Success

This will be a fairly short post and in terms of actual work I do not have appeared to have done an awful lot this past week however what has been achieved has been very satisfying as it would appear for now anyway that there are no obvious major problems with the engine, I had already turned it by hand so I knew that it wasn't seized and there was some compression, I won't know for sure until I try and start the beast but the signs are looking positive and it was reported as running when the previous owner bought the boat some seven years ago so fingers crossed.

I spent some time on Monday investigating the engine wiring it had to be a fairly basic wiring problem as nothing worked not even the panel lights and after trying various ideas mostly around the negative connection it came to me the engine is wired with an isolated block and I had connected the negative battery connection to the engine block. The photograph that I had showed the negative from the panel connected to the negative terminal on the starter motor which was correct  but this photograph was taken after the engine had been removed from the boat so it wouldn't show the battery negative connection. After connecting the battery negative to the starter motor I tried the key and the starter motor turned the engine over, the pre-heater got hot and the panel became alive. I should have realised that the block was isolated as all the electrical bits on the engine, oil pressure transmitter, water temperature transmitter, pre-heater etc all have a positive and negative connection.

I had another go at linking the tablet to the chart plotter with no success, second to last resort was to try Google which came up with a Youtube video which explained the whole process the tablet refers to a password to make the connection while the plotter refers to a network key once the video explained the process for finding and changing the network key we were home and dry it all works the tablet now mirrors the plotter and can control the plotter and vice versa, the instruction manual would appear to be a bit lacking in this area. The last resort would have been to get no2 daughter to have a look. The plotter display does not show up too well in the photograph as it is set a lot brighter than the tablet.

Tablet connected to plotter

After that I went back to working on the wine locker I cut out a piece of teak to finish the timber rail which runs along under the deck I don't think that there was one fitted originally but I wanted to continue the concealed lighting theme along the starboard side.

New section of timber rail

I also replaced the ply shelf along the starboard side of the saloon I have yet to decide what I am going to do with this area whatever I decide to do the shelf would need to be in place and it gets it out of the way.

Shelf back in place

Now that I have a battery installed I have decided to move forward with getting the engine up and running basically all it requires the sea water and fuel systems to be completed he says hopefully so to this end I have installed the seawater strainer and some of the pipework and ordered the tank connections for the fuel return and the tank vent from Tek Tanks.

Sea water inlet pipe

Sea water strainer

This weekends homework project will be to turn down the hose connection for the engine seawater pump to take the one inch hose and to make and silver solder a hose connection to the fuel return pipe on the engine.