Welcome to episode 77 of Sailing Melody We have 307 jobs to do to get this dilapidated old boat back in the water. Can we do it? and more importantly can we ...

Timelapse of the entire project to date, right from the very start with lots of never before seen footage. This is a huge refit and refurbishment of this big, ...

Welcome to episode 75 of Sailing Melody More work in the pilothouse this week, making the woodwork pretty and adding some decorative touches as well as some ...

Being able to take Brilliant II sailing again - despite still being in the middle of a refit - has been a game-changer for our sanity 🤪😅 It's allowed us to ...

Talk about chaining yourself to the dock! After nine months, 18 days, 10 hours and 20 minutes of our boat being immobile (thanks to the scale of the refit), we ...

With the gas disconnected and the stove out, this was the time for us to address the galley area around the Force 10 cooktop and oven. We wanted to replace ...

Work begins on making the new chainplates, we start preparing the head for insulating and paneling and Emily returns to help us paint the cockpit This is a ...

Further remodelling of the cockpit, transom and back end of Melody this week as well as a look at the new bowsprit and some thoughts on the new chain plates. ...

As winter approaches we will be needing to do more interior work on Melody because the weather up here in North Wales simply doesn't allow for much outdoor ...

Its finally happened! We have, at last got around to cutting off the front of the boat!!! Well not quite but almost! In this week's episode we tackle the ...

Remember we're doing all of this so we can go full time cruising as a sailing family in a few years time. This is obviously a huge refit and refurbishment of ...

IT'S BAD!! We removed our keel and what we found could result in the end of Project Melody. Melody has a lifting swing keel which goes up inside a box inside ...

For those following our 'How To' series, here's the cockpit renovation explained. In it we go through 'How To': ✔️ Service a manual Lewmar winch ...

Well our boat will definitely sink now!! In this episode we start tackling some of the bad areas along the bottom of the keel where the side plates of the keel ...

In this epsiode we FINALLY have our boat blasted below the waterline to remove the old paint and rust and we pain her bottom sides using JOTUN two pack epoxy. ...

Just a Girl tackling a steel boat project to get her ready for our family to move aboard and sail round the world. In this week's episode Melissa insulates ...

We're just a normal family working together to restore this rusty old sailing boat so we can fulfil our dream of moving aboard and sailing around the world. ...

Can this old rusty, battered steel yacht be fixed? This it's a regular episode, just a reminder of how far we've come. This is Melody as we found her, ...

The mast has come down!!! After 40 years standing proud and tall the mast came down today for a complete refit and to facilitate further repairs to the ...

FIRE!!!! FRUSTRATION!!! This was a hard week! We had a lot on our plates and the work on the boat was challenging to say the least so there was a bit of ...

Is Melody our cheap dream yacht or just a rusty Nightmare? The rusty steel is in a much worse condition than we thought in the cockpit this week as we ...

More Bad weather forces Melissa and Jack indoors this week so progress is made on stripping out the remainder of the cork insulation from the inside off the ...

Terrible News. Zebu has sadly been declared a Wreck and has been removed from the breakwater in pieces after a devastating storm caused further catastrophic ...

I think I'm seeing woodwork in my sleep! Meanwhile Julian has learned to make patterns and laminate on autopilot. In short, we're going boat refit crazy, but ...