Hello Steve & Judy… You did what I thought was an IMPOSSIBLE FEAT… made me look “like a genius” to my wife!!! She loved the portable AC idea. Will greatly improve our life aboard. Many THANKS for the time and effort to share with us the fruits of your experience. Fair Winds!
Great stuff...I also use the string lights so I will look into the new ones....I have an additional idea for your projector, when in a calm anchorage, hoist the mainsail and use that as the screen!! Invite your neighbors!! All the best Richard
Some good stuff there for sure. Mind you down here in Tasmania, AC is less of a need but rather a heater would be useful and something which I am going to be looking into what might be best for my little 48 yr old 30ft boat. More importantly for me will be to upgrade and install a new chartplotter, some additional water storage (bladders ??) and yes definitely lighting. So I will be interested in learning a bit more re those light strips. As my boat only has an icebox, I am also going to look into maybe carrying a portable fridge. There is always stuff one can use on the boat. 😁
A projector is definitely a must have. Needs to be powerful enough to project onto the main sail for larger group movie night. And the proper movie shown is Captain Ron😂
Hi, you mentioned using the projector screen as a sunshade. I'm not that posh but I do have the foil backed windscreen sunshades for my cockpit. I get the large lorry size ones from SuperU in france and theyre so cheap you can cut them to size! I thought I had the genius idea of using sticky backed velcro to hold them in place but eventually the velcro melts in the heat....still working on that one, clothes pegs (where would we be without them) are a temporary solution.
Hi to you both,what a great cinema set up..comfy with one’s favourite tipple to hand,i like it.Having watched your channel for a long time i sometimes feel that “Fair Isle”has more gadgets and gizmos than some of the commercial and fish vessels that I sailed in😀😄.cheers Roly 🇬🇧.
Fresh water Rinse layup and Emergency Bilge Pump. On Starlight 1989 Beneteau Oceanis 350 has a Volvo Penta engine M2003 28hp anyway I was the second owner, so after I purchased the boat I was doing the shakedown cruise and ran the engine for about an hour and the overheated alarm went off , could not find a problem, cutting too the chase lots of growth and calcification of the tubes in the heat exchanger. Had too take the entire unit clean it and put it back, never wanted to do that again figured was not the use rather the extended, layup with saltwater, also the corrosion factor of the elbow, had to replace that. So as a solution I cam up with this manifold I constructed with brass and bronze fittings and ball valves for each connection, from the thru hull , to the manifold, ball on the thru hull and on the manifold did the same at the on end valve to the sea strainer to the engine, next thru hull, pressure fresh water, and at the other end again valve to a run to the bilge. This allows me to turn on the fresh water, backwash the thru hull, then shutoff and run the engine for 2 minutes on fresh water before shutting down the engine for the night or an extended time. It also in the final configuration allows me to bring to bear as an emergency pump, on my main bilge the engine, if there is a major leak in the boat that bilge pumps cannot handle for whatever reason, (lightning strikes) etc. I often use the fresh water system when she is on the hard, and I need to run the engine, like changing oil, etc. I have 100 gallons of water on Starlight, you should see the looks I get in the yard with no hose, on the hard, yet engine running and water from the exhaust and prop shaft running out. In 20 years have not had any overheating issues or had to deal with the heat exchanger or the elbow, which is notorious on Volvos..
@@svfairisle but the killer is using the engine as the bilge pump, our friend at the marina Hunter 45 got hit by lightning in the west end of buzzards bay in a place call cutty hunk, just a gunk hole but nobody is there, he got hit blew a crack hole in the bottom by the shaft, and all of his electronics and lithium were destroyed only the lead starter battery and nothing else the alternator was fried, he opened and had a leak that was big enough too run the engine at 1500 rpm, 1800 he was able to overtake it. Told me he would have sunk, even the portable radio everything was fried. That is not the first time I heard of lightning doing that..
@@user-pf5xq3lq8i a stainless steel fuzz rod at the top of my mast with its own 4 gauge wire to a huge diode to the keel, and a bronze plate at the bottom. All the chain plate are grounded to the same connection making the boat a faraday cage the contents of the boat.
Echoing another comment I too just found your channel! I am now subscribed and looking forward to catching up with some binge watching when the rains come and I get some days off!
These videos are always interesting - thank you. In a space-conscious setting like a boat, I think I'd be tempted to use diamond stones rather than whetstones - the benefit being that they stay flat. And unless you're planning to recover significantly dulled/damaged blades (or chisels etc) then you'd likely be fine with a single double-sided stone (not bothering with the courser grits).
I actually thought the Aldi diamond sharpener was a load of junk. It was in my Christmas gift pile. How wrong I was. It seriously works. I finish off with some polishing paste on a leather scrap and you could shave with the resulting edge. I did watch a 30 minute video on how to sharpen things properly though.
Thanks guys. Love the cockpit cinema ideas, currently, we huddle around a large iPad, but the projector and screen setup looks great. We've had some fantastic movie nights in the cockpit, with amazing backdrops. AndI'll be interested to see how the t-shirt holds up...
I go through it all in the lighting video which there is a link for in this video when I mention it and at the end. Basically they are 12v DC lights that come with an AC transformer, so if you have a 12v boat then just dispense with the transformer & wire them straight in
great gadget catch up as always. I was particularly interested in the RV A/C unit and didnt quite catch the name or details, if you could possibly supply. thanks, Bill
@@jensjansen3601 every YT video has a write up underneath it, that's the 'description' When you click on a thumbnail of a video you want to watch it will open small, before you expand it to the whole screen look at the box underneath, you may have to click 'more' to see the bit you want, but there will be a whole lot of info about the video
RE: the LED lights. Do they seem to fail environmental issues or would they last longer if they were never turned up full power (do they run hot?) I have seen that a lot of AC LED light bulbs will last much longer if run a half power (much more than double) and yet the light output at half power is not noticeably lower. The other question would be if they are made for 12V, does running them at 14V + (standard charging voltages) make them run too hot? Or are they just not sealed well and die from UV or vibration?
It's a good point that someone else brought up too. I'm not sure of the answer, but going by the fact that I've changed the strip on the top side of the fiddle 4 times in 7 years (which get some direct light through the port holes) and the ones on the bottom twice (that get no direct light) I assumed it was sun damage. If there was some way of getting the whole lighting ring main on a steady 12v though it would be a good experiment. Might look into that.
That air conditioner is what we needed in the heatwave this year! 😅I don't suppose you know how it compares to the eco flow wave one? We need to sort this problem for the next heatwave, 47 degrees on the boat was unbearable, and a household air conditioner (admittedly dated and probably not very efficient) really didn't help in the slightest..
It’s an interesting question, how it compares with the EF wave. I do have a contact there as we use a lot of EF gear so I will see if we can get one for testing
Just out of curiousity...what voltage is at the led driver IE 12 or 230 volts ? If its a 12 volt driver what is the actual voltage...and same if 230 volt ? The main reason that the led "breaks or crumbles" is due to overvoltage or surges(when you start or stop the engine for example) Many thanks
It would be lovely if there was a platform that paid film makers for what they do, but there isn't. So while 99% of viewers watch for free and 1% pay a small amount... ( actually it's less than 1%, for us it's about 0.21% ) The only way anyone is going to be able to sustain spending the time necessary to produce good content is to have sponsorship. Without sponsorship YT would be peoples home movies and nothing more.
The problem of Kamikoto knives is that they are made out of cheap steel (420J2) while being sold at a premium price, edge retention wouldn't be much of an issue given that you can just sharpen the blade frequently, yes it's an hassle but if it is reasonably priced it then it's okay... The problem with Kamikoto is that they're NOT reasonably priced.
I think you're right if you pay full price, but does anyone do that? Their marketing policy seems to be to have large discounts readily available. I posted the update precisely because I had a couple of people say they didn't think Kakakotos steel was the most premium Japanese steel and they wouldn't stay sharp[. Well that wasn't my experience, ours stayed sharp much longer than any kitchen knife I've ever had, so they are at least a step up from what you'll find in a department store.
@@svfairisle ...Even when taking in account the discounts (which BTW are a problem into itself since permanent "price cut" are a misleading marketing tactic known as fictious/deceptive pricing which is even illegal in some countries) the knives are still overpriced... 420J2 steel is among the cheapest types of steel used for knives, it is generally used only in budget knives because aside from a good corrosion resistance (due to having a high chromium content) it simply does not have the required properties needed for a high quality blade (mainly edge retention), I can go to the supermarket and get a decently sized, no brand knife made out of the same steel for €15-20.
@@HAL_NOVEMILA I agree it's a silly marketing plan. I understand the pros & cons with different grades of steel, as I said thats why I decided to do a long term review. On the face of it 420J2 has the advantage on a boat that it has excellent corrosion resistance and is not too brittle like many 'top end' knives. Having super hard steel might be a good idea in a top end kitchen with a dish washer and people to look after the kitchen. We often chuck our cutlery in the sink while we're sailing and it might rattle around in there for a day while we sail. So having a knife that doesn't chip is good for us, the possible down side of needing constant sharpening didn't happen in real life, they stayed sharper than all my other knives, so I'm happy :)
Love that you settled down to watch Florence on RUclips!
An amazing RUclips channel too.
Hello Steve & Judy… You did what I thought was an IMPOSSIBLE FEAT… made me look “like a genius” to my wife!!! She loved the portable AC idea. Will greatly improve our life aboard.
Many THANKS for the time and effort to share with us the fruits of your experience. Fair Winds!
Great stuff...I also use the string lights so I will look into the new ones....I have an additional idea for your projector, when in a calm anchorage, hoist the mainsail and use that as the screen!! Invite your neighbors!! All the best Richard
Some good stuff there for sure. Mind you down here in Tasmania, AC is less of a need but rather a heater would be useful and something which I am going to be looking into what might be best for my little 48 yr old 30ft boat. More importantly for me will be to upgrade and install a new chartplotter, some additional water storage (bladders ??) and yes definitely lighting. So I will be interested in learning a bit more re those light strips. As my boat only has an icebox, I am also going to look into maybe carrying a portable fridge. There is always stuff one can use on the boat. 😁
Some great ideas. I like the projector.
I do my best to avoid Chinese Tat as much as I can and adding to landfill.
A projector is definitely a must have. Needs to be powerful enough to project onto the main sail for larger group movie night. And the proper movie shown is Captain Ron😂
Hi, you mentioned using the projector screen as a sunshade. I'm not that posh but I do have the foil backed windscreen sunshades for my cockpit. I get the large lorry size ones from SuperU in france and theyre so cheap you can cut them to size! I thought I had the genius idea of using sticky backed velcro to hold them in place but eventually the velcro melts in the heat....still working on that one, clothes pegs (where would we be without them) are a temporary solution.
Hi to you both,what a great cinema set up..comfy with one’s favourite tipple to hand,i like it.Having watched your channel for a long time i sometimes feel that “Fair Isle”has more gadgets and gizmos than some of the commercial and fish vessels that I sailed in😀😄.cheers Roly 🇬🇧.
Fresh water Rinse layup and Emergency Bilge Pump.
On Starlight 1989 Beneteau Oceanis 350 has a Volvo Penta engine M2003 28hp anyway I was the second owner, so after I purchased the boat I was doing the shakedown cruise and ran the engine for about an hour and the overheated alarm went off , could not find a problem, cutting too the chase lots of growth and calcification of the tubes in the heat exchanger. Had too take the entire unit clean it and put it back, never wanted to do that again figured was not the use rather the extended, layup with saltwater, also the corrosion factor of the elbow, had to replace that. So as a solution I cam up with this manifold I constructed with brass and bronze fittings and ball valves for each connection, from the thru hull , to the manifold, ball on the thru hull and on the manifold did the same at the on end valve to the sea strainer to the engine, next thru hull, pressure fresh water, and at the other end again valve to a run to the bilge.
This allows me to turn on the fresh water, backwash the thru hull, then shutoff and run the engine for 2 minutes on fresh water before shutting down the engine for the night or an extended time. It also in the final configuration allows me to bring to bear as an emergency pump, on my main bilge the engine, if there is a major leak in the boat that bilge pumps cannot handle for whatever reason, (lightning strikes) etc. I often use the fresh water system when she is on the hard, and I need to run the engine, like changing oil, etc. I have 100 gallons of water on Starlight, you should see the looks I get in the yard with no hose, on the hard, yet engine running and water from the exhaust and prop shaft running out. In 20 years have not had any overheating issues or had to deal with the heat exchanger or the elbow, which is notorious on Volvos..
Very good. A fresh water rinse system is something that’s been on my to do list for years, yours sounds great
@@svfairisle but the killer is using the engine as the bilge pump, our friend at the marina Hunter 45 got hit by lightning in the west end of buzzards bay in a place call cutty hunk, just a gunk hole but nobody is there, he got hit blew a crack hole in the bottom by the shaft, and all of his electronics and lithium were destroyed only the lead starter battery and nothing else the alternator was fried, he opened and had a leak that was big enough too run the engine at 1500 rpm, 1800 he was able to overtake it. Told me he would have sunk, even the portable radio everything was fried. That is not the first time I heard of lightning doing that..
How do you protect from lightening?
@@user-pf5xq3lq8i a stainless steel fuzz rod at the top of my mast with its own 4 gauge wire to a huge diode to the keel, and a bronze plate at the bottom. All the chain plate are grounded to the same connection making the boat a faraday cage the contents of the boat.
I have a cast iron Wing Keel 4’1” draft. On Starlight..
Echoing another comment I too just found your channel! I am now subscribed and looking forward to catching up with some binge watching when the rains come and I get some days off!
These videos are always interesting - thank you. In a space-conscious setting like a boat, I think I'd be tempted to use diamond stones rather than whetstones - the benefit being that they stay flat. And unless you're planning to recover significantly dulled/damaged blades (or chisels etc) then you'd likely be fine with a single double-sided stone (not bothering with the courser grits).
I actually thought the Aldi diamond sharpener was a load of junk. It was in my Christmas gift pile. How wrong I was. It seriously works. I finish off with some polishing paste on a leather scrap and you could shave with the resulting edge. I did watch a 30 minute video on how to sharpen things properly though.
Thanks guys. Love the cockpit cinema ideas, currently, we huddle around a large iPad, but the projector and screen setup looks great. We've had some fantastic movie nights in the cockpit, with amazing backdrops. AndI'll be interested to see how the t-shirt holds up...
Steve & Judy always making me spend money for neat gear for our boat ,got stock in Amazon maybe ?? Well played guys !! 😅
Was getting worried at one point. Started to look like wet T-shirt competition 😉Thankfully, normal service was soon resumed.
Accastillage Diffusion sell the Comfort Seats which you can have delivered to a local store.
AD Bahía Algeciras for example.
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Thanks that’s great to know
Hi Judy and Steve, as always we appreciate your programs. Just wondering what is the power source is for the “party lights”? Many thanks Lillian & Rod
I go through it all in the lighting video which there is a link for in this video when I mention it and at the end. Basically they are 12v DC lights that come with an AC transformer, so if you have a 12v boat then just dispense with the transformer & wire them straight in
two thumbs up for "Sailing Florence"!!! Please forgive spelling errors!CHEERS from HERE!!!
great gadget catch up as always. I was particularly interested in the RV A/C unit and didnt quite catch the name or details, if you could possibly supply.
thanks, Bill
All in the description
Where I find the description?
@@jensjansen3601 every YT video has a write up underneath it, that's the 'description' When you click on a thumbnail of a video you want to watch it will open small, before you expand it to the whole screen look at the box underneath, you may have to click 'more' to see the bit you want, but there will be a whole lot of info about the video
RE: the LED lights. Do they seem to fail environmental issues or would they last longer if they were never turned up full power (do they run hot?) I have seen that a lot of AC LED light bulbs will last much longer if run a half power (much more than double) and yet the light output at half power is not noticeably lower. The other question would be if they are made for 12V, does running them at 14V + (standard charging voltages) make them run too hot? Or are they just not sealed well and die from UV or vibration?
It's a good point that someone else brought up too. I'm not sure of the answer, but going by the fact that I've changed the strip on the top side of the fiddle 4 times in 7 years (which get some direct light through the port holes) and the ones on the bottom twice (that get no direct light) I assumed it was sun damage. If there was some way of getting the whole lighting ring main on a steady 12v though it would be a good experiment. Might look into that.
How well does the projector work on the screen during the day when it is sunny outside? Is it only suitable for night time?
Funny you should say that, tried to use it today for the first time in the middle of the day for the football but not bright enough in full sun.
Funny you should say that, tried to use it today for the first time in the middle of the day for the football but not bright enough in full sun.
Great ideas that you show. Concerning the shirts, how breathable are they? I know some shirts advertised as stain and water resistant, do not breath.
Seems to be nicely breathable, quite thick though. Might try their polo shirt
That air conditioner is what we needed in the heatwave this year! 😅I don't suppose you know how it compares to the eco flow wave one? We need to sort this problem for the next heatwave, 47 degrees on the boat was unbearable, and a household air conditioner (admittedly dated and probably not very efficient) really didn't help in the slightest..
It’s an interesting question, how it compares with the EF wave. I do have a contact there as we use a lot of EF gear so I will see if we can get one for testing
Oh great, would love to know before we commit! 😅@@svfairisle
I’ve seen those comfort seats in a marina shop in Istanbul
Oh wow, wish we had known that 2 years ago when we were there!
Bodylanguage also work...
Just out of curiousity...what voltage is at the led driver IE 12 or 230 volts ? If its a 12 volt driver what is the actual voltage...and same if 230 volt ? The main reason that the led "breaks or crumbles" is due to overvoltage or surges(when you start or stop the engine for example) Many thanks
interesting, never heard that before. The control unit is 12v and our house bank will range between 12v and 14.4v
@@svfairisle led drivers (especially lower expense ones) are notorious for breaking...re over voltage 14 volts.
@@hepontour good to know, thanks
Just checked the new ones I've fitted are actually rated 12-24v so hopefully will be fine.
Give me Sheffield steel any day.
My heart sinks when hear the words: Sponsored
It would be lovely if there was a platform that paid film makers for what they do, but there isn't. So while 99% of viewers watch for free and 1% pay a small amount... ( actually it's less than 1%, for us it's about 0.21% ) The only way anyone is going to be able to sustain spending the time necessary to produce good content is to have sponsorship. Without sponsorship YT would be peoples home movies and nothing more.
Thanks for the show but it felt more like a sales channel, rather than fair isle.
It is not an episode for sure! These videos are extras for people who like gadgets. Like us.
@@judyaslett6209 Thanks! I did like that A/C however :)
The problem of Kamikoto knives is that they are made out of cheap steel (420J2) while being sold at a premium price, edge retention wouldn't be much of an issue given that you can just sharpen the blade frequently, yes it's an hassle but if it is reasonably priced it then it's okay... The problem with Kamikoto is that they're NOT reasonably priced.
I think you're right if you pay full price, but does anyone do that? Their marketing policy seems to be to have large discounts readily available. I posted the update precisely because I had a couple of people say they didn't think Kakakotos steel was the most premium Japanese steel and they wouldn't stay sharp[. Well that wasn't my experience, ours stayed sharp much longer than any kitchen knife I've ever had, so they are at least a step up from what you'll find in a department store.
@@svfairisle ...Even when taking in account the discounts (which BTW are a problem into itself since permanent "price cut" are a misleading marketing tactic known as fictious/deceptive pricing which is even illegal in some countries) the knives are still overpriced... 420J2 steel is among the cheapest types of steel used for knives, it is generally used only in budget knives because aside from a good corrosion resistance (due to having a high chromium content) it simply does not have the required properties needed for a high quality blade (mainly edge retention), I can go to the supermarket and get a decently sized, no brand knife made out of the same steel for €15-20.
@@HAL_NOVEMILA I agree it's a silly marketing plan. I understand the pros & cons with different grades of steel, as I said thats why I decided to do a long term review. On the face of it 420J2 has the advantage on a boat that it has excellent corrosion resistance and is not too brittle like many 'top end' knives. Having super hard steel might be a good idea in a top end kitchen with a dish washer and people to look after the kitchen. We often chuck our cutlery in the sink while we're sailing and it might rattle around in there for a day while we sail. So having a knife that doesn't chip is good for us, the possible down side of needing constant sharpening didn't happen in real life, they stayed sharper than all my other knives, so I'm happy :)
You say Babble I can only think of Bable with a long ‘a’, as in fish.
Isn't that in hitchiker's guide to the galaxy?
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