Sailing Melody is the official YouTube channel for the Bennington Family and our sailing adventures.
We are now well on our way to becoming a full time live-aboard family.
We started with a little 24ft Snapdragon bilge keel, and then moved up to a 28ft Great Dane long keel yacht.
Now though we're working on MELODY, our 38ft Steel Pilothouse Cutter.
We're working hard to get her ready to go back in the water but as you'll see there's a lot of work to do.
Join us on our epic journey restoring this beautiful boat to her former glory and then come with us as we set off around the world.
Sailing Melody is the official YouTube channel for the Bennington Family and our sailing adventures.
We are now well on our way to becoming a full time live-aboard family.
We started with a little 24ft Snapdragon bilge keel, and then moved up to a 28ft Great Dane long keel yacht.
Now though we’re working on MELODY, our 38ft Steel Pilothouse Cutter.
We’re working hard to get her ready to go back in the water but as you’ll see there’s a lot of work to do.
Join us on our epic journey restoring this beautiful boat to her former glory and then come with us as we set off around the world.
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We're so blessed. Yes there's a lot of stuff going on in the world to be miserable about, but we're here, on our little, modest, floating home. Enjoying time with each other. Enjoying turning this old boat into a comfy place to live. We're learning mor...
Life is tough for so many of us right now. With the cost of living continuing to rise to eye-watering levels, many families—ours included—are having to rethink how we spend, save, and make do with less. But that doesn't mean we can't still enjoy life, ...
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Welcome to Episode 1 of Sailing Melody.
In this first episode we introduce you to our family, our plans to sail around the world and do some sailing in our Snapdragon 24 around the coastline of North Wales. We explore the wildlife to be found and look at s...
In this video we explore the historic town of Caernarfon with it's magnificent castle. We look at sailing in the Menai Straits. We look at a selection of bluewater cruising yachts and we meet Pixie Tom, an incredible local musician.
Please note, becaus...
We are Sailing Melody.
We are Andy, Jack and Melissa and we're on the hunt for a bluewater sailing yacht to become our permanent home as we go full time cruising with the aim of sailing around the world. This isn't a normal episode, it's just a little vid...
Hi everyone.
In this episode we tackle the damage caused to our yacht by Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis and we travel all the way to Scotland to look at a Bluewater Sailing yacht only to find it had already sunk in the North Sea.
We are Andy, Melissa and Ja...
Hi everyone.
In this episode we sailing our Snapdragon 24 from Caernarfon up past Port Dinorwic/Felinheli as far as Britannia Bridge. On the way back though our engine failed and we have a bit of drama getting back into safe waters in high winds and big s...
Hi everyone.
In this episode we take our last sail before the lockdown, moving our Snapdragon 24ft Sailing Yacht back to her mooring. We take a walk on our local beaches in search of the native wildlife of North Wales. And we interview the whole family f...
Hi everyone.
In this episode we get a new sailing yacht for free!
Miss Rosie is a Great Dane 28, a classic and beautiful bluewater sailing yacht and in an act of unbelievable generosity she was given to us for absolutely nothing.
We're now having to put ...
Hi everyone.
In this episode we find out if our 50 year old Volvo Penta MD2B Marine Diesel engine is beyond repair or if it can be resurrected.
We work on our radar arch and start getting Miss Rosie ready for the long sailing voyage back from Cornwall to ...
In this episode we finally launch our classic sailing yacht.
Miss Rosie is a Great Dane 28, built in 1967 and built by Klauss Baess and designed by Aage Utzon.
The Great Dane 28 was inspired both by the Folkboat and the Sisu Spidsgatter. She looks rather ...
After weeks of work Miss Rosie finally makes her first voyage as we sail her from Mylor Yacht Club in Falmouth to Newlyn around the stunning coast of Cornwall.
We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in North Wales, looking for a bluewater s...
Stuck in Newlyn Harbour doing boat repairs in preparation for our passage around Lands End. The head is broken and the main sail reefing lines aren't working right. At least it's beautiful here!
We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in N...
Sailing the Atlantic Ocean, albeit a very small part of it, for the first time was an amazing feeling as we made our passage from Newlyn around Lands End and up past Longships Lighthouse to what turned out to be a simply awful anchorage at St Ives.
We are...
Are we sinking? This is a disaster!!! Or is it? The Bilge is full of water but are we actually sinking????
In this episode Tim goes down below only to find the sole boards swimming in water!
We sail 7 hours from St Ives to Padstow in the pitch dark franti...
Sailing across the Bristol Channel from Padstow in England to Dale in South Wales we go far out of site of land on our longest passage so on this trip. It turned out to be an absolutely brilliant day of perfect "Champaign Sailing" as Tim calls it. Flat s...
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In this episode we Sail in South Wales - Milford Have to Fishguard, through the notorious waters of Jack Sound and Ramsey sound.
We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in North Wales, looking for a bluewater sailing yacht to take us around ...
In this episode we sail home from Fishguard to Pwllheli.
And we also have a big announcement for you all.
We have finally found Melody!
We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in North Wales, looking for a bluewater sailing yacht to take us ...
Welcome to the first episode of Season 2
We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in North Wales, and for the past couple of years we have been looking for a bluewater sailing yacht to take us around the world.
Well we've finally found her...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7 hours of non stop sailing footage, unedited and with no music and no overdubs, just sailing, no bullshit.
So this is not one of our normal episodes. It's almost like an archive but we thought some people might actually enjoy it.
It's the footage from...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
We cut a hole in our boat!
It's freezing cold here and the weather is still terrible so we're working undercover doing what we can until the spring arrives.
This week we disassemble the steering system to find it's all jammed up with sand and won't com...
Cleaning out bilges is never a nice job and with our boat having been neglected and abandoned for so long it was a bit of a worry what horrible things we'd find lurking in the bilge under the forward water tank.
Fortunately things aren't as bad as they of...
It'a all down the pan! This week we're ripping out the heads and shower tray to see what horrors we find under there. We've got some exciting new toys to play with which will be featuring over the next few episodes as well!!
We are Andy, Melissa and Jac...
Welcome to the 16th of Season 2
It's all about where you put your probe.
This week we finally get to do a proper ultrasonic metal thickness test using the Olympus 38DL!
NDT or Non Destructive testing is a term which covers a number of methods of testing ...
Welcome to the 17th episode of Season 2
Is the whole front end of our boat rusted beyond repair? In this episode we tear our the forepeak to examine the state of the steel behind the forward collision bulkhead to see how far back the rust in the anchor l...
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