Was packing things up after a trip back to nyc from Newport and saw this innocent screw sitting on the hatch. I can’t find obvious location where it might have come from. It is a fairly unique looking screw. Lie to me and tell me it’s not from the standing rigging?
EDIT: the answer will hopefully be revealed (to me) on Friday. I’ll triple check the dodger.
Hi all. Have a Caliber 35. There’s a sump in the bilge that’s recessed about 3” below the bilge floor. For the ice box and shower. There are edges that come about 3” above the bilge floor. It had its own pump (died), bilge has its own pump.
Our bilge is a bit wet generally and shallow, so the standard bilge pump has trouble getting the water out.
I want to drill holes on the edge of the sump box so the bilge water drains to that lower area…and have that lower area be the trigger for a pump.
The pump would be outside of that box with an intake hose to the bottom of the box, and the switch at the bottom of the box. Would keep the existing bilge pump that’s in the main bilge as a backup.
This would keep the main bilge area dry. The only drawback I’ve heard is the idea of shower water or icebox water being in the bilge. I can handle that.
Any other red flags??
Yo, experienced cyclist here interested in participating in group rides. Spent many years riding (road bike) in NYC, mountain biking and now doing a bunch of gravel riding in Maine. Mostly ride by myself or with one or two friends but I want to start doing some group road rides in CT.
Never done it. What should I do? What shouldn’t I do?
I have my Luba 3 settings to charge to max 80%. For some reason today it is ignoring those settings and charging to 100%. Any idea why?
57(m) married to 48(w) and we have two kids 10,9. Financially literate and have a wealth advisor…but still stuck.
Big picture: college savings is done for the kids.
2.8m home w a mortgage of 1M
Roughly 3M in retirement and post tax savings in the market.
750K two rental properties (no mortgages).
Wife makes about 280k and will continue working. I make 260k, have a full and rewarding career, but my priorities are changing. Cros fingers no health issues and we’re both active/athletic.
I’m wanting to retire at 59. But regardless of how much I look at the numbers, which are fine, I can’t seem to convince myself it’s the right move.
In anticipation of slowing down, we’re relocating to a nearby town and doing a gut reno of a smaller house. All near NYC.
Would love to know how those here who weren’t nudged into retirement made the leap.
Or maybe it’s a gennaker…
Do mostly solo sailing on 35’ Caliber. I rarely put up this sail but had the chance yesterday from New Haven to NYC. 5 beautiful hours of downwind sailing.
Tack line: not long enough to make it back to cockpit. Is that normal? It works fine but might be nice to adjust as wind adjusts.
Sheets: it’s one long rope for both sheets, knotted to the clew in the middle. I find it confusing when getting everything set up cuz there’s no way to differentiate between the “two” lines. Wondering if this is a weight thing? Is it normal?
Have a teak and mahogany bowsprit. Been using epifanes varnish but this year the bowsprit needed repairs so brought it down to bare wood. Used epoxy to fill some holes and a small damaged area (size of a nickel). Then total boat penetrating epoxy followed by TB gleam.
Not thrilled with the process or outcome.
Despite sanding all the epoxy fixes, the penetrating epoxy wouldn’t adhere to them all. No rhyme or reason to it. Couldn’t apply additional coat until fully cured and sanded.
The varnish has also been less than stellar. The selling point was being able to do multiple coats in a day. But in 75° 40% humidity the varnish was tacky after 10 hours. So I’m one a one coat, wait a couple days, sand, next coat schedule. It is also very thin compared to epifanes so doesn’t disguise and imperfections.
Curious of other have better experience?
Just finished 8 hour drive w FSD from Maine to NYC. Great overall experience and totally worth it for these longs drives.
Can I set the speed? Chill was at speed limit or 5 mph slower. Standard was often 10mph higher than limit.
Can I set the number of car lengths? In autopilot you can adjust the number of car lengths when you follow. Can’t find similar setting w FSD and was tailgating a bit.
I have a hitch bike rack. Was getting some interference there. Any secrets?
There were two times where I got message that FSD was temp unavailable. No reason given. What’s that about?
Hi Luba is at home doing its thing but in one area/task, the report says it manually paused…then completed its job. Does the same thing each time it mows this area.
Maybe I don’t know what “manually” means. I’m not there, and I’m not pausing it remotely from my phone.
Any thoughts?
I feel the need to say that this wasn’t staged. It wasn’t. Landscape guy moved logs and I didn’t realize it.
I do have a question. Since last update been a few days but Luba emergency stops when it climbs a small hill on the diagonal. Says front wheel is off the ground. Never did this before and I can fix it by setting the mowing pattern. Just wondering if anyone else seeing this type of error?
Not related to new update. I have several areas all connected w channels. Area 1 was the first area I mapped when I got the mower. Never had any issues.
Now the task associated w Area 1 says it needs a channel to the charger. I changed nothing so not sure what’s going on.
I manually drive Luna to area 1, tried to run the task again and got the same message.
Then hit the return to charger button and it returned to charger?
Any thoughts?
In CT. Have a house w flat roof. Local solar company, well regarded, says on resi flat roofs they install solar panels flat…no angle.
This strikes me as odd. I’ve seen angled panels on residential flat roofs. And have to imagine having an angle would generate more power.
Any thoughts?
In CT. Have a house w flat roof. Local solar company, well regarded, says on resi flat roofs they install solar panels flat…no angle.
This strikes me as odd. I’ve seen angled panels on residential flat roofs. And have to imagine having an angle would generate more power.
Any thoughts?
Read other posts about this but from a while ago so maybe there’s a workaround.
Is there a way to schedule two or three tasks together and just have the start time of the first task? So I don’t have to worry about one task not finishing before the next one is supposed to start?
Hi Segway Nation,
I am brand agnostic. Not creeping in with a lawngenda.
I have a .75 acre lawn at our primary house and have a Luba 3 admirably taking care of it. I have no complaints.
Just got a second property that has a ton of trees and a is on a hill. About 1.25 acres.
Interested in getting a navimow just to switch things up.
My questions are:
For a yard of this size which navimow should I get? I can read the specs but in practice wondering what people think. I should have sized up w my Luba.
I read that the navimow struggles with tree canopy. Is this a thing?
There are a lot of trees…it’ll be a pain to map them. Is there a function where I can map the border and let the mower sort out the trees
Thanks!
My thoughts after one month with this guy:
1-Grateful that I haven’t had any of the many technical issues one reads all about on Reddit.
2-impressed with how little I have to think about the lawn, but surprised by how much time I spend researching the Luba.
3-floored by how much better my lawn looks due to frequent cutting.
4-surprised by the fact that I get annoyed when I have to remap a border or no go zone (because I planted trees).
5-not super thrilled with what is an ingenious turning design in theory but in practice is not great. Luba grinds away on tight radii.
One thing I realized is that the in-place turning is mainly powered by the rear wheels. The sideways direction of the omni-direction front wheels is not powered so it’s the rear wheels doing the bulk of the work. I don’t think this design will last.
We’re moving and will have more property and I’m gonna try the Navimow. Will have them both running around. I think the front wheel turning design is better but perhaps more complicated and more likely to have problems but we’ll see. The Navimow sub has as many complaints as here so with any luck in a year I’ll spend ALL of my time w customer service from two separate companies!
Have a Luna 3 1500.
Bought a house with 1.5 acre lawn so that’ll be too much for the 1500.
Should I:
Get a second robot lawn mower:
Or
Get a robot lawnmower than can handle the larger area.
And in either case
Any objective opinions between the Luba and the Navimow? I have had no issues with the Luba except it tears up the lawn in some places.
Thank you!
I have it set to do interior first then perimeter laps. I had been adjusting the number of perimeter laps each week. 1 to 4 then 1…. I did this thinking the Luba would do its interior 180 turns closer or father from the lawn edge if it knew there were more or fewer perimeter laps.
Doesn’t seem to work tho. Regardless of number of perimeter laps, Luba goes to the edge of the lawn (within border).
Is my logic off? Am I missing a setting?
I just read but want to confirm.
Apparently the two discs with the blades spin in opposite directions….so you can swap the discs (rather than flip all the blades) for the second sharp edge of the blades? If so, that’s genius.
I unfortunately threw away the foam packing so wonder what others do when they flip the Luba over to clean etc?
Hi! I have a section of my yard I let grow long. With a regular lawnmower I mow around the perimeter twice and a path through the middle (about 4 lawnmower widths).
Luba doesn’t do well here. I can have it mow two perimeter loops but they aren’t the same shape as the interior no go zone. And for the interior path it’s like Austin powers.
Any ideas. It takes me all of 5 minutes to do it with a regular mower but I’d love to see a creative solution!