Tag: Equipment
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Hardening the thruster
Sooo.. We’re still hanging out in Boulogne waiting for useful winds to move over to the UK. Tomorrow is looking good so far! Today I took a looooong bike ride out into the suburbs to find large sized heat-shrink tubes. It’s always difficult when you are in an unfamiliar harbour to find specialized stuff like…
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Mounting research stuff and more
After the miserable weekend comes a much better start of the week. On Monday we got all cabling and piping done for the scientific instrument installation: We also got an AIS transponder mounted. It is mandatory for the IRC class in Gotland Runt. So now I can finally see myself on my own AIS plot:…
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Very long-in-the-making action item getting done.
Some tasks in the Journeyman project have been stubbornly resisting getting done. The fridge and freezer installation is one of them. As I wrote about earlier, I have done a special version of the heat exchanger integrated into the hull bottom plate. Now the story about getting this finally connected and running involves several different…
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Out with the old and in with the new…
I have had four dorade boxes from Vetus mounted for my deck ventilators. I looked at them when they were delivered and thought: “Strange that they make really sturdy ventilators and mounting bases, but then put a crappy piece of plastic between them. Of course the crappy piece of plastic was not very durable, so…
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After major cabling work, we have an autopilot!
This took a lot longer than I expected it to. The autopilot is connected to almost every corner of the boat! One sensor on the targa, one sensor, pump and control unit in the transom, both the NMEA0183 and the NMEA2000 instrumentation buses, control panel in the cockpit, follow-up remote at the nav station, and…
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Funny suppliers…
Everybody knows that marine hardware suppliers tend to charge a lot of money for their products, right? Like just putting the word “Marine” on something instantly doubles the cost… I just had a rather funny example of this: As part of the climate monitoring sensors we are putting on the Journeyman we are also mounting…
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Veggie Store
All long distance cruisers know that you need to store vegetables high and dry with lots of air circulation. Everyone I know uses a piece of netting that forms a hammock in the salon ceiling for this. Now being the stubborn designer I am I naturally had to try to improve a little bit on…
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Gearing up for climate monitoring
And it’s a lot of gear… We just finished this piece of equipment which will be responsible for the water analysis part of the Ocean Search climate monitoring project. The unit will be mounted in the bilge of the Journeyman, and run water analyses every hour. There will also be corresponding unit mounted for air…
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Real sailors don’t do knots.
Real sailors splice. Even if it is a little complicated with modern dyneema core / double covered ropes. But when the sun is shining its spring rays into the cockpit it is a rather nice way of spending a couple of hours. Intermediate stage: Final result:
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Custom Power Monitor
I looked at a lot of commercially available electric power monitors, and none of them really suited me. Either they didn’t support dual voltages, or they had too small measurement shunts that couldn’t handle the 200A loads I have as worst case. Or they were of the “over computerized” type who insists on providing some…