Sustainable Sailing

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

  • Tough tools for tough jobs

    Tough tools for tough jobs

    Today’s delivery, what seems to be the industry standard for sewing machines that can handle sail repairs and making all the canvas work that boats need (it can sew through 10 layers of sail cloth). The first task will be covers for new cushions (and by Jane doing that we should save the purchase price).…

    Read more

  • Vida: A 1977 Rival 38 Centre Cockpit Yacht

    While Rival Yachts are a well known range of safe cruising yachts the 38 feet long centre cockpit is one of the rarest. We believe only 5 were built. Compared to other boats we might have been able to afford and which might have been suitable for our dreams Vida was unique in combining a…

    Read more

  • Finding and Buying Vida

    As so often there is a long and a short story. So here is the short version. We were prompted to look towards our retirement. We realised that one day living on a sailing boat might be possible. We looked at a few boats to check the dream. Vida appeared on a list and changed…

    Read more

  • Introducing Sustainable Sailing

    Starting a journey with the purchase of Vida, a 42-year-old Rival 38 Centre Cockpit.Looking to a future for ourselves which is: Sustainable – Our total environmental impact Sustainable – Our health and well-being Sustainable – Our finances Short term goal: Launch in March 2020 for our holidaysMedium term goal: A sabbatical journey to/from the Med…

    Read more

Search the website

About Us

Popular Categories

Recent Comments

Archives