Environmental
This is worth watching. Sailors willing to turn their plans upside-down and venture into danger to support change and stand tall for responding to the Climate Emergency. Watch and cheer them on (knowing that they did succeed and Greta Thunberg was able to challenge world leaders at COP in Madrid)
Electric
The sailing channels are full of amazing boats. What used to be the sailing magazines that my Dad would buy have been replaced by YouTube channels like Yachting World. Consistently they present, as if it were normal a world view that everyone will be buying a brand new boat and
Progress
One of the jobs that we have from the survey is to repair the rudder headstock. He had identified that a couple of screws needed replacing. So, after removing the aft cabin headlining, we decided to tackle this while the cabin was empty. The Rival has a really sophisticated, best
Progress
I mentioned plans for an inner forestay and reusing old headsails in my last post "Progress on Sails". So I've checked the oldest headsail. At this point not sure if this will work as anything but a learning exercise. So just been removing old, very worn
Progress
Our progress towards maximising the sailing potential of Vida took a few steps forward this weekend. A reminder that so far we have been doing the following: * Masts down (see this post) * Old furling gear removed and work started on the masts (see here for details of the work Northspar
Appliances
This Yachting World article is heading in the right direction. Skippers’ tips: Bluewater sailing secrets of the million milers revealed Some key items such as reduced plastic and renewable energy get mentioned. I'm still desperate for them to connect the dots between all those parts and skills needed
Progress
Well we haven't been working on what we had planned so far today. The epoxy we did yesterday is still curing and a long way from being touch dry (at least the loose bits we have been drying in the clubhouse). All the drying times are given at
Sailing
So thanks to Doug Edwards (through whom we bought Vida) we now have some full size photos of her sailing to encourage us through the jobs :-)
Sailing
We were just watching a YouTube video about a couple preparing for this year's ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers). They will currently be on their way across the Atlantic. Several hundred boats sailing from The Canaries to St Lucia in an organised event. Happens every year starting on
Sailing
There are now so many sailing YouTube channels producing really great content that I doubt we are going to even try to compete :-) We will continue to add a few YouTube videos to our channel but, especially at the moment, actually getting the jobs done takes a far higher
Environmental
A few updates from late night chats and planning. Mooring We now have a mooring, a place to keep Vida afloat during the season. The process of getting a mooring is complicated by the lack of any clear, documented, standard process. Anyway we found one through the North West Venturers
Environmental
Thanks to Greta Thunburg good article and important for people to be educated about the challenges.