Progress
My grateful thanks to the person at Southern Boatbuilding Company in the mid 1970's who used less glue to attach the formica laminate on some bulkheads in the aft heads. To their colleague, I'm able to let you know that your copious glue would have survived
Progress
So far today we've been cutting away more from the bulkhead to the aft heads. Not much privacy at the moment 🤣
We recommend one where you can have views like this from your cockpit Or these as we took a gentle walk to Beaumaris at low tide (it was about 0.6m lower a couple of days ago). While we are doing this refit it does mean we have a holiday
Plans
So we are here for part of half term, arrived on Thursday evening and have had one of our sons staying with us for a couple of nights. So we took some time off (as Jane is still recovering from Laryngitis she needed it). Then this afternoon we did a
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I had a notification this afternoon that we have now passed 10,000 views on Sustainable Sailing 😊 Lots more to come as we prepare for launching in March next year.
Plans
So I have made our first Mobius Locking Brummel splice, with thimble, for our guardrails. This is in 6mm Hampidjan Dynice Dux from Jimmy Green Marine. This will be used with a lashing to tension the guardrail. This bit of line will lead to the gate which has "pelican&
Plans
We are back home and I've probably watched too many American YouTube videos if I'm describing myself as super happy 🤣 First, I'm really pleased with the progress on the rearranging of the aft cabin. One nice interim feature is being able to use the
Plans
Very exciting progress today 😊 We have epoxied in the plywood backing plates for the aft cabin. Full length of the cabin on both sides. The challenge now is to time removing the bolts soon enough so that they don't get stuck yet leaving them long enough that the
Plans
Last night was pretty windy and heavy rain. By the morning the wind had died but it has rained on and off all day. So it wasn't a good day to fit the big backing plates to the underside of the hull shelf that supports the deck in
Environmental
We have been using a Nature's Head composting toilet on Vida since September 2019. We liked it enough to add a second in November 2019. Our experience has ranged from them being abandoned (after use) for 6 months during lockdown through weekend use by two people and upto
Environmental
No, I'm not being subtle here :-) Our experience from the beginning of our project on Vida has included uncovering a number of hidden dangers. In our case that included being close to having paraffin leaking into the engine compartment. This can of fuel (for the heating system)
Progress
A few weeks ago I fixed my old (well over 20 years), but fairly powerful drill. I'd shortened the power cord a couple of times but the outer insulation was failing all over the place. Sadly, my first multi-cutter motor had burnt out (it has suffered a lot
