Boat Tour: Inside our Tiny Home. The 50 year old sailboat we rebuilt - Episode 180
This week's episode is a little longer than usual but as you know there's a lot packed inside Mirrool's 30 feet and it is a subject close to our hearts.
The refit in Tasmania was a lot of hard work but we think this episode showcases why every bruise and itch was worth it. As you watch the video and see the transformation we especially want you to feel that you were directly involved. Your valuable support and many words of encouragement were greatly appreciated when the going was at its toughest.
This episode is quite information dense but we have broken it down in to chapters in order for you to use it as an index of the projects we covered throughout the refit. In the description of the video you will see timestamps for each subject and, where relevant, we've put a link to further videos covering projects or certain elements in more detail.
We hope you enjoy this virtual tour through our tiny home!
With gratitude
Troy and Pascale
Comments (26)
Fantastic episode! Your work on the refit is so inspiring!! I hope to implement many of these solutions as I work on my little boat...
Thanks. Just bought my first boat and using your videos to supplement books and courses to get it going. Nearly there! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
You're welcome Tracey and congratulations on your new vessel. How exciting!
Really enjoyed the tour. Mirrool came out so nice. You guys did a fantastic job of refitting her. Everything is so functional. Everything you need, nothing you don’t. I know you said it was a longer video to start, but I was enjoying it so much I couldn’t believe it when it had finished.
When we had finished filming, it had taken 4 hours! You might find the unedited version a bit much 😄
This video fills in some gaps in my understanding of the re-fit. And, while it might have been a little longer than your regular vids, the detail is much appreciated.
You're welcome Sean. Let us know if there's anything we missed you want to know about! Pascale
Hi Troy and Pascy, don't apologise for anything, ever, unless you inadvertently drop out an Ausie expletive! That was a very informative vid mostly understandable but otherwise interesting, I like your safety measures of which some went flying over my head (mostly those ones that create sparks). How did the tightening of Stbd Shroud go ( i think it was Stbd, I was sitting here trying to visualise when you were showing us Troy. Oh heavens I saw where someone was talking about slapping shrouds on aluminium masts, that is pet hat when moored in company with other boats with metal shrouds and aluminium masts. Most people I know who use their yachts often soon workout how annoying that slap slap is, 'taint hard to tie off Halyards (that's what I should have said in the first place!!!) Any ideas on further cruising and fishing?
Was there anything you didn't quite understand that you would like us to elaborate on? Not sure what you mean about safety measures that create sparks? The tightening of all the shrouds has been a big success and the Dyneema has been stretched in and we haven't had to do any adjustments since we left Fremantle. We are currently cruising up the WA coast (in Dampier at the moment) and we will be bringing you all more fishing and cruising videos once I have made them! I have the footage from the last 2 months i just have to sit down, sort and edit it all. Lots to look forward to. Pascale
We enjoyed watching you do the refit and also seeing this video on how it all came together. Nice work
Nicely done!
Thanks so much for sharing all that with us! I really hope some day it will come in handy for myself, but just good to know all those little tips and tricks. Love it!
Cheers Jon
Great episode and nice to see all the work you two have done in the refit and the feedback on how it's all performing now that it's been well tested. I'll be coming back to this one when I start my own refit in the comig months; so many really well thought out ideas. Thankyou.
Fantastic we are so happy that you will be able to use as a resource for you own endeavors!
I guess one of the joys of a small boat is the lack of storage. The reason I feel is that I note everything you have in drawers or cupboards, glass jars, cutlery and bottles and so on are all wedged in tightly and in many cases glass and steel are separated by plastic storage containers, cloths ao simply wedged tightly together, Many years ago I took a Farr 36 bareboat. First night we anchored at one of the islands and went ashore for a convivial evening, got back to the boat under the weather and went to bed. In the morning a nice gentleman came over to the boat ostensibly to talk about the Farr. During the conversation he asked if we needed help with the halyards. It transpired as novices we did not realise that the slapping halyards had driven the boats in near proximity crazy. The next night the boat had persistent clinks and rattles from poor stowage which had me up half the night trying to find them so we could sleep. I see you have that under control in the way you think to store stuff. Sorry to be a bore but noise at night can spoil the sailing experience. Love your vids !
We know all too well about noises coming strange places even in our tightly packed little lockers! Just recently we kept up for a good portion of the night trying to locate a creak that was reverberating down through the boat from the bow roller. We had wind against tide in the anchorage so a stiff little chop was making the boat bob up and down. It was so subtle (but loud enough to keep us awake) that we didn't realise it was coming from the bow roller until a couple of hours later after we'd done a full inspection of everything on deck, as well as, on the inside of all our lockers.
Great Video Troy & Pascale... Love that East intercourse Island and the concourse is in the background... Great FIFO memories for me & plus your Coconut raiding when you where last there ...I am with Cornelis .. I couldn't get a decent gimballing metho stove for love or money.. Origo 2 burner for me too :( Have a beer for me at the Penny Palms Pub :)
Nice spotting of our location Brett! Sadly, the coconuts in town have been pruned and all the fruit is removed. A very sad occasion indeed. We had a beer at The Mermaid which I suspect may have once been the Penny Palms pub? It's so annoying that Maxie stopped making their stoves although we do see them from time to time on Gumtree and thrown out in boat yards (we like to get in and salvage parts when we can!).
About gas vs. alcohol stoves: Literally the first thing I did after I purchased my Rustler 31, was pulling out the gas installation. And, you never going to believe this, there were two copper pipe fittings (tucked away up in a cupboard next to the sink) that were only hand-tight. Boy, was I happy that I made this decision. I now have an Dometic Origo two-burner stove.
We absolutely believe it!😬
Thank you so much for the great video! I followed your refit work week by week and it’s very exciting to have a boat tour of the full interior. It puts all the videos into place and is a great appetizer or reminder of all the great inspiration and information the Free Range Sailing videos are offering to the sailing community. Thank you for sharing - you guys rock!! …the summer holiday is over for me and it’s back to my own boat refit project(s) in a few days. Your video hit me at the perfect time, now I’m filled with new motivation.
The work is hard while you are at it but is later eclipsed by the feeling of accomplishment each time you are using your 'new boat'. We hope you feel the same!
Your tiny sailing yacht looks amazing! White with wood works well. I have a Rustler 31 that has all the wall and ceiling lining (vinyl with thin layer of powered/rotten foam) stripped. I'd love to paint bulkheads, glasfiber walls, and ceiling white, but I have one big concern: Once painted I won't be able to visually spot wet core areas anymore. (I've already repaired a large rotten balsa core area (under the foredeck) and there's a smaller area around the companion way.) How do you guys feel/think about not being able to inspect the core anymore visually?
We only have a small patch of marine ply as cored deck so I'm not sure we are the best ones to ask. By ensuring all of our deck penetrations are strictly only exterior sealed, with the inner washers and nuts having no sealing material at all, any water leaks show up around the fasteners as brown drips. (We never have any drips now) Also, the rotten parts of our cockpit didn't show up on either inner or outer shell and we only found it by looking for soft patches in the GRP.
Thank you so much for the detailed boat tour! Most informative!