What Did You Do To Your Boat This Week?

zurk said:
it was worse at night.
pitch black and looking at lighted channel buoys flying 10 feet above the boat. interesting times.
anyway boat flexed 1/8" between the hulls. seems fine though.
engine bay on starboard had a factory installed hand shower. wave tore it a new one and opened a 6" hole in the engine bay. starboard engine crapped out and wiring was soaked by the 3 ft of water in the engine room. i smacked a seal into place which held and moved with one engine to the island. both bilge pumps crapped out. main router in the boat - a peplink failed. that knocked radar offline. one chartplotter died as a result with no GPS fix. DC to DC engine battery charger died. inverter died due to low battery on the house bank. i manually wired a DC to DC bridge from engine batteries to house bank and drained half the engine batteries so i could make the island. dinghy engine got ripped off - i had a dyneema safety line attached which kept it going overboard. rear canvas covers got ripped off. dinghy backup supporting line got sawn in half. fortunately dyneema is strong. metal shackle in front of the dinghy got ripped apart and was lost. front trampolines got shredded from water pressure.
ive got new trampolines on order. replaced hand shower hole with fiberglassed in 1/4" thick patch. shower needs engine bay open to use it which is fine. peplink just got replaced with an asus bd4 ooutdoor model. dc to dc charger got replaced with a pair of victrons. now i have a 3rd spare charger if everything goes out. dinghy engine got retightened on. i will likely just bolt it thru the transom. stbd engine wiring got corrosion sprayed on and cleaned and a layer of nooxid on it. engine works fine now. i have 2 spare portable bilge pumps on order. and existing water got pumped out of the engine bays. took her out for a short 5km spin and landed a few good waves on her bow and stern. no issue with patches and no leaks in engine bays. both engines work great. still some repairs to do but overall she held up well considering the pounding. need to complete a bunch of stuff including programming the new router, fixing the victron dc to dc boxes etc etc. but overall steep learning curve and im much more confident in the boat now.
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fkn hell
Inquiring minds want to know, What did @zurk learn from this?
 
Rain City said:
@zurk What is that?!
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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.
 
JohnS said:
JohnS said:
Hopefully to not have crappy people build your boat, what a ridiculous list of failures in an Atlantic crossing vessel.
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Hopefully to not have crappy people build your boat, what a ridiculous list of failures in an Atlantic crossing vessel.
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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.
 
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kaelc said:
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
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I just ordered a Seasucker mount. It is unbelievably strong for suction cups. Not your regular suction cup accessory - this is the company that manufactures suction bicycle roof racks. Nice to be able to move iPad around and no new holes in your boat.

https://www.seasucker.com/en-ca/col...products/naked-flex-mount-w-travel-case-black
 
I had a couple random stalls at mid rpms this summer and then no start for 30 mins, followed by start and good running for days. Chatted with mechanic and replaced coil and the ignition sensor assembly in distributer, hopefully that does the trick.
Went for a nice end of season run on Sunday to circulate stabilized fuel. Fantastic weather.

Lake was dead quiet except for spill response crew running booms from a train derailment which resulted in multiple cars of jet A into the lake.
Changed the oils and put her to bed for the winter. Outboards on the next boat to extend boating into the shoulder season!
 

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kaelc said:
The a women from Argentina especially Bariloche the “Banff” of the Andes are worth finding pictures of. Only eclipsed by the beef and Malbec wine. My new British soldier friend and I fell in love with Laura an Argentinian biology student who still loves to fish 22 years later. Fortunately I was already in love with a Welsh girl from Buenos Aires who flew out to visit. It was like Groundhog Day, every morning we would get up hung over go to the lake, see all the beautiful women, head back to the hostel and cook up a feast including tons of beef while drinking Malbec. Party well into the night and scrap our plans to summit a mountain in the morning. Recent photo.
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Speaking of international men of mystery…
 
the force said:
I had a couple random stalls at mid rpms this summer and then no start for 30 mins, followed by start and good running for days. Chatted with mechanic and replaced coil and the ignition sensor assembly in distributer, hopefully that does the trick.
Went for a nice end of season run on Sunday to circulate stabilized fuel. Fantastic weather.

Lake was dead quiet except for spill response crew running booms from a train derailment which resulted in multiple cars of jet A into the lake.
Changed the oils and put her to bed for the winter. Outboards on the next boat to extend boating into the shoulder season!
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Any visible fuel on the water? 80,000 liters lost into the lake and down the river to Vancouver. Scary the lack of response by the press. My backyard
 
kaelc said:
Nice. Thanks for this
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Check out these guys. Good Canadian product if I remember right.

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Samnjoe said:
Any visible fuel on the water? 80,000 liters lost into the lake and down the river to Vancouver. Scary the lack of response by the press. My backyard
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Yeah I just saw the updated volume, quite a large volume for sure.
No sign of it where I was, I launched at Tobiano and stayed downstream of there.
 
the peplink. looks like corrosion shorted out the pins, set fire to the ethernet plugs.
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lesson learnt. i go cheap, replace every year as a regular replacement cycle and for the ethernet i go optical fiber for long runs. didnt have long fiber optic armored cables last time - this time i put em on order. i'll replace all longer runs with armored fiber multimode OM3 links. gold plated terminals are no match for salt water.
 
zurk said:
the peplink. looks like corrosion shorted out the pins, set fire to the ethernet plugs.
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lesson learnt. i go cheap, replace every year as a regular replacement cycle and for the ethernet i go optical fiber for long runs. didnt have long fiber optic armored cables last time - this time i put em on order. i'll replace all longer runs with armored fiber multimode OM3 links. gold plated terminals are no match for salt water.
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Yikes in protected cabin too? My lowrance network seems to holding up about 8 years in.
 
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