I haven't done a very good job of keeping up this thread. It's a boat so it's been late and all sorts of unexpected things have popped up. Who could believe that Dennis, best customer service on the planet, would send me a monitoring panel with a blown output transformer? I spent a full day trying to figure out what I'd done wrong before his engineer told me which wire to cut and check voltage on. Oops, .04 volts where there should have been 9.5. There have been a half dozen things like that which I appear to be the first one it's ever happened to. I believe them all when they say that, it's just my karma.
Once the new monitor arrives and is installed and calibrated, I'll have a fully functional boat. Autopilot goes back in today. After that, it's just a coat of wax, bottom paint, and rigging.
I decided today that I'm not going to do any varnishing or painting. I'm just worn out and the windy, dusty yard isn't the best place to do it anyway. I'm going to make up a plastic bin with all the stuff I need and tackle that project in some nice place downeast. Or, maybe next winter in Florida. Or, maybe.....
So, she'll look a little rough. I can live with it. See my introductory post.
Mast goes up mid week.
