Minion, here's a really nice, informative post about the installation of a marine heating and cooling system.
While the author only has a handful of posts each are well done with posts pertaining to sailboat life, sailing in the ROT, and maintenance.
Gimme Shelter is an '82 Oday sloop, here's the specs. It's a handsome craft, with hull shape and amenities typical for a mid-80's production crusier.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Hey, how ya doin'?
Minion, I have just been buried in paper work lately.
Some updates on the s/v GG:
1) finally installed a bus bar for the negative returns. Really cleaned up the birds nest of returns formerly coming to back to the panel. The argument could be made, admittedly, that when the negatives returned to the negative post of thier originating circuit you can more clearly identify wires, however it was a mess, that's not how the previous owner had done it. They'd returned every negative to the "service" post, which is what we saw in that picture I posted back on... here.
2) Had been saving my good boy points for some time at the boat. ( we don't really have good boy points. I'm a grown ass man, y'all better recognize, Minion. ) Got there: dead. Dead as Terry Schiavo. By which I mean I checked electronic readouts before I left and there were signs of life, but upon actual inspection... dead. Anyhoo, did some cleaning. My rudder was, I don't have my copy of Chapmans Seamanship at hand but I believe the proper nautical term was "OMG, like super gross." Regarde vu:
Some updates on the s/v GG:
1) finally installed a bus bar for the negative returns. Really cleaned up the birds nest of returns formerly coming to back to the panel. The argument could be made, admittedly, that when the negatives returned to the negative post of thier originating circuit you can more clearly identify wires, however it was a mess, that's not how the previous owner had done it. They'd returned every negative to the "service" post, which is what we saw in that picture I posted back on... here.
2) Had been saving my good boy points for some time at the boat. ( we don't really have good boy points. I'm a grown ass man, y'all better recognize, Minion. ) Got there: dead. Dead as Terry Schiavo. By which I mean I checked electronic readouts before I left and there were signs of life, but upon actual inspection... dead. Anyhoo, did some cleaning. My rudder was, I don't have my copy of Chapmans Seamanship at hand but I believe the proper nautical term was "OMG, like super gross." Regarde vu:
Luckily I had purchased some cleaning products last week and the schmutz came off pretty easily with a medium soft brush.
3) On that same topic did some cleaning of the cockpit the last time I made a special trip to a boat and there was no wind. The outboard starts pretty regularly but it's got a smokey side to it that, again, well, schmutz. That stuff required a bit more elbow grease and the scouring side of a dish sponge. Getting on my hands and knees and really digging into the nooks and crannies opened my eyes to a couple cracks that I need to investigate further. There are the standard spider cracks all over the deck, but a couple cracks where the cockpit sole meets the seats and or lockers that could probably use a scrape, sand and re-coat. I crawled back into the quarter berths to have a look and the fiberglass looks solid, but still, will want to open up the gel coat in these ares to verify. I'll keep you posted.
Here's Mr. and Mrs. Mallard. They joined me for a brunch of crackers and Pabst last weekend.
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