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#26 – Finally under cover! Restoring a rusty sailing yacht
We've finally got Melody Under cover so we can get her dry and continue to work on her during the horrible winter months. It's absolutely freezing here now in North Wales....... Like seriously freezing! But with her cover on Melody is much warmer and dr...
#25 – Bowsprit Disaster!!!! – Restoring a steel sailing yacht
The bowsprit is shot! So we have an opportunity to replace it like for like or explore alternatives....... Wood? Carbon? Stainless? More homework to be done before we can make that decision, but whatever we do it's going to need replacing. Along wi...
#24 She doesn’t have a wet bottom! Awkward work on the underside of our steel yacht
The bottom of the boat wasn't wet so it was the ideal opportunity to get on with more work on the underside this week. We continue the awkward work of treating and painting the flakey areas and yet again discover things are not as bad as they appear. W...
EPISODE 23 – DISMANTLING THE STANTION POSTS AND COCKPIT AND TRYING OUT SOME RUST CONVERTERS
This week we continue to battle the Welsh weather and wind and short hours of daylight as we tackle more of the rust. We're trying our a variety of rust treatments and converters to see what works best and over time we'll be able to give our our opinion. ...
EPISODE 22 – Treating rusty metal on our steel boat without a sand blaster
Welcome to episode eight of Season 2 Andy is working as a Paramedic for the Ambulance Service so Melissa and Jack start treating the metal on our abandoned boat. We aren't allowed to use a sand blaster ourselves in this yard, and whilst the boatyard has...
How we moved our 12 tonne sailing yacht
Welcome to the seventh episode of Season 2 And welcome to our Christmas Special. In today's episode we finally move Melody to a much better place in the yard so we have better access to electricity for our tools and water for the power washer. This can a...
How do YACHT WINCHES work?
Servicing Lewmar, Enkes and Gibb winches in this episode! Work continues refitting our abandoned sailboat. This time it's all about the winches. We all know self tailing winches are crazy expensive so if we can save the winches which came on the boat th...
Is this rusty yacht redeemable?
Welcome to the fifth episode of Season 2 In this episode we start work properly on the foredeck in a race against time to stop out boat rotting away. We need to stop the rust patches on the deck rusting right through and making things much more problemat...
Ripping apart a sailing yacht
Will our yacht engine start after not running for 15 years? In this episode we start tackling some of the rust issues up on the foredeck, we remove the winches to take home for servicing and we try turning over the engine to see if she will start! She c...
THIS IS DISGUSTING!!
Hi again everyone. The smell was seriously ungodly. The holding tank was full to the brim with dirty water and sludge which was 15 years old at least. But we managed to clean the bilge and holding tank, sort of, and finally got the mainsail down which is...
BLEEDING RUST!!! Do we have a hope of restoring this boat?
In this episode we begin the work on our huge boat refit and restoration project and get stuck into the dirty side of things, this boat seems to bleed rust! We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in North Wales, and for the past couple of ...