I just saw that his batteries cost nearly 6000 euros...and he has them fixed down into bits of wood with long screws...( I think I'd have then in a steel safe welded to the keel)
He single handed back from Caribbean to Germany last season..... ?
Yeah I saw that! This I have not done...............yet
We almost filled up in Lisbon and finally filled up in Canaveral 3 months later....
He seems to ba a good ad for in mast furling given his sailing with a scrap of main at times.I'm glad someone posted his video - I watched it the other day. Love the fact that he is always chuckling to himself and as other's said, his trip back from the Caribbean last year was pretty epic. I nearly posted it on the raging thread about new / old earlier today as an example of what these apparently unsuitable boats get upto ;-)
That his 34 is a bit overloaded (generator, coffee machine etc) it's a pretty good advert for the brand / model. All his passages seem to go pretty smoothly and he makes light work of them. Inspiring stuff
6000 E on batteries he prob not got much left !! ( have seen the karche thing before ,, still considering it , said to be noisey and the pump does not like salt water ) )
Yes it has its attractions from the point of view of price and I suppose if you run fresh water through it after use it would probably last ok (probably pick up several pumps in the local tip...the capacitors tend to go in karchers and most people just dump them....)
Have you got your YouTube channel sorted!!??
Modern (and relatively modern) boats sail more efficiently when sailed flat. I have experienced decent increases in speed when reefed down rather than sailing overcanvassed at an exaggerated angle. The sound of rushing water that gives an exciting impression of speed is in fact the sound of increasing drag. (Learned that in Glenans Baltimore).