Strip Molding 101 from Boatbuilder magazine

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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Stick your hand in the job jar, and pull out a couple boat improvement projects.

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The owner of this boat had the feeling that the equipment in his console was getting to hot, and I agreed that the top of the console felt ...
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Saturday, July 31, 2010

NMEA 2000, how do I love thee, let me count the ways, for now.

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The OSI ( Ohio Scientific Inc. ) 300 computer you see below, is a very early microprocessor based computer, and it is the first compu...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Good luck Jeremy

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Jeremy has been with me for many years now. He is the son of a very old friend of mine, and I have memories of Jeremy as a little pink infa...

No worries mate, we are precisely in 176.2 feet of water

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The owner of this boat called me and said his depth finder wasn't working correctly on a short "Shake Down" cruise from Saras...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

A little to close for comfort, ahhh, my retinas, and my pacemaker has stopped worki....

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I am uncomfortable with the Garmin radar installation below because of the nearly eye level installation, and the about 6 foot  proximity  ...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

What a dumb idea, stupid, why I oughta.....

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This should have been a simple job. A Raymarine E-120 wasn't getting a fix, and the investigation begins. Let's check the power, an...

Golight Go

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Late one afternoon, I was working on my blog, and abstractly listening to the whining and grinding of a wood chipper, and the constant revvi...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Mr Electricity prime suspect in conflagration. Mr. Aqueous sought as a person of interest.

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This is the city, Sarasota, Florida. I work here. "I carry a certification." The story you are about to read is true. Only the n...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Fear and Funnels in Florida Bay

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These stunning pictures were taken a couple of weeks ago by Captain Abner Pires. Abner was on the vessel "Grateful" (44' Tiar...
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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Lock picking tools. Mild mannered marine installer, or secret agent man?

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I am an avid fan of National Public Radio. The radio clicks on in the morning at 5:00AM tuned to "Morning Edition" (Kate and I sti...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Burnt offerings

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These are two intertwined musings about melting electronics, and access to put out a fire. Below is a controller for a marine device, that w...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

PC purgatory. Increased complexity equals reduced reliability.

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"I'm not a big fan of having PC's on a boat, for a variety of good reasons." Now before the devotees of PC's take gre...
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