Re: Stus-List To the barricades!

2013-10-29 Thread Colomba
Hi Jim you know ... sailingboats / sailing is a little bit like religion, so discussing with someone who is believing in an other god or boat, is ok, if you are in one room and enough beer is available, otherwise I would recommend ... let people believe what they want to believe and enjoye y

Re: Stus-List Getting young people into sailing?

2013-11-03 Thread Colomba
luck. That`s why the best sailors are sailors started sailing as kids. best regards Peter Colomba, C&C 34` ___ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com

Re: Stus-List Homebrew autopilot

2014-01-20 Thread Colomba
join this project, he/she is wellcome ;-) best regards Peter C&C34 Colomba ___ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com

Re: Stus-List Homebrew autopilot

2014-01-21 Thread Colomba
use components with serial communications protocols -- these will have on board filtering and make the whole exercise much easier. Best, David On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Colomba <mailto:colo...@peter-gottwald.de>> wrote: Good day I`m wondering if there is anybody

Re: Stus-List Homebrew autopilot

2014-01-21 Thread Colomba
th serial communications protocols -- these will have on board filtering and make the whole exercise much easier. Best, David On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Colomba wrote: Good day I`m wondering if there is anybody who want to build a DIY autopilot? If so, it would be interesting to di

Re: Stus-List Alternative Communication

2014-01-21 Thread Colomba
Good morning I agree that a topic like DIY autopilot is not a topic for a mailing list, but to start a discussion on an other platform. The forum of C&C Album is not available for me. When I try to visite this site I`m getting following failure message: " /You don't have permission to acc

Re: Stus-List homebrew autopilot - Now Stu's C&C Photo Album Forum

2014-01-22 Thread Colomba
okidok, I just started a thread on the C&C forum so we can discuss there. Forum Engines&Electric, DIY autopilot. and to talk about C&C, yes, very interesting, on the other hand, our C&C is like a fridge in the moment, even too cold for beer ;-) and I tried to motivate my son to sand under wat

Re: Stus-List SSB Ground

2014-03-30 Thread Colomba
I´ve installed last year a ham radio on board and did some experiements to get it work. Main problem was the ground situation. I solved that: - connect rudder shaft via capasitor to ground - wire to keel bolt, tanks etc - laying aluminium sheet on the skin inside in way of engine/Coxkpit etc,

Stus-List HAM radio on board

2013-01-11 Thread Colomba
Good day last October I made my ham radio licence. Whatever, hard stuff. Of cause my main idea is to bring the ham radio onto Colomba (C&C34) and I`m wondering ho to install the antenna. Perhaps someone had same idea and some solutions. In the moment I`m modelling the boat incl. rig

Re: Stus-List HAM radio on board

2013-01-11 Thread Colomba
and the antenna? Most SSB installations I'm familiar with use an auto-tuner along with the fully-isolated backstay. See if this helps: http://www.yachtcom.info/backstay/index.html Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On

Re: Stus-List HAM radio on board

2013-01-12 Thread Colomba
and here http://www.dellabarba.com/sailing/isabelchart.jpg Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I N3HGB *From:* CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] *On Behalf Of *Colomba *Sent:* Friday, January 11, 2013 6:49 PM *To:* cn

Re: Stus-List LED lights

2013-01-24 Thread Colomba
Hi Fred yes! best regards Peter Am 24.01.2013 20:30, schrieb Fred Hazzard: I am about to wire up a new light fixture with a LED light. Is polarity important with LED's? Fred Hazzard S/V Fury C&C 44 Portland, Or ___ This List is provided

Stus-List Navtext at 147.3 kHz, failure

2013-04-17 Thread Colomba
Good day btw it`s spring time ;-) Colomba was launched last Saturday. Some minor things have to be done and I hope to get the ham radio station running on short wave during the next days. Whatever one thing is not running. Unexpected and I do not have a real idea what happend, cause

Re: Stus-List Crash Test - Dehler 31 yacht

2012-08-20 Thread Colomba
okidok, Damp 2000 is just 6 miles away from the entrance of the Schlei, my home sailing area ... What they tested was stupid. A friend of mine went on shown rocks by easterly winds with 30kn due a failure of his steering system and it took only 30 min to scrap his boat totaly due to the waves

Re: Stus-List E7 chartplotter reboots when I start the engine

2014-07-07 Thread Colomba via CnC-List
would say, your battery is low (more or less damaged). In this case voltage will decrease during starting the engine and computer will shut down. I had same last year, new battery, everything fine again. best regards Peter Am 07.07.2014 19:31, schrieb Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List: Yes! I ca