Well SV Bora DA is coming along nicely. I have finished most of the upgrades including the cabin, engine, self steering, MackPack, Jib strip, electrical etc etc. And the dinghy got a new engine!! The funny thing is that it took so long and if you ask me what I did last weekend its hard to be specific.
Working on a boat is an odd experience.
Everything and I mean everything takes 5 times longer. Its a mix of inaccessible places that you need to get access to, never having the right tool or parts ( no matter how much you plan ahead, and the difficulty of just moving about in a confines space. Of course everything also costs 5 times as much because its Marinised whatever that means, and half the time doesn't fit.
But I have only a few more things I would like to do , one of which is to fit a wind charger which will help power
They are not cheap and its a nice to have rather than a need to have, but I want to be power independent and this is a good addition. A watermaker would also be nice but there are easier ways of producing fresh water. The problem is that there is always something to do to make it better and its easy to become a dock queen. So sailing is what we will do and off we will go.
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