It has been a busy week behind the scenes at the SofaToSailboat project. John-Kenneth D Habbershaw (Skipper) is being officially joined by Courtney W Hollyoa...

It’s been a busy week at the SofaToSailboat project. I have been busy speaking to our charities, suppliers and measuring up ‘Poppet’ our Leisure 17 for vario...

SofaToSailor has been treasure hunting this week. I visited a member of the Leisure Owners Association on Tuesday who lives on Canvey Island, Essex, UK. Rod...

This is some of the long-distance Micro-Cruising equipment I will be considering, it is based on some of the equipment I recommend to some of the Ocean Rowin...

The age of the existing standing rigging as fitted is unknown but thought by the previous owner to be at least 8 years old at the time of my purchase of the ...

When looking for the project boat I spent many hours researching successful voyages of tiny boats and designs that have a history of making long-distance cru...

Tools for mechanically removing anti-fouling from GRP. There will be further blogs covering chemicals, safety, removal from metals etc. ‘Pro Scraper’ by Gelp...

The existing anti-fouling has been on the hull for at least six years (the time since the previous owner last used the boat). The boat as far as I know has b...