Sailing Brick House & NOW the RV Life! 's video: Leaking Lead Acid Batteries on a Sailboat Battery Box is Destroyed Patrick Childress Sailing 45

Leaking lead acid batteries on a sailboat are bad news! Leaking Lead acid batteries have eaten a hole inside our boat...and now we need to rebuild the battery box on our cruising sailboat BRICK HOUSE, because a lead acid Battery leak or lead acid battery fumes have caused a lot of acid corrosion, melting, and dissolving of the battery compartment causing the wood floor to rot out under our bunk as battery acid ate it all the way through to the bilges. Patrick Childress explains what he thinks may have caused wood corrosion in the battery compartment, shows you the extent of the damage caused by leaking lead acid batteries, and what he plans to do to prevent it in the future. We have always had water-miser caps, but not on this latest batch of batteries. Perhaps it was the use of these Battery caps...we don’t feel they were keeping things dry on the batteries...or possibly it was from NOT using them this past year. He explains how he believes the wood was destroyed by the acid in our Trojan T-105 lead acid batteries, during massively bad weather we had this year, in the Indian Ocean, or overfilling of the battery water. Was it the gasses emitted during equalization of batteries? Was it spilling of electrolytes after overfilling the battery with battery water, or spilling out during rough weather? He takes you through the demolition of the tabbing and wood floors, and bulkhead right through to the galley until he gets to solid wood. He then begins the repair of the rotten wood with fiberglass. Next time he shows you the rebuild of the battery compartment, floors, and walls. The battery box will soon be stronger than ever, and resistant to battery acid. The question everyone is asking...is this an argument for upgrading to LiFePO4 lithium iron phosphate batteries? Sailing the world/Sailing around the world is not always about cruising remote islands and traveling. Sometimes, you have to go in to a boatyard, RIP the sailboat apart and do serious boat restoration and boat repair, diy, like when leaking lead acid batteries eat a hole. Sometimes you have to hire professionals and sometimes it just a lot of hard work yourself to repair a sailboat, and make it seaworthy again. These marine batteries, due to the corrosion caused by leaking lead acid batteries could have been a big disaster on the high seas if we didn’t make fiberglass repairs to where more than 350 pounds of lead acid batteries sit and power our boat. Patrick Childress calls on his past experiences in rot repair on old houses, to fix the wood rot on the floor of our battery box/battery compartment. Sail life, and Sailing the world necessitates many hours of boring sailboat repair with lots of dust and dirt. Rebecca was very glad to be away from the boat, visiting her parents while this video was being filmed but will be back this weekend to start lots of boat repairs herself. Maybe next time, we go to LiFePo4 lithium batteries. We just found out...same problem with the start leading acid battery on the other side of the boat! LifePO4 batteries may be our solution.. “Freedom Won” in South Africa, who produces a new kind of marine lithium battery set up for sailboats. (http://www.FreedomWon.co.za) If you are concerned that “drop in” LiFePO4 batteries with built in BMS modules aren’t ready for the marine world, but that putting in a whole DIY lithium yourself is daunting, Freedom Won is a GREAT compromise for World Cruising sailboats. They have the most expensive,most advanced BMS, prismatic cells made by one of the top quality cell producers, instead of the cylindrical cells that the drops ins are criticized for. This is all enclosed in an aluminum casing so that it makes it very easy for a beginner to deal with yet you have full access to programming the BMS down the road, and replacing parts if it it becomes necessary. With the drop ins...something breaks, you get a new battery! Not always possible in the remote corners of the world! Start your Amazon shopping here: https://amzn.to/2K9MmuA ✩Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/svBrickHouse ✩ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SYBrickhouse ✩ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SVBrickhouse ✩Our blog: :http://www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com ✩Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/PatrickChildress ✩Tshirts and other: https://www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com/store Want to Crew? Learn from different captains Sailing oceans in rough seas and calm? http://www.SailOPO.com 🍯(Tip Jar) http://whereisbrickhouse.com/tip-jar/ ⛵️ TWO FREE SAILING COURSES: http://whereisbrickhouse.com/sailing-school/ ⏩Please Start your Amazon shopping here: https://amzn.to/2K9MmuA ✩Tshirts and other: https://www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com/store **As an Amazon Affiliate, I may earn commissions on qualifying purchases, as well as from other affiliate links listed on this page**