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MV Penta is a classic, 36' West Coast Gill Netter. Built in 1961 by Sather Boat Works of New Westminster, she fished for only a short time before having her license bought back and was converted for pleasure use. Extensive refurbishment has been done including refastening of the planking below...

Are any of you making use of the VGA output from your chart-plotter to drive a bigger or remote monitor? A freind is wanting to add a larger monitor to his new helm latout an as well have a "remote" monitor at the upper bridge. His plotter has a VGA output available and I have plugged in a...

Quote - "Because we also don't want to buy another owner's (or multiple owners') problems " Marin et-all; this is the same dilema that the admiral and I faced a few years back when we made the decision to "re-fit" Penta. The original interior layout did not work over time and there were a dozen...

On our cruise from Vancouver to the Hawaiian Islands last October the seas were dead flat and the skies sunny but you could spend all day looking at the horizon 360 degrees and not see another vessel. It certainly made one realize just how damned big the ocean is and just how little our boats...

Marin - have I got a deal for you! Since I have not taken delivery of my new stove, how about if I send you a cold pack and you try it on your stove ?? How come you are not taking me up on my kind offer ?? The fellows I was with this morning suggested that I should post this warning because...

Guys, I was out for coffee with some of the local boat gang and we got talking about where my project with Penta was at. I stated that all the equipment needed to put her back in service was in hand except for a new stove. Of course the next question was what happened to the old one and what was...

Regarding the vessel lost to fire in Desolation Sound, it was the converted fish boat "Dagen" which was a member vessel of the West Coast Workboat Assoc. as well as being home and business for the owners. The last I heard they were still not certain what caused the fire however to the best of...

Thanks for the comments regarding power for a lap top but the rest of the comments I am afraid do not apply in my case. What I am using the lap top chart system for is to have a display of where we are in relation to what I can see out the windows without having to leave the helm and go to the...

How are those of you who untilize laptops for chart plotting actually powering the laptop. By this I mean, are you using an invertor and the A/C power pack or are you using an automotive style power adapter? I am about to provide the necessary installation set up for my older Toshiba laptop at...

If any of you are interested, the West Coast Workboat Assoc. web site is at - http://www.wwba.ca/ and if you click on the "members" line you can see a lot of our members vessels, those who have added a picture to their listing anyway. One of these days an up to date picture of Penta...

Petrel was built in 1928 and fished the Oregon coast until the 1990's. She was "restored" by a Scott Robinson of Coos Bay Oregon and is now owned by a couple who "home port" her in Port Townsend. Very nice boat. John MV Penta Sidney, BC

Eric wrote "As far as I'm concerned Bill Garden walks on water. Eric, I don't know if you are aware but Bill passed away earlier this year. Great lost to boating but his designs will be around for years to come. John Tones MV Penta Sidney BC

The great numbers of ex work boats that were about in the Gulf Islands and Ganges area was the result of our clubs fall rendezvous. The West Coast Work Boat Assoc. annual fall rendezvous was last weekend (Fri. / Sat. / and Sun) at Ganges (Saltspring Island) with an attendance of 59 vessels...

Quote "If it worked better with a smaller pulley, it would have come with a smaller pulley" You have to take into consideration that the alternator manufacturers are mainly selling to gasoline power vehicles with very small numbers used in marine applications. Even in marine applications it is...

Steppen - despite what the Geco site shows the coverage from the Bella Bella (Telus) site is NO where near that wide. I was in the area last year doing surveys for a pending extension to the coastal 911 system and in most cases if you could not see the top of Denny Island you had no coverage. If...

Even with Telus access you are not going to have very much in the way of coverage north of Vancouver Island. There is a small area around Bella Bella and again around Prince Rupert and the eastern Queen Charlotte area but other than those there is nothing north of the Port Hardy area. By the...

While I have not had any direct experience with Power Line alternators I have had a lot with Leese Neville and Chrysler high output ones. The house system on Penta uses an alternator type that was fitted to Ford ambulance chassis and is rated at 200 Amps but it too has an internal regulator in...

dvd, this seems to be a rather rare device even though they are widely used. Merit Metal Products make a line of morticed lock units (brass) that would probably work on most doors. Their web site - http://www.meritmetal.com Hope this helps you. John "Penta" Sidney, BC

Fed - yes it was a huge bank but there were several reasons for me having it. First, I needed ballast and second the batteries were cheaper than lead. At the time my job entailed purchasing a large quantity of golf cart batteries every spring and for many years the same battery distributor was...

Thanks guys, that is just what I was wanting to know. I had heard that they were made by Interstate but hearing it again just sort of reinforces my decision. FF - I don,t have to worry about the date of the golf cart batteries as the local store does not stock them and would bring in what I...

Are any of you using Costco batteries on your vessels. I am having to buy all new batteries as the previous ones did not survive the 6 years of being on float charge / cycling etc. while Penta was being refurbished. I was just at Costco and if the batteries are any good at all they certainly...

Fotoman - this may not apply in any way to your wheel but - a while back I was involved in an Oriental mfg'd trawler and needed to remove the wheel. I cannot remember any manufacturers labels however here's what I found. The wheel hub had a hexagon recess cast into it that a sort of un-threaded...

We had a small boat trailer hand winch on Penta for years that started out using wire rope. In just a couple of years we found that the wire started to grow "wire snakes" that were hard on the hands when handling the line, when moving the dink. Switched to 1/4 multi-braid line and it was in use...

Oh boy did this post ever go sideways !! Reefdrifter - you are correct with the assumption that the "TACH" terminal of your alternator is AC but is actually more a pulsed voltage than an alternating one. It is years since I last worked on such a system and the old brain has very little recall...

Peter B ; I am not confusing the lists, I had been a "member" of TandT for some years when this all took place. I think it was actually a case of one individual red neck sounding off and then a whole bunch of little "me too's" yapping along at his heals. It went on escalating to the point where...