Maintenance

Including.. led nav lights at the bow and associated cabling tidied, anchor winch wiring tidied and new circuit breaker installed, new cabin radio fitted, lots more surplus wires removed, nav instruments now sharing data over seatalkng and nmea 2k which are now linked, spare main and jib stowed in bow. I still have a lot […]

I have now got 10Mbs Internet on the boat. I am using a cheap Android mobile phone with a SIM on the 3 mobile network. It costs £20 per month for 50GB of data and if needed I can upgrade to unlimited data for another £12. This phone is set up as a mobile Wifi

Apart from a two day break to return to New Quay, I have continued the boat rewire this week. Lots more old wires are out, the Bilge pumps nearly sorted (see below), nav and deck lights wired to the panels, all instruments are now in the new panel and radar and GPS powered and working.

Today I started rewiring the nav lights and found they have used 2.5mm domestic cable up the mast!! OK that will have to stay for now but I have put waterproof connectors at the mast step and run new marine cable from there to the switch panel. If the mast ever gets removed or I

Over the last few days I have been rewiring the power distribution and making a new nav station panel I have ripped out a lot more old cables as I went along, the old battery ground circuits were like a spiders web with cables spliced in all over, plus many circuits had no fuses. Everything

With lockdowns unlikely to ease significantly before April, I have had no choice but to move onto the boat and hope marina staff do not prevent me from sleeping aboard. Government covid restrictions are not a problem as I am moving home which is a permitted activity. The marina currently have a no overnight stay

Due to staff illness at the shop and Covid-19 resurging. I decided to return to Wales after 6 days working on the boat and seeing my family. I will be unable to get to the boat until January 2021 when I hope to get down and start installing the wiring and do some work on