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This will be a pretty short post as it is a pretty straight forward system. For boats that are utilizing US small appliances, there is a separate Victron inverter in the basement that converts 24 Volt DC power from the … Continue reading →

In my last post about the electrical systems on Iron lady, I covered the 24 Volt DC system. This time around, I will cover the 240 Volt AC system, but as you will see shortly, it integrates in many important … Continue reading →

Iron Lady (being a US boat) has 4 different (but integrated) electrical systems. First, a 240 Volt AC system for high amp devices (air conditioning, watermaker, speed oven, induction cooktop, electric hot water heating elements, washer and dryer). Despite the … Continue reading →

Everyone we have talked to has said this has been a horrible summer here. That has been our experience as well. We planned to go to Great Mercury and Waiheke Islands but it was not to be. A gale was … Continue reading →

Steve Dashew is having lots of fun tormenting his blog buddies with details about “Wicked”. While he is having fun weaving his web, we had the actual deal this morning above the dink. Shining in the morning sun, it was … Continue reading →

We are back in NZ and the first few days are filled with bringing Iron Lady back to life. Since part of this involved the engine room, I thought it might be of interest to do a brief tour for … Continue reading →

Steve Dashew just put up a post on his site that has some very nice CAD views of the FPB’s structural framing that I thought might be of interest to all of you boat Geeks.  You can view Steve’s post … Continue reading →