Category Archive

Ohhhh, there’s progress and some nice clutch ideas too.

We’ve run our Max-Air 90 off grid power, but it’s 7.5 hp Baldor L1509T motor struggles on our 10kw generator. So we try out a Stellar SR35 series, 52A, 110-240 VAC at 1-phase soft starter.

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to wait with a good attitude.

The “Love Me” tender is not your normal little boat carried along for getting to the dock and back in flat water. “Love Me” is a 1600 pound beast that you can take into rough water, bang into wrecks, and drive up onto the rocks. The down side is she’ll not be hauled up by two people and a couple … Read More

First order of business is to be amazed at the affordable, productive, and life changing technology that is available to us. …now we can curse at what a pain in the ass it is to get it all to work together.

I’d rather be doing this work on the water, but dam it’s handy to have a hardware store just down the road. And it’s always great to have Captain Charlie around.

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