My jib halyard have been having a rough time lately.
Wear on the outer cover make it slip in the halyard clutch, and the only fix I could pull off was to tie a knot by the shackle to move the worn part further up the mast.
I don't ...
more ...This is a mix of notes, blog posts and general rants related to my X-yachts X-79 sail boat.
Coming from software/IT into sailing is an interesting journey. Like other fields I've studied that are mostly run by hobbyists (and a few legacy/incumbent companies), there is a lot ...
more ...Yesterday was spent soldering up two circuits, the pull-down circuit for the anemometer, and the final board for the seatalk1 gateway.
The anemometer eats 5v, and have two data pins coming back. Rob42 made an example schematic that I used. I hotglued the circuit into a small project box, cut ...
more ...These are the manual steps performed after installing Raspbian on the pi sd card.
adduser coxcomb addgroup coxcomb sudo
wget --no-check-certificate "http://www.stripydog.com/download/kplex_1.1-1_armhf.deb" sudo dpkg -i kplex* put conf/kplex.conf into /etc/kplex.conf. fix the serialportnames.
sudo apt-get install wvdial telnet git ...
Previously this was done through a Asus WL500GP access point connected to the ethernet port on the pi. At some point the access point died.
The plan is to "simplify" the setup by using a small USB-dongle 802.11 interface, and run hostapd on the pi.
more ...On-board anemometer is a Peet Bros. Anemometer.
It connects has light 4 wire telephone cable running up the mast.
Originally with an RJ11 (or RJ9?) 4pin connector, which had to be cut off to get the cable through the mast when mounting it.