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Deciding to replace the old cap ended services fuse holders with modern Bluesea blade fuse holders with miniature MCBs is mine. At a rough count 80-100 individual conductors have been disturbed, labelled, re-routed, re-terminated, and (mostly) re-connected. Still have about 20 left and having deep joy identifying what at least 8 of these do.

I have also found at least 8 vacant ends that just disappear into the boat, presumably from redundant kit, two strips of what appear to be NMEA 0183 connections, but I don't have enough plotters, etc to require two lots.

Ho, hum !
 
I attempted to winterise my Bukh DV24 ME myself. It ran away with itself and now i need to find a second hand cylinder head, rocker assembly, piston, con rod, etc,etc. Finding these engines second hand hand or being broken is like spotting the Loch Ness Monster! However, ideas will be gratefully received. Sadly, replacing the headlining on my Konsort is next on the list!!!
 
superheat6k said:
What's yours ?

Deciding to replace the old cap ended services fuse holders with modern Bluesea blade fuse holders with miniature MCBs is mine. At a rough count 80-100 individual conductors have been disturbed, labelled, re-routed, re-terminated, and (mostly) re-connected. Still have about 20 left and having deep joy identifying what at least 8 of these do.

I have also found at least 8 vacant ends that just disappear into the boat, presumably from redundant kit, two strips of what appear to be NMEA 0183 connections, but I don't have enough plotters, etc to require two lots.

Ho, hum !
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Yes-- we all start jobs which end up being a chore
But that is part of owning a yacht
The thrill comes in meeting the challenge successfully & then sailing a well fitted yacht on a glorious sunny day with favourable winds or waking to an early morning scene in an isolated anchorage ( or whatever floats your boat)

Keep that in mind & know why you are doing it-- The reward will follow
 
Fitting an electric windlass and remotes , the trips, doubled up traction batteries was interesting as was making good all those connections.
I have sailed away silently off the anchor enuff times that the cost/per departure must easily be below the hunnerd squids , by now, ooh!

Headlinings replacement got to be in the top 10 too?
 
Wishing to replace tatty D Section rubbing strip right around the boat and bows. Took off the old strip only to find many of the hull/deck joint stainless screws had broken. Many of the nuts at the inner side were hard to get to and I had to drill 1" diameter holes in the inner liner and then replace the discs I had cut out in the liner. The whole job took 10x the time I had estimated. Also I almost drilled right through my new SPX Wheelpilot electronic brain unit! Still the original had lasted 37 years so my fix should last a while.
 
Repairing the cracked casing of the radar dome. First step was to lower the radar to the deck. This part of the job went a little too quickly:-
 
Hand scrapping all the old antifouling back to the gel coat on my 28ft yacht, never never again!
The yard would'nt allow contractors to carry out any type of sand or soda blasting.
 
" Hand scraping all the old antifouling back to the gel coat on my 28ft yacht"

Ditto, but on a 37 footer. Lots of biggish areas had already dropped off. This'll be easy, we thought. First 20% came off no bother, next 20% with a bit of grunt. 'Last' 60% was a truly miserable experience. Never, never again!
 
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paulrae said:
" Hand scraping all the old antifouling back to the gel coat on my 28ft yacht"

Ditto, but on a 37 footer. Lots of biggish areas had already dropped off. This'll be easy, we thought. First 20% came off no bother, next 20% with a bit of grunt. 'Last' 60% was a truly miserable experience. Never, never again!
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Did you use a wallpaper type scraper ? Just curious as I'm thinking about doing the same to my boat. Anyway, back on topic; Since the boat is out of the water, I decided to take off the cockpit drain stopcock and skin fitting for replacement. Mucking about with spanners in a confined space proved fruitless, so angle grinder it is :D I also found out why the NASA Clipper depth sounder was not working.....a previous owner had connected it to a paddle wheel :ambivalence:
 
paulrae said:
" Hand scraping all the old antifouling back to the gel coat on my 28ft yacht"

Ditto, but on a 37 footer. Lots of biggish areas had already dropped off. This'll be easy, we thought. First 20% came off no bother, next 20% with a bit of grunt. 'Last' 60% was a truly miserable experience. Never, never again!
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+1

Used a Bosch power scraper and then scarsten, b*stard of a job.
 
superheat6k said:
What's yours ?

Deciding to replace the old cap ended services fuse holders with modern Bluesea blade fuse holders with miniature MCBs is mine. At a rough count 80-100 individual conductors have been disturbed, labelled, re-routed, re-terminated, and (mostly) re-connected. Still have about 20 left and having deep joy identifying what at least 8 of these do.

I have also found at least 8 vacant ends that just disappear into the boat, presumably from redundant kit, two strips of what appear to be NMEA 0183 connections, but I don't have enough plotters, etc to require two lots.

Ho, hum !
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Five hours good progress this morning - all the negatives connected and heavy + & - VE feeds properly installed with heavy duty crimps that I have also solder filled, and shrink wrap covered on the exposed barrels.

Now down to just two unidentified wires, and a re-wire of some very fiddly NMEA 0183 feeds presumably from an older Furuno plotter. I have found three pairs that were simply connected to the old +VE fuse busbar feed (without fuses), not sure yet what these do, but they are hefty so for now I have installed them with 20amp MCBs, which is more than they had before.

Most of the other services seem to work, but still a few to test out. No MCB trips yet (now I know I shouldn't have mentioned that bit !). I have also drawn up detailed schematics of the Switched & Non-switched MCBs, with each MCB colour coded.

The VHF was fused on both +VE & -VE. Any one know why that would be - original feeds to an Icom M59 set ?

What fuse rating would an NMEA 2000 network require (Garmin NMEA 2K starter kit) ? For now I have used the minimal size available 6a MCB.
 
superheat6k said:
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Around 5 years ago stripped out electrics, rewired no problem, said I'll make a new switch panel for me, still have around 20 wires hanging out of a hole with switches on the ends.

Designed me a new panel, but it keep getting put off, customers can be a pain at times.

But this month who knows ?

Brian
 
David2452 said:
Maximum supply per leg is 4a, normal power drop cables for thin N2K cable which is almost certainly what you have contain a 5a fuse.
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The fuse on the supply was a blade type marked 'E' purple in colour. I suppose 6a will be OK - ETA don't do anything smaller, or I could use the original blade fuse, but it will spoil the aesthetic look of the new Bluesea blocks.

Just found that Garmin list the fuse as 3a. I will leave this in series with the new 6a MCB.
 
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