After a 6 month sailing break, we get back out to sea and make all sorts of rookie mistakes. You might wonder if we have ever done this before... ---- Ko-fi ...
Sailing Yacht Salty Lass
We start making serious preparations to get the boat ready for the cruising season, and we hope that we have solved one outstanding issue - man overboard ...
We show you how to spring your boat off a pontoon. It is a very useful technique to get out past other boats that have moored too close or if the wind is ...
People keep asking us why we stay in the north for winter instead of heading south to sunnier climes. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can ...
We track down an intermittent electrical fault, finally get our inverter installed after two years and fail to catch a camera thief ---- Coffee Jar --- If ...
Weather stops us from finishing the Volvo Penta panel repair, so instead we reflect on whether or not we are crazy to be living aboard a boat in the middle of ...
We look forward to 2022, and discuss what we have learned to stop ourselves from blundering into troublesome situations ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our ...
In 2021 we sailed in all four countries of the UK and the Isle of Man and sampled all the types of weather for which the UK is justifiably famous. ---- Our ...
We look back at what we have learned for using mooring buoys. Three years at sea have given us plenty of opportunities to learn from our mistakes ---- Coffee ...
Our batteries fail to charge correctly even though we have both solar and shore power attached. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can always ...
We start making preparations for our cruising season, only to find that sometimes the options narrow unexpectedly.... ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our ...
Our first Christmas whilst out cruising and life feels very normal - birds pooping on Salty Lass, rust and coolant turning up unexpectedly, but we also have ...
The winter projects continue. Beverley fixes all the broken lights inside while Gaynor does her best to stop us from being told off by passing shipping. ...
We shelter from bad weather in the fishing port of Ardglass before proceeding north up along the Ards Peninsula to Belfast Lough were we have a winter deal ...
We leave Larne and pop around the corner into Belfast Lough where we spend time in two excellent marinas - Carrickfergus and Bangor - and with plenty of ...
We sail from Bangor to Peel via Donaghadee Sound and dodging plenty of lobster pots, but rollers from recent storms persisted and, combined with light winds, ...
Boat projects take up a lot of our time in Bangor, but we find time to uncover an astounding fact about this quiet little town on the edge of Belfast Lough ...
Bangor, Belfast and the Titanic - We leave Ardglass to go north to Bangor via the Copelands and Donaghadee Sound (which we transited in darkness so no video ...