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
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
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Bikes by boat
A very long time ago I wrote Sustainable Sailing and Human Power with a simple conclusion: By far the most cost effective and transformative use of human power in Sustainable Sailing is a bike with a trailer. A good rowing dinghy (probably in addition to a RIB) comes second. For
Environmental
Composting and our forecabin layout
In Our Compost Toilet deadline we said we that our current plan is to create a place for composting the septage (the dry solids from our Nature's Head compost toilet). To achieve the temperatures to rapidly kill all pathogens three things are needed: * Insulation (in a large outdoor
Environmental
Raspberry Pi Pico for boat projects
So our Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller kit arrived today. We have been through a first video tutorial which has got us to connect it to my laptop, download MicroPython and Thonny. Then when wrote a little program to make the LED flash. The kit comes with over 450 items
Cooking
Slow Galley progress
We seem to spend a lot of time moving stuff around the boat to get it out of the way for jobs or meals or sleeping. Then lots of time working things out and planning. Plus I had to buy a full sheet of marine plywood and very carefully bring
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Galley refit (again)
After 4 years of our temporary galley we are almost at clean sheet of paper time but with lots of learning. The main worktop with sinks is going back in. But will be trimmed to a straight front edge. The support for the front edge will include a fiddle and
Plans
Interior plan updates
Insulation We have slightly adjusted our plans for insulating the hull, under deck and inside of the cabin top. We are still fitting sheets of 40mm closed cell xps foam. However, as this will not be a tight fit to the hull we are going to build on the example
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22 months to go: Thinking about next steps
At the end of July 2025 we will move our home onto Vida full-time, just 22 months to go! My appointment as a Methodist Minister in Wythenshawe, Manchester will finish and hence we have to move out of the house we are currently living in. So at 60 years old
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Progress update
We have had a lovely day. We arrived at the boat about midnight so quite a late night by the time we had carried everything to and then onto the boat, plus made the bed. Therefore we had a nice lie in. Then some jobs planning before gently starting work.
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Half term arrival and plans
Quite a slow journey to Vida today for half term. We called in at Abakhan Fabrics and got some fleece material (bought by the kilo) for Oodie style winter lounging outfits for when we are still keeping the heating off. The journey suddenly slowed as we got to Bangor as