What have you done with your Pearson today?

[SVJourney]

For once I did absolutely NO boat work today!  Slacker huh?

Did meet another 365 today here in Neifu inTonga.  Loni and Bona on Good News.  They are not registered here although Loni says he checks here for answers to problems.  Anyways, its always great to meet another owner and share our boat ideas, even if its just how to store all the junk we "need" for long distance cruising.

This was the 6th 365 we've been on.  Its amazing how different they all are. 40 years of owner improvements change the face of things.

Wayne

[S/V Deo Volente]

*thunbs up* how many hours does your Westie have on it?

It's got about 3,350, in that time I've had the injectors rebuilt twice as maintenance, rebuilt the injection pump because of a leak, replaced the water pump twice (leak), and rebuilt the fuel pump and replaced the thermostat as preventative maintenance.

[eveningebb]

Wow!!  Two 365s in the Neifu Tonga harbor at the same time.  Maybe I really do need to push myself to head west from Grenada this January.

Dirk

[SV Perseverance]

Washed her inside and out!
Worked out a Fresh Water Flush System for the new Suzuki 4HP Dinghy Motor.
.... (aka a bucket of water tied up from the bottom -- worked great!...)
Preparing to "Camp Out" this weekend with the Grand Kids!
Finished rigging the topping lift for the (original) spinnaker pole.

Enjoyed the awesome weather here on Upper Gulf Coast of Florida

[#23]

put some 2" tubular webbing on the bow & stern docklines for chafe guard and set up some better springlines

[PeteW]

Scored on another spare 2:1 Walter V Drive for $100. I'll be parting this one out for the gear set and pinion shaft and coupler yoke. Fingers crossed that they have low wear.

[S/V Deo Volente]

Bolted up the transmission, set the engine back down and put on the winter cover.

[PeteW]

I finally ripped out the redundant port side neutral buss and 30 feet of meaningless white wire that Pearson wired to and from the port side aft bulkhead.

35+ plus years on I figure all the Pearson's out there have an AC panel installed on the starboard side. Since the AC panel has its own neutral buss this cleaned up a lot of wiring that otherwise goes roundtrip through the engine compartment. Has anyone else questioned why Pearson did it this way?

In the process I traced out some dead end wiring to the head and got all my AC outlets GFI protected. Yikes, I had a 2 wire outlet with no ground wire.

I rigged up a reference anode and dropped it in the water and went around with a voltmeter and measured my cathodic protection. I found a couple of un-bonded bronze through hulls that were running at +.175 V. The protected bronze was all at -.618 V. This is the ideal voltage for a polyester hull. I also discovered that the marina shore ground was running at -.40 volts, thus making my galvanic isolator a real necessity.

All I need to do now is edit these changes to my master schematic.

[#23]

today I demounted and pulled the 35 y/o factory speaker wire out from the bulkheads. The wire's canvas sheathing was coated in some sort of shellac that crumbles to black dust as soon as it's moved. I think we can live without the quadraphonic cassette stereo and will likely just use a Bluetooth system off MP3s instead.

[Leo II]

I started scraping old botto, paint today. After an hour my drop cloth weighed as much as our chihuahua

[#23]

redid the rat's nest of bilge pump float wiring, both waterproofing the connections and extending the float deeper into the bilge

[SailingSeaDragon]

Started putting Sea Dragon away for the winter:
   - Had one last sail of the season then I ---
   - Changed V-drive, Transmission, & Engine Oil / filter
   - Changed fuel filters and cleaned crap out the Racor
   - Bled the Red Beast
   - Found the source of diesel fuel in the bilge - fuel tank leak NO - Lift pump leaking YES
      sourcing new lift pump - Yea!
   - Drained & winterized the systems on board
   - Removed the sails - 1 at home, 1 out for repairs,
      and 1 new sail on order
   - Had the rigging inspected and tuned - Yea!
   - Found two chain plates that need to be replaced - Boo!
   - Finished design of new battery bank - storage & circuits
   - Pulled another 5 lbs of orphan wiring
   - Created a two page winter to-do-list (will likely grow to three
     pages then shrink to 1 1/2 before I throw in the towel and launch)

Sea Dragon will actually go from water to land the last week of Dec

Garner