What did you do to your boat today

mattie

@aero3113
That clear tubing doesn't age well. Not sure if the repeated engine room heat affects it our not.

PickleRick

My waste tank evacuation pump that I use after every weekend on the water to pump into a campground RV Park waste station was giving me some issues last year towards seasons end.  I've been running the Jacobson macerator.  I got maybe 2-3 years out of it.  It would no longer self prime.   

I thought I had purchased a whale gulper to replace it, it wasn't, it was a sealand T series pump.  Its supposed to have a pickup of 10 ft. 

I thought this would mean it would have zero issue pushing waste up from the top of the waste tank and through a hose routed thru an open transom door.  It does not.  It apparently has zero lift on the output side.  

So I had to take my spare pump (cheap Jacobson style) and connected it after the sealand T series to pump her out. 

Despite paying yearly army core pass fees for the past decade or more the new park attendant hassled me over pumping last launch of fall last year and I'd rather not deal with idiots on my weekends off.   I already unintentionally work with mental people everyday at work.  He asked if there was somewhere else I could dump on the inland lake,  I told him my federal tax dollars put this in so we don't have to pump where we eat fish and swim. 

So I set up a pump station at home to pump into my septic tank clean out port.   Not ideal but being just a few gallons a week over the summer months it shouldn't cause an issue.   I wouldn't recommend this for the average Joe but having access to mini ex, mt100, backhoe and skid loaders a new drain field is an afternoon job for me.  

So anyway,   my first launch of the year, 4th of July weekend.   Now I can bring out crap home with us and the kid/admiral no longer scream and complain when they have to help me dump.   Having to attach the 2nd pump and drop a battery on the swim platform is a pita but it smells much less than the open RV Park pump pit. 

aero3113

mattie said:

@aero3113
That clear tubing doesn't age well. Not sure if the repeated engine room heat affects it our not.

The hose is way forward up at the bow, no heat or sunlight. I’ll keep an eye on it but don’t think it will be an issue.

PickleRick

aero3113 said:

mattie said:

@aero3113
That clear tubing doesn't age well. Not sure if the repeated engine room heat affects it our not.

The hose is way forward up at the bow, no heat or sunlight. I’ll keep an eye on it but don’t think it will be an issue.

My AC came with clear vinyl tubing for the bleeder line that runs from under the V berth to under the dinette floor,  maybe 4 ft long.  So far no discoloration or cracking and that's been 4...maybe 5 years.  

I have much smaller 1/4" vinyl tubing running from a pump under the dinette floor to to several low spots in the hull including under the engine.  It has gotten noticably less pliable but no cracking.  

Ian

The humidity up here lately it’s not surprising.

aero3113

Cleaned out the strainer for my AC and found an eel in it! Still swimming around. Must’ve been in there since around the 4th! 😂
Collapsible bucket is perfect for emptying the strainers!!

YYZRC

Crazy @aero3113 !

aero3113

Need to replace my VHF antenna. Look how the new one arrived!🤬

johnny44

@aero3113 - collapsible bucket??
Brilliant! I could have used that so many times when I had the 350 EC. I cleaned that strainer every two weeks!

captkevin

Eel would have been quite a surprise

LaRea

Folding antenna.  Great for those low bridges.  

aero3113

🤬

Ian

LaRea said:

Folding antenna.  Great for those low bridges.  

I see you've dropped yours ready. 

mattie

aero3113 said:

Need to replace my VHF antenna. Look how the new one arrived!🤬

For the delivery person.....

"How you do anything - is how you do everything".



that is maddening.

aero3113

Agree 
Doesn’t make sense how they even did this. It’s has to be pretty hard to snap one of these.

Ian

To be fair it may have happened further up the chain. I have sen stuff come in that can only have been like it was when packed.

aero3113

New one is getting ready to ship, fingers crossed 🤞🏻.

aero3113

So we were out and I checked on the delivery status, it said delivered. Looked at the picture UPS took and it’s not my house!!🙄
Turns out they delivered it to my neighbors house. Had my crew go pick it up with me. ⚓️

aero3113

If anyone ever wondered what’s inside the whip.

aero3113

New VHF antenna is installed!⚓️

LaRea

I have wondered many times!  So the wire goes inside a foam insulator to an attachment point partway up the whip?  What's that stringy bit at the top?

aero3113

@LaRea I think the string helps them pull it through the whip at the factory. I want to say there was about 12-24 inches of coax in the whip then the metal part started. It wasn’t fixed at all, the foam helped keep it in place.

aero3113

FYI: the 15 foot coax was a perfect length for my 330. Just enough extra to pull it out and work on it over the steering wheel to install the terminal.

PickleRick

Kohler purchase Lombardini  some time ago.   This means I have access to Lombardi (or did the last time I asked our rep about it)

I'm not sure if you guys have seen the phasor style generators, basically a belt driven style Marine generator. Small foot print , perfect for fitting inside my fish box. I only need about 6000 watts,  maybe 8000, I'm planning on getting a full enclosure and would then add a second ac for the helm area. 

Thinking about pulling the trigger on one of these this fall to build a generator.   Building my own I can mix/match pulley sizes to get an 1800 rpm generator.   I'd really like it quiet enough to keep running all weekend while we spend the weekend on the hook. 

I'd rather use a more simple designed Kubota twin but I have no dealer access to them or their parts.  If i come across something second hand I'd probably jump on it.  In 3 years of searching I've had no luck. Did have a Kubota z a customer purchased from an auction we got running to find gear box PTO issues that were not cost effective to repair and offered to buy it from him and eat the shop bill but no luck. 

TonyG13

Great Lakes Skipper appears to have dropped prices on a bunch of their Rinker stock.

Couldn't find anything I might need, but some deals up to 40% off:

https://www.greatlakesskipper.com/search/?q=rinker

echandler1971

Added new Veratron 2 1/16” NMEA gauges for Trim (lower gauges)

aero3113

Very nice @echandler1971 !⚓️

grouch0jr

echandler1971 said:

Added new Veratron 2 1/16” NMEA gauges for Trim (lower gauges)

Agreed, looks great! Is that a modified stock dash panel, or custom?

echandler1971

grouch0jr said:

echandler1971 said:

Added new Veratron 2 1/16” NMEA gauges for Trim (lower gauges)

Agreed, looks great! Is that a modified stock dash panel, or custom?


i believe its stock. The two square NMEA displays on top just happen fit perfectly over the holes for the old faulty Faria RPM gauges. 

grouch0jr

Had a busy day yesterday. Generator wasn't pumping water, so I was prepared to replace the impeller. Opened it up and the impeller was fine, but the coupler was broke so I swapped that.


While I was in there I changed the anode. Looks like it needed it, haha.


Also had an issue with my port trim not going up. The solenoid would click, but the trim pump wouldn't start. The pump worked fine with trim down. I diagnosed it as a faulty solenoid, so I swapped that.

And my starboard engine was running a little hotter than I liked, so I back flushed my heat exchangers through the power steering cooler. I got bits of impeller out, little artifacts from the previous owner.