It’s an exciting time! We are experiencing some beautiful spring weather, sailing conditions are great and we have most of the major jobs on our to-do list completed. There are still millions of things to do but the major items are almost complete. I’ll paste the list at the end of this post but the final puzzle was figured out last week.
After installing our new battery bank we discovered that our inverter didn’t work. For those who are not familiar with them, inverters convert the electricity from our batteries–12 volts–to electricity we can use to power items like our microwave, computers and most importantly our coffee grinder. The original electrician we had working on the boat thought the inverter was damaged and would need to be replaced. Thankfully, we had a second electrician look at the problem and he found a short in some of the wires. The short had melted several wires including the negative cable on the inverter. It was a significant fire hazard so in addition to not spending money unnecessarily on a new inverter we also fixed a very dangerous situation!
Now that we can charge our MacBooks and make coffee again it’s time to go cruising.
More to come!
Projects List
re-do the running riggingchange the engine oil, oil filter and fuel filterschange the raw water impellerservice the fridgeservice the water makerRe-mark the anchor chainpull mast and replace standing rigging (almost done!)new boom vangnew dinghy and outboardadd outboard engine davitreplace radaradd AISreplace battery charger–not necessaryreplace inverter–not necessarysails: new main and jib- sails: add new code zero–in progress. We’ll likely have this sorted by the end of June.
- add lazy cradle for main sail–this is done though we still need to make some adjustments.
- fix things that break while we’re doing the items listed above (this will never be crossed off our list)
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