I did not retain any photographs of the two triton displays affixed to a wooden board attached to the fore wall of the cockpit as it was when we took delivery of S/V Ruby. It was not to our liking and under representative of our needs in this age when paper charts are vanishingly rare. Clearly, updates were needed.
Yev Ossipov, owner of Farallon Electronics, designed and built a teak display board and selected a B&G Chartplotter of appropriate size. I varnished the board that he expertly installed. All connections have been made. Yev will redesign and build the wooden box that was on the back side of the cockpit wall inside the aft cabin.
AIS has been installed along with a Triton Edge sailing processor and an electronic compass. A new anemometer will be installed this week.
We are planning on installing a chartplotter and the VHF radio at the nav station in the next week or so.
Stay tuned for more regarding the electronics updates.
In the vein of “what keeps me up at night” I’ll tell you the most recent sleep invasions relate to the old exhaust tubes on both sides of the transom. The prior owner has stuffed them with large stepped gradation purple foam cones. I saw the cone near the radar pole had been removed.
I had visions of huge following seas, as is often encountered in the ocean approaching the golden gate channel, finding its way into the tubes, pushing out the cones, and flooding the bilge, potentially with uncontrollable amounts of salt water. It kept me awake. I spoke with Gilles this morning. He agreed this was a potential problem and suggested we remove the exhaust tubes and glass over the holes in the transom. It’s a good thing we did! The fiberglass over the steel pipe looked bad as you can see below. It’s worth reading about the proper preparation for fiberglass/epoxy over steel if you haven’t done so. Both pipes are out and repairs are underway.
Sailing Ruby 