Friday, December 29, 2006

Odd jobs round the boat

Lady grace is out on the hard, I wont be anti-fouling this year as the antifouling used last year is designed 2 last for 2 years and looks fine, only a couple of barnicles on the the hull. Too rainy to do any of the jobs I had anticipated doing so I decided to do some work inside of the boat. The fuel gauge on the boat, is hidden away at the back of the engine compartment, its a piece of pipe about 7 inches long, the tube has got murky so it is very difficult to check the level of the fuel.
I decided the best idea for a new one was to run a pipe through to the heads (toilet) and have it next to the boiler pipe, here it will be very easy to get a reading.
The biggest problem was getting the right size of pipe to fit, I ended up using 6mm (internal) pipe. works very well.

Three and a half hours later i was finished. The second and final job of the day was to move the battery charger from the engine compartment to the locker under the port side quarter berth.
My reason for doind so is the wires ran from the locker to the charger unit which is inside the engine compartment and back through to the locker, it made more sense to me to have all components into the same place. The unit was screwed on to the side of the compartment , which on the other side of it had the starboard cockpit locker, which was full of safety equipment and other boaty items. This made it very hard to undo the screws, after an hour or so of fiddling around moving stuff i managed to remove the main unit with great difficulty though. Then i had to bring the wire out of the engine area pulling it through under the floor and through a few other lockers, after removing it all I worked out how much i needed and then cut of the excess, then I simply fitted all teh wires back to the correct places and voila, we had a working battery charger not half a mile from the battery!

That was today, next week i plan to create a self cooling cupboard next to the fridge, using to computer fans. one to suck air in and the other to blow it out, this should increase the fridges efficency and let me have a small pantry rather than just a plain cupboard.

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