When planning to sand the hull to racefinish, I could not leave the saildrive and propeller the way it was. The brass on the propeller needed polishing, and the saildrive required both sanding and additional coats of epoxy. I started with sanding the saildrive and the brass with 240 grit sandpaper. For the saildrive this … More Saildrive and propeller clean up
We just wanted to add a bow windlass but ended up rebuilding the whole anchor box… We currently had no bow windlass. In the Baltic Sea, you seldom anchor from the bow. Most of the times you anchor with the bow to land and an anchor in the stern. A more permanent bow anchor with … More Plastic Fantastic – New anchor box
The ugly duckling desperately needed some love, sanding, and polishing. Amazing what will happen if you take the time to refurbish your gel coat. The plan was to rub and polish the gel coat thoroughly last winter. But last spring was an icy spring, and we did not get running water at the marina until … More Magic Gel Coat
Most of all the electrical wiring is complete. Some small parts remained that I needed to complete. The hidden relay functionality There is a great Facebook group regarding lithium batteries on boats. After my installation of the battery pack, I posted a comment regarding my Lithium installation. I can recommend anyone considering lithium to join … More Finishing up electrical installation
Not my tidiest job but hopefully it will work… The whole rewiring of all the cables, installation of new lithium batteries, new charger/inverter, etc. all started with the fridge. The fridge could not keep cool with a hot summer even if we ran it on manual with almost full power. There was also a considerable … More Added isolation on the icebox
Last week a lot of things got done. Had a week of saved vacation from five years ago that I needed to use before the end of March this year. Not the best timing since it’s still too cold to do some of the needed work outside. The fiberglass work for the anchor box got … More A week with a long list of small stuff that got fixed
After so much work and preparation I could finally install my LiFeYPO4 battery! Delivery and initial voltage check I ordered my cells from a large reseller here in Europe. They have relatively large volumes, and I would not need to pay too high shipping cost or a customs/tax/handling cost. To reduce the shipping cost, I … More Finally Lithium on Liv!
The summer of 2018 was the our first summer with Liv. As I wrote in the post Choosing LiFePO4 batteries for S/Y Liv we had some issues with getting the batteries to last. When we bought Liv I had done some survey of the batteries and had them tested. But I had not figured out … More Recabling, switches, fuses, etc
This post in full is written by an non professional that has so far no real life experience of using LiFePO4 on boats. This just us sharing our thoughts that we when through when planning for LiFePO4 batteries on our boat. Initial thoughts Last summer we had issues with getting the batteries to last while … More Choosing LiFePO4 batteries for S/Y Liv
The following projects are planned for 2020. By 2020 we mean projects that we plan to complete during the off-season of 2019/2020 and be completed before the summer of 2020. Completed in 2019 but was planned for 2020 Scrape, sand and remove old antifouling Three additional coats of epoxi on hull Upgraded network from SeaTalk1 … More Planned projects for 2019 / 2020
