First Glances at Daze Off
Monday March 9, 2015 One of the moments we all have been waiting for....a first look in person at our new custom aluminum boat. Â Daze Off. Â No, that name w ...
Contemplations
Tuesday May 5, 2015 We're back on Serendipity now after a fantastic week with my parents, but once again we're being smacked in the face with reality. Â No, ...
Letting the Fates Decide (& Other Stuff)
Wednesday May 20, 2015 The last I left you with our boat situation, we were trying to decide if we should keep Serendipity or if we should sell her and spend ...
Serendipity is Sold!
Friday May 29, 2015 Wow, that has to be one of the shortest boat sales in history. Â But Serendipity is now sold! Â Six days from the time we first put her o ...
Everything is Changing
Tuesday June 2, 2015 That seems to be my motto lately. Â Serendipity is sold. Â Big change. Â We have at least moved her to a slip after sitting on the hard ...
This is So Far From Glamping
Wednesday June 10, 2015 Glamping: Shorthand for glamorous camping; luxury camping. To be more precise, camping with all necessary amenities including electrici ...
Survey Says…..
Saturday June 13, 2015 Survey says this boat is going to need a lot of work. Â But we already knew that. Â And you probably did too. No, all joking aside, ...
Hello, My Name is Daze Off, and I Have a Drug Problem
Friday June 19, 2015 Or maybe I should say an ex-drug problem. Â We hope she doesn't have it anymore. But yes, once upon a time our dear little girl was a dru ...
Spray Foam Insulation – V-berth & Forward Salon
Wednesday June 24, 2015 Over the weekend we were able to knock out the project of insulating the v-berth and the forward salon on Daze Off (you can read ...
Euroliting the Ceiling
Friday July 10, 2015 So much work and so little to show for it. Â At least that's the way it feels lately. Â Whenever I post photos on our Facebook page of som ...
It’s All About Money: Sail Loot Podcast
Monday July 13, 2015 I'd have to say that about 70% of the emails we get in our inbox have something to do with money, including questions like how to make a mi ...
Tongue & Groove
Monday July 20, 2015 The intricate construction I was mentioning in the last post? Â Unfortunately does not just apply to the routed plywood we are using for ...
A Comfortable Place to Sleep
Saturday July 25, 2015 Today is a day I have been waiting for a very very long time. Â It is our first day off from boat work in I don't even know how long. Â ...
Random Happenings in the Boat Yard
Monday July 27, 2015 Sometimes, a lot of the time now actually, I'm finding that we're so all over the place with our boat work and every day life that it's ...
Mission Demolition – Galley
Saturday August 1, 2015 Today we ripped apart the entire galley. Â Which must mean that we're close to beginning work on it, and that makes me very excited. Â ...
Odds & Ends Projects
Wednesday August 12, 2015 So we go through all the work of ripping apart the galley, ready to get ourselves started on it so in a month or two we're able to ...
The Process of Routing & Templating
Sunday August 16, 2015 I feel so all over the place with this blog right now because none of our projects seem to go in order, and there's usually the distin ...
A Walk Through of Daze Off
Friday August 21, 2015 I feel like August has basically been a wash as far as boat building goes on the interior. June and July we were kicking things out, o ...
Daze Off Is No Longer
Friday August 28, 2015 Daze Off, that is. Â We didn't like, lose her to a wind storm or sell her off because we can't handle the boat work anymore. Â And no, ...
Stage 1 of Welding on our Aluminum Boat
Monday September 7, 2015 Last week was our first real vacation since we arrived in Florida in March, and our welder's first vacation from working on our boat s ...
Visual Progress
Friday September 18, 2015 Two items of great news! Â 1. Â The welding is almost done! Â Ok, maybe not 100%, we'd float if put in the water kind of done, but ...
Stage 2 of Welding our Aluminum Boat
Wednesday September 23, 2015 It's finished, it's finally finished!! Â The main areas of welding to the floor areas of the head and the galley are now complete. ...
Building our Refrigerator Box: Stage 1
Sunday September 27, 2015 After searching for what seems like months now for the perfect refrigerator for Daze Off, we have come to one conclusion. Â Although ...
Building our Refrigerator Box: Stage 2
Wednesday October 7, 2015 The last I had left you with stage one progress on our refrigeration box is that we'd measured and cut all the pieces of marine plywo ...
Mission Demolition: Pilot House
Wednesday October 21, 2015 The good thing about getting back from vacation at  10 am on Monday was that we still hadn't gotten out of vacation mode yet and ...
Mission Demolition: Pilot House Part II
Sunday October 25, 2015 The chaos continues. Â If we ever thought there was maybe one area inside this boat we're living on while reconstructing it that was st ...
Our First Meal on Daze Off
Monday November 9, 2015 One of the first of many momentous occasions has happened on the new boat. Â We're now able to cook on her and have made our first me ...
Building our Refrigerator Box: Stage 3
Oh yes, the never ending project of building our refrigerator box. Â The very good new is, other than adding a seal around the lip and the decorative trim parts ...
The Only Original Wall That’s Staying Up
Just one last quick project before my parents come to sweep us off for a week of fun and relaxing in Fort Lauderdale (which I have been looking forward to for a ...
Going Bare: Stripping the Paint Off our Aluminum Hull
Awhile back when we were de-naming our boat by trying different methods to remove paint and see if it was what we wanted for the final product, there was a deb ...
Cleaning Out our Daggerboard Slots
Did you know that our boat came with daggerboards? Â Originally, that is. Â We don't have them anymore which is unfortunate, because these two stabalizing boar ...
Replacing the Hatches
A small but important project has been finished! Â We've now replaced our hatches with new plexi glass. Â And this time, they're leak proof. I can't rememb ...
Down the Rabbit Hole…Replacing Our Ports
When I was told we were going to replace the ports (deadlights) on the new boat, I thought 'Sure, no problem'. Â We'd just replaced the hatches, we knew the wea ...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
I wish this post was coming to you with the good news that the new ports have been placed in the port side of the boat, but unfortunately we are back to square ...
Progress on the Head
As you had probably gathered from our previous post on beginning the paint on the pilot house, that is where a lot of our time (and money) is going at the momen ...
Topcoat Paint
There is a final coat of paint on our boat! Â It may only be the pilot house and it may only be on one side, but it still feels like a huge success. Â This also ...
Installing Our New Plexiglass Deadlights
It's finally come, the moment you've all been waiting for! Or wait, maybe it's the moment we've been waiting for. Although I'm sure you were a bit curious as we ...
On to the Next Big Project
Now that we've finished putting 10 of the 15 new plexi windows on Daze Off, it's time for the next big project. Â Not only to we have to prep the companionway w ...
Random Happenings in the Boat Yard
It's time for random happenings in the boat yard! Â Times where there isn't quite enough on a single subject to fill a full post, but things which are important ...
What are we Doing? We’re Still Painting!
Sorry for the few weeks of radio silence there. Â With my computer running into so many issues it was hard to even look at the screen for a period of longer tha ...
Installing the Last of our Plexiglass Windows
Somehow it has now happened that we are a water tight boat. Â From the top at least. Â Don't go actually sticking us in the water just yet because there's still ...
Random Happenings in the Boat Yard
I know it has been forever since I've done any kind of boat work or boat related post, and for that I apologize. Â With things like a failed computer that had m ...
Building Seating in the Pilot House
Progress on the pilot house continues! Â As I mentioned in my previous post, I've currently lost misplaced my memory card that has the photos of us building up ...
Continuing Work on the Pilot House
There has been a lot of work going on inside the pilot house lately! I am just a little more excited that progress is happening here, because as soon as these w ...
Prepping for Paint
It never fails that as soon as we get a few walls new up, and I get excited and gung-ho to get a  nice white coat of paint on them, only to find that project i ...
Rebuilding the Quarter Berth: Part I
The last room. Â We're actually starting work on the last room. Â I honestly wasn't sure this day would ever come. Ok, so work still needs to be done to to the ...
Watch Us Now on YouTube!
That's right, we're transitioning ourselves to be vloggers! Waiting until the boat renovation is only a few short months from completion (I know, I know, we sh ...
Seam Ripper Come Rescue Me
Who knew vlogging could take so much time? Â Oh wait, maybe it's the sewing project I've been working on the past few weeks! Â Either way, the blog has still be ...
Bare Bottomed No More
Dive in with us as we tackle A LOT of boat work in this episode. Subscribe if you'd like to keep following our adventures, and if you enjoyed this episode, g ...
Our Boat Looks Like an Easter Egg
Groundhog Day has come and gone, but in our lives we're still living it every day. Subscribe if you'd like to keep following our adventures, and if you enjoy ...
Sewing, SNADS, & Fuel Systems
It's time to get back to projects on the boat. Matt takes over the heavy duty end of things while putting together our fuel system. A task we've been waiting a ...
Our Engine Has Been Still for 10+ Years … Will It Start?
It's time to face our biggest fear since we got this boat nearly two years ago. Our engine has not been touched since 2006...will it start for us when we try? ...
Out With Our 1 Year Old Topcoat Paint, In With the Awl Grip
Just as we were getting so close to the water, we've added an extra month to our work yard sentence. After having used Petit 2 part epoxy top coat paint last ...
Behind the Scenes: Our Life on the Hard
Ever wonder what we do with our lives while we're not busy with boat projects? In this video we give you a look at a few of the things we do when the cameras ...
Getting the Mast Up – We’re a Sailboat Again!
After 10 months of waiting and one failed attempt, our mast is finally back up again! Back in Episode 9 you'll see that we tried to raise our mast, but the n ...
Matt’s Odd Jobs & A Tour of the Interior
There's no new paint to show off this week as the sanding is taking me *forever*, so instead I decided to follow Matt around to see what keeps him busy everyday ...
A Bit of This and That … aka … Are We Almost Done?
We may not always get to work on what projects we want *when* we want, but there is always something to be done on this boat My Awl Grip top coats have been ...
Applying Awl Grip to Our Cabin Top
It is finally done! Muahahahaha (evil laugh)... The painting is finally done! After 9 weeks of work, removing all our old Petit (2 part EZ Poxy) paint, build ...
Nearing the End of Our 812 Days In the Work Yard
We're so close to getting in the water, and yet still so far. It's been a hectic time for us as we try to finish all the last projects before splashing. With ...
A New Life, A New Name
Daze Off is no longer. From here out our boat shall be named...... After holding on to this specific boat name for 9 years now, we are finally able to use it ...
Our Thoughts on Going Bare
'Why aren't you going to paint your hull?' 'If you're going to leave it bare, you should at least shine it up'. 'You're in for a ton of corrosion if you leave y ...