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

Prior to Voyaging

• DIY Watermaker video and parts list from Abroad Reach Travel.
• Ryan and Sophie Sailing watermaker design video and installation video.
• Origo 3000 gimbals and pot holders on Cruiser's Forum thread
• Safety at Sea courses
• Mounts for solar panels.
• YYYY-MM-DD Install arch for solar panels ?
• Install solar panels
• Install battery monitor see Balmar vs Victron and Practical Sailor
• Offshore Sailing Preparation in Spinsheet, parts 1, 2, and 3.
• Diesel polishing kit
• Installed a removeable gimbeled stove/oven enclosure as in Triteia #55. See Sailor James "Hot Swinger" videos 1, 2, 3, and 4.
• Install Floor Anchors on all access panels in the sole.
• Fishing gear
• Close the unused openings between both the starboard cockpit locker and the engine room and the port cockpit locker and the engine room. Install drain cocks at the lowest point ?
• Personal Locator Beacons for each person. See write up in Practical Sailor
• YYYY-MM-DD Gear to reef main well, using Garhauer 1" track, track car slides, and single blocks with shackle in place of the expensive Schafer reefing gear installed as tracks along each side of the boom.
• YYYY-MM-DD Triple-reef main or should it be four reefs
• YYYY-MM-DD Storm jib or #3 blade jib
• Storm-Bag fits over furler sail. Possible to repack on board? About $1,100
• Spade 80 steel anchor
• YYYY-MM-DD Para-anchor or other device
• YYYY-MM-DD Additional freshwater storage capacity
• YYYY-MM-DD Additional diesel storage capacity
• YYYY-MM-DD Install strongpoints
• YYYY-MM-DD Install jacklines
• YYYY-MM-DD Install storm shutters
• YYYY-MM-DD Replace hatches
• YYYY-MM-DD Acquire MOB lights as indicated in Practical Sailor
• YYYY-MM-DD Install seahood over companionway hatch
• YYYY-MM-DD Install AIS. Perhaps a Standard Horizon GX2200 or QK-A026 .
• YYYY-MM-DD Install radar reflector
• YYYY-MM-DD Install long distance communications: SSB, IridiumGo, satphone, DeLorme. which ? See also Icom ICM802 Starting from Scratch, IridiumGo or SSB Garmin inReach Explorer
• YYYY-MM-DD Install windlass ?
• YYYY-MM-DD Replace batteries ?
• YYYY-MM-DD Add starting battery above floor boards somewhere or at base of trash can space abaft the galley ?
• YYYY-MM-DD Turn batteries so that short dimension of each cell is aligned fore and aft ? possible with GC2 6v batteries.
• YYYY-MM-DD Install boom crutch ?
• Install 1/2" u-bolts (as used by James Baldwin on Atom or chainplates (316SS 1-1/2" x 1/4" x 9" with three 3/8" bolts video 11:54) on each quarter for the bridle of a Jordan Series Drogue by Ocean Brake
• Build a Jordan Series Drogue per instructions. James Baldwin has an assembly video, about 28 minutes long. Ace Sailmakers recommends for 15,000lbs displacement: Drogue would have 107 cones on 179' line with a 75' leader; total of 254'. Line would be 5/8" nylon double braid tapering to ½" for the last 75 cones.
• Install a solent stay as James Baldwin did on Atom.
• YYYY-MM-DD Install a Dyneema solent stay for the 125 square foot hank-on jib provided by John Irving ?
  • See "Possible Solent Stay" in Synthetic Rigging,
  • Possible installation,
  • Quest 30 installation,
  • Joe Cooper again,
  • and Joe Cooper in Sail Magazine,
  • Practical Sailor on the Solent Stay,
  • The Rigging Company on a Solent Stay,
  • and Colligo Marine source of Dynex Dux and fittings
• Roller Furled Twin Headsails
• YYYY-MM-DD SLO Sail and Canvas trysail per 2015 January page6 or should it be a fourth reef in the main
• Obtain a restricted radiotelphone operator permit (RR) from the FCC.
• YYYY-MM-DD Replace vinyl covered lifelines with bare 1x19 wire tensioned so that the maximum deflection due to a ten pound weight centered in the longest run is less than two inches.
• YYYY-MM-DD Install a YB tracking device ??
• YYYY-MM-DD Install Lewmar Atlantic 10 hatches to replace fixed deadlights. See Defiant's installation
• ShadeTree fabric shelter
• Acquire two/three? tethers for the Mustang HIT life jackets
• Add Spinlock Lume-On lights to each Mustang HIT life jacket. See Practical Sailor mini-review
• Crossing the Atlantic by Daniel Wade
• Celestron 8x42Binoculars, waterproof with rubber coating in place of 7x50 See 2015 Decemmber Practical Sailor Done. -- 2022-11-04
• Install flag halyard -- Done. 2022-05-04
• Acquire a sextant, almanac, and tables Done. -- 2021-10-17
• Replace VHF cable with new RG-8X, replace VHF antenna, replace VHF connectors at the antenna and radio. -- Done 2020-05-07
• Set of TaylorMade International Code Signal Flags Size 2 (18" x 24") #93301 -- Done Purchased at half price from WestMarine via price match of Defender.
• Obtain a amateur radio license from the from the FCC. -- Done KC3KBE on 2017-10-24