Super fortunate to have
@wolf and
@tigerprawn fit in my annual retrofit, so mostly what i did was clean up the boat so it was in good enough shape to work on and deliver it. Tiger did all the work and Roy allowed it to be done comfortably with a chuckle! Almost caught up on the deficiency list and years of buying stuff and not installing it.
New "warranty" antenna from Shakespeare that lights up, relocated from the spot along the gunnel, that made it tough to get to the front of the boat on the starboard side and contributed to my 7 year old falling in, giving me the biggest scare of my life. It will likely be better than the 8 footer due to the higher mounting point and it may look cool at anchor listen to country music, and provide a little extra safety when sleeping offshore, if I ever go down south for tuna like I plan too. I'll try to shoot some video Saturday night, as I promised one to Shakespeare.
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2x110 Watt Sunpower Solar Pannels similar to these
https://amzn.to/4qqwiEr #ad and this Victron solar mppt charge controller
https://amzn.to/3LyaiIC #ad . I chose flexible solar panels after breaking on smaller rigid one on my boat and seeing others break big rigid panels and knowing my kids and their friends are going to be whipping jigs around for the next 10 years, not that I ever break things. 220W should be enough to keep the house and start battery topped up in the summer as I have no plans for an inverter kurig/tv....just 12v stuff and an ipad. The controller is big enough to add a third panel on the bimini/canvas or two small ones on the radar arch if I switch the 100ah agm for a big lifepo4 in the future.
Added a cockpit blue seas 12v socket for the 12v portable fridge/freezer that's too big to keep in the cabin, that I bought from
@Rain City 2-3 boats ago. Moving it around on the Rivers Inlet trip was a pain, I'd love to trade it for a smaller one but love that it's paid for and kept our bait frozen for that trip, so it should do for ice cream for the family.
Finally mounted my second Lowrance gimbal on the dash so I can bring my cockpit screen in while on longer trips.
Switched from very slow and low heat 19 year old Wallas heater/cooktop to a Planar Autoterm 4D heater which should allow window defogging and to also heat my canvas sun room enclosure over the back cockpit for family cruising. Had a long debate over the Amazon and HLN heaters but after getting 19 years out of the Wallas I'll stick with marine "certified" ones where you can get parts for and will hopefully outlive me.
Someone might have bought a Victron DC/DC charger of facebook marketplace last night, and I have another appointment out in sooke to deal with a deficiency the retrofit discovered so I guess I'll be done when I'm dead.
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