Vira - Sailboat rebuild, Irwin Citation 34

Sail pack   Finalized sail pack, put cheek block on the mast and adjusted all lines. [Sorry, no pictures now, will update later]    Electronics I have got great present from the son.  Radar, yes it is B&G (Navico) Halo20+ .   Sure i do not need it here in the lake, but as soon as i plan to bring boat to big water, it will be very good add-on to my navigation electronics setup. No sense to make the mount right now (before transportation) but will be nice to test its compatibility  with my OpenCPN setup. I designed  "cheap and dirty" radar bracket to tie radar to the mast for testing. Cut and it on my CNC from plywood and glue together. Next weekend plan to get radar on the water and see how it's work.      Standing rigging  Measuring angles of the shrouds.   Took picture from far away point to get closer to real angles.  

 Day 206, New Fixed windows trim installation.   Interior (small things) Fixed windows  New trim around fixed windows made out of teak and installed. each trim piece made of 4 parts. all cut on my workshop CNC out of teak wood. Only thing left here - paint the gap between window and trim.    Other things done today Made and  installed Door-cover under the AC inlet. LPG sensor - alarm installed. I installed the alarm ind found it is alarming all time. I am pretty sure I have no LPG on the board.  I bought the sensor several years ago, and it was on the boat all the time and likely was "poisoned" by paint thinners fumes. Ordering a replacement. Other small things Replaced engine overheat dumb lamp fixture (original had rubber disintegrated) .   In attempt to tight engine (ignition) switch  I broke it, by break line it was cracked for a while.  Good to get it broken at the dock ;-)   Connected compass light back, added connector f...

 Engine Manual starter  Last steps of the manual starter installation. In previous posts I showed how I built  new chain drive for manual starter. Due to I added coolant recalculation pump i was not able to use original parts for raw water version, fresh water engine version is very hard to source and also it will not fit my engine compartment. so, i designed  my own ;-) New part added. Steel plate 8mm thick about 200x60mm. screwed to existing holes on the top of timing gears box, 2 pillow block bearings, shaft, bicycle 28 tooth sprocket and shaft hub. Mechanism assembled for dry fit in the shop.  When engine installed shaft (with pin) is hidden inside engine compartment. Manual starter mechanism in place. To get to starter shaft I drilled wall and installed block of HDPE plastic to provide extra support to handle adapter.   Little bit about handle. Instead of building whole handle I made adapter which utilities standard sailboat winch handle. Two problems ...

Navigation electronics. Working on navpod for OpenPlotter dashboard.  Idea to make pedestal guard mounted  dashboard in navpod looking form. Dashboard will work under OpenPlotter, I am planning to  make button controls (without touch). In my perspective buttons are much more easy to use in cockpit. Script will control applications Steat/foreground/background control. Also it will be mouse simulation   with arrows buttons IF i will need to do do something "non standard", but i expect to use this display as dashboard only. there will be several modes: Map screen (preset OCPN) VNC ( show main navigation screen copy) Sailing dashboard - big wind instrument, speedometer with SOG, STW, day log, DEPTH, Position, COG Engine dashboard - small wind instrument, Tachometer, engine coolant out temperature, oil pressure , aditional temperature gauges (coolant in, exhaust, transmission, drive shaft packing, raw water after exchanger)  and sure  SOG, STW, day log, DEP...

 Navigation electronics   Couple pictures for reference:  Nav station deck. Nav station deck with water and fuel gauges, secondary switch panel and 21" protected display. electronics shown on the previous photo is behind the display. Display flips down to get access there.     Front side of the secondary switch panel. Panel includes small 2.5" thermal printer to be able to quickly print current position, course information or anything in printed form. Start point All electronics installation I did year ago was done in "temporary mode" with flying wires, not organized. Just get it work for day sailing the lake.  More for fun then actually needed.   Electronics was mounted on plywood board with velcro  tape. Wires between fuse panel and Switch panel was total ratnest and it was impossible to remove switch panel for any maintenance without unscrew 15 wires from the fuse panel.    All electronics wad mounted w/o any protection from elem...

Interior Removing old Teak and holly plywood from the floor. It was mostly de-laminated and rotted in about 50% of surface. Galley floor in process Younger son provided great help today Whole floor cleaned up from wood. Windlass. Windlass battery strapped down. Pulled out chain and marked 40, 60 and 80 feet points with pieces of webbing to make length tabs Engine room.  Glassing "the shelf" over the opening originally left by builders. This area was just a hole opened directly from engine room to cabin. Result engine room wall was just "in air" and any water splashed in this area will be ended pilot berth really wet.. Another thing which had to be addressed - the bulkhead to deck connection. it was very weak and bulkhead traveled about an inch side to side when any load applied to steering. I am not sure the stiffening this joint this way is right thing to do, but i hope it will provide some support to bulkhead. it si to side direction.excessive glass should be cut...