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Our 230V electrical system
We are almost finished with our 230V electrical installation and thought we would share our thoughts about the installation. We wanted automatic changes between shore power, generator and inverter. With two relays we designed the following priority of our power source: If shore power is available it feeds the battery charger, water heater and the outlets If generator is available it feeds the battery charger, water heater and the outlets If the inverter is available the feed the outlets. The inverter we have is a 350W continues modified sine wave inverter. It is quite small but we think that will be enough for us. It followed with the boat and…
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Weekend work
Another weekend has passed filled with boatwork, and we got a bunch of different stuff done. First on the agenda for the weekend was to prepare a cover for the winter. This year we will cover the entire boat since we still have some leakages in the deck. We want as little water inside the hull as possible so that it doesn’t freeze and crack during winter. We also filled up the holding tank with water to test leakages, better to do leakage test with sea water instead of black water. 😉 We let it be overnight and no leakages were found! So now we can continue with the final…
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Holding tank installation
When our new tank had arrived it was time to start with the holding tank installation. In the previous post about our holding tank we mentioned that the water tank we planned on converting to a holding tank leaked in the old weldings, not something you want for a holding tank. So instead we abandoned the water tank and bought a plastic septic tank instead. The reason for choosing a plastic tank was because of the price and because there are no welding that will leak. The tank we bought was almost a perfect fit in the bilge, so we were really lucky there! Once we received the tank we…
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Varnishing companionway and cleaning
When we fixed the companionway before summer (read more about it HERE) we didn’t have time to finish completely. What was left to do was to varnish it and some adjustments in the frame, which had gotten loose during summer. We had glued it before summer but the glue wasn’t strong enough, so we added screws on the frame to make it hold better. Another thing we have been working a lot with lately is removing styrofoam in the boat. It has gathered moist over the years and is probably a big cause of the “old boat smell” we are working hard to get rid of. So in order to…
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Cleaning the bilge and new holding tank plans
After we took out the water tank that would be our holding tank, some cleaning of the bilge underneath the tank was needed since it wasn’t exactly clean. We had cleaned the bilge under the engine when we took the engine out last year, but not the part of the bilge in front of the engine. If you want to read more about our engine renovation, click HERE. When we bought Anne-Mon there was a lot of this old boat smell and when cleaning the bilge under the engine we got rid of some of the smell, but not completely. So, now when the tank is out it was a…
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