Anonymous wrote:

I believe that sucking the air out of the cabin with the suggested small fan is more effective at ventilation than blowing air into the cabin.  

Creates an ever-so-slight pressure drop in the cabin which then sucks in fresh air through another open port or washboard.  

I believe that sucking the air out of the cabin with the suggested small fan is more effective at ventilation than blowing air into the cabin.  

Creates an ever-so-slight pressure drop in the cabin which then sucks in fresh air through another open port or washboard.  

I'm pleased that you approve, David.  With the lazarette painted with shiny paint, there will be added reason for condensation to form.  I suspect it will still be an issue, but I don't think it will cause any problems, though I dare say it may form pools in one or two places.  However, while I am still flexible, I can reach just about every part of it to clean.

I think the cockpit is working out as an good all-round design.  If i stay around NZ, I doubt I'll be out in much rough weather, but it is nice to keep the option and make the boat suitable for offshore conditions.  And one can always get caught out.

As for the meths, while I can go into any village store and buy a litre, I don't want all the packaging.  I can take my 20l containers into Wynn Fraser and they will fill them with either meths or ethanol.  However, I don't want to be coming in and out of Whangarei every few weeks.  I actually will have 80 litres on board, but judging by past consumption, that will only last me for just over 6 months.  I must do a lot more cooking than you do!  But it will be nice to be independent of the city for months on end.

 This  shows the port shelf with the locker for the meths containers also glued into place.  The latter appears to be at a crazy angle, but part of the idea is to make it easier for me to drag the full one towards me to swop for an empty one.  A 20litre container is quite a lot for me to manoeuvre around.

So is that 40 litres of meths you'll be carrying? When I unloaded the empty containers at the end of my summer cruise, I was surprised to find that I'd only used 10 litres in four months. Even allowing for your greater enthusiasm for on-board cookery, that'll be enough to get you to Alaska, easily!

 I've given a certain amount of thought to additional ventilation in the boat.  While the Air-only dorade that I fitted should be adequate most of the time, I am concerned that in winter, with the boat shut up against wind and rain and the fire lit, there won't be sufficient air coming into the boat.  I have added a sort of dorade arrangement within the deck box.  Under the locker top and well inboard, it would take a catastrophe for water to enter - and I would probably have more to worry about than a few litres of water in the lazarette at that stage.  I used skin fittings - the pipe is very strong and glues into place with epoxy.  I just put them in temporarily for the moment, to make it easier to paint out the lockers.

Very good. I always intended to do that on Tystie, to ventilate the lazarette and reduce the amount of condensation in winter, but never got a Round Tuit.