We got onboard Friday night and had no 110Vac power as the shore power failure had cut off power from the 48Vdc bank to the inverters and we had no HVAC. We cuddled up under the blankets and the...
We came aboard and found the main Integrel switch had cut off the 48V bank because of low voltage. Tracing it, the autotransformer was not working, but all the breakers were fine. We swapped the...
NOAA’s ability to predict how much wind from where and where and when is close to negligible. On the other hand they nailed that “slight chance of scattered rain in the afternoon” ... The...
Looking at the picture, there’s an island and a light on a buoy or post in the water. Looking at the map, the light is on the tip of the island, that runs to the bit you see above water ...
We took on diesel and water (we haven’t gotten to swapping out the water maker filter), and are off! Today another 15 to 25 knots True Wind Speed adventure, going straight up Puget Sound and...
We had someone check out the stove and all’s well. In our power systems work we had the Integrel main battery switch replaced with Integrel’s latest and looked at how to put in another Skylla...
After two days of sailing, 14, 15 hours of which in gale conditions, we made it to Shilshole marina. The wind, in the marina was still at 15 knots, away from the dock. Fortunately our friends Shawn...