Ok Y'all
Why is it whenever I start a project on the boat what I thought was a few hours turns into a few days and what I thought was a few days seems to span weeks.
Lining the remaining engine compartment (I like to say engine room when talking to non boaters) I did the forward section last year, I am now doing the underside of the cockpit and the locker sides etc. I have now after two days of prep work started sticking tile on, I have rewired the engine to gauge panel, why did they run all the wires up over the head??
I did take some sound levels prior to starting the project and will take the same readings after I am done, interesting enough I had 85db at the helm at 1500rpm 95db at the bottom ladder run in the galley so I am looking for some sound reduction I hope to drop at least 10db and maybe even 15 to 20 in the galley.
Ed
S/V Moonlight Mile.
Ed,
I have learned that every project needs 3 times as long as your original estimate. Most of the extra time involves driving to and from the marine supply store. Regardless of how many time I measure IDs and ODs, I bring back the wrong hose barb, adapter, etc. My solutions is to buy a couple of everthing. It will save me days in the long run.
Regarding sound levels in dB, if you could reduce the sound level by half (amplitude not power) you are talking 6 dB. So 10 to 15 dB would be significant.
I have been in the engine compartment of my newly acquired 365 project. Its quite unique, there is a Westerbeke W58 shoe horned in there. Most horrifying is the extent to which the engine weighs have been chopped up to lower the engine mounts the 2+ inches needed to fit the engine.
Not to highjack your thread but I am curious if anyone has a clue as to how the 365 will run with 58 HP and how bad the vibration will be. Even though this engine turns over, it will be a while before I fire it up. I have a cracked fuel return line and some cooling system rework to do. If it runs and I decide not to re-power. I will jack the engine up and reglass the weighs as step 1. It does have some advantages over the old 108-4. Electric lift pump and self primming for starters.
Hang in there, Best Regards,
Pete Weisskopf
Any time I can complete a few hour project in a few days, I consider it a personal victory. A few weeks is more typical. What with going for parts and then can't remember what I went there for, leaving tools at home (or on the boat), getting sidetracked on something else, Any project crossed off The List is cause for celebration.
You guys have boat projects?!?!? I have reached the conclusion that almost any potential project can be procrastinated indefinitely. This conclusion has really increased my zen. (and decreased my blood loss)
Ron living aboard
S/V Matchmaker - Saint Marks, FL
I don't even bother to SWAG it anymore. My crystal ball fell in the bilge and I can't reach it. Without it, estimating is hopeless.
Wanda: "You know your VISA bill was $1600.00 last month."
Me: "Huh!- I thought that was a pretty light month."
Wanda: "Yeah, that's what it was-$1600.00."
Me: "Wait till you see this month."
Wanda: Rolls eyes...
You know I love you guy's,
I thought it was just me but you all have the same fears I have, urgh can I spend this or that and what is the wife going to think.
I made a statement a few years ago talking to a guy I did not know and who did not know me but he asked if I golfed or such, I said & I quote, wife present "no I keep a 30 year old mistress" my wife God bless her said "yep and its $ for $ what you spend on her, you will spend on me" seems I still got a lot a catching up to do on the boat. Two houses not sure how many cars and dinner for thirty odd years. Did I tell you all I am looking to put a very nice A/C system aboard soon!
Ed
There are a lot of good ideas on where and how to install an A/C system. And then there are some not so good ones...
On our boat, all the port side lockers have ducting run through them. Several are completely useless because they are full of ducting. I plan to replumb the ducting and open up those lockers so they can be used. The installation of the unit itself was done well, but the ducting leaves a lot to be desired. Another item on The List. One of the things they did was connect it up to fresh water from the bow tank with a valve. When you get ready to shut it down, you can switch it over to fresh water and purge the seawater out of it. Helps keep the critters out of the heat exchanger. Ride over and look at ours if you want.
I installed the AC system in the front of the pilot berth. I put in a false floor in the pilot berth for the ducting and ran another duct behind the shower and starboard hanging locker to the Vee berth. I out in a divider aft of the AC system and converted the rest of the pilot berth to a Big locker.