Life aboard a Little Harbor 44

[Jim in Halifax]

"wife beater" and tank-top are not perfect synonyms. A tank-top is a sleevless shirt. A "wife beater" is a sleevless undershirt made from ribbed cotton or or ribbed cotton/poly blend.

The term the king would use is 'singlet'.

 

[Sail4beer]

My attorney father is the guy who still uses wife beater for the ribbed cotton ones. He still gives me his old ones to use as wipe down rags for various jobs. At 91, I figure I’ve used 30 years of his worn out wifebeaters!

 

[SloopJonB]

My attorney father is the guy who still uses wife beater for the ribbed cotton ones. He still gives me his old ones to use as wipe down rags for various jobs. At 91, I figure I’ve used 30 years of his worn out wifebeaters!

How's your mom?

 

[accnick]

"wife beater" and tank-top are not perfect synonyms. A tank-top is a sleevless shirt. A "wife beater" is a sleevless undershirt made from ribbed cotton or or ribbed cotton/poly blend.

Details, details.....

 

[Sail4beer]

How's your mom?

She died a few years back of Parkinson’s. She was bigger, so he never thought to use the power of the ribbed cotton fury.🤣

 

[Alaris]

BSP works fine spun by hand. Must have been operator error when inserting or aligning the transducer. It has an indent to line it up and I thought it was all the way installed but apparently not.

 

[Alaris]

Looking at maybe cruising next week into weekend so I need an anchor light. So today hooked up the mast lights and am replacing running light bulbs with LED. Test fitting A/C.

 

[Alaris]

Bluetooth autopilot remote works brilliantly. Can’t find my (very expensive) LED bulbs. Will suffer through the incandescent life until they turn up.

 

[nofacey]

Quick and easy anchor light = any half decent solar garden light. I had time, searched about for a strong light with large integrated solar panel - lights up aft deck all night long

 

[Alaris]

I will have to test it in the dark but I tested it on the mast before it was stepped and it worked. It’s all wired up now.

 

[A CheeseHead]

That's a right proper yacht. Congrats ... and good on ya!

 

[Alaris]

Had a beach house for the week. Decided last night to head back to cruise through the weekend. First solo cruise and first overnight away from the dock. All is well so far!

 

[Alaris]

The boat speed is still zero. It works when I spin by hand. It is seated in the notch in the transducer housing. I’m at a loss.

 

[billsreef]

How much effort does it take to spin the paddle wheel?

 

[Alaris]

How much effort does it take to spin the paddle wheel?

It is clean and brand new. No effort.

 

[billsreef]

Odd.

 

[Alaris]

Minor setback

 

[Alaris]

After replacing the belt, alternator likely dead. Smoke and crackling sounds inside like it’s smoldering. The spare is, of course, not on board. It is en route by powerboat.

 

[SloopJonB]

Lotta belt dust in that pic - wipe it off and monitor the new one to ensure it was a failing alternator that caused the wear.

 

[Sail4beer]

That alternator must have burned its diodes out before you bought the boat and barely produced voltage back into the batteries. Shore power and battery maintenance charger kept things electric. Good luck.