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 […]
Turtle News Network 10-Apr-2023
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 […]
Inverter Case Ground
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 […]
ELCI Page
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 […]
New Hydronic
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 […]
ELCI Swap
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 […]
Hood Canal 2022
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 […]
Hydronic Mystery Solved
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 […]
Gelcoat, Hydronic pump, Impeller
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 […]
Emerald Harbor Marine, Propane Sensor, Starlink, Sundries
We’ve done very little cruising, lately. With school starting and the XO starting her new job, it’s been pretty busy. Still, we found time to […]