Environmental
We spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to make detailed plans for the grey water waste system. It is very difficult to find much information on this, obviously our goals are not very common yet. I was quite shocked to find lots of people in discussions still advocating discharging
Cooking
Good progress today. Aft heads compartment is now ready to be painted. Last bits of old cupboards that were fibreglassed to the hull have been cut off. Whole compartment has been sanded. Got to a rough dry fit of the galley worktop with position of sinks and hob checked. Slight
Cooking
Jane has been busy sanding the aft heads compartment. I've setup my outdoor woodworking shop. Both down and up to minimise ladder climbing. So I'm making progress on the framing for the galley worktop. At this point the boat and bulkheads are all remarkably square which
Sailing
So thanks to Doug Edwards (through whom we bought Vida) we now have some full size photos of her sailing to encourage us through the jobs :-)
Environmental
This Christmas we have found extra joy from the ways we have been able celebrate in more sustainable ways. It is great to see more creativity in gifts and packaging. So we wish everyone sustained joy, new life, hope and peace for 2020.
Electric
So, if we do decide to fit an electric motor what are we looking at? We follow five sailing channels on Youtube who have fitted electric motors: * Spoondrifters: ELECTRIC SAILBOAT | Choosing an electric motor for your sailboat * Sailing Uma: Our Electric Motor (Electro-Beke, part 1) * Beau and Brandy: Cheap sailboat
Electric
In Zero Fossil fuel sailing and other posts we have written about a long term goal to replace the diesel inboard engine in Vida with an electric motor. That with a battery bank charged from renewable energy (regen from the propeller when sailing plus solar and wind electric generation). However,
Cooking
A few more things that it felt good to achieve yesterday. No picture but together we were able to properly fit and tighten the new bolts holding the steering gearbox to the bulkhead. Play in the steering, unsurprisingly massively reduced now that gearbox isn't flopping around. Also progress
Progress
Whoo Hoo 😊 Very tight to get it but just managed 👍
Appliances
I'm working tomorrow so no day off this week. Instead we have come down for the evening as we need to check a few measurements so progress can be made at home. Hoping this is going to be a triumph. Put vegetables and soaked cannelloni beans in our
Appliances
I'm not writing about IT or programming here (although there can be similar problems). By this I'm thinking of Single Point of Failures (SPOF) and taking that a bit further. By SPOF I mean the danger of one item failing and causing a cascade of failures.
Electric
So I've started building the new battery box at home. So far just a dry assembly. All the timber will be sanded and epoxy coated before using epoxy to glue as well as screws. Apart from the plywood base (left over from settee bases) the rest of the
