Dinghy Ride

We borrowed Alan's (IP-420 Flatlander) dinghy today so we could take Lewis out and let him ride and run the beach.

He enjoyed the ride and was watching all of the wildlife around us, birds, fish, and fishermen!

We beached the boat and took a short walk when Lewis decided to hitch a ride on a kayak!

Short ride and safely delivered back ashore.


Then we walked out around the corner and talked to some people on stand up paddle boards.  Lewis walked the boards, did some digging, then decided he wanted to take s swim - remember - this breed does not like the water!

He chased some birds and then we loaded up for the ride home.  I didn't get a picture but as we left the island Lewis decided to jump in off the dink and take another swim.  I think he was shocked as we quickly killed the engined and had him swim back to the boat.

The prop is on!

I had some time after my PSA test today so I drove to the boat yard and finished installing the shaft gland and prop.  The reconditioned prop and new shaft parts make me think twice about getting this stuff wet!

After all this work I don't want to loose the shine!

Next, teak and bottom paint and perhaps some Macrolon in the dodger front window.

Minor Electrical Upgrade

I've been spending some time on a Lagoon 450 recently doing some electrical work upgrading the AC/DC distribution system from this:

To something a bit more functional, to this:

The boat was a real mess from the factory.  It had 50 amp service but for some reason only half of it was wired and that powered 4 AC units.  The other half was not wired in.  The remaining AC loads on the boat were powered from an additional 30 amp 120vac service connector.

I'll post more photos later but the major effort at this point is converting the boat to 50amp 240vac, installing a multi-voltage isolation transformer, replacing the 120vac water heater element with a 240 unit, and replacing all the AC unit and pumps with 240vac 50/60hz units.

I've never used so many crimp lugs at one time in my life.

The new power panel is a custom BlueSea 360 series panel made to my design.  The breakers on the left most vertical column are 12vdc with the remaing 3 a mix of 240 and 120 AC.

The lower row of breakers are all DC units.