Ever since buying Tramp I haven’t been happy with boat speed and propeller thrust. The engines never seemed to be under load, there was no bite when the throttles were opened and we could only achieve 6 knots at our most economical cruising revs.
I thought we could do better.
The navigation system on Tramp uses a combination of systems: Time Zero, Simrad, Ovital and Navionics. Also a combination of 240V and 12V.
Its generally not considered “best practice” to change antifoul brands, but sometimes circumstance and availability requires change. We changed from International to Jotun without a problem.
We were never really comfortable with our bruce anchor and now it has been relegated to the reserves bench. My research into anchors lead me two names and a cross Tasman contest, Rockner (NZ) vs Sarca (AUS).
Our house batteries, inverter/controller and solar panel controller had a complete melt down. Why this happened, we don’t know as we weren’t on the boat at the time. End result, we needed to replace the lot while in Darwin.