WHAT Will We FIND? Returning to the Boat After 2.5 Years Away | ⛵ Sailing Britaly ⛵

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[@SailingBritaly]

Thanks for watching! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE ➜ bit.ly/SBKZbin⛵ 📖 How To Buy A Boat At The Best Price Possible (Free PDF) ➜ boatbuyingblueprint.com Fair winds and God bless, Chris, Rossella & Emma 😊

[@mal6232]

"Safe and effective.. two words that will never have the same meaning ever again" ...... We can but hope, but I fear the lesson has not been learnt.

[@jeffcurrent5593]

love the modern take on the BBC commentary- stay free! (as possible)

[@XXLaffinGravyXX]

Its got Myxomatosis poor rabbit...glad to see ya back fella..all the best

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you! 🙏

[@talasblueocean]

Glad your back! Missed your content.

[@SailingBritaly]

🙏👍

[@TampaTec]

Great to see you again friend 👍

[@SailingBritaly]

Really good to hear from you Paul, we hope you and the family are all well! 🙏 Very best regards, Chris, Rossella & Emma :-)

[@paulstewart1626]

Welcome back! Hopefully, you and the family will be coming back to the boat life soon.

[@SVImpavidus]

Great to see you back after the madness! Rabbit has Myxomatosis. They go blind and die a horrible lingering slow death. It is a kindness to despatch them promptly. Sail Safe mate. Ant & Cid xx

[@pauledwards8064]

Definitely Myxomatosis not much you can do other than what you have said sadly.

[@SailingBritaly]

Cheers Ant & Cid, hope all's well with you! 👍

[@sunfastx]

David Attenborough, sail edition! 😅

[@cellobob2358]

Welcome back!

[@aubreymachin1679]

glad your back

[@patrickschluter7280]

Nice job! Concerning the keel job - i used one of those round metal brushes that you can attach to the angle grinder. Took it all in seconds and then I could use the floppy sandy disc afterwords for a nice finish. I know you a finished with it by now, but for another time 🤙😉 Take care !

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you for the advice Patrick, I'll give that a shot next time. God bless, Chris

[@fredmartens7126]

Awesome to have you back - glad you are safe!

[@123boat]

So great to see you back on KZbin

[@richarddebenedettoph.d.3769]

Great to see you back

[@rickylefleur2158]

Great to see you guys are being back

[@TheRealSasquatch]

Great to have you back.

[@mikehinson4062]

Happy to see you back

[@jochemspillebeen3551]

Good to see your back 👍

[@SlowCarToChina]

You’re back!! Excellent 👌

[@paolomannaro8854]

Happy to see you back on youtube! Waiting for more :)

[@sarahbarr9455]

So glad to see you back at the boat. Xx

[@timdunn2387]

Good to see you back.

[@h2odragon1]

WOW! Good to see you again!

[@josefstassen2888]

So happy to see you again. You can't imagine how much you helped me out with your knowledge. Please go on.. Greetings from Germany.. Josef

[@SailingBritaly]

🙏 Thank you Josef! 👍

[@pauledwards8064]

Glad to see you back at it Chris :)

[@nigelmbuckler]

Good to see your back looking forward to more videos

[@markthomas1405]

Great to see you back Chris 👍

[@Austringer]

Great to see you back. Please update soon!

[@johnwishart7950]

nice to see you back i will look forward to fridays that much more

[@chriscourtenay2311]

So good to have you back

[@elcarim77]

Great to see you back!

[@raffaelemoretuzzo2983]

Great to have you back ... Ciao

[@ghostman76015]

glad to see you back, wow lucky with the eyes and that you caught it so soon.

[@rickfranz6072]

Just found myself wondering if you all made it out of the mess we have been in for the last couple of years. It is very good to see you again!

[@antotaranto5381]

nice to see you again!

[@joeymcmanus448]

Fantastic to see you post a video again and that your family is well ... I look forward to seeing your plan on getting back on the water .. cheers

[@BStrapper]

Great videos, brilliant man!

[@5teve00.5]

Nice to see you back Chris I was only thinking the other day if we would see you again

[@Bruin4Life]

Chris great to see you back again. I definitely hope that you will be back on a regular basis soon. Take care and stay stay well. Hope all is well with the family. Looking forward to your sailing adventures in the near future.

[@sailingsheriff3349]

Wow great to see you back. Missed all your wisdom and enjoyable vlogs. Don’t leave it so long again. I know a few people I spoke to were worried.

[@wthorpy1]

Yessss, your back.

[@henrirotthier5710]

Good to see you back. Since then, we made it to the Med last year. Currently sailing near Cannes

[@stevebutterworth1937]

Prime time!.. welcome back!

[@simonemadricale7152]

Hi Chris! Nice to see you smiling at work. Really miss your contents. In a few weeks I will go sailing with all my family around Ischia for the first time and hopefully they will like it! Take care of yourself and your family!

[@richguest]

Wondered where you’d been, nice to see you back man.

[@tonyporter8999]

Welcome back. I’ve missed you

[@sveula6454]

Chuffed to see you back on deck, cheers from OZ 🇦🇺 😊👍⛵🍺

[@davidclarke7728]

Nice to see you back, what have you been doing

[@markjenkins6810]

Wow I thought you had finished with the videos. Great to see you back

[@seasorb]

Welcome back. We missed you.

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

Great to see you back. Greetings from the crew of Wavedancer westerly in Ireland

[@brianlintonjones]

Glad your back again after the lock down, and your sailboat looks great after your TLC, well done Chris..cheers

[@ArcticSeaCamel]

Glad to see you back! :)

[@rossslater5709]

Havent been able to see my boat for the last year so understand your trepidation. But great to see you back again looking forward to more videos.

[@TERRIBLYBRITISH]

Great to see you back Chris, what have you been up to and what are your plans?! We need an update!

[@johnmonday8135]

Hi Chris, good to see you back with a smile. A point that you have passed by now . Your keel is acst iron. Dont think it will like epoxy, but hay ho, Akso Noble make a meterial known to us old boys as Navel blue. You might know it as Rust Killer or Rust Cure. It changes iron oxide to Iron ferrate. So to make a good job of the keel, allow keel to go red with surface rust, or just slosh sea water at it & leave it a couple of days, paint over with Rust Killer. then paint with International " Intertuf 16". But if you've done it by now with epoxy. next time try a MUCH cheeper & less time consuming way. Have Fun

[@seaslife2024]

Great to see you back mate. What are your plans now? Great video as always.

[@mickobrien6360]

I am so pleased for you that all was ok. I left my boat for a similar time scale. It's emotional. lol

[@BStrapper]

Well come back! Long time no see!

[@timdunn2387]

Welcome back Chris. I did worry about you. Congratulations on your effective de-commissioning of the boat in 2020. I am always impressed by your seamanship.

[@mecima]

Always keep a handy magnet around, I used a small plastic dart with a magnet tip - yes from a game kids gave me for retirement- used an eye rinse, keep that handy also, waved it very close to eye without actually touching it and one of the pieces was in deep enough to where I felt it fly out onto the magnet. Magnifying lens revealed six metal flakes from one eye and nine from the other, they flew in through the side of the goggles , bounced of lens into eyes , found the nicks on the inside of lens yet only felt the one that went deeper. Applied trobadex antibiotic and voila, all new.

[@patrickwentz8413]

hey your folding bike was in the boat! glad you still have it!

[@gregmonaghan]

I was only thinking yesterday that I hadn't seen you for a while..... and then up you popped!

[@SeaYaSailing]

Wow, great tip, never thought of that, and watching you do it was almost Zen like

[@paulclarke8184]

GREAT to see you again! Lovely video

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you Paul! (Excuse the late reply!) More videos coming soon, including our inland waterway trip to the Med this summer, God willing! Very best regards, Chris, Rossella & Emma 👍

[@wysiwyg2006]

Great to see you return to your boat and KZbin. I ended up in Chatham marina not gillingham. For now. Iv had dust go in my eyes too when angle grinding on the boat and trailer before. Just rinsed my eyes but get loads of eye floaters these days so wonder if that's linked. Anyway, great to have you show up again in my subscriptions

[@HappyBassett]

So glad to see and hear you again..... We missed you tons...... So glad you are not MIA. Blessings to you and your family. Liz and Stu

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you very much Liz & Stu! God bless you and your family. :-)

[@adamhope9166]

Fantastic to see you back. Good luck buddy.

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you Adam! 👍

[@WildlingSailing]

Nice to see you again matey!

[@banditbandit7705]

Thanks for being back and all is well 🙂

[@SailingBritaly]

👍

[@findingfreedom78]

Great to see you back online mate. Pete…..Chatham

[@siirkire]

Great video. It is so liberating to hear someone not insisting on pure sine-inverters. I look forward to more engine videos.

[@1962gms]

Great to see you reunited with Britaly! Best wishes and looking forward to following your journey 👍

[@SailingBritaly]

🙏👍

[@mwatling3816]

Nice to see you back look forward to the next one

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you! More videos coming soon...👍

[@grahamatsea3575]

Spot on with Farce or CON vid as some say

[@rayhsetwo8594]

Ah ha, welcome back, good episode too. I keep white vinegar aboard and use it for cleaning all kinds of stuff, but never used it for cleaning teak outside, that really did come up good, I have pressure washed, dried, sanded, oxalic acid to bleach a bit, and that always works, but the vinegar worked really fast, and I watched you in real time ha ha. On the note of the multitool, I always keep my blunt blades for scrapers, instead of putting pressure on the side use it end on, and each corner of blade. Works a treat as a chipping hammer and is kinder to the tools mechanism than using it side on (I've a Makita one and had to replace the mechanism). Oh and if you want a very good teak oil (which I have used on other hardwoods to nourish and protect, and clean) Oli Natura yacht teak oil from the jungle river retailer, about £23 a tin, it's very thin, has UV protection to keep the teaks colour longer. It's very thin and penetrates the wood fibres before your eyes. Good stuff and cheap as a tin will last a long time.

[@peterferguson3374]

Welcome back, life returning to normal..

[@pbnn735]

You are back! Thanks for the video, missed you!

[@SailingBritaly]

🙏

[@philipeccles7143]

It’s great to see you back on board and giving great advice. Safe journey back to the family.

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you Philip! Very best regards, Chris, Rossella & Emma :-)

[@lesvoyagesdesoazig]

Hello Chris, glad to see you back.. I did my fairing 20 meters from Britaly in April, .. if I had known, I would have sent you news :) Good preparation, and see you soon at sea.. Nautical friendships from Belgium (from Nieupoort), and perhaps the pleasure of meeting on July 17

[@SV-DEDICATED]

Hope these continue on a regular basis now. Need some Emma updates too!!!

[@JonMadsen70]

It's good to see you again Chris. Safe travels :)

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you Jon! Sending our love your way (apologies for the delayed reply.) 🙏

[@trevorread5200]

Great to see you back onboard again! Great video too! Good luck with the clean-up.

[@SailingBritaly]

🙏👍

[@sailingtimeless8899]

Good to see you back Chris 2.5 years way to long boat looks ok but it does need a good clean just like mine.

[@Zato76]

It's been 2 years already?!?! Wondering about you dude Good to see you back on your boat

[@scott.wallace8625]

welcome back

[@sarascott2217]

Ah great to see you back ! Must be so excited getting the boat ready after so long look forward to seeing u in the water. Poor little bunny at end

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you Sara 🙏

[@manolitopow]

Welcome back! Thanks for the inspiration! Really missed your content and hope everything is fine with your family!

[@SailingBritaly]

🙏👍

[@yakekaj]

Glad you are back!! Britaly looked in really good nick, you must be sooooo relieved!!

[@SailingBritaly]

🙏

[@kevinturner7445]

Hi Chris, good to see you’re back, thought you’d gone for good, keep them coming 👍

[@SailingBritaly]

🙏 Sporadic Kevin... :-) More videos coming soon! 👍

[@vxnova1]

Good show,

[@williambunting803]

The best discs for doing that kind of work are ZEC discs made in Italy. Their discs are high sacrifice and designed to not clog. Well worth buying and keeping aboard as those kind of jobs come up again and again.

[@alexmorgan3435]

Welcome back! Indeed a long time no sea. When I saw my boat at end of last year the cabin had a foot of water inside as water had some how been able to get into the bilges from the cockpit plus the sealing boot around the mast on the top of the cabin had perished. It was rank. Had to bail it all out. Nightmare even on a small 34ft long boat. Still an awful lot of water no electric pump available. Plus some one had stolen the large boat covers I had had made for it which did not help as the deck was and still is filthy. The area she's out of the water is the Essex coast which is mud so lots of damp and algae floating around. Very nice clean up of your teak cockpit. White vinegar is good for cleaning, also bicarbonate of soda, baking powder or if you want to lighten the colour of very dark wood very dirty surfaces then use salicylic acid crystals hydrated to about 10% which I used to clean a very heavily dirty flbreglass deck and hull covered in lichen and mould and bird poop also good for cleaning stained white hulls just roller it on leave 10-15 minutes, re-apply and easily scrub off the dirt and stains. A high power jet wash also makes quick work of cleaning a hull with this. Was going to suggest sand/shot blasting the keel. I have the keel on my boat to do as well. Similar size to yours. Did you fill the join where the hull meets the top of the keel? Sorry don't know the technical name for this part of the hull. Also is copper paint any good as one boat I had this kept it's iron keel rust free and clean for many seasons? Wish I could get my boat's electrics sorted like yours and be self sufficient. Must be a great feeling, under sail generating your own power not reliant on the engine or mains power if in port/marina. Don't leave it so long until your next video.

[@aaronkpattrick]

Missed your videos. Glad you are back.

[@SailingBritaly]

🙏👍

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

Oh hello! Hope you’re all well? Great to see you back!! Definitely no skipping, where’s the fun in that. Great tip on the cleaning but the best bit is your boat now smells of fish and chips!! Phosphoric acid for the keel after cleaning to treat any remaining rust? Rabbit has Mixy. Best to put it out of its misery.

[@peterward4005]

Just for note, the song playing when you were cleaning the teak, is popular in the south seas especially NZ. It's about the weller brothers who used to bring relief supplies to whaling ships from their whaling station back in the day. Great bit of history

[@SailingYachtZora]

Oxalic acid is also class for cleaning rust streaks etc or anything really. Not as safe to use as vineger though. Glad you are back on board

[@dirkr2126]

Great to see you back on the boat. What did you do the last 2.5years? Time flys -crazy.

[@bernierose8423]

All the good on you for the wonderful advice, as always, and especially for helping the rabbit out. I’m in California and a hopefully-future sailor, just to prove that a little kindness truly goes a long way…literally. Fairest winds for you and yours on all your travels.

[@SailingBritaly]

Thank you Bernie, you can get a free PDF I wrote called "How To Buy Boat At The Best Price Possible" here: boatbuyingblueprint.com which you may find useful for an eventual boat purchase. God bless! 🙏

[@TarasKalapun]

I must say. I missed your boat videos :)