Lead acid batteries can eat a sailboat alive!

Lead Acid Batteries can dissolve a sailboat!

Our latest video is out! So much work to take out the old corroded wood and build a new battery box! Share in Patricks misery as he sees just how extensive the damage is from these lead acid batteries!

Whether duribg rough seas, equalization, or every day use, the battery fumes while chargibg, or actual leakage, battery acid has ruined all of the wood in the battery compartment/battery box on our sailboat. Trojan t-105 batteries are awesome batteries, but the ecscaped battery acid has rotted everything and Patrick replaces the entire battery box in this 2 part series!

Valiant 40 Sailboat Tour (#3) Down Below Part 2. Water Tank Repair, Chain Locker, Marine Toilet, Electronics

We just posted our latest Sailboat How To Video yesterday.  We now have Closed Captions on our Videos which are being perfected daily.

Bluewater Cruising Sailboat Tour – Valiant 40 (Chain Locker, Water Tank Repair, Marine Toilet) Sailing Video #32

Another “Sailboat How To Video”/“Fixing Sailboats” video detailing 4 areas of fixing this old bluewater sailboat: 

  1. Sailboat Chain locker..a modification

  2. Sailboat Water tank repair instead of replacement

  3. Jabsco Marine toilet maintenance

  4. Headliner replacement (ceiling)

Patrick Childress, takes apart the Jabsco marine toilet and shows how to clean the deposits off, and lubricate the seals. He talks about how to restore a water tank on a sailboat instead of water tank replacement with epoxy and paint. He goes in to detail about the anchor chain locker and how to run the anchor chain further aft and lower. He also covers the replacement of the headliner. Rebecca debuts and gives a quick tour of the nav station and marine electronics aboard offshore cruising yacht, “Brick House”.

We have started a new YouTube channel…about the adventures we have in the countries we go to. We are NOT going to post those adventures on this channel anymore…. If you like those videos too…please check out our other channel at Our Other New Youtube Channel…The fun… And PLEASE…SUBSCRIBE TO THAT CHANNEL TOO!

This is Video 3 in a Valiant 40 Sailboat Tour

Part 1 :   (Above decks): Valiant 40 Tour Top Side

Part 2 : (Below deck): Valiant Tour 2 Down Below

Part 3 (Below deck part 2 #3) (This is the one you are watching now.)

Be sure to watch for the next video…the engine room…., or better yet subscribe and click the bell so you know right away when we have released the next video!


Here are some links for the Products seen in this video. 

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 Toilet

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Redport Halo Long Distance WiFi Antenna

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Predictwind Iridium GO. Predictwind Iridium GO

Predictwind Iridium GO External Antenna Predictwind External Antenna

My articles on Predictwind and Iridium GO: 

The decision

Article 2

 

Offshore Navigator Article Jan/Feb 2019

Predictwind has a lot of info on their site too about the iridium GO. 

       Predictwind website

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Here is the other channel we have…the PLEASURES of sailing around the world…so many amazing places to see. We aren’t always fixing the boat in exotic ports…I swear…

 

 

 

Ever wonder if Patrick wrote any books in his life?

Did Patrick Childress, captain of SV Brick House, ever write a book?

In fact..he did…he co-authored one with his ex wife Lynda Morris Childress, and another guy, Tink Martin, decades ago. Click on the link below to find out more…

A Cruising Guide to…

Patrick and Rebecca were asked to write an update to this book, but declined because they wanted to sail to further reaches of the world.

Patrick has all but written another book, about how to fix and upgrade your Bluewater Cruiser, but since there have been no publishers, he has instead made it in to his own YouTube channel which shows often unique ways of repairing, upgrading and sailing a bluewater cruising sailboat.

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Patrick’s YouTube Channel

About the Crew – Patrick Childress and Rebecca Childress Sailing around the World in a Valiant 40

 

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