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By the sounds of it, our "re-foam" process went a lot more smoothly than yours. It sounds like a bit of a nightmare situation. Hopefully your new inserts are all good!

😄😄 Not too many I hope...

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass I couldn’t possibly comment!! 😂😂

Thank you and we are glad it was helpful.

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you and the next video is already out. That was last weeks! (No movie in the next video, it will be in the one after).

Luckily, she cannot eat the spares!

Glad you enjoyed it Roy!

We are never done adding stuff. In a few more years we will have a fully equipped mobile marine machine shop.... 😄😄

The jury rig rudder is something that we have speculated about as well. As yet we have no good answers about that one and our stern complicates things with the dinghy and solar arch. I sometimes wonder about the old Viking approach of a "steerboard" mounted on one side (starboard side obvs 😉) and lashed to a cleat/pushpit rail. We have an old wooden oar. Would it work? I have no idea...

BTW - the reason it feels like we are living in your head is because I suspect you are doing all the things we normally do when going off for months at a time. It makes an obvious list for video topics for us and a list of essentials for you....

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass I saw someone plan on using door to v cabin as rudder lashed to spinnaker pole lashed to rear cleats. We don’t carry our metal pole that came with boat. Get hit by that heavy pole & it’s bye bye. Want to get carbon fibre one sometime

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass very true. The to do list is not getting any shorter just new stuff going on as stuff gets ticked off

@@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar that sounds so familiar 😀

I think that a vast amount of the world's chandlery supplies are quietly mouldering away somewhere in the world's boats 😄 But those plastic boxes are very useful for doubling the storage so I am not surprised that you have them.

Indeed and you must be better than most because of your voyages. But even so, there is probably lots of junk hiding somewhere aboard 😉

Your boss sounds like a wise man! Thanks for commenting 👍

We do wonder how much our waterline would raise up as well. We saw a similar boat to our used for racing and it was more on top of the water rather than _in_ the water so we presume that it was emptied of nearly everything. If our original coppercoat was correctly at the waterline, it is now a few centimetres under 😄

I might steal that ... excellent summary 😄

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Go right ahead, I stole the phrase as well.

Thank you 👍

Discarding the needed part happens so often it is why we have so many parts. We know we will not need it _until_ we discard it 😮

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting

Ardglass is a handy stopover but it can be tricky. I hope you get better weather for this year's trip.

We are really pleased with the dye, the fabric came up wonderfully well, but whilst we are whining about the (unexpectedly high) price, it is only a little whine. The bunks are far, far better for it and the company did a good job and saved us bucketloads of time which is more important to us than money at the moment. We can always get more money but nobody gets extra time in this life.... 😮

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass as my dad said “you run out of time before money”. My back loves me since getting new upholstery done. I don’t wake up crippled anymore so worth a fortune to me

What a great idea! We will work on that for the next one 👍

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass I think a short Pearl & Dean style clip with text scrolling up saying something like - "Don't forget to pause the film while getting refreshments from the kitchen." Should enhance the Mad Penguin Productions cinematic experience considerably.

I am working on it. Already have some dramatic music lined up, but the video will take a while. Maybe in a couple more episodes....

Our bottoms were certainly involved... 😄

It seemed like a sensible decision.... 😄

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Totally, Gaynors the Best. 💕

I was thinking of you as I edited it 😄 It's a pity that we finished the approach to Bangor in the dark. When you do come this way, stay inside the Copelands, going around to seaward is not a good idea as the tides and overfalls are bad out there.

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass coming up tomorrow at this stage.

We will be busy until 1800ish but we will keep an eye on Marine traffic 👍 Edit: Belfast HW tomorrow is 1807h so tide through the Sound should start going NW at about 1700h

"... we could raise a gaggle of geese ..." 😄😄 I love it! And I have to say that I love the image of taking a decade out just to get down for comfy seats!

We have not really made the cushion, just adapted the Bavaria made cushions that we already had, but it has all worked out well and we are very pleased.

Sounds great and if the timing worked then why not? Good on you for doing it 👍

Sounds great. What sort of boat are you thinking of?

A plastic boat, like yours or Beneteau, up to 36 feet. I'll be solo as my Son hates sailboats and scared it will sink. Lol. What year is the Bavaria? I don't want too good a yacht, as I will probably bang it up. My experience is Hobie Cat's and crewing on mates Beneteau, when young. Now I'm an old Cowboy 🤠 lol

Our Bavaria is 2003 for the model year (keel laid down in late Nov 2002) and they are a tough build, sail well and responsive like a dinghy Perfect for older cowboys 😄😄

We were not planning on Yacht varnish, we are looking at Ronseal because it is for interior woodwork. Basically, the existing varnish is 20 years old and needs a touchup, so a light sand and a couple of tins of satin finish. The last yacht varnish we bought has degraded in under two years and absolutely stank the boat out. So a quality domestic one this time round...

Got as far as sanding old varnish off. Never got time for new varnish. On job list this winter when hauled out in malahide

Awesome! Thank you Roy!

The cushions came as a bit of a shock, both financially and comfort-wise but it has been worth doing. Things are definitely more comfortable. Other than that all is good and hopefully all is well at your end too 👍

Sell Salty Lass?!?!?!?!? We have only just got it all figured out 😄 but the cushions are really comfy now - we cannot feel the wood under them any more 😄😄😄 Glad you are enjoying the channel and thank you for the kind words and feedback.

The problem is that the boat budget can be immense 😄 but we slept on them last night and they were very comfy. Glad you are enjoying the movies. It allows us to cut down on the amount of filming we need to do each week but we find it fun to look back and see how much has changed.

Yes. Given the shapes and sizes there is not a lot of saving. At least this way they will be properly cut and fitted instead of hacked to bits and then rammed in...

We do little best 😉

We are often off the boat, sorry we missed you. Thanks for the best wishes 👍

If you look at the little Toppers and Lasers, you will notice that they are massively reefed and still going like the clappers...

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass You cannot reef Toppers or Lasers. They are just cruising. 8 to 14 knots breeze max. See also the wind turbine on the land in the background, which gives a good idea of what is happening beyond the confines of the harbour.

Of course you can reef toppers. I've done it. We used to sail Toppers (see our early episodes). You reef them by wrapping the sail around the mast and then tightening the outhaul. Lasers are bit different. You use the Cunningham to pull the sail down to the desired reef and then lock it off in the jammers. You then tie the leech end to the boom.

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Hey hey! You win! Hope you feel good!

It seems to work OK but it is 20 years old. I keep expecting it to go bang, but until it does I am leaving it alone. We have actuall got used to all its rattles and rumbles and it is like an old friend by now... 😄

We got it wrong by just 30 minutes last year and gave up and went to Ardglass. We knew there was a back-eddy somewhere but it was closer in to the southern (port-side) shore and we missed it. If you are coming further north, tides will become increasingly important. Imagine a slightly milder version of the Narrows but 20nm long and you have the North Channel (which has whirlpools at the top) Enjoy that cuppa! 😄

Thank you. A lot of people seem to be enjoying them so I shall continue making them.

Sorry to hear that, but I understand. It is all we can do to help her in her declining years. As for remastering the vlogs - I wish I had taken more footage in some of them 😄 Glad you are enjoying them and thanks for getting in touch

Fortunately since that anchor incident things have improved a lot and we seem to have a system that works for us. Thank you your words of support 👍

That might be worth a go for the next cushions, but the order is already in for these ones. It is a great tip 👍Thanks for telling us

That's what we thought. We are still in shock, but the Shiraz is helping!!

Glad you like them! Thank you.

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass By the way 880 quid for a piece of foam is absolutely bonkers. I'dd try to find the wholesaler.

We are also naving it cut and fitted to the fabric, but yeah... bonkers price.

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.

The car is a 108 and it is a bit of a micro-mini 😄 But we agree that the sea is patient and we are making it wait! Thanks for the support and feedback, it means a lot 👍

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass same as mine. When I drove up to Sandbach to see my Mum, I got 74 mpg. Had a Porsche' before this. Every day is a blessing :-)

A Porsche? 7.4 mpg?? 😄

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass one a good day

Inflation is rampant. I did not know about the olive oil crisis but there is definitely a lack of cottage cheese which is great news from my point of view but a disaster from my mum's point of view. I suspect people will be standing up and shouting next month, but that is all politics... 😄

Well, everything should have two uses on a boat. You can write the weather forecast on it and, if it is as accurate as usual, the paper has another use...

Does "shock" have a smell? We expected a bill about £200, not over £800 😄 I suppose if we had bought boat foam, the bill would have been about £3,200 instead! Marine grade 😄😄😄

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Shock has a nasty smell. Experience it all the time.

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Thank you.

I hope that was cheaper than our passage bunks!

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass we did it ourselves but the material and foam was still expensive

Our cushions are odd shapes so we are getting them to cut and fit it.

That's what we did wrong! Phoning the shop right now!!