We spent a week at the Channel Islands leading into Labor Day weekend. We sailed out from Santa Barbara to Little Scorpion anchorage on the north-east corner of the island. We chose this anchorage because it provided good shore access to a small museum, as well as some easy hiking

I went up to Richmond a few days ago for a quick visit to Tiamat. With so many projects in flight, the boat was BUZZING (though also rather filthy from workmen tromping all over). * Electrical - Tiamat's new charging system is fully assembled in Pete's workshop,

When we were first planning our sailing adventures, we were optimistic that Starlink, a high-speed satellite-based internet service from SpaceX, would enable us to have mid-ocean internet. The promise of the system, with its thousands of satellites and space-lasers, was to offer high bandwidth and minimal latency in locations that

With all the solar capacity we add to Tiamat, the next step step is to upgrade our electrical system. After all, what's the point in having a lot of solar if you can't use it? Tiamat is currently configured with 7.1kWh of 12VDC batteries, charged

Tiamat got the first of her major pre-departure refits completed in February: 2.6 kilowatts of solar panels! The new panels are LG bifacial panels, meaning that the absorb light from both sides, which is a nice feature when surrounded by reflective water and a white boat. These bifacial panels