A journal about boat buying and cruising in Singapore and the SE Asia Region

Friday, November 25, 2005

Generator Woes


After being promised that the Panda Generator would fit into our aft compartment I was shown yesterday by the boat yard that it will not go in and even if it would there would zero space to do any maintenance or to even bolt it down - very angry person.

I went down to the yard and we looked at various other solutions but the only practical one seems to be under the fwd bunk which is not great for trim but at least it can be maintained and by reducing the amount of chain and increasing the warp.

Monday, November 21, 2005

Big Stick Thingy


Woo Hoo, Sofa is looking much more boat like now that she has got her mast up.

Pretty much all of the electronics have been done but the generator is still waiting apparently for decisions to be made as to regards dismantling it to get it through the little hole for installation. I have given all the go aheads yet again so hopefully this will now move onwards.

Thought I was going to have to go to China this week but it looks like it's been postponed until next week so I guess a splash date of around the 3rd Dec is looking likely if not this weekend.

From Russia with Love

I'm back from Moscow and nipped down to the boat yesterday to see what had been done in my absence and it appears that the anti-fouling is complete and most of the electronics have been installed of which a photo has been added of the internal kit although I'll have to work out how to connect up the PC once we have the boat in the water and under our control.



There does not however appear to have been any progress on the generator at all as yet but I'm sure when I go down tonight I'll be given many stories of woe on the installation and how it's going to cost X number of dollars to be able to succeed.

Mast should be going up today so I'll be able to post a photo of Sofa looking like a sailing boat tomorrow (hopefully).