Category: Sailing
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Sunday fiddling
I was going to slip Blue Opal today, but ended up offering my slot to another boat that needed the slot more than I did. After being boatman for a bit, and having a good chinwag over a cuppa with some other members (boats, COVID, parasites, and other topics) I went out to the boat…
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Wiring in the B600s – Saturday
I spent part of Friday, and most of Saturday working on getting the AIS unit integrated into Blue Opal’s network, measuring the output of the engine tachometer, and generally fiddling with the electrical wiring locker (tidying it mostly). The end result is that the locker is tidier, the B600s is mounted properly in the locker,…
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Wiring in the B600s – Friday
I spent part of Friday, and most of Saturday working on getting the AIS unit integrated into Blue Opal’s network, measuring the output of the engine tachometer, and generally fiddling with the electrical wiring locker (tidying it mostly). The end result is that the locker is tidier, the B600s is mounted properly in the locker,…
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Alarm sentences from the B600s
The B600s emits some custom sentences to indicate that there are problems (and also turns on a LED labeled “Err”). Some begin with PAMC, others with AIALR. If I remember the NMEA spec correctly, P* are proprietary, so PAMC is Proprietary AMC (Alltek Marine also call themselves AMEC). $PAMC,R,TXT,010,Power anomalies:0.00V*56 $PAMC,R,TXT,200,GPS antenna is not detected*75…
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Sunday Sailing
The forecast for today was sunny, moderately warm (on land at least), and sufficient breeze for sailing. So I did. Getting back on the mooring was a bit interesting, because the pickup was upwind of the main buoy, right in the stern of another boat!
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Slip maintenance
I put Blue Opal on the slip this Friday gone, with the intent of cleaning off the worst of the growth on her, replacing the shaft anode, and replacing the main anode. Spares had already been acquired, so it should have been easy. Problem number one – I didn’t slip her quite right. I failed…