Thanks, Bob. Since I usually get out to check on the lines, etc., every couple of weeks during the winter, that’s an easy thing to do.
The next thing I’m going to do is also put a “T” fitting with a valve inline to the pick-up hose for the water intake thru-hull for the MarineAir ac/heat unit so I can turn on the heat when I’ve got onboard projects to do during the winter. That way, re-winterizing would be extremely simple and eliminate the hassle of undoing hose clamps, etc., to get the pink stuff through the system. The biggest ‘major’ project I’m thinking about is to refinish the top surface of the salon table. It’s too much of a hassle to unbolt it to take ashore and besides, I live in an apartment so I don’t have access to a work area in a garage or something. That being said, once I do the sanding and prep work I figure I could apply one or two coats of varnish each weekend and leave the heat on over Saturday night for as long as it takes to finish the project with a final coat of polyurethane or something to get that nice protected shiny finish completed. I had thought about picking up one of those oil-filled heaters but I’m not a big fan of leaving something with that large an electric draw unattended overnight. I have to believe running the MarineAir system for 25-30 hours of use at a time wouldn’t do any harm. There have been plenty of times where we’ve been cruising and ended up in a slip somewhere and turned on the air-conditioning for 2-3 days of continuous use during those 90-95 degree days we seem to get around her late July/August. Steve Weinstein S/V CAPTIVA 1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376 Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY All outgoing mail protected by VIPRE A/V From: Bob Johnson Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:08 PM To: liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] EXT : Any other lists more active? Steve, What a timely comment. I just got back from checking the boat. I leave it on the hard in the Bangor, ME area and have left the boat plugged in for the last 3 winters on my Freedom inverter/charger and the batteries seem to have not suffered. That said when I arrived today I noticed no panel lights lit so I began checking GFCI receptacles and could find nothing. I happened to look down and notice my adaptor pigtail missing. So off I trudge to the marina office to report the theft. They lent me one and I begin looking to see if anything else was missing only to find my pigtail. Evidently I went through all my usual winterizing, covering, etc but just spaced out the last item. I guess this would be a good reason for a check list. When I left the charger was putting 50 amps into the batteries so I guess I may be buying new batteries in the spring. Bob PDQ 36 Peace -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: liveaboard-boun...@liveaboardonline.com [mailto:liveaboard-boun...@liveaboardonline.com] On Behalf Of SteveW Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 11:24 AM To: liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] EXT : Any other lists more active? I agree with Skip on this one. While I don’t have to worry about web connection issues, etc. while sitting at home in front of a roaring fireplace I can look through the emails in ‘preview’ and make the decision to engage or not. It seems to me that there’s always as slowdown this time of the year with a lot of the normal ‘listers’ because a whole bunch of us (at least here in the Northeast, Northwest, and upper Midwest) have put our respective boats to bed for the winter – unfortunately! I also know a bunch of the old regulars ( Charmaine, ‘bella, etc...) have migrated to web based or even Facebook, but there are still a LOT of us checking the inbox for list messages. Meanwhile, I’ll be heading out to check on the boat cover, lines, and fenders while Captiva sleeps in her bubbler-equipped slip. But here’s a topic which has been explored before but possibly germane to those of us wet-storing over the winter. Will 6-v wet cell batteries be damaged by leaving the on-board charger activated over 4 months (Dec/Jan/Feb/Mar) so it maintains a float charge? In my case, I’ve got an inverter/charger. I think that while the unit is on and the status panel is on there’s some minimum draw even as the batteries are being charged. Steve Weinstein S/V CAPTIVA 1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376 Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY All outgoing mail protected by VIPRE A/V From: Skip Gundlach Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 9:15 AM To: liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] EXT : Any other lists more active? I'm part of cruisers_online_network, a truly international list (many receive their mail/listserve over Pactor)... I'm away from my home computer, but I'll follow up in a week or so with info on that one. That said, I wouldn't disengage from this. Also, I DETEST web interfaces of all stripes, much preferring listserve, or at a distance, NNTP newsgroups, where stuff comes to my mailbox without the need to log on, go to a web site, or any other much more bandwidth intensive activity. It also allows me a preview of what I'm either going to open or disregard, vs having to wade through lots of title-only stuff in forums... My 2 cents; this is a great list, taking a breather :{)) L8R Skip On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Densler, Vernon R (AS) <vernon.dens...@ngc.com> wrote: Maybe everyone is out to sea? -----Original Message----- From: liveaboard-boun...@liveaboardonline.com [mailto:liveaboard-boun...@liveaboardonline.com] On Behalf Of Philip McConnell Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:36 PM To: liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com Subject: EXT :[Liveaboard] Any other lists more active? This list appear to be pretty much dead. I kinda wonder why. It used to be pretty lively. Question: where has everyone gone? Thanks! Philip S. 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