Thanks for watching! If you guys have any questions please shoot, and we'll go through them together. :) Please "LIKE" the video if you dig the content, and PLEASE check your thru hulls, they are responsible for many sinking boats. Much love! -James

James, here’s the thing: I’m fed up with videos edited to the guts. I’m not here for some netflix crap here. I swear I’m more entertained since you have this raw stuff going on. I feel involved, a lot more attached, and I got to see all the rough edges. A LOT more credible. Despite the fact you are not sailing I watch your channel a lot more than the other sailing channels. Sugarcoating and nice landscape shots are overused - I love this back to basics thing thats going on with you right now. I couldnt care less about online soap operas soaking in lies. Cant wait to see the next post!

Those valves look like brass. They need to be Navy Bronze or silicon bronze. Sixteen thru-hulls is absurd'

Hi James, I have never seen such a positive and motivated man like you. Your films are great especially for privat boat workers. I thank you for that. Please stay healthy and positive thinking during this time and if you come to german waters one day, maybe we can see us on the water.

Thanks for the tour of the important holes in your boat. If more people paid attention to this, the coast guard would be less busy.

I’m sending this to all my friends who “think they want a boat”.. ha. Thanks for these boat school sessions- I’m learning a lot like I did in my old automotive class, it saved my life when I bought a van to travel in!

I'd replace 100% on a 10-year rotational basis, but I'm fanatical about that ever since my step-dad's boat sank at the dock in Booth Bay in 1980. Also, I'm big fan of Forespar's Marelon products. No electrolysis issues.

This is the first time I've seen anyone from the YT sailing community talk about Thru Hulls and how they can literally sink your dreams. Your video is an eye opener for my notions of owning a boat someday. Thanks for this great clinic! Subscribed after I saw this.

So glad your doing every valve and thru hole!!!!

Lots of great info. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍

thanks for the heads up, very informative

Wow! Another very helpful video -- thanks.

Check the hoses too . I had a boat where I was able to just rip the hose in half with my bare hands and little effort .

Nice vid James... Keep em coming

This is the best intro of any of the sailing videos, well done

Thats a crazy amount of through holes.

Can’t wait to start the journey bra!

James you are killing it. Keep up the great videos I have been watching your videos since you bot the cat. I can t wait to see were this boat takes you. Cheers from Canada

I am really excited about the direction of your channel dude and your new boat is Super cool.

You got this man!

So happy for you man. I know it's going to be a ton of work, but you look like you are in the right place :)

Been watching you from the beginning, pulling for you James

Great, great tip on checking ball valves during inspection! Thanks, keep them coming James

Awesome stuff . Keep going .

James, Your energy is mind blowing, This thread gonna be more interesting than it ever was!

Thanks for sharing this! I've been loving your content and I'm super stoked to see your progress with these. I have at least two or three that need replacing on mine but that doesn't seem so bad now! Good luck haha.

A beauty can also be a beast. Much respect for taking on that lady. Been there before with smaller ambitions, an '84 Jeanneau SunFizz 40. Tore everything apart and refitted with new. Had help mind you. Anything we did not refit ended up breaking later. Fair refit winds dude, from Alex in Cape Verde Africa. Where I've been stuck due to the pandemic.

Great video. I am so looking forward to watching your rehabilitation of the Oyster. You can do this!

Informative and entertaining, and best of all you actually sail your sailboat!! Looking forward to watching you get your new boat up and running.

Way cool James. Am impressed with the new boat and also your huge + attitude. Definitely needed for the work ahead. But, this boat is a beauty and well worth the effort. Been following you from the beginning and am really looking forward to the repairs and the new adventures. All good my friend. Cheers and beers for now.

As a British bloke who grew up as our country changed over to metrics, I'm amazed by how many of our 'standard' weights and measures are still in Imperial units. We go to the pub for a few pints, we drive home in miles, and most people think of fuel economy in MPG. We would never talk of a distance in kilometers or meters, and so many other standards are the same. Many of us still think that 80c is warm, because we work in fahrenheit still. 27c degrees sounds cold to me, even though in 'f' it is 81. At school, way back in the 1960s we had to learn BOTH standards as the European Unionists and their masterplan started to forever alter the way we lived. One benefit of this though, was that our money went from this (known as LSD - pounds, shillings and pence): 4 farthings or two halfpennies to a penny; 12 pennies to a shilling; 20 shillings to a £, ie 240 pennies to a £. We also used florins, half-crowns, crowns and guineas. Most of these also had colloquial names It was a fucking nightmare to add up a column of amounts, and had to go. No wonder poor bastards like Scrooge spent so long adding up figures by the light of a solitary candle until late at night. People misjudge him. Possibly. America has wisely and stubbornly refused to metricate, and when I moved to live in New York for a few years in the 80s it was a dream to find tape measures ONLY in inches and feet. I was a roofer and sider, and so we used 'squares', which I'd never heard of before. It was a dream come true to be British once again. PLUS I could drink more pints than I'd done before, because an American pint has 16 fluid ounces while a British one has 20 fluid ounces. I'm not sure how that happened, but maybe it was a deliberate alteration like the different spellings we employ, eg color, neighbor etc, which I think were part of an organised change back in the early 1900s. Anyway, James you are a top bloke, 100% solid, decent and intelligent, and you convey information with quite remarkable clarity. You are much loved by your viewers, so please always be safe and have many happy adventures on your new boat SV Britannia (ha ha). One minor suggestion: I bet your women viewers would appreciate a female-only crew, so they can be proud of their gender's achievements on board. Men are ok, but really not decorative, so may I humbly suggest you only have luscious crumpet.....ooops, I mean LADIES on your boat. You know it makes sense! Fondest, kindest wishes to you! Mike.

wood in that boat looks awesome man. i dig it

Love that Intro.

Just found this channel. Best. Intro. Ever.

So awesome to see you doing an all around replacement of through-hulls and valves. Your first guest are Canucks! Much love brotha! ❤️🙏🏼🇨🇦

Every step is one step closer!

FYI Jamed this video was only in my email not in my notifications on youtube. I almost didnt click on it thinking it was the other video you posted 3 days ago... Loving these videos and I Love that boat... kinda my dream boat... although my c&C 44 is pretty nice too... but Oyster...awesome!

Good work bro love your videos and hope to see ya out here soon!

Hi Jordan, Des I admirer you choice of cruising, living your dreams, showing us the beauty of other cultures, on your journey I've be towing with the idea for a while now, have been looking for the right boat to live on so I can get out there cruising . Great live stream 🤙

Damn! That boat has more holes than a pasta strainer!

Keep the tips coming!!! Invaluable, thank you. Enjoy your work, where boats are concerned you either love it , eat it all up , or hate it and it drives you crazy. It looks like you love it . My friend loves the restoration part.

I really like this intro. much better. I thought it would only be short term but damn.. very happy youve kept it.

Wow on those thru hulls

Keep it up buddy! Greetings from Norway

quality content this!

Your videos are great. You just sank my enthusiasm for owning another sailing boat. I may try to rent. Holy crap what you went through.

New to your channel. Great stuff! Looking forward to the refit of that beauty of a boat. Cheers.

its always good to make sure all your holes are clean and work well.

I’m a new viewer, don’t own a boat and have never sailed, yet I love sailing channels. I can’t wait to see you get this project on the water and to watch your travels! Keep safe!

Damn James, you are a lucky man, in my opinion you are living the dream!! Happy trails dude

Just remember; Stainless steel means, STAIN LESS Doesn’t mean it won’t break or corrode. It just means; STAIN LESS. Perfect example is the hose clamp that James showed.

I'll be following you step by step as I refit my own boat. Although mine is only 28 feet. Cheers!

IMHO you should have at least the biggest through hulls equipped with zink expendables and wired to your lightning protection circuit. Also a small hand pump to connect to even the new replacement valves to see if they leak when turned off.

Just watched your fuel problem clip start with making positive the fuel and engine are perfect, then a reliable parts inventory and back ups!

Liiiit I needed a video like this 🔥

I watched a couple of your videos about a year ago and I have to say that you have changed so much in the last year that I became a subscriber because I was not only shocked at Mays how much do red grown but the fact that you showed the true intelligence that you have when it comes to fixing things I think that I was a little bit put off because it seems that your videos for more in a fun atmosphere and not exactly in the real atmosphere these videos that you're putting out now are amazing thank you for sharing and God bless

An interesting video of a very important subject, certainly an eye opener..Thank you.. :-))

As I’ve said before James, Nobody knows boats and the care for them as you do bro! Much success Sir!

I really liked how the guy on the phone kind of explained how he felt and why he was helping. Especially that part about being friends, sometimes it sort of feels like that. THey share so much

James you went through so many different life situations that there is no doubt you will finish your new project..even there are few days of food from cans..you are a great,working man and I cannot wait for a day when all this will be behind you and you will enjoy " freedom"of sailing again..till then I wish you strength and many smiles with positive thoughts.Keep gooing⚓🍀

we had fun on Sanibel Island meeting the builder of the nacra sailboat and tested hull #00 for a winter of great winds..

As someone who's obsessed with boats and hasn't gotten to work on my own yet, living vicariously and learning so much from these videos James!! Oh and if you ever need a dig out my guitar travels with me, haha.

I’m also loving that you filmed calling your patreon winner. Makes me think of guerrilla style filmmaking. Keep up the great work James. PS. Missing Kimmy. 💔

A beautiful boat, and very hard to come by for the right price due to the fabulous build quality, you have certainly got a good buy, im currently in the process of selling everything i own, to buy a boat, subscribed and notifications are ON!

Great edit James. Yes I changed out all my though hulls this year but have a lot less than that on my cat !

The gold standard of youtube intros Music was very well chosen James 👏

Now I understand when boat builders brag about a single through hull and a sea chest..great job James, been following along since Fl..

Worthwhile changing every one and do the hoses and clips etc while your at it. Cheers and good luck 🥃👍

After watching the first minute of the video, I would say this is how sailing boats go in my experience. Nothing is ever easy or straightforward.

Wow that's a lot of thru hulls. Thanks for the tour and diagnostic process. Your videos are highly informative and educational, and you're doing a service to the entire human race by making them. I'm not joking. Thanks! Please keep teaching! For anyone who doesn't know, thru hulls are to let water in or water or waste out. They're a hole in the boat with a valve on it. The valves are only opened when needed. If a thru hull fails, the boat can fill with water and sink. That's why there's an emergency bung next to each one to plug the hole if something breaks off or otherwise fails. In fact many boats have sunk due to the thru hulls failing and the sailors not being able to find the leak in time. That's why a chart of the thru hulls is pretty much required.

I am myself in the final throes of doing a refit on a 74 Camper Nicholson 42 and I found that many parts on those boats are built to be serviced regularly or repaired and not just exchanged, so I think you may want to take your time and consider. These are quality boats man! And don’t throw away anything. until you have been through the refit

great vid

Great idea to share the experience, very courageous and super cool. Going to be an awesome episode with a 💩 load of views. Keep it genuine.

This is some of what I need to do on my boat

So glad you decided to change all those valves, when i watching I was like NO!! Just change them all even if they turn the seals in them are dicked, anyways great boat, great find, great channel.

Beauty the scenery is so beautiful and stunning.Very enjoyable! Reminds me of my trips where I take the good music like the Guns N Roses, Imagine Draongs or the Delta Parole and then enjoy the powerful feeling of the sea. ¡vamos!

Great video. As a prior submarine sailor you have a very healthy perspective of hull integrity. Your decision to replace all through hulls and seacocks (hull valves) is spot on. From a past Navy SUBSAFE Program Director.

Awesome dude wish i could be there helping you🙌

I never realised boats had so many through hulls! Your boat´s a pin cushion mate! Great vids, thanks.

Watching you has me slightly worried about getting my boat ready later this year. I’ll need a giant checklist.

Tru Design, poly composite thru hulls& valves! Marine silicon on threads, did 6 on my 30ft mono, no problems, no metal, no rust, no worries 🙂👍

Great videos. I lived on a 33 ft Bristol and a 27 Island Packet. Those thru-hulls need to be inspected often. I found that out the hard way! I pulled my boat in Green Cove Springs and the prop was like clay (crumbling in my hands) Thru-hulls were beyond pink!. All because of a bad gound in my shore cord. As you well know, those can get very expensive, but well worth the effort to replace. If I learned anything from living on a boat.....KNOW YOUR BOAT !!!

Hello all - replace all valves below the waterline to stainless steel - that's the way to go ..... Loving you channel

Super Dope🤘🏾

James, something I am a big fan of is combining through hulls if you can, on my boat I was able to get rid of several of my through hulls, moved a couple above the water line. Less holes in a boat under the water line are always a good thing! Especially with the holding tank and toilet discharge, you could combine those into one, and remove the through hull under the shower seat, then that locker could be painted up and used for storage.

YOU GOT IT JAMES! REPLACE THEM ALL DON’T RISK THE BOAT!

James, this is my first comment. I'm retired now but sailed my entire adult life here in the Pacific Northwest. You are 100% correct to start with these thru-hulls. Had a clamp break off on a friends boat and fortunately the high water alarm worked and we saved the boat. I knew something was wrong because the boat was dragging along loosing speed. I hope wanna-be sailors buying an older boat see this excellent video and take heed to do what you did.

I had a wooden 34ft charter boat years ago that was built in 1945 and changed every thru-hull fitting when I got her. Piece of mind there. I would love to come sailing with you but alas I'm in Melbourne Australia and You're not anywhere near here and we are not allowed to fly anywhere at present due to this lovely COVID bullshit that is happening around the world at present... another great video and stay safe.

James the orientation of handles on all the bikini or 'ball' valves I have encountered can usually be altered by simply undoing the nut and relocating the handle. Therefore the handle for valve on the through hull for the cockpit drain could be repositioned to the other side where it would not foul on the hose that is currently in the way.

Great warning on the thru-hole fittings. Just got my boat in the water a few years ago, right after delivery. In the water, I checked a fitting attached to a 2" gate valve attached to the thru standpipe. One touch with a pipe wrench and I had a 2" diameter fountain out of the bottom of the boat!. Around the same time, my neighbor was woke up at 3am on his boat with 1ft of water in the cabin from a thru-hole fitting that shattered under the shower area in the head. No access, with 3 pumps running, he used a chainsaw to cut out the floor to plug the hole. He was only a couple minutes from sinking. If he was at sea, it would have been over, no recovery! Thanks from Boston MA

With the right tools and a bench vice it will a smooth job. Step by step fixing 2 or 3 thru hulls ever day this job will be done in a few weeks. No worrys mate, just keep going!

Really loving the practical, vlog style, focus more on the yacht, maintenance and hopefully the sailing and travels to come. Really loved all your previous instructional informational videos in the past. Keep it real and please steer away from bikini/party click bait thumbnails/titles. Guys, it’s the 21st century, some respect for the ladies in your life please. I’ve not watched 2 particular popular channels for only that reason. James, keep these coming, they’re great. Thanks.

One of the best things about our Whitby 42 was that it had a sea-chest. It didn't eliminate every possible seawater inlet but did greatly reduced them number of them. I think from one inlet we had 6-8 outlets.

I know they are expensive but I would change every one of those valves and thru Hull fittings. Losing a fitting at Sea can all the boat. Safety safety safety. BEAUTIFUL BOAT‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸

Last guy that owned the boat was smart I been on a lot of boats with no bunge anywhere to be found around the through hauls always have a bunge tied to your through haul and keep a mallet where everyone on the boat knows it will be most people have no idea how much water will come through an open hole 1 1/2 or 2 inches below the water line it can easily over whelm your pump when your fumbling around trying to find something to stuff in the hole and a hammer to drive it in tightly

I'm glad you decided to Replace them ALL Bro.!!!! Anything below the waterline, Replace it Before you Splash, that way ya won't Sink it to save a Few Dollars!!! Gitter Dun

Thanks for reaching out to Sailing into freedom, they need all the help they can after getting hit by lightning.

Awesome video man! We can learn a lot from you during our restauration ! Thanks again for the help you offered us after our first video! Enjoy Curaçao ✌️

Pretty cool that guy immediately recognized your voice! Nice!

Willing to come assist right now bro