Sustainable Sailing

Category: Plans

  • Composting and our forecabin layout

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    In Our Compost Toilet deadline we said we that our current plan is to create a place for composting the septage (the dry solids from our Nature’s Head compost toilet). To achieve the temperatures to rapidly kill all pathogens three things are needed: We need to insulate the space where are composting because our volumes are…

  • Raspberry Pi Pico for boat projects

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    So our Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller kit arrived today. We have been through a first video tutorial which has got us to connect it to my laptop, download MicroPython and Thonny. Then when wrote a little program to make the LED flash.The kit comes with over 450 items and will allow a lot of…

  • Slow Galley progress

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    We seem to spend a lot of time moving stuff around the boat to get it out of the way for jobs or meals or sleeping. Then lots of time working things out and planning. Plus I had to buy a full sheet of marine plywood and very carefully bring it back to the boat…

  • Galley refit (again)

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    After 4 years of our temporary galley we are almost at clean sheet of paper time but with lots of learning.The main worktop with sinks is going back in. But will be trimmed to a straight front edge. The support for the front edge will include a fiddle and be as deep as the sinks.…

  • Interior plan updates

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    Insulation We have slightly adjusted our plans for insulating the hull, under deck and inside of the cabin top.We are still fitting sheets of 40mm closed cell xps foam. However, as this will not be a tight fit to the hull we are going to build on the example of others (eg Sailing Melody, Sailing…

  • 22 months to go: Thinking about next steps

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    At the end of July 2025 we will move our home onto Vida full-time, just 22 months to go! My appointment as a Methodist Minister in Wythenshawe, Manchester will finish and hence we have to move out of the house we are currently living in. So at 60 years old I will be taking time…

  • Progress update

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    We have had a lovely day. We arrived at the boat about midnight so quite a late night by the time we had carried everything to and then onto the boat, plus made the bed. Therefore we had a nice lie in.Then some jobs planning before gently starting work. We started by removing the anchor…

  • Half term arrival and plans

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    Quite a slow journey to Vida today for half term. We called in at Abakhan Fabrics and got some fleece material (bought by the kilo) for Oodie style winter lounging outfits for when we are still keeping the heating off. The journey suddenly slowed as we got to Bangor as the Menai Bridge is currently…

  • Sabbatical day 1: transport

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    Today I have started a three month sabbatical (a generous gift from the Methodist Church that I work for, they come every seven years). The plan is for me to spend most of the time working on Vida with Jane joining me when she isn’t working. If possible we would like to get Vida launched…

  • Lots of updates

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    Been a bit slow updating the blog, we have several new videos and this evening I have bought a new-to-us mainsail (from a Westerly Fulmar). We will probably have to add a very small extra reef point as the default setting point because it is very slightly too large but for £200 it will be…