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Continuing with electrical system overhaul and our sails
During the weekend we first did some work on our ship, Aline. We also took a look at the sails we have for our ketch rigged sailboat, more about them below.
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Electrical system overhaul (and cleaning)
The engine is finally finished (sort of) and it is time to go over the electrical systems in the sailboat. At first we will just focus on the basic functionalities, which is power to the engine and the instruments to the engine. Depending on the weather we might continue with other functions or continue with the plastic repairs. For us it is important to have good knowledge about our system so that we know what could be wrong if something should happen. First up was to clean the battery box so that we could get our new batteries in place. We bought our batteries a while ago second hand just…
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First drive after Volvo Penta renovation
It was time to finalize the installation of the engine so that we could test it after our Volvo Penta renovation. We had lifted it to the correct position and we needed to connect the gearbox to the engine and the propeller shaft and connect diesel, sea water, cooling system to the boiler and some electricity to the engine before we could do a test start inside the boat. First up was to assemble the gearbox and then connect it to the shaft. The gearbox need to be inserted precisely to its correct position and we used our rig (that we used when lifting the engine into position) to get…
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Installing our Volvo Penta engine
It was finally time to lift our Volvo Penta engine to its correct position in the boat and start the installation, after an entire winter of doing a full renovation of the engine (read all our blog posts about the renovation HERE). But before starting the installation we had to fix a small diesel leakage in the connection between our two fuel tanks. We noticed the leakage when lifting the engine into the boat but didn’t have the time to fix it immediately. So the first thing we needed to do was to fix the connection. We had a hard time get the connections in the correct position last time, since…
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Lifting the engine back into the boat
It was finally time to lift our Volvo Penta engine back into the boat. The weather forecast said it was going to be a warm and sunny, but windy, weekend so we decided to do the engine lift. First up was to lift it into the car, which was the hardest part for us when lifting it out of the boat, read more about it HERE. Since we had problems last time we built a rig so that it would be easier to get it into the car. Next up was to go to our ship Aline to get the small boat. When we lifted the engine out from the…
