Author: Duncan
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Slowing the engine down
Modern cellphones have some neat tricks built in to them. In this instance, the ability to record at 120 fps, and then slow down the replay to 30 fps, resulting in a slow-motion video. This makes it easier to capture the motion of things like the belt on the front of Blue Opal’s 3GM30 engine.
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Boat network sorted
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 – two are for the SeaTalk1 bus (in and out), and the top third one […]
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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 Illustrator, trace over the hull and deck shape, throwing away some bits that won’t be […]
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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. […]
