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Some clippings from an old Yamaha sailboat promotional brochure.

Dev & I replaced all of the wiring aboard our Y33 last winter, and I've got to say... the 'integral electrical conduits' they're raving about *sounds* great, but in reality we couldn't use ANY of them to pass the new wiring XD...

Not sure any of the builders expected the boat to live to be 42 years old.
5 March at 16:07 | Open on merveilles.town
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hobbsc

@rek were they obstructed somehow?

5 March at 16:10 | Open on social.sdf.org
R E K

@hobbsc Yes. Many of them are still in the walls, we couldn't get existing wiring out.

5 March at 16:13 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

Love the drawings in the brochure, this one's especially neat.
5 March at 16:12 | Open on merveilles.town
Fen

@rek wow these painterly backgrounds are lovely!

5 March at 16:14 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

Omotenashi :moomin_sparkles:
5 March at 16:32 | Open on merveilles.town
hobbsc

@rek are there any features of the boat that you've discovered recently that you didn't know about? sometimes on my older stuff, i'll completely overlook a feature until i find an old manual or something.

5 March at 16:39 | Open on social.sdf.org
R E K

@hobbsc Oh yea absolutely~ mostly for things we haven't taken apart yet (deck and hull joint for instance).

5 March at 17:32 | Open on merveilles.town
Les capsules du prof Lutz

@rek Comme prof de "Statique et résistance des matériaux", ces flèches m'irritent particulièrement.😐 Belle aquarelle, par contre (ou du pastel sec?)

5 March at 18:37 | Open on mamot.fr
Devil Lu Linvega

@rek tight conducts to pass wires sound great on paper.

They should have phrased it like "Our cost-cutting duct taping of house-grade wire in tight conduits will ensure that you have to cut othe walls open when repairs need to be made"

5 March at 16:18 | Open on merveilles.town
rezmason

@neauoire @rek I'm being whimsical and naive here, but humor me, what if all the wiring for a ship like Pino was zip-tied to a narrow clothesline on a pulley inside the wall?

So you could crank it clockwise and counterclockwise, and then when it's all done you'd crank it to the proper position and plug stuff in 🔌
5 March at 16:31 | Open on merveilles.town
Devil Lu Linvega

@rezmason @rek we can't have wires hanging like this, stuff will fall on them and rip them out, it's a sailing ship, not a sci-fi movie set ;)

5 March at 16:34 | Open on merveilles.town
rezmason

@neauoire @rek I thought Pino was a Space Battleship Yamaha 😜

5 March at 16:35 | Open on merveilles.town
Ed Davies

@rek What was the problem with re-using the conduits?

Apart from anything else, I'd think modern wiring ought to lighter than old stuff with NEMA2000, LED lights, etc.

5 March at 17:13 | Open on functional.cafe
R E K

@edavies Older wiring was stuck in them, couldn't get em out, they're jammed in.

5 March at 17:29 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

@edavies funny enough, we removed a whole wall today and got two thick wire braids out XD... (doing that is very destructive tho, shouldn't have to take a boat apart to remove wires hehe)

6 March at 4:51 | Open on merveilles.town
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