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Sea Dweller plywood sign cut by CNC World

Taken at Royal Clarence Marina, Gosport We've had a sign cut by CNC World Limited using a MultiCam 5000 CNC machine. It's cut from 18 mm ply and will be featuring in future blog posts.

The new home for Sea Dweller

If all goes to plan then this will be the new home for Sea Dweller this winter. However, quite a few plans have come and gone in 2020 so there could be more twists and turns to the story. We wanted to be sea gypsies and travel around the Mediterranean but leaving the EU has thwarted that plan and there's no information on long term stays in EU countries for people who want to stay beyond 90 days. At the moment, you will only be able to stay 90 days in every 180. The boat can stay longer but not the crew. Until things become clearer, we are applying for residency in Spain at El Mazarron in Murcia. There's a marina with good facilities and a working town that doesn't close down on 1 September. This isn't to be confused with citizenship but it will allow us to stay for as long as we want and travel from our home port to other places around the Mediterranean Sea. You have to agree, it looks very appealing.

Sea Dweller lives up to her name once more

After so many problems over the last couple of months, we sometimes thought that this day would never come. However, on 26 August 2020 Sea Dweller returned to the water and we took her for a quick sea trial out of Portsmouth Harbour towards the forts and past Southsea Common. So many of her instruments have been upgraded and new ones added whilst also having everything serviced and repaired following earlier damage in The Solent that meant that she was out of the water for two months. It's been a real trial that's not been helped by Covid-19 restrictions. We now hope to be able to use her; we collected her in November 2019 and have sailed aboard for just 4 days in all that time.

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