Yesterday afternoon George and I resolved the power issues on the 4788 by replacing the burned out plug with a new Smart Plug brand plug and cord. We started by opening the electric panel to get access to be back side of the power connection. On the 4788 to open the panel like this you
It has been one year since we purchased our 4788, and where have we gone, what have we done, what have we learned, and what would we do differently. Where have we gone 12 weekend trips in the last year. May was a busy month for us boating. We had our first 2 trips on
The old expression… “I have some good news and some bad news, which do you want first?”. Well the good news is the boat did not catch fire, the bad news we need to get an new electrical port for the boat and a new power cord. My son George who works at one of
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After getting a backup camera on my pickup truck and realizing how nice it was, I decided to do something similar on the boat. I started with 2 WiFi surveilance cameras that I will be able to view on the 23 inch screen that we mounted in the pilothouse. They are also viewable from my
Yesterday we received 13 more of the interior lights we have been working on replacing. Today I replaced 3 more of the old crappy fixtures in the salon area. This time in the port side along the windows above the television. I would have done more but I ran out of the heat shrink butt
The previous factory installed artwork in the 4788 pilothouse was falling apart beyond repair. I picked up the Orca artwork to replace what was there. After replacing that it points out how worn the wallpaper is on that wall, so one more thing added to the to do list now is wallpaper.
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Today I added a second screen to fill a blank part of the dashboard that looked a bit out of place. This was a 23 inch 1080p HDMI monitor. Right now it is just displaying the same thing as the NSS16 in the dashboard to the right, but once we get the fly bridge NSS9
When we purchased the Bayliner 4788 motoryacht it had many of the original electronics that it had when it rolled off the factory floor 25 years ago. There were a couple additions with a chart plotter, and another depth finder, which appeared to be complete rubbish, and did not fuction. Here are some of the
Today I replaced 6 more of the old light fixtures in the kitchen, three along the window, and 3 under the cabinet. It looks like we need 16 more light fixtures to replace all the lights in the salon area. We accidently ordered some of the 39 lumen lights rather than the 45 lumen lights,
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Today I tried out using the TV in the salon as a remote display for the Simrad NSS16. I purchased a 75 ft html cable, so that I could run the wires nicely out of view, but the 75ft cable didn’t work with the NSS16 and this TV, I suspect it was the signal booster
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