Our first film on sailing single handed was so well received that we thought we would do another. This week its how we fly a spinnaker single handed. Please ...
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Thames barges have been sailing and working on the east coast of England for over 200 year. And for well over 100 years they have also been racing them and ...
So having now put Elizabeths old boat up for sale we get to try out her new one. An RS Feva. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/
Jack Holt was responsible for so many of the iconic dinghy designs of the 50's, 60's and 70's but not many people have ever heard of his Bumblebee design. ...
Our last two films had a a lot of people interested in how we get the shots from behind of our boat sailing. Well we dont get to go sailing this week so we ...
So now that Sea Horse is back in the water we can start using her again, and this week its the first race in the Medway YC racing season. Now racing may not ...
It wasn't much of a sail but any day afloat is better than a day on the hard so we enjoyed it. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/
So after all the hard work we finally get Sea Horse back in the water and take some time out to run through the things that we have done this winter. Music ...
So we are nearly at the end. This week we finish off all those other jobs that need doing on the outside of the hull in preparation for launching her next ...
We are coming to the end of the list... or at least as much of the list as we are going to get done this year :-) and so we are now starting work on the ...
So after a winters hard work in stripping, cleaning, varnishing, rewiring, reupholstering etc etc we finally start the process of putting it all back ...
So this week we finally get around to covering those roof panels that we cut out weeks ago. We ordered some foam backed vinyl from http://www.martrim.co.uk/ ...
This is a film that we have been meaning to make for a while now so here it is, tying a Bowline with one hand and why that's so important Plus did you know ...
Another job ticked off of the list. This week we finally get that hatch trim'd, sanded and fitted and install the LED strip lighting that we had fitted the ...
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 ...
An update on progress and our plans for the next part of the refurbishment. Winter refit Vlog part 7
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 ...