#buyingaboat #catamaransailing #catamarans
We are struggling to find a boat in Bodrum! It is proving to be difficult to find one close to us. Turkey is a very big country as you know and takes hours in a car just to move from A to B.
We are considering to...
#boatsatsea #inflatable-boats
This week we bring you all about our cars at sea!
That's correct, a dingy it is the only way for us to move from our boats to go ashore. The liveaboards cruisers depend so much on these little inflatable boats that they need ...
#sponsorshipopportunity #boathunting
We arrived in Turkey, Bodrum and start our search for our new Ocean Fox.
We are hopping to find a bargain, if one exists in the Catamaran world.We are looking for one that needs a lot of love and care so can give it ...
#sponsors #sponsorship #sponsorshipopportunity
This is the second of a series of programmes where we interview yachting companies about their product at the Southampton Boat Show 2022.
This week we bring you an interview with Hanse and their stunning 4...
We spent a few days at the Southampton Boat Show and came across Peter from Ultra Anchors. Peter explained why some anchors work and others do not.He takes us across all the details about the design and really makes us think about on which anchor is the be...
We arrive at our final destination on the Thames at Chertsey. We spend a little time reflecting on the past year and why we do love boats?
Going back in a retrospective makes us feel very emotional and proud of our achievements. When we look at our first ...
#finalleg #cruisingisover
We have our final cruise on our barge taking us from Maidenhead in Berkshire down river to Chertsey in Surrey. We have some wet weather on route and hold up for a few days in our home town of Windsor. One last bridge quite to...
We are starting our way downstream the Thames. From Sonning through the locks and the stunning views of the river.
We are really enjoying our last few weeks on the boat before leaving her for the winter in Chertsey.
We will make a pause for a few days in ...
#goosehillsup
Today we make a review of this Wonderfull paddle board. We have been using the Goosehill products for the last three years and as you must know the sun in the Caribbean does not give a break. The Goosehill paddle board is still doing an amaz...
We travel back from Wallingford to Reading taking in the stunning Oxfordshire countryside.
On our way we had the pleasure, maybe not...of meeting a madman on the River.
He starts off hitting and scratching our boat and then tell us to basically F%21?*off, ...
We finally reach Wallingford and decide that it is the end of the road for us. We were planning on going all the way to Oxford but time and tide waits for no man.
It has been a beautiful way upstream the river but we would like to go a bit down from Wind...
#thameswater #thameslocks #lockmaster
This week we travel from Mapledurham to Goring. This is a great stretch of the Thames and we were not disappointed with the small town when we arrived. Really beautiful with just a few shops and a bakery. We always l...
This week we continue our journey upstream the River Thames.
Absolutely beautiful scenery bend after bend. The properties on the side of the river are just stunning, enough for us to dream a little bit. Who doesn't dream with the Euromillions?
We answer s...
This week we carry on our journey up stream from Marlow .
We pass through the best scenery the Thames has offered up so far. This is really beautiful, we can see now why it is so popular to cruise the Thames.
We come across a couple of broken locks and hav...
This week we continue our journey from Windsor to Cookam and Marlow.
With all the issues we had before now we are cruising the Thames smoothly without any problems.
We show you all the process going through the locks on the river Thames.
A very enjoyable j...
Some problems come up and we are out of the water again we have loads of jobs to do to get our boat running again.
We fit new seacocks as the water line is a bit lower than we have expected. Better be safe than sorry!
We refit the prop shaft and discove...
This week we take you on a tour of our barge. From Top to tail we go through the whole boat explaining all its secrets.
We are so pleased with the results of a year of work open the boat. The boat inside is so cozy and comfortable that is slowly making u...
This is our first voyage and it does not go according to plan ...nor does the second one!
But a day later and we are on our way up river if only for a mile or so.
Some problems are getting us a bit worried and we might have to go back to the boatyard for...
Yes we do manage to get in to the water this week, after fitting the new bow thruster and filling the area under the bed with 1.4 tons of ballast. Unbelievable, we couldn't believe we managed to find where to place all of that. Then the boat was well bala...
It was a rush all week on the boat, it is unbelievable the amount of small things to do!
It was so much that we didn't record allot of content. But a lot was accomplished.
The big news of the week is that we managed to started the engine, yes the Vetus ...
Things are at last starting to come all together. This week we get stuck in to the electrics in the Bow locker, the Windlass it is working and we manage to lift our rather large anchor. Another big achievement on River Fox!
We finally get the mast up a...
We filled up the water tanks just to find out that it was leaking from the fitting in the tank. The second flood was on the engine room when we were filling with anti freezing. We forgot about the breathing tube hidden behind the insulation. So we had a hu...
Lots to do and no time left. We are booked to go in the water next week on Thursday.
We get stuck in to cleaning the boat and polish the metal bits that we got in the air from other boats. A terrible job that has to be done.
We got on building the steps ...
With a shortage of cable crimps and sleeving it all gets a bit desperate to finish the electrics.
We then have a bit of a blow when we get the cost for the CE marking for the boat. Apparently we need a Recreational Craft Directive which we didn’t know...
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