chubby
Well-Known Member
Finally fed up with the tacktick wireless system not working so thinking of replacing with a wired system, if I am working at the mast head, then a general look around, check and lube, check bulbs and might also replace VHF aerial but the wind is the main thing.
Boat is ashore and access via the yard`s "cherry picker", not a halyard. I don`t have a great head for heights and have never worked up a cherry picker.
Who to ask: a marine electrician but the task is fitting the wind transducer and running cables, the wiring from deck to instrument I can do. A rigger or do they just do spars and standing rigging, our resident sail maker used to go aloft to fit roller reefing but I gather less keen with health and safety issues and insurance. Do local council contractors who do street lights even moonlight? Try myself or daughter has better head for heights than me? The yard were a bit reticent: offered to lift someone up but didn`t volunteer to do the work: guess a manpower issue as needs someone aloft and someone below to work the cherry picker ( they did fit the tacktick transducer but only three screws and no wiring).
Why do it at all: the tacktick is fine when it works so is capable of working but looses signal intermittently and unpredictably and doesn`t always pick up signal when switched of and on, others seem to have the same problem and I have never got to the bottom of whether an issue with the strength of the wireless signal ( but why intermittent defeats me) or the charge in the solar cell on the transducer ( but can loose signal on sunny days), the distances involved although dabchick`s mast is not that tall or the receiver? A great idea that doesn't quite work!
Boat is ashore and access via the yard`s "cherry picker", not a halyard. I don`t have a great head for heights and have never worked up a cherry picker.
Who to ask: a marine electrician but the task is fitting the wind transducer and running cables, the wiring from deck to instrument I can do. A rigger or do they just do spars and standing rigging, our resident sail maker used to go aloft to fit roller reefing but I gather less keen with health and safety issues and insurance. Do local council contractors who do street lights even moonlight? Try myself or daughter has better head for heights than me? The yard were a bit reticent: offered to lift someone up but didn`t volunteer to do the work: guess a manpower issue as needs someone aloft and someone below to work the cherry picker ( they did fit the tacktick transducer but only three screws and no wiring).
Why do it at all: the tacktick is fine when it works so is capable of working but looses signal intermittently and unpredictably and doesn`t always pick up signal when switched of and on, others seem to have the same problem and I have never got to the bottom of whether an issue with the strength of the wireless signal ( but why intermittent defeats me) or the charge in the solar cell on the transducer ( but can loose signal on sunny days), the distances involved although dabchick`s mast is not that tall or the receiver? A great idea that doesn't quite work!
