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#1
Main Message Board / B&G Vulcan 7 installation - Mk I
February 23, 2022, 04:14:21 PM
Another little project completed this week... when I purchased my '86 Mk I it was fitted with a set of Navman instruments, all of which were dead, except the depth display at the nav station. In fact the instruments may not have been completely dead, but these old Navman displays had a problem whereby the connector for the flat ribbon cable from the PC board degraded and so the screen would just be blank. I looked at fixing these displays, but they were all very old so I decided to replace all the old instruments and sensors with an NMEA2k network, new sensors and B&G displays.

The most visible change is to remove the dead instruments at the helm and replace them with a Vulcan 7 touch screen chart plotter. A new depth/speed sensor has been already been installed, and I have a new wireless wind wand (yet to be installed) for the mast-head. Plus a cool new AIS-enabled VHF radio (B&G V-60B) yet to install.

The old instruments were in a smallish pod, here's how it looked from one of the photos from before I purchased her:


I was particularly taken with the clean and simple chart-plotter installations by RC (https://marinehowto.com/chart-plotter-mount-for-edson-pedestals/) and so I was looking at how to replicate Rod's approach with a small horizontal "shelf" on which to mount the Vulcan 7. I need to remove my entire pedestal to repaint the thing and replace the engine controls, so I was figuring I would need to wait until I had the pedestal removed before doing this job.

But as I looked at the brackets holding the old instrument "pod" I realised I could add a vertical Starboard plate and attach the Vulcan 7 to that.

Here's a view showing the Starboard plate attached using the old brackets:


And here's how it looks from the other side:


And finally, out for a sail on Corio Bay with the new chart-plotter providing me with charts and GPS-fed data.


I haven't finished installing the N2K network yet, so the Vulcan 7 is only displaying charts plus data from its internal GPS, but that's already a thousand times better than a set of dead 80's instruments!



#2
For a while, I've been wanting to make some access to the lazarette from the aft cabin on my '86 Mk I.

So about a year ago I purchased three access hatches 510mm x 460mm (20" x 18") and yesterday I finally cleared out the lazarette and started cutting!

Here's a couple of photos of the results... first with the hatches closed:



And with the hatches open, you can see they give great access through to the lazarette:



I'm happy with that result. Next I'll re-route some wiring and the blower duct, then I need to start re-organising my storage back there...
#3
Main Message Board / New owner, boat now in Geelong
December 19, 2017, 02:10:40 AM
Hi All,

I'm in the process of buying a very old C34, could be hull number 29, and she's in need of much TLC.

Currently located at Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, and after Christmas I'll be sailing her over to Geelong, where I'm a member at Royal Geelong.

Here she is after having anti-foul refreshed:


IMG_6123_resize by Derek Buckmaster, on Flickr

I've already trawled through many of the posts on the message board and in the tech Notes, what an amazing resource.

I'm looking forward to my first "Catalina summer", starting next week!

Regards,
Derek