Last year, on the free table at my marina I found the following ‘But Matthew’, I hear you say, ‘That is literally a pile of dirty trash’ And I would say – actually, that’s the best find I have ever… Continue reading
Sooners old breaker panel for the DC was old and not actually wired up to anything (the fridge etc was all wired directly to the batteries) so after removing the old one the first thing to do was figure out… Continue reading
After pricing out decent cells it turned out to be cheaper to get a premade battery from https://www.electriccarpartscompany.com I went with the BestGo battery pack as seen here https://www.electriccarpartscompany.com/12v-400ah-preferred-lifepo4-lithium-battery-packs I saw a teardown online of the battery here and it… Continue reading
Been a few weeks since I last updated, due to it being winter I haven’t really felt like doing anything boat or writing related, but here is a brief update. The marina where I’m at has a competition where they… Continue reading
So at this point I’d taken Sooner out for her first big trip, but still hadn’t actually sailed her outside of the short test sail before purchase. One of the really nice things about being on a boat this time… Continue reading
Last year some friends of mine all took our sailboats to an anchorage and rafted up together for Canadian Thanksgiving. I took Frawg (the Shark 24 I part-owned) up with my girlfriend at the time and it was really fun,… Continue reading
So at this point I still hadn’t had Sooner out except for moving her from Pender to Victoria, and then once to Sidney to haul out. Neither would count as a pleasure trip, and with the summer rapidly ending I… Continue reading
One of the things that made me pretty leery about buying Sooner was the amount of exterior teak on her. Not only were there the dreaded teak decks, there were also teak cap rails, cockpit trim, cockpit seats, dorade boxes,… Continue reading