With winter just around the corner, and concerns over freezing, storms and other damages brought on by the weather, I have started building out a remote monitoring computer system for the boat. Using an on board network of small computers I plan to create real time monitoring for the following: Temperature on board Engine room
The dock that we keep the boat on for the warmer months doesn’t have power so we rely completely on solar an the occasional use of the generator when on the dock. Now that we are approaching the cold season we moved the boat to a different dock for the winter with power available to
With gale force winds on the forecast for tomorrow, and more stormy weather after that today was the day to bring in the solar panels for the season and store them for the winter so that they will be in good shape to start next years boating season. The solar panels did well this season
Trip #12 marks the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th nights on the 4788 since purchasing it earlier this year. We left after work Thursday evening into a fog bank. As we left the Sandy Point harbor entrance, we could see how serious the fog was as shown below with the Red / Green channel markers
We ordered our Simrad equipment a while back, and some if has been delayed due to Covid and other circumstances. Several weeks ago we did the Simrad VHF radio install, and this week the Simrad NSS16 evo3S 16 inch Multifunction Fish Finder and Chartplotter arrived. When we purchased the boat, the configuration looked like this
It has been a few days since I have seen the sun due to all the forest fire smoke on the west coast. Not sure how long it will be until we see the sun again, and that means the solar is also impacted. Where we keep the boat we do not have power on
Our 11th trip of the season this year was to Roche Harbor for Labor Day weekend, three nights on the boat, which makes a total of 20 nights on board so far since we purchased the boat in March. Each time it gets a bit more comfortable. Alex and I failed at salmon fishing just
Friday night we stayed at Deer Harbor on Orcas Island, this was our first time to stay overnight at Deer Harbor. The staff were friendly and we had a nice stay, with an early morning departure. The nice thing about Deer Harbor is that they accept reservations, where some other places like Roche Harbor are
After trying to rebuild the Jabsco marine toilet in the forward head, and failing I ordered a new replacement. It was much quicker to install the new toilet than it was to attempt to rebuilt the old one. With the help of George it took about 45 minutes to replace the old toilet with a
Since the VHF radio, and the stereo on the fly bridge did not work, I decided to replace them with a new Fusion stereo, power outlets, and when it arrives the remote handset for the VHF radio. Here is what things looked like to begin with, a dead VHF radio, a holster for some icon
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