S/V Constance, Alberg 30 #262 -- Prior to Cruising

Prior to Cruising

• Motorola T600 rechargeable two-way radios.
• Perhaps replace the rudderhead/tillerhead assembly with one from Spartan Marine as done on Ecola #104.
• UltraShade Practical Sailor review can be supplemented with poles
• Voda-Tek heat powered heater fan
• Install Nord-Lock washers on battery connections.
• Get some CT1 aboard.
• Treat electrical connections, at least batteries and main switches, with CorrosionX
• Install 1-1/4" electrical bilge pump with Warning Buzzer .
• Store table top in v-berth as show in this photo. Perhaps fiberglass bolts to the underside of the deck, drill shallow holes on both sides of the verticals to allow for the bolt head and the nut to secure the verticals to the cabin top, bung the hole. Another option is two slotted wooden supports running fore and aft with keepers as in video at 21:20
• Install either Hypervent from Defender or Aire-Flow from Mattress Insider under the v-berth cushions.
• Cut a new larger hole in the head overhead for the Marinco 4" AFI Day/Night Plus Vent Stainless - N20704S . Install the Nicro solar vent in the head. Make a wooden trim ring for the Vetus Athos Mushroom Ventilator . Install the Vetus Mushroom Vent in the cabin in the hole currently occupied by the Nicro solar vent.
• Install opening ports in the v-berth. Purchased two "original" opening ports on eBay for $150.00 using these in place of Installing operable portlights from New Found Metals or Spartan Marine in v-berth, salon, both. Treat seals with Molykote 111 per Sailing Britaly. Seal in place with DOWSIL 795 Silicone Building Sealant as recommended by Andy of Boatworks Today per Sailing Uma episode 115 timestamp ~5:25. James Baldwin of atomvoyager recommends sealing portlights in place using butyl tape, but he uses 3M 795 silicon for frameless deadlights on 2016-06-28. Replace existing salon deadlights with ChemCast Cast Acrylic as sold to Bill McCoy by Scott Martin of Piedmont Plastics . James Baldwin of atomvoyager recommends DOWSIL 795 Silicone Building Sealant for sealing the 3/8" cast, not extruded, acrylic (PMMA, Plexiglass, Perspex, Lucite) deadlights to the hull. Possible to use polycarbonate (Lexan, Makrolon). See comparison. Boatworks Today used a combination of VHB 5952 tape between the 1/4" polycarbonate, cleaned with 50% diluted isopropanol, and the fiberglass, surrounded by DOWSIL 795 Silicone Building Sealant as shown. A source of the polycarbonate is estreetplastics.
• Install an arch just forward of the traveller and a shade from the dodger to the arch as shown at 3:46 in the video.
• Snorkeling gear
• Should I change the run of the engine exhaust? Currently it exits the engine compartment aft wall, port side, into the aft lazarette, rises up tight against the underside of the deck immediately behind the cockpit, passes the starboard side of the aft lazarette, and dives down to the starboard side 1-1/4" valve mounted the to counter. Should it rise up to the underside of the deck and then dive to the port side 1-1/4" Groco valve?
• Method to rig extension shade of the dodger without the dodger.
• Spare Tiller
• Jump Bag waterproof containing a handheld VHF radio, handheld GPS plotter, cash, credit cards, and a Spot satellite GPS messenger.
• Method for playing music -- perhaps a Cylo Sound Square
• Plastimo Flexible Water Tank to be installed under settes(s).
• Possibly install a Shakespeare HS-2774-R-1 broadband marine antenna which will support both Marine VHF and amateur 2m radio.
• YYYY-MM-DD How to dump holding tank when pump-out not available? Perhaps a length of hose filled with seawater, capped at one end, the open end threaded down through the deck fitting into the tank, then the capped end opened while held below the level of the tank so that the tank empties via siphon while seawater is pumped into the tank.
• YYYY-MM-DD Install lee cloths. Examples from RobShip and BluePerformance as shown in James Baldwin's video
• YYYY-MM-DD Install 21-7/8" wide 3/4" thick panel to fill between settees in salon to make it one bed. Cut the panel into more than one section so that one section might serve as an emergency rudder.
• YYYY-MM-DD Install a preventer or boom-brake. Possible to use a figure-eight descender
• YYYY-MM-DD Acquire a handheld VHF with GPS. Perhaps a Standard Horizon HX870 Downsides: no red illumination, no spare battery pack.
• YYYY-MM-DD Improving the Icebox and Sailing Uma video of builing an icebox. Use closed cell foam instead and dont use a Peltier device, use a water cooled compressor.
• Whytner Elite 45 Quart SlimFit Portable Freezer / Refrigerator with 12v Option
• YYYY-MM-DD V-berth rebuild ? See V-Berth Rebuild section
• YYYY-MM-DD Consider builing a dish locker like the 2014 September Com-Pac 35
• YYYY-MM-DD Tecsun PL-660 portable AM/FM/LS/Air Shortwave World Band Radio with Single Side Band
• Insulate hull using 3/4" high density EVA foam tiles secured with contact cement.
• Get a Vion Mini Morin 2000 hockey puck compass. -- Done 2021-12-30
• Install an adjustable backstay (Ronstan RF718) -- Done. 2021-03-23
• Heavy line, with chafe protection, to run through eye of mooring balls. Purchased 25' of Samson Rope 5/8" Super Strong Nylon Double Braid with eye splice in one end. -- Done 2019-03-19
• Install second reefing line with low friction ring as done for the first reefing line. -- Done 2018-10-16
• Use an 10mm or 14mm Antal low friction ring, secured with a plain ring and soft shackle, as a clew reefing line turning block in place of running the reefing line through the grommet in the sail. Size based upon 150% of the 5/16" line diameter. -- Done 2018-09-14
• Obtain a dinghy. Perhaps an inflatable from Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St Michaels. Later perhaps a Dan Greene Chameleon which nests to be 5'-4" x 4'-2" x 1'-8" at 100lbs. Compare with a nesting Eastport Pram which nest to be 4'-9" x 4'-0" aat 75lbs. -- Done 2018-08-21 from #367 Interrupt
• Acquire a second inflatable life jacket -- Done 2018-07-08
• Interior lighting such as that provided by Environmental Lights -- Purchased a five pack of Duracell LED Puck Lights -- Done
• Bella Tavola BT-4500 Click2Cook Butane/Propane portable stove as interim cooking arrangement -- Done 2017-12-28
• Self-steering -- Bench tested the Raymarine Autohelm 2000 that came with the boat -- Done 2017-10-22
• Install solar powered vent. Perhaps a Day/Night -- Done 2017-06-18
• Fix port side of v-berth -- Done 2017-07-17
• Rig to single reef main -- cheek block on boom, stand-up(?) block on deck, back to stopper (either port or starboard, main on starboard stopper so port side for reef, perhaps) -- Done 2017-07-17
• Fix galley sink Done 2017-07-24
• Telltale compass -- Done Purchased from Bacons
• Install 12v car adapter power sockets for charging various personal electronics. BelowDeck 12V Socket and Dual USB Charger 12v auto socket and 2 USB -- Done 2017-08-14
• Fix "High Temperature" engine idiot light and tachometer illumination. -- Done 2017-09-12
• Replace diesel fuel lines with single lengths. -- Done 2017-09-25 and 2017-09-27