Great weater this weekend. I made a trip in the dingy today. Nice little tour of the harbour with the dog. I will need to find a new cover for the dingy when she is on deck. I will have to see a sailmaker to make this.
Cheers
Nick
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Made a trip in the tender
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Test post via mobile
This is a test of a post from my mobile Phone.
Cheers
Nick
Electronics
This winter I am revamping the whole instrumentation on board. I have drawn up a diagram of the entire navigation and communication system. This will include the onboard pc.
Information comes from the sensors Windspeed and angle, Depth, Log (speed), GPS, AIS, SeaTemp and feeds via SeaTalk Network and NMEA into a multiplexer. This feeds in to the DSC VHF, into the AutoPilot and Plotter and also into the PC. On the PC at the nav station I will be running various software tools like a simple chartplotter program, instrument repeaters, a tactic tool for speed optimization, weater routing software (GRIB files), internet, this BLOG and more. Also I will be logging my performance data for later analyses to see what works and what doesn't.
It's just for fun because the serious navigation will be done from the Raymarine C70 plotter which has all the information already but this will be a nice and fun addition. Currenly most of the installation has been done. It's now up to testing and refining the various software components. A report will follow!
Cheers
Nick
Information comes from the sensors Windspeed and angle, Depth, Log (speed), GPS, AIS, SeaTemp and feeds via SeaTalk Network and NMEA into a multiplexer. This feeds in to the DSC VHF, into the AutoPilot and Plotter and also into the PC. On the PC at the nav station I will be running various software tools like a simple chartplotter program, instrument repeaters, a tactic tool for speed optimization, weater routing software (GRIB files), internet, this BLOG and more. Also I will be logging my performance data for later analyses to see what works and what doesn't.
It's just for fun because the serious navigation will be done from the Raymarine C70 plotter which has all the information already but this will be a nice and fun addition. Currenly most of the installation has been done. It's now up to testing and refining the various software components. A report will follow!
Cheers
Nick
Winter work...
Over the course of the last weekends I have done some essential winter tasks. This included the obvious polishing of the outside of the hull. She was pretty dirty but because I do this regularly the black rainstripes and other dirt came off easy enough. I still have to do her topsides and set the whole in a layer of UV resistant wax to keep her going next season.Another job was with the bed matrass in the owners cabin. To get some more ventilation I found a great solution on the Dusseldorf boatshow. It is a special weave of polyester fleece that lets air pass underneeth the matrass. It is very stiff to a spread load but compresses rather softly to a point load so it makes the bed a bit softer as well. Here are some pictures of what it looks like. I just cut it into shape with a pair of scissors. Looks nice, no?
They are doing lots of work in the harbour this winter. They are dredging the entire area to 3.2m deep at wither level which is great because with my 1.95m I do touch the mud sometimes in my birth. I took the dog out for a look at the dregework and he liked it so much that he leaped from the jetty into the Vecht River about 1.5m below four feet first with an amazing jump. No fear! I managed to drag him back by his neckcolor.
Another strange thing to see was divers and officers from the Dutch Crime Investigation Unit. They were looking on the IJsselmeer and diving in the 30m deep dredgepits for a body that went missing some time ago. Never a dull moment at the harbour!
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