Progress
Top plywood sizing tip
If you can't fit it in a Nissan Leaf you won't be able to fit it through the main hatch 😢 We cut the new galley bulkhead roughly to size thinking that it would just fit in the car. It didn't. So we put it
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Plans
Timber preparation
I've got the extra galley worktop and the extra galley bulkhead cut from a full sheet of 18mm ply. Hopefully small enough to fit in the car. Also started sanding the companion way steps and preparing the French cleats. These are pretty much the only solid timber on
Progress
Bilge planning video
We have a new video available on YouTube. Shows us removing the companionway steps and planning how we are going to fit the batteries and new water tank into the bilge.
Electric
An electric adventure today
Two weekends ago we sold our Citroën van. Last weekend we collected our new car, a 2016 Nissan Leaf electric car. Tonight, after an evening work meeting, we will go on an adventure in it to the boat. I fully charged it overnight (normally we are only charging to 80%
Dyneema rigging
External Dyneema Chainplates update
Our latest video has been getting some really helpful comments on YouTube as well as directly. It has also helped us to reach a new milestone :-) It definitely seems worth exploring more. Particularly to consider some of practicalities that people have raised including: * Is the sheer strength of the
Dyneema rigging
External Dyneema Chainplates: new design, new video
We are really excited that we have come up with a new way of building External Dyneema Chainplates. It is so much simpler than our previous ideas and we haven't seen anything like this anywhere else. Remember that this fits really well with all the Dyneema rigging expertise
Cooking
First boat stay in 2022
We arrived yesterday evening and are here for a couple of nights. It is very cold! Snow in Manchester before we came, snow visible on the Snowdonia range. So, too cold to do any epoxy work. Fortunately, the two panel heaters and two fan heaters can keep the cabin nice
Plans
Wishing you a Happy Christmas and ...
a Sustainable Sailing New Year :-) Plus a big cheer for reaching 50 subscribers (21 of them in December!) :-)
Dyneema rigging
90 days of YouTube progress
In September we decided to put some effort into YouTube, the first video we put up was on September 25th and announced here: Bow roller progress and it's on YouTube! We have published 18 videos since then. We have grown from 10 to 47 subscribers, and had 100
Dyneema rigging
New breaking dyneema video
Our next video is available (somewhat delayed because due to a bug in kdenlive I had to render it 3 times and each one takes 12 hours now that we are producing it at 4K resolution). Hope you enjoy it :-)
Sailing
Load tested our Dyneema Chainplate loops to over 4, 000kg
We have just finished testing our Dyneema Chainplate loops to over 4, 000kg. They didn't break, although something did at about 4,175kg. Hopefully we have caught it all on video which will be out soon 😊
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For our UK cruising, a guide to cities to visit
Interesting (free) article from Yachting Monthly on 10 UK cities to visit by boat. Wonder how many we will get to before heading to warmer climes.