Author: Duncan
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Growth and a nice sail
Blue Opal has been in the sea for a year now, and the plant life has taken a distinct liking to her hull. I’ll need to dry her out on the slip in March (when the tides align, and hopefully the air temperature), but for now the club boatman and I took a small garden […]
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Driving a PiHut Christmas Tree
The default program suggested for the PiHut Christmas Tree makes the lights flash rapidly, all at once. This was headache inducing, so I modded the code to provide me with something a bit more relaxing. My Pi has trouble setting one of the GPIO pins high (it’ll go high once, turn off, and then flicker […]
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Winter update
Blue Opal is sitting at her mooring, and I’m looking for a pleasant day to go sailing in winter. So far it’s either been silly windy (and cold), or too damn cold and no wind. Yesterday was looking good initially, but then it started to rain… not heavy rain, just the type of misty rain […]
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Hamburg & Helgoland
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There’s a rattle in the engine, dear Liza, dear Liza
While out sailing the other weekend, I noticed a new rattle in the engine. Took the step off of the top of the engine, and it looked like the bronze pipe that hooks in to the exhaust of the engine was bouncing up and down. I didn’t know at the time that this pipe is […]
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Repairing the locker lid
Today was the last day of the long weekend, gloriously sunny, and I was still tethered to the land by my job. However, this didn’t stop me from bringing Blue Opal alongside for some more maintenance work. First up was tightening the bolts in the Seago canister. A stubby screwdriver just barely fits inside the […]
