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Flying through the air… #theBoatyard
Hale Kai in the air…
Hale Kai preparing to be lifted into the water…
Hale Kai in the air seen from the stern…
Hale Kai in the air heading for the water…
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Took off every MC4 solar connector aboard, we're tired of them breaking and leaking. We'll try just using simple marine butt-connectors.
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Looking at the Boat Projects section on 100r.co, it is crazy to see how many changes we've done to Pino over the years... and despite all that, there is still a lot we haven't yet touched.

https://100r.co/site/boat_projects.html

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100R — boat projects

100r.co
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#finishit -ed the bathroom cabinet! You can see the recycled bamboo cutting board turned shelf.
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Finally got a little knob for the rheostat that controls how many amps our engine's alternator gets to pump into our batteries :>. For now, I put little stickers so we know what the minimum(off, no charge) and max points are.

Eventually, we'll put markings on the wood to indicate the charging strength for each 'position'.

https://100r.co/site/regulator.html

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100R — regulator

100r.co
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I dont know what #finishit is, but the biggest project I can't wait to get off my hands is the sale of my first sailboat.
Almost done with all the work to get inside photos taken before I can list it. #theBoatyard
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Glassed the rails, and tested the windows. We're adding a shelf perfectly size to our huge medkit.
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Cabinet sides altogether.
Acrylic windows installed.
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Test fitting of the new-old cabinetry that we've taken apart and cleaned up.
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Everything in place, but nothing screwed in yet.
Holding up the trims up front.
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Before/after, we insulated the back wall of the bathroom and painted it. It's going to be so much nicer next winter.
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Refreshing the wood of the old bathroom cabinet that had gotten moldy.
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All the parts roughly assembled.
A the parts with sealant in the painting nails holes.
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A plumbing sort of day aboard Pino, also.. making lots of holes in stainless steel.
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super cool & wholesome interview with kiana weltzien, self-taught solo sailer who crosses the atlantic in her old wharram catamaran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSavQwP-O0k
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Solo Woman Sailing an Old Wooden Catamaran - Kiana Weltzien | SSS Podcast Episode 1

Kiana Weltzien, now 26 years old, is a seasoned solo female sailor with thousands of nautical miles and multiple transatlantic crossings under the keels of h...
YouTube
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A major milestone. It took some persuasion with a hammer and a file to get the gudgeons back on. Hopefully that’ll do for another 45 years. #theBoatyard
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#theBoatyard how's your day going?
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Found an adapter for our old Japanese LPG tank yesterday ^_^!

Now we can use it with our current system.

http://100r.co/site/lpg_refit.html

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100R — lpg refit

100r.co
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Pretty happy of how I managed to run all the bathroom electricals through the speaker enclosure of the saloon.
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A wooden speaker enclusre with a potted light and a 8 port gang bus.
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Streamlined the shit out of this boat.
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A very busy breaker panel locker.
A much less busy breaker panel locker.
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You wouldn't believe the horrors we're finding. Here's what we're replacing the old sockets with.
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Corroded 120v outlet without even a protective case.
A properly assembled 120v outlet with heat-shrinked ports.
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It's nice to see a green light again. 💚 Pino's telecommunications are back online.
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It is hard to find good schematics on how to connect things together, so I made one for the battery monitor.

http://100r.co/site/electrical_refit.html

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100R — electrical refit

100r.co
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We're pretty much done rewiring the entire 12V system of the boat, we're down to reconnecting the radio/comms gear. After that, 120V AC, which I know absolutely nothing about.
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Finally bringing the electric systems back online. First time doing this sort of thing but I think we've managed to balance ease of inspection, and robustness. It was very important to us that we could more easily monitor wear.

I was wondering earlier about if we could have never hired someone to do this, and this would have been hundreds of work hours and it could never have been done the way to wanted..

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Breaker panel backside with wires leading into the walls.
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We tore half the boat apart today trying to find where the second breaker panel wires connect. Turns out they connected to the starting cables(!?), behind the wall(we had to remove the wall, and dismantle half of the chart-table to get to it). And in the end, it connected in the worse manner imaginable, to totally unrelated cables. Fucking classic.
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We tore half the boat apart today trying to find where the second breaker panel wires connect. Turns out they connected to the starting cables(!?), behind the wall(we had to remove the wall, and dismantle half of the chart-table to get to it). And in the end, it connected in the worse manner imaginable, to totally unrelated cables. Fucking classic.
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The coffee stained birch door that we built is now installed with the new breaker panels and we're very happy with it, I think we were able to match the shade of the boat, even tho we couldn't afford hardwoods.
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Sealing the new breaker panel doors, they're cheap birch stained with instant coffee and sealed with household varnish. It blends perfectly with the rest of Pino.
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Making scary big holes in the walls. 😬
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Drill with hole saw
Water level gauge in the wall.
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Made new doors for the breaker panels out of birch, did two layers of instant coffee staining on them, will probably do another two.
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Stained wood cuts
Stained wood cuts with templates for breaker panels on top.
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Installed a new fuel gauge on Pino, the old one was so old it corroded and broke in half.
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Old fuel gauge cap on a stainless steel tank.
New fuel gauge cap on a stainless steel tank.
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It lives!

We found this old fishing rod holder and glasses a little potted light inside and used the enclosure to run the wires through the ss pipes down to the bus. Looks neat!

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Light on!
Haft light turned on
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Replaced our old makeshift very-much-less-than-watertight haft light with a new makeshit light that's a lot nicer and hopefully more watertight.
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old light, all rusty
the old light actually filled up with water..
new little potted lamp stuck into a fishing rod holder
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Connected up the remaining of the mast, compass, stern lights to the breaker. The lighting system, which was the most complicated system on the boat, is nearly done.
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Installing ninja switches all over the place.
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12 volts switch
12 volts cables connecting to the back panel
Nearly invisible switch on the front-panel
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I love these sneaky switches hidden all over the boat, I call 'em ninja switches.
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We ran new wires all through the boat and each day we're getting closer to the battery banks, today we've reached the breaker panels.
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After hurting ourselves a bunch of time, we decided to borrow the proper tools to do the job.
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A good wire crimper.
A bad wire crimper.
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Partly rewired the instruments and electrical systems running inside the mast, found some of the hackiest works from the previous owners.
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Pino's portside lighting system is now connected! We're starting to get the hang of this.
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We are roleplaying marine electricians this month, look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
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