Instrument Re-fit Progress ....

[Baggywrinkle]

It's been a very long project, hampered by the distance to the boat and the time it actually takes pulling old cables out, laying conduit and pulling new cables through from bow to stern. Lessons learned ...

• Take your time estimate and double or triple it.
• Take your cost estimate and double it.
• Get help if possible, especially pulling wires through awkward places, a small child would have been invaluable.
• The wire lengths end up being a lot longer than you expect - our NMEA backbone is almost 30m long on a 13m boat.
• Do 6-12 months of yoga and/or pilates before attempting a re-wire.
• RTFM ... multiple times .... it'll save endless confusion when it's switched on and erupts into a cacophony of warning beeps and error messages.
• Despite reading the manuals multiple times, there is much that is simply not clear - forums help, but some sh!t doesn't work as expected so it just has to be lived with.
• Get the right tools for the job, hydraulic crimps, proper strippers, wire cutters and crimps for all electrical connections - resist the urge to bodge and do it properly.
• Use tinned copper wire - it'll last longer and won't look like the green/black carp I pulled out of the bowels of the boat.
• WLAN, LAN, and Bluetooth are the work of the devil and once configured and working will fail without notice on next power-up. If anyone knows how to get a Raymarine wireless mic attached to a Raymarine wireless speaker then I'd love to know - my handset just hangs up trying to connect, with "in use" on the screen and has to be switched off and on again.

This is the plan ... (orange bits still a work in progress.)



... and despite all that wiring ... this is all that is visible. Spot the difference.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

... and document everything.

 

[Bouba]

Can you explain the name change to Me Revile ?

 

[Minerva]

It's been a very long project, hampered by the distance to the boat and the time it actually takes pulling old cables out, laying conduit and pulling new cables through from bow to stern. Lessons learned ...

• Take your time estimate and double or triple it.
• Take your cost estimate and double it.
• Get help if possible, especially pulling wires through awkward places, a small child would have been invaluable.
• The wire lengths end up being a lot longer than you expect - our NMEA backbone is almost 30m long on a 13m boat.
• Do 6-12 months of yoga and/or pilates before attempting a re-wire.
• RTFM ... multiple times .... it'll save endless confusion when it's switched on and erupts into a cacophony of warning beeps and error messages.
• Despite reading the manuals multiple times, there is much that is simply not clear - forums help, but some sh!t doesn't work as expected so it just has to be lived with.
• Get the right tools for the job, hydraulic crimps, proper strippers, wire cutters and crimps for all electrical connections - resist the urge to bodge and do it properly.
• Use tinned copper wire - it'll last longer and won't look like the green/black carp I pulled out of the bowels of the boat.
• WLAN, LAN, and Bluetooth are the work of the devil and once configured and working will fail without notice on next power-up. If anyone knows how to get a Raymarine wireless mic attached to a Raymarine wireless speaker then I'd love to know - my handset just hangs up trying to connect, with "in use" on the screen and has to be switched off and on again.

This is the plan ... (orange bits still a work in progress.)

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... and despite all that wiring ... this is all that is visible. Spot the difference.

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The hulls of your catamaran are different colours!

 

[yotter]

What happened to the fenders

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Can you explain the name change to Me Revile ?

Yep, when I bought her, she was named after a star in some constellation that meant nothing to me ... so I renamed her - and there's a back-story to it.

There was a formidable lady who lived in Ardinamir Bay on the Island of Luing near the end of the Crinan Canal. As a child, our family used to visit her bay, and go ashore to sign her visitors book and have a chat. She had marked the entrance as it was quite treacherous and she would yell at incoming boats that "went the wrong side of the buoy!!".

She had a companion, which was an awesome big cat who would hunt for both of them, and she lived in a small cottage devoid of any comforts or amenities. I really loved her cat and would look forward to visiting every summer until I was in my late teens and no longer went on summer hols with my parents.

Her cat was called McKelvie, which is now the name of my boat - the spelling I use is the one I remember from my childhood.

Irene can be seen on this archive footage from decades ago at 24 mins onwards ... no pics of McKelvie though, may not have been around when the film was shot.

https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/8679

Stories about her and her cat here ...

Irene MacLachlan
Craobh Haven, 2013

 

[Baggywrinkle]

What happened to the fenders

They lost their stinky socks.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

The hulls of your catamaran are different colours!

They are, the design was ahead of it's time - not only is each hull a different colour, they can navigate independently too.

 

[yotter]

Yep, when I bought her, she was named after a star in some constellation that meant nothing to me ... so I renamed her - and there's a back-story to it.

There was a formidable lady who lived in Ardinamir Bay on the Island of Luing near the end of the Crinan Canal. As a child, our family used to visit her bay, and go ashore to sign her visitors book and have a chat. She had marked the entrance as it was quite treacherous and she would yell at incoming boats that "went the wrong side of the buoy!!".

She had a companion, which was an awesome big cat who would hunt for both of them, and she lived in a small cottage devoid of any comforts or amenities. I really loved her cat and would look forward to visiting every summer until I was in my late teens and no longer went on summer hols with my parents.

Her cat was called McKelvie, which is now the name of my boat - the spelling I use is the one I remember from my childhood.

Irene can be seen on this archive footage from decades ago at 24 mins onwards ... no pics of McKelvie though, may not have been around when the film was shot.

https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/8679

Stories about her and her cat here ...

Irene MacLachlan
Craobh Haven, 2013

I also remember visiting with my parents, we were ashore at her house and I am sure McKelvie was there. I recall her shouting at a yacht going the wrong side of a perch.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

I also remember visiting with my parents, we were ashore at her house and I am sure McKelvie was there. I recall her shouting at a yacht going the wrong side of a perch.

This was the boat from my early childhood, moored in Inverkip Marina. .... she should appear in Irenes visitors books multiple times. It was very different back then.



Difficult to see in the pics above, but the new boat name has a paw print as the dot on the "i" and a general cat theme ... boat graphics were made by Leonie from Vinyl Boat Lettering - Art & Sea - Custom Vinyl Graphics, Boat Graphics based at Creran Marine in Argyll

 

[CrossedThreads]

Just searching for something else on google and this thread popped up. I like the look of your bow roller arrangement (I presume there is a proper nautical term). Can you share details @Baggywrinkle ? She looks great.

 

[Bouba]

This was the boat from my early childhood, moored in Inverkip Marina. .... she should appear in Irenes visitors books multiple times. It was very different back then.

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Difficult to see in the pics above, but the new boat name has a paw print as the dot on the "i" and a general cat theme ... boat graphics were made by Leonie from Vinyl Boat Lettering - Art & Sea - Custom Vinyl Graphics, Boat Graphics based at Creran Marine in Argyll

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And the N in Campbelttown is a cat

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Just searching for something else on google and this thread popped up. I like the look of your bow roller arrangement (I presume there is a proper nautical term). Can you share details @Baggywrinkle ? She looks great.

It is one of these ....

Sailing boat bowsprits Archives - Båtsystem ..... needed a bit of fettling to get the Code-Zero, Anchor etc. not to interfere with each other, but I'm very happy with it, and the support from Boat Systems has been excellent.

They are currently working on new models which should be around mid to late summer or so I was told.

 

[yotter]

This was the boat from my early childhood, moored in Inverkip Marina. .... she should appear in Irenes visitors books multiple times. It was very different back then.

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Difficult to see in the pics above, but the new boat name has a paw print as the dot on the "i" and a general cat theme ... boat graphics were made by Leonie from Vinyl Boat Lettering - Art & Sea - Custom Vinyl Graphics, Boat Graphics based at Creran Marine in Argyll

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Avon Redcrests, Seagull outboard and Yellow trolleys. Just home from Kip, quite different now apart from the rain. 10 wee swans this year though, getting quite big now, hopefully too big for Mr Fox now

 

[laika]

What made you go for 2xi70s rather than one of those and either the i50 tridata or i50 wind? I’m currently trying to decide what to replace my st50s with. I’ve installed one i70s but I’m leaning towards i50s for the rest. I have n2k transducers now so don’t need that head unit capability but the i50s are a bit cheaper (although not that much) and use less power. Obviously the i70s do so much more but do I need more than one given that most of the time I just want to see speed and depth?

And yes: fitting instruments: easy. Dismantling the boat to run cables: harder. I’m not a fan of proprietary connectors in general but I think anywho has had to replace old cabling with n2k probably secretly appreciates seatalk ng over devicenet

 

[Baggywrinkle]

What made you go for 2xi70s rather than one of those and either the i50 tridata or i50 wind? I’m currently trying to decide what to replace my st50s with. I’ve installed one i70s but I’m leaning towards i50s for the rest. I have n2k transducers now so don’t need that head unit capability but the i50s are a bit cheaper (although not that much) and use less power. Obviously the i70s do so much more but do I need more than one given that most of the time I just want to see speed and depth?

And yes: fitting instruments: easy. Dismantling the boat to run cables: harder. I’m not a fan of proprietary connectors in general but I think anywho has had to replace old cabling with n2k probably secretly appreciates seatalk ng over devicenet

The 2 x i70s was a redundancy and aesthetics choice .... redundancy because when one dies, the other can provide all the same functions, and aesthetics because they are all the same size, resolution, and design. Apart from the cost, I do like SeatalkNG, my backbone is 28,8m and it was not fun laying the conduit and pulling the wires through.