Busy Week

Since I last posted, a lot has happened to the "princess".  The riggers from Keys Rigging tried to install the new Harken ESP furler.  There were major parts missing from the shipment.  The best thing that happened was that they got the sail down without damage.  The swivel would not pass the broken extrusion.  If I had tried to lower the sail myself, it would have jammed.
Since I couldn't sail the boat, I had the riggers set the boat up for motoring so I could take the boat out and calibrate the compass on the autopilot.
Micky and I had pulled all the wires for the electronics upgrades and I installed the Autopilot computer and sensor boxes in the huge port lazarette.  Getting the cables from the lazarette to the pedestal and then the NavPod was not that easy.  The factory had run the wiring inside the port pedestal guard tubing.  That route was completely full.  Going up through the pedestal itself was not going to happen since the top plate was secured with stainless screws into the aluminum pedestal.  The resulting dissimilar metal corrosion had seized the screws.  My solution was to create a new wire run external to the pedestal guard using woven nylon "snakeskin".  This worked out very well and the new runs under the deck will last the life of the boat.
All the cushions have been cleaned using the Bissel Spot Bot.  The shower hardware is new.  The air conditioner is new and the strainer for the water pump has been replaced and does not leak.  I previously replaced the bilge pump.  The shower sump pump was not working.  Put in the new pump and it would not run either.  Found that the switch in the vanity was corroded along with the wiring at the switch.  The switches are modular units from Italy.  It took some time to research them and find a source, but an outfit named Yachtworld was able to supply them.  In the mean time, I needed to test the sump pump.   I managed to disassemble the switch clean the contact surfaces and put it back together.  The system worked fine.
I moved the dinghy from the dock to its new home behind the boat.  It's amazing how foul the motor and bottom have gotten with just a month in the water.  The davits are plenty strong and the lift system is a 4-part block.  The problem was they were reeved (strung with rope) all wrong and the lines were twisted.  This made it very stiff and hard to pull the load.  One solution is to reverse the lines so that the twisting is relieved and then reeve the lines properly so that the lines are straight and do not 'rub' against their sheaves.
With the lines straightened out, the engine swung off the boat and transferred to the motor lift easily.  The dinghy itself, although large and heavy, is easy to handle.
The PO (previous owner) had only used one shore power cable although two were onboard.  After reading several forum threads about overloaded circuits when using the AC and appliances on the same line, I dug out the other cables and cleaned up their plugs.  Now we run two 30 amp lines and have little chance of overload.