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Our blog contains, videos - these all have Prudence in the bottom left hand corner, galleries - these have © Salty Lass in the corner and just plain stories or how tos - these are plain pictures. However you use this blog, we hope that there is lots for you to enjoy.

Watch our "We had a reckoning! But we are not dead yet!" video and add comments

We had a reckoning! But we are not dead yet!

It was a windy and sunny day, on a day that I was free. A rare occurence, so we decided to go out. Now, that we have restarted the Yacht master course, we decided to do some dead reckoning, mainly...
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How big a boat should you buy?

All week, this week we have had guests on board. To say utter chaos has reined for the entirity of their visit, just does not leave room for the three trips to the Accident and Emergency ward, along...
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Will she have the nerve to do it

A re-edited version of our early sails We were in Liverpool and it was time to go sailing, so our first task was to hoist the dingy into it's sling on the back of Salty Lass. Next was all the...
Watch our "Why we built our own marina" video and add comments

Why we built our own marina

We actually built our own marina out of way points, over two years ago, because we wanted to see if we could get into the Marina if the engine failed. Building our own maina So to build our...
Watch our "This buoy saved us over £1000 pounds" video and add comments

This buoy saved us over £1000 pounds

Well oour annual maintenance time has approached and it is time to pull out our anchor chain and inspect it. Now we check our chain every tear, but one of the things that we don't do every year is...
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Salty lass RNLI 200

Well our Salty Lass RNLI campaign went very well, with us raising £250 for the RNLI, that's £50 over the target that we had set for ourselves. The other great thing was, we raised the...
Tethers

Tethers

There are a lot of things that you should consider when purchasing a tether and here we will discuss most of them ...
Watch our "Hurricane Force 12. No sleep for us!" video and add comments

Hurricane Force 12. No sleep for us!

The interesting thing about going back through our achieve and creating the blogs after the fact, is the things that I have forgotten. At the time that I am writing this blog, August 2024, I had...
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At least we're not a fugly boat

We had left the anchorage in Dunmore East and we were at last sailing, We were just near where the gas regulator had failed and we were putting on a cup of tea, so we felt that we were at the moment...
Watch our "Three failures can kill you" video and add comments

Three failures can kill you

We were once again in Dunmore East at anchor and Beverley talked about a book called the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, and on the front of the book are the words "Don't panic" For...