It turns out the last cable that I could not trace could not be traced because it didn’t go anywhere. Anyone with the older Raymarine/Autohelm gear can tell you that instrument displays like the VMG have a triangle of connections
Boat network sorted
New site icon
I decided that I’d like the site favicon for this blog to be the silhouette of Blue Opal. The creation process was: grab the image from Sailboat Data that shows the profile view, set it as a locked layer in
Ship’s Log – things work!
Went down to the club today, and out to Blue Opal, with a few goals in mind: document her data network, get the lift pump for the Webasto to prime, put a screw in next to the radio to stop
Boat data network investigation
Part of today was spent investigating the boat data network to find out what went where, and then draw a pretty picture. As the photos show, I was mostly successful – there’s a single SeaTalk1 cable in the helm console
Success with the ShipModul
The ShipModul is happily chatting with iNavX on my iPad. Operation success! It turns out that a few of the Raymarine instruments had NMEA 183 outputs that I could have wired to the NavTex, but that wouldn’t have sorted out
Aslana has a new owner
Well, Aslana is no longer mine (and I’m no longer a fleet admiral). A guy at work who is getting in to sailing in Ireland asked to look at her, we went for a test sail, and we shook hands.