Hello! I need to scrap all the weird cables in my engine bay and rewire them from scratch. This includes the (twin) alternator and control panel wiring. Any recommendations?
Follow up to a previous post. Thanks to this wonderful community for the incredible advice!
My new boat's sink drainage hole is pretty low. When I rock the boat loads it gets within ten cm, and I don't have it filled yet with all of my stuff. There's actually an old waterline I can see that's even closer, so clearly it's survived for a while like this but it makes me uneasy.
Yes it has a bss. No it wouldn't pass a bss. Massive oversight on my part before the sale.
A few options. Removing ballast is my first thought.
I could make new drainage holes for the sinks and shower, but that means blocking off the old ones. What do I use to do this?
Alternatively, is there some kind of one way valve I can put there in case the boat gets a bit too rocky after its more full? This would be the easiest option.
Either way, the idiot builder didn't seal off the holes around the pipes coming out. So there's that too. Silicone job or proper fitting?
Sorry this is a big one. But also very important.
So I've just bought my first boat(whoopee!) and I chose it because it already had a survey with the most intact Hull, no underplating , according to his survey. Then he told me the bss guy is on his side, and had the bss signed off prior to sale. Brilliant I save £1000 pounds. As I now know, rookie mistake.
Now I have bought it and half moved in (just clothes. Mattress fridge) and the waste water holes on the side are under 15cm - they were higher before. There's numerous wiring battery and engine problems that would never pass bss, let alone the fire alarm, loose cables, open water tank and dead starter battery that would never pass bss.
I've told the guy that sold it to me, and he's very adamant that none of this is under warranty. Has to use his mechanic for warranty servicing, who is always drunk and never shows up. I have enough evidence to put the seller in prison basically, but all I want is a nice home.
So my question is, what are the chances that the bss and survey are utter bs?
To avoid the usual comments, I have learned my lesson and will never ever buy again without a full out of water survey. I've learned compared to the cost of running a boat, a survey is negligible.
For the sake of my situation, what do I do here? I can go to court which will ruin both our lives, or shell out 1k on engine parts. Considering how much I've spent on random bs so far, I'm leaning towards getting tf away from this seller, taking the loss and getting on with my life. But I could also easily drop my life and sue him for 10x the cost of the boat. Does anyone know of a similar situation?
I'm learning ninjutsu rn. There's something that ninjas historically did called the kuji kiri, and I've been studying it recently, a bunch of hand signals used as a meditation, called the nine cuts. The first one is energy, and the second one is power.
I would never have thought there's a difference between energy and power, but after thinking a bit, it makes a lot of sense. Power comes from behind and the past, from muscles alone, pushing you forward. Energy is more directional; you can swing a hard punch (or any technique) with good technique and less muscle.
Thoughts? Does anyone have some thoughts on this that they can share from another martial art?
Hello! I've had an idea and I'd like some advice on it from the hive mind. It goes against some common advice, but is based on my limited experience. Sorry for the long post please just skip to the end and help me out.
I have been trading in and off for a few years (actually nearly ten now! I'm pretty bad at it. Catastrophic in fact.
I did learn enough very early on to split my pot into different accounts for different purposes. The largest is all just dumped a regular fund made by Blackrock through an Internet bank. The middlest is an active trading account where I dabble in day trading and the smallest was my first ever account, crypto only. We don't talk about that one.
Only one has made money, and that's obviously the single fund. Over multiple years it's done very well without me touching it. When I try day or swing trading (or even scalping) I always lose - meaning I always get stopped out.
The thing about me specifically, is that I have adhd and I'll get super into 'the game' for a few weeks and forget about it. And I lose money to Stops. The only times I've made money actually trading is when I get distracted for a few months and open the account to see some very pleasantly green numbers. My point is I'm not a real trader, and I don't think I ever will be.
So here's my wild idea: No speculation and no stops. I split my 'trading' account into 33 equal chunks, and buy 3 stocks in each sector. Then I just leave it, for years. I may eventually swap some out for stronger choices if I find them, but I'm trying to mimmick the effect of a fund that actually makes returns.
This is the part I'm not sure about. How do I choose the three? It must be specific, I want to avoid using any of my own judgement because I already know it's terrible. One option is to go for a large cap, medium and small. Another is high medium and low risk. Or projected return/ analyst ratings. I have a fusion option of: largest market cap, lowest risk factor, and highest projected return.
That way I can be active on it and 'fine tune my portfolio' when I get the itch, and I can also leave it to just sit in the jar and ferment.
Can someone let me know if this is a good idea or not, or if I should put some weight in different sectors? And if this is already a known teading strategy, please let me know where to research it!
I have exactly 1,000,000 windows like this on my new boat. They all open inwards from the top, and have a cute lil lamp on top. I've been racking my brain and scouring the internet for a solution, but the community must have a proper answer for these windows.
The bedroom is ideally blackout, but the rest is whatever.
Here's what I thought of so far:
1 literally staple fabric to the top with some eyelets in the fabric edge and hooks along the window frame. Maybe dowels in the fabric to stop it drooping in the middle.
2 more traditional curtains, with a guide bar at the bottom.
3 roman blinds with two strings over the front.
4 venetian blinds with a guide wire.
Please if anyone has any of these, let me know if you love or hate them. I don't know what I don't know and I wanna make my new place right the first time! Thanks!
It's the chill area, half of it's a kitchen, and I need a workspace too. I know it looks like a building site, bc it is rn. Plan is to paint it off white, but I need to add curtains/blinds and a desk.
First of all, the sofa needs to be upholstered. I can shove some old sofa cushions in there m, get them custom made, or strap some foam and fabric to it. Then I need some advice about matching the color scheme with the curtains.
Then I was considering to build a small set of shelves on the free wall.
The desk can either be the big central gap, or I can make it in front of the sofa. There's arguments for keeping work and chill separate, but also for saving space. I like being lazy, which again adds to both sides of that.
I'm stuck with curtain/blind options. The walls are 10⁰ in the windows open by slanting another 10⁰ in. Help. It's the same in the bedroom.
Everything that's there I can't move, but I can decide how to build my days and my life around it. On colors, lighting and other furniture. It's a tiny space, how can I live in there without cluttering it too much?
I've scoured the internet for narrowboat fingers shui, and it doesn't seem to exist. Keep in mind it's obviously a building site still and I haven't moved in. The walls are gonna be a shade of off white in this section.
The builder insisted on slamming a box sofa into the middle of the only open space on the boat. Now I have 1m between it and the kitchen, and just under 2ft before the door.
I can put a folding desk in the big gap between the sofa and kitchen, with a normal desk chair. Or I can make a coffee table to fold into a desk over the sofa - giving me some luxurious empty space. There's lots of working from home going on. What would you choose? This is my main dilemma, but two bonuses to follow.
I'm stuck on the door situation, whether I waste space with proper steps, or integrate them into a side shelf somehow. The builder just said 'you're young you don't need steps' and I couldn't be bothered to argue. Gives me the chance to be creative.
I'm also stuck on the curtain/blind situation practically and aesthetically. There's so many gigantic windows at a 10⁰ inward slope, and they open to 20⁰ inwards, which makes all conventional options useless. Any advice welcome.
All in all, most of the boats I've seen (especially the semi-diy ones) have a kind of junk yard aesthetic. There are folk out there who get off on that, but I want to make it a bit more streamlined. Feng shui experts out there, please tell me what to focus on!
Hello! I'm doing a project with a guy in England with turkish roots. I've been around a lot but never to Turkey.
Basically, I know that in Japan you're supposed to bring expensive gifts to people you want to do business with, and in Arab countries you have to talk about family etc to build trust first. I'm noticing there's a bit of a clash between my 'let's get this over with and go for a pint' English attitude and how he operates. (NB neither of us actually drink much, but I'd still normally go for a pint of something with someone I'm doing a deal with)
I don't know the Turkish customs. How can I get the most out of this relationship?
I'm halfway through my new fit-out and can't wait to move in! Currently deciding on my electrical system.
I work (and game) from home, so will use a hefty laptop with a 240W power brick. Apart from that, I don't need much power.
One guy says don't get solar, just run the engine. Get the lowest inverter size I need - he lives on shoreline. The other builder says cover the roof with solar panels, and get a 3000W inverter - his is 11KW. I may not need it now, but it's ready for when I do.
The easiest option for me is to get an all in one 12V inverter/charger/mppt. There's a £1000 (easysolar) one by Victron and some cheaper alternatives. It's unfortunately more expensive than just buying the individual components that I need. What do I prioritise at this point?