Thanks for posting and sharing this whole bottom paint series! Glad it went so well!

Yard work on the Beach and looking good results. Karl sure is well taken care of. Everything can be maintenance, repaired, replaced, or improved upon for safety, reliability, and smooth sailing. I am glad you have mastered so many essential tasks and skills because there is lot of factors with such a life on the water. Incredible adventure.

Your innovation and tenacity, is an inspiration to all of us. Thank you!

Another great episode, nice to see shiny and happy. Keep up the good work and great editing

You never cease to amaze me, your determination and hard work always pays off. Your boat looks so much better now.

Some of the best comments don't go far enough to describe your determination, courage, and resourcefulness. Out of all the cruisers I've seen, what you've been through and continue to work through (much of it, by yourself) top's them all.

Mother Nature likes to play games with us sometimes doesn’t she. What a job, but you and your experienced crew made it look (almost) easy. Karl looks like he just came out of a dress shop with a brand new suit on. Go Karl!

@iainlyall6475

3 жыл бұрын

that's the taylors silly. what is he a cross tresser? :-)

Again, job well done to all of you guys for getting it done in record time given the circumstances!!

Props to this lady for doing and get the job done !

Karl looks amazing! When you were down between the keels, I could see his ribs and I thought about how interesting it would have been to watch Karl under construction. It's so strange to see him out of the water with the anchor chain resting on the sand. With your painting coveralls it was like a science fiction movie, all the oceans evaporated and the ships upon the abyssal plains. Glad the world is watery and green instead!

Laying on my back in mud between keels with the tide coming in was never fun, but bilge keels do save some money on haul outs and especially handy in out-of-the-way places with tides. I take the practicality of twin keels over a deep fin anyday, once you have had a boat that needs less than 4ft of water you get spoilt for places other boats can not go.

A beautiful beach now covered in paint dust. Didn't even try laying a tarp to catch the crap while sanding.

It might not be the best preform-en type keel (bilge keel) but this is why it's my choice. Who needs to waste money on a haul out. Great job.

yep twin keels are useful like that. Seem to be a lot more common on European built boats than US ones in my experience. After my own first cruising sailboat was a traditional full keel with a 4ft draft and dealing with all the problems of lots of shifting shoals and shallow water. My current boat which is on stands in my yard while i work on her at the moment, is a flat-bottomed sailing scow designed to be beached. And you'd be surprised just how much space you can fit into a 38ft sailing scow.

The 'rain gutter' is really clever - not seen that before.

Awesome 👏 Nice explanation on the high tide. I didn’t think of that. 😎 job on the paint work. It must be good. Love to know how you do the keel end’s . Excellent 🙏

I love your “gutters”! And it’s sooooooo nice to see you smiling often👍✌️🙏🏼😊⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️

Those Total Boat products have been working out for me since I saw Andy from Boat Works Today use them. Haven't had a bad product yet, and they're better priced than other products.

Well done, informational and motivating.

As always, you took on the challenge and with the help of your fantastic friends, you excelled. BTW isn't it always beer o'clock

Well done you three. Bottoms up! Nice paint job.

such an achievement for you guys..I think i may use this video for training the younger guys in the marina blast and paint shop when they complain about having every tool possible to achieve what you guys did on a beach, with some friends, the mosquitos and crocodiles, and a few beers..Love the smile of achievement.

You are an amazing young woman and have such special friends. Great job.

You have a great ‘happy face’. I’d be grateful if you’d keep us informed of the performance of the anti foul. I’m sure we’ll be going copper free in the uk at some point to it’s useful info.

you did a great job, looking forward for the next, best regards Reinier, from Holland

You know, I was just wondering about your twin keeled boat; it seems like a brilliant solution to not only being able to beach your vessel and get underneath it, but also, if you are so unlucky to run into a reef and get yourself stuck waiting for the tide, which is usually falling. These are such scary times for a fin keeled boat; waiting for the tide to go down so the side of your vessel is now slamming up against rock from the chop. And now water is coming over the gunnel. Talk about a sinking feeling!! But I would guess you don't have these worries if you run aground with twin keels?

@charonstyxferryman

3 жыл бұрын

Boats with a bilge keel (2 keels) are very popular in the UK. The tidal range is 49 feet (15 meters) there! That's a lot. I know that some French marinas in the Bay of Biscay has a lock, so the non-bilge keel boats don't get damaged. The largest tidal range of 16.3 metres (53.5 feet) occurs in Bay of Fundy, Canada.

Nice. Used the ol' tape gutter trick huh.. I was happy to see you guys again so soon. Tips hat....

I enjoyed watching ya'll paint the hull. I was wondering where did you find your helpers?

One of the many advantages of a bilge keel. Nice work, thanks for sharing.

Great job guys. Stay safe stay well. Fair winds & regards from the UK

Gosh this job brings back memories of years gone by.

Schön, wieder regelmäßig was von dir zu hören ...

Love Panama, I spent three years there and it was a wonderful place! Congratulations on finishing a dirty task!

Hi Nike, another incredible example of what a strong, capable and dynamic young Woman you are. With the help of Paul and Maria I think you’ve shown us all that no matter where we are in the world and what we have in the way of material possessions, that the bond of enduring friendship is truly the most important gift any of us can have.If only I could find a cruising partner/companion that had your character, and compassion I would be a lucky lucky man. Cheers to you all on a great bottom job and I’m living the dream in the world sauna :-)

very well done indeed, you are an inspiration to all....

Yes I agree the best bit of antifouling is removing the masking tape😀 and worst bit is lying on your back between the keels scraping off the barnicles. It looks a great job well done.

You are a force. Amazing lady. I'm humbled by your energy x

Looking forward to your next adventure

Very clever of you to beach your boat instead of having to be hauled out. I don't think I've ever seen that before. Great job and really hard work clearly.

@operator0

3 жыл бұрын

That's the big advantage of a twin keel. I just wish they sailed better.

@koborkutya7338

3 жыл бұрын

Seen several, working trick, unfortunately the paints should get some more curing time and some people do not pay enough attention to keep the beach clean :(

@WhiteSpotPirates

3 жыл бұрын

We did it this way because the marina would have been a corona trap at the time, not letting the boats leave anymore once inside. It is debatable if the environmental impact is a lot less in a marina in these areas, but obviously that’s the place where things like this usually SHOULD take place. This was more of an “emergency set up”.

Amazing love your work 😊

i must admit for someone that is not qualified to paint you did a very nice job there end result looks pretty good and respect for all the hard work you hade to put in :D

Karl looks fantastic! Where do we go next?

A boat with kickstands, brilliant!

Amazing that you were able to find respirator cartridges and all that or you possibly had them already they're very hard to get here since covid-19 believe it or not

Awesome !! Its nice to have twin keels for beaching, and awesome that Maria and Paul were there to help.

You made a grueling job look almost pleasant! Cheers from Juneau Alaska, Greg Chaney

You didn't need to use acetone to clean, alcohol works fine. Though I guess the price of ethanol has gone up recently ;) Edit- Acetone is great for bare metal, but if you still have paint on the surface alcohol is better because it won't damage the old paint.

Question: Could you have used a hair dryer or some other kind of heat to dry out the paint faster in an emergency, or would than ruin the paint?

Great JOB well Done!!!!

Great job, Karl looks awesome! So nice to have friends like you do. 👍❤⛵

well done.... looks great !!!!

Thank you so much. I'm going cold turkey on politics and I don't think I could do it without you.

we and especially Karl enjoyed the refit, he will glide like a defin!

Just to lend support to you, Nike. You’ve done a great job in the circs that faced you in the corona lockdown. You’re also well respected as a long-standing champion for the environment. And let’s face it your lifestyle has minimal impact on the planet. Most of us can’t match your frugality. Some of who have posted here have rushed to judgement, as armchair folk tend to do. FWIW, both as a mariner and an environmentalist, I fully support the imaginative and professional way you set about this project. None of us can be perfect. There is never zero risk. But let’s hear it for an inspirational adventurer who is making the best of a challenging period for people everywhere; and sharing her stories so creatively, to the benefit of thousands of us unable to sail away right now. Go, Nike! 🎉👍🏼💯

@WhiteSpotPirates

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for ur kind words, Roy. I can understand that people are getting upset about this procedure. And we could have done better, it’s true. There have been some good recommendations about tools that would prevent the dust to fly around...just being in a marina would not make any difference...but different machines could help. Using a ton of plastic tarps, not sure if that is more ecological but anyhow... I am not promoting this as the new way to go 🙈 this was due to the lock down during corona. But of course I could have just waited... It’s surely not super easy to be judged by some people so harshly, knowing how much we do for the environment. But as I said, it’s also understandable. Especially from people who don’t know what the conditions in Marinas are like down here 😂 and that just going there won’t make much of a difference 🙈. Anyhow, it’s sweet to read some uplifting lines. It helps to keep pushing forward ☺️ Cheers, Nike

@seriousviewer5528

3 жыл бұрын

@@WhiteSpotPirates Stay Beautiful!

Props and a hat tip to you lady! and Karl looks so nice in his new black tuxedo!

Looks fab - good job guys 👍

I'm going to see if i can get hold of Totalpaint here in the UK as it seems to cover very well. Since we haven't been able to buy TBT, ive not found a decent antifouling.

Karl looks so beautiful! You did a great job!

well done :) fantastic crew ;) (cheers with a nice cocktail :D )

Looks like a new boat.

"Eight days ago I beached myself on this remote island to renew my bottom paint." Nike and Karl have fused.

Hi Nike, I've listened to your talking for quite a lot of episodes, listening to how your German accent has gradually perished in the Caribbean heat, but all the way through I've thought I detected a slight English lilt there. Did you ever live in England at all, maybe southern England? Anyway, one of the best type of boating videos to me is to see them beached or leant against a wall for bottom work, so thank you for these hull on the beach episodes! If they don't make fin keelers and swingers feel envious then I don't know what will! Karl really is a tough old sausage - what make and model is she?

@WhiteSpotPirates

3 жыл бұрын

Man ur good! I lived in Taunton, Somerset, for a year when I was 16. 😂 Karl is a Reinke Super 10 and yes he’s one tough cookie!

@xenu-dark-tony

3 жыл бұрын

@@WhiteSpotPirates Wow, you really haven't wasted your life at all! Taunton and the west country share a similarly nice landscape to your homeland, though I have to say, Germany always looks like they've just tidied up, vacuum cleaned and put a fresh coat of pain on. I bet there are thousands of us viewers all envious as can be seeing you jump from Spanish over to English, then German, then goodness knows what else. I feel like you may have been stuck in a Groundhog Day (ask Maria, she may have seen that film a long time ago) learning a million things. Your brain must be huge!! Anyway Nike, thank you so much for your lovely videos. They are ALWAYS very interesting, and never stray away from being so wonderfully genuine. I love the meet-ups with other sailors such as lovely young Barry Seadog, and the entertaining live stream you did with Paul, Maria, her dad and some rum. I keep hoping that delightful Danish chap Mads from SailLife will finish refurbishing his boat, start his travels and head out to where you all are. He and his American girlfriend really do seem to be dear, kind, unpretentious folk, like you all are. Lots of big air hugs to you (and Karl)! Mike. UK.

Great job Niki and friends,Karl looks great! take care and stay safe! ...:-)

Nike, great narration of this video. You have such a soothing voice. It make's me smile! "Wink wink".

Nike ... when I was a Young Buck I had a 1960 MGA with aluminum doors, bonnet & trunk lid ... went to repaint it & discovered you needed to prime the aluminum parts with zinc chromate ... a really strange green primer ... Bart

Hello Nike. Containment blocks us in front of the screens. Fortunately there are people like you, Sailing Uma, formerly "le voilier orange", and ... ..Itchy Boots! I have traveled a lot on a motorbike, not enough on a sailboat. So with you and your videos, I compensate! There is also "phase two", two very nice Belgians, fun and beautiful, more living a long holiday time than sailors ... ... another way of doing things! But without hesitation, it is you that my friends and I prefer! So good luck! Continue to make us dream! Next week, little sailing on North Finstère coast, to get back a 8 M home in the park in Brignogan, the last run before... ...i don't know!...

Salut c est super comme tu a fait

Well done 👏👏👏

New swab here, one episode and im in love!

Great job. Karl is looking sharp.

Memo to self : unless Aluminum tech for marine has greatly improved in the last 30 years DO NOT ever consider an Al hull ! Oh, and are you using sun block AND covering up ? ! ?

@dirkdiggler1242

3 жыл бұрын

Ok

Aluminium boats need special anti fouling paint; what type of paints did you use. I am very impressed your taking on this job.

@WhiteSpotPirates

3 жыл бұрын

U can find the links to the epoxy primer and copper free antifouling (for aluminum) in the description. And if u want to purchase at www.totalboat.com, u get 15% discount with the coupon code NIKEPIRATE 👍

Still able to have a chuckle at yourself, impressive. Good luck.

👍 nice. Could have put some planking under the keels to lift her more to paint keel edges.

What's the point of an aluminium hull if its more expensive & you have to pretty much the same the same painting/anodes etc. as you have to do with a steel hull, and its less strong to boot?

Great job

Great job, you got some great friends!

I guess under the keels is a lost cause without some way to lift the boat.

@danielbuckner2167

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that but I suppose a couple close sand bars and it will be free of barnacles and if painted would be fewer of paint anyway.

hast du fein gemacht...bin stolz auf dich ... !!!!!!!...lgr aus münchen ...

Out of curiosity when you sanded and scraped off the old paint I didn’t see you collecting it with tarps. Did you let it all wash away into the environment? I ask this because when I watch Plucky do the same from “Sailing into Freedom” this was a very important point for the environment

@nmnmnm35

3 жыл бұрын

I've asked the same thing, no response ( not surprising_)

@tawharanui5011

3 жыл бұрын

I can confirm, Nike is absolutely environmentally conscious! It is hard-wired into here DNA. She is from Lüneburg, or near Lutterothstrasse :)

@PDZ1122

3 жыл бұрын

You could always volunteer to go around the world collecting paint scraps instead of being some internet environmental cop. As if the amount of paint that actually came off is going to matter one bit to the world. She's already contributed more than most people to the world by not producing any more offspring, which is the real problem on earth.

@bradclayton2068

3 жыл бұрын

@@PDZ1122 Really. You armchair keyboard warrior. I asked a simple question and you went on an attack. Please go get some psychological help

@m2pozad

3 жыл бұрын

@@PDZ1122 All true , but still, it doesn't look good.

You are amazing!

Nike, you sure made the best of a difficult situation; kudos to you and your faithful friends.

What will you do for the bottom edge of the keels?

Hamburger on the roll... Fair winds and following seas.

Good Work

I dont know about you but I am really enjoying these new videos, they have a more relaxed feel to them.

@WhiteSpotPirates

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you ☺️

@seriousviewer5528

3 жыл бұрын

@@WhiteSpotPirates Yes, There is something about your more recent videos that is noticiebly better. New editors?...you took a camera course?...Does not matter. You are lovelier each time. You are forging ahead. Maintain the course!

@WhiteSpotPirates

3 жыл бұрын

@@seriousviewer5528 I started editing myself 🙈 it surely helps for the filming, too, because I see and feel in the editing process what or how I should have filmed it better. I am very happy to hear it’s actually showing improvement since these are my very first videos I edited ever 🥰🙏🏼

Great job he looks great!

NS ... with that black paint on his bottom & his white top, Karl looks like he's wearing a tuxedo ... quite the Dapper Dan ... Bart

YEA! Looks really good!

Where did you get the fresh water for washing down the boat? Rain water?

@WhiteSpotPirates

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, rain water, exactly. And also, there is a dock near by with water from a lake where we can fill up in case of no rain 👍

Super job 👍 mit wem hast du dich denn geboxt? Oder ist das blaue Augen optische Täuschung

Hi! What do you do about the part of the keel that was sitting on the sand?

@R.E.HILL_

3 жыл бұрын

You dive and scrape them clean if needed... not perfect but manageable... You can't get everything when you "haulout" in the wild... 🙂

@dennisminks8282

3 жыл бұрын

Thats where I would put an anode.

Great job on the bottom and great planing. How many gallons of antifouling?

@WhiteSpotPirates

3 жыл бұрын

A bit short of one per coat 👍

Nike ... I grew up soaking up math & science ... Dad was a Research Engineer and I took to Math & Science like a Duck takes to Water ... I was so good at it I not only got a BS in Mathematics but an MBA in Quantitative Methods of Analysis & Finance ... flew supersonic aircraft in the USAF, taught HS Math for a year & then went into federal law enforcement chasing White Collar criminals for which i seemed custom made ... all this being said, I want you to know you are, Bar None, one of the most fascinating technical problem solvers I've come across in my entire career ... as Renee Zellweger said to Tom Cruise ... you complete me ... B

Nice music choice .. Mary Jane .. Alanis Morissette 👍

Nice Job !!! Karl looks Great ....

Karl looks so smart with his new pants on ☺️👌

@WhiteSpotPirates

3 жыл бұрын

💚💚💚 he does, doesn’t he? Like a real gent! 💚💚💚

Un grand bravo à toi et à tes deux abeilles ouvrières. Vous avez abattu un travail formidable. Comme quoi avec une bonne organisation et de vrais amis dévoués on peut abattre des montagnes. Maintenant Karl va voler sur les vagues. ici en Méditerranée la plaisance est de nouveau interdite et nous sommes à nouveau confiné. Pas prêt de revoir la mer. Bonne continuation. Amitiés. Olivier.

Good job lady !!! like Michelangelo.... 😊💕

Deine Geduld und Ausdauer... beneidenswert! Angeboren oder antrainiert? :-)