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Aarøn 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 :oko:<p>Heute gibt es ein ausgeschlachtetes Lotsenboot (Pilotboat). Die Farbe blättert ab, der Motor längst ausgebaut (5 Bilder).</p><p>(Wer keine alten Boote mehr sehen will, kann einfach <a href="https://social.okoyono.de/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a> wegfiltern.) <a href="https://social.okoyono.de/tags/norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>norway</span></a></p>
Aarøn 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 :oko:<p>Heute ein altes beplanktes Ruderboot aus Holz. Die Natur hat schon lange das Steuer übernommen. <a href="https://social.okoyono.de/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a> <a href="https://social.okoyono.de/tags/norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>norway</span></a></p>
Peter Burka<p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Electrical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Electrical</span></a> question: I disconnected the negative wire for our 12V bilge pump, but if I measure voltage from the positive line to the now-dangling negative line, I see between 0.5 and 1.1V. Does this mean there's a short, or is it expected somehow? <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/boatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boatyard</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
Aarøn 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 :oko:<p>Heute ein richtig schöner beplankter Langkieler. Traditionelle Slup-Takelage mit Bugspriet, hoher Kajüte und nachträglich aufgesetzter Reling. Leider schon etwas in die Jahre gekommen, aber man kann förmlich spüren, wie unglaublich viel Handarbeit in dieses Boot gesteckt wurde. Jetzt wird es sicher zum Hochsee-Fischen verwendet. (7 Bilder) <a href="https://social.okoyono.de/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a> <a href="https://social.okoyono.de/tags/norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>norway</span></a> <a href="https://social.okoyono.de/tags/fishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fishing</span></a></p>
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar<p>Belatedly found someone to host the Bavaria (sailboat) forums and he's got them back up and running, hooray, despite <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Ofcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ofcom</span></a> threats. He's optimistic about this and hopefully ready to deal with any legal bullshit coming this way.</p><p>Which means I get to be a mere participant, offer boaty advice and point out bad shit people do to their boats 😆</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Bavaria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bavaria</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sailing</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/TheBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBoatyard</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/WebForum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebForum</span></a></p>
Alexander Cobleigh<p>doing some improvements to the dinghy as of this week, this was the start of making a tiller impeder! </p><p>if it works in practice, it would let me keep the rudder fixed while i go to the fore and e.g. hoist/pull down sails. it can also be fractionally set to alleviate weather helm (i.e. less force on the tiller in lively water) without completely locking the rudder</p><p><a href="https://woodenboat.org.au/huntingford-helm-impeder/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">woodenboat.org.au/huntingford-</span><span class="invisible">helm-impeder/</span></a><br><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/@barbapiccola" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>barbapiccola</span></a></span> Typical boat stuff. Fine seawater spray gets absolutely everywhere, then causes corrosion, which causes high resistance and then heat. You can avoid all that by greasing the contact area. The grease is displaced when inserting any friction fitting (connectors of any kind, fuse holders, etc.) but surrounds the exposed metal keeping the highly corrosive seawater from touching it.</p><p>Best grease for this is a tub of silicone grease from the plumbing supply shop. For those who don't know what stuff is made of, it's also sold at significant markup with the label "dielectric grease" on it :)</p><p>You can use silicone winch grease in a pinch, although the friction additives in there are wasted on it, it will work.</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/TheBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBoatyard</span></a></p>
morgan<p>I finally put Meridian's name on the hull! Now she's properly able to introduce herself.</p><p>I'd been waiting until after I finished installing dinghy davits so that I'd know where to put the stern decals to work around them.</p><p>I spent the rest of the day provisioning, watering, doing laundry, tidying electronics, and cleaning (with a few breaks for video meetings and some debugging!)</p><p>We're finally all ready for summer sailing.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sailing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
morgan<p>Done with the long Torqeedo tiller upgrade to Degree.</p><p>"Just" replacing the tiller involved borrowing tools to get to some very hard to reach screws, taking everything apart twice once I realized more lubrication was a good idea on the inside, and changing the mount on the back of the mothership to admit the longer tiller.</p><p>I can now sit at the front of my tender and steer from there. This allows me to keep it flat and efficient!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
morgan<p>The Torqeedo motor throttle/tiller is a clever design. It is just a pole with no electrical or mechanical connection to the motor!</p><p>This allows the motor to be sealed against water ingress. It also electrically isolates the user from the motor and ensures that mechanical damage is limited to the tiller.</p><p>It appears to work with a small magnet and a sensor on the motor side.</p><p>Here's the back end of the tiller:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
morgan<p>Picked up a mooring to do some work on my tender's electric motor.</p><p>I've been warned that it is easy to get stuck in a marina forever doing repairs. If the boat can safely sail, I try to follow advice and do anything on the water that can be done underway or at anchor/mooring ball. Cleaning, cooking, noncritical repairs, tender repairs...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
morgan<p>Replacing diesel engine Mary Anne's belt and impeller on Meridian. Need to keep the cooling sea water flowing all summer.</p><p>I'm an experienced sailor and a total neophyte engine mechanic! This was purely theoretical until I crawled in there today.</p><p>I am again SO thankful for people who put videos on YouTube of this kind of stuff for the rest of us to learn from. If a time ever comes when know what I'm doing, I plan to do the same and pay it forward.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/theboatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theboatyard</span></a></p>
R E K<p>Overtime, Pino has experienced many ways of being pulled out of the water.</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
jfroehlich<p>Arrrrg, bought the wrong anti-fouling paint two years ago and just noticed at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a>. No, I won’t paint the bottom white…</p>
jfroehlich<p>Ce n'est pas une échelle… About half a dayof work left in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
jfroehlich<p>If the part of the hull your are working on mirrors <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a> it's polished enough, right? I need to work on it just one more day until it's ready for the water. Oh, and it's raining right now.</p>
jfroehlich<p>Turns out that the monourethane varnish from epifanes has to be thinned to a leTonk consistency even when brushing. Otherwise one risks bad runners and wrinkles. Found that out the hard way in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a>. But the fix looks ok, I guess. If you can’t see it now, the tourists on the beach won’t see it neither.</p>
R E K<p>Whenever I fix a leak on Calcifer(our diesel engine), another one pops up, lol. Getting sick of playing engine leak whack-a-mole.</p><p>A water pump seal is not the worse kind of leak to have, but g'damn! Calcifer's so, so needy.</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
wrack<p>On Tuesday, this week, my wife had an appointment with a local cardiologist to review her case history and medications and to help us create a plan to manage her chronic and increasingly critical episodes of arrythmia and tachycardia. We now have to remain in Almerimar until June 11th while she is tested on a new medication and undergoes further examinations.</p><p>We're already using the extra time on the dock to upgrade Wrack's minimal systems and improve our living space below decks. This afternoon, we installed a new, heavy duty, electric bilge pump, adding it to two manual bilge pumps already installed. We also renewed parts of our ground tackle.</p><p>Next, some carpentry, above and below decks.</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theBoatyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theBoatyard</span></a></p>
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