Sustainable Sailing

Our journey towards Sustainability while sailing on all levels: Environmental, Financial and Health

  • Galley refit (again)

    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.…

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  • Stuffed

    Well all our stuff (excluding tools) is on board for half term holiday. We haven’t yet worked out where we can fit 🤣

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  • Valentine’s Day Cards

    Jane has got all romantic and produced a few special handmade Valentine’s day cards with a picture of our anchor and the text “You are my anchor”. Apparently I’m not allowed to buy one for my Valentine but you can. Buy in our Ko-fi shop at https://ko-fi.com/s/ec114b6d3f

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  • Interior plan updates

    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…

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  • New shop is live!

    New shop is live!

    We have a new shop where Jane is selling her beautifully crafted sewing projects as well note cards featuring her embroidered designs. The shop is at https://ko-f.com/sustainablesailing and is still in the early stages, lots more to come. As an incentive to join our regular supporters all our ko-fi members get a discount in the…

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  • Small leak fix grows into let’s do everything

    Small leak fix grows into let’s do everything

    This weekend we arrived determined to tackle the leaks in the port side deck that we found in the storms around the new year. We have holes from old deck cleats that we removed when fitting the chainplate backing plates. We hadn’t got around to properly filling them. As we started clearing stuff and thought…

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  • 9 inspiring years

    Sailing Uma have put out a video celebrating and summarising 9 years since they bought Uma. They are one of the most inspiring couples around so if you haven’t seen them before this would be a great place to start.

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  • Electric motor and drive train progress

    Whoop whoop. Our electric motor is now in very close to the final position and ready for us to fit the brackets and motor mounts so that we can connect the drivetrain all the way to the propeller. That is still quite a lot of work and we do have to buy a few bits.…

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  • Drivetrain progress

    Today we took the big step of drilling a hole through our new thrust bulkhead for the propeller shaft. Eventually, this hole will be significantly larger as the propeller shaft comes through it and ends inside the Aquadrive flexible coupling which gets bolted onto the forward side. At the moment the hole is going to…

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  • 22 months to go: Thinking about next steps

    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…

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