• Installing our Volvo Penta engine

    It was finally time to lift our Volvo Penta engine to its correct position in the boat and start the installation, after an entire winter of doing a full renovation of the engine (read all our blog posts about the renovation HERE). But before starting the installation we had to fix a small diesel leakage in the connection between our two fuel tanks. We noticed the leakage when lifting the engine into the boat but didn’t have the time to fix it immediately. So the first thing we needed to do was to fix the connection. We had a hard time get the connections in the correct position last time, since…

  • Fuel tank renovation

    When we were working with cleaning the bilge one day we accidentally hit one of the connections to the fuel tanks and broke it. It started pouring diesel into the bilge and we did a temporary fix. But this was something that we definitely needed  to do a proper fix for. Since we had broken one of the connections in the fuel tanks we had decided to remove all the other connections so that we could change them. When we were removing the remaining connections we managed to break 3/5 of them. It was a really good decision to change them! And it was also a good thing it broke now…

  • Lift the engine out of the boat

    We had decided to lift the engine out of the boat, so that we could do a full service of the engine, a Volvo Penta MD19, during the winter months.

  • We bought a sailboat

    Welcome to our sailing blog! We are currently renovating and preparing our sailboat for sailing around the world. On this site we will share all the work we do. But first we will show some pictures on how the boat looked like when we bought it. As time goes by you will be able to find all work we do under the category Renovation. August 2018 On the 9th of August 2018 we bought our boat, Anne-Mon (at the moment the sign says Balancia but we will change that). It is a OC35 built in 1967 by Malmö Flygindustri in Sweden. She is a 35 foot (approx. 10.7 meters), long keeled and …