Those ruins where you cooked dinner look ancient. It's unlikely they were growing potatoes, America probably hadn't been discovered, and therefore potatoes hadn't been seen in Europe! If there was enough soil they make have grown turnips, but much of the west-coast landscape is very rocky, and has little top-soil to grow root crops. Anyway, excellent vid, as always. Thank you for sharing.
Oh my, not loving the waves here in the marina right now with this storm, but with every situation there's usually someone who is happy. I imagine all the surfers must be loving this weather for the big waves. -Mo
Really good video, you guys!! So good. Love, love, love this. What's the date on your birthday, Drake? Was that just this past summer? Or Fall just now?
Yes we were! We spent about a week there so that I could see family that was close by. We were at anchor and then spent a couple of days at the visitor dock there in Santurtzi...what a lovely place! Wish we could have stayed longer. -Mo
Hi Mike! That's the Biolite Grill. A fantastic product! www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-complete-cook-kit?pr_prod_strat=use_description&pr_rec_id=0caaf0f3e&pr_rec_pid=4782584692835&pr_ref_pid=386285415&pr_seq=uniform
The brackets holding your solar panels to the pushpit rail caught my eye. Looks like you can raise and lower them quickly? Can I ask where you got them?
Those are solar panel brackets are made by a Swedish company called NOA. I've used them to mount solar panels to stainless tube rails for over 20 years, on Paragon and also on my previous boat Valiant. I think they work great. Yes, you can slide the panel along the mount, so you can center the panel on the rail, or push it out to either end. When the panel is centered on the rail, it's easy to tilt the panel to starboard or port to angle it directly at the sun, which makes all the difference. I can also flip the panel so that it's inboard of the rail, if I'm worried about it getting hit by a boat rafting up to us or a pier that we're tied up to with a large tidal range. I can't seem to find NOA's website, but here's a link to a distributor. www.force4.co.uk/item/Noa/Solar-Panel-Adjustable-Rail-Mount/9BJ - Drake
Ah, I suppose it would be easier just to turn the key and go, however, these switches play an important part in the safety of the boat. Circuit breakers and battery selectors are a very good thing to have. Circuit breakers can prevent a host of problems including a fire. And those battery selector switches are amaaaazing! Whenever we get to anchorage, we go down below and turn off the battery bank for the engine. Then we select one of our two house battery banks for all our power needs. We can go back and forth between the two banks depending on what we are doing and how full they are. We try our best to keep the house battery banks on the boat as full as possible, but calm and cloudy conditions, as well as longer nights, can be a real drain on power. Keeping the battery bank for the engine isolated means that, no matter how low our house bank may get, the engine batteries remain fully charged and ready to start the engine. This is especially important in case of an emergency. It takes just a moment to switch all banks on, but we think it's worth the time. ☺ -Mo
@drakeParagon I had the same setup with the same engine IN a Morgan OI 41 but I didn't turn off the starting battery routinely. It was isolated from the house. I could instantly start it with the helm key switch.
