We have to splice some dyneema, so we thought we would highlight the major steps in this extra. In our next main video, you can see what we were doing without ...
Sailing Yacht Salty Lass
We get to visit the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in their station at New Brighton. The RNLI have saved over 140,000 lives since they were set up ...
We go to see the visit of the Giants to Liverpool, insulate the fridge and use up some leftovers to make a kedgeree. ...
We discover that Salty Lass is a floating bomb as we have a leak in our butane gas system. Very luckily for us, the leak is in the best possible place. So, ...
So many points were raised after our last video that we have done an out-of-sequence realtime one to address the points raised. And our heating system ...
With the colder weather drawing in, we add more insulation to Salty Lass and overhaul the heating system. http://www.saltylass.co.uk/staying-warm-and-dry.html ...
The foot of our sail cover falls to pieces and, since they have to be custom made, we decide we can do it ourselves with only a domestic sewing machine, a ...
We build a much needed bookcase to hold all our Pilot Guides and Cruising Guides as well as DVDs and reading books. ...
We attend the annual 24 hour race on Southport lake. For a change we are doing the cooking rather than running a boat (as in the previous two years). It ...
We're back in Liverpool and we have boat projects to get on with. After our Irish Sea adventure, we now have a long list of projects that we need to complete ...
We reflect on the lessons learned from our passage around Chicken Rock and the bottom of the Isle of Man, but sadly our cruise around the Irish Sea was coming ...
We leave Peel, Isle of man, for a short passage to Port St Mary and we go on a lovely calm day. Unfortunately the weather soon turns and we make the mistake of ...
A preview of our next episode where things do not go as planned.
We get weather-bound for a few days in the Isle of Man, so Gaynor goes off in search of the local seafood whilst Beverley keeps an eye on the weather. ...
While in the Isle of Man, we took the opportunity to go out with Sailing for the Disabled. It was a fantastic experience and gave kids from the Isle of Man ...
We sail from Bangor to Peel via Donaghadee Sound and dodging plenty of lobster pots, but rollers from recent storms persisted and, combined with light winds, ...
Boat projects take up a lot of our time in Bangor, but we find time to uncover an astounding fact about this quiet little town on the edge of Belfast Lough ...
Bangor, Belfast and the Titanic - We leave Ardglass to go north to Bangor via the Copelands and Donaghadee Sound (which we transited in darkness so no video ...
This SYSL Extra shows Gaynor doing a splice on 3 braid nylon rope for our kedge anchor. The key is getting the first three loops through the standing part and ...
We sail from Carlingford to Ardglass which means we have to cross Greenore Point - an area notorious for tidal streams, breakers and rough seas. Since the boat ...
We tested our Fujifilm XP130 "Tough camera" by dunking it into the marina water. It seems to have survived. We saw a number of common jellyfish and small fry ...
Carlingford Lough was our destination, but we had to wait for a weather window so we did a few tasks aboard before setting off. It was a cold run so we ...
The "Rule of Twelfths" is a rule-of-thumb that we use frequently to decide if a location is safe to anchor or if a passage is safe to do. It only takes a few ...
Having a rope caught in our propeller means that all our plans had to be rethought. In the end, Howth Yacht Club's diver did the job quickly and efficiently ...