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Well today was a little frustrating. We don,t have our inflatable back yet and I wanted to do several projects which can only be done from the small boat (remove as name off the stern that had been damaged, clean & wax the hull etc..). I decided to launch our old tender a little 9' row boat, I forgot that it leaked a bit. By the time I had rowed out to the mooring I had 4" of water in the boat. By the time I had removed the name from the stern I had about 6" of water and was losing ground fast. I had to abandon my water projects and get back on Rose Lee. Joyce was coming out to meet me on the boat to help with the radar so in the mean time I mounted my new fire axe (a coast guard requirement) in the aft cabin. Joyce's timing was great I was just finishing as she arrived in the club tender. We then started to tackle the radar project. So to give you an idea what we were doing I will try and describe the set-up and add a few pics soon. My chart plotter is mounted on a hinged pod at the aft end of my cockpit table. Because it is hinged it folds down out of the way when not in use. The wiring must fold as well so they are run through a flexible stainless steel braided conduit that slides down out of the way when you fold the pod. So to run the new radar cable it has to com from the plotter through the 12" flexible conduit than down through the aft table leg of the cockpit table along the ceiling of the aft cabin into the stern lazzerette and then back up through a hole which I will drill and then up through 8' of stainless steel pipe on the back stay and finally to the radome which sits on top of the pipe. We prepared by removing the access panel over the aft cabin birth and sizing up how we were going to fish the cockpit table leg , which I had assumed would be the toughest part (not so). We couldn't get it through the 1st obstacle that 12" SS braided conduit (it was completely full). After looking at it several different ways we determined that we would need to install and second flexible conduit in the folding chart plotter mount (that should be interesting). And this is the norm for boat projects set good attainable goals and settle for not breaking anything too major:) to be continued...
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