We spent a lot of time, as part of changing everything from blue to tan, redesigning the cockpit cushions. Previously, we have had cushions and backs throughout the cockpit but Maria came up with a funky design which was partially backed with loose cushions for the rest. This was a difficult design but Maria is […]
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As the title has it, I had never had a problem with birds being all over me until I had a boat. Then they seem to be everywhere leaving bird droppings everywhere. You did know I was talking about the feathered variety, didn’t you? Having two cats has certainly helped as they patrol the decks. […]
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So at the end of our Easter weekend sailing we had a problem. Our solar array was designed to recharge the batteries whilst looking after the power requirements while sailing. On the trip back up at the Orwell, it looked like somewhere we were losing about 30A at 24V. This meant we were drawing power […]
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This is a sad time of year for Maria’s family since it combines the anniversaries of the funeral of her father, Chris, and the death of her younger sister, Natalie. The later was only last year so it is still very fresh in people’s minds. So we decided that we would spend some time with […]
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Having lived in a marina for a number of years we have become used to filling our water tanks from the Marina supply. This water, for all the right reasons, has a lot of chlorine in it and we have habitually used a Brita filter, or equivalent, for our drinking and cooking water. But we […]
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Previously, I have talked about the need to keep the grey water box clean because the waste of soap and shampoo forms a white mush that can block the float switch and stop it working. Causing an overflowing box and dirty grey water in the bilge. Not an ideal situation to say the least. We […]
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You may be aware that we bought some beautiful teak chairs a couple of years ago and used these most of last summer which means that the oiled dark teak had been sun lightened. Now although these chairs are originally dipped in oil to get their beautiful colour we will need to do some work […]
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It has been a tradition over the last ten years (wow ten years already!) that Mariadz starts her summer season at Easter. There was memorably one Easter when we were sailing in company with Easily Led on a still, scorching Easter. Since then the weather hasn’t been quite so good, especially when Easter has been […]
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I was obviously part way through writing this one when I stopped which will be why I recall writing it but couldn’t find it. So having discussed this with my mother in law the other weekend, it was time to finish this off. This summer has been glorious with fantastic weather and wonderful weekends. However, […]
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It is always interesting to know what the range of your fuel tank is likely to be. Although, that would normally presume that you run the fuel tank dry and after 17 years of use, and filling up in some less than savoury places, I imagine there is some junk in the bottom of the […]
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