Slow but steady....


Well it's been a couple of weeks since I've had a chance to either post a blog or spend any amount of time messing with the boat. (The mandate from the better half is that I need to finish some wallpapering, plastering and painting to a couple of bedrooms, which I have been attacking diligently for thelast 3 weekends.) The picture to the left is the boat taken from Jake's bedroom window, taunting me as I lay and sand the plaster and paint the stupid wainscoating. Boy, do I hate piainting wainscoating; you just can't get enough paint in the cracks!

Today, my sister Barb was up from Conneticuit and we took our for breakfast and visited for a bit. She left about 2 pm and I promised Rob that I'd take him back to URI at 5, so I had a few dead hours and spent some time crawling over the boat and trying to draw up a matrix of action.

I took a few pictures, mostly to have something to post, that will outline some of my issues.
I promised my buddy Randy, (who really is one of the family without the guilt) will be coming down to give me a hand with the wiring. I know, it's only a 12 volt system, but I want them volts to be stretch to their maximum efficiency!

The picture to the left is the inside of the starboard (right side) cockpit hatch. The blue tube is connected to an outlet found in the cockpit that will allow a hose to be connected to fill the fresh water tank. Since it hasn't been used in about 10 yeats, I think I'll spring for the $10 and get a new hose! To the right is the shore power "electircal system" which screwed to the bulkhead (wall). I am pretty uncomfortatble with this layout. (Whenever you see lamp cord for wiring 120volts, be afraid).

The image to the right is
a close up of the "120 shore power panel". I've never seen a screw in fuse before!.
















The above image is a close up of the "power center". Rust is never a good sign, but then again for a 30 year old sailboat used in a salt water environment, this is acutally very good.

Finally, the "monitoring system". I think I may go digital here.



I wanted to get a couple of good
pictures of the inside of the boat, since I didn't include them before.

Here's a half decent picture from inside, middle of the boat looking out.

The sun makes it a little tough, but you can see the bunks on the left and right, the galley (sink, Icebox, etc is right under the hatch. The steps are located on the right side of the sink. Yes, those are plastic champagne glasses hanging on the left! The fuse /switch panel can be seen just to the right of the faucet.

Here's a view from the outside looking in, with the table down (It folds up sort of like the old tiime ironing boards. I think I'm going to have to get my router out a put some new formica on. This is to '70s for me, sort of like Lucienne's kitchen! (Notice the cardboard on the floor. You buy a boat from a Porteguese, if it don't have plastic on the cushions, it'll have cardboard out to protect from the dirt!).

All for now.