Sustainable Sailing

Month: March 2024

  • Composting and our forecabin layout

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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: We need to insulate the space where are composting because our volumes are…

  • Improved insulation for our galley

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    A couple of weeks ago we wrote Insulating the galley, today we have improved the way we are holding the insulation in place. The vertical battens we tried last time didn’t work well. The bend was too sharp. So now we have 120mm wide strips of 3.6mm plywood with the small battens to prevent the…

  • Parts preparation

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    Rather than go to the boat last night we have been preparing some parts at home (and working out a bit better what we need at home and what at the boat). First task was ripping a 40mm square batten diagonally in half to create two triangular sections. This is to act as a large…

  • Raspberry Pi Pico for boat projects

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    So our Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller kit arrived today. We have been through a first video tutorial which has got us to connect it to my laptop, download MicroPython and Thonny. Then when wrote a little program to make the LED flash.The kit comes with over 450 items and will allow a lot of…

  • Sustainable Sailing Book update

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    I’ve just updated our Sustainable Sailing Book following the blog post Our Compost Toilet deadline with the lessons learned from reading The Humanure Handbook.

  • GoPro woes

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    A month ago our GoPro Hero 10 failed. It wouldn’t turn on. After a long session on “chat” they agreed it needed replacing with a £115 charge. Since then it took nearly a month to get their finance team to phone me (they tried twice when I was driving or in meetings but over a…

  • Insulating the galley.

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    We have started to fit the insulation in the galley.5mm self-adhesive foam with foil backing against the hull and deckhead.Will be covered by 40mm of xps foam board.The hope is that the 5mm stops condensation in any gaps between the xps board (which isn’t very flexible) and the curves of the hull.Depending on location we…

  • Our Compost Toilet deadline

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    We have been using our Nature’s Head Compost toilets for 4.5 years and been very happy with them. However, we are going to have to change things within the next few months. At the moment we empty the urine bottles in the boatyard toilets (that’s fine and can continue). The situation with the solids is…

  • Easter gifts

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    Easter is coming soon.Jane is selling cute things to put treats in, especially suitable for little ones. There are chicks and bunnies. Hope you like them. Chick bags Bunny bags