Sustainable Sailing

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  • More visible galley progress

    More visible galley progress

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    We can really see how the galley will look and work. The cooker box is ready for painting. It even has a sliding bolt to hold it steady when we don’t need it gimbled. We have stainless steel tubes coming to fit as sleeves to protect the wood from the pivot bolts. We know how…

  • Stanchion and Solar progress

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    We are really excited with the progress on our stanchions and what we have learnt means we have redesigned our aft solar “arch” yet again (I’ve lost count, this might be the 10,000th version). Stanchions and Gates This was our first stanchion base. The carbon fibre tube is 250mm long with an external diameter of…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…