washing
Let's build a boat laundry!
Every sailing boat needs it's own laundry
Latest
video
New Video! Living aboard catch-up boat tour of our 1977 Rival 38 Centre Cockpit Ketch
We are now living aboard full-time while we prepare to launch our electric powered 1977 Rival 38 Centre Cockpit Ketch. So to get up-to-date here is a tour of how things are at the moment.
nook
Small jobs making a big difference & newsletter update
Four quick jobs to improve things and a newsletter/membership update
storm
Storm Floris
Our first storm living aboard
Our first members' newsletter
We have moved aboard
Now we are living aboard Vida!
cargobike
Sustainable cycling
Upgrading a 14.5 year old Cargobike to an eCargoBike
dyneema
Stretching 12mm Dyneema rigging after adding two eye splices
We have just a few days before we move out of this manse (ministers house provided by the Church). Before we move out on Monday we need to get all our Main Mast rigging spliced and then stretched (to remove the shortening created by the construction of the splices). Jane
Progress
Preparing to move aboard
Acting now to avoid chaos for moving onboard day.
blog
Blog has moved and is back again
So this blog is no longer on Wordpress.com We are now hosted by Magicpages.co using Ghost. Nearly all the original content has been transferred. The only gap I know of at the moment is that the old comments are no longer visible, but I hope to bring them
Dyneema rigging
Back at stretching dyneema rigging
Jane has finished the first 8 chainplate loops in 12mm dyneema for the main mast (we don't need one for the forestay and the inner forestay will be different). Plus she has finished 3.5 of the 4 lower shrouds (also 12mm dyneema). So we are back to
Plans
Huge changes coming
For once a title like this is not exaggeration and it's not click bait. We are very close to moving to love (nope, I'm not going to correct that typo ;) ) on the boat full-time (current expectation is for 5 years). Jane finished her job at