It all started so simple.... all we need to do is change all the Halogen light bulbs to LED bulbs. Piece of cake........48 bulbs later.......now I need to order another 20 or so and we will have a very energy efficient vessel. So now would be a good time to run the Cat 5 cable for the Wi-Fi antenna....
Simple job, no problem, have this done in just an hour or so... Damn, forgot the 5 factor. (For you landlubbers, it takes 5 times as long to do anything on a boat, as it would take on your house) All we gotta do is feed the cable down from the mast on the flybridge, into the salon across the galley (under the ceilining) up towards the Pilot house, through the existing wire chase, then just feed it to the fly bridge access.
Ya right! Three friggin' days later and way too many cocktails, on my part, we have made it to the pilot house. Now all we have to do is feed the rest of the line down the utility tube and job almost done. Time to put the Admiral to work.... She has done very well holding the flashlight, handing me the drill, cleaning up, as well as giving me her two cents worth of technical support.
Who would of thought she actually can chase a wire with the fish tape and zip tie with the best of them... well almost as well as me..... Im just saying... (a Traceyism) So I'm thinking, since she did this so well, maybe I could show her how to clean the bilge as well...... Hmmmmm, while I'm at it, how about cleaning the black water sensors.......Ya right!
Oh, by the way, did I forget to tell ya, I had to cut the end of the 50' factory cable in order to feed it thru those little access holes..... Now we have to learn a new trade, telecommunication specialist. Thank god for "Water Maker Mike", he is our neighbor and has damn near every special tool you can think of! Ok, when we get our own tools, we'll be ready to start charging $90 an hour to help the newbees out, yep were gonna be rich.
So now that we have the new WI-Fi POE and router installed in the pilot house and it even looks like a pretty damn near professional installation. Did I mention that it even works?
We have much faster WI-FI now on Das Boat!
Tracey let me post this one, give her a day or so and she will post a Christmas Vacation entry. ......Bah Humbug! However, she will say, I am the one responsible for the absence of the good pictures with the ceiling down because I had her too busy for the photo opps.
Coming soon....
Look forward to the heater repair and water maker installation....
