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
Every time we flush the toilet, the holding tank filter would let out a horrible stench of sewage smell. Ever after doing some cleaning on the holding tank, filling it full of water and flushing it out a couple times it still had a bad smell. We even purchased the Tank odor eliminator pods, which
When we first toured this 4788 Pilothouse before we purchased it, one of the things that stood out was the damaged cockpit lights, that I vowed to fix as one of my first repairs… Well other thing got in the way like new batteries, solar panels, vhf radio, and other fun stuff. Today was the
I discovered an entire original factory parts list for the 4788 that has been really useful in tracking things down. Amazing detail on almost every aspect of the 4788.
After attempting to rebuild the Jabsco electric head (toilet) in the forward stateroom, and discovering several more damaged parts than what is included in the rebuild kit, I gave up on the rebuild, and ordered a new Jabsco Electric Toilet. Once I had it taken apart there was more damage than I was expecting, including
Chatting with a neighbor the other day, who has a view of where we dock our boat, they made a comment about how smooth our docking process was. No screaming and yelling, just a nice controlled arrival at the dock. It might look that way, but it doesn’t always feel that way. Being at either
It has been 4 months since we first installed the solar panels on the boat. We have 6 of the 8 panels installed, each 110 watts of power. During the summer months on the days that we are not using the boat we keep the refrigerator running so that we don’t have to empty out
Since we left the crab traps out yesterday we needed to come out to pick them up. Due to the tides and the marina entrance issues at Sandy Point we left at the 9:30am high tide with plans to make a day of it and to return around 7:30pm. This was also the first trip
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