Lead acid batteries can eat a sailboat alive!

Lead Acid Batteries can dissolve a sailboat!

Our latest video is out! So much work to take out the old corroded wood and build a new battery box! Share in Patricks misery as he sees just how extensive the damage is from these lead acid batteries!

Whether duribg rough seas, equalization, or every day use, the battery fumes while chargibg, or actual leakage, battery acid has ruined all of the wood in the battery compartment/battery box on our sailboat. Trojan t-105 batteries are awesome batteries, but the ecscaped battery acid has rotted everything and Patrick replaces the entire battery box in this 2 part series!

Ever wonder if Patrick wrote any books in his life?

Did Patrick Childress, captain of SV Brick House, ever write a book?

In fact..he did…he co-authored one with his ex wife Lynda Morris Childress, and another guy, Tink Martin, decades ago. Click on the link below to find out more…

A Cruising Guide to…

Patrick and Rebecca were asked to write an update to this book, but declined because they wanted to sail to further reaches of the world.

Patrick has all but written another book, about how to fix and upgrade your Bluewater Cruiser, but since there have been no publishers, he has instead made it in to his own YouTube channel which shows often unique ways of repairing, upgrading and sailing a bluewater cruising sailboat.

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About the Crew – Patrick Childress and Rebecca Childress Sailing around the World in a Valiant 40

 

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