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The DIRTY Truth About Off-Grid Boat Life (Literally) 🤢
Off grid challenge week one. As we settle into life in out tiny floating home, we tackle one of those jobs NOBODY enjoys. Fixing the broken toilet. Support us on Patreon : Will we be able to find a perfect spot to anchor for this amazing challenge? What are you doing still reading this! You s...
Off grid living challenge begins! Are we ready?
We're finally going off grid in our biggest challenge yet! We're testing the boat and ourselves to see how long we can cope without relying on shore power and marina's. Support us on Patreon : Will we be able to find a perfect spot to anchor for this amazing challenge? What are...
Sailing Melody Livestream Q&A – Wednesday 30th at 8pm BST
Hi everyone. Grab your popcorn and come up with some cool questions for us. This coming Wednesday we're doing a livestream so come and join us at 8pm BST and have some questions prepared for us. Please remember it's our first livestream so we're super nervous about it but also exc...
#71 – SCRAP Boat into a HOME on a TIGHT budget ⛵
In this weeks episode Melissa continues work on the coach roof sides and removes the cooker. We fit new lights in the pilot house along with vinyl covered ceiling panels. This is a huge refit and refurbishment of this big, old, abandoned steel yacht and it's not only time consuming, it's...
# 70 – Making a new BOWSPRIT!! Rebuilding a STEEL boat⛵⛵
n this weeks episode Andy makes a new bowsprit for our steel sailing yacht, Jack has an amazing birthday treat with a wild rib ride and we begin putting up the ceiling in the pilot house. Building bowsprit 0.42 Jacks birthday/Rib ride 11.31 Pilot house ceiling 16.11 This is a huge refit and ...
#69 – One YEAR of progress turning a RUSTY YACHT into our TINY HOME
One year of progress. One year of working together to turn our rusty old yacht into our future tiny home. We are a family of three in the UK who, together, are restoring an old, rusty, abandoned sailing yacht with limited time, limited funds and limited skills and equipment. But one thing above al...
#55 – ABANDONED BOAT to TINY HOME! The work continues
Welcome to episode 39 of Sailing Melody Season 2 Massive progress this week as we more or less totally rebuild the cockpit combings creating a much better mounting point for the winches and also much better headroom in the aft end of the boat. Two solid days of working from dusk til dawn were hu...
#54 – Repairing a RUSTY wreck whilst battling the elements!!
Melissa gets stuck into the prepping and painting the the side of the coach roof. Jack and Andy Battle the elements to try and get some work done. We also have an amazing gift from one of our followers. Remember we're doing all of this so we can go full time cruising as a sailing family in ...
#52 – ⛵Holes! Holes! HOLES! 😱 Restoring a 40 year old steel yacht!!
Andy fills all the holes left by the old wind and depth instruments as we continue to chip away at our restoration of this 40 year old steel sailing yacht. We will be putting the new instruments in a pod on the steering binnacle with repeaters in the pilothouse so there is really no need for the ho...
#51 – ⛵ AMATEURS trying to do up a rusty sailboat
We are just an amateur family trying our best to fix up this old rusty sailboat, sometimes things go well and sometimes they don't, and sometimes even progress feels deflating. This week we get the cockpit sealed, mostly, and stop the water coming in, mostly, and get it painted out, mostly, but...
#50 – ⛵This could be BAD! Exposing our lifting keel!!😱 Rusty yacht transformation. [
This week Andy finally opens the keel box to take a look at the condition of the lifting keel. He welds a patch in the pilothouse roof, Melissa arrives to help get it painted and re fit the hatches! We hope you find the high speed painting as satisfying as we did!! Remember we're doing all ...
ROUND THE ISLAND RACE 2021 : Sailing Melody SPECIAL Bonus Episode
Welcome to this BONUS Episode of Sailing Melody In this special feature Andy takes part in the historic and famous ROUND THE ISLAND RACE, around the Isle of Whight in the Solent, probably the most famous sailing ground in the world. As part of the crew of Lady Hope, a Beneteau 27.7, Andy joins Ala...
#49 – ⛵️Expensive yacht rebuild on a SHOESTRING 😵
This week Andy starts stripping our mast down and removing the rigging for inspection and Melissa starts tackling the pilot house hatches. Lots of help from jack and a flying boat!! We also have a fantastic chat about rigging with the lovely Herby and Maddie from the youtube channel Rigging Doctor...
#48 – ⛵️Abandoned Sailing Yacht Restoration on a Budget – 🤩
This week we tackle servicing the FORD engine in our boat. Our good friend Chris is here to help go over the engine thoroughly and help get it running sweetly. But does it all go to plan? Do we manage to do the complete service and what else will be left to do after Chris has gone? Remember we'...
Our boat toilet broke! And this is what happened next
Stuck in Newlyn Harbour doing boat repairs in preparation for our passage around Lands End. The head is broken and the main sail reefing lines aren't working right. At least it's beautiful here! We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in North Wales, looking for a bluewate...
3D Printed router template fixed my woodworking FAIL!!
One of the tools that I am finding more and more uses for all the time is my Creality Ender 3 PRO 3D printer! Here I used the 3D Printer to print a Router Jig for making perfect corners on my cabinet door openings! Previously I had cut the opening with my Makita 18V Jigsaw, and it was pretty rough. ...
Installing a shower on my sailboat: Fiberglass Waterproofing & Shower Sump
The 1966 Spencer 42' Sloop was not built with a shower, so we're converting the head to a wet head by fiber-glassing the walls with West Systems Epoxy and Fiberglass. In order to be able to shower in the head it is necessary to waterproof the entire compartment. This was accomplished by ...
I made a mistake stripping the bottom of my boat!
Sometimes when you go looking for shortcuts you wind up making more work for yourself, this bottom job has been brutal and I tried something that would be faster than sanding... It did not work out well. Now the question is what will it take to fix it? See the Renegade Sailing playlist from the ...
Should we buy this boat to live on?
We are Sailing Melody. We are Andy, Jack and Melissa and we're on the hunt for a bluewater sailing yacht to become our permanent home as we go full time cruising with the aim of sailing around the world. This isn't a normal episode, it's just a little video of one of the yachts we we...
All about through hulls, and getting rid of holes in my boat!
In the last 2 years my boat tried to sink twice! No one wants a sinking boat! In this video we tackle what is the most common cause of a sailboat sinking, through hull fittings! What can we do to repair our through hulls, what can be done to replace or even remove them? Luckily each time my boat ...
Sanding the bottom & reviewing my Bosch Sanding and dust collection equipment! PT-1
Sometimes people do dumb things to boats, that is the case here as I find out in this video a previous owner tried some DIY home brew copper coat that has caused massive issues on my bottom. Follow along as I sand and strip the hull back down to the gel-coat on my DIY Sailboat Restoration, and hea...
If you are refitting a sailboat, you need to build this!
One of the most valuable things I have done while my boat has been out of the water is building a set of stairs to get on and off of her. It has made life so much easier. In this video I go through the process of how I built them and give my thoughts on the process. See the Renegade Sailing play...
Making Custom Head Cabinetry for my 1966 Spencer 42′ Sloop
This week on part 3 of the head rebuild: I made templates and cut out bulkheads and started assembling the sink cabinet after pulling the old through hulls on my 1966 Spencer 42' Sloop. I then used the Rockler Circle cutting jig with the Makita Router again to cut out the counter for the sink...