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The Sumpners Afloat

Adventures on "Old Nick" – an Ortomarine-built, Vetus powered Electric Serial Hybrid Narrowboat

Technical

The Galvanic Isolator Explained

February 26, 2023

With “Old Nick” due to come out of the water next month, to have its “bottom blacked” for the first […]

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Technical

Control

December 5, 2022

We are currently on holiday on the Red Sea in Egypt (see the C-Map chart below) and have left Old […]

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Technical

Where Do You Go to My Lovely?

October 12, 2022

How to show where your boat has been – on a map Prerequisites You can only easily do this if […]

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General

Just want the technical info?

July 6, 2022

There’s a wealth of in-depth information about batteries, solar panels, engine, generators, heating etc. etc, etc, including our real life […]

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Technical

Here Comes the Sun – an article about Solar Power

March 29, 2021

We have always promised that we would be reporting about our real life experiences on board Old Nick. It has […]

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Technical

Complete Control

January 30, 2021

Those of you that have read our previous posts will know that “Old Nick” has an array of electronic equipment […]

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Technical

We’ve Got The Power

November 26, 2020

This post is really a continuation and update of our original Solar Solution post, where we looked at how solar […]

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Technical

The Power of Networking

November 2, 2020

Computer networking is nothing new in many areas of our lives, but on narrowboats it is still fairly unusual and […]

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Technical

Living with Lead Carbons

September 10, 2020

On any boat, looking after your batteries is one of the most important routine tasks, right up there with engine […]

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The Art of Energy Management

August 27, 2020

So – we have chosen our batteries from Leoch, selected the electric engine and generator from Vetus and decided to […]

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