Month: June 2019
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Adding more wires to the wiring cubby
Blue Opal is a master cabin setup Victoria 34, which means all of her electrical buses (and instruments) sit over a chart table that’s sandwiched between the aft heads and the starboard saloon berth (the wet locker on the other layout isn’t present in this variation, though there’s space in the heads to do so).…
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Seal ho!
On my way out from the club this morning, having done the laundry, I spotted this seal just ambling around (do seals amble?) near the club.
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Getting close to a finished build
Just the build mind you; the fit-out and decoration is still to be done. The fireplace will be installed this week coming, on Thursday, and the builder is on to snag list / final items. Painting quote needed Skim kitchen walls Skim kitchen ceiling Skim kitchen alcove Skim kitchen doorway Skim plasterboard under stairs Clean…
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Solving intermittent SeaTalk failures
Every now and then, Blue Opal’s SeaTalk gear would boot up and display a ST FAIL message on the autopilot control at the pedestal console. I’ve never been able to work out what it was, and the old trick of “turn it off and back on again” would clear the message. This weekend, while fiddling…
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Tiling the ensuite
Having finally managed to pick a tile (Revigres, Planet Offwhite for the floor, Nimbus Offwhite for the walls) for the new ensuite, I arranged for it to be tiled this weekend just gone. The tiler was recommended by one of the plumbers who’d been on site, and I can’t say that I’m disappointed. There’s a…
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Attempting to wire up console windlass control
Blue Opal’s windlass has two simple foot switches at the bow, which put voltage on to a relay box in the master cabin, which in turn enables high current flow to the windlass motor. Since I single-hand, it’d be nice to have the ability to raise and lower the anchor without running back and forth…
