Appliances
In my post Safe, Sustainable Coffee for sailing? I made the point that using an electric filter coffee machine is safer because you do not have to pour boiling water. Especially you do not have to pour boiling water onto a tower of things resting on each other (eg V60
Appliances
Planning for live aboard cruising on a sailing boat presents particular challenges for one of the highlights of the day - especially if you are aiming for a sustainable life. Almost everything about the environment of sailing makes coffee a challenge, particularly: Availability, Space, Power, and Safety. Clearly we need
Safety
I'm a great fan of simplifying things, even if I'm not always good at it :-) So I love this Dyneema Pendant, which you can buy from Mantus (they call it a Snubber Pendant). Except, that it is so simple that we will make several of
Appliances
Sadly, we can't do much but plan at the moment. However, that does at least give us the opportunity to improve those plans. In More on sustainability, I included a bit about Jimmy Cornell needing to abandon his attempt to sail around the world with zero carbon emissions.
Environmental
So we have been found by Clean Sailors "Sailors who love the sea, mobilising the global sailing community in conservation of our oceans." #sailmightytreadlightly A not for profit organisation who are based in one of our favourite places: Falmouth (Cornwall). We look forward to being able to sail
Progress
[Update] No plans to change the basic assumption here. However, we are looking to grow towards some financial support from the blog, from our YouTube channel and more. One new step is that we now have a Ko-fi page for donations. Compared to other sites for making donations such as
Plans
One of the most significant advances in yacht safety in recent years has been the development of the Jordan Series Drogue. It was developed in response to the 1979 Fastnet Disaster and has been widely used by a wide variety of yachts in some terrible conditions. Attainable Cruising has many
Electric
I get quite frustrated with a number of ways in which claims are made for sustainability. Too often they can be most charitably be described as greenwashing. So I took the Footprint challenge (again) at https://www.footprintcalculator.org This time we came out at 2.3 that means 2.
Uncategorized
Wishing everyone a Hopeful Christmas and a Safe New Year.
Plans
Saw some exciting news today. Just read that Peter Lawless is going to be sailing his Rival 41 around the world single handed, unassisted and non stop. He has a website and a YouTube channel. His aim is to be the first Irish man to achieve that combination. It is
Plans
So we were last on Vida for Friday 9th October (Friday Progress 28). Since then the restrictions either for North Wales or for Manchester (and for a lot of the time both) have not allowed us back. We had hoped to get a few days after Christmas but Manchester is
Sailing
When planning Dyneema rigging the area we have found most confusing is deciding on the size of Dyneema we should fit. In our search we have found three sites particularly helpful. However, between the sites we have found at least four ways of deciding what size is needed. Despite that,