I have been on the wait list for the Starlink internet provided by SpaceX, and today I had the opportunity to pre-order a Starlink system. However since it is a pre-order they say it may be up to 6 months wait time on the delivery. Hopefully it will be available by summer, but if not
Perhaps one of the cheaper replacements on the boat with this only costing a few hundred dollars, this is perhaps one of the best bang-for-your-buck improvements we have done. With a one week turn around at the local glass company, I was very please with the outcome. First, here are some of the before pictures,
Sometime prior to our purchasing the 4788, someone removed the built in stereo in the master stateroom, and left a hole in the wall. In an effort to bring things back to a factory condition (or better than factory condition) I picked up a bargain Jensen stereo from Amazon to fill the hole. Since this
With the 30 to 50 mph winds today, my hopes of surviving this season with the fly bridge canvas were quickly shredded as was the canvas and plastic windows.
After we installed the Simrad NSS 16 which integrates the radar, chartplotter, depth finder and autopilot into one large screen, we were left with several holes in the dashboard where devices that are no longer needed were installed. Looking like this: Next the new panel partially installed: And finally after getting the screw caps on
With this being the first winter of owning the 4788, I wanted to be sure that we don’t have any damage due to freezing. In the fall I posted about our monitoring computers that I had built to monitor the onboard temp and humidity. Then we had problems with the Webasto hydronic heater which is
The guest bathroom / head like many of the other lights on board has really yellowed lights, from plastic decaying over time, and some not so good led upgrades that had been put into them. Here is the before: And below is the after: Not only do we have better looking lights, but all 4
For the winter, we took off a number of the solar panels that would have been completely destroyed in wind storms, but we did place 2 inside the fly bridge enclosure to help keep the batteries topped off. Although they are just temporarily zip tied in place they are doing the job of keeping the
Our Westebeke 12k generator is critical in the operation of our boat as we spend quite a bit of time during the summer with no shore power. As part of our pre-season checklist one of tasks was replacing the fuel filter for the generator. I am starting the habit of marking the date changed with
Now I have had the pleasure to replace 2 of the 4 wall heaters. This time it was the one at the bottom of the stairs just out side the guest stateroom. Here are the before and after photos… But even better than being clean, rust free, and free of dust/lint buildup in side the
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