Bought a Bosch 70 amp 14 volt Holden alternator and modified it to suit. mainly the bottom alternator mount reduced the boss width maybe 6 mm and also drilled out the boss mount hole to suit the Bukh mounting bolt
New alternator Haydn !, good choice, bought 1 for the Commodore VX last week, sadly mine was 2nd hand...
You're a busy guy, so many projects, Keep posting pictures mate, its looking fantastic....
Friday late start
I loaded up my dinghy as it was reasonable clam , Had 6 settee cushions tided down and a battery box and numerous other bits and bags . Was no room row had to use one ore and slowly make it out to the boat .Fitted up my alternator
place my cushions on board and started to run all the leads from my Isolator panel
I took a photo of the main settee but it turned out blurry
She is looking good HG
Are you working on the boat full time or are you working as well because you seem to get a lot of stuff done
Just a question, where do the batteries live on your H28
Regards Don
Hi HG
Love the pic of the engine (what is its specs ?)
My little Yanmar goes like a train (whistles and blows smoke) so i dont think you will have any trouble keeping up with me
Seriously though she does around 5 knots at 2000 rpm (max revs is 3600 i think) but i have not had to push her into a headwind in rough seas
The local boat builder said if she was his he would replace the 2 blade prop for a 3 blade when he looked at her on the slip
She had a 3 blade when new but the second owner who i tracked down replaced it with a 2 blade and marked the shaft so he could line it up behind the skeg when he was racing
I asked him how she went in adverse conditions and he said
"dont waste your money on changing the prop,try coming up the Tamar from Bass Strait against a falling 7 knot tide, that prop has got more pitch in it than a drum of tar"
So guess i will wait until we meet the wrong conditions and see if we go forwards or backwards
Regards Don
That engine is 3200 horse power it should clean up Ciscos Kubota I think
Today I ran all the speaker wires around the hull and wired up the VHF and sterio did a quick conect to the barry to see how it all went nice having music while you work
still blurry dam it
I had trouble finding a ribbon cable Id put away for the touch pad switch thats used for the led lighting so I stopped doing the engine panel today. Had a brain storm a couple of hours ago and remember where I put it so its in the car for the morning .
I want to test all the circuits before I mount the panel in position
also got my USB charger going so I can power my phone its nearly runs flat by the time I leave the boat playing music all day
Once I run all the wiring Ill buy some of that cable trunking that Mad mission suggested . Ill be glad to get back to work so I can rest up
What did I do to my sailing boat today???
I didn't do anything TO it but I did do something FOR it.
I shifted, sorted, weighed and stacked 600 kg of iron and steel for her and her neighbor's moorings.
It is a joint project with a great mate of mine who has the mooring licence next upstream from me.
He has an Adams 31 and is 76 years of age so I consider my efforts of today, half as community service assisting the elderly. Mind you , this is a guy who has sky dived over 200 times, rode his Moto Guzzi Stone the length of Route 66 a few years ago with his girlfriend 20 years his junior and drinks like a fish once or twice a week.
Here are the pics that say it happened.
Had a quick clean before my two boys arrived for a look over lunch and came home . I did find and put the ribbon cable on board for my LED switch panel so I can now fit the panel next time I'm down there.
The boys had a laugh at my truck dinghy with the gapping hole in the side. But at least its not stolen like a walker dingy up at Sorrento recently.
I think the only thing Id have to worry about it termites on my dingy
Looks great Lazz nice one mate
Well I just bought some teak shutters which will be converted into cabinet doors and a Donk sail master 845 forward cabin door
Cisco was right again Boat = bring on another thousand and a lot more time
Hi Donk
That one difference from mine to yours.Mine has the original tiller comes through the stern that does not have any storage like on the N.Z. H28 In doing this any sea water coming inside the cockpit will drain rapidly through the tiller hole
The previus owner made that projected box on the stern to house a external ignition switch. I intend to cosmetically tidy it up its on my list of thing to do before I die
Hi HG
His may have been the same as yours looking at the photo
I actually thought your tiller went over the top of ther transom but i thought that his attached to a shaft a bit like this photo of mine
Regards Don
I can now start on the sound proofing on the engine cover .
The stove project will be a slow one. I want to polish some brass parts a need to order a couple of items few things I also want to complete the electrical system before I move to far forward with the stove
Just had a knock on the front door my Power tech MPPT solar controller has arrived
Hi HG
Just wondering what the white tank is off
Is it part of your stove
You are doing some flash stuff to that boat of yours
It will be a credit to you when it is finished
Regards Don
Well last weekend I...
-Lubricated my fuel tank cut off tap. It was well seized. Sprayed inox into it and a little bit of manual persuasion to get it moving. I then had to work it back and forth for a few minutes to loosen it up and get full rotations.
-Replaced cracked water intake pipes for the engine. I used red multipurpose pipe from engine to water strainer and reinforced pvc from filter to seacock. Two stainless steel hose clamps on each join.
-Had to unjam a corroded brass wing nut on the water strainer. I don’t see how it could of been done without completely removing the filter and bopping it with a hammer. Bolt was free spinning within strainer. Wanted to beat the designer of the strainer with a hammer too. Previous owner paid $45 dollars too much for that piece of Whitworths crap.
-Bought Velcro from spotlight to attach my boat carpet too the floor, it's been slipping and sliding around. At $15 a meter, surprisingly expensive.
-Whilst I replaced my water pipes, I intentionally flooded my bilge and gave all my bilge pumps a run, including testing the auto float bilge, working fine and now permanently on.
I'd recommend checking/operating fuel taps and stainer basket nuts once a month to prevent jamming.
Yesterday I sanded my 14 metre mast preparing for painting. I was then convinced by the rigger's painter not to paint the mast, but instead to sand it back completely to bare aluminium and treat it. Although I was looking forward to a sparkling white mast, I am more looking forward to not spending shatloads of time and some dollars painting it. And I am told that paint is a major culprit in corrosion and I will never have to worry about that again. Sold.
So I spent most of today carefully sanding the stick back to get every skerrick of paint off and leave a tidy pattern. It was then treated with clear metal sealer.
The product:
A good couple of days' work.
I have already mostly painted the boom so... that may look a bit weird. We'll see. If it's bad enough I'll strip it I suppose.
Painted masts look great until someone leaves a halyard or topper clipped to the base and they strip off the paint slapping the mast. I've never seen a painted alloy spar that din't bubble off the paint where the holes are drilled for the fittings.
I think you have made the right call. Enjoy the feeling of having a known robust rig the next time your are out in a good breeze. The rest of us are reefing early and looking skyward with some doubt!