Sovereign Sailor on Nostr: The pictures below are a pretty cool comparison of our old boat Spirit and our new ...
The pictures below are a pretty cool comparison of our old boat Spirit and our new boat Spirit XL, can you guess which is which? 😁
Little Spirit as we like to refer to her was very basic as she was a purebred race boat. She was 40ft in length with a 34ft beam, light weight at 3t and had zero cruising comforts when we bought her in 2010. That all changed when we refit her in Australia back in 2014/15. Little Spirit had two single berths, no head (toilet or shower) and a very basic exterior galley (kitchen).
Spirit XL on the other hand is design to performance cruise in comfort. Compared to little Spirit she feels like a villa!! We have the ability to sleep four people in cabins and six people comfortably.
Shes 54ft in length with a 35ft beam and weights just under 8t. We have two heads one forward and one aft so everyone gets their own bathroom so to speak.
Little Spirit was powered by 500 watts of solar that was stored in 320Ah of 12v lithium batteries. That little amount of solar powered our onboard electronics, fridge, watermaker and electric cooker for over 5 years just from the sun! ☀️
Spirit XL has 1,300 watts of solar that supplies more than enough power for all our onboard needs. That power is stored in 2 x 400Ah lithiums batteries.
The main power draw we have onboard is for desalination, which is another name for water maker or the process that’s used to make fresh water from salt.
In basic terms it’s really just a very high pressure pump that forces salt water through a very fine membrane/filter and out the other side comes the fresh water.
This watermaker uses around 1200 watts to make 70 litres of fresh water per hour.
Our daily usage between two of us is 30 litres so it gets run for roughly 30 minutes a day.
The other large power draw items are the fridge and the freezer they both draw around 1-3 amps @ 24v.
To have an easy life on the water one must understand the difference between needs and wants as they’re two different things.
Understanding the difference is crucial to a simple and easy life.
#sailstr #sailing #boating #boatstr
Little Spirit as we like to refer to her was very basic as she was a purebred race boat. She was 40ft in length with a 34ft beam, light weight at 3t and had zero cruising comforts when we bought her in 2010. That all changed when we refit her in Australia back in 2014/15. Little Spirit had two single berths, no head (toilet or shower) and a very basic exterior galley (kitchen).
Spirit XL on the other hand is design to performance cruise in comfort. Compared to little Spirit she feels like a villa!! We have the ability to sleep four people in cabins and six people comfortably.
Shes 54ft in length with a 35ft beam and weights just under 8t. We have two heads one forward and one aft so everyone gets their own bathroom so to speak.
Little Spirit was powered by 500 watts of solar that was stored in 320Ah of 12v lithium batteries. That little amount of solar powered our onboard electronics, fridge, watermaker and electric cooker for over 5 years just from the sun! ☀️
Spirit XL has 1,300 watts of solar that supplies more than enough power for all our onboard needs. That power is stored in 2 x 400Ah lithiums batteries.
The main power draw we have onboard is for desalination, which is another name for water maker or the process that’s used to make fresh water from salt.
In basic terms it’s really just a very high pressure pump that forces salt water through a very fine membrane/filter and out the other side comes the fresh water.
This watermaker uses around 1200 watts to make 70 litres of fresh water per hour.
Our daily usage between two of us is 30 litres so it gets run for roughly 30 minutes a day.
The other large power draw items are the fridge and the freezer they both draw around 1-3 amps @ 24v.
To have an easy life on the water one must understand the difference between needs and wants as they’re two different things.
Understanding the difference is crucial to a simple and easy life.
#sailstr #sailing #boating #boatstr