Appliances
We've found the Smart Boat Innovations YouTube channel really helpful and encouraging. The technique of bringing boat data into Home Assistant is absolutely brilliant. It gets us away from expensive Marine technology into the world of free/open source software and standards. So I'm taking our
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If you are joining us from "A Word in Time" then Welcome :-) These two video's might be interesting in terms of our plans, goals and beliefs. "It is the big reveal of the announcement we have been hinting at. Plus more progress on the
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Our new video has just gone live on YouTube! We have a conversation and are left wondering "Are our views on Sustainability really shockingly controversial?"
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Today I have the prototype adjustable supports for the first side solar panel working. Goes from vertical (folded away) to above horizontal. Lots more to do before a finished solution but this feels like real progress. Video out tomorrow (Saturday) morning all about this.
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In my post Bikes by boat I concluded that we are hoping to take two existing bikes. One is the Birdy folding bike, I've confirmed it's location below a big pile of "stuff". The other is Jane's Bish Bash Bosh which I&
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This is close to my heart. When I asked the Methodist Church to take 5 years without appointment to sail about the world I specifically mentioned it as a goal to be good news for the, often remote, communities we want to visit. That definitely includes the regular features of
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From: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe@kathhayhoe@fediscience.org Climate Scientist, Professor @ Texas Tech, Chief Scientist @ The Nature Conservancy, UN Champion of the Earth, author of Saving Us. Climate change is loading the weather dice against us. A warmer climate means warmer oceans. Think about it this way: If you take a
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We are preparing for a first UK winter living aboard at anchor. Getting ashore has been a concern. Our ePropulsion electric outboard is great in many ways but has limited range & speed plus we probably won't get enough solar power to charge it. So this is a
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As we get closer to living on Vida and our first winter living aboard will be at anchor during a UK winter. The reality of the limitations of solar power generation during a UK winter continues to be a concern. It was always obvious, that without an electric shore power
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A very long time ago I wrote Sustainable Sailing and Human Power with a simple conclusion: By far the most cost effective and transformative use of human power in Sustainable Sailing is a bike with a trailer. A good rowing dinghy (probably in addition to a RIB) comes second. For
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From the BBC today BBC News - Coral bleaching: Fourth global mass stress episode underway - US scientists It's increasingly obvious that by the time we get to the tropics there isn't going to be much coral life left to see.
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In Our Compost Toilet deadline we said we that our current plan is to create a place for composting the septage (the dry solids from our Nature's Head compost toilet). To achieve the temperatures to rapidly kill all pathogens three things are needed: * Insulation (in a large outdoor