Friday May 20, Port Dalhousie
Today rained in the morning and was glorious in the afternoon, except for 20 Km winds from the SSW.
We spent the morning visiting the usual trinity of Canadian Tire, JT electronics, and my house and returned the 30 amp extension cord to Amazon (at Purolator)
After the shopping trip the rain stopped and it became that glorious day. Like we planned it.
Jeff crawled under the galley sink and put a new hose clamp on the problem hose and tightened up all the hose clamps within reach.
I had no trouble getting out of the dock, but the Port Dalhousie Yacht Club gas dock made things difficult to dock. But we got her done. We filled with water, mostly lost during yesterday’s ‘problem’. We also thought it was a good idea to fill with diesel as the tanks were half full (thanks Al). It took almost $400 but I plan on it lasting until August or longer. Nice kid named Cameron runs the gas dock. It was a challenge getting off the gas dock because of gusts but we did it with his help.
Coming into my dock was a nightmare. Jeff was in 3 places at once trying to tame this 23,000 lb beast and after a while we got the beast back in her lair.
Jeff had a great set of successes today. He managed to install components of the Pi system he built. The AIS registered a ping in the Welland Canal. The pitch, yaw and roll sensor works well. The chart plotter shows us right where we are supposed to be, and the rest of the land mass and lake are right where they are supposed to be. This system is supposed to be redundant to the Raymarine system but it will be handy to have in the navigation station. The GPS works fine but we’ll put it on the radar mast for better line of sight signal acquisition.
Al, the previous owner, worked hard to eliminate propane from the boat. He also worked hard to make it electrical systems 12 volt. Jeff has taken that a bit further by adding 5 volt USB charging stations in the boat, which is a little more redundancy with rechargeables. Navionics will work on phone, and laptop which are charged by 5w.
Jeff also wired up the music server that Pi serves from a hard drive. We had Jimmy Buffett and Elton John with dinner tonight.
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