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Wiring up Sooners DC: Part 1 – The old wiring

August 27, 2022Matt 3 Comments

So this has actually been an ongoing project over the last (checks calendar* seven?! wow) months and I’ve been putting off writing about it because I wanted the first post to be the overview and I was CONSTANTLY changing my… Continue reading →

Maintenance DC, electrical, sailboat, sooner, wiring

Rewiring Sooners AC Part 4

August 21, 2022Matt 1 Comment

Sorry about the gaps between posts – dealing with some personal stuff and it’s really hard to get motivated to write. Anyway, onto the post… So on my last post I had confidently declared ‘The last part of the AC… Continue reading →

Maintenance AC, electrical, sailing

Summer updates

July 31, 2022Matt 5 Comments

It’s been a while since I did a new post – most of the reason for that is that I’ve been really busy finishing off the redo of the entire DC system, which is going to be a multi-post series… Continue reading →

Maintenance DC, electrical, sooner, victron, wiring

I got an article published!

May 18, 2022Matt Leave a comment

A very quick (and braggy) post – I got my first sailing article published! It’s in Good Old Boat magazine, May/June issue. There was also a nice little sketch of Sooner plus an embarrassing quote from me. And yeah, that’s… Continue reading →

Other good old boat, magazine

Refurbishing the Head: Part Two

May 10, 2022Matt Leave a comment

So after part one, I’d removed the old toilet, glassed up the two thruhulls, and removed all the old hose. Now to put stuff back together again! As mentioned in a couple of previous posts, I’d decided to go with… Continue reading →

Maintenance composting toilet, head, natures head, ogo, sailboat

Refurbishing the head: Part One

May 1, 2022Matt 1 Comment

So Sooners head (bathroom) wasn’t in a great way when I got her – the lockers were in need of some attention, the head (toilet)(this is another case of boat stuff all using the same word for different things, like… Continue reading →

Maintenance composting head, head

Hauling out

March 27, 2022Matt 5 Comments

Hauling out is probably my least favourite part of owning a boat. It costs a lot of money, you are on a bit of a schedule to do work as every extra day costs you even more money, staying aboard… Continue reading →

Maintenance haulout, PSS, sooner

Rewiring Sooner’s AC: Part 3

February 16, 2022Matt 1 Comment

The last part of the AC rewiring project was to replace the panel. The old panel looked like this Of note, there is only one on/off breaker type, the rest are push button meaning that there was no way to… Continue reading →

Maintenance 120 volt, AC, sooner

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