Ramblings
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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.…
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Aslana has a new owner
Well, Aslana is no longer mine (and I’m no longer a fleet admiral). A guy at work who is getting in to sailing in Ireland asked to look at her, we went for a test sail, and we shook hands. She’ll be staying on her current mooring, and he’s joining the club with the best…