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Tony

Hey y'all, Once in a while I pick up an issue of Living Aboard. I just finished reading through the January-February issue, and saw an article about a couple that live aboard their triton. I don't remember a lot of it (and my wife has the mag now...not much chance of getting it back until she's done...

Tony

Nice silicon Blue hose. Doesn't clash with the silver paint.

Oh, I hate it when my engines aren't properly color coordinated, I mean, it's just not Done!

Perhaps the slotted brackes are to accomodate differently spaced motor mounts for a drop-in replacement?

Tony

Here you go, final schematic. I changed my mind on the heavier wire to the socket, it'll be 14AWG like the rest.

Tony

Marshall, I'll see if I have time today for it. Final is basically what you see minus the small negative buss after the combination circuit (That was actually out already when Tim mentioned it) and with Tim's recommendations regarding fuses taken into account. The heavier wire to the 12V socket is a...

Tony

Wow...way to drag up a dead thread...you must be REALLLLLYYYYY bored, eh? :-)

Tony

Ah, thanks Tim, that's why I come here :-)

Tony

OK,
Here's the plan up to now. Amperage and fuse values are mostly estimated based on Don Casey's This Old Boat as well as online sources. Am I on the right track here?

Tony

Hey y'all,
I just saw this on the TSBB, thought one you here might be interested.

http://bbs.trailersailor.com/forums/tra ... ead/612809

Tony

Fig, My thinking here was, rather than use one of the "Big Mutha" fuses (I like that, by the way :-), I could use 3 smaller (Little Mutha?) fuses, one on each leg. Upside would be easier troubleshooting if I'm getting blown fuses. If I have one fuse on everything, I have to follow each cir...

Tony

Thanks Jason :-)

Tony

Brian, Our C-22 will be trailer-sailed only for the close future. I have a charger at home and will charge the system there. The solar panel is for keep-full charging while it sits on the trailer during trips and on the water. I don't have the panel yet, so actual performance is up in the air, still...

Tony

I'll think about the fuse thing. I left off the memory lead on the stereo intentionally, to save power. I won't have any power generation on the boat aside from the solar panel, and that's more of a keep-full type thing. To get enough panel-juice to really charge the battery would cost more than I p...

Tony

Master fuse to the hot buss, I may connect other things to it over time, and the bilge pump is hooked to one of those nifty Rule panels with the on/off/test switch and fuse.

Tony

OK, Rev 1...whaddaya t'ink?

Tony

Thanks for all the input so far, I appreciate it. @Tim - Yea, I kinda went back and forth on the color code, but figured that as long as I was drawing it out I might as well do it "right" so I had it figured out if I went that direction; I'll probably just use duplex after all. Thanks for ...

Tony

Hey y'all, I'm pondering the remains of what was once a 12V system on my Catalina 22. Here's a schematic I've come up with off the top of my head for the new system. Can y'all take a look at it for me and let me know if I've made any bonehead mistakes? Any better ways to do it than I'm planning? Als...

Tony

Oh yea, I remember now. Still can't remember where the info came from, maybe trailersailors.com, but the guy did this to escape shallow water before a hurricane- Andrew, perhaps. It was so successful the guy and his family decided to explore some of the close areas of the ICW they weren't able to ge...

Tony

I saw this somewhere else, and I don't remember what it was, however the guy actually had a logical reason for doing this...something like trying to get out of the way of a hurricane.

Tony

Ah, just wondered.

Tony

Tim, what's with the red/pink plastic on the doors?

Tony

Britton, I work in a fab environment for Intel. When we need to move tools into the factory through the "dirty" passageways, we take rolls of plastic (tink visqueen) and cover all the walls, using a white poly tape (duct tape would work too) exclusively for attaching the plastic. Sometimes...

Tony

Well, I don't know what it is, but....

I vote this for the prestigious "Most Bizarre Design" award for 2007!

Tony

I'm sorry, Britton, but I have to give away your new color scheme.

hehe...subtle...:-p

Tony

"k, maybe I was wrong. It wouldn't be the first time :-) The literature I had for our old Harstad Ketch showed that sail as a mizzen staysail. Perhaps I read something wrong.

Tony

Rachel,
That sail is called a Mizzen Staysail, it flies from two halyards and has a sheet, similar to a spinaker setup, I suppose. I'm guessing that because it "works like a mule" when up (really makes a ketch fly off-wind), that's why they call it the mule :-)

Tony

Oh, now THAT'S cool. hehe...honey, I'm gonna get back into RC's again.....

-Tony

Tony

Only downside is that these batteries dies abruptly... the battery life meter on the handheld GPS is worth nothing with the lithium batteries for some reason. Case, The lithium batteries really do act this way. Regular alkaline batteries start at some voltage above their rate, say 1.8 V for an AA. ...

Tony

Hmmmm.....clearly the "plastic" doesn't apply...

Tony

Radio Controlled Boat Mover???

I've gotta see that!

Tony

if the hardware is tightened too much before a proper seal

Brian,
Yea, it may not be PD, however it didn't stick to the deck at all, and sure smelled like PD :-) No matter, I'll be rebedding the foredeck gear with 4200 tomorrow or tuesday.

Tony

"...I only had one fire..."

Wow, if that's the best I wonder what the worst was??!

Tony

OK y'all, For the sake of my incredulity, I gotta rant, but that got me thinking...what's the oddest thing YOU'VE seen a PO do? Last night I pulled off the bow pulpit of our new-to-us Catalina 22. It was bedded in...wait for it...WHITE PLAYDOUGH!! I'm not kidding. I wasn't any kind of caulk. The edg...

Tony

Doc,
Where are you in Portland? I'm in Vernonia. My wife and I used to live on our old 32' Ketch at Jantzen Beach.

Tony

David, Almost... Red=positive, Black=Negative. To connect directly to a battery, run the Red wire from pos, through a fuse, to stereo. If you need to, you can tie the other power wire (yellow?) to this same lead. Ground (usually black, but I have seen green or green and black used before) wire goes ...

Tony

I didn't attach the ground.

That's kinda a requirement....electrons flow from the neg post, through the radio, back to the pos post on the battery.

Tony

Wowee.
I don't suppose there's a high pier you can pull up to to reach the top of the mast...

-Tony

Tony

And now, we return to our intrepid adventurer: It's tuesday, and I've got the rest of the day off. Before leaving, I install the new oar sockets. I head down to Brown's Landing, roughly a quarter of the way down Multnomah Channel. I launch the boat. Same deal as before, but without the two gallons o...

Tony

Here's phase one of my weekend adventure: I'm eagerly awaiting the chance to go pickup our new-to-us Catalina 22 in a couple weeks. In the meantime, I found myself overly eager to get out on the water, so I dragged my old dinghy out, finished glassing in the new transom that I started two years ago ...

Tony

Something else was probably a factor in the bending of this rig.

Yea, that's was my first thought. The owner doesn't know anything about it (and seems fairly honest). My guess is maybe his kids, who used the boat at some point, might have done something to it and not said anything.

Tony

Yep, a new mast is. That's why I was wondering about repairing it. The rest of the boat is generally sound, I was about to make an offer when I caught the bend in the mast. No, there's not a kink at the partners, it's an illusion due to the angle of the pic. The mast is really poorly supported on to...

Tony

Hey y'all, I'm looked at a Catalina 22 today that looked very promising for the price, then discovered the mast was bowed. Looks like it's due to being improperly stored. Now for the question: Is there any way to fix this? Much of the bend seems to be in the lower section. The owner hasn't sailed th...

Tony

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-Tony

Tony

...hehe...

Isn't that a HUGEANTIC development???

Tony

...hehe...that reminds me... Several years ago I was repairing a small leak we found when we splashed our Harstad the first time. We had the boat pulled right out when I found water coming in the aft cabin through a bolt-hole. Long story short: I'd been working on the problem for hours, and it was a...

Tony

I get them at Lowes or Home Depot. You can probably find them cheaper online in bulk quatities, but honestly one disc can go a Looooong way before replacing, unlike sandpaper. This is more true for the rougher grits than the finer ones, but the way I typically use it is for bulk removal with a 40 gr...

Tony

Rachel,
I have a Dewalt 4", and the flap wheel works fine on it. You're not using the backing pad that comes with the grinder, so an inch shouldn't matter.

Tony

..(cough...cough)...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Tony

Oh, come on, fellas. A hook for carrier landings? Crab pot fishing line? No, No, No! That's for those times when they sail into a narrow channel between two marinas with a not-so-tall bridge not too far ahead and their fancy new in-mast mains'l rollerfurling rig jammed up with the sail all the way o...

Tony

On Solace I had to replace one of the main bulkheads. I used a Sawzall and a Dremel to do the cutting, braced the hull & deck with 2x4's crosswise to keep it's shape and then ground off most of the tabbing, leaving small 2-4" sections every couple feet on one side the bulkhead. These little...

Tony

Aww, gee, guess it's time for shop 3.0... :-)

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