Friday, July 11, 2014

Summer Project 2014


I know we have not posted many blogs this summer with travel and work, but here goes nothing.  In the beginning of June I spent a few weeks in the UK visiting Kristina and James.  The country side was beautiful and I hope to go back again soon.  Kristina came back with me and spend about 4 weeks with Kevin and I, it was lovely spending time together.
Kevin has been working very diligently on upgrades to Serena Rose.  Here are a few of his most recent projects;
  1. Installing new solar panels on the pilot house roof.
  2. Adding a new 12 volt refrigeration cold plates, with a coolant pump from the fresh water tanks to help in cooling.  This reduced some of the volume in the refrigerator, but at least we will not have to run the generator twice a day when at anchor.
  3. He replaced some damaged sections of the mahogany toe rail with teak.
  4. The next big project is the new Silent Wind Turbine system, which is on order and will be here in September.
Over the summer Sweet Chariot (a sister ship of Serena Rose),  came back to the states after a year + cruise down Island.  Shortly after returning Jim and Tammy sold Sweet Chariot to a nice couple from England; Toby, Sam and their sweet dog Sophie.  Toby and Kevin have been doing a lot of noodling the past few weeks.

Hopefully we will start sailing again toward the end of September.  Hope to see all of our "Just Sayin Pirate" friends out at sea.

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