Welcome to DIY to discover special cars and bikes, working & living onboard high performance yachts, our tools & workshop and lots of great Dust It Yourself projects that you can Do [It] Yourself...

We also share most of our projects on our blog - Enjoy and Happy DIY !!!

Custom Boat Projects

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Yasmine

Our Citroen 2CV from 1978 (older than us...)

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Workshop

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Work & Travel by land & sea

Travelling the coasts of several continents — Discover the Caribbeans, US East Coast, France and Europe as well Asia from the water & by land

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Custom Laser Engraved Switches

Fri 29 Nov 2019

Check out our latest "DIY" boat project: Laser engraved backlit switches for Hydraulic functions at:

DIY - Custom Laser Engraved Switches

https://dustityourself.wixsite.com/home/post/diy-custom-laser-engraved-switches

We also have a new website: dustityourself.com

Come and check it out - more DIY projects and travel pictures at www.dustityourself.com

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Kiteboard - Board modification to fit tracks for hydrofoil

Tue 14 May 2019

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Carbon bracket for Sheave

Fri 10 May 2019

Time for some "carbon work" - recently we had a carbon bracket fail. The "sheave" was mounted in a carbon U-shape bracket with a stainless steel pin. The alignment of the rope was "crooked" and the whole assembly failed. When you have nobody on hand to make you a new bracket - best option: dust it yourself...

First step was to make a mould out of starboard to get the shape right. It's also important for the poulie to be perfectly aligned and to make sure that the rope can't jump the sheave again.

The mould was made bigger in size to be able to cut the carbon part in two for a second sheave box if needed. Luckily we "trained" in making carbon parts in the past and got a great amount of tips and tricks from "carbon" specialists during our time in Brittany [Bretagne].

One of the tricky parts - fitting the new part on the boat. Probably one of the reasons of the original failure was also caused by "limited" access during the first install and it didn't get any easier.

The new sheave box got fitted and so far it's working out great - fingers crossed...

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Boats - different sizes and shapes

Tue 07 May 2019

Boats & Yachts come in different sizes and shapes - check out our "selection"...

We travel quiet a bit on the water and we come across a lot of different boats, some with sails, some without. Please have a look at our "boats" page and let us know in the comments which one is your favorite ;-)

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Diving - Saint Martin, FWI - Dec 2018

Mon 03 Dec 2018

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