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Home Theater

Living aboard our Island Packet sailboat we wanted to add a few comforts of home. We enjoy movies but didn't want to waste storage space with DVD's. We store hundreds of movies on a hard drive and watch them on a 37" screen. Thursday, September 22, 2011. The Basics for an On-Board System. Posted by Tom Cheri. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Use these links to cruise this site:. Main Page - La Vida Dulce. All About La Vida Dulce. The Basics for an On-Board System. View my complete profile.

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Companionway Doors

Living aboard our Island Packet sailboat we decided we needed easier access than climbing over the splash boards. Here we install Zarcor doors. Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Easy Access and Better Security. Their doors are lockable with either a key or combination lock. You can also change out the panels to have screens, windows or solid panels. Posted by Tom Cheri. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Use these links to cruise this site:. Main Page - La Vida Dulce. All About La Vida Dulce. View my complete profile.

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Bow Seat

To add a little fun to our boat we added a bow seat. This is a brief explanation of what we did. Tuesday, September 20, 2011. Best Seat in the House. The idea I settled on was a clip that slips over the tubing and screws into the bottom of the seat. I had it pictured in my mind but after searching on-line was unable to find what I wanted. I finally came across some insulated pipe clamps from McMaster-Carr that would fit the bill perfectly. Once installed, the seat looked like it belonged there. It do...

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Cockpit Enclosure

We added a full cockpit enclosure to our Island Packet sailboat to add comfort and increase our sailing season. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Cruising Comfort For All Seasons. Over the Summer we bought a Sailrite sewing machine ( check this out. That's a buncha dough! For parts and materials we have about $700 invested in our enclosure. I guess the other $2800 is for time and sweat. Once we had it sized correctly we marked where we wanted snaps, evenly spaced about every 10" down each side. The snap tool ...

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Some Good Tunes

Pomplamoose - Come Together. Collective Soul - December. Jack White - Trash Tongue Talker. Huey Piano Smith The Clowns. Alanis Morissette - Uninvited. Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World. Fiona Apple - Across the Universe. Stevie Ray Vaughan - MTV Unplugged. Janis Joplin - Ball and Chain. Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know. Blondie - Heart of Glass. Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody. Kansas - Dust in the Wind. Godsmack - Good Times, Bad Times. Chris Isaak - Solitary Man.

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Wind Generator

To prepare for extensive cruising we've decided we needed more power. Here we concentrate on the installation of a wind generator. Tuesday, June 28, 2011. So,I went ahead and ordered a kit that included the Air-X 400 generator, a 9' mast, 40' of #8 wire and the e10 controller from eMarine ( click here. 2) The #8 wire cannot be hand crimped. The lugs are heavy duty and require either a special ratchet tool or one that you pound with a hammer. I got the one needing the hammer just because it's real...4) It...

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Instruments

We're getting our boat ready for extensive cruising. Here we add a NMEA 2000 backbone and all new instruments. Thursday, March 14, 2013. The instruments that were on the boat when we bought it consisted of ST60 wind, depth and speed. We used those with our compass and paper charts for about three years before deciding to try a chartplotter. This opened up a whole new world to us. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Use these links to cruise this site:. Main page - La Vida Dulce. All About La Vida Dulce.

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Genset

Improving our live aboard conditions and making anchoring out a better experience. We're installing a Northern Lights 6kw genset on a pull-out tray and a remote oil change system. Thursday, March 14, 2013. AC Power, Any Time, Anywhere! We had Hinckley Yachts in Whitehall, Maryland do the installation. They opened up the two access panels. The first picture shows the genset shortly after it was delivered sitting on a pallet in the shop. The sound enclosure is on with several panels removed. The se...View ...

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Dinghy Derrick and Cradle

Dinghy Derrick and Cradle. With extensive offshore cruising coming up soon we needed an alternative to davits and arches for storing our dinghy. Tied down on deck with an easy launch and retrieve system was what we wanted. Here's how we got it. Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Derrick and the Dominoes. We haven't done any sailing for almost two months now. I think we missed the best part of the year for being out on the water but life has a habit of getting in the way sometimes. So it goes. This has been qu...

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All About La Vida Dulce

All About La Vida Dulce. Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Design Information and Builder Comments. He following items were excerpted from Island Packet's 420 brochure:. LOA 44'7" Displacement (approx.): 30,000 lbs. LWL 37'4" Ballast 12,000 lbs. Beam 14'3" Sail Area 1088 ft2. Draft 5'0" Sail Area/Displ. 18.0. Mast Above DWL 58'10" Displ./Length 257. Fuel 160 gal. U.S. Ballast/Displ. 40%. Water 250 gal. U.S. Auxiliary Power: 75 hp turbocharged. Holding 60 gal. U.S. Designer: Bob Johnson, N.A. Here's Some Boat...

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Galley Remodel

There were some things about this boat that drove us nuts. We considered buying another one but in the end realized it made more sense to improve what we already have. This was the biggest project we've taken on so far. In the end we were able to fix the problems that bugged us and ended up with something unique and beautiful that we could be proud of. Wednesday, November 27, 2013. We Can Do Better Than That. All the cabinets above the counter. We also added extra 110 VAC outlets and DC wiring inside the...