The Billy Ruffian

[Mr Googler]

Trev, iirc, @Mr Googler went through all that recently, maybe he can comment?

What’s the new plotter? Baud rate needs to be set 38400. You could try swapping the nmea wires about too. It’s not an exact science oddly. @vas told me that??

 

[superheat6k]

What’s the new plotter? Baud rate needs to be set 38400. You could try swapping the nmea wires about too. It’s not an exact science oddly. @vas told me that??

The plotter is a Matsutec HP-1228A AIS transponder / plotter. The MFD is a C80

On my last boat I just plugged them both in to each other, set both to high baud rate and away it went.

However, I am doing a software update on the MFD and a bell out check of the comms cables.

 

[superheat6k]

Well good news today, so not only is the boat bearing her new teak carved name boards, her Raymarine C80 MFD is now properly displaying the vessel's position and showing AIS vessels. It turns out she has a Raymarine AIS250 receiver unit and a simple CR2032 battery change in the Raystar 125 GPS receiver and reconnection of the Seatalk cable resolved the problem.

I expect the AIS250 will show a permanent vessel very nearby when I fire up the new Matsutec Plotter / AIS transponder.

 

[andrewbarker]

So on Friday at 18.15 I became the formal owner of a Grand Banks Sedan 36, and shortly she will bear her new name "Billy Ruffian".

As an ex Navy man, my favourite, and indeed only fiction, is along the theme of Naval History, so Patrick O'Brien and Alexander Kent (aka Douglas Reeman). But I have also read the stories of many of the famous Battles, especially Trafalgar. Amongst the throng of English ships forming Nelson's Fleet on 21st October 1805 was HMS Bellerophon, known to her crew as the 'Billy Ruffian'.

HMS Bellerophon had a proud history with many Battle Honours, the most notable of which were Trafalgar, and as a later Dreadnought Class Battleship, also Jutland.

So that's the background to her name.

I am the fifth owner of Billy Ruffian and it looks like she has had at least four names, so I do hope each re-naming has followed the traditions and protocols to change her name in King Neptune's Log.

I'll be happy to keep this thread going as long as anyone wishes me to. Not nearly as much to do as my previous boat, the Corvette 32 Boadicea, but my learning curve has already begun. see next post.View attachment 137100View attachment 137101View attachment 137102View attachment 137103View attachment 137104View attachment 137105View attachment 137106View attachment 137107View attachment 137108

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[Montemar]

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