When buying Vida, our surveyor included concerns about the earth.
We knew that the engine was "earthed" by a jump lead to the stern tube (and the jump lead was very rusty).
I've just found these wires connected to the anode that is bolted through the hull.
Quite a collection! We have green/yellow, back, blue and red!
Hardly surprising that the earth wasn't working!
#Oops
Acting now to avoid chaos for moving onboard day.
So this blog is no longer on Wordpress.com We are now hosted by Magicpages.co using Ghost. Nearly all the original content has been transferred. The only gap I know of at the moment is that the old comments are no longer visible, but I hope to bring them
Jane has finished the first 8 chainplate loops in 12mm dyneema for the main mast (we don't need one for the forestay and the inner forestay will be different). Plus she has finished 3.5 of the 4 lower shrouds (also 12mm dyneema). So we are back to
For once a title like this is not exaggeration and it's not click bait. We are very close to moving to love (nope, I'm not going to correct that typo ;) ) on the boat full-time (current expectation is for 5 years). Jane finished her job at the