Refrigeration : from fresh water cool and wash down pump.

Yep! Another Technical Post…

This is one more system I can say I got intimate with. Thankfully two days for that job were enough from start to finish. How many trips to the store *L*? Actually, I just had to add one more trip to the store, and this one was planned so [...]

Water maker decision (final part)

Once we understood the concept and figured out that the difference between a box system and a piece mill one was less than $800, we decided to go with a tested solution warranty and support service.

For the purist I will add, could we build one for cheaper?

I would say yes, around [...]

Thank you, Vancouver boat show!

We did the trek to the Vancouver boat show! Why, Seattle was not enough? Well, yes it was don’t get us wrong, and admittedly we are not so fond of crowds created by a few thousand people along with the noise associated with it. But we’ll let out one small secret, there in Canada we [...]

Buying vs Building water maker (Part 5)

On the last post, we wrote about reviewing our assumption. Although, all is good on paper a good source expresses some doubt on a 1.5HP and its ability to work with the Honda. But the number works! Indeed, but you haven’t accounted for some inefficiency. In Rosa (you remember your RO Girlfriend) they set the [...]

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 [...]