Monthly Archives: July 2011

We have been building supports for the batteries and generator, cleaning up a bit and painting. The boat never had a generator and the batteries are much larger so everything has to be custom built to fit. Whenever we have a chance we are cleaning up the compartments, priming and painting. Another shot of the … Continue reading »

We’re replacing all the hatches, but before we can install the new hatches we have to clean up the edges (nothing matches) and paint. Tanya has been busy ripping out the hatches: Where’s the smile? …she has them all out! We received the paint…guess we have to paint now…

We are installing things, sort of. We want to reposition things so we are making mock ups to see how or if they will fit. We are moving the water heater from under our bed out to the cockpit locker, the generator will go right behind it. Both of these will go up through the engine/fuel … Continue reading »

We ordered a new engine, a Beta Marine 60. The BM 60 is a Kubota based engine and ours will have a Velvet Drive 71C transmission. This is what it will look like: Beta 60 (BV2403)       We’ll take pictures when we receive and install it.

In your home you just flick a switch and power from the local power grid activates whatever you need, we don’t have that luxury. Our power, which we need to run almost everything on the boat, will come from batteries. We want lots of power, or storage, to run our things so we bought HUGE … Continue reading »