So you may remember from a couple of weeks ago that we finally managed to remove the stubborn old sea cock from the top of our volvo sail drive leg. Well this ...

This week Ian finally gives in and we have some one around to give us a quote for recovering the seat cushions. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/

So after the struggles of last week, this week we actually manage to get things done. We finish off the wiring for the new lighting, finally remove that ...

Work is progressing on sea Horse but we take a moment out to talk mooring lines this week. If you have your own mooring it makes sense to have your own ...

So this week we show you how the engine sound insulation worked out and then move on to other projects. Unfortunately for one reason or another we couldn't ...

Quite a momentous occasion.... we have finished the varnishing! Thats a big tick on the list :-) No however we are moving on to other things and we update ...

Ian always likes to get out on New Years Day and go sailing, and amazingly so do some others! even though its normally cold, wet and miserable. This year he ...

We needed to remove the propeller so that we could replace the zinc anode on the sail drive leg. We dont get to do the zinc, but this is the story of how we ...

This week, more varnishing... and not all of it goes to plan but we are making progress. Plus we show you some of the other things that we have been doing. ...

An (almost) original song by the Foxwell Family. One of our subscribers, a fellow sailor with his own channel 'Just about sailing' wrote a song about his ...

This year has gone so fast and it seems as though we did so many different things its actually nice for us to look back at these films and remind ourselves of ...

We aren't experts and we aren't going to teach the you the right way to varnish your boat... but we will show you how we do it. Cheap, quick and easy, and ...

If ever a film needed a better thumbnail, then its this one... but there is not much you can show that will make this any more interesting than it is I'm ...

So after emptying the boat, removing all the clutter that builds up during the course of a years cruising, and then taking off everything else that would move ...

So with Sea Horse out of the water now for 4 months we take a look at the long list of jobs that we have to get done. Music: http://www.purple-planet.com

So hauling her out of the water and un-stepping the mast might mark the end of our first season sailing Sea Horse but it also marks the start of our first ...

Its a chilly October morning, and the last round in the Medway Cruising Club (MCC) Burton series. Its a five race series and we had done the first four with a ...

Some people like doing it, others not so much, but being able to sail a yacht on your own is an important skill to have. This is a short film that we shot at ...

As many of you may know Ian likes sailing on his own, so when he found out that our yacht club was running a couple of races this year just for single, and ...

Its an early start today to catch the tide that will sweep us out into the north sea so that we can cut around the Maplin sands and the Shoeburyness firing ...

We start today with Izzy finally catching a crab but the weather forecasts all predicted that our luck was about to run out and that tomorrow morning would be ...

So after pulling Ian up the mast to check on the jib halyard we set off for a pleasant sail further up the Crouch to Fambridge. It was a great journey and ...

So after a short, but great stop over in Brightlingsea we get up early (well early for us) and start heading south again. This time down to Burnham, one of our ...

Today, the friends that we had made in Tollesbury were planning a short hop along the coast to Brightlingsea.... and as we had never been before there before ...