Turtle

I took what probably could have been a very simple job and turned it into an ordeal. That said, I learned a ton. In principle, […]

It’s been a weird spring for the fresh water system. The hot water heater started leaking back in the winter, and then, last weekend, on […]

Some interesting links Two from the Washington State Ferry system, which has been struggling with staffing and maintenance challenges. We live on an island and […]

The ABYC specification for inverter/charger wire gauge changed since my Magnum Inverter/Charger was installed. Case grounds need to be bigger to handle various worst case […]

I added a dedicated page for the ELCI saga. While there have been a number of issues with Turtle since we bought her, most of […]

Nothing is ever easy… We spent Wednesday and Saturday swapping out the old hydronic unit with a new one from ITR. The job took way […]

I swapped the aft ELCI breaker with a replacement sent by BlueSea. Once I got one of the senior technicians on the phone, he said […]

We just finished our annual Christmas trip. We always have our share of challenging weather on winter cruises, and this year was no exception. We […]

With the weather dropping below freezing, we have kept the heater on with the thermostats set to 45 for the past couple of weeks. This […]

These posts have become simple maintenance-done lists. But, I still find it useful to catalogue everything. I keep the “official” record in a spreadsheet, but […]