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Batteries
Getting our boat ready for extensive cruising we're increasing the house bank capacity and upgrading the inverter/charger. Thursday, January 10, 2013. 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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Equipment and Improvements on la Vida Dulce
Equipment and Improvements on la Vida Dulce. Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Yanmar 4JH 3TE, turbocharged, 4 cylinder marine diesel, 75hp @ 3800 rpm. Replaced heat exchanger housing/core assembly Oct. 2010. Replaced hoses and belt Oct. 2010. Serviced annually - oil and coolant changed, fuel and oil filters replaced, impeller, hoses and belts inspected. Max-Prop 18" self feathering propeller, rebuilt Apr. 2010. Replaced Cutlass bearing Mar. 2010. Charles Charger, 5000 series, 50 amp charger. ICOM IC-M802 SS...
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Water-maker
This is about a DIY water-maker we made for our Island Packet sailboat. Monday, February 24, 2014. Water, Water Everywhere. The only concern is how much noise does this thing make? Right now (2-24-14) the plan is to begin collecting equipment and have this up and running by Summer 2014. I'll be updating this page as we go along so this may turn into a pretty extensive read. When it's completed, up and running I'll come back and edit to make this entry a little easier to get through. As children we were b...
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Anchors, Chain, etc
Anchors, Chain, etc. Monday, May 19, 2014. All About Our Ground Tackle. After we scrubbed it down three times we painted it white with a mildew resistant bilge paint. It looks really great now and our boat smells fresh and clean. It'll be really nice if it lasts for more than just a few weeks. 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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Projects
Monday, January 11, 2010. Projects on La Vida Dulce. Listed below are links to some repairs, upgrades, additions and restorations we've done on the boat. Some of the explanations are excerpts from the running blog so it may become repetitive if you've followed from the beginning. The main reason for this page is to provide an easily accessed list of projects so we don't have to dig back through the blog for info. Espar D5 Forced Air Heat. Dinghy Derrick and Cradle. Replacing the Holding Tank.
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SSB Radio
Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Installing an ICOM M802 SSB Radio. Running these three cables turned out to be a major pain in the tukhus ( click here for more info. Gonna hafta move all my future projects over to the port side. We tried so hard but there's just no getting away from Microsoft. We'll see how it all works out when I get the radio up and running. The final connection is for the modem, in our case a Pactor-4 Dragon DR-7400 from SCS ( click here. This is a series of wires cut to exactly 1/4 wave...
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Saving The Old Cushions
Saving The Old Cushions. Making improvements to our boat. Trying to get some mileage out of our salon cushions. We stretched them out for a few extra years. In the end we found a better solution. Thursday, January 10, 2013. Doing it Right This Time. Monday, January 11, 2010. They sagged and drooped and looked pretty tired. When we checked into replacing them we found the cost ($5150) to be out of reach for our quickly dwindling "refit budget". We found that folding the foam into a V shape helped. The...
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Shower Water Dam
To keep the water confined to the shower on our boat we built a water dam below the folding door. Tuesday, March 23, 2010. When we first started looking at Island Packets we met Pam and A.D. Wilson, owners of Pappy's Packet, a beautiful blue hulled IP420. They invited us aboard and showed us all the great features of these boats as well as some of the modifications they had made on theirs. It was actually the time we spent with them that convinced us to buy an Island Packet 420. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Upcoming Projects
These are things we'd like to do, to add or change before we get underway in 2015. Thursday, September 22, 2011. The "Gotta Have It" List (with ongoing updates). We've gotten most of our electronics up and running with new instruments at the Helm ( click here. And Nav Station ( click here. This year (2014) we still a short list of must-have items before we head out in the Fall. ICOM M-802 single side-band (SSB) radio with Pactor 4 modem and KISS ground system. We also added a 6kw genset ( click here.
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Mast Mods
Monday, April 19, 2010. Projects for When the Mast is Down. I decided since I had to replace the light I might as well do it right. I invested in a tri/anchor light made by OGM ( Orca Green Marine. The new mast light combines the 3 navigation lights used on boats while they're underway ( Navigation Lights. Island Packet ran a length of braided cord through there to be used for pulling wires. What a great idea! What were they thinking? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Use These Links to Cruise This Site:.
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Interior Lighting
Upgrading the interior lighting on our boat. Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Had given us a really gorgeous brass anchor light but for the main salon we wanted something less nautical. We went to Annapolis Lighting ( link to their web site. There were actually 4 or 5 styles that were all very similar. They were all small which is perfect for on a boat. They all had brass stands and etched glass globes. Several were made by Waterford (cha-ching! Posted by Tom Cheri. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
