a family sailing blog
After 6 weeks of very hard work, we are back in the water and had our first sail on Friday! We are all happy and relieved to have Vega back, where she belongs, in the water. It was a massive week leading up to the launch which included fitting our new engine. This was quite... Continue Reading →
While the rudder has taken up lots of our time, we haven’t been slacking off on other fronts. In the last two weeks we have removed our old holding tank and all its pipework from the boat. This was an awful job as the pipework was full of the previous owners foul smelling poo!! The poo... Continue Reading →
It’s been a big week, but, after all our problems with the rudder it is finally back on! We would have struggled to do it without the help of my dad. He managed to find the copper bar in the UK and turn us a set of new rivets on his lathe. He then bought... Continue Reading →
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