Solar panels

After spending a lot time to think about it, we finnaly moved on the solar panels project.

we installed 6 solara 125watts with individual controllers and a Phillipi monitoring system 

result is spectacular as we are now self sufficient as far as energy is concerned

     

Trip To Catalina

October is the best month for cruising to Catalina. Nobody around and beautiful hikes. We enjoyed the time of school holidays and climbed on couple of Catalina trails

Another trip to Catalina

For Labor day weed end , we had a fantastic mooring in front of the Scout camp in Emerald Bay. We had our old friends (i know Solen since we are 2 years old) and all the kids enjoyed the hiking, swimming, paddleboarding !

Galley extension

Because we always need more room in the galley, we found a way to extend the ''working surface'' by adding a cutting board (found on Amazon) and using the hinges from an outside table of a Beneteau 41. 

CLAPOTIS is the BASE for PACIFIC CUP

At the end of June, our friends Christine and Pierre sailed Clapotis from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Charly and Fred were preparing the Pacific Cup and used Clapotis as hotel, restaurant and workshop !!! 

TENDERLIFT is ON !!!

So far, since we have the boat, installing a tenderlift is the best upgrade we have done. It extends a lot the deck, raise the dinghy and actually don't add a lot of weight to the boat.
let's enjoy some of the pictures of the first evening on board of extended Clapotis.

More storage in the cabins !

When you plan to live on the boat, you need STORAGE !!!! so i have been looking for any little unused spots on the boat where we could add shelf or anything.
In both of the aft cabins, we had this little spot that now allow us to store more stuffs in our cabin.