#33 - HATCHES! Are they all TRASH?? Restoring our steel sailing yacht

Welcome to Episode 19 of our series about resorting our abandoned steel sailing yacht. This week Melissa is working hard with a little help from Jack to remove all the hatches on the coach roof, we also decide that they really do need replacing! We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in North Wales, and for the past couple of years we have been looking for a bluewater sailing yacht to take us around the world. Well we've finally found her. Our new sailing yacht is a John Teal designed 38ft Steel Pilothouse Cutter. She has been standing ashore for at least 15 years and now we're embarking on the huge challenge of refitting her and doing her up ready to go sailing around the world. Follow along with our journey and help us with any advice and tips you have along the way. Our links Support is on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/sailingmelody Check us out on Instagram : https://instagram.com/sailingmelody Come talk to us on facebook : https://facebook.com/melodysailing If you would like to make a regular contribution to help towards getting us started on our adventure you can use this link to go to Patreon https://www.patreon.com/sailingmelody or make a one time contribution via PayPal using this link https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sailingmelody We would like to say a massive thank you for all your support so far!! KO-FI is a website where you can support us buy buying us a "coffee" which would really help us out. We would love if if you bought us a coffee or Jack and ice cream, click the link below :) https://ko-fi.com/sailingmelody Other links to our contributors and friends https://www.lincolnelectric.com We are proud to be associated with Lincoln Electric, simply the best welding equipment in the world, full stop. http://www.weldgas.co.uk Thanks so much to the guys at Weldgas for showing us how to set the welder up and being incredibly helpful and supportive. http://www.monafnt.co.uk Mona F&T are simply the number one place to get all kinds of steel stock and fabrication work in North Wales. We can testify that they're, extremely helpful, knowledgable, friendly and professional and we will be using them for our steel supplies for this project. https://www.promarinestore.co.uk We would also like to announce our association with Pro Marine Store who are supplying our chandlery and general boaty bits for this project. We're actually in the process of creating a big list of things we'll be needing over the next year or two, which we will be buying from Pro Marine Store, but if you'd like to help us out by buying something off the list please click this link or give Pro Marine Store a call on 01799 588292 to speak to Ben about our wishlist. https://www.promarinestore.co.uk/sailing-melody-youtube-channel-gift-card https://www.promarinestore.co.uk/blog/pro-marine-store-and-sailing-melody We also have an Amazon wishlist. https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/B5C3SADTF7LQ?ref_=wl_share Again, we're not asking or begging for anything but it's simply a list of things which we need and will eventually buy but if you would like to buy anything from the list for us we'd be MASSIVELY grateful.