YouTube Videos

Goodbye and good riddance to 2020. This video is just a calm and peaceful look at progress to date and the slowly diminishing number of projects tasks left to do. It is all about Serenity.

My musical homage to a year spent with everyone doing sketchy Zoom and Skype calls. What could possibly go wrong? The rules: Live (of course), One take only (no second chances), plus try two new skills at once for the first time before mastering either (s...

This is the (comparatively) simple part of doing the physical installation and connecting the wires - plus two tests to see how long it takes to haul in 60 metres of chain. This is a temporary installation as I still need to finish the anchor locker and re...

My dingy has been hidden away neglected in storage for a few years. In this video I fit some wheels to make it much easier to pull it up the beach. But I also discovered a couple of punctures that needed fixing. And would the outboard start? Spoiler alert...

This is the second part of installing a new Lofrans electric windlass. There is a link to the first video below. This video is solely about putting in the new 'floor' in the anchor locker and sorting out the drain. Somewhat over-engineered I know. But hope...

My original hope was that I could convert the Mk I chain locker (which is not self-draining) into a Mk II locker (which is self-draining). But boat DIY is never that simple. This video is about trying to fulfill both the installation requirements of the Lo...

This is NOT a how to do it DIY varnishing video. It is just a video of how my daughter and I tackled the task we had been putting off for so long. I tried out single-pack, two-pack, satin-finish and a hybrid (varnish plus oil). To be honest, I am pleased w...

Yep. Absolutely nothing to do with sailing at all. But I have a lot of woodworking coming up with the forthcoming galley refit. I normally try to avoid woodwork whenever I can. I've never been comfortable with it. But, this project came up and I had little...

Lucy, my daughter, is doing more and more of the labour intensive work. And getting very good at it. Progress is still slow, but it is all in the right direction. She is as keen as I am to get Serenity back in the water - particularly now she has completed...

This video doesn't really fit anywhere sensible on this channel, or anywhere else really. Maybe it's the current Lockdown and the lack of the possibility of a decent haircut that made me do it. I can only apologise. But I have managed to solve a problem an...

Part 1 checked whether this was even feasible as a DIY project. This part covers the main construction up to the point of doing the first leak test. Not a 100% success, but definitely not a (complete) failure. And not yet a finished project.

This the the first of three videos. In this one I want to see if it is even possible to make a DIY water tank out of HDPE to fit the 'odd' shape under the salon bench. Big learning curve. I know that people fix plastic parts on cars, or their garbage bin ...