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- Welcome to our boat tour we just bought this boat.
It is a Hallberg-Rassy Rasmus 35 from 1976
and if you're new to this channel, my name is Dana
and with my husband Lou
we actually spent the last two years living in a van
traveling around Europe,
and then when my younger brother David wanted to
join the team to make videos full time
we decided that a van was too small
and that we wanted to live on the ocean instead
and so we spent the last few months
trying to find the perfect boat for us
and I think that we did it
and I thought I would take you through
the whole set up that we have
and then what kind of changes we're going to try to do
in the next few months
so that you can see where our boat journey begins
because we have really big goals.
We're hoping to live on this boat for a few years
and see a lot of the world
so this is just the beginning
and I'm really excited to show you around.
I thought I would start with a little overview
of our boat's layout
and I figured it would be easiest
just to walk you through the back of the boat or the stern
to the front of the boat or the bow.
So here we have the aft cabin and that's David's room.
Next we have the center cockpit, the nav station,
the galley also known as the kitchen,
the saloon or living room
and here we have the head, also known as a bathroom
and in the front we've got our V-Berth
and that's Lou and my bedroom.
Now that you've got an understanding for how she's set up,
let's show you the real thing.
Welcome to our kitchen.
It's honestly a pretty big kitchen in my opinion
after living in a van.
There is a great deal of storage here for pots and pans
and canned goods and dried beans and things like that
but the thing that I think is really cool
is that there is actually a two burner stove and oven
which we haven't tried out yet
but that seems pretty crazy to have an oven
after living in a van, that's a huge perk for me.
The other thing is that there's
a pretty large sink on this boat.
The owner previously was a naval engineer
and he rebuilt a lot of this boat
part of it being the whole kitchen
though he did salvage the stove top
so that's original from the boat
which I think is pretty cool.
But the rest of this stuff he rebuilt
and one of the things he put in was a huge sink
so that should be very nice.
The only thing is he didn't put in a fridge
which I understand because they take a lot of power
but we do have an icebox
which I've never actually used an icebox before
so I can't say if it's gonna work or not for us,
we're not sure.
We think that maybe in the future we would put a fridge in
but it totally depends on how much power we have
and if the solar panels that we put in
end up having any extra
then maybe we'll put in a fridge one day
but overall I think it's pretty good.
And then if you're rocking and cooking at the same time
you do have these hand holds,
so I feel like overall I'm really looking forward
to getting comfortable and making this our home.
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This nav station is a system designed for sailors who use
paper charts
but since we're going to be using digital charts
we thought we'd turn it into a standing desk.
Our plan is to remove the chair and desk support
and then add six drawers.
We'll keep the hinged top but expand it
so that it can fit our camera
and a few other critical items.
Hopefully after all the construction is done,
this corner of the boat will make life aboard
much more comfortable and organized.
It's a bit of a project
and I hope that we can make it look as nice as it looks now
but the boys have convinced me that it'll still look pretty
when they're done with it
so fingers crossed it looks nice.
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(all laugh)
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So this is our seating area
so I think this is going to be our dining table,
our workspace, where we hang out
but I think for us it seems like a great option.
This table also goes down
and then you can turn this whole thing into an extra bed
in case we ever have visitors.
Or I've been told that if the ocean gets really rough
we'll probably end up, Lou and I will end up sleeping here
because the middle of the boat rocks a lot less
than the front of the boat.
So yeah, a lot of new experiences to come
but overall I think this is a great spot.
There's also storage beneath all of these things.
Where you are sitting David, filming this,
there are all the batteries.
So he used lead batteries
and we're actually gonna switch those out
and put lithium batteries in
so that we can have the most power for our space.
I feel like this is so cozy
and it really is much bigger than it looks
and I feel like it's all the space we need.
But yeah, I'm excited to figure out
how to turn this into a cozy home for us.
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Welcome to our bedroom, also notice the V-Berth.
So this is Lou and my cabin, we'll be sleeping here.
It's in the front of the boat
which apparently is the rockiest part of the boat
but hopefully we don't get sea sick.
Neither of us really know what's going to happen
but keeping our fingers crossed
and honestly I love this bedroom.
I think after living in a van
where our bedroom was in the same room
as the kitchen and the bathroom,
while we're very close to the bathroom and the kitchen,
we do have this lovely door
which makes me feel like this is like a proper house.
There's so much storage here, there's storage on sides here
and up here there's a cubby
but we also have a hatch and it opens up to the top
so we can get air flow.
There's a lot we need to learn about this boat
but I'm really excited to move aboard.
Hopefully we're gonna move aboard in like a month.
This closet is really nice and it has hangers and things
but I think that for us it would make more sense
to have shelves
so I think we're gonna put a couple of shelves in here
just so we can have this bit probably be a pantry.
Okay so this is the bathroom.
This is the toilet.
You pump the toilet.
There's the sink, it's really all you need.
Okay so this is going to be David's bedroom.
This is in the back of the boat or the stern of the boat
and it's a very good sized cabin
and actually this is one of the main reasons
why we ended up with the Hallberg-Rassy 35 foot Rasmus
because within our price range
almost all of the other boats that we were looking at
only had like a pilot's berth.
So this is a full, proper bedroom,
there's space between the two cabins
and I think it will be like a really good way
to have a functional life with three people on a tiny boat.
So this is the crawl space thing that you can talk through
and it goes straight into the kitchen
so if you ever need help David you can just yell.
- All right.
So this right here is our engine.
It's a four cycle, 44 horsepower Yanmar from 1989
and the condition of this engine room
is the reason I was sold on buying this boat.
It is spotless.
You could literally eat dinner on this engine.
Yep, I'm hoping she behaves for us.
- We also have a shower.
So in here we have our propane
and so there's actually room for two propane canisters
which is great
and there's a hole through the bottom
because propane is heavier than air so it will sink
and so to make sure that it doesn't stay in the boat
it has a hole that goes out to the side
that will escape towards the back of the boat
above the water line
so I think that the guy who took care of this boat
and built the whole setup really was thinking for
how do we make this the safest option?
And so the propane is here instead of how it originally was
which is in the front of the boat
right where the anchors were
and so it made him a little nervous
with all the anchors bouncing around and hitting the propane
this seemed like a safer option
that you can check on much easier
so I feel like hopefully it works really well for us.
One thing that we also liked about the boat
was that it has an emergency bilge, a hand pump bilge
that's easy access from the cockpit
in case we have water coming on board.
So that wraps up the cockpit
and now lets go on the outside of the boat.
Is that what it's called, outside of the boat?
I don't know.
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So here we are at the bow of the boat
or how normal people say the front of the boat.
We have a windlass here
and so this helps us get the anchor up.
The other thing that we have is a deck step mast
and so that goes here
and some boats have a mast that goes
all the way through the boat
and ours isn't like that, it just attaches with hardware.
So here we are at the stern of the boat
and one of the things that's really important to us
so that we can comfortably live on this boat
is that we have enough power
so we decided that we are going to put a stern arch here
so a big old arch and it's gonna have solar on top of it
and then we've also decided that over this bimini
which is basically just an awning over the cockpit
is gonna also have two solar panels on it
so I think we should be okay.
And so I guess with that I'll just say see you next week
and we're gonna have a lot more boat adventures on here soon
so I hope you enjoy them and thank you for watching, bye.
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