Sailing Saoirse - installing our BIMINI HEADLINERS ⛵️

This week we finally marked a job off of our ‘to-do list’ that we have been putting off for a while. The vinyl covered bimini headliners have been a problem in our minds - and turned out a lot easier than we expected!! We are really happy with how they worked out - and they’ve made the whole cockpit area look great. The design of the roof has 4 cut outs where the new inserts fit in slightly recessed. We went with a plain white vinyl covering. 3mm marine ply board was carefully shaped to fit snugly into the recesses. We then covered the boards in white leather look vinyl. These panels were fitted in place on the bimini using a very heavy duty 3M dual lock Velcro system. The final result is awesome. For a while now we have been wondering why our salt water supply in the boat is smelling a little fishy🐟🍤- so after a little investigation and cleaning of the main filters - which we do on a regular basis - we discovered another little pump filter hidden behind larger pipes - watch the video to see the sea life we found inside😳🤣 With our planned departure date hurtling towards us, Teagan and I have also started looking at provisioning for the trip, making lists and even buying in stuff that have suitable best-before dates. We invested in a vacuum sealer so that we can vacuum seal a lot of groceries, (and hopefully lot of fish that the boys keep promising us they will be catching) which will keep things fresher for longer but also pack stuff as tightly as possible, making it possible to store more. Black Friday just came and went recently and we took the opportunity to get ourselves a drone. Figured if we want our YouTube channel to grow, we need to up our videography game - and nothing beats really great drone footage when you are in beautiful secluded areas - now all we have to do is get to practicing flying it and bringing it back home safely 😂- which with the technology on the drones at the moment, on land, getting to ‘return to home’ is easy - but a whole different story on a moving yacht.