June 20, 2013

Finished up several projects that had been put on the back burner for some time, including rewiring the solar panels and GPS antenna wire, mounting the new genoa sheet cleats and caulking and remounting the engine room vents.  I added a new BlueSeas grounding bus next to the cockpit breaker panel and that cured last week's autopilot issues as well as improved the overall wiring by limiting all the terminal connections to a single wire. With the remedial work done, I started on the fabrication of new panels for the overhead in the doghouse. Got as far as making the stick patterns and getting the most suitable paneling I could find locally.  Cockpit/doghouse is well on its way to looking a lot better!