Wednesday 5 July 2017

Lots of work- a little sailing!

Spent the weekend at Pelee Island, had a great time. The boat ran ...okay... I had a few bugs.

The air con failed after a few days, it clogged up in the valve above the thru hull. I have installed 3/4 fittings but the valve is a little better than 3/8 when open. That will be resolved this winter with a much bigger thru-hull and valve.  I got it working, but what a piss off!

I started upgrading the electronics, the boat cane with Vigil radios. The company is long gone and these radios are pretty useless. I went with Standard Horizon GX 1700 with GPS and the Ram3 extension.  Here is before.....


The left side of the board got a sprucing up. Everything is rewired correctly. For everything I fixed, I found three more nightmares to be dealt with in the future.