[C320-list] Wiring in the Mast

[Rick From Inflate Co]

My guy ended up having to cut a silver dollar sized inspection hole on the side of the lower mast to install my radar and new wind vane. Without removing the mast it was the only way as the bottom of the mast is sealed up pretty impossibly. No structural compromise despite size of hole per all who have checked it

Rick
NEMO #235
Dana Point

On Aug 26, 2013, at 6:05 AM, Ian Davis <iand2002 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Colin, 
> 
> I'd looked at wireless a while ago - well before really looking at the mast
> and the manuals for it.  Back then I thought the whole approach a little
> expensive (probably because it was "new" technology).  However I now think
> you're right.  Wireless is probably the way to go whatever the cost!
> 
> So a change of question....  has anyone had any really bad experiences with
> wireless? 
> 
> Ian Davis
> C320 - Wind Star
> 1993 - #18
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Colin Evans
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:39 PM
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Wiring in the Mast
> 
>    Why don`t you get Tack Tick, wirelessireless.  (Raymarine do them as
> well  http://www.raymarine.com/view/?id=1237  ) We had Tack Tick on our
> previous boat and they were brilliant.  The mast head fitting has a mini
> solar panel to run the transmitter and the instrument/receivert has its own
> solar panel.  The instrument is removed when not in use. No batteries, no
> wiring, no trying to get wires down the mast.
> 
> *************************
> Regards
> Colin Evans
> Watermark
> 2000 C320 # 774
> Lake Macquarie, Australia
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Ian Davis
> Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013 1:28 AM
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Subject: [C320-list] Wiring in the Mast
> 
> When I recently purchased my C320 (Hull #18 - Wind Star), it had no
> electronic wind vane on the top of the mast.  I had installed one of these
> on my previous boat, and had become very dependent on it for racing.
> 
> 
> 
> So, I thought, if I can install such a thing on one boat, it can't be that
> hard to do on another.   Mmmm (that's not always good thinking)
> 
> 
> 
> On the old boat, I just 
> 
> took the mast down
> 
> screwed the transducer to the top
> 
> ran the wire down inside the mast
> 
> came out of the mast at deck level through a convenient grommet 
> 
> fitted a 6 wire thru-deck beside the mast's deck-seating - so I could
> disconnect the wind-vane to take the mast down again for anything else 
> 
> ran the inside wire through channels in the coach roof to the electronics
> head.
> 
> All pretty easy really.
> 
> 
> 
> SO..  I started looking at the C320 (both the real boat and the Catalina
> documentation).  Basically it look like all but one of the actions I just
> listed above are either extremely difficult or nigh on impossible on the
> C210.  For example, even getting the mast down looks very tricky without
> disturbing (read breaking) the deck/steaming/masthead lighting wiring that's
> there already, also I can't see how to get wiring through the deck and into
> the compression pole . etc..
> 
> 
> 
> My questions to the team therefore...  Has anyone done this before, what is
> the procedure for putting wired stuff on top of the mast, where do the wires
> come out the other end, etc.  And, anything else that I would need to know
> to do this job myself (with the exception of course of getting the mast down
> which will be a marina job).
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help provided.  And thanks to the guys who replied
> to my last post on non-self-priming water pumps.  Good info guys..
> 
> 
> 
> Ian Davis - Wind Star  (Hull #18)
> 
>