I have dropped in an extra video for March as I was so excited to actually get out of the harbour. The weather, tides and daylight all lined up and the engine ...
Very Nearly About Sailing
Wow March already. A brief summary of my future plans plus some initial thoughts on having become a 'liveaboard'. A walk around the harbour entrance at low ...
Second part of my reflections after the events of a couple of nights before. No-one wants to get into a position of helplessness where they need to be rescued ...
Well, things did not end well. The first part after leaving Tenby was fine. Good weather and fair winds. However, I couldn't hoist the main as the topping ...
Well, I had completely underestimated the fact that the sea would still be in an awful state despite the wind dropping. Basically, waves come straight across ...
After a week of brilliant weather, there was the threat of a front coming in on the Sunday. It came through the night before leaving two clear days to get to ...
Well, 20 minutes is not exactly an Atlantic crossing. However, first time with a tiller in 20 years, and first time with a very quirky engine. Just About ...
OK. So the big day has actually arrived. Sun is shining. Everything sorted. Boat is to be lifted into the water for a short motor over to the nearest marina ...
After six days of lazing around the day was finally getting nearer where I would find out if she would actually float. Plus I had actually tidied up - so time ...
Relaxing into my two week boat commissioning holiday. Things seems to be going more or less to plan so far. Just About Sailing. A light-hearted video diary of ...
Second video diary entry. The key question as to whether I could successfully make a cup of tea aboard was met with a resounding "maybe". Just About Sailing. ...
Brief series of 'talking head' videos. I took two weeks holiday starting in late April 2015. Boat was more or less ready to go in the water. Plan was to take ...
This Bits and Pieces playlist is just a random selection of stuff. Not that interesting really. This is me trying to find fossils on the mass of rocky ...
I have posted this a bit early to try and tempt the weather gods to give us all even a small window to actually get out there and do some sailing. Anyway, ...
I couldn't decide how to best describe my financial philosophy of my Just About Sailing liveaboard lifestyle. But finally decided to do it in the form of a ...
This is really a recap of what happened in 2015. All of my plans to do a regular video update went out of the window. I thought that if I provocatively gave ...
A few ups and downs this year (2015). My non-sailing friends don't really get it fully. I thought I'd create this just to help explain things. I felt really ...
Well to be honest, not much sailing happened this year. The initial 'shakedown' cruise literally shook everything down - which all needed fixing. Still, ...
Turned out that the 'engineer' who replaced the exhaust elbows before I bought the boats had used standard jubilee clips rather than proper exhaust clamps - ...