Replacing the Cutlass bearing WITHOUT SWEARING!! | Sailboat Refit 2, Ep 215

After hitting the reef early 2020 we ended up with a bent shaft and needing to replace the cutlass bearing. Simple enough... https://www.sailingnandji.com/ If you are getting something out of our videos, please become a Patron to help support our production and adventures. Get Exclusive videos and engage with us more personally!http://www.patreon.com/Nandji If you would like to contribute towards Nandj videos, please use this link. Thank you. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SailingNandji Grab some Sailing Nandji merch and help support our adventures whilst looking good! https://sailingnandji-shop.com In this episode of Sailing Nandji, after our little reef scenario early in 2020 we had some issues that still needed fixing. We discovered that the shaft was bent and needed straightening, which in turn rapidly wore out our cutlass bearing. After removing the drive system and cutlass bearing months ago, the new cutlass finally arrived in the post. Without a machine to press the cutlass in, I get creative and Macguiver that puppy home. With no sailing experience, we bought a yacht, got it blue water cruising ready and set off from Australia sailing to the Pacific! We have since cruised through New Caledonia, Vanuatu, the Solomon islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and then onto the boat yard in Malaysia to prepare for the years to come. With a new engine, we continued onto Thailand, then back down into Indonesia and specifically West Sumatra to live the island life and chase the surf. With our Sailing plans changing, we returned to Thailand to wait for the weather and begin our journey to the northern route of the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka before heading south across the Indian Ocean once cyclone season has finished and the trade winds begin! We were on our shake down sail when the mooring we were on failed and our home ended up on the reef. We saved the old girl and got her back to the boat yard for repairs to continue on our adventure! Ready to sail across the Indian Ocean, we were only days away from leaving when the pandemic begun closing countries around us... We are stuck for now, but enjoying the slower pace as we have our first baby on the way to be born overseas! We departed the east coast of Australia in July 2017 and have since sailed over 10000nm offshore. We have explored some amazing countries and met some beautiful people along the way. We have experienced so many different and diverse cultures, dived pristine reefs, surfed solo in the middle of nowhere, spent weeks at sea, dealt with storms, big waves, strong winds and had the time of our lives doing it! The adventure is just beginning as we sail West with the trades around the World! SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL. https://www.youtube.com/c/frothlyfesailingnandji CLICK THE BELL to know when NEW Nandji videos are up! For many small vids and awesome pictures! https://www.instagram.com/sailing_nandji Marley's on The gram too! @SaltydogMarley Be sure to like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/sailingnandji Follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/sailingnandji SUBSCRIBE to our Newsletter for updates on our adventures! https://www.sailingnandji.com Cheers legends! Thanks for watching Sailing Nandji, and helping us reach 100K subscribers! It is such a massive milestone for us and we are so stoked you guys enjoy our videos. If you liked this video please subscribe to our channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/frothlyfesailingnandji If you enjoyed this video, Replacing the Cutlass bearing WITHOUT SWEARING!! | Sailboat Refit 2... from Sailing Nandji, Click the link below and view it again! Yew! https://youtu.be/kuELAA5Ovuw