Chip & Debbie Willis on s\v Elegant'sea

New Harkin ratcheting furler block

Debbie picked up a new Harkin ratcheting furler block at Sailing Supply. It is a ball earing block and will be nicer under load. Our old Harkin block still works but it is not as nice. A back up for sure though.

The new Harkin block stays on the rail better also.

Trawler John and hi Herreshoff 2.5 sail boat - 2012

2012 Marina Kona Kai Shelter Island San Diego, CA

On a dock walk I walked by Trawler Johns boat. There are lots of John’s at our dock so he is Trawler John.

Replace our two 120 volt lamps - stateroom lamp

In a marina in San Diego CA.

We are getting ready to replace our two 120 volt lamps.
This sail lamp is in the stateroom by the foot of the bed.

We are looking at this 12 volt DC LED lamp as the replacement. Going on 12 volts you know :)

Debbie ordered the lamp from www.go2marine.com 800-998-9508.

This LED light is a match for our two IMTRA reading lights in the stateroom over the head of the bead..
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Venice LED with Switch, Stainless Steel, Warm

Venice LED with Switch, Stainless Steel, Warm White LED, 10-30VDC, IP20
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Furling Genoa ratchet block...

So we have gone sailing twice in the last three weeks and furling the Genoa is not been easy. First of the ratchet block was not positioned correctly on the stanchion. From all the project work it had gotten moved. Then I came to realize that we needed to switch the block from ratchet mode to freewheeling when furling the Genoa. I do not remember having to do that before.

This will be used a lot so Debbie is going to stop at Sailing Supply and see if we cannot get a new Harking ball bearing ratchet block for this purpose.

Two Genoa sheets

We picked up two Genoa sheets at West Marine(WM). WM had a good sale and we were tired of dealing with on line stores as what we got in the shipping was not what we thought we ordered and we wanted them now. We had the ends whipped just to save us time from doing it. We like the ends whipped.

ResMed Cpap DC wired and block in head got fused it's self - 2012

The head Blue Sea Systems blade fuse block got an ANL - 80 Amp Fuse installed.

New out haul on track

Rocco the rigger came by and installed our new out haul.

It has a new ball bearing sheave that replaces the frozen original one.

Also a block on a track for adjusting our loose fitting new main sail.

Autopilot support installed

Autopilot Jim came by with his helper and fiber glassed in the ¾ plywood support piece for the under deck Garmin class A autopilot. We will through bolt the Garmin autopilot from the cockpit to the other side of this plywood.

He also added a hull brace for the plywood.

This drive unit creates a lot of force so the plywood is braced by the wood not the hull. The plywood is glassed under the cockpit sole port side.

We did end up having to pull all the wiring, bus and terminator block down from under the cockpit sole for the job :( .

Autopilot Jim :)

Jim at rest.

Jim mixing up some West Systems for his helper.

Then I discovered he lived here one dock away. We had chatted once about some posts I had made on Sailnet.com’s forum. He had asked if I was SanDiegoChip and yes I was!

So now it is getting the template back from Dynamic Dave and size it up as the next phase in this project.

Our closest neighbor, the helper.

These guys do good work.

Jim's double endear Tayana 37' sloop another Bob Perry design.

Jim lives on a boat at our marina with his wife and. At first we were going to get Kemo to do the work but Rocco the Rigger said he was available. That there was this guy named Jim who did good work and was a straight up guy. That seems to be the case, no non-sense and employed a helper who did the glassing work.

The bow of our neighbors center cockpit sloop, looking over this 1968 Cal in perfect condition.

Cal John owns this :)

Jim's helper is also our dock neighbor and lives two boats over with his wife and two kids and dog. We got the whole neighborhood involved here :)

They removed the scupper which was beat up so we are replacing it.

This is some real heavy fiberglass matting they put over the fiberglass cloth.

Kettenburg Johns non-skid - 2012

2012 Marina Kona Kai Shelter Island San Diego, CA

Walked by Kettenburg Johns boat and the guys were doing the non-skid work.

More galley outfitting gear purchased

These items are all endorsed at "The Boat Galley".

We just ordered these galley items from Amizon.com.

Bag closer.

Going to try this egg container.

We have some but this one is see through.

Mixing spoon.

Pan.

Went to the Dingy Doctor for some parts - 2012

June 2012 Marina Cortez San Diego, CA

Went to the Dingy Doctor to get a couple valve caps for the old Achilles dingy we have.

The new jib sheets came but we do not like them

The new jib sheets came but we do not like them. Rigging Only sent us the wrong ones. We do not like the big lightning bolt that is supposed to be a fleck. Not for our boat. We are sending them back for a refund. We have decide on a small blue fleck and will get the line locally so we can see and feel it.

Solar controller fuse and switch installed - 2012

June 2012 Marina Kona Kai Shelter Island San Diego, CA

The Blue Sky Energy inc Solar Boost 3024iL DUO solar controller sitting there in a rats nest of wiring before we start.

The SHURflo PRO Blaster 4.0 wash down pump plumbing. We did more plumbing on the SHURflo PRO Blaster 4.0 wash down pump.

The stern shower (Whale Twist Deck Shower Mixer) is on its way to getting installed. Our first piece of this project was installed!

Debbie's labeling method.

Debbie de-frosted the refer. We still get some frost from the front freezer lid. We seem to have the back on sealed well now and do not get frost in that area. As we work on the lids we get them sealed better.

Learning my first Spanish song "Cielito lindo"! - 2012

June 2012 - In Marina Kona Kai Shelter Island San Diego, CA

A new song is in the works. Well it is not new but it is new to me. It is called “Cielito Lindo”.

This is a widely known song and so about every one will know how to sing along!

Fixing pluming leak - or not - 2012

Marina Cortez in San Diego Harbor Island 6\12\2012

First off there is a plastic hose barb on one hose that we wanted to extend. Dam.

You can see the chain plate bolt at far right.

Spent a couple hours fixing the leak and came away with another leak. Guess that’s why I do not like plumbing so much.

Blue Seas electrical panel labels for our nav station

Debbie picked up some Blue Seas electrical panel labels for our nav station. This one package (DC Basic) has a lot of the labels we can use. If we like them then we will get the others also. We do not have any off the wall stuff on the nav station, or at least on the breakers that need labels :).