Re: Stus-List Mast sensor upgrade experience requested

2018-04-05 Thread James Bibb via CnC-List
Thanks Francois! Great insight and really helpful. I’ve never unstepped a keel mast before but I may do that and as you suggested, be able to go through the mast and really take my time. Great help. Things up here in Alaska are finally thawing out a bit. James Bibb > On Apr 5, 2018,

Stus-List Mast sensor upgrade experience requested

2018-04-05 Thread Francois Rivard via CnC-List
Hi James, I have a 34/36 and I did replace the sensor twice.. Once with the mast off and once "in-situ"/ My mast did have a conduit and I used the old wire as a messenger line as mentioned before. Really straightforward / no issues. The harder part is that I had to fabricate a custom aluminum

Re: Stus-List Mast sensor upgrade experience requested

2018-04-04 Thread James Bibb via CnC-List
Thanks! Sent from my iPad James Bibb NorthWind Architects LLC 126 Seward St. Street Juneau, Alaska. 99801 (907) 321-4265 cell (907) 586-6150 ext 5 wk > On Apr 4, 2018, at 11:16 AM, Josh Muckley via CnC-List > wrote: > > Normally a conduit is riveted to the forward

Re: Stus-List Mast sensor upgrade experience requested

2018-04-04 Thread Joel Aronson via CnC-List
If you are replacing the VHF wire with a pre-made connector for the top (and you should), you have to feed from the top down. I re-wired my mast when it was down and used a variation of Josh's method. I taped a small line to the old wire and then taped the new wire to the string so I pulled the

Re: Stus-List Mast sensor upgrade experience requested

2018-04-04 Thread Josh Muckley via CnC-List
Normally a conduit is riveted to the forward side of the mast. You'll probably want to have a service disconnect terminal block at the base of the mast if it doesn't already exist. Any existing spade/ring terminals will probably need to be cut off before pulling the existing cable out. Secure a

Stus-List Mast sensor upgrade experience requested

2018-04-04 Thread James Bibb via CnC-List
34-36R with a pretty skinny tall mast…anybody have any experience upgrading the wind sensor and VHF while the mast is in-place? I need to know if there’s a conduit running and what to expect as I may be the person scaling the mast and I want to make the least number of trips to the top?