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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We finally put the exhaust system to bed. Our flexible pipe from MasterFlex arrived and Carla and I fit the system together. We are very pleased to have ...

We finally get around to cutting the prop shaft and attaching the prop to the engine. We spend some time aligning the two up before moving on to the ...

We get heavily into the plumbing this week.  So many different kind of pipes, it’s unbelievable! We might have around 20 different pipes, would you believe ...