Tag: maintenance

The existing danbuoy on Blue Opal is well past its prime. The plastic cap is brittle, the rope looks like it’s suffered from sun exposure, and the buoyancy disk is dead, for lack of a better word. While in Viking Marine, my local chandlery, buying an extension for the 16A shore power cable, I noticed…

Spent today alongside, as I’m tethered to my phone and laptop (the joys of being on-call for a technology company). First job was to reduce the starting amount of furling line on the drum for the yankee. This was the easy part. When putting back the torx M6 bolts, one of them went for a…

The sea-cock under the head, the one used for the outlet, is pretty darn stiff. This was noted on the survey, and the prior owner indicated that they had addressed this issue (I assume by putting grease up the hole from the outside while she was on land). However, K can’t operate it, and my…

Went down to the club today, and out to Blue Opal, with a few goals in mind: document her data network, get the lift pump for the Webasto to prime, put a screw in next to the radio to stop the melamine from falling down, and start documenting the power looms. I was successful on…

Part of today was spent investigating the boat data network to find out what went where, and then draw a pretty picture. As the photos show, I was mostly successful – there’s a single SeaTalk1 cable in the helm console that I can’t find the other end of. I suspect it’s a power connector, since…

The ShipModul is happily chatting with iNavX on my iPad. Operation success! It turns out that a few of the Raymarine instruments had NMEA 183 outputs that I could have wired to the NavTex, but that wouldn’t have sorted out getting the data over to something that can behave a bit like a chart plotter.…