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I've been eyeing the blog's odometer for some time. It ticked over the quarter-million mark today, which might be peanuts for the average bloviation about politics or similar outrage, but is what I consider respectable for the random blatherings of a half-wit with a wrench. The fascination of reading about a man learn how to do simple tasks he would've known how to perform mere decades earlier must touch a masochistic nerve, is all I can say. Nonetheless, this humble scribbling, replete with half-assery, bad ideas and compromises of both material and spiritual kinds, has brought me into the lower ranks of Those Who Sail.
This is generally not the same ranks as Those Who Drown.
I have received a great deal of advice over the years and have particularly benefitted from contacting...and learning from...active sailors and refitters...some significantly younger than myself (not that that is so hard to be these days) who have inspired me. Veterans and beginners all, I have learned from them and from my readers.
Thank you.
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Two piece of advice from a guy who ignored said advice; buy a Honda 2000 generator and install a watermaker, any brand you deem fit. Been cruising for two years now, one year without a generator and to be polite, bowel problems on a regular basis drinking local waters, even bottled sometimes:(
Great bog BTW, been following it for years.
Allan & Ellie
Sorry to hear that...where are you that the local supply is that suspect? I have a Honda 2000 and have had one for 10 years. It's saved us more than once on land and I expect it to do so aboard, too. I'm thinking of getting two new ones to have the "companion" option, which will mirror my inverter and can provide close to 30 amps AC service. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-823DfT-sE
As for the watermaker, we are looking at a Cruise RO watermaker (see http://www.cruiserowaterandpower.com/30_GPH_Water_Maker_2.html)with dual elements to make 30 gallons/hr. I have to get the tanks made up first, which is always a challenge on a custom boat because we have to measure chine angles and weld up frames. Thanks for reading.
We are in Guatemala, staying in Rio Dulce to do some bottom work and checking out some ruins and a volcano or two. Beautiful country and people, but there are friggin' parasites that hate my bowels...lol Time will improve things for me.....i hope:)
Wow, you should get checked for gut parasites capable of lingering. There's human versions of ivarmectin (or whatever the Revolution dog deworming treatment is called) and a course of that might help.
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