Progress
It has taken all day to prepare our second hatch for refitting. It takes hours to get all the old sealants off from the base, from the lid and from the seal where the lid closes onto the base. To separate the lid I'd had to cut the
Progress
Update: now sold eBay auction goes live on Monday 3rd August at noon. Starting price only £2,000!!!!! See Details of Yanmar Diesel 3JH5E for sale for all the details. You can see back to when we lifted the engine out of Vida here, how we kept it boxed in
Progress
So I managed another Thursday off work :-) Two long days working on two projects. First priority, our two Canpa deck hatches, both have been leaking and both had very crazed acrylic so that you couldn't see out. Getting them off wasn't too difficult. The big job
Environmental
So depending on how I feel in a moment it is painful or amusing or frustrating or sad or just ironic that the blog post to sell our Diesel engine is currently the most popular on Sustainable Sailing. It does highlight that for us, it is important to get afloat
Progress
Attached a whole load of photos of the engine which we are selling as is. Having looked around we are setting the price at £3,000 The plate says it was manufactured in June 2010. We understand that it was professionally installed in our Rival 38 by Dickies Boatyard in
Electric
Our process for designing the electric motor compartment has had to be somewhat adaptable. We started from knowing nothing and so it has been a constant process of learning and then changing our plans. The work over the last two weeks (Stuffing box flange is off, Yanmar Diesel 3JH5E for
Electric
So we have come of age 😉 21 today. Not too bad, we are still a month away from owning Vida for a year and we were unable to visit for nearly 4 months due to the lockdown. We arrived late last night (slightly delayed by a poorly signposted diversion). We
Progress
As I've already written we had very visible progress this morning as our diesel engine is no longer on board. Vida now has no fossil fuels on board (although we are still connected to the boatyard electric supply at the moment). Jane also managed to get the whole
Motor
Today we got our Yanmar Diesel engine off the boat. Now ready to sell. The motivation to remove it and go fossil fuel free now rather than later was due to the original fuel tanks and fuel system rather than the replacement engine. It has less than 400 hours on
Electric
In my earlier post Stuffing box flange is off! we achieved the job that has been worrying me most during lockdown. So with that done we spent the rest of this extra day off clearing more debris from the diesel engine and preparing for the electric motor. This is the
Motor
This has been worrying me for a long time. The last bolt was stuck. But today I managed to drill the bolt out despite really tight access. I couldn't get the drill in straight so used the Dremel with it's flexible extension. This allows us to
Appliances
We have had lots of comments that salt water and electrics are not compatible. We also see lots of YouTube channels who find that their electronics (laptops, hard disks, cameras etc) do not last well in salt water environments. This shouldn't come as a surprise. So what are