Month: July 2017
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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 the melamine from falling down, and start documenting the power looms. I was successful on…
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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 that I can’t find the other end of. I suspect it’s a power connector, since…
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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 getting the data over to something that can behave a bit like a chart plotter.…
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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. She’ll be staying on her current mooring, and he’s joining the club with the best…
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Boat network and radio upgrades
While out sailing with my parents and K over the weekend just gone (sailing through three regatta fleets is fun!), Dad was working on hooking up the external speaker in Blue Opal’s cockpit to the M323G radio
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Autohelm – fixed!
I had hoped to get this sorted before my parents and K visited for the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, but alas this was not to be so. On the first day K was here, we emptied out the port locker, and she went down the hole to see what could be done. Turns out the…
