We have our WSO 100 wind instrument mounted and working! - 2018

Driving to Mike's Machine Shop in our 2008 VW Jetta. We know of three machine\welding shops that do great stainless steel work in Puerto Vallarta and all three are on dirt roads. All three are nice shops too!! We are getting a mount made for the WSO 100 weather station we are mounting on top of the mast.
December 2018 - We are currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico (by Puerto Vallarta)

It's on the left.

This was quite interesting. I do think there is an upholstery 
shop upstairs but it does look funny.

Looking up the road from the shop.

Down the street.

In the shop and looking at our mount.

Not sure what this is other than an anchor cut out😏

Looks like a fishing rod holder.

Our new mount on the boat.

We had a mount like this and it did not have the white paint. 

We had the shop cut off the threads which are not a common thread 

and weld the threads to a piece of 1" stainless steel tubing we had.

We had a piece of 1"' stainless steel tubing on the boat(s\v Elegant'sea). 

Here I put a piece of foam sponge into the tubing. That's in case we 
need to remove it someday, we did not want it rock solid full of silicone. 
This way we siliconed the hole and the sponge filled in the rest.

Applying the silicone.

All done with the mount and WSO 100 prep.

Eddie takes the WSO 100 and mount up the mast.

Eddie is going up the mast to mount the WSO 100 wind/weather station 

and put up bird spikes and remove the topping lift. 

Also, he put McLube in the sail rack and tuned the rigging. 

Now that the WSO 100 is mounted on top of the mast,
 we need to find the wind drop cable that goes up the mast. 

Unfortunately, I did not do a good job of labeling the 
Garmin NMEA 2000 Network cables on the backbone when we set it up😡

Debbie and I had to go through most every cable and determine 
where they were going and label them. We found the wind cable.

The wind cable now is required to be on the very end of the Garmin backbone so we had to move the Garmin GPSMAP 740 chartplotter cable to where the wind was and put the wind on the end where the Garmin GPSMAP 740 chartplotter was.

Now it is putting it all back together.

But it works! 😁😎