Tips and tricks

I mentioned this on another thread, but it may bear repeating here;

If you are concerned about whether your current battery setup can support overnighting on the hook, just do a dry-run in the safety and comfort of your slip.

Disconnect your shore power, on say a Friday, and go on about your business as though you were on the hook. Don't forget to turn on your anchor light at night. Try not to change your energy-usage behavior as it would be at anchor. On Saturday, or even Sunday, fire up your engines, as you normally would. If they fire right up, you have purchased yourself a nice warm fuzzy. If not, your boat has some splainin' to do.
 
I use the rubber squares that connect together on floor of drivers seat to pad feet works great. I put a non skid carpet pad under it and doesn’t move much
 
Replaced the old grungy side nav lights today with new ones and needed to use this little trick.
If an electrical connection is located in a difficult access area or as in this case, the screws are so tiny that taking them out and putting them back in will result in the screws most likely ending up deep sixed or dropped two stories down onto the building floor, just make the ring terminal a spade terminal. Take a bite out of the ring terminal with your dikes about as wide as the screw is and then just easily slip it under the screw and tighten it down.

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Peggie Hall? :)
Haven't seen or heard the name for 25 years, but yep, and Peal Products was her first company.

Biography
Peggie Hall is nationally recognized in the boating industry as one of the few experts in marine sanitation, and is often referred to as “the Head Mistress.” She has written a number of articles for major boating magazines, is often asked to speak at conferences and conduct seminars for various organizations and at major boat shows, and has been a consultant to a number of state agencies. For more than 20 years she also hosted plumbing and sanitation forums on many online boating sites, beginning even before the internet as we know it today existed with the Sailing Forum on CompuServe.

She first entered the marine business in 1987, when she formed Peal Products, which was the first company in the marine industry to focus exclusively on onboard sewage management issues and the elimination of odors on boats. In addition to the Peal Products line of environmentally friendly sanitation and cleaning products (which were soon given outstanding performance ratings by Powerboat Reports and Practical Sailor), Peal Products was a distributor for every major US manufacturer of marine toilets, MSDs, and related equipment and accessories. As a member of ABYC, she was a member of a sanitation project technical committee formed to establish a standard for sanitation equipment and installation onboard from its inception in 1991 through 1996. In 1999 Mrs. Hall sold the Peal Products product line to Raritan Engineering, a major manufacturer of sanitation equipment. She is now an independent consultant.
 
Didn’t know about Peal Products, but I figured if you were talking about keeping your boat odor free, you had to be talking about Peggie Hall. :)
 
That is my dock side and first latch when coming out of the cockpit.... Having to use two hands to open the hatch when you got something in your hand is a pain in the ass
 

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