Nothing like being a captain of a yacht and knowing how to fix issues- you really have become a worthy captain of the high seas two thumbs up 👍🏻👍🏻 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Speaking from experience, it's always a heart stopping moment when you discover wet, rotting plywood anywhere on your boat. I had to rebuild both of the lazarette hatches in the floor of my cockpit deck last year. However, at least I'll never find any rot there again after the repairs, thanks to the miracle of Coosa board.

Great idea with the 15" monitor! Genius Captain Sperrys! Looking forward to this season's videos. Roger out

Great video. Good luck in the anchor locker this weekend! Those look like lounging trousers, not PJs, and make perfect sense to me!.

oh my that windlass looks fun. just got a 40' richardson we will be doing the loop with one day. great videos, racking all the info i can on boating lol thanks keep it up

Another great video!

Procrastination isn't so bad. It's better than amateurcrastination.

Awesome video. Lived the ‘creepy’ background sounds! There’s been a windlass conversation on Sams right now. Also a mini nightmare. The electronics ideas you have are always welcome. This one is cool. And..... another great video. 👍 Very well done. 😃

Just stumbled across this! What an awesome idea!

Great Job love the videos ....

You are braver than I to tackle the windlass issue and the associated decking that will need fixed.

I like the monitor idea.

This is such a great idea. I dont have a boat anymore but will again in the future... after the kids get through college. I'll go with a touchscree panel so I don't have to mess with the phone much. Don't know why I didn't think ove this already. Lol. Subed

This is something I would pay to have done....but that is me. Kudos for doing the work yourself

Good video. Looking at buying a 58' Hat yachtfish and the windlass needs work so this is helpful.

Great idea ! Thanks for sharing .

Your trip into the bow reminded me of having to work on a 5.5 meter (transmitting) satellite dish. The "hub" was about the size of a 55 gallon drum, and it was me, a squirrel cage blower to keep the feed from freezing, the transmitter and the amplifier for the receiver. Oh, and a very greasy chain that would always jump off the sprocket if you tried to move it when it was iced up. Ten minutes to put the chain back once you finally got up in there...

Nice tip using the big monitor. I’m going to investigate Amazon today for one... thx.

Great idea with the monitor. I was wondering how you were going to deal with charging the battery, but it sounds like you’ve come up with a good solution. I don’t envy you when you get back to the project you are currently working on the boat. Good luck with that one, and I’ll await the next video to see how everything turns out. Keep the videos coming. I enjoy what you and Lynn produce. Great job!...Ed

Wow who needs a iPad Pro for over £2000. When phones are just as powerful and for £100 you can get one of those. Very impressed thank you. Thanks for sharing Ray K UK 🇬🇧 YNWA.

Splendid idea on the monitor here.

Great idea, now I just have to see if I can find a monitor that’s bright enough. I know that when I was looking at tablets they measured brightness in nits, so I’m on looking for some thing that has brighter than 600 nits, my iPhone 12 has around 800 nits and looks great but it is a little small so if I could find a monitor that had similar brightness at 15 inches or even 12 inches that would be great. Thanks for the idea

Did a similar thing where I have a 15.6" touchscreen tethered to my samsung s21. Works amazing. Use a seasucker to mount it up on the dash. Works PERFECT!

i bought one that is touch screen way more convenient! thanks for sharing!

Dude, you have me laughing with the long hair and the PJs. On a serious note, I continue to appreciate your research. I’m in the serious stage of purchasing an 410 Chris-Craft Commander. Your videos embolden me (within reason), damn the naysayers. I’ve got skills.

Great idea

Ed you made me laugh, working on your windless in your PJ’s. I do some stuff around the outside of the house in my pj’s .

Gr8 job Ed..

Hi, great idea to use such a solution to mirror your phone on a screen. Are you able to use it as a touchscreen with Navionics or do you control it from your phone? So in other words does the touchscreen respond on finger inputs or is that only possible on your phone with a mirrored image on the 15 inch screen?

Do you have any ideas on how to couple your monitor to the nmea2000 network? I have the same problem with my windlass. Too old to repair. time to buy a new one.

10:04 for the monitor part. Thanks

Hi Ed, great video. Just a thought, you can also pair a Bluetooth mouse to that Note 8 so you can navigate on the monitor without having to mess with the phone's touch screen. Just a thought. Cheers!

Very cool, thank you.

I have a 61 Hatt MY in Baltimore and went through some windlass work last winter into this past spring. My motor was rusted and eventually failed. It’s replaced with a rebuilt one and I have added a sunbrella cover over the windlass and switches to keep water from getting into there again.

I’ve been in those areas of old boats before. Not easy for bigger guys like us. Lol

Great idea about using your phones gps abilities. You could probably use it without wifi too. Just download the maps you need to your phone and the gps does not need wifi to work, however , with wifi it may be more accurate. Realize that all gps on phones are not equal, depending on how many satellites your phone will compare determines your accuracy. When I use to travel all over the world as an airline pilot I would use a global mapping app, such as cities to go, and use the phone without wifi or cell data to not get lost in the big cities of the world, Paris, London, Beijing, Hong Kong, etc.

Looks like a super fun job! Just an FYI, if the WD-40 doesn't work, get some stuff the is called PB Blaster! The stuff is amazing at getting rusty stuff apart! I have used it on exhaust bolts on cars from New York and they came off without breaking! Any way to get a fan blowing up into that hole to speed up the drying process? Good luck with the repairs!

Any idea if this water issue around your windless is a common issue with Hatteras?

How do you get sonar data on the monitor? I don't believe my old E120 has video out.

Anything available that you could have a big touchscreen working through your phone? To change the display on your system you have to have the phone handy, yes?

Hey Ed, great video but i encourage You to use gloves and safety glasses on that type of proyects

rust oleum rusty metal primer.....I have sprayed rusty stuff 20 years ago the stuff still sticks no peeling. use it on that winch

I love the monitor idea. How do you connect and charge the phone? Or is it one or the other, charge or monitor not both at once? Thanks for the idea!

Is the monitor touch? I know most phones allow usb keyboard and mouse controls so a touch screen monitor should work and be perfect for a chart tablet.

The c clip on the windless holds the chain hub down on the shaft. It probably popped out or wasn't installed correctly. Looks like you opened a big project up this time. Stay warm.

Any ideas on how to add navionics or similar without the phone? Stand alone GPS receiver? Love your idea of the larger monitor, maybe even a touch screen? Sketchy reception on our phone on our lake but really need a chart plotter or map to avoid the shallow spots. Someone else asked as well but the monitor holders you utilize currently on your dash, where did you get those please? Love your channel too, the good with the bad makes it real!

Lovely idea with the 15" monitor. However, for navigation it will still be dependent on the phone for the essential GPS signal. And far enough from shore the phone can not provide a GPS signal. So...options are then either a separate GPS receiver to another USB port, or buy a tablet that has a GPS signal built in. Correct?

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Hi great Idea, thanks .... If it is a Samsung you are able to use DEX and your Phone is the touch screen....

Good thinking on the monitor.

I didn't this for inside the cabin. Its a nice TV to kickback and watch plus can watch the cameras to be able to see whats going on outside

Thank you.

Hi Ed, my name is Uwe from Germany. Thanks a lot for the nice videos you share with us. I struggled over it while searching for intresting solutions for my Bayliner 275 here in Germany. Well the boat runs in Beglium, which ist jaust near my home. Anyhow I would like to write to you today, as I had nearly the same idea as you had with the monitor. BUT I didn't like the need to touch the small mobile surface for settings or Apps to open. After searching and trying a lot I found a solution that does it all-in-one!!! It is the "V7 L156TCH-1G 15.6" USB-C Portable Touch Screen Monitor". It has all the features you told us about PLUS the possibility to touch the large screen to use all mobile functions. So it is a true display mirror of my mobile. and that ist really the best I ever saw as solution. You may use every App on the mobile when ever you want behind the streering wheel of your boat - incl. WhatsApp.... Best regards, from good old Germany and "always a hand's breadth of water under the keel" as we say here. ;o)

Ed, you mentioned you have Wifi on your boat for navigation so I assume you have it while underway. My question is how do you get Wifi on your boat while cruising?

where did you get this screen at and what cord will allow my phone to be viewed on that screen is there a program that has to be downloaded to the phone?

Curious how those monitors work in the day light ? Can you read the screen

I have thought the same thing about my old iPads. The thing is, you will need to start the phone bill back up on it to use Navionics, right? I use my phone and a 12.9” IPad Pro right now alongside my Raymarine Axiom on the flybrige. i want to use the old ones on the lower helm. The iPads use cell service. Honestly, I’ve never tried them with the cell off, but my guess is that they won’t work with Navionics. I hope I’m wrong!

what was that gps module we could hook up to a laptop and use with open source software to make a charter plotter too? I've found and lost again. Could anyone help? Thnk you.

Hi, How to connect your sonar on it, how to connect your radar on it. Which chart are you using? Kr,

Cool idea with the screen. Is the monitor resolution greater than the phone? In other words, will it upscale or is it just - bigger?

You may want to consider a different phone like a newer one. As phones become older the batteries don’t age well. And in extreme cases they turn in a fire risk. I would look in to a cheap new phone that is specked the same

you seem up on computing nav stuff. suggestions yu might have for a complete novice. I am in middle Tennessee getting a boat ready may use within next two years to float down to the Gulf go out and fish a bit. Thinking radar, sonar, fish finder, navigation and radio but all linked in. Is that a possibility? And kinds that are best invest?

Stick around if you want to learn about his monitor. The first 80% I’d talking about the windlass but the last 20% is of value re monitors

It’s a Niuto 14 inch touch screen from amazon: 4K Portable Touch Monitor Travel Screen Second Touchscreen Extender UHD USB C Computer Gaming for Laptop 14.0 Inch 3840 X 2160 IPS Compatible with Mac,MacBook,Nintendo Switch

they got a rasberry pi 8gb ram model out now good for open cpn. gonna be building a system myself using that. gonna use nmea 2000 and seatalk adapters as well. can setup ais as well.

Lynn break out the swizzzors on Ed's Hair! it is getting out of control! For the idea on using the note 8 to drive a Monitor that is great! this leads to many possibilities.

Is the screen touch sensitive?

Were did you get the brackets from that hold the monitor 🤔

How is the monitor in direct sunlight?

Where did you get the holders for the 15in screens?

Is the monitor a touch screen too?

What are you using for Wi fi on your boat?

Can you tie your depth and radio into the screen as well. Thank you

Would you be able to play music through this and the phone, or do you have to buy another device?

One thing owning a boat you learn daily

does the phone charge via 15 monitor ?

What is the make and model of the monitor?

The water in the core could have frozen and expanded the core. Causing more stress on the bolts.

Wouldm't that drain your airtime? also is that a touch screen?

Ouch, that looks uncomfortable! You need to follow James over at M/V Dirona and get a good pair of Coveralls for jobs like that !

Love the tablet idea but how does it work 80 miles offshore with no wifi?

Ed, your wifi on the boat can be solved by T-Mobile. Ask about their 100gb data plan for $50 monthly. It is 5G and they will sell you a 5G mifi (Inseego) for 50% off. You’ll have great service anywhere you can get T-Mobile service.

Awesome idea, however, the phone needs to have service to run the app, current?

100 dollars or so, you can get a brand new Amazon fire hd... ten minutes later have it hacked to android format. Easy KZfaq search, granted not your 15" screen but still nice, could always beam the screen to a larger tv.

Do you have a link for tablet, does it have GPS in tablet.

Can you.get stainless steel chains and save all the rust problem

Lekker man Lekker

Check also BBN Marine OS for raspberry pi4. Many free and opensource boat software packages preinstalled and preconfigured.

Why is this the wrong video?

I saw you a few years ago, and watched some of your early videos. I don't know if it's because you were a politician before or something else, but you did then and still currently give off strong creep vibes. I hope you never end up in a slip next to me. I've never yet been wrong about these feelings. I'd be curious how estranged you are from your family. Almost be willing to bet they are embarrassed to be related to you.

How to you interface sonar?

Only thing I see is your old phone don’t you have to have that phone active on an account. I’m thinking about the same type of thing I would like 2 chart plotter screens.

Hope you all can sail in 2021

But that monitor doesn't have touch input.

Hi Ed, Love your videos. I do have to wonder why a guy who owns a 65 foot Hatteras, is not using real marine electronics. iPads and cheap screens from Amazon attached to an old phone may work on a sunny day are not the best solution for a boat. There is a reason why quality MFDs from the major bands cost so much more. They work always, in all weather. Cutting cost on electronics seems penny wise and pound foolish. I presume you carry full paper charts as a back up to your rube Goldberg set up.

Don't you just hate "mystery parts"? Is it a makeshift spacer, because there was play in the capstan? was it supposed to go up inside the capstan (not likely, I think)? Can you get a schematic for that windlass? www.galleymaid.com/galley-maid-windlass.html They might sill have one.

1 problem you didn't address is that your phone needs to be charging too.. if it can't be charged wireless you will need to disconnect the screen to charge the phone..

Time for a haircut.

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