Sailing
New video all about our sail plan
Our latest video is now live 😍 'Our new sail plan, converting to a cutter. new furlers, new sails etc"
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Environmental
Bike trailer refurbishment and adaptations
In my post Bikes by boat I concluded that we are hoping to take two existing bikes. One is the Birdy folding bike, I've confirmed it's location below a big pile of "stuff". The other is Jane's Bish Bash Bosh which I&
Plans
New video: Inspired by @SailingUma our NOOK++ plans for our boat refit
A bit different this time.
Dyneema rigging
My Wedding Anniversary present
Today is our 36th Wedding Anniversary. As a beautiful gift Jane has spliced two more of the 6mm dyneema guardlines 😍
Safety
New video side solar progress
Enjoy
YouTube
YouTube milestone reached
We have just reached a mini milestone for our YouTube channel with 550 subscribers. Over the last month we have also seen the number of views approximately triple and the number of hours watched has more than doubled. Very exciting for us. We are planning to release a new video
Cooking
Building the most important galley shelf - for coffee
Adding an extremely critical shelf to the galley, should be just the right size for a weeks supply of coffee beans plus grinder, aeropress, filter papers, scale, measuring cup and water spray. Note the it's just resting in place at the moment which is why it's
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"
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