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Replacing Halogens with LEDs

There is always work to be done on a boat.Today's project was to replace all of our 20W halogen lights with these 48 LEDs 3W bulbs, hoping to lower our electricity consumption. We also replaced our 1500W vertical heater with a 600W horizontal one.We want to spend as many days as we can on the ho...

Lifestyle: DIY Toothpaste

We began working on a series of minimalist lifestyle recipes that make our time on the boat easier, you can read the first of this series of articles on Grimgrains.

Episode 2: Moving In

Enjoy the second episode of our monthly video series, made possible by our patrons.

A room with a view

We're settling into our new home, getting to know our neighbourhood which consists of a few other liveaboards, weekend sailors as well as seals. Living in a place surrounded by nature is wonderful, so many new sounds and smells.It rains more often than not, luckily the nearest town, Sidney, is j...

Frequently Asked Questions

We are maintaining a list of frequently asked questions here. You can add questions to the list by adding a comment below. This thread is public, for both patrons and guests.

Live-aboard Day 1

Today, we moved the remaining of our things, our bikes and all, onto the boat.The previous owner of the boat gave us a rundown of the various buttons, cables, switches of our new home.We rode our bikes to Sidney to stock up on dried and fresh goods. We are presently moored in North Saanich, in a bea...

The first night on a sailboat

Last night was our first sleep-over. To celebrate, we finally opened that bottle of Whisky, given to us by ex co-workers.We acquired a few things that we were missing, sleeping bags, a pressure cooker, a bit of food, wine. We walked around Sidney, found some good coffee and bulk food stores. We stil...

Zero-waste

We spend a lot of time thinking about how we will optimize our lives as live-aboards. One important thing to consider is trash, we aim to produce as little of it as possible.This week we made our first zero-waste purchases, such as compostable bamboo toothbrushes and a durable pot scrubber(instead o...

The Haul Out, the inspection & the sea trial

Today was quite a special one. Before this beautiful sailboat is entirely ours we had it hauled out, inspected and taken for a sea trial.It passed with flying colours.The hull is in great shape, no bubbles, not dents, new zincs.The inspection revealed just a few minor projects, such as the ladder no...

Yamaha 33

The vessel that was seen at the end ofEpisode I is now ours.It's a beautiful Japanese 33' Sloop built in 1982, from Yamaha.It's currently docked in Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island, it will be surveyed this week and readied for our arrival, around mid-febuary. Things are moving a lot quick...

Episode 1: We're here

Enjoy the first episode of our monthly video series,made possible by our patrons.

Moved to Vancouver

Just a quick picture of Rekka at the airport, with our bikes.We're visit the sailboat on saturday, stay tuned!

Our last week in Montreal

We're all packed, and we took care of our paperwork. Three more days of sleeping on hard wooden floors and we're off!Similarly to the days leading to our departure for Tokyo, it has been an expectedly insane week . Between saying our farewells to our friends and families, we were on craigsli...

It's snowing in Montreal, we're cocooning and packing for our move still. 2015 was a good year for us, in short, we traveled a lot and we went on our first sailing trip. This 10 day trip along the st-lawrence river was a godsend, itmade us feel confident about our decision to move on a boat....

Boat Computer

Our friends over at Robotcut made this amazing plaque to put into our boat and told us about Particle's Photon micro-controller!This week, we began looking into ways with which we could log some boat statistics for the 100r.co website and log. Playing with the controller, we managed to get some ...

Episode 0: We want to feel lost again

We finally released our first video, it sets the tone for what is to come.Thank you for your support!Rekka & Devine

A last look

We're cycling around, gathering footage for our first video, coming out next weekend.

Study

Two mornings per week, we find ourselves at a local coffee shop to try and learn as much as we can, for in 30 days, we leave for Vancouver to find our boat. From documentaries to french sailing books, we try to gather the pieces that we need to make this adventure as enjoyable as possible.Cooking th...

Origami Rabbit

We've had a few request from backers on how to make the origami rabbit.This is the guide that we used to learn to make it.Enjoy!

New filming equipment acquired!

We present you the newest member of the hundred rabbits team: a goPRO session 4 camera! We can now start producing our monthly videos, the first one will be released on the 20th of december. This goPRO was our first milestone, the next one is a VR camera that will enable us to produce 360/Occulus vi...

Oquonie Update for Apple TV, OS X, iOS!

We worked extra hours this week, to complete the Apple TV release of Oquonie. This new version include fixes that will also be reflected oniOS and OS X.It should become available on the App Store internationally during the next few days.In the Grim Kitchen, we have a vegan pimento cheesefor you! It ...

100R Stickers

We have made a bunch of 100R stickers for backers! We will start sending them next week to the Playtests Patrons. Just make sure you have given us youraddress. Send us some pictures of where you put them!

Long Screenshot

Every weekend we get together at a coffeeshop to discuss our plans for next year. As it is with all big changes, some problems arise. We just learnt that Vancouver is not so keen on liveaboards, we may not be able to have a long-term stay at a marina. But luckily, we found other areas that are more ...

Upcoming Projects

First of all, thank you so much for backing our project. It means a lot for us to see this enthusiasm. We will be sharing Patrons Only updates each week, hopefully on the same day of the week, although we haven't decided which day it's going be.This week, we would like to share with you our ...