After watching our Lazy Jacks doing their best to slice their way through our mainsail, we decide to do something about it. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like ...
Sailing Yacht Salty Lass
We reposition the boat to Portaferry to make leaving Strangford Lough an easier task and the local ferry gives us a lesson in ferry gliding. Also, should we ...
We have some nice relaxing sails in Strangford Lough but, sadly, the place is a bit like a ghost town because of the virus. Nonetheless, the people we did meet ...
We finally leave Carrickfergus after the lockdown ends and sail to the nearly enclosed sea lough of Strangford, but our time under lockdown means we are out of ...
The weather continues to yo-yo back and forth and Gaynor leaves Bev alone for a week. So why not pass the time by answering viewer questions? ---- Coffee Jar ...
You do more Yachtmaster prep by looking at how we would recover a man overboard and we find out that what we thought "ain't necessarily so".... ---- Coffee ...
We get a number of tasks done and explore a method of cutting down journey times by, paradoxically, choosing an apparently slower course. ---- Coffee Jar --- ...
If it was not for the weather, we would be off on a short cruise, but a few little jobs need a tidy up so we use the break to get them done. Next stop.... Out ...
We recalibrate our Raymarine wind instrument and our Evolution Autopilot, but nothing seemed to work as expected, so instead we decided to service the ...
Going for a sail when you are a bit rusty is always interesting, but escaping a tight slip with a strong wind against you at the same time? Let us just say ...
In between Force 11 gales, we finally get caught up on fixing the rats' nest of wiring that comprises our boat's electrics. The job is far from perfect but it ...
We found that the hardest part of installing an AIS (Automatic Identification System) was trying to choose which one to install. or should we use radar ...
We talk about preparing to deal with storms and why you should expect every day to be a stormy day at sea ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can ...
After calling our autopilot a "Stupid autopilot" because she does not follow a series of course changes, it turns out that *WE* are not as smart as we thought. ...
We show how we installed our Raymarine Autopilot (an EV-100 autohelm) and used it as an opportunity to upgrade the boat's network system to Seatalk NG / ...
We find some mysterious gifts left aboard Salty Lass and we use them to move a few projects forward. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can ...
We get comfy in our new marina and think that we are in for a stretch of nice weather which shows you what we know. And we discover water..... inside the ...
High wind sailing off the Welsh coast. We found some unpublished footage from an Autumn sail in 2019 where the weather was forecast to be F3/4 increasing to 5 ...
We are now two years into our liveaboard adventure on Salty Lass, so we have a look back on how it has gone, where we are going and how it has changed us. We ...
Following on from our previous video, we extract all the relevant information needed to draw up our outline passage plans for leaving Belfast Lough in a few ...
We look at how to gather the information that is needed for passage planning so that you can safely visit ports and harbours which you are not familiar with. ...
Due to the rotten weather interfering with sailing and filming, we take a look at the effect four consecutive winter gales have had on our side panels. We also ...
As part of our Yachtmaster training we discuss COLREGS - Collision Regulations - or the Rules of the Road for mariners. There are a surprising number of ...
We seem to have had storm after storm and it is grey, damp and depressing. The gloom is at least alleviated by the fact that the days are getting longer. As a ...