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Surprise!

You could get the outer edge, tape bound, if you like that piece, or Home Depot has some matching throw and runner combinations that are fairly inexpensive.
In the previous boat I taped some non-skid stuff to the underside of a throw at the foot of the ladder, which coincidentally, is where a lot of dirt, lint and crumbs end up.
 
Philpott said:
...installed by the same electrician-magician who added what his sweetheart referred to as "bespoke electronics" to your boat
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"Bespoke" because it was perhaps the only electrical system that was designed around improving the boat's in-the-water trim.

DM's new battery monitor and compass look simply divine! But wait. To quote Inspector Clouseau, "Somesing's feeshee!" Does the monitor always read 12.9 volts?
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BobJ said:
DM's new battery monitor and compass look simply divine! But wait. To quote Inspector Clouseau, "Somesing's feeshee!" Does the monitor always read 12.9 volts?
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You're just jealous. Rob says my batteries are in excellent shape. Rob says my boat is a wonderful boat. You're just envious of my high end comforts. He said he could re-do my electrical system to rival that on Surprise!, but when I blanched he backtracked. Rob said my boat is perfect just the way she is.

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Indeed she is. And I am jealous of your voltage chart.

My curiosity was piqued because the voltage display on your USB receptacle doesn't look like a real voltage display. Do you have a pic of it showing something other than 12.9 volts?
 
BobJ said:
Indeed she is. And I am jealous of your voltage chart. My curiosity was piqued because the voltage display on your USB receptacle doesn't look like a real voltage display. Do you have a pic of it showing something other than 12.9 volts?
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Thank you. Well, since my batteries are in such excellent condition I will have to wait until a morning after I have run the anchor light all night, read until midnight by the led in my vberth and re-charged all my little doohickey electrical devices (phone, laptop, chart plotter).

Did I mention that my batteries are in excellent condition? Only after such extensive use will I be likely to see a change in the voltage display, and it is then that I will photograph and post it. Sigh. It is tedious fielding all these technical enquiries. I guess that is the way of it when one has ... a perfect boat.

BTW, the voltage display is here: https://www.amazon.com/426517-1-Double-Socket-Voltmeter-Display/dp/B07CZ5MX2N

( ".... doesn't look like a real voltage display..." honestly)
 
If you weren't Up-the-Delta somewhere on your perfect boat, you would know that we have a new resident on E-dock. (Yes, I'm changing the subject.)

None other than Dazzler (the second, but without the "II"), and she's just across the dock from Surprise! I've already borrowed a bucket from Tom (I returned it) and he came aboard to show me that no, I didn't need to delaminate the forward floorboards to get them out. Welcome to the E-dock e-regulars, Tom and Dazzler!
 
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After botching up one piece and seeing bad wood and delam in a couple others, today I turned the project over to a pro.
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This is what I'm talking about. They're going to try to save this big piece - we'll see how it fits on Friday and then they'll apply the new coatings. The ugly piece by the galley was in better shape and the finish is restoring well.

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Anchored bow and stern (thank you, Rob) @ 38 13560, 121 31659. One led anchor light, one iphone. Now I’ll stop photo bombing your thread, Bob

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With the refinished cabin sole coming next week, it seemed like a good time to clean the bilge.

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BobJ said:
None other than Dazzler (the second, but without the "II"), and she's just across the dock from Surprise! I've already borrowed a bucket from Tom (I returned it) and he came aboard to show me that no, I didn't need to delaminate the forward floorboards to get them out. Welcome to the E-dock e-regulars, Tom and Dazzler!
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Thank you for the Welcome. Since we’re showing off projects including DM’s new electrical thingies, here’s the before and after of DAZZLER’s new electrical panel installed today. The original just wasn’t up to my standards.

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P.S. Yes, incase you noticed, the teak & holly plywood has also been refinished.
 
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Very nice installation! I love Blue Sea's stuff. Not as much as Harken's stuff, but it's close.
 
Reading this with some trepidation from my one night slip in Benicia. DM and I are returning to a much changed E dock! Classier! Two additional singlehanders! Higher end doohickies! Bilges cleaner than my kitchen floor in Oakland!

DM has mud everywhere forward and aft. Her water bottles are empty, there are spiderwebs in her rigging and in her cockpit drains. And oh yeah, her porta pottie is full. I tried to use the pumpout here yesterday. It didn’t work.

Her bottom, however, is sparkly clean. See ya soon, kids.
 
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I was hoping Philpott would give it the white glove test, but she was gone by the time I arrived at RYC.

No wonder - I heard DM maintained 12.9 knots coming down from Benicia - exactly 12.9 the whole trip. Impressive.
 
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I was hoping Philpott would give it the white glove test, but she was gone by the time I arrived at RYC. No wonder - I heard DM maintained 12.9 knots coming down from Benicia - exactly 12.9 the whole trip. Impressive.
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That's an exaggeration. I motorsailed the whole way and made it to RYC in under three hours. 10.1 maximum speed with the ebb. I love the ebb coming back from the Delta. During the last three summer returns it has been a bash: https://vimeo.com/230831573


But the whole return this year from Rio Vista to Benicia to Richmond, was across flat water with little breeze. I might even experience a little Delta amnesia and go again this year. This early in the year there weren't any bugs! Seriously. I kept my companionway and hatch open every night. Don't know why.

Here was my anchorage up Delta during my last evening at anchor. Where is it? Well, that's my little secret, isn't it?

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