"More water water pumps and installing an auto pilot" Week 6 repost

This last week was pretty busy again I ended up jumping around on a lot of different yachts doing all kinds of things. I kept working on the new 2014 37ft Back Cove that we got in a couple weeks ago and managed to get almost all of the electronics installed and all the wires ran either to the helm or to the batteries.I wasn't able to get any new pictures of this project but we just got a new 2014 41ft Back Cove that I will have to do the exact same thing too. This will include VHF, AM/FM radio & antennas, Radar, Hailing horn/PA system, Back up camera, Satellite radio, Auto Pilot, Along with all the displays. I will also have to reassemble the propeller, ruder and transducer before it even gets put in the water. I can't wait, the company's lead technician is going on vacation and it will all be up to me.




Here are a couple of pictures that I took of a project I was thrown on one afternoon, a customer was looking to buy and still is a 36ft Sabre and had a survey done on the boat and one of the things on the survey was to replace the hard water pump on the generator. It was a small Northern Lights gen. set  and was very easy to access which isn't always the case. I was able to pull the pump and before I even did was able to tell that the seal around the shaft was and had been leaking. I took the pump to tri county and hoped that it was just the seal and not a bent shaft. Well it ended up being a bent shaft and had to be completely replaced which was easy enough just a little more expensive.

This was another project I had this week. We had 37ft Back Cove that was needing a auto pilot installation and I was the guy to do it. It was really pretty easy, It did involve running a couple of hydraulic lines from the stern to the helm which should have been pretty easy but when Back Cove makes their yachts they don't leave room for hardly any other wires or lines to be ran through the boat. So in this case I got lucky half the time and was able to squeeze next to other lines and wires but in a couple spots had to drill new hole's. The thing that surprised me the most was how I was supposed to use a thread sealant on all the pipe thread connections, I have had it stuck in my mind that i should never use any type of thread sealant or locker especially in a hydraulic system.Yet according to Garmin I am supposed too and they wont warranty it if I don't. This turned out to be a very fun project and I did learn a lot but also got to use a little bit of previous knowledge and it definitely made the project go a little smoother.

I would have to say that the thing I can look back on and reflect on over this last week has got to be my understanding and confidence with electrical systems and how they are hooked up. Since almost day one I have enjoyed electrical and the trying to understand it. I have got to install many different electrical systems and some have gone strait to the batteries and some have gone to the helm  or to a common ground buss and an existing breaker. Installing new electrical systems is pretty awesome and fairly easy but tracking down bilges pumps that don't work can be a little more frustrating. I like new boats with new electrical way more than old ones but the system stays nearly the same and because of all the installs it has made it easier to trouble shoot.

 Week 6
 Hours 42.5
Total Hours 248.5