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I recently got a question about mounting my TP32 autopilot on sea puppy and here is my reply to it.
He had asked about the width and slant on the shim I made to get the cantilever arm horizontal when mounted.
I can certainly do that for you if you want but mine is not quite perfect. I can tell you that the widest is between 3/4 and 1 inch thick.. probably closer to 1″ and the thinest is 0″ inches. I will measure it Friday when I get back to the boat and can send it to you the beginning of the week when I’m back off the water. 🙂
We didn’t take Sea Puppy out sailing. Actually we were tired and just heading home but Miriam decided we should just go sailing with Angela on Valkyr if she hadn’t left the dock. 🙂 so we did 🙂
pictures here 🙂
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Noseeums invaded in force and we decided to motor back. So it wasn’t a long morning on the water.
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Went out and anchored overnight behind bird Island 🙂 very nice.
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Tohatsu USA sent me a lower pitch prop to try on the boat free of charge in their efforts to try and help me with the performance issues I have been having. I got out yesterday and put the new prop on and got some preliminary static thrust measurements.
The prop on the engine goes on and off super easy. Pull the pin on the nut and it just turns off with two fingers easy as pie. The prop then comes right off and the new one slid right on. We just turned the boat around so with the engine up I could sit on the edge of the dock and reach the prop with the engine in the up position. Maybe 2 minutes to change it out.
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In talking with some of the guys on the forums at http://www.beneteau235.com we were recently talking about single handing and tiller tamer setups. As well as other single handing topics. Here are some of my comments on my experiences in that line that I made.
Bungee worked pretty good for me for a while 3 wraps around tiller handle. If you have trimmed your sails right and don’t have to much pull on the tiller it will hold course for a while. under power it works even better. Still not great for when a wake hits you and your on the bow and the boat takes off in a new direction.
What an awesome morning. I sat in the cockpit with a mug of hot tea and for a very quiet and calm morning start. A little bit later Patty and Jeff showed up on Pirate Girl and I tied them off behind me and went over and had breakfast with them. After Breakfast they took off and headed home. They had had a rough night anchored offshore when the winds kicked up into the low 20knt range.
I sailed off the anchor with just the main up. 🙂 I am really enjoying working on my engineless sailing skills. Each time I do this it gets easier and I get more confident in being able to cope with an engine out issue.
Well we were supposed to race to Murrells Inlet on saturday but for one reason or another it didn’t happen. Everyone else bailed and decided to do a Sherman and back race instead of going to Murrels inlet except me on Sea Puppy and Patty & Jeff on Pirate Girl. We left around 8 in the morning and once out on the ocean there was no wind. So we decided forget the race we will just motor for a while till the wind comes up.. 2 hours later “no wind”. Patty decided she didn’t want to motor all the way to murrels inlet and I went along with it as at this point I was just happy hanging out with her and Jeff. We were about 10 miles down the coast line from Little River Inlet and 3 miles off shore. We just anchored there. It was about 36 ft of water and the water was very clear. I almost went swimming to give the bottom of the boat a scrubbing but I got lazy. We were going to raft up but even the very light swell was making them rock to much so we just tied me off of Pirate Girls stern about 20 ft behind her. It was a great afternoon of lazy 🙂 We ate and kicked back under tarps for shade and read and napped. Jeff rigged up a seat cushion on the end of a line to float watermelon over to me. A good time was had by all.
I worked with tohatsu on the height of the mount. no difference. I measured it and it ended up only being about 1 and 1/4 inch lower than stock.
Got back with tohatsu yesterday and they are stumped. They think the boat is two big for the engine and that is why the rpms are running 1200 rpm under nominal . Nominal being according to them 5500 rpm. They are sending me free of charge a 6 pitch prop to test and see what that does. They agree that I am not getting 6hp at the prop if im not getting 5500 rpm but I can tell they want to say it is because the boat is to big/heavy.
Well as I’ve said in the last couple posts I have lost or have had stolen from me my old canon s45 digital camera. I paid 400+ dollars for it new 5+ years ago and have taken more than 10,000 images with it. It has been an awesome camera to use. With exceptional image quality and long battery life it met and exceeded my expectations from when I got it.
Because I have enjoyed my previous canon cameras so much I have been looking at some of their cameras that came out this past year or so and finally got one. I went for the Canon A640 10mp camera. I found one at Costco for 299 bundled with a canon picture printer. I still have to get the underwater housing when I can afford it.
We heard Orrin and Angela head back to the dock about 5am sunday morning. Angela had to be at work at 8 so they had to get going early. We rose a bit slower than that. more along the lines of 7:30 or so.. Underway at 8:30 and back to the dock to join Breck, Orrin, and Jerry for breakfast.
I wish the inlet was closer to the dock. It took an hour and half to get back to the marina from the inlet.
And again no pictures because of missing camera.
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This past weekend Miriam came down and we took Sea Puppy out saturday afternoon and went and rafted up with Orrin and Angela on La Bon Vie and Ben and Susan on Winds of Freedom. What an awesome evening. The company was great and everyone contributed some food to be cooked and the six of us had more food than we could eat. Tilapia, salmon and steak on the grill. Wokked vegitables, Asparagus, and more.
After dinner everyone unrafted and we each anchored separately. As always I got a great nights sleep on the water.
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