Catsaway is for sale - https://SVCatsaway.com/forsale Live map - https://SVCatsaway.com/map This week we welcome our friend Charles back, fix the hole in the floor, rename the boat and prepare for becoming liveaboards. Charles used plywood and fiberglass to reinforce the floor. The cut out section had gotten a little warped, so Charles and Greg stood on it while the fiberglass was setting. He used West Marine epoxy fillers to create a putty texture in order to fill the holes. We now have a finished floor!! We just have to paint it now to match the colour. We celebrated by going for a sail. It was a beautiful day, with 5-10 knots of wind. We played with where to place the fairleads to get the optimal wind to speed ratio. Later that week, we finally de-named Rhapsody and re-named her Catsaway! We invited some friends over and went through the traditional renaming ceremonies. We celebrated with a sail, champagne and snacks. It was a great day! Diana put up the lifeline safety netting in preparation for the kitties to come on board. We also purchased a large fishing net in case we ever need to scoop them out of the water. ;) Kurt from Downunder Solar was kind enough to do a last minute solar installation for us. We decided on a 315 watt Canadian Solar panel, plus a 5 kilowatt hour AGM battery bank. We have also switched all the lightbulbs in the cabin to LEDs to help save energy. Join us next week as we move onto the boat and leave for Oswego! We now have a live map on our website! www.SVCatsaway.com https://instagram.com/SVCatsaway https://facebook.com/SVCatsaway https://twitter.com/SVCatsaway Credits: “Coffee Stains” by Riot “Feeling Sunny” by Scott Holmes “Life of Riley” by Kevin MacLeod ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyTEc23UXFk

Catsaway is for sale - https://SVCatsaway.com/forsale Live map - https://SVCatsaway.com/map This week we leave New York Harbour and travel down the New Jersey coast and up Delaware Bay. We left New York just before 6am. There was already a lot of marine traffic at that hour and the first couple of hours was spent dodging wake from ferries, water taxis, shipping boats and other vessels. We had a beautiful sail down to the Manasquan Inlet - pretty much zero sea state and winds blowing at a beam reach, about 10-15 knots. Manasquan Inlet was a challenging experience. Firstly, there are dozens of fishing vessels that are blocking the inlet entrance. Secondly, the inlet has between 2-3 knots current and we were heading in at opposing current. We struggled in at 2-3 knots of speed, while fishing vessels with 300 or more horsepower zoomed past us. There was a beautiful little anchorage at Glimmer Glass Bay, but we had to go past the smallest bascule bridge in the world. We were afraid we wouldn’t fit through! Greg did a spectacular job of keeping the boat straight through the channel, against currents and wind that wanted to push us sideways. The next day there was absolutely no wind, and we motored to Barnegat Bay. We saw dozens of dolphins, a couple of which came right past the boat. Again, a challenging and blocked entrance to the inlet, but a very nice anchorage at the end. We went ashore to try to find ice cream but alas, all the stores were closed for the season. Another motor from Barnegat to Atlantic City. We specifically picked this weather window because we knew it would be calm, and it was Diana’s first time sailing offshore. However, it was a little too calm, and we missed using our sails! There was a storm forecast, so we hunkered down in Brigatine for a few days and explored Atlantic City. Atlantic City was an odd place. There were huge casinos that were closed, and other bright and shiny things open with very few people around. It also seemed very tacky. We walked down the boardwalk, bought some salt water taffy, and looked for WiFi to download things and upload our YouTube videos. I swear that half our time on shore is spent looking for places that have fast WiFi! After a few days in Atlantic City, we started to get restless and decided to head to Cape May. Since we had been motoring so much, we chose a day with stiffer winds and what was forecasted to be a slightly bigger sea state so we could sail. Unfortunately the winds were much higher than predicted - gusting over 30 knots - and had the corresponding bigger sea state. This wasn’t bad when we were heading south, but when we turned back to go inland, we were hitting 7-8 foot swells straight on, not to mention motoring through 30 knot winds. That was ver ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4xdu6ObTc

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Catsaway is for sale - https://SVCatsaway.com/forsale Live map - https://SVCatsaway.com/map We updated the ship’s technology including; - Raspberry Pi running a Rails app as the Ship’s Computer - Outernet receiver for weather at sea - Find me Spot to report ships current location - vYacht to connect to the Ship’s instruments - And an EPIRB in case of emergency We attempted to create our own Seatalk cable in order to save some money. It worked for a little while but was constantly causing instrument errors when the boat moved. Diana and I are trekkies aso it was fun working on a Star Trek themed Ship’s Computer. I’ll enjoy continuing to work on that while we’re sailing at warp 0.00000000000001. https://github.com/ShipsComputer/ComputerCore https://outernet.is/ https://findmespot.com/ https://vyacht.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_radiobeacon_station Contributing projects LCARS-SDK front end https://github.com/Aricwithana/LCARS-SDK Earth weather visualization https://github.com/cambecc/earth Credits: “Invisible” by Vibe Tracks Social Media: instagram.com/svcatsaway twitter.com/svcatsaway facebook.com/svcatsaway Need cat stuff? www.svcatsaway.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNAhKCLrpio