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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Refreshed look
Thanks to the wonderful help (again) of our friend Jules we have new branding imagery on our YouTube channel. I think it looks great. I've also updated the display of videos on the channel homepage and the text on the About page. This is really a bit of
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Bow roller getting to dry fit
Our next video is now on YouTube as we get to dry fit the new Bow Roller (biggest Rival Bow Roller in the world?). We even have Subtitles/Closed Captions this time. As we create new videos we are basically working at developing three playlists at the moment: * Boat Refit
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Two free upgrades to improve our blog and videos
I've just upgraded to the latest version of Ubuntu namely 21.10 Impish Indri. As always a simple, automatic and fast process that gives me new versions of nearly all the software I use, all for free. I think I've been using Ubuntu for around 15
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Good progress on our bow roller
This morning we did some grinding and sanding. The new Bow Roller now fits beautifully. This afternoon we have epoxied in the last support for the new aft pad of the Bow Roller. Next visit we can smooth all around this, paint and fit the bow roller.