Archive | May, 2014

Two Fish fans have noticed that the boat tracker has not moved in two weeks.   This is the longest she has stayed put since she splashed in Buenos Aires 7 months ago.   Two Fish is finally receiving her annual service (a bit early) and some of her warranty work. Every day we head to “work” to fix, clean and service all the systems on Two Fish. We had professionals come and bless our water maker, after its horrific start. Good news: the system got a passing grade. We also had a pro come from Brownies to fix our dive compressor. The unit is just fine, but we need to have a strong fan installed when operating the compressor. We may just run it at dusk, when the temperature drops. We also had a Furuno representative on board. We think he may have solved our rebooting screens issue. Seems we had one extra terminator in the NMEA network so the resistance on the network was only 40 ohms. The solar panels seem to be better after changing the too large connector to the fuse. Next week, the generator and Volvos will also receive some professional service. We can’t be too careful with the engines. A few changes are being applied to the running rigging, sails and fuel lines, but I will blog about that later. I have enjoyed doing the annual service as a way of  learning the boat.   I learned that my stuffing box is water cooled from the anti-siphon loop of the raw water loop.   Clever engineering.   The more I know about the boat, the quicker I can fix it if an engine stops while at sea. This video is on par with the Lord Electron post in terms of number of sandy beaches. However, if you are a boat owner you may find it action-packed. I would wager that some other cruisers may wait 3 years or more to service their winches.