What did you do to your boat today

Lake_Bum · January 6

LaRea said:

One of the cooktop burners accidentally got turned on with a plastic cutting board sitting on the cooktop. I was lucky to notice it just as the first whisps of smoke were starting. Another minute or two and it would have been a real shitt-show.

Wow.....you did get lucky! I bet that smelled GREAT hahaha. Lucky catch! A few years back here at Lake Powell, one of the massive Houseboats that is a time-share burned completely, and sunk. There are 20 owners, so you never quite know what the previous guy was up to when you arrive for your week. Well......when the current guy showed up, he started flipping switches, and an upstairs firepit switch was flipped, and there was a cover over the top of it. It promptly started a fire, and spread quickly. Poor design in the switch placement. Anyways, it was in the slips, and they unhooked it and shoved it away from the docks. It could have setoff a chain reaction of fires!

captkevin · January 6

Good catch Larea

aero3113 · January 6

Very lucky @LaRea !!

grouch0jr · January 6

LaRea said:

One of the cooktop burners accidentally got turned on with a plastic cutting board sitting on the cooktop. I was lucky to notice it just as the first whisps of smoke were starting. Another minute or two and it would have been a real shitt-show.

Could've been a disaster! Good catch. Anything melted onto the cooktop?

LaRea · January 6

The cooktop cleaned up fine with a razor blade. The only lasting damage is a nasty second-degree burn on my hand from a glob of molten plastic. Not gonna share that photo!

Edit: At least I caught it so it didn't damage the flooring! Skin will grow back ...

rasbury · January 6

Oh my! Fire on a boat scares the crap out of me. But that's why it's called an accident- thank goodness you caught it.

grouch0jr · January 10

Today I got all of my old speakers pulled, and ran LED cable to all of the speaker locations. I feel like I had the whole boat torn apart.

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captkevin · January 10

Looks like fun project. What kind of speakers are you going with ?

grouch0jr · January 10

Definitely a fun project. I'm learning a lot about the boat by getting all up in it.

I bought JL Audio M3-650X speakers to replace everything up in the cockpit. I plan on doing the sub too, but haven't bought that yet. Over the holidays I installed a new amp to replace the two from the factory.

rasbury · January 11

Very nice- at least you had the old wires to pull the new wires through. My radio head is dead and I bought a new one to install. I also need to understand how my amp is wired. I have a current draw at the helm somewhere. Someone on another forum mentioned even with a trigger wire from the radio head to the amp to turn it on, it may stay partially energized. I did remove two connections on the back side of my battery selector from BAT 1 to com term so those connections would stop killing the battery. Seems to have worked.

captkevin · January 11

You could switch amp to a manual switch to manually control if you think that is the issue

rasbury · January 11

captkevin said:

You could switch amp to a manual switch to manually control if you think that is the issue

Thanks captive kevin- - I have what ever it is on the helm isolated along with the mercathode (I can not find) and the draw is stoped. While running i think the system can handle it. While charging if the bat switch is off, 0% draw on it. I will sort it out- new stero head to install....

grouch0jr · January 17

Today I finished updating all my cockpit speakers, except for the sub (still need to order it). Of course there were several steps before I got the speakers in place.

All of the speaker wiring had questionable splices. Most were non-heatshrink crimp connectors, one pair were wire nutted, and the arch speakers were electrical taped together:

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I've previously had to resolve some issues due to the bad splices that I inherited, so I try to fix them whenever I find them.

This next pic shows what is typical for each speaker:

Back near the cutout you can see the wire extension has proper adhesive lined heat shrink butt connector. I also had to replace all of the spade connectors, the existing spades were too small for my new speakers. Additionally I ran 4 conductor cable to each speaker for RGB lighting. I terminated these with deutsch connectors, so I can easily disconnect/reconnect in the future. Lastly, on the arch I used speaker mounting rings from New Wire Marine. They are a half inch thick and came predrilled for my JL Audio speakers. They are made of king star board, and are a thousand times nicer than whatever deteriorated junk the last owner installed.

After all that, finally got the new speakers mounted. They sound great, and really help make the boat look less dated:

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LaRea · January 18

Nice work. It's always a "face palm" moment when you find wires on a boat that are twisted and wrapped with tape.

captkevin · January 18

Guessing previous owner considered them selves handy but wasn't. Nice improvement

aero3113 · January 18

Nice work @grouch0jr !

Reminds me of how my 330 was when I bought it. All the courtesy cockpit lights had the wires twisted and duct tape was used. The best was how they spliced the VHF antenna. What’s scary is that I don’t think the previous owner did this, it was who he hired….
All replaced and done right now!

captkevin · January 18

Yikes

LaRea · January 18

Effing hilarious! Probably the same boater who gripes because marinas never answer him on the radio.

grouch0jr · January 18

That's an impressive level of incompetence

rasbury · January 18

Hey! Someone taking pictures of my boat?

Dream_Inn · January 30

I meant to post this on Tuesday, two days after the storm, the boat looked pretty good. I had added some additional framework on Friday before the storm. Not sure why after 13 winters of use, but felt better about not getting to it for a few days.

I think with the wind, a lot of snow blew off before the sleet and ice built up at the end. Everything was sliding off just fine.

rasbury · February 3

I put an alternator b in my truck so I can haul the boat to the ramp! 70's a comming...

Rich_ · February 4

Retrieved my phone from the bottom of the creek at low tide with a lucky first swipe of a crab net. Was adjusting an ice eater with both hands as I watched it fall into the water from my jacket pocket. Highly doubtful that anything can be salvaged from a 24 hour salt water bath but would be really helpful. Broke up the ice around my docks with the excavator again. Whoever is resetting piles this spring is going to make a killing as we have not had a freeze like this in ?20? plus years

TonyG13 · February 4

Rich_ said:

Highly doubtful that anything can be salvaged from a 24 hour salt water bath but would be really helpful.

Is it an iPhone? A friend who is a pro slavage diver said he's found newer model iPhones are good for about 3 days in up to 20 feet of fresh water. He even had one work after 7 days. Can't say about salt water. Let us know how it comes out.

Rich_ · February 5

iPhone 12. Rinsed in fresh water, Rubin alcohol and then let it sit on the counter for a few hours. The SIM card was dry and I thought there would be hope. Put it on a mag charger and it got warm fast. Powered on for a minute then shut off. Any attempt to turn it on now give an apple icon quick then black screen. Worst thing is that phone was not backed up since September of 21

rasbury · February 5

@rich I'm android but I get cloud back up for free with contacts/pictures....I phone does not?

aero3113 · February 5

I think they say to put it in rice for a day or two. It’s supposed to draw the water out and dry it up.

MarkB · February 5

Yeah, you really, really need to make sure the phone is dry before powering on. If it shorts anywhere, it typically causes irreparable damage. That's if the water didn't already get in before the phone ran out of battery power.

rasbury · February 6

Since all phones have a speaker it seems inevitable..my case protects everything else (flash too)...

Rich_ · February 6

I have two phones (personal and business). Work one was backed up regularly to cloud, personal for some reason the newest backup I have was 2021 on a computer, must of logged out of cloud at some point. Some say rice, some say no rice. When I popped out the sim and it was dry I thought I had a chance.

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