The lock gate on the marina broke so when the tide went out the water left the marina. Total disaster! The boat ended up aground and tipped over so it was ...
Sailing Melody
Steel Melody is NOT abandoned. We get back to work on this old steel yacht and continue with some essential welding. This is a huge refit and refurbishment ...
To buy the NV200 LRF 50mm Binoculars go to www.Oneleaf.ai Discount code: 10FINDNV200 NV200 4K 50mm LRF: 50 lens NV200 with rangefinder binoculars original ...
We’re keen to move aboard ASAP, but before I’m happy for Ollie to sleep on the boat I want to do something about the disgusting bilge smell. This week I get ...
https://uk.himiwaybike.com/sailingmelody We're steadily prepping and upgrading our old, once abandoned, Bluewater classic, into a state of the art, modern ...
Royal National Park is Australia's oldest and lay right on out doorstep. It was only a short passage for us from Cronulla but as we motored up the river we ...
Sailing Learning By Doing
Fresh water, or the lack of it is the one thing that means we have to return to civilisation. I dont really want to install a water maker so that mean we need ...
Honestly, if we won the lottery tomorrow I doubt we'd buy a different boat because this is arguably in the top 10 Bluewater boats ever built. Support us on ...
Today I am replacing my 22 year old solar panels for brand new ones. How big is the output difference? I was very interested to find out, thats for sure. Its ...
Our new crew member has finally arrived. But not the one you've been waiting for. This week we install our amazing new #Hydrovane Just to be clear, we did ...
I’ve always loved solo sailing, Sailing alone on a Catamaran is a lot different from a monohull though, this I learnt. I’m yet to decide if I’ll solo sail my ...
Hi everyone. The latest episode is here at last. Things are absolutely frantic here with making last minute preparations and sorting baby clothes and ...
Hi everyone! Last week on Building Wilda we finally gave her a beautiful coat of grey primer! We had a few mishaps and so, in this episode we are sharing the ...
Building Wilda
Eden, you were amazing, thanks! We spent an unplanned month altogether in this beautiful little town and loved it! So many friendly locals, so many beautiful ...
We've done it. We've sailed our abandoned yacht the entire 380 nautical miles home. This gorgeous Bowman 46 was left abandoned in the corner of a yard from ...
Today we show you our process for planning a sailing passage, in this case to cross the notorious Bass Strait. We are losing patience slowly, being stuck here ...
Last week we broke some of the rigging while attempting to cross the notorious Bass Straight, this week we replace the entire running rigging with new gear. A ...
This week our delivery trip takes us from South Wales, Milford Haven Marina, all the way up to North Wales, to Pwllheli Marina, leaving in the dark and ...
Off we go, across the Bass Straight to Tasmania. We didnt get very far though, first the Jib halyard broke then after fixing that and sailing on one of the job ...
Sailing from Newlyn, around Lands End and all the way up to Milford Haven in South Wales. This is the longest leg of our journey and also probably the ...
Our first overnight passage on our new Catamaran, Trade Runner. Pittwater south to Eden, NSW is about 240 nautical miles and we picked a pretty mellow wind for ...
Sailing time! We leave Nelson Bay and sail south to Newcastle on our new (to us) Catamaran. Its only a short passage and we have chosen a pretty calm day but ...
Moving Time! The process of packing up our old home (Schiehallion) and moving all that stuff to our new home (Trade Runner) is a big one. Accumulated stuff has ...
We’re finally sailing. With the yacht having been ashore for 10 years and after all this time working and hoping and dreaming, we are actually on the water ...