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10/22/2026

OLIGHT MARAUDER 3 - ABSOLUTE BEAST! 🔦
1000m beam distance / 25,000 lumens max flood.
Stayed late at the beach, drove back to the mothership in the dark - this thing lit up the entire mangrove channel. Hit the markers with the spotlight mode and they popped like in daylight.
This is why you rely on a spotlight on a boat. Storm, dragging anchor, someone needs help - you need REAL lumens. One of the best pieces of safety gear I've added. Period.

https://www.olight.com/store/marauder-3-25000-lumen-powerful-flashlight

10/20/2026

Activly searching for a weather window to sail to Bahamas, but another one closed up. It is very stormy season. And I am looking perfect 3 day weather window to make it to safe port.

Wanted to do for Ted a nice surprise! 🤩🤩🤩 And cut off the old chain plates all by myself. Turns out men run REALLY fast ...
10/18/2026

Wanted to do for Ted a nice surprise! 🤩🤩🤩 And cut off the old chain plates all by myself. Turns out men run REALLY fast when power tools start up without prior approval... 🤔

All the new chain plates are in after fairing in all the damages with epoxy. Tomorrow we will switch over the rigging. T...
10/18/2026

All the new chain plates are in after fairing in all the damages with epoxy. Tomorrow we will switch over the rigging. This construction is rock solid. We are super happy with results, it couldn’t have gone better. 🤩🤩⛵️
Very soon we are sailing!

OMAD lunch break before we finally solve the Chain Plate problem.
10/17/2026

OMAD lunch break before we finally solve the Chain Plate problem.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT - CHAIN PLATE UPGRADEWe bolt through with two shouldered 1/2” x 3” upper bolts through the old chain ...
10/15/2026

OFFICIAL STATEMENT - CHAIN PLATE UPGRADE

We bolt through with two shouldered 1/2” x 3” upper bolts through the old chain plate and through the thick bulwark.

As well we have a heavy-duty, jet-cut, custom-made backing plate from Alaskan Copper — 1/4” 316L stainless steel. That 1/4" backing plate is a load spreader, not just washers. It spreads the load into the hull and reduces point loading.

We have to tap the two lower bolts, since the inside is unreachable and glassed in. They are encapsulated. We refuse to grind and demolish our interior.

We dry-fit everything, then Loctite the nuts to the bolts.

This engineering is not a shortcut. It is the best possible design and an upgrade to external chain plates. External is visible — every bolt, every plate can be inspected and serviced. Unlike encapsulated plates, there is no hidden failure.

We ran our full engineering plan past The Yacht Rigger in St. Petersburg, FL - 200 14th Ave SE. They are a fully licensed and insured marine specialist shop for rigging, electrical, fabrication and hardware. They have 5 stars on Google Maps and they signed off on the concept.

We highly recommend this treatment to any yachtsman who is saddled with encapsulated chain plates.

Watch our next episode for the full story.

10/13/2026

Next up: we TAP the chain plates! 😱
Into our old chain plates.

Everyone said we had to demolish the whole interior, rip out the cabinets, grind through an inch of encapsulated fiberglass while LIVING on the boat. Yeah, no thanks. 😄

Here's what we actually did: They are encapsulated inside the hull, no way to get a nut on the back. So we drill 27/64 for a 1/2-13 bolt and TAP it. Done. Clean, solid, and we win.

Two lower bolts are tapped straight into the heavy stainless chain plates. Two upper bolts are through-bolted with a heavy backing plate for extra security where we can reach it.

Is it factory? No. Is it strong? Absolutely. We are living on this boat, not destroying it.

Stay tuned for the tapping!

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Of course the last hole had to be the worst one! 🤔🤣Took us 2 days to grind through it. The pilot hole was in the wrong s...
10/13/2026

Of course the last hole had to be the worst one! 🤔🤣

Took us 2 days to grind through it. The pilot hole was in the wrong spot and we couldn't just go from smaller to bigger. I didn't fully understand why, so I kept asking the same question over and over: "Why are we not starting with a smaller drill bit and going bigger?"

Something about the holes not being aligned... 😏

In the end Ted got so confused by me asking the same stupid question that he grabbed the smaller drill bits, took a risk, and it paid off!

All the holes are drilled. Now just a bit of damage control with epoxy and we can chop off the old chain plates.

Yippikayee! The boat is safe to sail again! 💪⛵️🤩✅

Estonian cold Kefir soup with grilled turkey tenderloin for Ted’s lunch break.
10/12/2026

Estonian cold Kefir soup with grilled turkey tenderloin for Ted’s lunch break.

First hole, last chain plate. Ted is grinding hard 😏⛵️
10/11/2026

First hole, last chain plate. Ted is grinding hard 😏⛵️

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