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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...
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...
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, battered, bruised, rusty and rotten.
And now look at how far we've come and what we've achieved!.
Keep w...
Welcome to Episode 19 of our series about resorting our abandoned steel sailing yacht.
This week Melissa is working hard with a little help from Jack to remove all the hatches on the coach roof, we also decide that they really do need replacing!
We are A...
Welcome to Episode 18 of our series about resorting our abandoned sailing yacht.
This week we pickup our amazing new welder from Lincoln Electric, also finally buy some steel to start cutting and welding and fabricating and Melissa works like an absolute m...
Welcome to the 17th episode of Season 2
Is the whole front end of our boat rusted beyond repair? In this episode we tear our the forepeak to examine the state of the steel behind the forward collision bulkhead to see how far back the rust in the anchor l...
Welcome to the 16th of Season 2
It's all about where you put your probe.
This week we finally get to do a proper ultrasonic metal thickness test using the Olympus 38DL!
NDT or Non Destructive testing is a term which covers a number of methods of testing ...
We cut a hole in our boat!
It's freezing cold here and the weather is still terrible so we're working undercover doing what we can until the spring arrives.
This week we disassemble the steering system to find it's all jammed up with sand and won't com...
We've finally got Melody Under cover so we can get her dry and continue to work on her during the horrible winter months. It's absolutely freezing here now in North Wales....... Like seriously freezing! But with her cover on Melody is much warmer and dr...
The bottom of the boat wasn't wet so it was the ideal opportunity to get on with more work on the underside this week. We continue the awkward work of treating and painting the flakey areas and yet again discover things are not as bad as they appear.
W...
This week we continue to battle the Welsh weather and wind and short hours of daylight as we tackle more of the rust. We're trying our a variety of rust treatments and converters to see what works best and over time we'll be able to give our our opinion. ...
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