120 little pieces to be cut out drilled and welded a nut on. These will be welded on deck around cockpit to hold the GRP frame. I first had an idea about make the frame in stainless but I realized that it had been a lot of work. GRP will be perfect as it isolates stuff like windowframe (alu?) from the steel.
Left is the bollard to be used when rasing the aft anchor.
Right; I gave up all my complex ideas about how to lock the hatch without having something to stumble on or worse break a toe or foot...a simple horizontal handle and a lock does it. Simple.
Must fix the gas/hydralic whatsitsname hatch lifter before painting...
Tired of welding I got on with the watermaker hardware. Sandblaster, new bearings and painted the electric motor. Checked the pump cylinders, sealing etc all good. This great Cat pump will probable produce around 10 l/min. The electric motor draws max 1400W (120A @ 12V) @ full pump load 45 Bar. So with a decent charged battery It would run for maybe 2 hours and produce some 100+ liters. All this is guessing. I'm not sure about battery capacity, sun/wind/sail/engine charging during watermaking.
The main issue is to make freshwater without burning diesel. Now I (maybe) can produce drinking water with the Sun and the Wind!
