Sailboat renovation
In this category you will find our blog posts related to our sailboat renovation, all posts except the engine renovation. We are renovating our sailboat Anne-Mon so that we can cross oceans with her. When we bought the sailboat she had been abandoned for 10 years and there are a lot of work to get her in a good condition. We do all work ourselves and hopefully this will inspire someone that it is not impossible to restore a sailboat and be able to sail around the world with an older sailboat. We have also done a complete renovation of our engine, a Volvo Penta MD19, and all posts related to the engine renovation can be found under the category Engine. List with a link to all posts in the Sailboat Renovation category:
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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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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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