Progress
Bilge planning video
We have a new video available on YouTube. Shows us removing the companionway steps and planning how we are going to fit the batteries and new water tank into the bilge.
Progress
Cooking
First boat stay in 2022
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
Wishing you a Happy Christmas and ...
a Sustainable Sailing New Year :-) Plus a big cheer for reaching 50 subscribers (21 of them in December!) :-)
Dyneema rigging
90 days of YouTube progress
In September we decided to put some effort into YouTube, the first video we put up was on September 25th and announced here: Bow roller progress and it's on YouTube! We have published 18 videos since then. We have grown from 10 to 47 subscribers, and had 100
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.
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.
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
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
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
Progress
Calm amidst the wind
Today is a deliberately slow day, a chance for us to do not a lot, mostly staying in our cozy cabin while the wind rages outside. Mostly Beaufort force 6 gusting to force 8 according to the Met Office. We did have a look at the bow roller, the dry
Environmental
Does fly paper work?
Yes! Three strips of fly paper in the wheelhouse, all this full. Plus there were hundreds dead and dying all around them that I was able to vacuum up. Surely we must be close to solving this problem.