It’s about time that we get some fresh water in our tanks! Washing our dishes in the rain water out of the dingy isn’t ideal, although it works! We are so ...

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Watermakers are an essential piece of kit for remote cruising, so we take good care of our Schenker Zen 30. In this boat work episode, Jamie takes us through ...

Upgrading to a new 12v watermaker was essential to our plans for a more energy efficient, off grid sailboat. Our new Schenker Zen100 watermaker will enable us ...

We are so excited to be back on Barefoot after a month of being away. Erica and Foxy had a great time in Canada, if your interested in knowing more about ...

This episode is packed full of boat jobs, both big and small. We are now up on the careening poles at he Dinah Beach Cruising Club. As the tide heads out, we ...

Wendy empties the pantry yet again and it’s time to begin planning for new shelves to make things store more easily. Magnus cuts the timber, Wendy paints it ...

After more than a year of research we now have a water maker on board Fair Isle. It was the biggest omission in our initial refit five years ago in Holland, ...

This is our DIY, Do It Yourself, 100L/hr watermaker that we built from scratch during lockdown which cost us around $1,000 (EURO) total from standard parts we ...

We continue the installation and revue of our Acuva water purification system. This unit likes its power, so beware of where and how you connect it. If the ...

Are you thinking of buying a water-maker? We look at a different system to our own and wonder if this is the best water maker for cruisers? Skip to 08:36 for ...

This week we are installing our Seawater Pro water maker on Dauntless. We also get an inside look at the Seawater Pro facility! Mike was kind enough to give us ...

Yeah! Free water 'THEY' said...until you stare at the thing which makes free fresh water and wonder why is it not making fresh free water? What went wrong? How ...

Crystal clear water surrounds the islands in the Bahamas, but you can’t drink a lick of it. No surprise, it’s salty. The islands themselves have virtually no ...

Episode 137: We managed to finish up our electrical system tidy up. I thought Ricky was just being OCD about the whole thing but then realized how much neater ...

In this episode, we quarantine in Long Boat Key and get some new graphics on the hulls.

It's always a balance between improving the boat and improving our home. They are one in the same which makes it's hard to separate personal and work life. The ...

Welcome to Sailing Sweet Ruca Tech Talks, where we give you real-world, on boat information as we sail. Today, we dive in-depth into a full service to our ...

Jamie describes in detail how to make a home made, high output diy watermaker for around $3000 usd. His machine is engine driven and makes 240Lph (67usg ph). ...

This episode we share a 25 point check to do a week before a long passage. This time we focus on issues that you can solve in a week's time, but also have a ...

Water water everywhere and it is all salt water which does not do us any good (except to float on) UNTIL NOW! We recently installed a Rainman Watermaker (aka ...

Stage one of our installation of the new Schenker Zen 50 watermaker.. hope you enjoy! More info on the Schenker Zen50 Watermaker at: ...

One of the most important things a blue water cruiser needs is good tasting drinkable water. HECK - cruisers drink a lot (and some of those liquids need to be ...

In this episode Mike and Jacquie try to determine why they cant make water. After many changes of water maker membranes we are stumped and have stumped the ...