What a nice surprise today. We received an email with a few photos from the Yacht Rigger. He was able to put up 3 of the 4 sails on today. Wow does Free Spirit look ready to go now! We are hoping to be able to shut off the motor and sail her home once…

Well the day has finally arrived! Today is the day that we splashed in the water. The engine was finally running and everything looks good. We decided to leave Free Spirit in the water for an extra week rather than trying to take of tomorrow. We needed to ensure there were no leaks or water…

Our YouTube Channel is now live and we have posted several videos and have had one live stream event. Join us each Friday as a new video is released to show the progress of Free Spirit. This week was a huge a milestone as we moved from So FL to Palmetto to begin the retrofit…

Well he have been making some slow progress on the boat as we have been waiting for 2 months to get the new engine. We had done everything we possibly could to make Free Spirit water tight and sea ready. Now comes the fun part. The masts are just about ready to be installed and…

Join us for a live streaming Question and Answer session today at 3pm. We will answer all of your questions, provide complete status of the boat with progress thru last weekend and what is next on the project list. We will continue to do our best to provide you with updates to the website and…

So we have been extremely busy over the last 2 weeks between working full time and working on on the boat and the heat advisory for the weather there just hasn’t been anytime for me to update. So I am combining the last 2 work weekends into one post so we are back up to…

Received the final number of additional thru hulls needed and placed that order today. Having them shipped out overnight so we can drop them off after work tomorrow. There are a total of 11 more that are needed. We are trying to get into the water by the end of the week. It’s a tight…

More progress is done on the boat. I am so excited to see her coming back to life. The amount of work done was solid for the weekend and we couldn’t be any happier with the progress. Saturday, we had the kids and of course after a few hours, they were done for the day…

More amazing progress was done this weekend and some work was stalled because of the heat (and high chance of rain). Here are the updates: Bottom painting hasn’t been done yet and the contractor is still working on installing the prop shaft seals and the thru hulls. We hope to have this completed this week…