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we are building a cruising sailboat and

uh

made good progress this week i feel lots

of shiny things at least which is always

was

good for the um for the motivation

um started off by getting some varnish

on on on the aft deck the wood trim

there's not that much trim here but

a little bit there and actually he's

here

and that was in preparation to get some

gloss paint on and that really was

one of them one of the big exciting

things this week was that

i've got the main deck the rays there up

here

i've left two big panels we'll look at

it later

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so

two big panels for that will be non-slip

but all around the edge and the center

strip

those are glossed and then i've got down

here and glossed

everything here that won't be non-slip

so it's these backs here

that bulkhead they're glossed various

parts they're just leaving

places for panels for the non-slip

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before i did that you may have noticed

something a bit different

and that is that often this bulkhead

there there are

two new holes

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wow

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so

just for your interest

no voids

oh

like yeah much

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you see that let's put it

this hole was the obvious one because in

my previous

boat we also had our compass the ship's

compass mounted there in that bunk head

um here's my compass

let's just work our way into this box

here we go

contest 130 it's a reasonable size

compass

compass pop the cover off of it

there we go looks like

like that quite nice i think well

readable plastic cover for the back

plastic cover for the front and

yeah various instructions and whatever

looks good

please with that obviously you've got

back lighting in it for 12 or 24 volt

12 in this case the other one was it was

a bit of a

something i've been thinking about for a

long time and for a long time i've been

also looking at

the chandler websites and chandler's at

um chart plotters and thinking

whether or not i wanted a chart plotter

and

you know there's no way you could argue

that a chart plot is essential clearly

you can sell without one and i have a

lot of them

good number of thousand miles with no

chart plotter but

the other side of it is when they're up

and running because they're a great

safety feature because

because you basically know where you are

and knowing where you are

at sea is is a marvelous thing um gps

enabled of course

plotter and so i say i was looking at

chandler's looking at different

sizes the cheap ones obviously are the

small ones five

inch and when you look at how big a five

inch plotter is you think

um i'm not going to be seeing much on

that

and they did a seven inch and in the end

i decided to go for a nine

inch nine inch plot that and the good

people at svb

here in europe had reasonable offers

reasonable offers on the garmin

gps map 922

coming together with a with one chart

set

there's another point chart sets so i

bought this plotter i'll open it up in a

minute

i bought this plotler together with uh

one chart

pack you get to choose which chart back

and it just

i thought well i guess i need germany

really is where i am

is where i'll be starting so i've got

the germany chart back

and then when you look at the price of

additional chart bags

they go out about

uh the standard shop it's about 126 euro

for a chart back

which initially you think oh my word

that's not cheap

but then when you think about it and it

took me a while to get to this one but

i've got the entire pack of germany

or you can buy the entire pack of charts

of germany 426 euro

hazel who's bought paper charts for

germany has had

and hasn't got all of germany she has

had to buy

three or four chart backs and still

hasn't got all of germany

uh and they go about 50 bucks a pack

it's actually cheaper

of course the drawback is it needs to be

working you're relying on

electronics and electricity and all of

that for it to be working so

any sensible boater would have paper

charts as well wouldn't they

anyhow there we are let's have a look at

it

the cover obviously i showed you didn't

i have a cover for that

compass and here is the beastie itself

oh i've opened the bottom i know that's

interesting

because down in there is the

mounting stuff

you've got various mounting options it

comes with a

bracket mounting bracket

seals and cables

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and instructions and some screws

yeah that's what you get with it

and this is the plotter itself so

various options of ways to mount it you

could put it in the bracket and

and then the next thing one has to think

about of course is where to mount it

and there's an option to mount it in at

the chart table

where of course you can't read it from

the cockpit

and also this one i decided to

get one that has the nmea

2000 plug on the back

an nmea 2000 is basically a network an

onboard network that allows you to hook

up any

other nmea 2000

compatible device to it now

you can get all sorts of cabins to hook

up for these things it could tell you

you know wind speed and wind direction

and water temperature and

log and all sorts of things but the only

one i need is a depth sounder

this has got built in gps but i will get

an

enemy a 2000 depth sounder

and hook that up so that the depth is

also reared off on the screen

so it seemed to me best placed was in

the cockpit and

somewhere where it's easily readable

from the cockpit

or in the cockpit and there it is sat in

there like that

i'm not going to take the protective

film off on the road

that's navigation stuff in the cockpit

it's actually pretty exciting

pretty exciting i will build a box

around this with probably some kind of

sliding lid so i can it can be

protected one and locked away when not

in use

i have a sliding lid with a lock on it i

think

just a protective box around it

um in harvard i suspect varnished

hardwood

um but yeah that's very exciting

never had one of them before always a

paper chart man before now

and as i say i think you still need

paper charts i wouldn't go away from

them

well guys that's it for this week i'm

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she was

taking it in a new day

has begun

still going steady

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as the day got brighter

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no one can stop her now