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Main Message Board / SmartPilot X-5 Wheel Pilot
March 03, 2010, 08:15:59 PM
Hi, Everyone,
I've just ordered Raymarine SmartPilot X-t Wheel Pilot for my MkI 86 C34. Any advice on where best to locate the fluxgate compass and the control unit? I'd appreciate any advice others may have.
Thanks, Brent Evans, Tranquilty (hull 38).
I've just ordered Raymarine SmartPilot X-t Wheel Pilot for my MkI 86 C34. Any advice on where best to locate the fluxgate compass and the control unit? I'd appreciate any advice others may have.
Thanks, Brent Evans, Tranquilty (hull 38).
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Main Message Board / Masthead Antenna Wire Problem
December 07, 2009, 03:32:23 PM
I wonder if you or someone in the association can advise me on this; I've gotten myself into a pickle!
The VHF antenna at the masthead of my 34 was broken when I purchased her earlier this fall. Over the weekend I went up the mast to replace it and, I'm afraid, made the situation worse.
With the help of a climbing harness and friends belaying me from below, I climbed the mast and found a white flush-mounted stub of an antenna. Screwing it off by hand, I had one second to observe a half inch worth of male threads sticking up through a very small hole in the black steel mast-cap that you can see in the attached photos (taken just before I started to unscrew the stub), before they dropped out of sight INSIDE the mast! The interior fitting made a few clink and clunk sounds but I don't think the antenna wire and whatever end-fitting is on it inside could fall very far down. There is evidence of rivets on the front side of the mast so I'm guessing that the antenna wire runs up the mast inside conduit riveted to the front of the mast.
So, now I have antenna wire inside the top of my mast. The end fitting must have had a wider portion below the mast-cap otherwise the screw-on (broken) mast mount would never have pulled tight against the top of the cap. This means it wouldn't have pulled up thru the hole anyway, even if I had the good fortune to grab it in the second that was available to me.
This also probably means that the antenna wire cannot be pulled out from below since the wide fitting at the top will not got through the small conduit. I can neither go up nor down, it seems.
The only solutions I can think of are:
1) Drill out and greatly enlarge the antenna hole and try to reach down and pull the antenna wire with its fitting up and out wher e I can work on it, or,
2) Take off the anchor light and see how big that hole is. Maybe I can fish out the antenna wire from THAT hole, cut off the fitting and put it back up through its original hole.
So, here are my questions:
1. Hasanyone else had this problem? Is there some other fix possible?
2. Are you familiar with this antenna (judging from its base)? How BIG is the fitting that is on the end of the antenna wire inside my mast?
3. Will this interfere with my halyards? Yikes!
4. How big is the hole under the anchor light likely to be?
Doing repairs while clinging to the top of a mast and in fear of one's life is daunting in any case. What are my options? Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks!
Perplexed,
Brent Evans
The VHF antenna at the masthead of my 34 was broken when I purchased her earlier this fall. Over the weekend I went up the mast to replace it and, I'm afraid, made the situation worse.
With the help of a climbing harness and friends belaying me from below, I climbed the mast and found a white flush-mounted stub of an antenna. Screwing it off by hand, I had one second to observe a half inch worth of male threads sticking up through a very small hole in the black steel mast-cap that you can see in the attached photos (taken just before I started to unscrew the stub), before they dropped out of sight INSIDE the mast! The interior fitting made a few clink and clunk sounds but I don't think the antenna wire and whatever end-fitting is on it inside could fall very far down. There is evidence of rivets on the front side of the mast so I'm guessing that the antenna wire runs up the mast inside conduit riveted to the front of the mast.
So, now I have antenna wire inside the top of my mast. The end fitting must have had a wider portion below the mast-cap otherwise the screw-on (broken) mast mount would never have pulled tight against the top of the cap. This means it wouldn't have pulled up thru the hole anyway, even if I had the good fortune to grab it in the second that was available to me.
This also probably means that the antenna wire cannot be pulled out from below since the wide fitting at the top will not got through the small conduit. I can neither go up nor down, it seems.
The only solutions I can think of are:
1) Drill out and greatly enlarge the antenna hole and try to reach down and pull the antenna wire with its fitting up and out wher e I can work on it, or,
2) Take off the anchor light and see how big that hole is. Maybe I can fish out the antenna wire from THAT hole, cut off the fitting and put it back up through its original hole.
So, here are my questions:
1. Hasanyone else had this problem? Is there some other fix possible?
2. Are you familiar with this antenna (judging from its base)? How BIG is the fitting that is on the end of the antenna wire inside my mast?
3. Will this interfere with my halyards? Yikes!
4. How big is the hole under the anchor light likely to be?
Doing repairs while clinging to the top of a mast and in fear of one's life is daunting in any case. What are my options? Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks!
Perplexed,
Brent Evans
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