Thursday, March 19, 2015

Wind anerometer, aka wind vane.

The old wind vane froze, so no wind direction.  Paul climbed the mast to pull off and see what was causing us to not be able to use the jib sail.  Well the frozen wind vane is still in the marina about 7 foot down.  So I climbed the mast 3 more times because the used one I bought didn't work, hmmmm....  The next one worked but the direction was reversed so the wires are switched somewhere, but now there also switched on the instrument down below.  The DMK Yacht box now hooks up to the onboard wifi and displays all Seatalk information to the iPad/iPhone's, so now we have a moving map (INavx) and boat knowledge going to fancy apps such as iRegatta and NKE for upcoming racing series BYC /MORF White Hat Rum Races, Tammy and I should learn a lot about our Tartan 37C.  Still need more crew though, volunteers?

I filed down the aluminum structure on the roller furling that was cutting the halyard, cut off the halyard, and put some pvc on to prevent this from happening again.


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