With the cruising season to be upon us soon, we have had no time to make a video this week sorry If you like our videos, you can always drop a tip in our ...

We continue to get the boat ready for the cruising season as we only have a couple of weeks left on our contract, so it is not the best when the bilge pump ...

We start making serious preparations to get the boat ready for the cruising season, and we hope that we have solved one outstanding issue - man overboard ...

We show you how to spring your boat off a pontoon. It is a very useful technique to get out past other boats that have moored too close or if the wind is ...

People keep asking us why we stay in the north for winter instead of heading south to sunnier climes. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can ...

After three named storms in less than a week, the sea around the UK has been whipped to a frenzy. Even here in the sheltered waters of Belfast Lough, we get a ...

We track down an intermittent electrical fault, finally get our inverter installed after two years and fail to catch a camera thief ---- Coffee Jar --- If ...

With a storm or two rolling in every week, we get caught up on long delayed projects ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can always drop a tip in ...

Weather stops us from finishing the Volvo Penta panel repair, so instead we reflect on whether or not we are crazy to be living aboard a boat in the middle of ...

It was all going so well until, suddenly, it wasn't! ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can always drop a tip in our coffee jar ...

We often get asked, where did you get the money to buy your boat? We also get asked how the solar panels are holding up. In this week's episode, we answer both ...

Having the opportunity to turn the inside of the boat into a disaster zone, Bev gets a few much needed jobs done. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, ...

We look forward to 2022, and discuss what we have learned to stop ourselves from blundering into troublesome situations ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our ...

In 2021 we sailed in all four countries of the UK and the Isle of Man and sampled all the types of weather for which the UK is justifiably famous. ---- Our ...

Our own laziness has made the boat a total mess and none of the winter projects have started yet, and we are running out of diesel as well... ---- Coffee Jar ...

We discuss the method we use for anchoring and why we choose the locations we do ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can always drop a tip in our ...

We look back at what we have learned for using mooring buoys. Three years at sea have given us plenty of opportunities to learn from our mistakes ---- Coffee ...

Our Lofrans Cayman Windlass partly failed when we were cruising. The motor no longer functioned and we had to lift the anchor using the manual override. This ...

Our batteries fail to charge correctly even though we have both solar and shore power attached. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can always ...

We experience ocean swells as we cross from Scotland to Northern Ireland, but after going through the rips and overfalls at Fairhead, we encounter one of the ...

We experience tidal streams that boost our speed up to over 11kts allowing us to eat distance very quickly. We also find out that a shallow mooring area is ...

After leaving Craobh we find that we need to go back there again and deal with the crazy tides in the Sound of Jura yet again. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you ...

We find crossing the Atlantic to be a lot easier than sailing in some of the dangerous tidal areas like Cuan Sound. We do not really recommend Cuan Sound as a ...

We run from the forecasted weather which is expected to be very bad for the Outer Hebrides and we need to go a major town for supplies as the last biscuits on ...