Generation
How about this solar powered achievement! Electric Boat Completes All-Solar Generated Cruise to Alaska that is really impressive. So much looking forward to seeing what we can achieve once we get to the solar part of our refit.
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We are selling our Van. It has been brilliant transport for us with awesome flexibility for carrying people and stuff as well as towing boats, caravans, trailers. See the advert here!
Safety
Just uploaded: We would love it if you watch the video and like it :-) Comments on the video really help too, we will reply to them! As we work to build our Sustainable Sailing YouTube Channel it would really help us if you subscribe (and hit the notify bell). As
Plans
As you may have seen, we are making a much bigger go at producing YouTube Videos for Sustainable Sailing. I've had to learn quite a lot more about making video during the pandemic and we watch a lot of sailing related video content. We hope to manage a
Progress
Just published this: One of the challenges we face by trying to sustainably pace ourselves is that a job like fitting the new bow roller takes quite a few visits to the boat. However, we think the process of filling from the new backing plate to deck level using scraps
Plans
Just on our way home. So just a quick teaser of what we did today. Also a hint about a future video 😂
Progress
We arrived just after dark and fortunately were able to get everything on the boat in the dry (big puddles all around though). Wind is howling, forecast says gusts 37 mph and it definitely sounds like it, boat is shuddering a little. Despite that nice and snug inside, had a
Progress
So we are back to experimenting with some video as well as making some solid progress on the bow roller. Hope you enjoy!
Plans
We have been busy with the rest of life this month (September is always a very busy time at work for us both). However, our thinking has been progressing and we have been finding lots of inspiration from very small boats and from other people's projects. So for
Plans
Today was beautiful weather and we were able to get the last coat of paint on both masts (at least for the moment) m We are not in a rush now to get the masts up. There is nothing to be gained by putting them up in the boatyard for
Plans
We already know we need to make significant changes to the floors of all parts of Vida. Some of the drivers for this are: * The aft cabin has been remodelled so that the original floors don't match the new shape of the aft heads or the storage under
Progress
Today has been less certain when it comes to rain than we had hoped. However, this morning we sanded the masts with 400 grit, then washed and dried them. In the end we waited until 3pm for painting in the hope of more certainty about it staying dry. This time
