[C320-list] Electrical and Bilge

[Jerry Clayton]

Did you check the breaker under the port aft storage area?  Also make sure 
the "outlet" switch on the main board did not get bumped to the off position 
by accident.
Good luck,

Jerry Clayton
#988
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim" <chillinonahd at yahoo.com>
To: "C320 List" <c320-list at lists.catalina320.com>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6:38 PM
Subject: [C320-list] Electrical and Bilge


> Hello All,
>
> Been enjoying the sailing here in the Northeast, hope you all have too.
>
> We were away this week and two odd things happened, hopefully someone here 
> can
> shed some light.
>
> First, I noticed an inky black color to the bilge water but only in the 
> area
> where the put actually is not the area just aft of that which had some 
> clear
> water. My stuffing box needs an adjustment and eventually teflon packing 
> (winter
> project). Could this be a hose deteriorating or what? Anyone else ever 
> seen this
> before.
>
> Secondly, while we were in a slip in Milford we used the shore power 
> (normally I
> am moored). All worked fine including topping of my batteries and running 
> a huge
> box fan all nite. Later when we got to the next harbor on our trip we were
> moored. I took out my Honda generator to run some AC devices. I hooked it 
> all up
> and got the green AC light on the service panel but none of the outlets 
> produced
> any power. I believe I checked to see if there was a charge going into the
> batteries and that we not working either but not positive on that, as if 
> was
> getting late. I recall some recent threads about something similar that 
> turned
> out to be the shore power connector. Any thoughts on this one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
> Calypso
> #603
>
>
>