Getting ever so much closer

Oh my, I think the boat will hit the water later this month. I still have a few bits to source, but nothing that will stop us from going sailing.

As I said earlier I purchased a complete new navigation system over the last year. It's been sitting in my basement and slowly the piece parts have been making their way to the boat. I'm quite excited! Had a bit of concern over the angle the new depth/speed/temp sensor would end up being at once installed in the boat. Spent a considerable amount of time researching this particular sensor that came with my system, a DST-800. Happily found out that it will work at mounting angles from 0 to 22 degrees. Which is great because my hull is about 18 degrees where I plan on mounting it. I will need to be very aware of the offset when I am leaning to starboard, as the sensor will be tilted beyond what it can handle. So I'll be mounting the can it sits in this weekend. Then run the wiring for the network on the boat. I also need to find a place to mount my rate compass. That tells all the things attached to my navigation network which way the boat is oriented. It will probably end up right next to my DST sensor in the forward port settee cabinet.

Have replaced all my sheaves, and received all the new rope for new halyards. Also replaced all the wiring in the mast. New Radar cable, three wire for the steaming/work light, VHF antenna wiring, two wire for the mast head light. All fit in the handy conduits that were in the mast for exactly this reason. Now only my halyards will run free through that space. Hopefully there will be much less banging.

This so far has been a fun project. I'm not as fast as I used to be, but I think that is more of a function of age than my current brain damage. I still need to source a few exit boxes, but if I can't I can send them to Zephyr and get them rebuilt. I love his communications, just the price and his address. Nice.

I'll post pictures once I recover some shots from Betty's phone.

I'm still wondering about a staysail. Doing some further research in the "owner's manual" I found one of the exit boxes was on the front of the mizzen was for flying a staysail. I wonder if the extra wire I found was to fly an extra jib, or was it for a main mast rigged staysail? Anyway I bought enough rope to make a halyard for that. I have a line run up the mizzen to draw that line in, so I wonder if I should just not mount it, I don't think I even own a staysail at this point. I'll have to look into getting one before we go far foreign. But I also need to know how to rig and fly my spinnaker as well. Oh well off to school I guess. Loads of youtube in my future as I struggle to figure this out. Oh I also need to get a jib pole as well.

Well that's it today from this Oldy Boat.