Sailing through the British Virgin Islands, we moored off the ultra-exclusive Guana Island—a private island paradise with one of the most beautiful beaches in ...
After a relaxing Christmas and New years with family it's time to have another crack at this vessel and finally finally finally get out for some cruising. This ...
Bringing this Amel Super Maramu (one of the greatest blue water cruisers built in the 90's and 00's) back to life after a huge accident with a container ship ...
Finally after 18 months in the marina we are departing to get back into cruising life. Yes we've worked ourselves hard, sweated it out and lost a lot of sleep ...
Yes, after 18 months, newly born twin babies, and a whole lot of sweating and swearwords we have finally made it out onto the water under our own propulsion ...
To be perfectly honest we haven't much enjoyed our time on the hard, sweating it out in the middle of the tropics, fixing up a broken boat with baby twins ...
Another week and we're splashed well and truly hopefully for the last time in a long while. We assess the common leak that has been annoying us for so long and ...
Another week in the yard and another ground hog day hahaha. No I'm sure you've heard us say this before but we can't wait to get out of here and getting ...
Yep, you heard that right, after 12 months on the hard and one month in the water we are getting hauled out again! Kieran's frustration really comes out when ...
Toilets jobs, leaking sailing boat and hot humid Malaysian heat, does it get any better I ask you!? Yes diving head first into a constant "head" (or toilet) ...
Getting stuck into the jos while our babies keep us happy with all the smiles, life is pretty dahm good right now. We run you through some quesstions put to us ...
After 12 months rebuilding our Perkins M80-t engine we're happy to say that most of it is being dropped in the vessel this week. When I say most of it the ...
Yes! After 12 months on the hard refitting this broken boat its time to finally move onto the boat. We are so very nervous about how our babies will take to ...
Another week in the marina and its time to get the boat ready to move onto. Getting systems like the grey water sump pump and the air conditioning working is ...
With only matter of a week or two before we get our newly re-built engine in the jobs continue with new davits being finished, anchor roller being properly ...
Ahh yes the endless jobs continue and this week we are finally getting around to sticking on the name of Merewether. Working through the jobs list does get ...
Happy to say that our 53 foot sailing vessel did not sink on her first night in the water after 12 months on land haha. The leak that first started as we hit ...
Yes!! It's finally here. After 12 long months on the hard we are getting launched today!! The feelings and emotions are really running high as we take a huge ...
This week we finalise everything that needs to be done before she goes in the water. The bow thruster is acting up so Kieran has to manually put in a pully ...
Yes, finally after delay after delay the long awaited selden mast has been put up and boy does she look good! With stress levels high, the rigger, Kieran and ...
This week we put our mast on, well kind of. We are hoisting the mast onto the boat to measure the stays for a short time before laying it back down again. This ...
Get ready for an epic update as we tackle endless jobs on our Amel Super Maramu! From preparing the base plate for the mast, painting, grinding, and finally ...
Watch the exhilarating story of Sailing Merewether's mast installation journey as they battle through various challenges on the path to restoring their yacht ...
Back into the groove and we're showing off what has and mostly hasn't been done while we've been away. We had quite a few jobs for contractors to do and its a ...