Month: January 2022
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An electric adventure today
Two weekends ago we sold our Citroën van. Last weekend we collected our new car, a 2016 Nissan Leaf electric car. Tonight, after an evening work meeting, we will go on an adventure in it to the boat. I fully charged it overnight (normally we are only charging to 80% for longer battery life). This…
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External Dyneema Chainplates update
Our latest video has been getting some really helpful comments on YouTube as well as directly. It has also helped us to reach a new milestone 🙂 It definitely seems worth exploring more. Particularly to consider some of practicalities that people have raised including: Is the sheer strength of the Stainless Steel bolts sufficient? Potentially,…
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External Dyneema Chainplates: new design, new video
We are really excited that we have come up with a new way of building External Dyneema Chainplates. It is so much simpler than our previous ideas and we haven’t seen anything like this anywhere else. Remember that this fits really well with all the Dyneema rigging expertise at Rigging Doctor who have been one…
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First boat stay in 2022
We arrived yesterday evening and are here for a couple of nights. It is very cold! Snow in Manchester before we came, snow visible on the Snowdonia range. So, too cold to do any epoxy work. Fortunately, the two panel heaters and two fan heaters can keep the cabin nice and warm. Instead of working…