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#65 – Making our boat into our future home

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 so we can live with it for a few ...

Oct 13, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:22:44

#63 – We cut the front off our boat!!!

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 job with some tricky fabrication ...

Sep 29, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:25:10

#62 – Welding up a leaky bottom

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 expensive so we really do va...

Sep 22, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:15:46

#60 – Now our boat will DEFINITELY SINK!!!!

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 and get some nifty advice for fixing that area...

Sep 08, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:19:05

#59 – We BLASTED and PAINTED our BOAT AT LAST

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 team., she valiantly battles on by herself, a...

Sep 01, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:25:14

#58 GIRL…Tackling a STEEL boat project!! ⛵⛵[S2-EP41]

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 at work in his day job. We also have a...

Aug 25, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:25:42