When Ariadne got up in the fall of last year, the engine also got up. The purpose was to renovate it in the dark evenings of winter and thus ensure that its renovation would not affect Ariadne’s spring renovation schedule. How wrong I was (again). I did bilge repair, engine repair and standard spring maintenance, […]
Read moreAriadne 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 […]
Read mores/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 […]
Read moreAriadne winter work 2022-2023
The engine went into the trailer when Ariadne was lifted and ended up in Inkoo. Before moving it to the garage, I washed it with a pressure washer because it had accumulated so much dirt over the decades. The purpose was to find out the condition of the engine first and then replace the necessary […]
Read moreAriadne spring and summer 2022
Mainly just messing around This year’s Ariadne’s summer story is mostly about getting ready to sail, you only get to sail at the end, so if that’s all you’re interested in, you should go to On the move. During the winter, the most memorable Ariadne events of the previous summer were always brought back to […]
Read moreAutopilot 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 […]
Read moreAriadne'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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