TEST SAILING The YACHT WE BUILT!

We're going freaking sailing, we're going to sail Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Hon, how nice is she? That's not bad, I'll take that. What's happening sugar? What you doing? Checking out our new horseshoe life rings over there. The ones that Simone figured out how they work. Absolute crap. Yeah they are, piece of crap. So we chuck that shit away. Stupid little screw just pops out and then you lose all your freaking horseshoe. Day two of having it, the one horseshoe was already in the water, luckily we saw it. So now I've got stainless steel brackets welded on and hopefully that'll last. I'm just busy with our outboard motor mount. So our little Suzuki six horse is going to mount onto here. It's just two pieces of flat stainless steel bent over there, a couple of holes through it. A piece of HDPE plastic, very slippery high density plastic. Drill the holes in there, put some screws in there and then the outboard motor will mount on here and we'll just turn it sideways and we'll tie it onto this frame. But the big news is this weekend we're going freaking sailing. We're going to sail Friday, Saturday, Sunday hopefully and see where the problems are. Next week we're heading down to Cape Town. The travel is in, the genoa is up, the inner stay sail is up, all the reefing blocks are in, the new reefing blocks, the new winch is up and the only thing we've left to do is reefing lines. Okay so another thing we've got to do is obviously get charging to our batteries. We've got lithium batteries so we need to charge them correctly and that'll probably be on next week's episode about running our new lines. So there's lines that run to the battery to the start batteries of the mode. So those are independent from the lines that we're going to run to our new charging system. We'll show you guys about that. So we're going to put up some badass charging system for the lithium that we can control it. At the moment here we are not going below 80% battery consumption so we're using 20% in a 12 hour period which is at night. During the day the solar panels keep the fridges running everything and they turn off about 11 o'clock in the morning they're off already. Since the sails were ready to go it was time to test them out starting with our main and then our jenny. Are you excited to see the spinnaker Peter? Very excited. And you Derek? Yeah yeah. Han, how nice is she? We've got that wind coming a little bit. Ricky and I waited a while to see what our spinnaker looked like so we were super excited. It was time to pack up and head back as test sail two commenced the next day. So with the little breeze going on basically it was actually just to loosen all the lazy jacks and dump it off on this side and yeah pretty easy. As the wind had died down the next day we could insert our battens and do our reefing system for our main. So we're doing test two on our sails and seeing how she flies. We managed to finish up the main and so ready to go and do a few more tests and then head off to Cape Town. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button and click on the notification bell to alert you when we upload new episodes and give us a thumbs up it's a free way of supporting our production. 12 knots wind with five knots into the wind. Oh 60 degrees off that's not bad I'll take that. We anchored off the pier and as our South Africans call it had a braai. And PE being the bottlenose capital of the world we are always excited to see the dolphins swim by. So while we wait for a weather window we have decided to commence with the little jobs we have on the boat. One of them being the engine insulation. So we've had the engines running without that sound insulation and it's pretty quiet. But now we're gonna make it more quiet. Insulate it and see how much of a difference it really makes. So we're going to seal off all the edges with some urethane foam and we're going to put these on the inside and everything and then see if it makes a huge difference or not. I'm confident we're going to get some difference. So I'm bending the tab over like this so I'm going to stick the bottom and then hopefully just pull all of this off. Headlines are perfect. Getting ready to install our expansion tanks for our anti-freeze for the engines. And what it helps is that I can just open up and check the levels and then. Are you putting it in here? Yeah I'm gonna put it in here. And the other one? In the other cabinet by the electronics or just behind the electronics. Got it up to there and then the engines can breathe in that into here. Instead of what is it doing now? At the moment if it breathes it just like overflows a little bit like an overflow breather pipe on there. So it makes it messy in there? Makes it a little messy. It messes a little bit every once in a while with a couple of drops. The night can expand and into this so even if the level for some reason had to go low it'll draw out of here and we'll immediately pick it up. So yeah this is perfect. Got these from Vetus. And then what's next on the list? Finish the engine insulation. So engine insulation we've got it now again the rest that we needed. And one cable for buck-boost. Yeah so charging cables from each engine are going to go into the center here and then we're going to have two Victron buck-boost systems and they're going to plug into that and charge our lithiums. So like that we've got a thousand watts of solar and we've got 50 amps out of each alternator which is more than enough. I'm only running the alternators at i think it's like 60 percent capacity which means i'm not overloading the alternators. Alternators are going to be perfect all the time and then the buck-boost also intelligent they'll detect when they're charging the house bank or this engine start bank so it won't kick in and then once that's full then it'll kick in to start draw for the to charge the big lithiums. Yeah because the lithiums will just suck everything out of it so the buck-boost kind of controls that and ensures that we're charging at the correct voltage for the lithiums. You're running the hose? Yeah there's the hose here already. I want to plug it into there. The current situation looks like this everything unpacked i need to run new cables from the back there through here back around through there and into there and for our buck-boost that are coming from Victron. So yeah there we got some of the insulation still need to secure the wiring so those are the two cables that we're running. They run off the off the battery bank there so what is the alternator is obviously charging the battery and then we're drawing from that and the buck-boost got a smart sensor that detects when the engine's running and it allows that to charge up first and then it starts drawing from there but also what it also does is that when the battery is 100% and there's that low drop that battery will absorb the the drop so i feel it is one of the better ways to charge from alternator without doing modifications to to the standard alternator otherwise we need to upgrade make it a n-type alternator move the reg all that stuff. With a few more jobs ticked off Rikki and I went to one of our favorite places nearby Sardinia Bay.