All the gear - no idea!
After delivering our boat to its new home in Burnham, we realised that we shouldn’t be sailing in our hiking gear. Although our tiny home won’t be ready to sail for a little while, we will have the opportunity to head out on ou...
Having made SUCH a mess last time, we focus on really managing the dust we know we inevitably will make refitting a boat. The amount of grime 50 years can have is quite something! This episode also comes with a fair few challenges and talking through some ...
We're carrying on taking out as much of the wood as possible along with very needed trip to the tip! We manage to sneak in a small sail trip on Ben's brother's boat. Ellie goes galavanting about in London, whilst Ben starts the sanding party and gets extra...
We're back! We have had to be away with work from our boat for several months, with no chance to come back for even a weekend and we are finally back! We have a whole week now to purely dedicate to Rummy. As we continue to strip her back, we knew we may fi...
Carrying on from the previous episode, we do a very needed trip to the tip and then hit it hard with draining the diesel tank and removing the diesel stove! Due to soon-to-be liveaboards, we are pretty set on trying to create as much space as possible whil...
Having managing a 3 day delivery back to Burnham-on-Crouch, we were SO excited to start cracking on with the refit. Initially we had plans to keep her in the water over summer, but having endured a fair few engine issues on the delivery, we decided to take...
We bought a sailing boat! A 1972 Contest 38. This is the start of our journey. Join us as we take on the first step in our refit process - delivering the boat! Along with the help of our wonderful skipper Tom, we were able to embark on a successful 3 day d...
Welcome to Sailing Rum Punch!
One year ago TODAY, we bought our 1972 Contest 38 and we have spent the last year juggling our full time jobs and starting the process of the huge refit of our 50 year old boat. Our first two episodes will be landing in a week...
We are Ben and Ellie from the UK and we are so excited to share this with you. For almost a year, we've been working so hard to make this a reality. Thursday 1st June 2023 marks our one year 'boativersary' when our Ep0 will drop!
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