Solar Prep and Folders
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 7 Jan 2015 23:57
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Solar Panel Preparation Work
and Two New Folders
   Meanwhile on Ashby’s sick dock.......
Batteries ordered and should be with us on Friday, fingers crossed. Meantime,
Beez is going through more upgrades, tools out then,
this time to the solar panel configuration. She is going to have two new
side panels, balanced, more power for the size and therefore new wiring needed
through MTTP’s – which are clever electrical gadgets
that increase solar input quite dramatically, fitted in the space above the desk
in the electrickery cupboard. Scott-Free and Sheer
Tenacity have both upgraded their systems too, the MTTP’s came from them. Thank
you.
Meanwhile, I busied myself putting
together two folders. The first is the planning folder from here to Sydney. We
hope to leave here in May – sometime toward the end of the month, a week or so
at sea to Fiji for six weeks exploring. Up to Futuna, over to Vanuatu and
finally New Caledonia before setting off on the thousand and a bit miles to
Sydney, time to take in the city before the New Year fireworks display. All very
exciting but checking in information, currents, weather, usual amassed articles
and photocopied pages from our Pilot Books all fitted in their plastic sleeves
took me a full two days. The second folder
contains information from leaving Cairns over to Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand,
Burma, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, Male, Maldives, Cochin, – complete
with the relevant 1000 Places to See all marked off on a rail map of India.
Mauritius, Christmas Island, Chagos, Rodrigues, La Reunion and finally Richards
Bay in South Africa. Weather, currents, typhoon seasons, wind patterns, logging
in and a host of bits and pieces all sleeved. Very exciting/daunting/what it’s
all about. I know........ I should have been catching up on blogs but I
will get to it, soon.
  A lonely looking
business on the shelf. Ooo very impressive
skipper. Grrr.
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