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Dinghy Derrick and Cradle

Dinghy Derrick and Cradle. With extensive offshore cruising coming up soon we needed an alternative to davits and arches for storing our dinghy. Tied down on deck with an easy launch and retrieve system was what we wanted. Here's how we got it. Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Derrick and the Dominoes. We haven't done any sailing for almost two months now. I think we missed the best part of the year for being out on the water but life has a habit of getting in the way sometimes. So it goes. This has been qu...

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All About La Vida Dulce

All About La Vida Dulce. Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Design Information and Builder Comments. He following items were excerpted from Island Packet's 420 brochure:. LOA 44'7" Displacement (approx.): 30,000 lbs. LWL 37'4" Ballast 12,000 lbs. Beam 14'3" Sail Area 1088 ft2. Draft 5'0" Sail Area/Displ. 18.0. Mast Above DWL 58'10" Displ./Length 257. Fuel 160 gal. U.S. Ballast/Displ. 40%. Water 250 gal. U.S. Auxiliary Power: 75 hp turbocharged. Holding 60 gal. U.S. Designer: Bob Johnson, N.A. Here's Some Boat...

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Galley Remodel

There were some things about this boat that drove us nuts. We considered buying another one but in the end realized it made more sense to improve what we already have. This was the biggest project we've taken on so far. In the end we were able to fix the problems that bugged us and ended up with something unique and beautiful that we could be proud of. Wednesday, November 27, 2013. We Can Do Better Than That. All the cabinets above the counter. We also added extra 110 VAC outlets and DC wiring inside the...

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Nav Station

We remodeled the instrument panel at the Nav Station to make room for a DC sub panel and additional instruments. Friday, November 29, 2013. Getting It All Under Control. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Use these links to cruise this site:. Main Page - La Vida Dulce. All About La Vida Dulce. Getting It All Under Control. View my complete profile.

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Replacing the Holding Tank

Replacing the Holding Tank. Tuesday, December 3, 2013. The story leading up to this repair ( click here. Most of this was originally written in July 2010. That's what we said too. But after giving it some thought we felt it was better to have the larger tank for resale value and were willing to put in the extra time to have this done right. With a boat of this quality you just can't do things half-way. I mean it's just disgusting! A common way for reading out tank volume is with a float, just like in you...

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Batteries

Getting our boat ready for extensive cruising we're increasing the house bank capacity and upgrading the inverter/charger. Thursday, January 10, 2013. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Use these links to cruise this site:. Main Page - La Vida Dulce. All About La Vida Dulce. View my complete profile.

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Equipment and Improvements on la Vida Dulce

Equipment and Improvements on la Vida Dulce. Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Yanmar 4JH 3TE, turbocharged, 4 cylinder marine diesel, 75hp @ 3800 rpm. Replaced heat exchanger housing/core assembly Oct. 2010. Replaced hoses and belt Oct. 2010. Serviced annually - oil and coolant changed, fuel and oil filters replaced, impeller, hoses and belts inspected. Max-Prop 18" self feathering propeller, rebuilt Apr. 2010. Replaced Cutlass bearing Mar. 2010. Charles Charger, 5000 series, 50 amp charger. ICOM IC-M802 SS...

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Water-maker

This is about a DIY water-maker we made for our Island Packet sailboat. Monday, February 24, 2014. Water, Water Everywhere. The only concern is how much noise does this thing make? Right now (2-24-14) the plan is to begin collecting equipment and have this up and running by Summer 2014. I'll be updating this page as we go along so this may turn into a pretty extensive read. When it's completed, up and running I'll come back and edit to make this entry a little easier to get through. As children we were b...

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Anchors, Chain, etc

Anchors, Chain, etc. Monday, May 19, 2014. All About Our Ground Tackle. After we scrubbed it down three times we painted it white with a mildew resistant bilge paint. It looks really great now and our boat smells fresh and clean. It'll be really nice if it lasts for more than just a few weeks. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Use these links to cruise this site:. Main Page - La Vida Dulce. All About La Vida Dulce.

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Projects

Monday, January 11, 2010. Projects on La Vida Dulce. Listed below are links to some repairs, upgrades, additions and restorations we've done on the boat. Some of the explanations are excerpts from the running blog so it may become repetitive if you've followed from the beginning. The main reason for this page is to provide an easily accessed list of projects so we don't have to dig back through the blog for info. Espar D5 Forced Air Heat. Dinghy Derrick and Cradle. Replacing the Holding Tank.

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SSB Radio

Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Installing an ICOM M802 SSB Radio. Running these three cables turned out to be a major pain in the tukhus ( click here for more info. Gonna hafta move all my future projects over to the port side. We tried so hard but there's just no getting away from Microsoft. We'll see how it all works out when I get the radio up and running. The final connection is for the modem, in our case a Pactor-4 Dragon DR-7400 from SCS ( click here. This is a series of wires cut to exactly 1/4 wave...