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New inlet socket for 230V & leakages
In this blog post we will share some of our work from last weekend; continuing with our 230V system and also uncovering more leakages on our sailboat as we remove more styrofoam. Since there was no rain for a couple of hours this weekend we managed to do some outside work, which was to add a new, fine inlet socket for the 230V system. The connection towards land was earlier just a hole into one of lockers in the cockpit. The hole was on the outside of the cockpit which didn’t we thought didn’t feel so safe. So we took a piece of teak and made it look nice and…
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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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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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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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