#57 - NORMAL FAMILY restore a RUSTY OLD SAILBOAT

We’re just a normal family working together to restore this rusty old sailing boat so we can fulfil our dream of moving aboard and sailing around the world. In this week’s episode we get Jack as involved as we can building some temporary steps down to what will be his aft cabin.

Making a mock up is all part of establishing a good proof of concept. We’ve found before that mocking up ideas in scrap and living with them for a while is good practise, if you have the scrap materials to hand and have time to play around with ideas of course.

We also get an amazing gift from across the pond and do some more welding to the transom AND cut a nice new top for the bathing platform

Remember we’re doing all of this so we can go full time cruising as a sailing family in a few years time.

This is obviously a huge refit and refurbishment of this big, old, abandoned steel yacht and it’s not only time consuming, it’s complicated and quite expensive so we really do value any help we can get, whether it’s helpful advice and comments on the video or gifts through our Amazon Wishlist or actual contributions through Patreon, Paypal and Ko-Fi.

We want to say a HUUUUUUUGE thank you to everyone who has contributed in any way and here are the links if you’d like to help us out at all on this amazing journey.

Our links
Support is on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/sailingmelody
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Or make a one time contribution via PayPal or Ko-Fi using these links
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Our friends and supporters
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

MONA F&T – Where we get our steel
http://www.monafnt.co.uk

Weldgas Cymru – Where we get our welding gas and torch bits
http://www.weldgas.co.uk

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

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