Recent content by Rusty

Here is a very good video explaining how Starlink works. A bit long but well worth the time.

In our boat, which is one year older than yours, the neutral bus is more of a bundle. For us, the AC wiring is all on the starboard bulkhead ahead of the engine. If you follow the wires up toward the ceiling, you will likely find that the wires ago up in a bundle and end with them all connected...

Teddi Bear was sold earlier this year. She is now Wine-N-Down. It is a very nice boat. From earlier this evening ...

I just did this a few weeks ago our 42 year old GB. See https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=883453&postcount=3 I pulled all the hardware and polished everything including the screw heads. :) PM me if you want more details.

Is this the same boat? https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bod/7120759664.html

We just did our salon floor last weekend. I will admit that I cheated a bit. A friend who does wood floors for a living came up and did most of the work. He also brought professional tools and talent. Total time was about 6 hours over two days. Sanding and scraping the floor to bare wood was...

A couple of these chained together ought to do it. :) https://www.stratusleds.com/module

My work commute is short. Just down the hall. :) Normally, it is a plane back and forth from Seattle to Los Angeles every week. I haven't been at home this much in ten years.

Another vote for Liberty Bay. We are there too. ?

I just replaced the 48 48" flourescent tubes in our garage with Hyperikon LED tubes from Amazon. About $10 each. https://amzn.to/35volng I pulled the ballast out of all the fixtures and rewired them. It took about 5-8 minutes per fixture. I have four remaining tubes to replace on the boat...

We have the same fixtures. The original 12" flourescents were pathetic. We replaced them with 12" LED light strips from Lunasea. Here is a post I did about it in 2012. More Light, Less Power | M/V Archimedes – An Old Grand Banks 42. They have worked flawlessly since we installed them...

Both are easy to walk on. The walk on fare is about $8.50 round trip. The Bainbridge ride is 35 minutes. The boat is a bit bigger. More to do on the Bainbridge side. The Bremerton ride is 1 hour and a more scenic trip. I don't think there is as much to do once you get to Bremerton, though. If...

We hang a laminated 8.5x11" sign in the dockside window when we are not on the boat. "In case of EMERGENCY, call XXX Anytime ... Day or Night." For a number of years we were some distance from the boat so I use a local google voice number. Didn't want to give anyone the idea that we are not...

A few years ago, we added water filters after the tanks just before the line tees to the hot water tank. This filters all the water we use. It's a bit overkill, but I used two Pentek Big Blue housings. The first has a 5 micron sediment filter. The second filter is a .5 micron carbon block...

We found early on that if it is not easy and convenient we will be less likely to use it. Our boat came to us with a 12' double hull fiberglass hull Flexboat/8hp outboard on Weaver davits. That configuration was a pain to tilt up and down using the installed ratchet mechanism. It was hard enough...