I am working with the watermaker system on Elida V now. The watermaker is a device that purifies seawater into drinking water by using reverse osmosis. The system is quite complicated, and I and Robert have both been working in preparation and figuring out the best way to install the various components.

First of all, the sea waters enters through a series of filters to remove metal and chlorine as well as dirt and other impurities. The reverse osmosis filter is very sensitive to these pollutions and it is very important that these filters work well.

The water is then pumped via high-pressure pumps into a “pressure booster”, a device I not yet have figured out what it does, and then is purified in the osmosis rods (pictured above).

This week we also got seats and mattresses for the ship. The seats in the different passenger cabins are color-coded to match the name of the cabin (Blue, red, yellow and green). In the saloon, the seat color is of a deep red-brown color. All seats are made of leather of the finest quality. BMW is supposed to use the exact same type of material for their most expensive cars. That’s interesting.

Jared from YWAM has been continuing his work on Elida IV (soon to be called the Next Wave) . He is, with aid from a local workshop, installing a lot of toilets and showers everywhere around the ship. The British MCA (shipping authorities) require six finctional toilets and showers up and running before the ship can be sold to YWAM. As a part of this, I had to move from the aft cabin down to the lower cabin deck and share cabin with Jimmy and Greg. I will miss my old bed, I have found the aft cabin very comfortable and spacey.

Jarod and Greg seem to think that the weather is very hot in Sweden during January. Someone tell them it’s only five degrees above zero.

I will leave Gothenburg for a few days to be in Västerås. Among other things, I will congratulate my sister to her 16th birthday, play at a service in Bäckbykyrkan and plan the spring with my boss at ABB.