Category Archives: Electrical system

Les Îles Sous-le-Vent (Leeward Islands), French Polynesia – Our 2nd Season Here Begins

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Here it is, May 26, our wedding anniversary.  What have we been doing since I last updated our blog on April 10?  Good question!  Sitting inside our boat cabin being gently rolled on our mooring ball on Bora Bora by the unsettled weather … Continue reading

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Back in the South Pacific!

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Greetings from Taha’a, the “vanilla island.”   Our Return Journey  We closed up and left our home in California on March 19.  We have temporary tenants living in our house.  This all happened at the last minute.  They moved in … Continue reading

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New Alternator, and Brightwork

After our return from Mexico, the sun shown every day on the San Francisco Bay, it seemed.  It was hard to appreciate the gravity of the California drought when all we saw was gorgeous weather. But the wind in the … Continue reading

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Some More Electrical Upgrades and Hull Work

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Rick’s electrical upgrades continued throughout this time.  By early September, he had completed his installation of a new, more powerful battery charger, and all the rerouting of cables and equipment that accompanied it: His next project is to upgrade the … Continue reading

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Memorial Day Weekend on the boat

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This was our first “free” weekend where we weren’t preparing the boat or ourselves for a US Sailing certification of some kind.  Finally, we could just do whatever we wanted to do!  We had some thoughts about joining Club Nautique … Continue reading

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Electrical System Upgrades

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After calculating the current demands for our anticipated list of electrical equipment when we take off for our extended cruising in 2014, we decided that we needed to upgrade our house electrical bank from the current 100 Ah capacity to around … Continue reading

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