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Esto si es un yate de verdad, para vivir y recorrer el mundo. Saludos

Extraordinario; el trabajo para reparar todo el barco. Mis felicitaciones.

Nice!

Watching the keel being fitted… so impressive. Amazing job all round.

This is an exceptionally well done job I can’t imagine the amount of work you put into this - totally impressed

Wow! You are so privileged to experience that! I. So happy that you documented it! :)

Having lived in the Virgin Islands for 20+ years, I was much inspired by the designs of Dick Newick and good friend Roger Hatfield. Have sailed on quite a few and eventually decided to build a Lock Crowther Twiggy Mk IIB up in the hills of Tortola. Couldn't do that with Roger or Dick's designs, cos "Wingover" was built in separate units and assembled on the beach. (Now that Launch Party was a PARTY !!) She took me 4 years to build, she sailed beautifully and was very easy on the eye, with wingmast, mast lowering struts, water ballasting, spade rudder assy., whipstaff steering, etc. I sold her some time ago and since she like us, has sailed to Europe and completed many of the intensely gruelling Round Britain and Ireland Race, winning her class in one. She was last seen in Isle de Oleron (near La Rochelle) in France. Roger Hatfield was incredibly helpful and I do miss that 'island style' way of life. Fair winds and broad reaches to y'all ! Bill

Thank you for this lovely video of Minerva! Definitely on my bucket list! Sailed from Vava'u to NZ a few years back but the weather was bad and we had to sail past Minerva! I was heart broken! Hope you get to visit our little island in Vava'u, Taunga. It's beautiful! Enjoy!

Sailing Zatara hauled out there as well.

Is the young fella sailing the tri cant find much about it

What a great video about a very special place. This is the best Minerva video I've seen. Thanks so much.

Fabulous, great to see you guys back! Would love to visit minerva one day....

Nice dive

Vanua Balavu so beautiful great video 💯

That hull looks great for 3.5 years!

Amazing place...Monuriki island...Cast Away, i like that movie since i was a kid...Some day i'll travel to there...Greetings from Venezuela!

Beautiful islands, Matuku and Kadavu...How long is from Viti Lebu by boat??? Greetings from Venezuela!

You guys are Legends one of the best re-fits more than that is was total Re-Build….. Congratulations Bon-Voyage ….

Such an enormous boat and that tiny propeller!🙀🙀😆😆😆. Beautiful job,my compliments to both of you.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

a real labour of love . enjoy ..

This is a really nice boat. Not "good for a scrappy conversion" but just properly nice. It's simple. pretty cramped for an 80-footer, but four cabins, three bathrooms, all well done and properly holding... what more does one want? Will you ever reveal how much you spent on all this beauty including the conversion? I wonder how it looked in its time. I also wonder how fast it goes? I follow another family here on youtube who did a racer conversion. But they chose an IMOCA-60 (66?) boat for conversion. Very different boat, and a different result. Craaaazy!!!! 🙂 But it flies 20 knots on just a main and a jib... and chews through sails like cheese. I wonder how racy your racer is. How deep is your keel, by the way? Yes, I watched the resoration slideshow, might have missed it. Anyway, cool boat. Good job! Kudos.

quality work mate was this the boast that was at smoke house bay on kings birthday weekend

This is my first comment ever on you tube. :👍👍👍👍👍👍

Can you please help me by telling that I have to go from Fiji to New Zealand. I only want a cruise ship from Fiji to Samoa and Auckland. Please note that Apia Samoa (Not American Samoa) . Fiji, Suva, Apia Samoa and finished Auckland New Zealand. Please reply me. Thanks for your video ☺️❤

well done

You mean, that you actually had to pay for this boat yourself?????

Question: is it only two of you living on this 80foot sailing Yacht ? Such a beautiful boat and the work you’ve put into it is astounding.

Impressive, what a build, thank you for the tour

Hello, what a wonderful rebuild. Little Wing is a beauty. Can you remember the material thicknesses of Hull, Wingdeck (bottom and top) and the Bulkheads? I'am thinking of designing a replica. Many thanks, Michel

That first clip at the bow looking out under sail, man i felt that emotion for you! What an insane effort, to be heeled over and charging along finally must be an indescribable feeling

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One of the best trimaran designs ever. love newick's simplicity and sweet lines. She moves through the water so unruffled. Great job on the paint and restoration. I own a 30 foot condor trimaran that is trailerable. But what a job to take her apart and put her together. Wishing you all the best from us Yanks.

Good job mate🎉 question: at 11:00 where those pistons+rings not stored in the freezer before attempting the shuv? Just wondering..

heading to lau in 1 month, can't wait!

Now a squier top main & a screatcher > Take no prisoners .

I was on this in 1989 Gibraltar and met John Chittenden, I have some old slides I can try and send

I saw this video shortly after you loaded it and decided I had to visit both places on my way back from Tonga to Fiji and had both of them to myself. The turtles at Duff Reef were amazing, and I had some good kitesurfing there too. Thanks!

Wow, what an undertaking. Amazing work guys.

My husband and I crewed on tis boat in the Fastnet Race in 1995. It was a super experience. Now it's quite wonderful to see the incredible transformation you've made. Well done!

Any details on the cost of purchase and refit?

I sailed on Creighton's Naturally in the 1995 Fastnet during which we anchored as a racing tactic! Absolutely fabulous to see her restored and back where she belongs. Truly well done a magnificent achievement.

Great team effort. Clear explanations. Well done.

Great review.

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When you hone barrels you are not polishing them and making them shiny, you trying to make a "plateau", so it has an XX pattern at a 45° angle to hold/direct the oil to where its needed and to wear the rings in. You are trying to cut the glaze off and if you just polishing it, or making your hone lines all haphazard at the wrong angles, you just wasting a set of rings and could be damaging the cylinders and then you need to re-bore and go oversize pistons and rings to fix it. And it might look like its working at first but if you don't remove the glaze or you polishing it, the rings wont bite and you'll still get blow back and your lubrication wont be optimal.

nice rebuild, very useful that you're able to drop the oil pan in mounted condition and you didn't have to replace the cylinder sleeves... i asume you overhauled the injectors as well and checked the oil pump for wear.

Wow! Very thorough and very clean when all said and done. Were you able to hire a machine shop locally to dress the head, or did you have to send it back to AU or UK or the like? How long in total were without an engine?

Impressive stuff and made easier with a family of engineers well done all.

Love those old straight six marinised truck engines! They're great for working on and seem to last forever!

Great axess , Did you bother doing the Hoses & Belts , You could eat off that bilge