A Day Off & Can't Get To Boat !

I have a day off due to the weather and no way to get to the boat. Given that, I made a list of the items were recently purchased. Just to review.

In a small town in North Carolina, I happened upon a lumber yard, that had teak plywood, they wanted to get rid of. For $90.00 bought two sheets of 1/2 inch. No bad.

Off E-bay 8 switch Blue Sea breaker panel that was new. It retails for $230 at West Marine, but got it for $200.00. I was able to get a ORIGO single burner alcohol stove for $280.00 and it was new. West Marine's goes for $390.00. Also a Ritchie BN202 Navigator bulkhead compass for $377.00, though used it in go shape. A new VHF Raymarine 55 for $275 Forgot to say, when in Norfolk took compass, Ritchie , looked at by WT Brownley, http://www.brownley-nautical.com/ the gentleman , "Steve" looked at it and found nothing wrong. Suggested that no to leave on the boat over the winter. It will make the diagram weaken, given it was made in 1985, it was be easier to repair, but why spent the money. Spent $325 on the outboard overhauled, which is cheaper that a new outboard.

Still snowing at 5 inches currently.


I found 200 foot of 12 gauge wire at the fairgrounds flea market in Raleigh where my has set up in the Atrium for the last 10 years doing Embroidery (Company is named E-Stitches, Inc) which cost $5.00. I will be able to use it to test circuits since it is not tinned.

Still looking for five rolls of Primary Wire, Marine Grade Tinned Wire Boat Cable 10 AWG type 3 stranded tinned copper conductors with UL, ABYC and USCG approvals. At this point have a e-mail into a company to see who manufacture their stock,would prefer ANCOR, but if it meets the standards that is find.

Also found a web site http://www.electrician2.com/ that has calculators for marine electrical
usage. I have e-mailed the author to ask for permission to link to this site.

Went to Naught Nell's shop in Deltaviille several months ago and in the consignment found two winches for $75.00 each to replace current. On the way back home, Pat and I discussed putting a head on the 22. I will need to see if anyone has done.

Finally purchase a 12 volt power supply, new it was $25.00.