Recent content by youngkath

Hi folks, Firstly, a huge thank you for your input and thoughts. Whilst we fully appreciate you can’t completely diagnose and recommend safe next actions, your thoughts and questions are extremely helpful in furthering our enquiries! To clarify some of your questions (the ones we can answer!)...

Hi there folks, Firstly, we have gained a huge amount of information from historic threads in this forum. So to all the regular posters, who have helped us fix our stern gland, fridge, water pump(s), countless engine leaks etc. etc. THANK YOU. However... as always the boat jobs continue, and...

Hi there, This is really helpful, thank you so much for posting the details and pictures. Kath

More good choices, thank you. I absolutely loved voyage for madmen... and became completely intrigued by Moitessier, never thought to read The Long Way in French, a great idea... thank you! I have ordered on Kindle :) I like Motor_Sailors idea of buying books to accompany the borders... we are...

Hiya! Wow what a start to the year!! Amazing story and given everything you have described I think you have lots of experience to add to this life and are bound to have an adventure... I'm pretty new to the forum too and started the live aboard life back in May. On a practical level, if you...

Thanks guys. I was curious more than anything, some really good suggestions. We have two (small) bookshelves on the Victoria 34, one for essential sailing books and the other for pleasure reading. Das Boot - Heard of this, but never read - will google, thank you! The Seven Pillars of Wisdom...

Hi there, I’m new to the liveaboard life (six months in) and for Christmas I received a book voucher (£35!). So I’m looking for liveaboard cruising recommendations. Like many, I keep a blog (read mostly by my Mum!)... but I recently, wrote a post about the books we (so far) couldn’t sail...

I absolutely loved this book. All nine sailors with incredibly different personalities, boats, outcomes and experiences. Nicholls heavily researched each sailor, their lives, news articles around the race and of course their logbooks. I couldn't help wondering which of the nine sailors I...

Good list! I would agree with most of them. I would definitely add ‘Voyage for Madmen’, which includes a number of the sailors in your list. I would also include Dame Naomi James and her account of sailing solo around the world (via Cape Horn). She was a hairdresser my trade, had never sailed...

Hi there, My name's Kath and my partner is called Tamara (T for short). We are new liveaboards, who launched our Victoria 34 in July from Preveza, Greece. We are currently wintering in Marina Di Ragusa, Sicily and starting to think about working through some boat jobs! Both of us still work...

Hi folks, Interested to find this thread today...! I left Kefalonia last week and refuelled 99L + x2 20L Jerry cans. I then sailed / motorsailed to Sicily (no wind!). Halfway through the passage my engine stopped. I added more fuel, I bled the system, checked the filters, trying decompression...

Hi there, We picked up our new DEPKA on 18th July 2018 from Lefkada... It was fairly straightforward once we had found the right building! It cost 50 Euros + 2 Euros commission to the bank. The main thing is to make sure you have the right paperwork with you and take copies if you can (saves...