Choosing the right equipment for your vessel is important. Being able to repair it or maintain your
vessel is just as important. Good equipment can help make cruising comfortable and
safe, while poor equipment or lack of maintenance can ruin much of the
enjoyment of cruising. Lack of maintenance has the potential to be quite
dangerous. Money is always important, as
most of us out here have limited income while cruising, so getting good value
for money is crucial.
I have always been fairly hands on when it comes to repairing my boats. My previous job was as an electronics technician on board an exploration vessel. But the reality of the job meant we needed to be able to turn our hand to just about anything needed to keep the vessel in operation.
Help with OpenCPN, if we have lent a hand to set up a feature I hope to document it so it can help out others.
Setting up command line mail client OpenPlotter
Hose clamps - an important lesson
Getting the OpenCPN tide function to work PC & OpenPlotter
OpenPlotter setting up layers in OpenCPN
Transferring files to OpenPlotter
A Raspberry Pi running OpenCPN
Setting up our Raspberry Pi with OpenPlotter
Making the cruising dollar go further
OpenCPN on a PC Layers setting up
OpenCPN using kap overlay charts
OpenCPN on a PC setting up interactive cruising guide
Navigation Software
Programs to Manipulate Edit and Display GPS Files
Tide & Current Information
Compass Variation & Deviation
Distance Speed & Time
Working with Coordinates
Measurement Conversions
Apparent Movement of the Sun
Distance of the Visible Sea Horizon
Helpful Sail Calculations
Volume, Weights, Pressure, Speed of Sound
Temperature Conversions
Broken Throttle Cable Jury Rig
Check your safety equipment regularly
Abandon Ship Bag
Light Switches
Rust on Stanchions
Filling Tanks from Town Water
Wire Rope Grips
Prolific USB to Serial Adapter Driver Fix.
Removing and replacing wooden plugs
Spares and Repairs Underway
Removing Uncured Epoxy
Tef-Gel Vs Duralac
Fitting an Asian Gas Cylinder
After more than 18 years of working offshore, plus the many
years with sailing vessels of various sizes, and living on our present
boat since 2010, I think I have a few thoughts on equipment. These pages are to help
people decide not only what equipment they would like to have on their boat,
but also, where our experience allows, to help maintain or decide on different
equipment. While I doubt we will be doing a lot of gear comparisons when we do
need to upgrade or do repairs we will post our thoughts here.
Like most boat owners, we have considerable experience with
the equipment that came with the vessel. What problems we inherited and
especially that equipment we chose to add. While
we don't have the information on all the brands and models of equipment, we
would like to share what we do know.
We want to keep it real and will include as much factual
information as we can add, and our opinion of how the gear performed good or
bad.
I have always been fairly hands on when it comes to repairing my boats. My previous job was as an electronics technician on board an exploration vessel. But the reality of the job meant we needed to be able to turn our hand to just about anything needed to keep the vessel in operation.
Help with OpenCPN, if we have lent a hand to set up a feature I hope to document it so it can help out others.
Setting up command line mail client OpenPlotter
Hose clamps - an important lesson
Getting the OpenCPN tide function to work PC & OpenPlotter
OpenPlotter setting up layers in OpenCPN
Transferring files to OpenPlotter
A Raspberry Pi running OpenCPN
Setting up our Raspberry Pi with OpenPlotter
Making the cruising dollar go further
OpenCPN on a PC Layers setting up
OpenCPN using kap overlay charts
OpenCPN on a PC setting up interactive cruising guide
Navigation Software
Programs to Manipulate Edit and Display GPS Files
Tide & Current Information
Compass Variation & Deviation
Distance Speed & Time
Working with Coordinates
Measurement Conversions
Apparent Movement of the Sun
Distance of the Visible Sea Horizon
Helpful Sail Calculations
Volume, Weights, Pressure, Speed of Sound
Temperature Conversions
Broken Throttle Cable Jury Rig
Check your safety equipment regularly
Abandon Ship Bag
Light Switches
Rust on Stanchions
Filling Tanks from Town Water
Wire Rope Grips
Prolific USB to Serial Adapter Driver Fix.
Removing and replacing wooden plugs
Spares and Repairs Underway
Removing Uncured Epoxy
Tef-Gel Vs Duralac
Fitting an Asian Gas Cylinder
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