Progress
New Video: "Our last Carbon fibre stanchions & fitting guard rails for side solar panels"
Our latest video has just been released! "Our last Carbon fibre stanchions & fitting guard rails for side solar panels"
YouTube
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?
Cooking
Fitting DIY Carbon fibre stanchions and new galley progress
Check out our new video We get our first stanchion base ready to fit. Making more progress towards carbon-fibre stanchions with fully sealed decks. Also progress on the galley painting, insulation, worktops, fiddles and more. A complete replacement of the original 47 year old galley. Oh, and we fixed some
YouTube
GoPro woes
A month ago our GoPro Hero 10 failed. It wouldn't turn on. After a long session on "chat" they agreed it needed replacing with a £115 charge. Since then it took nearly a month to get their finance team to phone me (they tried twice when
Electric
9 inspiring years
Sailing Uma have put out a video celebrating and summarising 9 years since they bought Uma. They are one of the most inspiring couples around so if you haven't seen them before this would be a great place to start.
Progress
New Video with August 2023 update
New Video posted on YouTube with an update on our #BoatRefit progress
Dyneema rigging
Mizzen supports
I haven't been posting much here as I've mostly been working on our YouTube channel, however, I thought I would show some pictures of the new mizzen mast foot support work. I am also adding some fibreglass tape to increase strength where we have cut away
Progress
New Video
Our 3 month refit rush to the water begins with the original design details that make a full refit of 1977 Rival 38 Centre Cockpit Ketch much easier. We throw in our 3 top tips to make a full refit much faster. Some of the Sailing channels that we have
Plans
Lots of updates
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
Progress
Adding more storage for our refit
Today's vlog shows progress that is going to make the rest of the refit a lot easier. Much less moving stuff out of the way in our future :-)
Electric
Storm Franklin and cheap drawers.
When we saw the forecast for Storm Franklin yesterday we decided that gusts over 60mph were going to prevent sleep and be quite scary. So we left the boat before lunchtime while the wind was "only" gusting to mid forties. On our way back now as the wind
Progress
Fitting steps, removing stuff
Second half term vlog.