Thank you to Ron and his team! I came down to find Keith packing up after de-winterizing the motor as she set in her slip happy as a clam.
So I started dressing her for the season, first the mainsail (fresh from Quantum), then the sail bag, then the reefing lines and all she needs there is her battens in. Lifesling up (Safety 1st), then the beverage holders! Bit to much wind for a one-man fuller loading the Genny.
Dodger went on, replaced a few snaps that looked poor.
The cabin still looks like a tornado hit it, but that is just cleaning and putting things back where they belong.
Today is March 3 (3/3), we are getting close. I asked for early March splash, however temps could impact that due to bottom painting.
We put her to bed in late Dec and have checked on her often (only problem we ran into was Ice in bilge, which we solved by adding anti-freeze).
The Genny got a major overhead by Quantum, the said the main was getting close to EOL but not dead yet (cue spamalot Not Dead yet).
Over the winter been updating and expanding the electronics’ software. Key component is the expansion of the SignalK data collection and distribution environment on the RaspberryPI 4.
For the uninformed SignialK is an Enterprise data buss for boats. It is capable of ingesting almost any kind of electronic data and making it available in just about any other via TCP or UDP (wired or wireless)
For Exp:
My Ray Marine based ST60 system speaks SeaTalk, the wind instrument is a Tack-Tick that has its own wireless network, the Garmin GPS speaks N-183, and AIS is USB. My Chart plotter is OpenCpn which can speak N183 and SignalK.
With my system I can build a route on the OpenCpn, view the wind from TackTic, read the Autopilot compass and steer the boat via the autopilot. And make lunch down below with AIS and software radar alerting me to dangers.
