12th June

Sorry not many updates but weather is so good here in the Azores that been fishing and doing garden stuff.

Freezer getting topped up with triggerfish and compost heap growing.  My knee is pretty much back to normal but Mrs Nuts still got weeks/months  to go to get her hand working again.  Got to help her out so less time for my toys.

Amazon Prime working overtime with all my electrical goodies arriving. Ordered from Spain last Friday and arrived here in the Azores today Wednesday!!  Just in from the dark doing a test with the interior  lights and very happy.  Super simple and nothing fancy.  Solar panels and fuse panel also here.  Picked up another 2 batteries for testing from a friend who works for the electrical company and who has access to  the expired standby batteries that are scrapped.  Some never used under load and only a few years old but passed the magical sell by date so discarded.  Already tested several 20Ah AGM that were in service but the best was 9Ah at 1.5A draw. (using pretty severe voltage curves so maybe a bit better) Got 16Ah from a 32Ah rated cell but got another two 32Ah (AGM) batteries to do a load test on after doing a charge to test today.  He recons these are better. Using these will give me a good idea over the next year or so of how the electrical system works and I can buy a new battery just before the Transatlantic Challenge.  I have a battery monitor that will be installed to check the draw and solar charge.

No photos this time but maybe next post I will do a video walk through.  Rudder trimtab all finished and fixed with control horns.  Brain cells still overheating trying to decide which vane system to use.