Added teak trim in the saloon and short section across from the head. Looking much nicer. Just a dry fit for now, will need to take it all down and stain/finish it later.
Continuing to add trim
Pasta Alfredo with mushrooms
Continuing to enjoy the galley. Hit farmers market in Sausalito this morning for fresh strawberries and cherries. Cooked pasta with Alfredo sauce and shiitake mushrooms for dinner.
Headliner for the head
Organized wires and installed headliner in the head. Looks so much cleaner.
Adding teak trim to headliner
To cover seams and help keep headliner in place, I started adding teak trim.
Bird friends
Hanging out with bird friends this weekend. A couple of finches seem to really like my boat. They are there every morning – as I wake up and open my eyes I see them through the hatch, perched on the shrouds.
A black-crowned Night Heron hangs out with me in the evenings.
Headliner troubles
Came to the boat after a few hot days to find headliner peeling off in many places. The glue I got from Sailrite didn’t hold when temps went up. Will try to a) get a better glue and b) add some thin teak trim to help keep it in place.
Secured head items
Made a few teak blocks with 3″, 4″, and 5″ curves to properly secure head fixtures.
My previous mounting method that used magnets at the bottom of these didn’t pan out. They weren’t secure enough, especially underway. This new approach is much more secure and gets them more out of the way.
BMS is back on!
After all the wiring was done and working last year, I had to disconnect the system to organize wires better and get them away from rotating parts. Of course, once things reconnected, the BMS refused to work properly – not seeing batteries, not turning on the distributor, etc. Tried a lot of troubleshooting with no success.
I took it back to local distributor where they ran some bench tests and confirmed it was working OK. With holidays and travel getting in the way, I finally picked it up and brought back to the boat this weekend.
Plugged it back into the system and it still didn’t power up. It did ask to update firmware, which I promptly took care of. As soon as it booted up with the new firmware, we were back in business – everything working nominally! I did a happy dance. One big TODO for this year can be checked off. Next up – tackling that remaining vibration in the shaft.
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Continuing with headliner
After all the patching and post-sanding cleaning, I finally installed the other half of liner in the saloon:
After that was done, I started on the liner for port-side shelving. That was even more tedious because of all the deck hardware fasteners protruding through liner. Turned out OK.
Steady progress.