Sailing
Some encouragement
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 :-)
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Environmental
Wishing everyone a joy filled, sustainable Christmas
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
Making Electric Motor plans
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
Electric Motor now or later?
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 little more progress from yesterday
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
Battery cage fits
Whoo Hoo 😊 Very tight to get it but just managed 👍
Appliances
Another not Friday progress (#12)
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
The problems of interconnected systems
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
Building the battery box
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
Appliances
Friday progress #11
Going to be slow today partly because I'm on my own (Jane is struggling with a bad cold) and the weather isn't going to be great. Quite a lot of rain forecast and I really wanted to use the table saw to build the battery box.
Sailing
That is definitely not for us :-)
We were just watching a YouTube video about a couple preparing for this year's ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers). They will currently be on their way across the Atlantic. Several hundred boats sailing from The Canaries to St Lucia in an organised event. Happens every year starting on
Sailing
Inspiring YouTube channels
There are now so many sailing YouTube channels producing really great content that I doubt we are going to even try to compete :-) We will continue to add a few YouTube videos to our channel but, especially at the moment, actually getting the jobs done takes a far higher