Ep 44 Boat Projects: Installing Fusion Wired Remote (Sailing Talisman) 

Thanks Clay.

I don't always listen to Led Zeppelin, but when I do, so do the neighbors !

Hi Patrick. How are things? Are you back on your boat yet? Yeah, I missed two items that I wish I'd included. One was plugging a spur cable into the backbone socket (and the second "click" you're looking for) as you mention and the other was a view of our Fusion main stereo head unit. Oh well. Not meant to be a complete tutorial.

Thanks so much Tim. I think the music is called Pioneers.

Thanks Johnny.

Hi Ant and Cid. Thanks so much. Great to have you along.

Good deal. We've been happy with our system so far.

Thanks James. Just installed another one on our Navpod.

Hi Daniel. Thanks for watching. We're from Colorado too (Denver and Winter Park) and used to sail on Lake Granby. We were doing summer racing and winter charter bareboating in the Caribbean. Eventually the sailing became more appealing, so we packed up and headed to Scotland. We do try to provide a view into our lives as it really is, regardless of whether it's perfect or not. The cruising life is a difficult one sometimes, mostly as regards maintenance. Luckily, Wendy and I are good with being cooped up together. I do see other cruisers where that isn't the case and it looks like it would become a real problem after a while.

us men become wiser as we age and see that fighting is just not worth it, always talk it out

Hi Bruce. I recommend always that people learn at someone else's expense if possible. Not in a bad way, like hoping they fail, but in learning from offered advice or observation. Much of what looks like smooth success at these projects is actually the culmination of having failed so often in the past. If you're going to do the cruising life you'd better be handy or rich. And we're not rich, unfortunately.

i would love to try it but i get sea sick so im thinking its not for me lol plus i am land locked here in edmonton

Thanks so much Phil.

Thanks so much. Talisman is an Oyster 485.

Yes, Fusion sells a 10" (I think) subwoofer) plus you can use other brands in the system if you want. Fusion and Rockford Fosgate make pretty good marine environment rated products and I have to say that I'm quite impressed with the Fusion speakers in the cockpit. These have fantastic sound quality and live in a very harsh environment. After a full season in the sun and saltwater they're still going strong. The small amps we have are undersized and if I did it again I'd go bigger there. If we turn the volume up too high they overheat and reset their breakers. As for anchorages, we do do a lot of anchoring these days, now that we have good places to anchor. However, some areas are not well suited to it (like the Atlantic coastline of Spain and Portugal). We were intimidated in the beginning, but these days we have a ton of experience. You get good fast in Greece because none of the marinas or harbors have laid mooring lines. It's all anchor and stern-to mooring.

Excellent! I had a $2400.00 audio system in my minivan I had a Rockford Fosgate 12 inch sub powered by a 900 watt Rockford Fosgate single channel amp, then a Panasonic 400 watt 4 channel amp powering my door speakers. I’m a 52 year old white guy that likes classical music and show tunes, so I don’t care about much pop music that announces your arrival two blocks down the road. My thing is natural sound reproduction. That system delivered! Then my wife totaled the minivan. I sure miss that car. Lol Dave

Thanks Mark. Wendy's been a bit camera shy in the past but we have her in more of the upcoming clips as she sees how the final product looks.

I'm not sure exactly where you're seeing them, but I do know that a lot of the original staples used in the headliners and seat cushions were regular steel, not galvanized. Today you can get T-50 and other common size staples in galvanized, monel, and stainless steel. Regular steel staples have no place in the marine environment. This goes for fasteners too, obviously. As for why they rust, it's the salt air that permeates everything in and around the ocean.

It might be the lighting but it looked like the staples which hold the white 1 in. X 6 in. (approx.) Velcro strip just near where you drilled the 1 3/4 in. hole in the bulkhead under the bed to run the control lead for the (I believe) stereo system. Like I said, might be the lighting, and yes, I sure get that regular steel has no business in a boat, and , bare in mind, I did not for a minute that you put them there. It looked like there are staples holding the strip and the metal had discoloured the white Velcro. Anyways …. Cheers.

I will! Good idea.

You bet Ben.

Hi there. I went and watched the video you linked to and there's more features to our system than I was aware of. Things get better every day. We have the AV-650 model head unit and as I mentioned to Patrick below I wish I'd shown our location for that too. Fusion makes a ton of cool stuff. We've used up all the zones on our AV-650, but I have it in mind to add a simple MS-RA205 Bluetooth receiver in our forward guest V-berth when time and money allow. On our unit we slave to our phones and use Bluetooth streaming almost exclusively.

Thanks Rod. Lots of screw-ups as a kid.