http://makaicruising.com A chronicle of the motor vessel Makai, a testbed for Restructure Marine Products LLC Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:08:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sad to say, we have not been able to spend too much time on the boat during the first quarter.  A combination of bad weather, rough water and a busy work schedule did not work in our favor.   Being house bound with the business did give me time to ... http://makaicruising.com/archives/94 After mounting the dingy on the new Sea Wise Davit in the raised position, the dingy hides the stern light which is against the Coast Guard Navigation Rules pertaining to lights.  We are having an additional mast mounted white light installed on the transom that will extend above the top ... http://makaicruising.com/archives/93 Derek from Alcom reinstalled the FLIR Mariner camera and the system came up immediately on power up.  FLIR replaced our faulty unit with an upgraded model.  We can see the difference in contrast levels.  When the camera output is routed to the flatscreen TV in the Salon, the picture acuity ... http://makaicruising.com/archives/90         After many adjustments the dingy and the davit finally came together.   The Outboard had to be raised to clear the bottom (port side) pontoon. Now to have the cover modified and wait for the conversion to electric and then we are done.       http://makaicruising.com/archives/87 The installation of the Sea Wise Davit is more complex than it seems.  Alignment of  the attachment brackets on the dingy and associated hardware on the swimstep  is very precise. http://makaicruising.com/archives/79 The FLIR Night Vision camera system developed a problem.  When the system is powered up, the initial screen  (system information, etc.) displays for about 10 seconds and then the screen (Raymarine E80) goes blank with just the word Flir in dim grey letters  displayed at the top right of the ... http://makaicruising.com/archives/76 Looks like I didn't follow a version of the old adage "measure twice, drill once".  If we had of purchased the right dingy initially, we would not be going through replacing the dingy davit.  We are fortunate in that our Mainship broker, Don Ross of Heritage Yachts came to our ... http://makaicruising.com/archives/75 What started out looking like a relatively easy task of replacing our Achilles soft bottom, boat in a bag with a Carib 9.6 C9 with a Honda 9.9HP 4 stroke turned ito somewhat of a mess. Problem # 1, the Carib is a bit longer and much heavier than the Achilles ... http://makaicruising.com/archives/67 The Makai was first polished in November, 2007.  Then she spent 4 months basking in the hot Ensenada Mexican sun and has been in Long Beach since April of 2008.  Last week, we noticed that the top of the pilot house and some of the foredeck surfaces were starting to ... http://makaicruising.com/archives/66 We  had Jason from Jason's Window Tint apply a dark tint to all of the salon windows in 2007.  The tint proved to be too dark to see through at night so we asked Jason to remove the tint from the 3 front windows early in 2008.  Initially in 2007 ... http://makaicruising.com/archives/65