Sailing Anne-Mon

Our next big project on the sailboat was pouring a lead keel. The reason for deciding to do that was that we felt that there was too much maintenance and risks with keeping the “swing” keel, this is the short version. In our videos we talk more about why we decided to cast a lead keel ourselves. We did all of the steps in the keel casting process ourselves; from design to finished keel. Of course with some consulting and assistance, but we did a big, big majority of the work just the two of us. In this post we gather all videos related to pouring a lead keel for…

Next up in our refit is to redo the electrical system to a 48V Lithium system in our sailboat. In this episode we go to pick up our new LifePo battery cells and Victron inverters which is really exciting! We talk a bit about how the electrical system on the looks like today and what our plan is with the new system. We also go back to visit the sailboat after not being there for a while due to really cold weather. We make sure the sailboat is in good condition and also double-check some measurements for the batteries and inverters. In the second part of our battery build we…

Our sailboat has a swing/lifting keel that is quite unique and it was time for us to do a test-run to see if it worked. In this episode we double-check some thing on the generator, before we order parts for our electrical system renewal. We also brought some thing so we could do a test run of our swing keel. With the keel in its upright position we have a draft of 1.75 meters (5.7 ft) compared to 3 meters (9.8 ft) when in its downward position. If this function works as it should it will broaden our options of where we could anchor in the future. We are Thomas…

Winter has arrived to Sweden, but we braved the cold and visited the boat anyway. Making sure everything is alright with the boat. We also continue open up more thoroughly in the bow of the boat, which we haven’t have time for earlier.