Lyall had owned Ocean Grace for about eight years when he asked Pacific Yacht Systems to take a look at it. A number of inadequacies in the factory-built power system turned up, which PYS corrected by simplifying the DC system and improving its safety, and by creating a more efficient method of charging the house and engine batteries.
Two years later, Lyall decided to sell his boat. A potential buyer hired a surveyor to inspect it; on the strength of the surveyor’s report, which confirmed the excellent quality of the PYS workmanship and materials that had gone into the boat’s DC system, that individual bought Ocean Grace.