We dash along the North Wales coast from Liverpool to Conwy so that we can complete the installation of solar panels on Salty Lass. The weather window was a ...

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well we've been stuck here for the best

part of a wake and very high winds and

driving rain and today is no better so

it looks like we've got another few days

stuck here in Liverpool waiting for the

weather to change

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is go up from here all the way across

and dine in here so I've got the

essential information for today and

tomorrow or part of tomorrow I've got

the tides for Liverpool and the tides

for Conway we've got the weather

forecast downloaded it was one from

quite a few hours ago and we're gonna

wait for a midday up to it and we're

gonna hope that this has dropped and

this is more sort of what we're gonna

get we made a small diversion to check

that our Yacht Club's Marine balls were

okay and it was past the perch and over

the drying sands toward the wind farms

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we had some nice sailing but when going

through the wind farm we were head to

wind so thick in the sails even though

it's dark after Talia they still pretty

impressive things against the skyline

last night fail the winds rose two four

six then four seven as we passed the

great arm in darkness we reached Conway

after midnight

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superb why are we in come we what do you

mean you don't know anyone I know at

least fry book folks you're talking okay

we know hardly anyone compared to them

we knew everybody nobody knows us

Marquis doesn't know we're here

talking to friends visiting family

having to do shopping sort of problems

yeah so what Beverly is doing now is

she's taking out all of the little

screws and she's just screwing a little

pilot hole so that the screws go a

little bit deeper into the pipe because

we just don't want them moving around

when during under passage so all Beverly

is outside screwing little holes I'm

going to have fun with an MPPT

controller oh yay the first thing I've

got to ascertain is exactly what I have

I've got a ten meters of pre-made up

cable supplied to us by bimble solar I

have the MPPT controller I have a

circuit breaker which needs to go

between the battery and the MPPT f--

circuit breaker the MPPT controller

service currently doing her most loathed

job that is drilling a hole in salt alas

but this is what it looks like so far

but as you can see we haven't got

anything at the back mmm I think we need

to sort that out don't we yeah I can see

daylight Beverley Odie's both sits come

apart this piece of wood we bought for a

project which we haven't even started so

I have this section waste but it's not

going to be waste any longer because it

is gonna be perfect to be backing on the

inside of the transom just to spread the

load a bit so that's gonna be absolutely

perfect for that job there's no mass

sticking the the bracket in place I I'm

gonna be on the inside with this one and

that says the main thing that you need

when you're doing using mastic latex

gloves well this is our arch and I have

to say it looks pretty good apart from

one mine problem will not stop ever

minor problem apart from the wind noise

was that we had a wobble so we got some

rub to experiment with tubing what

Beverley and I have done is we've

jewelry rigs some of our dog ropes in

this brace pattern okay Beverley so

let's put it to the test a lot more

stable so what we're gonna do now is

rather than use our dog ropes

we have some Dyneema from when we did

our lifelines leftover so we're going to

use that to create some like embracing

Bev and I might have come to Conway to

try and get a job done but I'm afraid to

say distraction follows first oh one of

our friends from Liverpool has just come

in so we went and helped them with their

lines then we saw one of our followers

so we talked for an hour and we'll try

honest we will try and get the actual

job but we like people too much I think

we love talking to them and we're easily

distracted at any time any place

anywhere

all right gayness or what's happening

well well this is our frame we've got

the metal frame then on top of that

we've put on some blocks so that we can

actually put the P clips in it might

have been better for us to have actually

put ward on in the end because we needed

to screw the screws into something but

we've put used marine flax to attach the

wood to the perspex so now all it's a

case of is actually mounting the thing

up and then we've just got to do the

Sailor panels

well it's up we haven't got the solar

panels on it but one crisis at a time so

Beverly's just putting the crops for the

final grub screws in and then what we're

going to do is Beverly Beverly had to

read her watch her video on doing

Dyneema splices but at least are there

to remind you how to do Danny's site is

what we're going to do is we're going to

run some Dyneema from the cross brace

here

stop this wobble to appear to stop the

wobble so that's what we're gonna do now

well our par station is not installed

absolutely I mean look at all this

today's book project is wiring the solar

panels up to our house batteries this is

one of them and the other one is and

according to the 12-volt boating group

on Facebook on Facebook it is better for

us to what Brier one of the cables to

the battery on my side and one of the

cables to the battery on Beverley side

so we've chosen to do the read the

positives on my side and then the

negatives on Beverley site that way what

happens is the charger will be across

both batteries and we'll make sure that

both batteries are charged correctly

more importantly if we're crawling

around the boat in our hands and knees

in the dark one eye it means Red's to

port it's just a thought but there you

go it comes to running cable through

your boat what we have found very handy

is this is actually just a very thin

narrow bit of plastic tool cable ties

tip together with a bit of yeah whipping

- okay but we have found this very

useful for doing short distance instead

of a mousing cord so let's see put it

into practice shall we ha right and just

to give you an idea of how simple and

trivial lists is to use we pulled it

through after the 20th of 10 it's

getting it to go Rhine bends in the dark

underneath the floor as well I suppose

there's a Japanese game for really but

what it is and when you do get a cable

through a very awkward spot

never miss the opportunity to run a

mousing wire back so that next time you

come to run another cable you've at

least got a mousing wire already in

place so what you're saying here is now

that we've got the cable in place well

touch this bit of nylon cord to pull the

cable back a little bit yeah no tie the

nylon cord cut off and then put the

cable back through again yeah cuz we've

got plenty of cable at this point

whereas and I know very well that I'll

be wanting to run another cable through

that yeah like we haven't put the

ignition on the cooker or we might put

the inverter on the other side yeah if

we do put in if we put in a new inverter

because at the moment I've got it on the

1k battery and I think it'd be much

better to have it across the batteries

like like I said in the 12 volt pudding

group yeah Bob and I are all nice and

clean after a hard day on the boat but

so now I think it's time for a glass of

wine and some know we met our friends in

the pop and video advice was free

dispensed deserve to get up right up

there now because it's interesting and

you're sailing waters other people don't

sail and I think when you do this stuff

that stuff on like the locals local

conditions and stuff

I think it's really good okay

meeting two new friends

this is a new friend gene is a new

friend I've also received a new member

of our subscribers friends whose yacht

you saved today as we as we came in

that's a significant way the king

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