Ever since March when I threw my old cushions covers out during the lockdown, I wanted to get new ones. During the same lockdown I’d also ordered some waterproof LED lighting strips that never arrived (no surprise there as they had to come from China but for 10€ I figured it was worth a gamble, I lost). I did order new LED strips with a fancy kit to hook them up in different ways.

Now that we have a new partial lockdown in Dublin till at least October 10 and I have issues with my main sail (in a following post), I don’t see this boat going anywhere. So I’m “stuck” in Dublin, at least I can use the WeWork office of my job and it is relatively cheap to live on the boat so I can safe lots of money so make good use of when we will be free next year (maybe, if we survive this one).

So today I bought some new mustard and black velvet cushion covers. Admire my showroom interior puny humans:

And with the LED “mood” lighting activated (it is finally becoming a bachelor pad):

Finally I have some decent light in the navigation and galley areas:

The advantage is that it is USB powered so I can use it with both shore power and battery power! And when I change it to red, I have light for sailing at night that doesn’t destroy your night vision. I also installed it in the V-berth so it is everywhere! Now I feel at home because these things were bothering me since I started my live aboard adventure in Scotland 3 years ago!