Really impressive ........doing battle with the tangle of wires on an older boat is definitely not for the faint of heart. Thanks for sharing this excellent upgrade vid.
I always love an episode where Bill climbs the mast! This doesn't top climbing the shroud in the middle of the ocean...but still pretty cool. Your nav station now looks like it has all the info you need to run the boat from below on a passage. Looking forward to more boat projects.
Glad you enjoy it! He seems to spend a lot of time up there LOL. We are excited with the improvements made at the Nav Station. Gives the boat a more modern feel. You are right we can run the boat well from dow below now!
There are tool lanyards you can sling around your wrist to help keep tools from accidentally (how else?) slipping out of your grasp and dropping at heights (e.g., at the top of the mast, over water). Really warming up to your videos and your personal style. Grace, you have a professional-grade announcer/narrator voice, no joke; what a pleasure to hear your narration.
Interesting to see the upgrades, I hope you see the benefits of those on your next sail. To be honest I preferred your Saturday releases to this new time as Fridays were already busy on youtube with several of my other subbed channells doing releases then. Fridays & Sundays seem to be the most popular days for weekly releases.
This is such a full episode and very informative. We are going to be replacing some of our electronics this season and we have an older boat as well. Thank you!
First, congrats on hitting 16K subs. Second, I love your "how to" video's. How much wire and cables are within your mast? Personally I would hate to work so high up, especially with all those tools and new parts.
Thank you 🥳! We have quite a few wires up there. Anchor light, tri color, steaming, dec. light, radar, and the old wind cable is still in there. I felt lucky to not have dropped that much!
Ever thought of taking pic's of the electrical set up and label it so anyone else can see what everything is. I forgot how many programs there are for putting graphics in a pic. just a thought............................ enjoy
Lol so it’s looked nice on the outside. The chartplotter and all connections are waterproof and can be mounted outside a nav pod. The pod was cut a little too big for the set screws to grab so I glued the lip of plotter from the inside
I have only seen you two thought what Delos shows. I'm glad to see I was wrong. Your Nav desk is looking good and colorful. I know nothing about sailing. what does the wind instrument do? Why do you wait till your in port to fix things that break? Thanks for sharing
Happy that you found us Hazel! The wind instrument tells us the direction/angle is coming from and the strength of the wind. We fix things at port because there’s a lot going on while we’re sailing. It’s a full time job to navigate and keep watch plus the motion is generally too much to do much fixing. In port it’s much calmer and on anchor we don’t have to babysit the boat as much and can focus on projects!! Glad to have you along for the adventure & thank u for watching ☺️
that is not a nav pod key. It's a "security torx". You may find a set for the same price. On amazon in europe you can find one for 10 EUR ( 12 USD ). Many appliances has those screws . "security torx" keys are compatible with "torx" ( without the pin in the center ) in case you are interested.
IT guy here, you will greatly improve the transmission quality & speed of that ehternet cable if you properly terminate it. I'm actually surprised that worked.
@@CalicoSkiesSailing lol cool. Those ethernet cables kind of depend on the way the pairs are twisted together to cancel out signal interference. But even two RJ45's connected to a barrel adapter would probably speed it up. There's a pattern you are supposed to use when you lay the wires into the little plastic jumpers. I love the channel, I watch you guys, and Delos, and a few others. Keep up the good work, Panama is beautiful.
Hey Bill, I tried to provide you some information on connecting your Victron gear with your B&G Gear as the Cerbo GX can do this, but YT seems to be removing my comments instantly. Maybe its pending review?
@@CalicoSkiesSailing Yes, the Cerbo GX indeed can be integrated onto a NMEA 2000 network, for 2 way data. Basically you your Victron gear can receive some data from the NMEA network, and your chart plotter can receive and display Electrical data from the Victron gear over the NMEA network as well. Victron has some guides on setting this up.
