Ramblings
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Reversing on to the pontoon
This morning, as I departed the pontoon with the RIB alongside, I suddenly twigged that the RIB keys were not in it – they were up in the boathouse. There was no wind, and I didn’t feel like doing a full loop, so I tried going on to the pontoon astern. Worked like a charm.
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Rewiring the batteries
Blue Opal’s battery layout, like everything on a boat, made compromises. In the port side of the saloon, there’s a small locker under the aft central cushion, and a long locker under the aft port cushion. The two house batteries occupied the entire small locker, running transverse across the hull, and the port locker had…
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Fixing a Seawolf 520 windlass
The club committee boat, Hawaiian Goose (I have no idea how it got that name), has had a dodgy windlass for a while. Brian has spent the past week re-wiring it completely with large gauge cable, just in case it was a wiring fault that was causing grief. Symptoms: Windlass will start out just fine,…
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Working helm windlass control
With K’s help down in the hole yesterday, we got the 3-core cable run from the console to the solenoid box for the windlass. The first problem we encountered was the one Dad and I encountered – push the wire down the pedestal steel tubing, and it stops right at the bottom. The idea was…
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Passageway tiled
The second of three tiling jobs is now done; the passageway to the back garden. Plumbers are in today to put on radiators and first fix the kitchen plumbing. Flooring next week, and electrician should be back next week. Kitchen in early August. Slowly getting to a liveable state.
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Re-fitting the hose lid
The new hose layout in the heads means that the lid over the hose collection doesn’t fit any more. A bit of work with a large piece of cardboard and a box cutter gave me a decent template to work from, and a shiny new oscillating multi-tool worked nicely to cut the wood. I do…