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Easter tour and boatwork
It is Easter holiday now which means four days off work. The first day we took a tour with our ship Aline to the island Storön in the archipelago together with some other ships. It was definitely summer feelings in Stockholm with 20 degrees (68 Fahrenheit) and we brought our sliding hatch and Thomas worked with it for a while. We spent one night out and then drove back in the evening. The following day we went to the sailboat to continue working. First up was to add our new stop wire we bought. The old one was glitching and we want to have a reliable stop wire. We still…
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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…
