We moved back aboard yesterday afternoon. Ouest always makes me smile when we do this.
“Are you happy to be back on the boat Ouest?”
“Me happy. Me missed the boat. And my room. And my bed.”
Ali and I have never been sentimental about “things.” We sell boats, cars, toys, clothes, wedding gifts, you name it, without a second thought. But recently I realized that selling this boat when the time comes will actually be hard on me. This really is the kids’ home. They love it. They know it. A sentimental attachment? Kids are making me soft.
So since I can’t just sell the damn thing I instead went about fixing some things on it. I installed the new Raymarine hull transmitter which should have solved the wind/depth instrument issue. It didn’t.
I did manage to get speed and depth working, but wind eludes me. It also blares a NO VOLTS alarm at me a few seconds after start up. I checked, double checked, and triple checked, and I have zero doubt that there is indeed a solid 12.6 volts going directly into the transmitter. Quit beeping at me, you’ve got VOLTS!
Also, finally replaced the accumulator tank which solved the issue I was having a while back regarding the water pump having to cycle seemingly forever to pressurize the lines.
So, 1.5 out of 2 small projects completed. There are a few others on the list, but the only thing that really has to get done are the running lights. We haven’t had any for a year or so now. Ali has declared we aren’t sailing at night with nothing but an anchor light again, so the job got bumped to the top of the list.
3 Comments on “Home Again”
Pat, Did you ever get the water system issue figured out regarding the smell of the “skunk” water and if you did what was it that finally worked for you?
Don’t know that we solved it for good but, we’re smelling good right now. All I ended up doing is dumping a lot of bleach in the tank, running it through, letting it sit in the system for a couple of days, then running it, then diluting it, then running it, diluting it some more, using it for washing hands but not much else, filling back up, emptying, filling, and after about a week of that we seem to have good water again. I think what we’ll probably continue to do is to run this procedure, though with less bleach in the future, every couple of months when we are in a marina and have access to plenty of water.
VOLTS – Check the grounding on the device. Less that adequate current could cause the device to think voltage is low.