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s/y Fiona - our Bruce Roberts Offshore 44'

Achievements of 2012-2013

The Ockelbo needed some care too. We notice that the Aqua matic drive where hard to turn so we took it down and apart while at it and replaced all sealings. All was good inside no wearing etc. The engine and engine room got in the way for brushes and some new paint. Here just New and Volvo Red! Tired of renting trailer I bought and old rusty but sturdy trailer that got painted and a new axel with C-tyres (Hevy duty) as the boats weight is around 1000kg.

The head got a washing machine installed. Well strapped down so it won't get lose and wild in ruff weather. Handles and locks and some accessories where installed. Some of the cornices where mounted and still some missing. A mirror was mounted on the inside of the door to minimize the risk to crash against in heavy seas.

Another tick box done! ;-)

New settee cushions where cut and sawn. Need some Velcro stuff to keep it in place as I went for quite thin foam 30 and 50 mm. Some cloth-buttons will be mounted to keep the cloth steady.

A new table stand was finally in place witch is a great improvement as it also can contain 8 bottles of - firewater ;-) A temporary table is mounted for now. The new thicker table is still in the varnish procedure at home.

Behind the settee the hot air outlet is located. There is a PC fan boosting the air through for good effect. There will be an automatic and intelligent control circuit for this fan. When water temperature is above 40 degrees (heater or engine is running) the fan is starting to blow and will increase the speed to full when water temp is above 60 degrees. Of course if the system Voltage is below 12.5V the fan stops. The same circuit works for the fan booster heater in the toilet area.

Bimini steel tubes where bent in my home made bender.

Fastenings where placed on the welded deckfittings made some years back. All frames can be safely stored in front of the windshield. Cloth will be covering this tubes very soon.

The frames can probably be cut apart in three pieces each to be able to store them inside the boat. I will consider this cutting for some time though as it might not be needed.

More teak where cut into ribbons to the "flooring" in cockpit.

The seats got their teak glued on for good.

Finally a decent domestic battery where installed.

The old 70Ah (!) battery is going out and in with a 245AH DEKA beauty.

I have room for three batteries of this size but that's not needed at the moment. The charging for such a big battery bank demands a heavy charger and alternator and some charging time.

The wind powerplant went on. A Superwind gives 300W - and really silent watts! Dump loads mounted inside engine room.

A rented liferaft got mounted on aft deck - nice sette!

A new locker in the pentry where created, varnished and mounted. A shelf for storing fruits with some storage space below. (where's the pictures?)

New water houses mounted as the old houses didn't cope with hot water - it was made in three layers and due to heat and pressure it was divided and went off no matter how hard or even double house clamps mounted. However it was good to get red and blue tubes for clarity. Houses will be drawn aft out to the swim platform and to the outdoor shower.

The engine got new oil and filter, oil level in gearbox check.

On aftdeck I painted the area and applied sand on it. The area around cockpit got some non-skid carpet glued on. The painted sand is easy to get on and it's easier to hold clean - and looks nicer - then the TBS carpet. The TBS needs edge treating witch is tiresome and the green algae likes the carpet. However the carpet is slightly better from skid point of view and it's warmer to sit on then the sanded steel.

Country of origin was glued on the transom. But the home port still missing as I'm moving around a bit. My house is located in "Lumber bay" - maybe an option? ;-)

The old VHF Shipmate RS 8000 was replaced by a more modern and capable radio. M-Tech VHF MT-700, Class-D DSC, Fog horn automatics and with ATIS which is needed for European inland waters. A watertight VHF remote control MT-RM01 will be in the cockpit.

An AIS class B transponder, True Heading Graphen+, was installed and connected to the new and small cockpit plotter, Raymarine A65, via NMEA2000. The AIS also have usb connection so the Nav-PC with OpenCpn gets the same AIS info. So I now have two independent plotter systems with their own GPS.

The Compass, depth, water speed etc. is common signals for both systems.

Instrumentation in cockpit is in place. Old instruments except for the Depth/Water speed. Speakers mounted next to the instruments - so I can annoy my boat neighbours with my strange music taste.

A LED anchor light was mounted on top of the radar post. I choose this placement as I sometimes noted that the masthead is too high up while dingy around boats at anchor.

Later:

A LED deck light will mounted aft so it can light down into the lazarette. Two (or more) small lights will be mounted under the deck extension aft to bring light onto the swim ladder and transom.

A small hydrophore is to be installed to even the pressure in the system. The Jabsco pumps do their job alright but I should have got some stronger pumps. For washing the deck the pump deliver just enough pressure - would like some more. Freshwater is hmm decent but the perlfilter doesn't give any real bubbly water all the times - would like some more bubbles ;-)

Yes, that work ends June 2013.