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Ever dreamed of starting a YouTube channel — and blowing up instantly? This 82-foot abandoned yacht might be the craziest “content cheat code” I've ever seen.
Tonight on the Sa...
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 ...
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.
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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 s...
FIRE!!!! FRUSTRATION!!!
This was a hard week! We had a lot on our plates and the work on the boat was challenging to say the least so there was a bit of friction in the air as we tackled the front of the cockpit seats and struggled to trim and fit the pane...
Is Melody our cheap dream yacht or just a rusty Nightmare?
The rusty steel is in a much worse condition than we thought in the cockpit this week as we continue to cut out and replace ever more steel from the aft end of Melody.
We're starting to work on r...
More Bad weather forces Melissa and Jack indoors this week so progress is made on stripping out the remainder of the cork insulation from the inside off the pilothouse and getting some lovely new epoxy paint up. Meanwhile, Andy sits around playing guitar ...
Terrible News.
Zebu has sadly been declared a Wreck and has been removed from the breakwater in pieces after a devastating storm caused further catastrophic damage over the last few days.
Thanks as always to our AMAZING supporters on Patreon for your inc...
The cockpit conundrum continues to confuse and befuddle as we move on with the build, this time tackling the aft seats. turns out the Port side seat is a fair bit narrower than the Starboard which is actually a good thing as Jack's bedroom will be on the ...
An epic conundrum to baffle the brain and confuse the grey matter evolves as we tackle cutting out and replacing large sections of the cockpit floor/sole and seats for reconstruction.
This week's episode is split into two sections with the first coming ...
SPECIAL EPISODE
The 100ft Long Tall Ship Zebu has tragically run aground on the breakwater at Holyhead after breaking her moorings
A historical 100ft tall ship has become stuck on a breakwater in north Wales after drifting from its mooring.
The Zebu drift...
Work continues on our rusty sailing yacht as we prepare and paint the inside of the transom.
We've removed the whole of the inner transom skin now and have cut out and welded in a large section of replacement steel so now its time to prepare the surface ...
This week Melissa and Jack rip down the interior of the pilot house in order to expose and examine the metalwork around the hatches and windows.
We hope you enjoy this week's offering from Sailing Melody and please don't forget to leave us a comment, even...
Now the Transom is strong we have begun cutting out all the corroded steel from the cockpit ready for a serious remodel. Seems like its a never ending game now to see how much more of out boat we can cut out.
We hope you enjoy this week's offering from S...
Episode 146:
My family came to visit & what do we do? Put them to work 😂😂
We changed up the swivel system on our anchor, tensioned up the forestay and rigging. Hung up some ties to neaten up our cockpit but then amongst all of this our head fre...
Episode 144 : Since we have really been feeling the pressure, we decided it was time to put our heads down and gets some boat tasks finished. Yes they are not completely necessary to do to leave for Namibia but South Africa is known to be a lot cheaper whe...
So we finally got the energy and time to compile our whole yacht rebuild of our abandoned sailboat into a meer 7 minutes.. Can you believe it.. I wish it actually just took us 7 minutes to complete this project.. 😂 The before and afters are obviously a...
(Ep.105)
Ricky shows you some of the work he's been up to when he's not working on our boat & we tick two things off our list... Epoxy hull & Anti fouling. Cheerio!! So excited we are really excited to get in the water now. We bummed we couldn't w...
(Ep.103)
We had a epic week away with my family & had my cousins from the US visit us here in South Africa for my brothers wedding! We got back to the boat and it was time to install our engine gauges & connect up our engine controls. Next step wa...
(Ep.102)
The time has come.. to put in our engines. We had a few questions on how exactly were we planning on installing our two new Vetus engines and fitting them through our tiny doors...well here is the answer to your awaited question.
Once the engin...
(Ep.100)
Wow, can you believe we're on episode 100 already!! Que the celebration for when we are in the water! ;)
So this week we got all our goodies from Vetus in the previous episode we set out to start installing it which meant grinding down inside our...
(Ep.97)
WE RECEIVED SOME AMAZING NEWS!
When the cat's away the mice will play.. While I was away in Pretoria for my sister in laws bachelorette party, Ricky went out fishing with the guys. He managed to catch us lunch for a few days which was nice. Ricky ...
(Ep.96)
We get the layout for our name sorted out. Ricky starts on our emergency tiller & Ricky shows you what works he's been up too!
What's left on our list you may ask??
1. Water-maker Installation
2.Install the engine
3.Name goes on
4.Get a lif...
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