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In this week's video, we celebrate springtime in the Netherlands filming a final update on the boat before her launch in April, showing you how the woodwork is being finished plus giving you a tour of the main components of the tech room and electrical roo...

Our first winter as liveaboards in Canada our diesel marine hydronic heating system broke. we have continued to expierence issues with it ever sense. check out the details in this week's episode. follow us on instagram @svoctopodes

Hello everyone welcome to a other part of sailing Volupia in this video we we sail from Portland to Portsmouth ripping our stack pack an the uv strip on the fore sail. https://ko-fi.com/sailingvolupia http://www.patreon.com/posts/7092616 visit the ...

Hello everyone welcome to a other part of sailing Volupia in this video we we sail from Plymouth. to Salcombe then Portland https://ko-fi.com/sailingvolupia http://www.patreon.com/posts/7092616 visit the RNLI website and check out there stuff for sa...

Waiting for us in Inverness after we finished the canal, was our Chinese Diesel Heater, which we were very excited to have a place to sit for a few days and get it installed. Here Matt goes over all the options of heating we have on our boat, which versio...

I needed to do a full operational test run, so I thought I would video it. Not the most interesting video you will ever see, but hopefully useful if you are thinking of installing one of these units. I was particularly interested in the current draw (amps...

This video covers the actual fitting of all the bits and the initial start-up. There is nothing too complicated here - but do comment if you have ideas that might be useful for other people. I haven't done a full test yet - in fact I haven't read the inst...

This is the first part of the installation of a Chinese Diesel Heater. It became clear that there wasn't an obvious place to mount the heater in a small sailboat. I have a look at three different options all with advantages and disadvantages. So which one ...

Diesel heaters are effective heat sources on a liveaboard yacht, but they do need to be started properly. If you have too much fuel in the heater before you light it, you will have to deal with the heater "running away" where the excess fuel causes the hea...