Buying vs building your own water maker (Part 3)

Ready? You are now sitting comfortable for a 101 water maker? As this point we roughly know what the components are and how to put them together. But that doesn’t mean the flow will be correct and the entire element will play nice together. We don’t need another dysfunctional family on board really! We have [...]

Buying vs building your own water maker (Part 2)

As you know in our previous post we were in the research mode, and looking at what was available on the market. Realistically we are not here to re-invent the wheel, rather we can compare/understand and validate the products and design.

Today we will be focusing on the modular types with components, these can [...]

Buying vs Building your own water-maker Part 1

In the next few posts, we will research, design, validate and look for products which are available in the reverse osmosis system (this will be done within our parameters of course!)

Sounds impressive, doesn’t it but have no fear I am no engineer with fancy words or obscure magic box! I will share with [...]

Our Seattle boat show report.

An early start accompanied with a rainy day welcomed us to the Seattle boat show. Some might think :”Easier than trying to work on the boat!” Although it still takes some dedication… This year was our third time around for us with two other major ones, which gave us the ability to compare [...]

We are not wasting anytime…..

Even the rain didn’t stop us today, there must be some leftovers from our time living in England. As we used to say : if you stop going out every time it rains you never get out of the house. So we packed the car with some rather heavy boxes and made our way to [...]

How we survived the Boxing Day sales!…

How did we survive this monster shopping day? Simple enough, we cocooned and stayed home for a well needed rest…. That was our plan and with precision we implemented. Ok! we’ll let go of a secret, we checked a few websites, but they didn’t have any amazing rebates so the rest of the day was [...]

Christmas season’s Craft day….

Every project takes time, and in the end it will make our life easier and more beautiful. Today we were able to but two to bed, not bad for this time of the year.

*V* installed our side holder for the cockpit. In fact once you start using a boat [...]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

There is one subject rarely discussed although fairly contervesed in the cruising circuit, it  is  homeschooling a teenager. *B* has a good chance of coming with us which means a little bit of knowledge needs to migrate toward his brain at some point. With new technologies, the ability to follow a regular curriculum is there, [...]

Ais testing and end of month tidying up.

Tidying all the loose end is a feel good factor for the month end. Needless to add to the fact that with the AIS project done it is big weight off my shoulder…

Talking of the magic box, we did the final checkup yesterday, for all interested the best way to do so is [...]

A very windy day… We are thankful!

40 knots average 47.7 knots gust, we can say it’s windy in the marina!

We had been prepared for a storm coming from the North albeit not from the south. And that what we have been getting today, the boat is not docked the right way, so let us be hopeful that our solar  [...]