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EP19 Scrubbing off…. scrubbing off our Red Fox trailer sailer that is!
So if you leave a yacht on a mooring sooner or later you will need to scrub off the bottom to remove the build up of weed, barnacles and slim that for some reason loves to live on antifouling paint! At Medway we are lucky enough to have a set of movable m...
INSTALLING LAZY JACKS in our Red Fox trailer sailer yacht
Pretty much as the title suggests. A short film showing how we made our own Lazy Jacks and fitted them to Rowena, our Red Fox.
funNstuff Wilsonians Rescue Boat Duty, we get to play in a rib!
Wilsonians is a sailing club that is run by its members, for its members. As such we all give up a couple of Sundays each year to help run things. Some people look after the club itself, others look after the sailors, primarily by feeding them! Then of c...
funNstuff Commodores Day at Medway Yacht Club 2015
Just a fun day out for the whole club. Yacht and dinghy racing for people that like racing, a fancy dress sail past for those that don't and plenty of other fun activities for the rest of the family.
OUR FIRST NIGHT AT ANCHOR. onboard our Red Fox trailer sailor in Stangate creek on the Medway
So after all the hard work we finally get to have some fun on Rowena, our Red Fox trailer sailer yacht. The wind was pretty strong for the journey down river, and dead on the nose, so as we wanted to make use of the high tide and explore some of the cree...
LAUNCHING OUR RED FOX TRAILER SAILER – EP17
It seems to have taken ages but we finally have our Red Fox ready for the water. Its not finished but its close enough and we are itching to go sailing. Music: http://www.purple -planet.com Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
funNstuff Wilsonians Commodores series race 2
It was a lovely day but with not a lot of wind. Hannah joined our friend Tony on his V3000 trapeze dinghy, and Izzy and Daddy filmed the action from Granddads boat. Reasonable turn out of competitors given the weather and I think we caught most people on ...
EP16 Loading up and taking our Red Fox trailer sailer to the club ready to launch.
That's it, ready or not we are packing up our Red Fox trailer sailor and taking her down to the boat club. Well have her in the water soon then we can begin our next series of adventures.
FAMILY SAILING ON A SINGLE HANDED BLAZE DINGHY
It was an overcast but other wise pleasant evening with a nice gentle breeze from the west and an incoming tide so we all decided to go for a sail on daddy's Blaze dinghy. The Blaze is not really a cruising boat and we were worried that a) we wouldn't all...
EP15 At last the covers some off of our Red Fox trailer sailor.
The worst of the rain and the early morning frost is now past us so the covers come off. Now we can crack on with the rest of the boat!
EP14 Work continues. An update on the current state of our Red Fox trailer sailor.
Things are coming along. The electronics are nearly done, although until we get the mast up they cant be completed. So we are now sorting out the rest of the stuff inside, this is just an update on progress so far.
EP13 Cleaning! Work continues on our Red Fox trailer sailor.
Yachting isn't all glamour. Todays film is a short clip of me cleaning :-(
EP12 The start of work on our Red Fox trailer sailer.
There is lots to do, but we thought we would start with the electrics. At least this way we will have some working lights to help with the other work that needs doing, which invariably gets done after work... in the dark
EP11 Buying our Red Fox trailer sailer yacht, and bringing her home to the Medway
So this is the beginning of our Red Fox yacht adventures, buying the boat and bringing her home.