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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.
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Progress
Regular Thursday reminder
After we forgot one time we now stick this on the front door on the days we go to the boat. We put another Bow Roller progress video up yesterday.
Environmental
Great Sailing Uma TedX talk
So Kika spoke at a TedX event in Cowes. A really good talk that fits very much with our philosophy here at Sustainable Sailing with our subtitle of "SUSTAINABLE: Environmentally, Financially, Mentally, Physically" So highly recommend this short talk:
Safety
Dyneena chainplate testing video
Our next video showing our new chainplate loops being tested is now available (took 9 hours to render because we have prepared it at 4K resolution). Hopefully this will make the way our chainplates will work far clearer.
Progress
Video progress, deck preparation for Bow Roller, Pulpit and more
Our next video is now available. We make more progress preparing the deck for the Bow Roller and Pulpit. Plus we remove old mooring cleats to prepare the way for our chainplate backing plates.
Safety
New video out on Dyneema rigging
See https://youtu.be/Dw0J0Bm5Nd4 for our first video in a Dyneema rigging series. An overview Q&A
Cooking
New video on our October half term progress
It was quite an eventful "holiday" with winds over 50mph and torrential rain causing flooding around the boat. Still we got quite a lot done (Bow Roller testing, Saloon destruction and our first Dyneema chainplates). Here is the video:
Cooking
The end of our saloon or end of half term or both?
We ended with a day of better weather and real progress. We were able to test the bow roller with the anchor despite not having been able to do any outside epoxy work all week. Our 30kg Spade anchor fitted nicely. And the remodelling of the saloon went through a
Environmental
Our #TeamSeas video
Had to learn a lot more detail about rendering to get this one ready to upload. Anyway now available, enjoy, like, comment, subscribe and share :-)
Progress
Another stormy day outside
In fact there has been so much rain that when we did leave the boat to use the clubhouse facilities our ladder was standing in a bit of a lake and we had to paddle. Despite this we decided to clear the port side of the saloon to improve the
YouTube
Another Boat Refit Tips video, on headlinings
We have just published another video.
Appliances
Mixed bag progress
Today was definitely another no outside jobs day. So we went to Aldi in the morning and got soaked as we came out. In the afternoon we worked on different things. Dyneema Chainplates Jane started learning Dyneema splicing and after a practice, she produced our first real Mizzen chainplate: This