All of the cabin lights are now in and working, including the somewhat reluctant replacement of 3 older lights with new LED versions. The foot pump in the heads is installed and plumbed in and Hazel makes progress with her custom composting toilet build.


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what it's about

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hi all es vita pacha we're building a

cruising salvo

let me start off this week it's the 24th

december

christmas eve start off by wishing you

all a very

very merry christmas happy holidays

or whatever it is you have at this time

of year have a good one

it's a funny whole year on it funny time

but um do our best

make the most of it so have a good one

enjoy yourselves

this week has has been all about um

the electrics are going on basically

i've come to the end of this phase of

the electrics now next week i'll be on

to

a new section but this week i've been

sorting out the cabin

lights finally all 13 cabin lights are

now

in and functioning um

i had to make up the the backing plates

that some of them mount on

i've used cherry wood for the backing

plates

sometimes i have to have to route some

some

routing for the cables into the back of

the cherry plates

mounting them up on there um i've put a

led light strip up in the galley under

the shelving with a switch

it's coming very well so now i say we've

got 13

lights another thing i did was i had a

couple of old lights that i tried

using led adapters in and

in the end i wasn't happy with them i

didn't like the way the adapters fitted

so

i've changed those now for new led

lights or led throughout

new led throughout i've only used with

the exception of the led strip i've only

used two

types of lights um which means that i

don't need to carry very many types of

spare bulbs

basically so that's very simple

same two lights all through and i say 13

different cabin lights in

all working and this is the mains led

that

this very bright light that's over there

but if i switch it off

and switch on the camera lights it's a

very nice

warm glow um very happy with it i don't

know what they'd be like if they're

ideal for filming but but

for natural you know when we're here

really it's a lovely warm glow in there

so it's very nice very pleased

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wow

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hey

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are back

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so

like that

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yes oh beautiful

lovely

and as i say that that's the end of this

electrics phase it's

been very very time consuming you've

probably noticed well

i think three weeks of videos on on

electrics it's it's

it's a fiddly game that takes a long

time but

done for this phase next week my plan is

to

make up a couple of dummy masts get them

in position

um and start to fit the mass steps

just you know i said dummy must just

short enough

short masks that will go from the step

up through the deck

extend a little bit above the deck but

it's just so i can get the line right to

get the angle right

so that's the plan for next week crack

on with that make up a couple of short

dummy mass and fit the mast steps

exciting times

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great lovely happy

yeah meanwhile we're we're pushing on

with hazel's boat a bit we're

glassing some applied panels for her uh

but she's doing it to be honest

um fly panels that will be the

composting toilet that we're

putting into our boats

funny

something else i wanted to tell you

about is that over on the

patreon site for sv to patcher i've

started a

some short videos a set of short videos

called behind the scenes it's sort of

more

casual sort of talks about

things that are going on in the boat

build so if you're interested

get over to the sp to patient patreon

site there are two episodes up so far

episodes is a big grand two short videos

up so far

and i hope to keep those going on

roughly speaking at least a four like

fortnightly basis just showing some of

the sort of behind the scenes things

things that are going on here and that's

it for now

thanks for watching short video this

week um

enjoy your holidays stay safe stay

healthy

and see you next time bye

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