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A productive day on the sailboat. The permanent solution to the bilge pump issue where I bypassed the old switch, and a temporary solution to the failed shore-power battery charger. I will have to work on the permanent battery charging solution. I need a flexible charger that works from plugged-in shore power, and the future solar array. Does anyone have any recommendations? Now it is Happy Hour in the sun of the cockpit with Cara. She is adjusting well to life on the boat. There are so many places for us to explore around the marina. She goes for walks and beach romps multiple times a day. But mostly, she is content to just hang out with us and bask in the sunlight. #sailboatrestoration #livingonasailboat
La plupart des plaisanciers pensent que tout repose sur l’ancre… mais le vrai secret d’un mouillage qui tient, c’est surtout le poids de l’ensemble « ancre + chaîne » Si seule l’ancre travaille et que la chaîne est tendue sans toucher le fond, ton bateau risque de décrocher au moindre coup de vent ou changement de courant. Un bon mouillage, c’est quand : ✔️ l’ancre est bien engagée ✔️ une partie de la chaîne repose sur le fond ✔️ la traction reste la plus horizontale possible C’est le poids de la chaîne au fond qui absorbe les à-coups et permet à l’ancre de rester correctement plantée. Retiens ça : Une grosse ancre sans bonne longueur de chaîne = mouillage moyen Une ancre adaptée + une chaîne qui travaille correctement = bateau sécurisé Sauvegarde ce réel pour tes prochaines nuits au mouillage ! Envie d’apprendre à mouiller comme un pro et éviter les erreurs classiques ? Notre formation en ligne est dispo — lien dans la bio 🔗
CAMBRIA (along with her 75-feet waterline length cousins ASTRA and CANDIDA, the first three ‘Big Class’ yachts to be bermudan-rigged from launch) has long been dubbed a 23-Metre. However, while designed to rate around that figure under the International Rule, a key element of her survival into the 21st Century – still a magnificent racer-cruiser; every sweet William Fife III curve still in place while supporting perhaps the tallest of all truly wooden masts – is her stout original construction to Lloyd’s then highest specifications for wood and wood-composite yachts, rather than to the lighter International Rule scantlings. https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/792/william-fife-iii-111ft-big-class-cutter-19282016 Thus CAMBRIA, adored, maintained and respected for most of her life, has remarkably never required a total rebuild restoration. Her soul remains intact through recent major refits “sympathetic to her origins and respectful of her history”, and this is immediately apparent on first stepping aboard this happy, beautiful, historic, and very special classic yacht.