Tag: Blue Opal
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Voltage drop at the water pump
In the middle of all the re-wiring work Dad and I did over the weekend, I noticed that the water pump didn’t sound like it normally does. It was only once or twice before it returned to sounding like normal, but it was enough of an anomaly for me to start poking at it. With…
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Wiring locker re-do/tidy
Blue Opal’s wiring locker behind the chart table is a combination of neat and messy. All of the from-the-yard wiring is clipped together nicely with small cable ties, the bundles to the switch panels are wrapped in mesh, and it’s all done very nicely into chocolate block terminals. As happens with boats, however, other wiring…
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Changing the head seacock
Blue Opal’s head waste seacock has been recalcitrant since I bought her, and the survey noted this too. In fact, I had the yard in Conwy give it some attention, and they said it had been freed up. However, I’ve always found it hard to move, and K can’t even get it to budge. It…
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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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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…