A few months ago I won from Ebay a 1200 Watt Australian made inverter. This is now installed beside the starter battery and will provide the power to the TV/DVD and to a socket beside the nav table. The inverter input power has been given an isolator switch of it’s own and this sits under the nav desk beside the two original factory fitted ones for engine and house power.
On a safety issue, we decided to fit a smoke detector in each of the cabins. Bavaria provides 3 big fire extinguishers as standard, one in the nav table seat and on each in the cockpit lockers. We have decided fit a fourth fire extinguisher in the forward cabin as well.When we went out for a sail on Sunday we had no speed or distance readings all day. So Monday Jan & I carefully removed from under the forward cabin bed the transmitter replacing it with the supplied blanking plug, only a cup full of water came in but we were prepared for more. Sure enough in just a short time growth had stopped the 4 small paddles turning, so we cleaned these off and reinstalled it. We have now added this cleaning check to the monthly maintenance schedule.As time goes on I am enjoying finding out what makes Sirocco tick. One criticism I have always read in yachting magazines on the Bavaria range with the single helm wheel is the fact that it is so large and hard to get past when using the swim platform. What they don’t add is that Bavaria provide a basic winch style handle to remove said wheel, it’s about a 30 second job and bingo, the cockpit is transformed. The same handle also adjusts the clutch tension on the windlass. Talking of things anchor. Jan has been busy splicing recently and has made us a rope with a hook on one end to go on the chain and a loop on the other to go round one of the forward cleats, this then takes the strain off the windlass when at anchor, neat !Till next time....Mike
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