Boyd Goldie and Jamie Furlong in discussion about the Oyster Owners Group website. Boyd put together the original group some years ago using Google Groups. ...
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This is the second in our new series of interviews with sailors we meet on our travels. Except, of course, this one is about Jamie, he of followtheboat and s/y ...
I'm back in the UK for a few weeks and today, on the same day the Tour De France came through Saffron Walden, I called in on Rob Hill of Urban Picnic ...
This week it was all about the application of our Awlcraft Snow White on the decks. There was just one problem: our painter had gone AWOL, holding up the ...
With Jamie back in the UK Liz is left to oversee the refit project as well as record lots of footage for your entertainment. This week the boys start to apply ...
After four months we finally get to see our boat's topsides spray painted with Awlcraft. Since publishing this episode we have received a number of concerns on ...
This week the lads applied the biaxial fibreglass to the hull, double layered, whilst the carpenters complete the companionway ladder and bits of colourful ...
The stainless work is starting to take shape now, with a new companionway ladder being fitted. The floorboards are all up and the lads start preparing the hull ...
In the week that Thailand falls under marshal law... the top coat is now being applied and the masts look like new. Goy's paint team are working on various ...
We're still waiting for the top coat to arrive and the painters are almost done faring the deck and boxes. The cockpit box is taking shape too, whilst the ...
The painters have finished faring the deck and the head painter is keen to crack on with the Awlgrip 545 undercoat. There's still a bit to do with the deck ...
The big news this week was the launch of Thea after two years in the boat yard. Meanwhile the painters have almost finished faring the deck and the carpenters ...
We're into week 12 and things are starting to take shape. For the first time I walked into the saloon and got a glimpse of what it's all going to look like. ...
It was all about the painters this week as they raced against the ensuing storms to spray the first couple of layers of Awlgrip 545 primer. The painters ...
Week Eight of our boat's refit and this week we discover some holes in the deck. The painters are almost ready for the Awlgrip undercoat and the galley is ...
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This is to accompany the blog post (http://followtheboat.com/2014/02/09/esper-refit-week-1/) on hauling our sail boat, Esper (an Oyster 435) in PSS Boat Yard, ...
We were visited by a news crew yesterday. Apparently, in our absence over the summer, they had come down to cover a story on Nazer, the man who looks after ...
This is an audio podcast revamped for youtube, accompanied by random photographs depicting Fort Cochin, the subject for this week's show. It is the first in a ...
This video was put together to help anyone with a Pacific Plus self-steering mechanism that has seized due to non-use. We'd left ours open to the elements of ...