We’re up on the hard at the Rosshaven Marine boatyard. It’s time to sort the new sails out.
Magnus begins by putting the new staysail on the Reefurl furler which we installed quite some time ago in 35 knot winds!
Meanwhile Wendy is busy painting the ...
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We say saloon, some say salon... we say lapstrake, some say clinker... we're not calling the whole thing off. Boat t...
You may have noted that we’ve been a little off the grid lately, and we explain in this episode why that is the case…
In reality, we were having a sailors crisis… 😂
Well, not so much a crisis as a “what the hell do we do with ourselves now?” ...
Sailing Croatia we finally made it and we start the sailing adventure with Two Sail Boat KISSING at SEA. Another great episode of our sailing life, but this time with a special guest on our sailboat, our editor Pedro. Now he can experience how it is to act...
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Nutshell gets hauled out of the water and is given a good clean.
It’s time to dig deep to find our painting supplies in the starboard aft cabin, ‘the shed’.
Magnus goes about checking the through hull and finds that the one in the gall...
So if you watched last weeks episode you will know that we made the river Crouch our first port of call as the weather forecast didn't look to clever. And we were right, it was intermittent miserable with short periods of hopeful. So this week, rather than...
SAILBOAT WORK AND HAUL OUT ON SV HAKUNA | And we are ready to haul out for our boat bottom paint and lots of chores for living on a sailing catamaran for two years!
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POP! After tons of swell and the puffs hitting us from the side, the dyneema just couldn't take any more.
We also go hunting for our own dinner and Curtis and I hook up our third reef and inner forestay and take Sweet Ruca for a whirl in the crystal clear...
We have the sail of a lifetime zigging and zagging between boats all fleeing from Martha’s Vineyard, and drop the hook just inside of the Newport bridge.
This video ends with Carolyn's excitement to sit on the frame she built for one of the saloon setees and we'll get a glimpse of Steve laying down on his future berth thanks to all the work shown in this week's episode.
A water tank will go inside the spa...
Ok so its not that dramatic but on the first day of this years Foxwell Family sailing holiday we did come across an awful lot of large shipping when crossing the Thames estuary.
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We head off for the long walk up to the historic forts on Magnetic Island.
It’s worth the hike, if only for the amazing view from the top.
On Sunday we take a look at the little market on the beach.
Then it’s time to say goodbye to Magnetic Island a...
Buttoning up the forward bulkhead with coats of sealer and varnish makes way for some interior joinery in the forepeak that Steve has plenty of experience producing. Tools that have long sat dormant in the shop are whizzed back into life to create square m...
We’ll see you Friday for a regular episode, but we’ve had a lot of requests for less speaking, and for perhaps something with a calm pace. We won’t be changing how we’re documenting progress on Arabella, but we wanted to release a bonus video showi...
SAIL LIFE - DADS point of view on a sail boat. This week's vlog is a homage to Gerben. Without Gerben we would never have discovered living at sea, our sailing life. To sail on a sail boat, that is more a sailing yacht our beneteau 57, to be a dad, and a c...
CHANGING OUR CATAMARAN FOR A MONOHULL?! | Sailing A Sailboat. In today's sailing vlog, we go sailing on a monohull for the very first time, and we compare the differences between sailing a monohull vs catamaran.
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It’s time to work on the solar regulars for Nutshell. Magnus does the install and wiring and we now have high tech stuff on Nutshell!
We leave Bowen and make our way to Cape Upstart and check out the little beach and the ‘beach shacks’ which line th...
In the past, we've had a look in the garage at the piles, en masse, of the mahogany lumber that came out of Victoria, but this week's video goes through a pretty extensive and specific inventory of what we have to play with for reclaimed wood as we put the...
In this episode, we sail from Terciera to Sao Miguel in the Azores.
I (Khiara) decided to be captain for the day and as soon as we hoisted a sail, something went wrong!
After dealing with the issue in a very captainly manner, we then sailed the 90 mile str...
Today we moved our boat and sailed from Dartmouth to the stunning Salcombe. We actually went a bit further up river and dropped our anchor in a place known as 'The Bag', which is a short dingy ride from Salcombe, but it's much quieter too.
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Ok so we'll make it easy for you. Its a Squib. A small, two person, racing keel boat which may not look that special but they are really sweet little boats. So with a growing fleet on the river Medway we have brought an old boat to do up so that we can joi...
WHAT'S THE CARIBBEAN LIKE? | CARIBBEAN TRAVEL VLOG 2021. We explore the best of the beautiful island of Grenada!
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What do cruiser's do with all of their time? Quite a lot as this episode demonstrates 😉. It starts out with pizza night aboard Delos. We make the dough (from scratch of course) early in the morning and as the day goes on we work on the toppings. It's a ...
This is not a HOW TO video but it is an update of the things I am learning and having to learn. Things about the boat, working remotely from the boat, being a sixty-year-old trying something new, etc.
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We go ashore and explore Grassy Island and then slowly make our way up the coast to Gloucester Island.
There’s a great pub nearby at Dingo Beach, but unfortunately we can’t stop there because the tides are not in our favour.
A lovely sail…
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A big reveal here: We have a close look, side by side, of Steve's plan for Arabella's interior laid alongside Atkins's fairly general layout he envisioned would fit the needs of most cruisers about a hundred years ago. This conversation between Steve and S...
Short run of merchandise available at acorntoarabella.com today: We've got planking offcuts of various sizes, frame offcuts from that closed-up port side of the boat, rejected copper rivets, and challenge coins from @SV Seeker. (Doug's launching in a coupl...
.I was asked recently by a group of friends what I am learning and is it difficult at my age . . so I have come up with a TOP TEN list. Actually, after I recorded I could think of dozen more.
One of the things I am learning is how to work from the boat ....
Warning: this not the happiest of videos. One morning, following a gale the night before, I discovered a Grey Heron entangled in my backstay. Another Heron, likely its partner, watched from the treetops across the cove and sometimes circled overhead watc...
The pesky, dangerous maple that serves as an anchor for the boathouse comes down in this episode, and Steve (who has worked in the past as an arborist, and of course, felled the trees for the lumber in Arabella) goes through a couple of specifics about how...
We leave the Great Barrier Reef and head back towards Airlie Beach. We stop on the way for a night at Black Island.
After a couple of days of sorting stuff, installing a new water filter and tidying up the saloon, we finally actually leave and head north!...
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