Heated mattress pad

Last year we got an electric mattress pad. It has duel controls so each of us can keep our side a different temperature.

 We did not get much of a chance to use it last year as we got it late in the winter but we are already firing them up. Let’s say using them instead of firing, fire is a no no word.

Debbie's side

This is mine and is on 4 but the LED is hard to see.

The plug on my side runs to a 110 outlet that is in the hanging locker. The PO put it there for the battery charger. We moved the battery charger. We have two dehumidifier strips (one for each hanging locker) and an extension cord to the bed plugged in there. It runs under the floor boards to the back of the door. There is a small hole there the PO used for storing his MOB pole. He set it in the hole. Any way the chord comes out there and the my side of the pad is plugged in there. It works for now.

 We also added some white foam insulation to Debbie's side of the bead.

Ordered shunt cable for the Xantrex and Link 2000 - 2010

December 2010 - Marina Cortez San Diego, CA

Ordered a 4 ½ inch 4/0 black cable with 3/8 on both ends for the shunt Link 2000  to 600 amp buss on the negative side.
We purchased this from genuinedealz.com
 This will about do it for the battery cables for now. We should be able to hook up the batteries to the new Xantrex charger\inverter with the cables we now have (when it arrives). Then we will need to get some 110 volt wiring to hook up the charger\inverter.

New Found Metals Portholes - Debbie made blackout covers - 2010

Debbie has made porthole covers for the inside of the boat Newfound Metals  port holes.

She used black out material and sewed in bungee chord around them. They slip over the portholes and block the light.

Thanksgiving to Lowes

 We had a nice motor to Lowes Coronado Resort for Thanksgiving. We passed the aircraft carries as usual but this time there were no big donuts as we call them. They put up a fence instead. It not only looks nicer it will help with sailing because it will not block the wind as much like the big black sausage tubes did.

We did pass the broken down cruise ship - it is said it can not get under the Coronado bridge as it is too high so it sits here instead of a good ship yard

The new fence for the aircraft carries

 Also on the way down we saw another Freeport. Turns out it was Windwalker. Buddy and Judy’s boat. We at the time of course did not know this or remember the fact that they are bouncers. They go from the Chula Vista marine to Lowes Coronado Resort by season.

 We then went to our 90 or 100 ft slip! It was at the end of the Lowes slips on the harbor (South Bay) side so we had a great view and were not by all the hotel action (main entrance) so it was real cool.

Looking out the stern of our boat from the slip

 We also saw Tom who was washing a large yacht next to us. He came to our boat by request one time. We had gone to Downwind Marine and talked to Chris about having someone talk to us about varnishing teak. We had no experience with it. Chris recommended Tom and so we had him come by. He was very informative with lots of experience and helpful. This time he came aboard and visited and we showed off what we have gotten done. I don’t think he was too impressed but we are not pros like him. He was kind and he even gave use some more pointers.

The last day we remembered that Windwalker came over to Lowes in the winter so went  over and vested with Buddy and Judy.

We also visited  Bill and Jerry on the 32’ Westsail.  Jerry was working but Bill was there.

 In an earlier sailing Lowes post we explained all about Lowes Resort so I will not go into it here.

 The weather was great as it is fall so the temperatures were mild but sunny and not too windy. Got in the pool etc.

We did get a picture of a gondola ride. They were out as there are several gondolas. I even saw one late at night and it was cold then.

This was all about R and R so we did nothing but relax. As usual we do not do any boat work on this type of trip or anchoring. It is all R and R.

We like the benches at the point but it was a bit cold for sitting too long. Kinda windy spot at times.

We did hire a pump out service because we removing the engine and they came (have done a pup out twice so far on the service ) but did not get much out so we used the pump out cart pump here and it works fine but it was not something we wanted to do. Debbie called them and let them know we were not pleased. They come by every three weeks.

You can see the cart there.

Debbie cooked Thanksgiving dinner on the boat. This was our first time using the oven.

  Debbie had ordered pans for the oven cooking but they did not get delivered in time so we got some tin foil pans. They worked fine.

We had green beans and sweet potatoes and gravy and dressing over some veggie burgers. Also some cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes, I mashed.

Perkins Engine removed - 2010

 Engine time!!  Phil removed the Perkins yesterday! Scary and monument is accession!

 For me it was not too bad as Phil “The Marine Man” is doing the work. So, I am not too overwhelmed with the whole thing.

New Found Metals Portholes - Peek-a-Boo Blinds - 2010

I found the Peek-a-Boo blind spare parts in the garage and Debbie put it together and mounted it in the head. So that completes that project. All the blinds are installed. Four dark out blinds in the stateroom and two privacy blinds in the head. Now we are trying to decide if we want them in the salon on the two forward facing windows. 

December 2010 - Currently at Marina Cortez Harbor Island, San Diego, CA

Cutting head cabinet door behind toilet - 2010

November 2010 - At Marina Cortez Harbor Island, San Diego, CA

 I think I failed to mention or at least did not explain the head cabinet door over the toilet.

 We decide on a house hold size bowl for our toilet. Because the toilet sits on a pedestal already (the Fiberglas step) we need to get a short pedestal on the toilet and the house hold size bowl still came up past the bottom of the cabinet door.

Engine removal prep

We did the engine prep on Sunday. Debbie got all the areas that might get dinged taped with bubble wrap and we put carpet line on the steps.

Bilge blower

Because there was recent discussion of the bilge blower on FOGgers that we would do a quick video of them running.

Perkins running videos

These are videos of our Perkins 4-108 running about 1700 RPM’s as we are on our way to Lowes Coronado in South Bay San Diego CA.

 The Perkins is coming out in a day or so after the videos were taken. In fact it is being removed today 

11-29-10.

                    This one is of the engine sound

Force 10 stove oven lower pan burnt - 2010

 We used the oven for the first time in our Force 10 stove this Thanksgiving.

 It did smell and we found out that the pan over the oven burner was burnt. It got twisted from the heat also. The pan looks to be a protection for the burner. We tried to put it in the only other way it would go but it would not fit.

Propane locker

Got some more propane locker work done.

The way the tanks fit in and the regulator might not work, at least this way.

The tanks need to lean to the middle when removing them from the lazerett. So it may be the regulator will need to be on one end or the bracket that holds it might be removed or even the plywood may need to go on the outside instead. This we will not know until we do a fit next week or so.

Refer build, refer equipment arrived

The rest of the refer equipment arrived.

The thermostat for the freezer and the spill over fan for the refer thermostat

And the power control unite. This will automatically switch from shore power to battery. Or when you come to the dock and plug in shore power it will automatically sense it and switch to shore power.

 We think that this will help keep the battery charger from working so much. That will cut down on heat from the charger and batteries and charger noise. Also it will eliminate a lot of charging cycles and thus reduce the wear on the charger and batteries. This is especially true if we are at a marina for say hurricane season.