Casting a DIY Lead Keel for Our Sailboat [2.14]

It is Casting time! Follow along as we do the final preparations and then pour 3700 kg (8150 pounds) molted lead into a sand form! Crazy!!!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:12 The Casting Site
03:10 Final mold frame prep
04:35 Packing the sand
08:45 Casting Day - go through
11:03 Starting the fire!
11:55 Lead is melting
14:31 Cleaning the molted lead
14:56 It is go time!
17:20 Keeping the surface molted

We are Thomas and Petra and late August 2020 we left Sweden to start our first sailing adventure. We sailed for a year to the Caribbean and back again. October 2023 we bought a new sailboat, a Wasa 530 that is need of some renovation.

On our channel you will be able to follow our process - from buying a sailboat that has been standing for 10+ years and turning her into a perfect blue water cruiser!
Our plan going forward is to post a new video bi-weekly on Saturdays.

More info about our new sailboat can be found here: http://sailingannemon.com/about/the-b...

Instagram:
  / sailingannemon  

Playlist with all videos related to our keel:
   • DIY lead keel casting (Spring 2024)  

Playlist with all videos from our sailboat refit:
   • 2. Complete Wasa 530 Sailboat Refit (2023-...  

Playlist with all videos from our previous sailing adventure:    • 1. Complete Atlantic Circuit (2020-2021) [...  

Our first boat Anne-Mon I was also a renovations project. On our website we have a lot of blog posts about the renovations of Anne-Mon I and also more of our first sailing adventure:
http://sailingannemon.com/