Tag: maintenance
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Replacing a diverter valve
Last weekend, Dad and I spent most of three days taking out the head, and the old hoses, and laying in new Vetus sanitation hose. We hooked everything up, tightened up any jubilee clips where there were leaks, and promptly discovered that the Whale diverter valve had failed. I ordered one from a UK company…
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Adding more wires to the wiring cubby
Blue Opal is a master cabin setup Victoria 34, which means all of her electrical buses (and instruments) sit over a chart table that’s sandwiched between the aft heads and the starboard saloon berth (the wet locker on the other layout isn’t present in this variation, though there’s space in the heads to do so).…
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Solving intermittent SeaTalk failures
Every now and then, Blue Opal’s SeaTalk gear would boot up and display a ST FAIL message on the autopilot control at the pedestal console. I’ve never been able to work out what it was, and the old trick of “turn it off and back on again” would clear the message. This weekend, while fiddling…
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Attempting to wire up console windlass control
Blue Opal’s windlass has two simple foot switches at the bow, which put voltage on to a relay box in the master cabin, which in turn enables high current flow to the windlass motor. Since I single-hand, it’d be nice to have the ability to raise and lower the anchor without running back and forth…
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Replacing the head sanitary hose – part 3
Sunday dawned. The forecast said there would be rain in the afternoon, and the tide wouldn’t be right until about lunch time to be alongside for power (to do a different job where we needed to run the multi-tool). Today was to be the day we made sure the seacock would close fully, the old…
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Replacing the head sanitary hose – part 2
With the efforts of Friday, we had got the head out, and the top panel and “pillar” portion of the steel holding tank surround. Onwards to getting the rest of it out! Along the way, we did some GPS wiring while thinking about how to take things to pieces – we wanted to be alongside…