Blake - water, water everywhere

...and we can make 30 liters an hour with our watermaker! I guess not as catchy but having installed a watermaker is a game changer for sure, we are probably running it for 2 hours every other day but we might ramp up production as we use more water (more showers and no need to do dishes in salt water) and as the solar panels are happy keeping up with the power usage. So today we’ll run it from 11am-1pm when we should be catching the most sun. The manual says that it uses around 110Wh and we have 510W of SunPower solar panels which yesterday had a daily yield of 970Wh. Feels a bit more sunny today.

The watermaker is not just a benefit for the Atlantic crossing but will free us up from having to find water when in the Caribbean and Central America. Will give us the options to explore a bit further and be more independent. We will probably have food supplies from this crossing lasting us for a good while too. Lots of snacking at sea and something about chocolate on night watch, boom!

Life is a bit wobbly aboard and can be comical at times getting around the cabin, putting socks and boots on, or even trying to make a cup of tea. Gets broken down into baby steps to try and ensure no accidents. We even took a ‘wave day’ for the kids home school, bit like a ‘snow day’ and so they were chilling most of the day. Katie did a great job setting them up with some new crafting kits, I’m just not sure about the one with 1,000 beads!

Other thoughts are it is dark at night out here! With what’s left of the moon rising super late it is dark, dark and adds to the drama as you are bombing along in the waves

Ciao, Blake