On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:48:24PM -0400, Ben Okopnik wrote: > I strongly suspect that the guy who recently diagnosed that isolator > short wasn't making any 200 mile ocean trips with a questionable battery > system... in fact, I don't believe he'd put to sea at all unless he had > tested his major systems pretty thoroughly. Just an impression I've > formed. :)
While a trip 200 miles offshore with sketchy batteries does seem out of the question, the isolator problem was discovered in a line squall in the middle of Lake Ontario, when the engine wouldn't start. I picked up some terrible habits (e.g. deferred maintenance) when I was still in school (i.e. broke). That said, what I lose in system reliability, I make up for in redundance; the GPS wired into the radio decided not to work while trying to take a fix post-squall, so I wired in the spare, which also didn't work (leading me to believe the problem's in the interface hardware on the radio). That having failed, I waited for the haze/rain to thin out enough that I could take compass sightings off the shore and found that something had de/re/cross-magnetized my hand bearing compass and was producing impossible readings (bearings to landmarks were putting me on the shore side of them), so I crankily tossed it into the drink and sighted a fix off the ship's compass instead. (Note to self: I still haven't replaced that damned sighting compass). Cheers, Kris -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
