#47 - De-stepping the mast

The mast has come down!!! After 40 years standing proud and tall the mast came down today for a complete refit and to facilitate further repairs to the coachroof and chain plates.
We also welcome back our good friend Tim, who is a marine engineer and experienced sailor. Tim is studying marine engineering and he is mid way through the clipper round the world yacht race, which of course has been halted due to COVID. We’re privileged to have him join us and lend his skills taking measurements and doing calculations to give us some interesting indeas on how Melody might sail once she’s back in the water.

We would also like to announce our association with Pro Marine Store who are supplying our chandlery and general boaty bits for this project.
We’re actually in the process of creating a big list of things we’ll be needing over the next year or two, which we will be buying from Pro Marine Store, but if you’d like to help us out by buying something off the list please click this link or give Pro Marine Store a call on 01799 588292 to speak to Ben about our wishlist.

Website https://www.promarinestore.co.uk

Gift Card https://www.promarinestore.co.uk/sailing-melody-youtube-channel-gift-card
Wish List https://www.promarinestore.co.uk/blog/pro-marine-store-and-sailing-melody

We also have an Amazon wishlist.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/B5C3SADTF7LQ?ref_=wl_share

Again, we’re not asking or begging for anything but it’s simply a list of things which we need and will eventually buy but if you would like to buy anything from the list for us we’d be MASSIVELY grateful.

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. Our new sailing yacht is a John Teal designed 38ft Steel Pilothouse Cutter. She has been standing ashore for at least 15 years and now we’re embarking on the huge challenge of refitting her and doing her up ready to go sailing around the world.

Follow along with our journey and help us with any advice and tips you have along the way.

Our links
Support is on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/sailingmelody
Check us out on Instagram : https://instagram.com/sailingmelody
Come talk to us on facebook : https://facebook.com/melodysailing

If you would like to make a regular contribution to help towards getting us started on our adventure you can use this link to go to Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/sailingmelody

or make a one time contribution via PayPal using this link
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sailingmelody

We would like to say a massive thank you for all your support so far!!

KO-FI is a website where you can support us buy buying us a “coffee” which would really help us out.
We would love if if you bought us a coffee or Jack and ice cream, click the link below 🙂
https://ko-fi.com/sailingmelody

Other links to our contributors and friends
https://www.lincolnelectric.com
We are proud to be associated with Lincoln Electric, simply the best welding equipment in the world, full stop.

Thanks so much to the guys at Weldgas for showing us how to set the welder up and being incredibly helpful and supportive.

http://www.monafnt.co.uk
Mona F&T are simply the number one place to get all kinds of steel stock and fabrication work in North Wales. We can testify that they’re, extremely helpful, knowledgable, friendly and professional and we will be using them for our steel supplies for this project.