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I love the contrast. For thousands of years the sun has power the winds for our sails. Now it powers the wind and so much more.

I just love PEX A. It’s not ever going to be as pretty as copper, but it’s a fraction of the cost, simple to install, freeze resistant, handles hot and cold water and even faster than PVC. The next leap in technology will have to be wireless water.

Many thanks to Carl Henderson from Road Island for figuring out the change controllers and the layout for installing them. Next step is to wire in some solar panels.

Getting some little jobs done but with the fuel lines all in place I got to fire up the VMAC and the Tony 10K generator. And those share the exhaust from the main engine. As usual there where a lot of dire predictions about running 3 engine though 1 exhaust pipe, and so far those dire predictions have turned out … Read More

Thanks to Dave and Francis the last big heavy thing is out of the house and onto the boat.