Plans
Yesterday evening I updated the template for our extension to the existing bow roller. It doesn't look quite so massive now. It has holes in the right places for attaching the forestay, yankee furler, anchor rollers and anchor retainers. The anchor retainers will be adjustable plates bolted to
Electric
On Friday, while preparing to fit the backing plate in the cockpit locker we decided to remove the drive unit for the original Neco autopilot. This is a beefy electric motor that uses a chain drive onto one of the shafts of the Whitlock steering system. From all we can
Generation
On Saturday we managed a few jobs that are about as low as we can get. Water getting low in the wrong places During the heavy rain on Friday we discovered a key source of the water in the (very deep) bilge at the aft end of the keel. I&
Electric
We had a wet journey here and it continued to rain until mid evening. In fact as we parked several puddles decided to flow into the area we parked in, close to the boat. So after trying to jump to get to the boat with dry feet I simply swapped
Appliances
True to form we are going to be ripping out all the original instruments, after 44 years they are all well past their useful life. Both the speed and depth sensors used holes in the hull (and we are determined to minimise holes!). Nothing is connected to anything else and
Plans
So today has been focused on the aft cabin and aft heads. Some demolition see my earlier post. However, we have got a long way with test dry fitting of posts and bulkheads. So here is the view from the foot of the new bed showing the new headboard giving
Plans
So we are here for part of half term, arrived on Thursday evening and have had one of our sons staying with us for a couple of nights. So we took some time off (as Jane is still recovering from Laryngitis she needed it). Then this afternoon we did a
Plans
So I have made our first Mobius Locking Brummel splice, with thimble, for our guardrails. This is in 6mm Hampidjan Dynice Dux from Jimmy Green Marine. This will be used with a lashing to tension the guardrail. This bit of line will lead to the gate which has "pelican&
Plans
We are back home and I've probably watched too many American YouTube videos if I'm describing myself as super happy 🤣 First, I'm really pleased with the progress on the rearranging of the aft cabin. One nice interim feature is being able to use the
Plans
Very exciting progress today 😊 We have epoxied in the plywood backing plates for the aft cabin. Full length of the cabin on both sides. The challenge now is to time removing the bolts soon enough so that they don't get stuck yet leaving them long enough that the
Plans
Last night was pretty windy and heavy rain. By the morning the wind had died but it has rained on and off all day. So it wasn't a good day to fit the big backing plates to the underside of the hull shelf that supports the deck in
Environmental
We have been using a Nature's Head composting toilet on Vida since September 2019. We liked it enough to add a second in November 2019. Our experience has ranged from them being abandoned (after use) for 6 months during lockdown through weekend use by two people and upto