What do you do when there’s no ‘off-the-shelf solution to a problem on your boat? Well, if you’re anything like us, you design and build one yourself! For ...
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Some sails are worth the wait, and this was one of them. Ironically, it was a passage we’d been dreading. If you’re cruising down the Queensland coast, the ...
The two destinations in this video – Sudbury Cay and Michaelmas Cay – are the reason we set sail up the North Queensland Coast in the middle of a La Niña ...
Want to know how to make – or re-make – boat fridge lids? Need to replace a galley countertop? Looking to modernise the interior of an old sailing yacht? If ...
Sixteen years ago, we dropped anchor in West Bay at Middle Percy Island on Australia’s east coast and left a piece of memorabilia behind. We were far from ...
Maybe it was all the more sweet because we'd downed tools from our boat refit for a while. Or maybe it really was one of those 'one in 10' sails that explain ...
I guess now we can add working with Corian to our ever-growing list of boat refit skills 🤪 If you've never used it before (and we hadn't), Corian is composed ...
It's been about three years since the timber trims were removed from our 44-year-old boat's interior, and destroyed in the process. Now they're finally back!! ...
This three-minute video doesn't really do justice to the phenomenal amount of work that's gone into re-painting our cockpit. Every process you see here is ...
In the last couple of weeks we've moved onwards and upwards.... literally! Onwards because we're no longer working on that never-ending Laminex 🕺🏻💃🎆🙌🍾 Upwards ...
Calculate the time you think something is going to take you on a boat, then double it, and add some 🤪 That's definitely been the case with this stage of our ...
I think I'm seeing woodwork in my sleep! Meanwhile Julian has learned to make patterns and laminate on autopilot. In short, we're going boat refit crazy, but ...
Never mind Tik Tok, we're all about Teak-Tok right now! Either the real deal (for a fibreglass boat we seem to have an inordinate amount of teak on board!), or ...