The Sailing Nomads

The Sailing Nomads Hello! We’re Kath and T, a British couple from Manchester, who left our jobs, sold up & in the pur

Help us choose! What colour should we paint Caladh?! Awlgrip
12/06/2026

Help us choose! What colour should we paint Caladh?!
Awlgrip

This pretty much sums up today. Disconnected the engine for removal. Or in other words. Pretzeled my person into inhuman...
06/06/2026

This pretty much sums up today. Disconnected the engine for removal. Or in other words. Pretzeled my person into inhumane shapes, scratched limbs on cut cable ties and got covered in all manner of oil, diesel, coolant, salt crystals, rust, dust and mystery goo🧘🏻‍♀️

Buuuuuuut we did it. Stinky is ready for lift off 🚀

And yes for those concerned we will be replacing the elbow💪🏻 (human and machine).

06/06/2026

But who delivers the baby stork?

30/05/2026

Dinner in a windmill to celebrate 9yrs 🥰

What a year!!! Merry Christmas from ours to yours everyone 🥰
26/12/2025

What a year!!! Merry Christmas from ours to yours everyone 🥰

The grass is genuinely greener in Orkney
02/12/2025

The grass is genuinely greener in Orkney

10/10/2025

Look closely! 👀 Our transit this morning was the moooooon 🌔

Hunkered down in Ayamonte as storm Gabrielle approaches (also to get our fridge fixed 🤞🏼) .. sky now beginning to look l...
27/09/2025

Hunkered down in Ayamonte as storm Gabrielle approaches (also to get our fridge fixed 🤞🏼) .. sky now beginning to look like we might get raptured. Check on us tomorrow eh?!

Pleased to announce our winner for the best boat name of the year award…
17/09/2025

Pleased to announce our winner for the best boat name of the year award…

This week we were reminded by to check our engine raw water inlet filter before leaving Culatra due to the notorious fl...
10/09/2025

This week we were reminded by to check our engine raw water inlet filter before leaving Culatra due to the notorious floating reed in the anchorage.. and had quite the catch to remove (thanks for the reminder!)…

At the same time I thought “oh I’ll just do a bilgey (our automatic bilge pump) check whilst I’m here.. it was working last week, but hey what’s one more check…… and so I turn the test dial and…… nothing(!)

If water enters the bilges, it’s this auto switch that automatically starts pumping out the water! Very important safety device… especially if we are ashore having a beer!

So upon further inspection, a very old (it will be changed) cable had corroded in the moist bilges(!), preventing bilgey from getting volts! ⚡️

Moral of story.. check your automatic bilge pump!

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