Yngmar
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Asking for friends who don't know how to internet outside Facebook 
They've got a 46ft catamaran, 7.5m beam, 16 tons displacement and a boatload of problems. One of them is being fixed under extended warranty (crazy story, see bottom) but they can pick the yard. They also have a LiFePo4 system that was designed all wrong and now also has at least one fried cell. They're not overly good with DIY and I'm not around to help out anymore.
So they really need to find a yard that can a) lift this wide-arsed boat b) do an osmosis treatment for both hulls and presumably keels too and c) look at the entire electrical system, come up with a sensible redesign (preferably not: throw it all away and start over) and implement it, and ideally put in some prismatic cells and a BMS instead of the half-dead 3 year old integrated Victron LiFePo4 batteries.
Oh, and apparently it should be somewhere in Spain, between La Linea and Cadiz, because the osmosis is paid for by the yard and that's their demand. Yeah, not asking much.
Please recommend away, especially about the good marine electrician who has a bit of practical cruising knowledge. Cheers!
The reason for the osmosis treatment on a 2017 (I think) built boat is quite a sad one by the way: Apparently several yards in La Rochelle got supplied a bad batch of polyester resin around that time and boats laid up with that are blistering away after just a few years in the water. This is across manufacturers, so they probably all bought their resin from the same supplier. The initial response of "we have never seen this problem before" was changed to "yes we know of this problem and will sort it out at no expense to you" after our friends found several other owners that already went through this process.
They've got a 46ft catamaran, 7.5m beam, 16 tons displacement and a boatload of problems. One of them is being fixed under extended warranty (crazy story, see bottom) but they can pick the yard. They also have a LiFePo4 system that was designed all wrong and now also has at least one fried cell. They're not overly good with DIY and I'm not around to help out anymore.
So they really need to find a yard that can a) lift this wide-arsed boat b) do an osmosis treatment for both hulls and presumably keels too and c) look at the entire electrical system, come up with a sensible redesign (preferably not: throw it all away and start over) and implement it, and ideally put in some prismatic cells and a BMS instead of the half-dead 3 year old integrated Victron LiFePo4 batteries.
Oh, and apparently it should be somewhere in Spain, between La Linea and Cadiz, because the osmosis is paid for by the yard and that's their demand. Yeah, not asking much.
Please recommend away, especially about the good marine electrician who has a bit of practical cruising knowledge. Cheers!
The reason for the osmosis treatment on a 2017 (I think) built boat is quite a sad one by the way: Apparently several yards in La Rochelle got supplied a bad batch of polyester resin around that time and boats laid up with that are blistering away after just a few years in the water. This is across manufacturers, so they probably all bought their resin from the same supplier. The initial response of "we have never seen this problem before" was changed to "yes we know of this problem and will sort it out at no expense to you" after our friends found several other owners that already went through this process.
