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| There is sunshine in my life :) |
We are slowly but steadily getting there! What a relief to have something else finished :) Rick designed the mount for our solar panel and then Pepin, the welder, fabricated the arches from stainless steel piping...then welded them to the existing dinghy davits on Orion's transom (back end of the boat)...then welded a swivel connection to each arch...and finally Rick mounted some flat crossbars to the back of the panel as well as a round ss pipe that fits into the swivel connectors...attached the whole "schmier" to the arches and voila...let the sunshine in :)
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| the two arches welded on top of the dinghy davits |
The new solar panel will be connected to four new batteries after the new wind generator has been installed...Uff...two more "big" projects...but after that we should be self sufficient as far as power is concerned AND READY TO CUT THE DOCK LINES!!!!!!! Saludos to my sweetie, the captain, who tirelessly forges on :) There is not much I can do to help him, so I stay out of the way and attend to some smaller projects of my own (i.e. making courtesy flags, mosquito screens, sun shades, and fixing the rain enclosures for the cockpit)...in case you are wondering: we are still having fun and go and play with our friends whenever we can ;)
Here's the captain perusing the manual for the new wind generator...there is no time for the wicked, hahahahaha. All of this is very exciting for us and we are learning a lot! Thanks for following our adventures...stay tuned...there is lots more to come...
