Tag: NKE

Unwired

Spending a few days on the boat affords us time to start poking around in cubby holes…and tracing wires that are not labeled…and pulling those wires out to find….they are not attached to anything! Back in the spring, we installed new NKE instrumentation and autopilot on Shearwater – the installation went reasonably well, although there

Who says instrument and autopilot installation is hard?

I suppose that depends on what you mean by “hard”.  For us, it was challenging to think through all the pieces and how to best install the system on our boat.  It was also challenging to squeeze into small spaces with awkward-sized, somewhat-heavy items.  Perhaps the most challenging aspect was figuring out how many fasteners

Big, Big Day!

Hunger Games?  Anyone? Yesterday was a fine, momentous occasion.  Shearwater is now in the water and acting like a boat!  Ah, the smell of the sea, the sound of wind in the ringing, the gentle rock of the boat to the waves.  At least that is how I imagine it from my desk in Madrid.