Category: Boatwork

The water pump fails to shut off.

Normally it shuts off shortly after closing the water tap, as soon as full water pressure has been restored. But lately it doesn’t. Or at least not reliably. The pump itself doesn’t seem to be the problem, so we suspect the Electronic Pressure Control unit.
Perhaps it’s tiny electronic brain is fried?
After some messing around the water pressure reported by the epc went up a bit, but otherwise there is no observable difference in behavior.

we decided to bite the bullet and order a new electronic pressure control unit.
Luckily the vendor quickly identified th nearest reseller and shipped it for delivery in just a few working days.
The captain applied her plumbing skill and got rid of our not so trusty old epc and installed the new shiny model.
Despite being much larger it fit all the existing connection without adjustments and functioned as a drop in replacement.
The result is that the water taps can be used again without triggering endless whining of the pump. Jay!
It is still not clear what was wrong precisely with the old EPC… perhaps it reached pension age and gave up on mundane tasks like switching off pumps? It’ll have time to contemplate that and more while resting in the bin of broken parts.

Ocean wolfs doghouse sports some great lights… but it was severely lacking in the shine department.
The crew got desperate and seriously considered hiring professional help. After reconsidering the options one last desperate attempt was tried to bring the shine back using considerable amounts of elbow grease. The elbow grease got help from some Marine Shine. A small miracle happened:

Now that the rigging has been conpleted hereby some after/before pics.

When we did the sea trials before buying sv Ocean Wolf the wind indicator instruments were not working. It appeared that the masthead unit had been removed and it looked like the previous skipper had been doing without it for a long time. Being another clue that he probably only motored most of the time. Finding a new masthead unit that was compatible with the generation of our B & G instruments and with the proper cable length was not easy, but Google nerd and by now Palma business directory Susana of course found one. The next challenge was to connect the cables, but also that we managed. And so now we finally can see what the wind is doing a bit more accurately than sniffing.

After many delays finally the masts are back!
… there are still some lose ends:

Sv Ocean Wolf finally has her home port on her stern…