Category: Storage
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Battery box progress
Jane is cleaning the battery box (I’ve just sanded it) so ready for final bits of fibreglass tape and thickened epoxy filler. Then coating all the wood with epoxy to seal it before painting. After that we add some battery restraints and ready for the wiring plus watertight seals around the lid. All the lids…
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Bilge planning video
We have a new video available on YouTube. Shows us removing the companionway steps and planning how we are going to fit the batteries and new water tank into the bilge.
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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…
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A significant solar power milestone!
How about this solar powered achievement! Electric Boat Completes All-Solar Generated Cruise to Alaska that is really impressive. So much looking forward to seeing what we can achieve once we get to the solar part of our refit.
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Adding more simplicity :-)
We have been busy with the rest of life this month (September is always a very busy time at work for us both). However, our thinking has been progressing and we have been finding lots of inspiration from very small boats and from other people’s projects. So for example this video from Sailing Magic Carpet…
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Battery bank installation progress
Today has included a huge amount of lifting and moving. A large part of that was lifting all 8 batteries on board. You can see the preparation for this in Low down progress First battery bank has a nearly finished box (needs final epoxy coating and painting plus a lid). The second battery bank will…
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Low down progress
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’d left a few holes in…
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A restful wet day
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 trainers and socks for crocs…
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Old water tank removed
We took a long time to decide that we would take out the original stainless steel water tank. As with lots of jobs it was daunting. However, in fact it was relatively straightforward. Using the man overboard block and tackle I was able to get it out whole. Very glad we have done this. It…
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Now we are definitely going to 48volt house battery bank
This answers our pondering House Battery Bank: Should we go 48 volt So we managed to get these two items from the clearance section at Energy Solutions. The new MultiPlus II (looks like a decent upgrade from the original MultiPlus). Sized with a 48 volt, 5000 Watt inverter and a 70 amp charger. For the…