Elida V has been progressing pretty well the last week. The new guy, Samuel, has installed the kitchen sinks and worked with the box for the LPG bottles for the stove.

Sergey has installed a few more toilets and is now working with the seats in the lounge.

Greg has had his arm re-cast, the new cast does not go over the elbow, giving him a lot more freedom to work with. He is now the ship’s car driver and purchaser of materials all over Gothenburg.

I have finally been able to finish the solar panels. Jimmy gave me a good idea of how to connect the various cables together in a neat fashion, speeding up my process a lot. It took me less than two days to connect the ten panels together, and all regulators are now happily ticking forward, giving around 1-2 Amperes of 24 V power each to the batteries.

During spare hours, I have been working for ABB, doing more tasks in Office VBA.

I also have been tinkering and modifying my own hobby program, now called “evad”. Evad is a little music program that is a client to the MPD music player. It looks and feels very similar to the excellent ncmpc but written in python and with my own ideas and improvements implemented. Hopefully, I will be able to make the first public release within some months. I am no Python expert, though, and it seems the things I am implementing requires some expertize, therefore the delays.

The next days will be interesting. Elida V is scheudeled to leave Sweden next Monday, the twelfth of March.