Sustainable Sailing

Tag: sustainable-living

  • 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…