The duck's back
the ducks are back honey
almost to prove a point Alice?
good morning we are having a mooring up kind today today Kath's making breakfast
unusually so and I'm cleaning the table very usually so and I've got a heap of
paper heap of painting work to do today I'm starting a little art course on my other
channel so click over to that if you want to see it and so I'm doing a heap
of the filming for that because this is a really nice quiet spot but we have the
engine running but just for about an hour to charge the batteries we
installed the battery monitor and when we installed the battery monitor people
said to us oh the battery monitor something to obsess over and we thought
oh yeah whatever but actually we are a little bit obsessed
so yesterday so for the past week we have been moored up broken down at
tooley's boat yard and then so we had electricity so we're on a hundred
percent the batteries got topped up and then yesterday we
ran the engine and we're running we ran the engine while we are moving we
did two loads of washing while we are moving
oh we did one load of washing on the electricity we did one load of washing
while we were moving and we had I ran a little mini computer fan once we stopped
the engine I think that's what drained the battery to be quite honest. Kath's face when
I ran it was like and we used lights with a Brandon I did put the bathroom
Used lights with abandon
I did put the bathroom light on and the lounge room light on when I went to the toilet I know I do
want to tell you my goodness and but with this morning when we checked the
battery monitor it's only at 65% so Kath left the immersion heater on
yesterday know when I am like so we had because we were on shore power I turned
the immersion heater on so that we would continue to have what hot water because
we couldn't generate it by running the engine
and then when Annamarie turned the inverter on to do the washing
the immersion heater was still on so it's a combination of the two of us managed
to do that. Oh
anyway we're down to 65% which is why we're running the engine and we are a
little bit concerned that the batteries may be knackered we'll have to run the
engine for three hours today because we're not moving it's meant to be a
stinking hot day so we'll have to run the engine for three hours we'll do an
hour this morning before breakfast and then when I'm painting because it's a
little bit loud and noisy we'll the painting that will turn the engine off
we might run it again for an hour or two over lunch if nobody's in here and then
this afternoon when it's cooler down the end of the boat or when we're outside on
the towpath we'll run it again for another hour so or sometimes we just
forget and leave it running for the three hours in the morning but that's
the plan lots of people have asked how long do you have to run your engine for
to keep yourself topped up with electricity we have some electronic
devices so we have to run the engine to top them up probably once a day we've
got the solar panels that are portable that you've seen in another video
they store the power into a battery pack which keeps our phones running so we
don't use anything on the boat to charge the phones but we do have the Wi-Fi
connected to the batteries via a 12 volt 12 volt line and that keeps going and we
run the fridge and we run the toilet but Kath keeps reassuring me that the toilet
only takes one amp the toilet takes - has a very minimal draw
the internet device only takes about six amps a day and I have done a full power
audit of everything would you like to see that? the main as everybody knows the
main draw is the fridge yeah and we're not in a position to turn that off
at the moment because we like (It's full) we like having our food cold so that's pretty
much the day we're gonna check back in with you throughout the day and let you
know how it's going
what why is the why is this tomato on the top
that's how cheese on toast is I thought yes and it's really my mom will you tell
her you put the cheese on... you put...
you put the cheese on top of the tomato so that the cheese melts on top of the
tomato it's cheese on toast of tomato on top cheese and tomato on toast cheese
and tomato I'm toast I've never ever seen that in my life and
I worked in (it's how you do it in Wales )I worked in hospitality for ten years and you just lived in
Wales I just learned how to make cheese on toast so eating this just picked up
and I'm gonna pull the clothes in I'm really glad that I had them tied off how
I had them tied off because they have a little peg and also a windlass at the
bottom or else I fear that somebody else would have been pulling them out of
their prop well to be fair I would have just gone and fished them out of the
canal I happened to be standing next to the battery monitor and so if you
remember this morning we ran the engine and we said we're gonna run it for an
hour we probably ended up running it for about two and a half hours maybe three
and so I'm going to have a look and see yeah kind of held the charge it says
that it's on 95 so really that's the only bit I look at
on the side there but if you have a look in the morning I reckon are we back down
to 65 we're not really running anything we don't have anything on I'm gonna
recharge the camera
now everybody knows Munhy that this is you in the middle of the day can't deny it
now there's your beautiful lady like sister and then there's you I've gone
through what we call storage mountain looking for some batteries it's Kath's
storage so we have a Juris el tiny little hopefully one and then a wilcos
one and then it never makes batteries why why do you keep one when do you
haven't um and then this eco power GP battery yeah triple A's I'm gonna put
them into the temperature reader and let you know I'm feeling like it's probably
an Australian 20 or a British 25 what do you think the temperature is yes
inside 25 okay
all right here we go the hatch all right so let's see what the world temperature
is just in What!!! Oh cats are coming they love this toy sorry Munchy no playing with
lasers well that's the shady that's the shady half of the boat Munchy and Kath
you're both wrong and your suggestions that it would be 25 35 so close see how
what the temperature is in here same
Munchy? Mundhy a 31° yeah
his little belly panting
31 degrees so what's my advice to you if you live on a boat and it's 31
degrees inside your boat I think it's really important to more up in the shade
I think it's really important to take the windows out
we leave bowls of water all over the boat for the cats and they love to drink
out of my painting bowl in particular so I make sure that's always got clean
water in it and for us we recently bought some of those really cheap 16p
ice lollies so we stick them in the freezer and believe it or not we have
cups of tea and that keeps us hydrated but it also kind of gives us something
to do we made sure that the cooking for dinner that we had to do was done in the
morning and then we just kind of managed the energy and quite honestly I did not
think it was that hot in the boat but it kind of explains why when I touched the
quilt cover it feels hot but I actually feel quite good so I think maybe staying
hydrated and just kind of lowering the amount of things that you do it does
explain why so many boats have gone by and people have been a little bit less
than happy shall we say that was our kind of hiding out from the weather
episode hopefully you liked it hopefully you found it slightly interesting I know
it was a little bit different from our usual cruising videos but as you can see
we couldn't really Cruise today would have been a bit ridiculous and we don't
really have anywhere to be so it was also pointless to push
ourselves in that way so I got a few paintings done today which was nice if
you want to see what paintings I did today I'm running a little painting
challenge over on my up by anna marie youtube channel so you can click over
and have a look at that and you can enter the challenges yourself is that
something you're interested in thank you so much for watching remember to
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