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feb 24 2007 video
I took Sea Puppy out today and sailed about 6 miles down the coast and back. Conditions were about 9 to 10 knots of wind and 1 ft seas. Wind from the S/SE and seas from the N/NE. Ben took out Winds of Freedom and Angela had Valkyr out also. Needless to say Ben walked away from Angela and I as if we were standing still. A beneteau First 36.7 is a fast boat points like a banshee. It was unreal watching him pointing higher and going much faster than either of us could go. It almost looked like he was sailing in much different wind than us. On the other hand Valkyr and Sea Puppy amazingly seem to in that wind range have very similar performance. Valkyr is a Down East 38 so she has a much longer waterline and with the cutter rig a lot of sail area, on the other hand she is a heavy cruising boat. Upwind I can almost hang with her. I can point higher than she can but at a cost of about a 1/4 knot of speed compared to her. On the same heading upwind I was maintaining speed as long as I was hand steering. Using the autopilot slowed me down enough that she would creep ahead. ( the auto pilot was doing a lot of work correcting the course because of the seas being following seas. I could adjust for this better than the autopilot.) On the way back in running down wind Sea Puppy just zipped home. We walked away from Valkyr at a steady clip. The weight on Valkyr really started to count against her as apparent wind dropped off downwind.
I went out with Jay on Walkabout Thursday. With the wind between fifteen and twenty knots out of the N/W it was an awesome day for sailing. With clear blue skies and maybe one ft of swell it was both intensely beautiful and very relaxing. Boat speed was a constant 8 to 9 knots with Walkabout just zipping along smooth as silk.
It was good for me to get out.. I really miss being out on the water as much as I was last year. The last four months or so have seen me only getting out a couple times a month. Food for the soul!
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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.
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I also put a red led fixture with a on/off rocker in the galley area.
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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.
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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.
Well I finally got the AM FM fully mounted 🙂
Here are the prior posts about this
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I had to create a wooden spacer to make it fit. It was deeper than the space I tried to install it in.
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