Frank

Most of the LiFEPo set up in the land yacht was done by HMB Electrical, (Hope I'm not breaking protocol in mentioning them but they were good) I did the battery box and one or two minor items myself after consultation with their contracted inspector who issued the EWOF. So yes there was an element of DIY but that was done per the inspectors guidance mostly to ensure there were no surprises for either party. Since I was initially intimidated by the seemingly complex circuitry I was hoping to be a bit dumb about it, pay some money and get a "turn-key package" . I should have known better Tu

Likewise https://maryrose.org/ Highly recommended if you are visiting those parts.

That's an accurate summary IMO. Stretching the topic but abandoned cars are also dealt with by local councils, some are shitters that tourists couldn't sell before departing the country, Q town is particularly bad apparently, still at least cars have a half decent scrap value and are cheaply recovered/transported.

Its confusing because in the interview "Matt from the Harbour Masters office" agrees with the interviewer that Rate Payers are unaware they are picking up the tab, implying that rates are funding the salvage.

This is third hand so Perhaps someone here has more correct detail but apparently one or possibly two steel boats parted their moorings in the recent blow. They were moored on the Tamaki in the vicinity of the PYBC and significant Damage to other vessels ensued with one possibly sunk, I suppose we will pay via increased insurance premiums. Harbour Masters dealing with abandoned boats is a worldwide problem affecting oceans, rivers and lakes.

How so ?

Huge overlapping Genoas and tiny Mainsail, clearly IOR

Nice work Matt, what is the white liner material ? looks like 6mm thk GRP or something similar ?

Hard to disappear a yacht of that size very weird

I was skeptical because a few months back Yoshino's advertised SS battery was exposed during independant teardown as still having some liquid electrolyte albeit it was only 3% I think. The companies' marketing department eventually admitted they got a bit carried away. This one however looks legit and there are one or two others out there so maybe we are finally at the beginning of the solid State era , good stuff !

Senator Collins, thanks for your time .............Can you book me a cab

1) for the mechanics. I have replacement 4hp 4 stroke yamaha. The old one always started on the second pull. This one on the 7th. Do I have to live with this. Change the plug as well as cleaning the carb, or at least clean it and check the gap.

Otherwise they would have to tow it outside of the environment, there is nothing there luckily.

Someone didn't tell the crew about "long Press" on the AP power button.

Its a new anti-tariff door to door service being trialled by Ali Express.

Agree.

We have slowly upgraded the DC power/charging system since we purchased the boat in 2017, lithium wasn't on our minds in that time it was just an attempt to better manage the AGM batteries . Now we are considering the switchover and I think the only extra component we need is a DC to DC charger and even that we could probably dodge as the start battery has its own alternator. The Balmar house alternator is grunty enough for the purpose, some settings to be tweaked changed obviously. ie none of the components are unique to Lithium batteries.

That's the first solid state battery I have seen that you can actually purchase as opposed to the ones on Youtube that are always "right around the corner" do you know when it became available ?

I agree IT, I used Lithium ION in electric RC models and albeit rare I witnessed one or two self-incinerate at the field (not mine). We have a 320 Ah LiFePo4 in the campervan It has the Victron internal and external BMS plus fuses, isolation switches, Anderson plug, metal container, external venting yadda yadda , its probably safer then the FLA in the Carpenter .

I think I might have posted this before but when building the Carpenter 29 I was keen on a soft headliner until reading about a fire in a production yacht in the UK as the owner told it. There was a fire in the saloon, cause unknown but the skipper was on deck and I think his wife. Two children were in a quarter berth (screaming) Skipper tried to rescue them via the main companion way but was defeated by heat/smoke. Skipper then went forward to access the saloon via the foredeck hatch but upon entering he found the vinyl headliner was melting generating thick toxic smoke

Very good observations from IT and K4309, at the tail end of our 2023 ICR cruise we kept getting brownouts on the Raymarine displays. Long story short we were checking connections when I nearly burnt my hand on a bus bar . It transpired we had a high resistance connection on DC feed so hot in fact that that it was melting cable insulation in an area that was absolutely jam packed with wires. Hard to predict a timeline to smoke production but that was probably the closest I have come to an electrical fire in 40 years of cruising, certainly nothing to do with the battery other than it supply

I hear ya, and TBT was before my time but I must admit wikipedia paints it as pretty evil Sh*t once it leaches into the envirramint, it does a real number on the innocent critters. On the other hand if I recall correctly they allowed its continued use on large ships for many years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tributyltin

I have heard of Roundup being added as well, no idea if it works,

After 30 years in contact with Aluminium I suspect additional shop time might be needed drill out some of the locking grub screws and careful use of heat to extract the bronze ring . They will need to clean the crack surface to thoroughly remove any oxidised material, it can be a surprising amount, they will also remove the anodising around the weld margin. Post repair you will need to get the drum stripped and re-anodised. It looks to be a relatively thin wall casting so distortion might be a risk and as already mentioned the welded area will be weaker than the parent material. It mi

The outer casing on the Victron Battery in our land yacht is Aluminium ex factory , the electrical inspector considered that to meet the rules without further ado but I built an outer box in ply and lined it with several layers of dry fibreglass from a heat blanket (ex bunnings) . A lithium battery apparently can burn at close to 1000 deg C so aluminium will eventually fail although by that stage you might be in the raft anyway. I think a steel/SS light gauge folded angle frame with some sort of refractory lining or fire proof lining, plenty of options/products out there in blanket or sheet f