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Design a New Electrical System
The existing electrical system on Saint Brendon is antique (two inefficient and dead lead-acid batteries, a square-wave inverter, etc.) and not capable of running the devices I will use for…
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Economical Automatic Fire-Suppression for a Sailboat with Lithium-Batteries
When I began researching automatic fire suppression for Saint Brendan, I assumed I needed an extinguisher for the LiFePO₄ battery bank. The deeper dive changed the problem. The batteries may…
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Why Saint Brendan?
I did not name S/V Saint Brendan. The name came with the boat, and after losing S/V Aegir-Ran in a shipwreck off the coast of Brazil earlier this year, it…