Progress
New Video: "Our last Carbon fibre stanchions & fitting guard rails for side solar panels"
Our latest video has just been released! "Our last Carbon fibre stanchions & fitting guard rails for side solar panels"
Latest
Environmental
Sailing Cruisers being good news
This is close to my heart. When I asked the Methodist Church to take 5 years without appointment to sail about the world I specifically mentioned it as a goal to be good news for the, often remote, communities we want to visit. That definitely includes the regular features of
Generation
Guardlines and solar rails progress
We are making progress despite the weather, which is typical for a North Wales summer in an era of climate change (ie wetter, windier and warmer just as predicted for decades). We now have all 3 of the guardlines fitted to the forward port side. I'm going to
Safety
Road trip for a bargain
A long road trip for our 8 year old Nissan Leaf today. Started before 4am. But worth it for a nearly finished Hebridean Wind Vane self steering kit. Works out at nearly half price by the time the extras are included. And by long i mean a total of about
Dyneema rigging
First guardline fitted!
Today we fitted our first guardline to our carbon fibre stanchions. It's on the port side from the forward side of the gate to the pulpit. We are using 6mm dyneema and as our stanchions are very high we are fitting 3 lines. We may well have to
Cooking
Galley cupboard behind the cooker box
This is nearly where I started today. The side supports for the sloping part of the cupboard behind the cooker box were already screwed and glued in. I had also scraped away the excess foaming glue. First job was the aft side piece. Due to the alignment with the upright
Plans
Our Big announcement video is live
Check out our new video on YouTube 😊 So was it a surprise or had we completely given it away already?
Plans
Big announcement coming
We have been hinting at a big announcement. Well the video is uploaded and will be public at 10am BST tomorrow (Saturday) morning :-)
Environmental
This is why Sustainable Sailing is needed
From: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe@kathhayhoe@fediscience.org Climate Scientist, Professor @ Texas Tech, Chief Scientist @ The Nature Conservancy, UN Champion of the Earth, author of Saving Us. Climate change is loading the weather dice against us. A warmer climate means warmer oceans. Think about it this way: If you take a
Progress
Another FR4 joint for carbon fibre tubes started
I've started the next carbon fibre joint. This is for the port side aft gate brace. Slightly different this time as I'm building it in place a bit at a time because both the stanchion and the brace are now permanently epoxied into place. I'
Dinghy
New video: Crazy Sustainability? Old two stroke outboard
We are preparing for a first UK winter living aboard at anchor. Getting ashore has been a concern. Our ePropulsion electric outboard is great in many ways but has limited range & speed plus we probably won't get enough solar power to charge it. So this is a
Appliances
Some progress on a wet day
It's been raining almost all day and for the first week of our "Summer" holiday it looks like it will rain every other day. At the moment we are using dry days to work on the stanchions and guard lines which will lead to tackling the