off your out haul.

[@darryldouglas6455]

Nice work, great to see you guys back on the water. Excited to see how you like the Passport 40, this is on my short list of potential boats. Take care out there.

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

We are loving her so far! Great use of space and comfortable under sail - lots more sailing ahead of us! :)

[@gregmonaghan]

Nice job Hillary.

[@joejoemcgee]

Please show some Channel Islands. Or Catalina. Like the new boat!

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Stay tuned for the next few videos! ;)

[@MrScrappity]

I suppose it could have been more epic if you were at sea and had to use his Danger Mouse shirts lol But this worked out nicely. Great job you two 😁

[@gypsywindscubaadventures381]

What type of sewing machine are you using?

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

We picked up an old Pfaff130 - LOVE it!!! Has not struggled with any of the thick fabrics yet! :)

[@lindaaustin-morin7781]

If you had to do it again, would you make your template just a little bigger?

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

I added a few extra millimeters on all sides, and maybe would add a few more if I did it over, but not much. Too much and you’d have to start adjusting zippers, snaps, etc

[@carolfreeland2531]

And yesterday we saw a grey whale off Santa Cruz island

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

So much amazing sea life out there! :)

[@lindaaustin-morin7781]

I want to make a new Bimini using my old one as a pattern. Have you done this? Would you use the exact size of the old one or make it a bit bigger? The old one is Sunbrella fabric and I don’t know if it shrinks...

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

That’s exactly what is did here - Sunbrella should not shrink.

[@davidwarnes5158]

How about changing your spray hood ,,, dodger for semi rigid , permanent screen ,lower and foldable top, Like halberd raspy, or moody .

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

We would love to replace it with a hard dodger or semi-hard dodger, but as we talked about in the vid, this was not the time or the place. Future project!

[@jeffgriglack9624]

Good job, Hillary. Did you think about making it just a little looser, or would that not have worked? Some of those stitches are a little crooked, but mine are never that straight either. :) Hey, you guys should update the web site with the new boat info

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Yeah, these stitches definitely weren't perfect, but they'll work... I added a few millimeters to each side, but was nervous that the shape would be off and zippers and snaps that I was reusing wouldn't line up. And you're right - we DO need to get the website updated! ;)

[@shadygrovesailing1157]

Good job 👍 how long did the Coast Gaurd paperwork take ? Still waiting on mine four months ago.

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Took a little less than 2 months, but we had a "priority request" along with it, as we were planning on heading out of the country. I think you can check the status on the USGC website.

[@cruisingcircadia6574]

Roger dodger! Hahaha

[@lesabre1972]

how about remaking the dodger with a canvas you guys seem to be good at rebuilding stuff like that??

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

That is indeed what we ended up doing 😉

[@svpearlsailacapegeorgesail4758]

Thanks for the video! Where are you guys headed? We're in Mazatlan now.

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

We’ll be headed south down the Baja coast soon!

[@misswildlife7905]

What was the difference in price since you said the company wanted to charge $1100?

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

We paid a little over $200 for materials.

[@misswildlife7905]

@@AdventureAdriftSailing How long did it take you to complete the process after you received the material?

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

I think about 3 days. Would have been quicker without having to go on a long dinghy rides back and forth to the marina to assemble the pieces on flat ground at each stage between sewing.

[@richardhorth8409]

Que le vent et la houle vous soient favorables.

[@bryonensminger7462]

Yeah but California is world famous for foggy mornings

[@artsmith103]

Hillary, what do you like to use to mark the fabric before cutting?

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

I just used an ink pen on the fabric and an oil pencil on the dark brown Top Gun material to trace the pattern 👍

[@artsmith103]

@@AdventureAdriftSailing I had big hopes for chalk on nylon felt once but it did not work.

[@svlolalouise9763]

Dodger = 1 boat 🪙 coin

[@briankepner7569]

:)

[@MrRourk]

Somehow Dumb tube unsubscribed me

[@AdventureAdriftSailing]

Hope you were able to re-subscribe?!

[@JonMadsen70]

:)