I can see James out of the corner of my eye. He has just crawled out of the small space underneath the cockpit sole, and is halfway into the saloon wardrobe. Now he’s fiddling around in the cubby hole next to the chart table.
He is, after over a year of it sitting in its box, [...]
So there we have it. We’ll have to start having showers again; Miley can smell things, she has a new nose.
I’m not going to write a lot for this post, because the picture says it all, but I’ll give you a quick overview of our bowsprit project.
We discovered that Milestone’s bowsprit was totally rotten waaaaaay [...]
Christmas Eve: for some, the opportunity to do some hectic last-minute Christmas shopping; for others, time to go to the pub with friends; and then there are those who spend it relaxing with family. Well, and there’s James, who spent it with his head in the heads and his sight firmly on shite. Yes, the [...]
Whilst hosing our Colvic Victor 34 down after being caught out in a F7 the other week, we noticed that our bowsprit had clearly moved a few inches to port. Interesting!
We spent a day dismantling everything required to have a good look… the pulpit came off, genoa came down, forestay unattached, anchor roller platform off, [...]
I’m just going to update the ‘Owner Improvements’ page as we’ve done a lot of work to Miley in the past few weeks. Rather than just edit the list and upload the new version, I reckoned some commentary on the work we’ve done wouldn’t go amiss…
Work we’ve done to Milestone:
NEW: Miley has a brand new [...]