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Ready To Sail.........I think. I know there's stuff I still have to work out, for instance how I will get on with the fixed topping lift, I've only ever sailed with an adjustable one previously, but I'll give it a try before I "convert" it. I'm still lacking confidence in the depth sounder, but I can't really test it without taking the boat out, and I've got a lifting keel........Otherwise, I think we're there. I spent today doing some wiring; putting in the NMEA link between the GPS and the Autohelm, putting in permanent wiring for the GPS to replace the cigarette lighter adaptor I used as a test rig, and installing the gas alarm. The NMEA wiring meant somehow running a cable from the port side of the cockpit, all the way around the stern, up the starboard side, past the cockpit, through the galley, underneath the starboard settee berth, and finally up to emerge by the chart table where the GPS and VHF are located. A good couple of hours work to make nice, and because the cable is hidden for almost all of the route, nothing to see for my efforts. Still, the glow of self-satisfaction set me up for lunch, and another beer, so I thought I'd try this for a change:  The name has always put me off in the past - who in their right mind would name a beer after a rather shabby television soap opera? Fortunately the beer is rather better than YTV's saga of the Sugdens, albeit that most of the action takes place in the the appropriately named village pub, "The Woolpack". Moving swiftly on from the tawdry TV series, and back to Ameera - all I really have to show for the day's effort is the gas alarm - at a tenner from Lidl it seemed like a good idea.  So it is done, although maybe I should have cleaned up before taking the photo. What seemed ostensibly to be a simple set of tasks was spiced up by the need to drill some holes to route the various cables installed. Unlike some blokes I am never happy wielding a drill, or any other form of power tool, it just doesn't suit me, so to be drilling holes through bulkheads in a boat was an unnerving task, but hey - she's still floating, I didn't make any through-hulls by mistake, so that's all right then! No excuses, now I can go sailing. 7:52 PM - Feb. 24, 2007 - post comment
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