s/y Ariadne KR7.5

Ariadne website. Stories round the steelhull yacht Ariadne, built in 1964. For me everything started in october 2016 when I saw her the first time.  Reading might be best to start from story written in 2016, the links follow: How everything started Spring 2017 – working on the yacht in Hamburg and sailing her to […]

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Ariadne engine running

Ariadne OM636 ran for the first time in the last week of the summer vacation after all the setbacks. Especially incorrect piston rings and pump timing took so much time that there was no hope for holiday sailing. But the engine works. http://dasboot.yachteq.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OM636-heraa-henkiin.mp4 The engine was rebuilt quite well: block and cylinder head machined, cylinders […]

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Autopilot to Ariadne

Ariadne needs autopilot. When sailing alone, the rudder cannot be left free for a long time so the autopilot has been on thoughts. Because their prices in the Ariadne size range (12.5m and 11 tons) are quite high I started looking for other options. Since Ariadne already has OpenCPN in use and has proven to […]

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Ariadne's first Arduino-project

Started a monitoring project for Ariadne. I want to monitor some stuff from Ariadne, remotely which would be nice. Plan is to use Arduino to measure some voltages, few current values, bilge water level and shore power. Basic functionality seems to work, and results end up to my server. More story when I got the […]

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