KlaassyC
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Just sharing a few of the updates I’ve made to our Cutwater 28 that some of you may find helpful.
1. Crab/Prawn trap storage. These are made out of starboard and clamp to the existing rails with Scotty rail mount adapters. One on each side let’s me carry 4 traps total. Great for longer trips, keeps them out of our way, yet still available.
2. Sternline reel. Also Starboard and some miscellaneous hardware I had.
3. iPad holder. Uses up the space next to the Garmin and gives me a backup GPS (Navionics) if I want to use the Garmin full screen for radar or sonar. Uses an Inreach mini for GPS signal. Added a dual USB to the top of the dash for power. Also used a Ram mount track with ball adapters for a phone & Inreach mount.
4. Upgraded the trim tab controls to one with an indicator so I can see where my tabs are at. This was the most time consuming as I had to run a new harness from the tabs all the way to the helm.
5. Installed an RV style ‘winterizing’ kit to the hot water tank to simplify bypassing it when adding antifreeze. Also added a three way valve at the fresh water tank to make adding antifreeze easy.
6. Replaced the factory solar panel and controller with a 355 watt panel and Victron controller.
7. Added a Victron Smartshunt and Globallink with Ruuvi sensors for remote monitoring. We moor the boat a 90 minute drive away, so having remote monitoring of temperature, voltage, and solar input is great.
8. House bank updated with 2 - 145AH/12V AGM batteries. Provides 145 AH of usable power, plenty for our usage, especially with the larger solar panel.
9. Mounted a Pali bilge heater with power for the engine compartment.
10. Added LED strip lights along the curtain track on either side for better ambient lighting at night, especially when winter cruising.
11. (STILL IN PROGRESS). Fabricating a dinghy rack for the roof. Because our boat has the 25HP kicker in the Center of the swim platform, a standard David system doesn’t work. I had designed one that would clear the kicker, but the added weight that far off the stern is the last thing this boat needs. Essentially the rack consists of two 1” tubes running fore and aft immediately outboard of the solar panel. This will allow us to pull the dinghy up onto the foredeck, flip it upside down against the front of the cabin top, and slide it onto the roof with the tubes acting to guide the dinghy on while protecting the solar panel. Once at anchor, we drop the dinghy in the water to expose the panel. Will share pictures once it’s complete.
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1. Crab/Prawn trap storage. These are made out of starboard and clamp to the existing rails with Scotty rail mount adapters. One on each side let’s me carry 4 traps total. Great for longer trips, keeps them out of our way, yet still available.
2. Sternline reel. Also Starboard and some miscellaneous hardware I had.
3. iPad holder. Uses up the space next to the Garmin and gives me a backup GPS (Navionics) if I want to use the Garmin full screen for radar or sonar. Uses an Inreach mini for GPS signal. Added a dual USB to the top of the dash for power. Also used a Ram mount track with ball adapters for a phone & Inreach mount.
4. Upgraded the trim tab controls to one with an indicator so I can see where my tabs are at. This was the most time consuming as I had to run a new harness from the tabs all the way to the helm.
5. Installed an RV style ‘winterizing’ kit to the hot water tank to simplify bypassing it when adding antifreeze. Also added a three way valve at the fresh water tank to make adding antifreeze easy.
6. Replaced the factory solar panel and controller with a 355 watt panel and Victron controller.
7. Added a Victron Smartshunt and Globallink with Ruuvi sensors for remote monitoring. We moor the boat a 90 minute drive away, so having remote monitoring of temperature, voltage, and solar input is great.
8. House bank updated with 2 - 145AH/12V AGM batteries. Provides 145 AH of usable power, plenty for our usage, especially with the larger solar panel.
9. Mounted a Pali bilge heater with power for the engine compartment.
10. Added LED strip lights along the curtain track on either side for better ambient lighting at night, especially when winter cruising.
11. (STILL IN PROGRESS). Fabricating a dinghy rack for the roof. Because our boat has the 25HP kicker in the Center of the swim platform, a standard David system doesn’t work. I had designed one that would clear the kicker, but the added weight that far off the stern is the last thing this boat needs. Essentially the rack consists of two 1” tubes running fore and aft immediately outboard of the solar panel. This will allow us to pull the dinghy up onto the foredeck, flip it upside down against the front of the cabin top, and slide it onto the roof with the tubes acting to guide the dinghy on while protecting the solar panel. Once at anchor, we drop the dinghy in the water to expose the panel. Will share pictures once it’s complete.
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