Ok, so all drilled and the through deck is in. Its loosely screwed with sealant drying for tightening tomorrow. Steaming/decklight is installed. Anchor light is installed. Tomorrow it gets wired into the switch panel. Gonna need a bigger panel I think, but for now I'll use a couple of switches I have laying around. So here's some pics. I'll try to get steaming light pic tomorrow. It got dark! Here's the through hull... https://www.dropbox.com/s/qn29hc195uyy5x4/20160209_182415.jpg?dl=0 Here's how my mainsheet is rigged, prob not great for racing but totally out of the way for cruising... https://www.dropbox.com/s/rdwb1tvf0jdo7ry/20160209_172631.jpg?dl=0 And here's how it all exited from the mast...seems like I could have done this better, but I'm a noob and it was the best I could think of... https://www.dropbox.com/s/ohw6nliz0wnat89/20160209_152745.jpg?dl=0 And to keep things from being to dull, here's the one and only time I've been out on it! LOL https://www.dropbox.com/s/n3n46bxvd2umdio/20160118_120353.jpg?dl=0 Jazz PS. If you guys are looking for a temp way to share pics until you all decide on something, DropBox works great. You can put dropbox on your phone and your computer and your wifes phone and your wifes computer, and it always stays up to date. If you change something in it on your phone lets say, it changes everywhere. You just have to "share" your pic with DropBox, then open it in DropBox and right click for the "share dropbox link". The link will automatically go to your clipboard, then you just paste in your email. So long as you keep your drop box, your link will work in here. NOT AFFILIATED, but a cool program! I can look at El Nino pics from any computer or phone that has dropbox :) On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Larry, Thanks for the suggestion of the foam peanuts since I have already run the mast wires and can't remember if I used the snap tie trick or not. Tom B
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Larry Yake <larryyake@gmail.com> wrote:
Another option to quiet the wire slapping inside the mast is to fill it with styrofoam packing peanuts. A piece of styrofoam swim noodle makes a nice "cork" in the ends to keep them from coming out. You also get the benefit of some flotation. I did this several years ago and it has worked very well with no issues at all.
Larry Y M17 CornDog
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 1:28 PM, John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
Speaking of wires in mast - that you don't want to hear slapping all night from down in the berth, or just slapping (chafing ;-) in general - one trick is to put three or four zip-ties every few feet on the wire as you feed it through, angled in different directions to make a triangle or rectangle of zip-tie ends sticking out and pressing against the inside of the mast and keeping the wire from slapping. I would use the black more UV- and heat-tolerant ones - even though inside the mast, they will probably last longer than the plain white ones.
cheers, John S.
On 02/09/2016 07:11 AM, Thomas Buzzi wrote:
Jazz, I drilled a 5/8 inch hole six inches up from the bottom of my mast on the front face to exit the wires. I then inserted a 1/2 inch rubber grommet (available at hardware stores) in the hole before feeding the wires through it.. I drilled the hole on the forward side of the mast as opposed to the side thinking about some future accident where I dropped the mast into the tabernacle and possibly slice through those protruding wires. Two things I learned about boats, you always design around chafe since nothing is still on a boat and things rub all the time and the other is never leave a corner anywhere that is not radiused. Those sharp corners in a fall can be deadly. Have fun. Tom B <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
So I'm running mast wires. ..there's an exit hole that's about 1/4 inch
down near the bottom of the mast. It would be helpful if it was bigger but I don't want a portable folding mast. Can I enlarge it safely? And how much?
Jazz
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