In Rob’s absence I was struggling to find and install all of the hardware and luckily my friend Elton Schweitzer was looking for work, and so he became instrumental in finding, polishing, bedding, and installing everything we had removed a year-and-a-half before. Elton then lent his hand with all the exterior varnishing and even buffed the old hull back to a mirror finish.
With most of the exterior work completed, we began to install the new serial hybrid electric propulsion system. The battery room was gutted and rebuilt to accommodate a 50 KWH lithium NMC battery bank with the ability to contain a 150 KWH bank when it becomes more affordable.