Adjusting the field and the first lobster

Well it was pretty miserable yesterday with a good southerly breeze and pishing rain but that didn’t stop us hardy fishermen from going out to lift the creels. We’d gone out early as Hugh Piggot was coming on the first ferry to do some adjustments to the ‘Harris Turbine’ and wire up the solar charge controller for my mate. Imagine our glee when we found this beauty in the first creel.

The joy was somewhat tempered when I turned her over and found she was full of ‘berries’ so had to be put back but at least it means that there’ll be more next year.

However we did get 2 huge crabs before we returned .

Tweaking the turbine

Hugh arrived off the first ferry and after a spot of breakfast he and I went to my mates to do some work on his hydro turbine. Hugh did all the technical stuff like wiring the charge controller and dump loads whilst I was relegated to burying the armoured cable and cutting out holes for the ammeter’s. Once that was done we switched on the turbine and he ‘adjusted the field’ to get the optimum output from the turbine.

And now we’re off on a sunny bank holiday to install a wind turbine on Rona!