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OUR FIRST SAIL IN DAPHI, spoiler alert, the boat in the thumbnail isnt Daphi
So its been a while but we are finally allowed out to check on Daphi. We started the process of buying her at the start of March, which didnt seem like a silly thing to do at the time however with the county getting shut down just two days after collecting...
SO WE BOUGHT A NEW BOAT, but these are the boats that we had before
Our film about buying a new boat seems to have attracted a load of new subscribers. So for those of you that are new to our channel this is a short summary of the boats that came before, and the thinking behind each purchase. If you would like to find o...![Goodbye BOATLIFE hello YARDLIFE – Millys back in the sling [EP 84] | Sailing Millennial Falcon](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/TFZzwh2O4bQ/maxresdefault.webp)
Goodbye BOATLIFE hello YARDLIFE – Millys back in the sling [EP 84] | Sailing Millennial Falcon
In this episode We say goodbye to our brief boat life interlude and prepare to commence operation yard life. The purpose of our haul out was to finally (re)install the new Bruntons feathering propeller and to do a quick hull paint job whilst the boat was o...
LETS TALK SNUFFERS AND OUTBOARDS, 2 stroke or 4 stroke?
We hope you and your families are all keeping well. Obviously we aren't sailing at the moment, even though we have just bought a new boat! So while we wait for the effects of this to run its course we are fiddling with some stuff in the garden. Please let...
WE BUY A NEW BOAT which means we will be back making films… if we can
Well hello I know its been a long time but today is the start of the next chapter in our sailing adventures, because we have bought a new boat. We'll tell you more about here over the course of the year but to start with, this is what we have bought, and...
Just About Sailing October 2019 – fixing a foot long crack in the hull of my boat
This video covers the structural repair of a rather large crack/split/gash in the hull of Serenity. It happened two years ago just before I took her out of the water...and it was 100% my fault. Still, who doesn't like the chance for a bit of extra fibregla...
FAMILY DINGHY ADVENTURES
You can have a lot of fun with a Wayfarer dinghy. This week we take Elizabeth and a friend out for dinner in town, followed by treasure hunting on a deserted island, what could be better. If you would like to leave a comment and find that YouTube has disa...
MYC WAYFARER SAILING AND AN UPDATE FROM HANNAH
Sorry, this is not much of a film, but then a lots been going on recently, and none of it has been sailing. But those of you that like Wayfarer dinghy's, sailing on the Medway, or just like to follow us and what we get up to, might find it interesting. T...
40 KNOTS OF WIND AND A ROPE AROUND OUR PROPELLER. Exciting times
So this week we head off with the Medway Yacht Club cruisers again on a little jolly along the coast a short way to Conyer Creek and Swale Marina. Its not a long trip, pretty much all inland as we travel down in the Lee of the Isle of Sheppy, and with the ...
LAST MINUTE TRIP
So with the weather forecasters all agreeing that we would have some good weather for Easter we decide, at the last minute, to spend some family time away on the boat.... even if the tides are all wrong! We make these films just for fun, and we hope that ...
SAILING ON A TIDAL RIVER. The things to know
Sea Horse is back in the water so we all take her out for the first sail of the year. Whilst we do that we have a bit of a natter about tides! We get a lot of tide on the east coast of England, yes there are places that have more but with todays tidal ran...
LAZY JACKS, GOOD OR BAD?
OK REALLY SORRY PEOPLE BUT YOUTUBE HAVE DISABLED COMMENTS ON THIS FILM WHICH KIND OF MESSES UP THE CONVERSATION AND THE POINT OF IT. IF YOU DO HAVE A COMMENT PERHAPS YOU COULD POST IT ON OUR FILM ABOUT 'COMMENTS BEING DISABLED', THAT WAY WE CAN STILL DIS...
EVAPO-RUST DOES IT WORK
So this week we give some thought to our tool boxs, or more specifically address the problem of having steel tools on a boat, and rust. It doesn't matter how well you look after your tools on a boat sooner or later they will go rusty so lets see how goo...
DIY CAMERA GIMBAL FOR USE ON A SAILING YACHT
We often get asked about our camera gimbal on the back of the boat so this week we take a short break from boat maintenance to explain about our setup. What we have done in the past, and how the new and improved mk3 version is going to address some of the ...