Home Port; on the Delaware River at Fox Grove Marina Essington PA.

Electric panel, rewire and battery box under cockpit area 2019-2021

2019-7-11 template for under cockpit area, former engine mount bed.
2019-7-11 rough cut under cockpit floor. 3/4 inch birch plywood salvaged off-cut.
2019-7-12 dry fit
2019-7-16 bolt holes at former engine mount bolt locations, and kerf cut at engine mount bracket up sweep.
Below 80's F (27 C) before 9:00 AM so time for penetrating epoxy in the shade, temperature rising to mid 90's F (mid 30's C) by noon so no more work today.

Temperatures next 5 days low to high 90's F (32 to 37 C)
2019-7-20 Template for electric panel.
90 F (32 C) at the Tinicum Fire House this morning going to a high today of 100 F (38 C)
2019-7-25 switch panel and battery tester
2019-7-28 panel in progress
2019-8-11 battery floor coated with penetrating epoxy and tabbed in place.
2019-8-17 electric panel blank tabbed in place.

2020-10-17 resumed work on panel and battery box, added more tabbing, next will be floatation foam fill and epoxy and mat base.


2020-10-18 floatation foam fill to void under battery box

2020-10-19 fiberglass mat cut for battery box floor

2020-10-19 fiberglass mat cut for floor of under ladder area

2020-10-14 battery box and under ladder area fiberglass set in epoxy.


2020-10-25 rustoleum topside paint to electric panel and under ladder area

2020-10-25 rustoleum topside paint to battery box


2020-11-6 New electric panel, AC side connected, DC side next.


2021-06-22 DC wiring in-progress

2021-07-11 DC wiring/rewiring
Depth sounder rewired
Navigation lights rewiring/replacement in progress
To do:
Cabin lights
Lazzarete blower
Power sockets. 

Working on my back in the 90's F with 80% RH minimum is not fun.

2021-07-12
90% of late 60's era wiring removed/replaced. This was non-polarized "bell" wire, the LED navigation lights, cabin lights and USB charge ports require polarized power. "Bell" wire may be used, after-all it worked for more than 50 years but it is a 50/50 guess for LED lights.  

2021-07-16
The stern light wire, "non-polarized bell wire" will just have to stay in place. It will not come loose inside the stern pulpit and I cannot get a new wire in without removing the existing. The existing wire has electrical continuity but the base of the existing stern light is not salvageable, so a new LED stern light has been ordered. This little problem took me three days of lying on my back in 90 F plus temperatures and 80% plus RH before I finally realized replacement was the optimal choice.

2021-08-09
New stern light and mounting plate. Double block of PVC trim with hole to accomodate wire connection. The stern pulpit rail is too small to fit the connection to the existing wire.
2021-08-14
New stern light installed


September 2022
The battery which was struggling to hold a charge in June but recovered for July and August finally died in September. Replacement will be two AGM batteries.

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Ulladh

Ulladh pronounced "ul-la" (null lad).





Uladh the gaelic spelling for the territory of the U-Nail chieftains in the ancient Irish province of Ulster (English/Norse), originally the counties of Down and Antrim, but now including Derry, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, also referred to as Ulidia (Greek/Roman),.



Uladh was the home of a pre-celtic, cruithne (crew-en-ya) pictish tribe, who may have been descendants of prehistoric tribes indigenous to the British Isles since the retreat of the last ice age.



Evidence from cut marks on deer bones from more than 30,000 years ago found in the karst formations of the Burren probably from hunters suggest a homonid precence. Archeological finds date first inhabitants (DNA evidence suggests dark or black skin and blue eyes) to about 6,000 BC and trade goods from Rathlin Island, County Antrim off the northeast coast of Ireland made from porcellanite stone appearing in Egypt and Crete by 2,500 BC.



The early tribes of Ireland where displaced by later waves of migrants from mainland Europe; about 1700 BC by bronze age tribes, celtic tribes about 500 BC, and in the past two millenia; Roman trading posts, Viking settlements, English plantations... and in the 21st century a welcome increasing diversity from the European Union and the world.



SV Ulladh (for vhf clarity I use "sailing vessel ul-la") is named for the territory of the first peoples to settle in Ireland after the retreat of the last ice age.



Fisksatra

Since 1949 Fisksatra Varv in the coastal town of Fisksatra Sweden, built fiberglass boats from dinghies to a 300 ton minesweeper for the Swedish Navy.

The Havsfidra 20's were built between 1968 and the late 1970's to Swedish Navy and Lloyd's certification standards.

The Havsfidra 20 and a larger version the Storfidra 26 where sold in the United States by Continental Yachts and Trawler Agency of Atlantic City NJ.

Havsfidra; sea-feather?
(fidra; to touch or tickle with a feather -Icelandic-English Dictionary, Clarendon Press 1874)