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Moving from surviving to thriving

Our strongest winds since moving onboard

Summary Weekly Newsletter: 14th September

Phew! Electric Motor can go ahead

Weekly Newsletter: 14th September

Phew! Electric Motor can go ahead

Saturday: Calm before the storm

Strong winds, lots of rain and runners affect our plans

Electric Motor & Batteries Update

We have a way forward

First 48V Battery bank connections

This feels like a whole set of big bits of progress. Hundreds of Busbars I've spent a couple more days making Busbars, these are what the battery banks and big items connect to. Each battery bank needs a +ve and a -ve busbar. The motor bank needs an

New Video: Battery and Electric Motor Panic. Have we got it all wrong? Can we fix it?

We are fitting an electric motor, and we have run into problems with the batteries we have bought, with British Standards and with Insurance. We have had to question all our decisions and struggle to find a way forward.

Summary Weekly Newsletter, 7th September

The week our video has caught up with the Battery Panic

Weekly Newsletter, 7th September

The week our video has caught up with the Battery Panic

Working 12V electrics

At last things are connected to power

What I miss (and what I don't) living on our boat (even in a boatyard)

For Dave, by far the biggest thing I miss is showers (and the occasional bath). I knew this was going to be the case. At the moment, we have pretty much unlimited showers if we go to the clubhouse right next to us. But we don't want to

New Video: DIY support arms for guardrail mounted 175 watt solar panels

Our next video brings us close to up-to-date on our Solar installation

Values

Let's talk about values

Sustainability is a value that needs expanding

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One month anniversary

On 29th July, we moved full-time onto our boat

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Progress as the weather turns

Are we going to have to change our priorities again

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Slight priority change

Various external factors changing our priorities

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New Video: Can we safely stretch our 12mm Dyneema DIY Main Mast shrouds & stays?

After Jane did all the splicing for the main mast rigging we had to stretch everything

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A lot of everything day

Today (Monday) was a beautiful day. We managed: * To get the week's washing done * Hopefully fix the leak from the chainplate loop above Jane's side of the bed * Do some solar panel wiring and drill 4 more holes in the deck for solar wires * Do some

solar

The invisible bits take so long

Hours of thinking and working but so little to see

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New video: A disaster of a weekend, breaking things as we prepare to build knees to take rigging loads

It's a catch-up of a couple of weekends back in November

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