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December 12, 2012

Boater Innovation Award!

by Ed Sherman
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Dan from Nova Scotia wins this year's Ed's Boat Tips Boater Innovation Award for his electric outboard engine conversion.

December 4, 2012

My LED Trick

by Michael Robertson
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Michael Robertson

Three identical lights sharing a power source. From left to right: no tape, three layers of tape, one layer of tape.

So I’ve been playing around with LED lights, and I discovered something. I don’t know how useful it is, or whether it will diminish the life of the bulb, or cause a fire, but that is all beside the point.

December 3, 2012

Sort of the Same, but Slower

by Michael Robertson
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Michael Robertson

This is Del Viento's new covered wagon look, at least while at anchor or at the dock. It keeps the cockpit dry in the rain and will keep the boat cool in the Mexican sun. It is a Shadetree awning passed down to us from our friends aboard Dreamweaver, who got it from our friends aboard Principia. It gusted 40 knots in the marina a couple days after we set it up and it did remarkably well.

While many aspects of a "stationary" cruising life are the same as regular life, mornings aboard Del Viento are never a mad scramble, the days are never a pressure cooker.

November 30, 2012

Blue Sea Announces Circuit Wizard APP

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Our friends and sponsor for Ed's Tool Box just announced a new application that will certainly rival the Wire Sizer APP I mentioned earlier this week. My recommendation is that if you work in the global arena, you might just want both of these apps installed on your devices. (I don't think that Wire Sizer is available for Android gear as yet.) What Circuit Wizard does that Wire Sizer does not do is take more factors into account relative to the specific circuit in question and it derates ...
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