Plans
Today I have started a three month sabbatical (a generous gift from the Methodist Church that I work for, they come every seven years). The plan is for me to spend most of the time working on Vida with Jane joining me when she isn't working. If possible
Plans
Been a bit slow updating the blog, we have several new videos and this evening I have bought a new-to-us mainsail (from a Westerly Fulmar). We will probably have to add a very small extra reef point as the default setting point because it is very slightly too large but
Plans
I've got the extra galley worktop and the extra galley bulkhead cut from a full sheet of 18mm ply. Hopefully small enough to fit in the car. Also started sanding the companion way steps and preparing the French cleats. These are pretty much the only solid timber on
Dyneema rigging
Our latest video has been getting some really helpful comments on YouTube as well as directly. It has also helped us to reach a new milestone :-) It definitely seems worth exploring more. Particularly to consider some of practicalities that people have raised including: * Is the sheer strength of the
Cooking
We arrived yesterday evening and are here for a couple of nights. It is very cold! Snow in Manchester before we came, snow visible on the Snowdonia range. So, too cold to do any epoxy work. Fortunately, the two panel heaters and two fan heaters can keep the cabin nice
Plans
a Sustainable Sailing New Year :-) Plus a big cheer for reaching 50 subscribers (21 of them in December!) :-)
Cooking
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
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
Appliances
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
Plans
As you may have seen, we are making a much bigger go at producing YouTube Videos for Sustainable Sailing. I've had to learn quite a lot more about making video during the pandemic and we watch a lot of sailing related video content. We hope to manage a
Plans
Just on our way home. So just a quick teaser of what we did today. Also a hint about a future video 😂
Plans
We have been busy with the rest of life this month (September is always a very busy time at work for us both). However, our thinking has been progressing and we have been finding lots of inspiration from very small boats and from other people's projects. So for