Two circumnavigations behind her. The third one is ours.
CQS Evidence is a 1979 CNSO Mikado ketch, 16 metres, that we are rebuilding with our own hands to sail around the world. The refit is public: all of it is written up here, including the parts that go wrong.
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Follow the project
The refit logbook: what we fix, what we break, what it costs. Written as it happens, with nothing taken out.
Size your electrical system
A tool that works out battery capacity, charging power and cable sizes for your own boat. It came straight out of our own electrical refit.
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An audience of sailors, videos watched several thousand times, and a real refit to document. Let us talk.
Latest from the yard
The engine runs, the teak lives again, the ceilings come down
Three days aboard at the end of summer: the engine finally fires, the cockpit teak gets its colour back, the ram is…
The €14,000 debt I never saw coming
There are subjects you would rather never have to write about. This one comes down to one simple word, which takes on…
One week to rewire the whole boat
That week there was no clean plan on paper. There was a boat, a pile of new gear out of its boxes,…
The crew
Jim Bancel
Engineer, 26. Went from Lego to rebuilding a Renault 4 for the 4L Trophy rally, then a first sailboat. He is the one rewiring the boat.
Lucas Marie
Sports coach, Norman by birth, moved up to the Alps in 2021. Crossed Europe at thirteen for card tournaments. Moving is how he lives.