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Prepping for mahogany strips
As we mentioned we are working on the interior in the boat and to make it look nice. We will set up mahogany strips on the hull, but before that we have some more prepping work to do. The inside of the hull has been covered with a lot of styrofoam, which we have started to removed and clean the hull behind it. The styrofoam is removed in most of the places, but not all of them. We take it step by step. After cleaning we have started to set up vertical wood strips that we will fasten the mahogany strips on. Since the hull is exactly straight we used…
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Saturday boatwork
Yesterday we continued with our watermaker installation and got the high pressure pump in position. We also connected some of the regular hoses, we need to buy high pressure hoses between the pump and the osmosis filter. Other than that, we also continued with our never ending job of cleaning the inside of the hull and getting rid of styrofoam and the glue that held the styrofoam in position. Hopefully we will get the wood for the interior we ordered soon so we can start cover the inside of the hull with beautiful wood instead of dirty plastic 🙂
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Starting to install our watermaker
After we got rid of the diesel heater we have started thinking about how to install our watermaker. We bought a second hand watermaker a couple of weeks ago. Read more about our watermaker HERE. We have thought quite a lot about where we should position all the parts for the watermaker. The criteria we have taken into consideration when choosing where to position is: We want to have a pre-tank that can be separated from the main water tanks when running the watermaker, and when finished it will be open towards the main tanks. This way all our fresh water won’t be bad if something goes wrong with the…
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Getting rid of diesel heater
During last weekend we also managed to do some more work inside the boat. One thing we spent a lot of time on was to remove our diesel heater. We decided a while back that we wanted to remove it. It has been really useful for us during our autumn sail here in Stockholm archipelago, but we are heading to the tropics. If we decide to sail in higher latitudes with Anne-Mon we will have to get a new one at that point, but since we have no plans for that now, we are getting rid of it. Or actually we sold it to, it is working fine so better…
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New traveler car for the whisker pole
There was no rain last weekend so we managed to do some outside work, an done of them was to add a new traveler car for the whisker pole. The old traveler car had lost the ring you use to move along the traveller. We have tried earlier to remove the end part of the traveler so that we could change the traveler car, but the screws at the end is stuck and we haven’t been able to loosen them. So instead we decided to remove the entire traveler from the mast, in order to get the new traveler car in place. We also got took the time to climb…
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