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Sailing Squib - The holiday begins /1
October 23, 2025 · 20 min · 1K views
What this video covers
After nearly four years of refit, the crew of the pocket catamaran Squib prepares to depart Vienna for the Danube Delta, then onward through the Black Sea and Turkey to a winter berth at Mesolon, Greece — a passage planned to take roughly two months.0:26 Departure day arrives but slips by ten days as a chain of unfinished tasks keeps the boat dockside.1:42 Sabina joins for the first day of her holiday and immediately starts work.1:22 Tasks tackled include connecting port and starboard engine hoses and wiring, testing a small seawater pump (roughly 15 cm) for dual use on the freshwater tank, locating and re-drilling original railing stanchion holes that a previous owner had faired over invisibly, fitting new rudder blades onto old tillers after drilling out undersized holes with a Dremel, gluing the bathroom sink with sealant and weighting it overnight, installing a Y-piece for the waste tank, fabricating plastic shim washers to level cockpit locker lid hinges over a 5 mm teak-style overlay, and cutting a sliding sun shade panel for the overhead hatch.3:49 Rain repeatedly drives work indoors.6:11 Every small job opens another dependency, confirming the refit's pattern: no task is as quick as it looks.8:50
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