2022

What fun will we have this year

Watch our "Man Overboard! Sorted??" video and add comments

Man Overboard! Sorted??

We have three weeks left on our contract so we are buckling down and sorting out all the wee jobs that need to be done so that we are ready to go off. Some of these jobs are tiny like making sure...
Sling Design

Sling Design

As I am writing this, we have not tested this design, but it should give you ideas about making your own design Materials 30m of tape with a good breaking strain, please check this...
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How to spring your boat off a pontoon

I know I am biased, but I will be honest, I really like this video. It was sunny, we got the drone up and took some great footage of the marina, we had a plan and it all came together. Springing...
Watch our "Why we don't go south for the winter" video and add comments

Why we don't go south for the winter

This week we celebrated Twosday which was at 22h 22m 22s on 22/2/22. We celebrated in grand style here on Salty Lass with a cup of tea and a crumpet. We also did a few small projects here on...
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Be afraid of the sea! It's a good thing

The marina were getting rid of some fenders. They had come off other peoples boats and were floating around the marina, so now the fenders were up for grabs. We had two fenders that we had tried to...
Watch our "Frustration, triumph and camera theft" video and add comments

Frustration, triumph and camera theft

In between storm after storm we managed to get a whole lot done. We installed our engine panel and it is working, on top of that we completed our installation of our DC-AC convertor. Engine...
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Trust me - there will be a mutiny

We bought our DC-AC convertor over two years ago, it has been sitting in Salty Lass not connected for absolutely ages, so at last it has come time to actually fit it. The main reason that we want to...
Watch our "Living on a boat. What's it really like" video and add comments

Living on a boat. What's it really like

Not much got done this week because the weather was dreadful, we have really been bashed about this week. About the only thing that got done was a few connectors got cleaned on the engine panel and...
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Not getting alarmed when stuff breaks!

We still had an electrical item to install but it was sunny, so we decided to seize the day and go out for a wee burr, we also needed fuel as we burn a lot of fuel for heating. So that we could go...
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Where we spent all our savings

Next week we will finally be installing the DC-AC convertor that we bought last year with the last of our budget. So we thought that this would be a great opportunity to discuss our budget for...