Wednesday 11 January 2012

New LED 2 NM navigation light


I was apparently on the good list as Santa brought me a LED bow nav light for Santeria.

Draws 0.05 Amps....insanely low power draw with good visibility.

This completes Santeria's conversion from incandescent  light source to LED (both Internal and external lighting)

New Tiller finished

Tiller replacement is now finished, just need to find a tiller extension receptacle to fit a 5/16" qick release extension. 

Turn your head 90 degrees to the left if this picture is confusing....


Winch Handles - Problem with locking mechanism solved

As you can see the winch locking mechanism was not aligned properly, and was causing a major pain when attempting to switch winch handles during tacks.....the mechanism was slightly off and was a PITA to release. as shown here....


and here......


A slight twist of the mechanism with a pair of plyer resulted in correct positioning.so that is was positioned in between the winch handle gear teeth...shazaam


 and shazaam again!



This is something so simple but never took the time to figure it out. Canada winter months are good for this type of stuff.