What Did You Do To Your Boat This Week?

[kaelc]

Decided my realization that I need to use glasses to look at navionics on my iPhone was too much of a pain. Picked up an old iPad Pro cellular. Just need to figure out how to mount it on the boat.

 

[zurk]

@zurk What is that?!

good eye.
there are vents on the floor of the deck which drain any water residue from the top deck to the ocean. they are protected by L shaped covers which redirect the water towards the stern. force of the waves was so much that the water forced its way in the reverse direction on those vents so as the deck slammed into the waves the jets of water would hit the ceiling. that is seawater residue from the jets hitting the ceiling. not much water - just like a spray from one of those misting sprayers. still shows the force of the waves.

 

[Rain City]

Decided my realization that I need to use glasses to look at navionics on my iPhone was too much of a pain. Picked up an old iPad Pro cellular. Just need to figure out how to mount it on the boat. View attachment 122378

RAM Mount

 

[zurk]

Hopefully to not have crappy people build your boat, what a ridiculous list of failures in an Atlantic crossing vessel.

Hopefully to not have crappy people build your boat, what a ridiculous list of failures in an Atlantic crossing vessel.

mixed bag.
the sterling DC to DC instead of going all victron was on me. i wanted auto balancing which victrons dont have.
the peplink was also on me. i shouldve gone with a cheap asus and kept a few as backups.
the shower was just a stupid design defect. almost all cats have rear showers though so i guess the market need is to blame.
the bilge pumps werent designed to handle 3ft of seawater sloshing about -almost all bilge pumps have less than 3ft of wiring before you have to splice in. so thats again a market issue.
engine wiring isnt designed to get seawater on it. thats on the manufacturer.
the trampolines didnt have eye splices going through the matting so thats likely cheap trampolines.
hydraulic i blame the shipyard because that was a installer issue - fortunately fixed before the trip.
canvas i asked them for fiberglass covers so i blame the sales guy for that one. maybe they couldnt fabricate them at all. ill fix that.
would i be better off in a lagoon at twice the price ? likely not. a condocat would have serious damage after a trip like that. ISO Category A - Ocean is for 23ft seas with 41-47kts of wind. I pretty much ran it in those conditions or maybe a little more and it held up. so no complaints about the boat design overall.