We've done it. We've sailed our abandoned yacht the entire 380 nautical miles home. This gorgeous Bowman 46 was left abandoned in the corner of a yard from 2012 until 2022. But we've gioven her a new lease of life, got her back in the water and now we h...
This week our delivery trip takes us from South Wales, Milford Haven Marina, all the way up to North Wales, to Pwllheli Marina, leaving in the dark and arriving in the dark. Another long and cold leg of winter sailing in the UK, but another step closer to...
Sailing from Newlyn, around Lands End and all the way up to Milford Haven in South Wales.
This is the longest leg of our journey and also probably the coldest.
Honestly, if we won the lottery tomorrow I doubt we'd buy a different boat because this is a...
We’re finally sailing. With the yacht having been ashore for 10 years and after all this time working and hoping and dreaming, we are actually on the water with sails up and moving in some sort of direction. It’s a genuinely emotional thing to be at t...
We’re finally sailing. With the yacht having been ashore for 10 years and after all this time working and hoping and dreaming, we are actually on the water with sails up and moving in some sort of direction. It’s a genuinely emotional thing to be at t...
In this episode we finally get our Bowman 46 into the water.
Honestly, if we won the lottery tomorrow I doubt we'd buy a different boat because this is arguably in the top 10 Bluewater boats ever built.
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In this episode we make the final preparations to get our Bowman 46 into the water.
Honestly, if we won the lottery tomorrow I doubt we'd buy a different boat because this is arguably in the top 10 Bluewater boats ever built.
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In this episode the masts on our beautiful Bowman 46 Yawl are stepped for the first time in 10 years as we take another huge step closer to our dream of living aboard and sailing full time.
Honestly, if we won the lottery tomorrow I doubt we'd buy a diffe...
So you've seen the show round of our Bowman 46 and now here's the first few days of work getting her engine started and seeing what sort of state the electrics and rigging are in.
Honestly, if we won the lottery tomorrow I doubt we'd buy a different boat...
BIG SPOILERS SO DON'T WATCH IF YOU WANT TO WAIT FOR THE SURPRISES.
Seriously though, in this episode we answer some of your most asked questions and give away some really big secrets about what's been going on.
Honestly, if we won the lottery tomorrow I d...
Here it is at last, the full tour you've all been waiting for.
In this weeks episode we give you a full tour of our new AWESOME Bluewater sailing yacht, a BOWMAN 46 CORSAIR, which is a centre cockpit, yawl rigged, ocean going, live-aboard beast of a boat.
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Work continues on our Steel Pilothouse even though its so cold there's ice inside the boat. This week Andy puts our Jotun paint to the test on the cold steel of the cockpit sole in sub zero temperatures. No funk but he seemed to enjoy himself somehow.
T...
Yes, its true, we've bought another sailing yacht. Here's the story of how, and more importantly why we've taken this huge step so we can accommodate our new baby on board.
This is a huge refit and refurbishment of this big, old, abandoned steel yacht a...
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Welcome to episode 89 of Sailing Melody
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In this episode we continue work o...
Welcome to episode 87 of Sailing Melody
Working between the boat and home makes things tricky and that can mean silly mistakes. In this episode we make some lovely hardwood frames for the deck hatches but not everything goes to plan.......
Here’s the ...
Welcome to episode 86 of Sailing Melody
As part of the process of moving aboard Melody and going full time sailing we've bought a Camper Van. It may seem like a strange move but downsizing into a tiny home like a Van will make the move to Melody much eas...
Welcome to episode 85 of Sailing Melody
In this weeks episode Andy is taking it easy, recovering from being poorly but managing to get a little bit done in the saloon, refitting the deckhead :)
This is a huge refit and refurbishment of this big, old, ...
Welcome to episode 84 of Sailing Melody
In this weeks episode Melissa is all by herself cracking on with some typically tricky and downright dirty disgusting work ripping out the sole and horrible old pipework for the grey water tank.
This is a huge r...
Welcome to episode 83 of Sailing Melody.
In this weeks episode we're stuck at home trying to get on with some boat related projects while feeing really quite unwell. There's always plenty to do though, we removed a lot of stuff from Melody when we firs...
Welcome to episode 82 of Sailing Melody. In this weeks episode we have Wildlings sailing channel visit us and we play boat top trumps, make sushi and interview them. Andy also gets some more welding done in the aft cabin.
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Welcome to episode 81 of Sailing Melody
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Welcome to episode 80 of Sailing Melody
In this weeks episode Andy is working on his own on Jacks aft cabin. He sands, grinds, makes a lot of mess and paints it with epoxy. He Also uses reclaimed furniture to make a bulk head and door down to the cabin. ...
Welcome to episode 79 of Sailing Melody
This week we spend a lot of time sanding, grinding and chipping away at the foredecks, Gunwales and toenail. We finally get paint on this huge area, This is a HUGE job ticked off out list!!
This is a huge refit an...
Welcome to episode 78 of Sailing Melody
Sometimes things don't go to plan and when you think you've got a great idea things just don't work out how you'd expect them too. But the way we see it, if nothing goes wrong and you make no mistakes, you're proba...
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 do it this year?
As promised here is the complete list of jobs.
Do get in touch if you can help w...
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, old, abandoned steel yacht and it's not only time consuming, it's complicated and quite expensiv...
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 more functionality. All that along with juggling outdoor jobs and COLD weather!
This is a huge r...
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 huge refit and refurbishment of this big, old, abandoned steel yacht and it's not only time consumi...
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.
This is a huge refit and refurbishment of this big, old, abandoned steel yacht and it's not only ...
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 work over the winter months. With that in mind we've made a mock up of our pilothouse seating ideas...
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 rusty anchor chain locker which we know many of you have been waiting for us to do. It's a daunting...
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 this big, old, abandoned steel yacht and it's not only time consuming, it's complicated and quite...
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 the long keel so it is super important to remove that and inspect everything and repair everythi...
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 meet the keel base under the engine and prop shaft.
We talk to Ian Poole from SV Blown Away an...
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.
Melissa continues to work alone, doing a job which really should have been tackled by a whole t...
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