Category: Sailing
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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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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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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…
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Replacing the head sanitary hose โ part 3
Sunday dawned. The forecast said there would be rain in the afternoon, and the tide wouldn’t be right until about lunch time to be alongside for power (to do a different job where we needed to run the multi-tool). Today was to be the day we made sure the seacock would close fully, the old…
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Replacing the head sanitary hose – part 2
With the efforts of Friday, we had got the head out, and the top panel and “pillar” portion of the steel holding tank surround. Onwards to getting the rest of it out! Along the way, we did some GPS wiring while thinking about how to take things to pieces – we wanted to be alongside…
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Replacing the head sanitary hose – part 1
Blue Opal’s head has had a bit of a pong since I got her, even with lots and lots of water flushed through (and Jabsco “Toilet Fresh Clean”.. actually, I think that smelled worse than the head itself; sickly sweet). The manual Whale V pump has also been annoying me, because it was installed about…