Storm Floris
Our first storm living aboard
Our first members' newsletter
We have moved aboard
Now we are living aboard Vida!
Sustainable cycling
Upgrading a 14.5 year old Cargobike to an eCargoBike
Stretching 12mm Dyneema rigging after adding two eye splices
We have just a few days before we move out of this manse (ministers house provided by the Church). Before we move out on Monday we need to get all our Main Mast rigging spliced and then stretched (to remove the shortening created by the construction of the splices). Jane
Preparing to move aboard
Acting now to avoid chaos for moving onboard day.
Blog has moved and is back again
So this blog is no longer on Wordpress.com We are now hosted by Magicpages.co using Ghost. Nearly all the original content has been transferred. The only gap I know of at the moment is that the old comments are no longer visible, but I hope to bring them
Back at stretching dyneema rigging
Jane has finished the first 8 chainplate loops in 12mm dyneema for the main mast (we don't need one for the forestay and the inner forestay will be different). Plus she has finished 3.5 of the 4 lower shrouds (also 12mm dyneema). So we are back to
Huge changes coming
For once a title like this is not exaggeration and it's not click bait. We are very close to moving to love (nope, I'm not going to correct that typo ;) ) on the boat full-time (current expectation is for 5 years). Jane finished her job at the
Electrical Progress
Due to a strong, cold North Easterly blowing straight at our companionway we didn't feel like working with the main hatch open all day. Instead, we collected some stuff from our Storage Container. Then Jane started working on the first Dyneema Chainplate Loop for the main mast. Certainly
Time crunched progress
We haven't been blogging or videoing much recently. That's mainly because we are rushed for time. We will be moving aboard at the end of July and there is a lot to be done: * Boat interior as finished as possible so we are not trying to
Internet connected boat WiFi working
It has taken me forever to sort this out. However, it has suddenly come to together very neatly and quickly. With two separate boxes we have 5G and 2.4G Wifi networks on the boat that we can connect to an external WiFi network. Digital Yacht WL510 We have had