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Bending a sail: to secure a sail to a spar before hoisting. Bend On ~ To tie onto or fasten. Garrett completes the last of the changes and additions to the boom and gaff. Persevering through the cold, damp weather. Then together we work on permanently secu...
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...
This is an old video when I bought my Catalina 25 in 2016.
I have sold her a few years ago.
Since then I have a 1973 Catalina 22 swing keel with a trailer.
See my other videos.
Tropical x-mas is still exotic to me even after my forth Christmas in the Caribbean. I'm sharing my Christmas with you and wish you a happy new year! Going to the beach is something I should do more often, but so easy to take for granted after so long time...
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...
6 hints to avoid a disaster is something you should watch BEFORE you start on a full refit job on your mast and standing rigging. Not all rigging companies knows what they are doing, and not everyone cares about your safety either. Not everyone understands...
Want a glimpse of normal sailing life aboard? Servicing a Lewmar 64 Ocean Series Winch onboard our J Boats J/46 while at Nanny Cay Marina in the BVI.
Curtis does a quick service on our winches. This is what real boat life is. Much of our time is spent doi...
The adventure, in order to make that happen you have to become intimately familiar with your boat...
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Would you E-Foil in Piranha invested waters?? Well it surely was a very quick way of learning, trying to get onto that board as quick as possible. We had an amazing time in Suriname, from interacting with Sloths, to exploring the Jungle and chasing snakes...
Come and explore the Jungle with us, we had so much fun in Suriname, never knew there was so much excitement in a JUNGLE.
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We finally reached SURINAME. Entering a muddy Piranha infested river, with high currents against us. Took us a good 8 hours to reach our destination, negotiating a humongous bridge and huge floating islands.
A big shoutout to all our subscribers, you gu...
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 ...
If you watched our previous episode, you will recall that this passage to the Amazon Jungle in Suriname, was by far the worst we've experienced. Our rigging took a serious beating, and on top of that, what is a passage without something breaking LOL
A bi...
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...
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 the pilot house and gets into to awkward spaces to paint an area of the bilge while Andy is hard a...
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. In this week's episode we get Jack as involved as we can building some temporary steps down to wha...
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