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Our Lithium battery Installation ( 2024  Australia): Contents: A  Do we need lithium? B  Charging? C  What type of battery? D  Capacity? E   Manufacturer F  Safety and Regulations G  Installation I   Conclusion and notes inc our wiring diagram J  Our typical electrical operating regime K  Major it

RIGGING – Our rigging was the original from 2003, and as predicted the rig survey had recommended going for a full rig replacement. We had contemplated doing this ourselves but having made numerous enquires on where to source 12mm and 16mm wire from our DIY plans started to go adrift. Getting wi

Dripping TAPS are bad enough but THE main kitchen tap that doesn’t swivel between sinks and falls off its pedestal causing water to squirt onto the worktop – becomes annoying after a week of washing up. Solution: dial up Spanish Amazon . Three days later a brand new tap arrives, two hours after

PRINTER …grh grh grh… On Saorsa ( my last boat), I had an Epson blue tooth printer, which worked a treat every time. Scanning, printing – all by Bluetooth or cable, no worries. Unfortuntaly thats in New Zealand We needed a colour printer – TAKE 1 – The local shop which supplied the washing machi

Handy boat tool..... recommendation 1. While waiting for our new scooters to be assembled- (the next most useful tool). John was watching a lady who picked up a small hand held vacuum cleaner which sucked up her arm skin impressively. Moments later he is busy testing the same Shark vacuum cleaner

ALTERNATORS…On board we have four alternators. Two main battery bank charging alternators (battery bank 8 x 210 amp one year old gel batteries), and two start battery alternators. It was during the test sail under engine John asked the question – why are we not charging?. The skipper, and broker h

Day 2 – HOT WATER – we were plugged into shore power, NO HOT WATER?? Run the engines, ahh ...hot water on the starboard side? Um, firstly where are the hot water tanks? One thing we were looking forward to in the Lagoon570 was NOT having to get under the bunks to access things. Where were we on

With a calendar full of visitors booked in for July and August we thought it was time to investigate the WATERMAKERS. Yes we have two! On Joline, NOT expecting something to work is our default expectation when trying something for the first time. It was with pure delight and amazement that when we

Reefing with at night, no stars, no horizon and you need a compass is the best tool ever. Joline - of course - two compasses and neither were working. Within two weeks Almarima handelery ( thank you Oli), managed to get us two new compasses - replacing the compasses was relativly easy. The SPB

John and I are bread lovers and really enjoyed using the bread maker on Saorsa. We would describe a bread maker as a Blue Water cruisers essential. The only problem is that they take up a lot of space. Sat in my bean bag on the foredeck cruising to Malaga I came up with the idea of ripping out t

Week 2 – Sailing from Malaga to Gibraltar John fell down the hatch – ouch. His leg was seriously traumatized and took several weeks to get back to looking anything like normal. This gave us a mobility issue to solve. We had no wheelchair, mobility scooter nor electric bikes yet! Walking down the

SOLAR PANNELS. We both love the sun and the warmer climate. Now we really love it- free power. The boat had flexipanels which guess what?? – Were damaged and didn’t work, so the owner had taken them off. The great news was that there were two nearly new Victron controllers on board, and a great

THE WASHING MACHINE saga – after four days, clearing out, fixing things and sweating a lot, we excitedly went to try the washing machine. It looked great – washer dryer, full size etc. We loaded it up, used Mr google to translate the Spanish instructions…. Set the cycle, pressed start ,CLUCK the

Day 1 -FLUSHING TOILET – Funny how priorities change. We thought that the Alternators were our first priority. Day one and the toilet does not flush and we have no hot water which calls for immediate attention. The toilet is one of these new fangled flush and pump at the same time as mincing. (Ele