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Went out today with Jay on Walkabout.. what a gorgeous day.. so bright and clear it almost hurt with the temperature hitting the high 70’s. We were only going to go out for about 2 hours. 6 hours later we get back…. Just awesome day.. 12 knots of wind and flat seas.. I spent the day on Sea Puppy modifying my led light arrangement for the interior lights. I also wired up a fan in the aft cabin. Here is the new arrangement in the head/nav station. I have two led’s one white and one red on a 3 way rocker switch. On white/off/on red. The red leds are for keeping night vision when sailing at night. I also put a red led fixture with a on/off rocker in the galley area. Well as I talked about sunday I have started to have a problem with my TP-32 tillerpilot. It is acting erratically in changing course and on one occasion it changed course by itself by 30 to 40 degrees. I just finished speaking with Simrad tech support and so far I am very impressed. It took about 3 minutes total to go from dialing their 800 number to talking to a tech support person. About 4 minutes talking with him describing the problem and he passed me off to a customer service rep to get a RA# to send the pilot in and get it looked at. I found some arial shots of Sea Puppy sitting in her slip at the marina. Pretty cool what you can find on the internet. I’m not sure if these are satellite or from a plane. I would think a plane. Not much wind to speak of today and the air temp was around 50 degrees. I wasn’t real sure it was worth going out sailing but sometimes you just need to get on the water. Lee volunteered to go with me so off we went. 🙂 well after we get the engine started “off we went”. I’m getting really tired of outboards.. or at least mine.. I haven’t had many of them and the ones I have had were someone else’s for a quite a few years before I got them, so maybe a new one would be more reliable. I have my doubts though. I don’t they like me in general. Always stopping just when you need them or not starting when you want them to start. After about 40 minutes of fiddling and playing with it I finally got outboad started. Squirt of carb cleaner into the cylinder and put the spark plugs back in and it started right up on the first pull. 🙂 so I cheated, but it worked. I went out with Jay on Walkabout yesterday..Walkabout Video It was a blast.. there was a small craft advisory but for us it was flat waters because the wind was out of the north and with 12 to 20 knots of wind we were hauling butt… average over the water speeds of 8.5 knots with us hitting 9.7 knots once or twice. I decided to play with some video I had taken with my camera (canon s45 4mp digital) and compile a little movie. 🙂 here it is. Walkabout Video I was feeling pretty anti-social yesterday and it having been a while since I had gotten out sailing, decided to take Sea Puppy out by myself. It was nice to just go sailing alone. Serious recharge the batteries time for me. It was a gorgeous day and though alone on the boat I did get over near Walkabout to get a few pictures of her for Jay. I got a few pictures of the water and clouds that day that I thought were pretty cool also Today was one of those days where you just needed to get away and get some water time.. I went down to the boat and cleaned a bit and then got Patty and Jeff to go out with me.. we didn’t even go sailing just took the fishing poles and motored up and down the waterway for a few hours fishing. Not a single bite did we get but that wasn’t the point.. I can’t say how relaxing it was to just be out there floating on the water having left all the current crop of problems at the dock. When we got back I closed the boat up and went to get a bite to eat at a new place in the new sporting complex in Little River. I had previously met two sisters that work there and they had invited me to check it out. I had just sat down to eat a quiet meal with them when one of my current crop of problems called me and then walked in and sat down at the table in the middle of my meal. I installed the radio and failed to take one measurement into consideration. 🙁 how deep it is.. I lacked about 1.5 inches to have it flush mount.. lol and I cut the hole out for it already….. However all is not lost… I installed it there anyway and am going to build a spacer to make it right.. this will bring it out a inch and a half but I can use the space as a storage space for sd cards with music on them and usb memory keys 🙂 Other than this it looks nice and works great.. I installed the splitter for the VHF antenna and the reception is amazing.. I get stations on it that my car only dreams of hearing. I guess having a 3 or 4 db antenna 35 feet in the air helps 🙂 The remote control is nice also. I am going to put a mirror in so that I can change stuff from in the cockpit. The new speakers were relatively easy to install also. I got waterproof speakers that matched the hole pattern of the old speakers.. I had to file the edges of the holes for the cone to get it to fit but not much.. Then new speakers sound great. I still have to hook up the inside speakers. I’m not sure how they will sound.. I might need to replace them also.. but im not to worried about that.. I can use normal car speakers in their own inclosures and just mount them on the bulk head. I just got a VRCD400-SDU today at wall mart.. $79.99 New am/fm/cd/mp3/usb key/sd memory card/aux in on face of it car radio I hooked it up to a 12v power supply I have sitting in my office for just such a need. Hooked up the RCA outs to a computer system mic in connector and then started playing. This actually gave me decent stereo sound through the computer sound system. FM: I ran some tethers and misc stuff up while dog sitting for patty this weekend. The tethers came out really nice. I also worked on remounting the radio on sea puppy. It was just bolted to the side of the chart table area. I have now flush mounted it. I is a much cleaner and out of the way install. |
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