Shouldn’t there be an anode there?

WeatherWitch has been in the water for 18 months as we’ve wanted to be able to take advantage of a great sailing day whenever in the year. This has resulted in many great days out on the water, but also has given the Hamble algae, shellfish and seaweed plenty of opportunity to give our copper …

A very unpleasant surprise…

Heading out on a sunny Sunday we expected to have an easy morning of removing hatch lids (details in our next post). Instead, when we got to WeatherWitch the battery monitor wouldn’t turn on…a problem we’ve had before so at this point, maybe just a serious irritation? However, this was promptly followed by the discovery …