Endellion is nearly ready for the off!
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
We are just putting the finishing touches to Stewart & Lesley MacLennan’s 57′ x 12′6″ barge Endellion. Stewart & Lesley live in Sydney but the boats name comes from Lesley’s birth place the village of St Endellion in Cornwall.
Stewart uses a wheelchair and the boat was built to his plans giving him full acess and control of the boat. Endellion is quite an advanced boat with many features rarely seen on inland waterways craft, she is fully double glazed and air-conditioned throughout, steering is provided by a electro hydraulic system controlled by follow up style steering using a small handle or alternatively a hand held remote control.
The electrical system is based around 800 Ah of batteries, twin 3000w inverters and a 7KVA cocooned genset. The genset auto starts on demand to supplement the inverters or to automatically charge the domestic battery bank these features being controlled by Victron’s innovative VE Net system.
Initially she will spend the remainder of the year in the UK before Stewart & Lesley take her over to France early next year.
