We left rainy Cornwall on Monday morning at 6:00 AM UK time. Started by picking up William’s crew from the quay, as we had brought…
Having a nice cup of EB with TIF in the beautiful harbour of Fowey. Overnighter from Chichester went very well, we sailed 18 hours and…
Just arrived at an anchorage in Chichester harbour, NE of Pilsey island. Very quiet and peaceful. Nothing like a cup of tea & uitsmijter (baked…
Anchored east of the naval base just north of the Napoleon dam, totally flat water until the wind picked up in the later night and…
Ricardo of KM did an excellent job in getting the troublesome thrust bearing into shape. It’s not perfect but good enough for us to go.…
Last Thursday a final check-up was done by one of the yard mechanics and he found an issue with the thrust bearing (Dutch: stuwdruklager) which is…
Tomorrow the yard will come by for the last check-up after we had some trouble with the overhauled drive train earlier. We’re also heavily loading…
I just installed an Ecopilot device made by Lecomble et Schmitt from France. Let me tell you what this does and how much of a difference it makes to…
My Navico NAIS-300, like most other commercial AIS class B products that have been available for a while, uses the SRT AIS class B OEM board. I…
The server that CANBoat runs on was always designed to run 24 by 7. This means that it must be reliable and use little power.…