S/V Barbara Ann 

Portsmouth, NH (11/03/01) - The boat's systems have been designed for live aboard use in New England winters or Caribbean summers.  The heating system and air conditioning are separately zoned for the forward cabin, salon/galley and aft cabin.  Heating is provided by a central hot water system utilizing a Webasco 42,000 BTU diesel furnace.  Radiators are provided in each cabin with additional hot air blowers in each head and beneath the companionway.

Air conditioning, refrigerator and freezer are all supplied by a Glacier Bay system with a single 2HP compressor.  When the freezer and refrigerator have reached their desires temperatures, the system cuts over and is available for air conditioning.  Typically the cold plates in the refrigerator can be maintained at temperature with two to three hours of operation per day.

The watermaker is a modular system from Sea Recovery that is capable of producing up to 170 gallons of freshwater per day from seawater. 

Many of the boat's mechanical systems are powered hydraulically.  Rather than providing separate power packs for these systems, we had a custom system designed by Hawbolt Industries of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.  For redundancy, the system uses both an engine driven hydraulic pump and a separate electric pump. These are controlled by an Allen Bradley Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) which moderates hydraulic demand and provides "soft start" for the electric pump to limit power surges which could impact navigation electronics.  Hydraulic power is provided for the main sheet reel winch, main and jib furler, centerboard lift, moveable (water) ballast pump, backstay adjuster, bow thruster and windlass.