Author: Jesper
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Suppliers we like: Marlec / Rutland
As I wrote about earlier we had the newly installed wind generator fall down after only an hour at sea, despite the installation being done according to instructions with the manufacturers mounting kit. I must say that Marlec took care of the situation with perfection. Within a week I had a new unit to pick…
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Admitting defeat.
I have previously written about my attempts to create a very energy efficient fridge and freezer. The idea was to integrate the hull as a heat exchanger in the compressor/evaporator circuit. I had some initial discussions with a cooling technician about this. However he was not very happy when he saw the actual installation. The…
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All in one day…
We crossed over the short hop from Tenerife to La Gomera. It was quite an interesting day. To the south of Tenerife there was no wind at all, which would have been boring save from the fact that there was plenty to look at. Plenty of whales in particular. These are Pilot Whales. They seem…
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First Blue Water Crossing: Lagos – Tenerife
The top of Tenerife is over 3 700 meter high. We saw it sticking up over the clouds from very far away, and it provided a very nice sunset as we did the final stretch into the port of Santa Cruz. You see the top just to the right of the setting sun in the…
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Jesper’s Sailboat Law
I have just created it. It goes: “Nothing ever works out-of-the-box. Things must first break and be repaired before they break.” This time it was the new wind generator. I bought the manufacturers mounting kit and mounted it according to the manual. Bad idea. It had the whole thing resting of two small set…
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Rain is bad for the sea?
We been in Lagos, Portugal now for over a week and the water in the marina has been about the same all the time. But today when we woke up the water was red. We have gotten quite a lot of rain in the last days,and now it’s all pouring into the sea, apparently. The…
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New Twitter feed launched
When Journeyman is at sea it is a bit more work to update the website. But we do have the hourly position update thanks to the Oceansearch environmental samples being sent every hour. But having just the position and climate data seemed a little dry… Now I have hooked a Twitter feed into the Oceansearch…
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When it’s cloudy it’s usually windy…
The Journeyman is supposed to be powered only by the wind and the sun. (Except it has an engine of course, but we’re talking about when we are sailing her!) However my original ambitions that all electrical power was to come from the sun turns out to be a little optimistic. Especially when we are…