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Boat Works 2025 – round 1
Blue Opal was scheduled to lift today at 10 am, so K and I came up the night before with bedding, replacement lithium battery (for the house bank), and a few other odds and ends. The drive up through Dublin was a right pain in the ass, with road works and long queues (due to…
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Boat Work 2025 – prelude
Blue Opal was built in 1998, and has a Raymarine navigation electronics suite from that era. On our trip in 2021, I used an Android tablet (with OpenCPN and a few other bits) as a cockpit-based MFD-like tool for charts access etcetera. This didn’t work out too well, due to the power consumption of the…
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A new soldering iron
K asked me last year what I’d like as a present, and I pointed at a Fnirsi HS-02A soldering iron and a GAN USB-C power supply for it. Several months later, I’ve got around to actually trying it. Room temperature to 350 degrees C in under 10 seconds (according to the screen; I don’t have…
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Finally clear
17 days after the first test showed a positive result, things have cleared up.
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A view of the Irish juror system
Last month, I received a letter informing me that I had been randomly selected from the register of electors to serve as a juror at the Criminal Courts in Dublin. The letter came with a handbook explaining some of the process, as well as a list of reasons for disqualification or excuse from service (and…
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Renovating the studio – part 19
All the framing out was done today, and the first insulated boards were put up (50mm including insulation). I asked the builder to put a set of noggins all the way across the long wall at 1.7m from the floor (bottom of the noggin). This gives me a known good attachment point for shelving etc…