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I've just gone for a cheap 12v hdmi TV screen at the chart table and I will use the existing kindle display support in Openplotter to provide an easy-to-see wireless numeric display in the cockpit. Cheap, simple, plug and play. Keyboard and mouse are USB devices off a powered hub. I'm not a geek at all - I needed help to write one line of code into a file! So my descriptions will be well below your pay grade. Feel free to comment as I go.

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Home-spun chartplotter and autopilot on Stepping Out In earlier episodes you will have identified that we have been working at the limits of a cellphone's navigational ability. But SO doesn't justify a full-blown suite of electronics - even a basic chart plotter would come close to 25% of her value. So, when I found out about OpenCPN and Openplotter and the ability for the system to be scaled around what you have, my interest was piqued. Here's the story of the build of a basic open-source chart plotter and its attached auto-pilot control system. This is not a recommendation that

The aardvark's brother and sil are now seriously looking for their next keeler. Specification wish list includes: approx 30-32ft. They are moving up from a Raven 26, so Lotus 9.2 or similar is their mark, could go a bit bigger. Probably not a Townson or Stewart. Cruising focus walk-on - do-ups are not in the mix, but regular maintenance is expected accommodation for 4 plus, separate head with handbasin fridge and reasonable galley configuration. Pressure water preferred, hot and cold would be great but not essential single handed operation - the sil is not

that video was great! The difference between rope and chain for hold was really obvious. I assume that holds true regardless of the anchor type?

jaysus - Its a Mod's scooter crossbred with a Morris-dancing Pearly Queen

Grinder with a flapper disc. Whatever the visible damage is, you have to get back to solid, dry ply. No point evaduring wet or soft stuff.

haha! Love me some TexMex rock, Mexican swing, mariachi, and SOTB stuff. It's not a big distance to Angela's taste for me. Perhaps a Spencer raft up is in order.

any time you want more storage space, let me know - keen on any vinyl. Except for Khamal. You can send those to Sallies

chuck some filler in it - only you will know....

heres a local one - not sure on its density, but I'm confident you can read a product sheet https://www.norski.co.nz/collections/foams/products/norski-pour-in-foam

Little Barrier is outside the environment

its sell-named - I can imagine many people being trolled by it.

I also checked RS Components. Not a stocked item. Might be a private import item for you...

the line of the exhaust on that thing - it's just flawless. We'll miss that when they are all electric...

A Stewart with a walk though??? Sacrilege! What next, a sugar scoop? Canting keel? 🤣

anzor would be the go-to followed by wakefields... https://www.anzor.co.nz/ https://www.wakefieldmetals.co.nz/fasteners/

I'd use urethane skateboard bushings. A lot of early mountainbike suspension systems used urethane bushings as the "spring". Stable, takes huge load, available in a wide range of compression strengths (duro), easily replaced and tuned (stack different duro bushings in different lengths to tune).

built as a two-hoop cross-braced frame it should be fine. As a single hoop frame its a Len Lye sculpture.

https://www.autobend.co.nz/tubular-products.html

The Gonzales brothers, Juan and Julio, were just 2nm and three lines of coke short of the Florida Coast when they found the leak in the portable meth lab gas line....

2nd dibs if they are no use to marinheiro

I bet he has a column somewhere on "What size House for a Family of Five?" It starts off "Houses are big and small. Some are inbetween. A house can have a front porch. You will need a roof, and floor is also a good idea" It goes downhill from there.

big chunk of water and two completely different events - one that appears to have been a mechanical failure, the other a bar crossing that went wrong, one a canoe, the other a power craft, one a solo, the other a group. Any water will get you if you are unprepared or get it wrong.